Jerome Kern is my subject for Melodies & Memories Wednesday ( 19 February) feature,
accompanied by a selection of sides from 1963’s “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome
Kern Songbook” arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Kern created dozens of Broadway
musicals and Hollywood films in a career which lasted over four decades and produced
such classic songs as “Ol’ Man River” and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”.