Fine Romances: Dorothy Fields and Leo Robin

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Abstract Few women are well known as a lyricist for Tin Pan Alley. Dorothy Fields was one of them. Teamed with Jimmy McHugh, she wrote for the Cotton Club. Fields’s work (“I’m in the Mood for Love”) demonstrated her subtle, sensuous wit. Her style was more that of Hart, Gershwin, and Porter than her female predecessors (Donnelly or Jacobs-Bond). She and McHugh had a “seamless” blend of words to music. He wrote driving, repeated phrases, and she put “vernacular catch-phrases” to it. Another lyricist was Leo Robin, who frequently worked with Ralph Rainger. The two are best known for Bob Hope’s theme song, “Thanks for the Memory,” a song sun with Shirley Ross in The Big Broadcast of 1938. Robin’s lyrics include romantic recollections showing the connection that remained between the divorced couple. This chapter celebrates the writing of romance.

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