One Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein chestnut, "The Folks Who Live on the Hill, " stumped the band.

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Why Mr. Beane's services were deemed necessary is less than obvious, since Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the original book himself.

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The original production of South Pacific - composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II - won nine Tonys in 1950.

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And McPartland joins in for a duet in "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise, " originally composed as a tango by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein for the 1928 operetta The New Moon.

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Loos ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") wrote "Happy Birthday" as a starring vehicle for her friend, Helen Hayes, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced it on Broadway in 1946, where it ran for nearly a year and a half.

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