January 27 - Jerome Kern (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Jerome Kern (27 January 1885 – 11 November 1945) was an American composer of musical theater and popular music.

 [For last year's limericks honoring Mozart click here.] 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Job Requirement

Showboat is his only show

   That ever gets revivals,

But Kern (I’m sure my reader knows)

   Has hardly any rivals.

If you perform in cabaret,

   Or if your gig is jazz,

You’ll have to learn to sing and play

   The standards that he has.

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One Good Kern Deserves Another: Two Variation on a Theme

(1)

A singer expressed her concern

When preparing an evening of Kern,

“Who knew that his songbook

Would be such a long book?

It’s more than I’m able to learn!”

(2)

Said a singer, when taking her turn

At presenting a program of Kern,

“I wouldn’t have thought

That he wrote such a lot;

There are foxtrots and ballads to burn!” 

 

 

 

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