Curley latterly expanded his performances to include Rodgers, Makin and Copeman Hart organs.

Other prominent families in this district include the Gaden, Rodgers, Williams, Cameron, Donnelly and Newsome families.

If the book, by George Marion Jr., is a mildly amusing trifle, it at least offers a serviceable thread on which to hang an effervescent score that includes several Rodgers and Hart gems.

Joshua Kadison began playing piano and writing songs when he was 12; the influences on his emotional music include Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart and Gershwin.

Major manufacturers include Allen, Walker, Compton, Wicks, Marshall & Ogletree, Phoenix, Makin Organs, Wyvern Organs and Rodgers.

Variants include Rodgers.

His Broadway productions included "Rodgers and Hart" and "Lena: The Lady and Her Music."

Later attractions include Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" and Cole Porter's "Can-Can."

The theater composer Vernon Duke, who died in 1969, may never be counted in the pantheon that includes Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers and Kern, because his output was modest and none of his shows were hits.

By the 1980s, the McPhatter group included Rodgers, Robert Lee Davis, Pete Lawford, and Bruce Martin.