The_Surrey_with_the_Fringe_on_Top Knowpia

"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
Song
Published	1943
Genre	Showtune
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers
Lyricist(s)	Oscar Hammerstein II

"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a show tune from the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.^[1]^[2] The piece was recorded in 1952 by jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, which influenced trumpeter Miles Davis to include it in his repertoire in the 1950s,^[3] which probably motivated other jazz musicians to play it.^[4]

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^ "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top". pbs.org. November 15, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
^ "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1943)". jazzstandards.com. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
^ Williams, Martin (1993). The Jazz Tradition (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-507815-2.
^ Faulkner, Robert R.; Becker, Howard S. (2009). 'Do You Know...?': The Jazz Repertoire in Action. The University of Chicago Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-226-23921-7.

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[1] "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top". pbs.org. November 15, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2020.

[2] "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1943)". jazzstandards.com. Retrieved February 25, 2020.

[Williams-3] Williams, Martin (1993). The Jazz Tradition (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-507815-2.

[Faulkner-4] Faulkner, Robert R.; Becker, Howard S. (2009). 'Do You Know...?': The Jazz Repertoire in Action. The University of Chicago Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-226-23921-7.

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