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Sometimes a Song

"They Call the Wind Maria"

Lerner and Loewe

Sep 16, 2023
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Today Sometimes a Song revisits one of the most successful songwriting teams of the 20th Century, Jay Lerner and Fritz Loewe, with a moving song from one of their hit Broadway musicals, Paint Your Wagon (1951), later adapted for a Hollywood film of the same name (1969). Jay Lerner got the idea for his lyric to a song about the wind from a 1941 book by …

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