OH CAPTAIN! [DRG 19030] In 1948 and 1949, two Oscar-winning Hollywood songwriters — Jule Styne and Frank Loesser — decided to storm Broadway, with fantastic results. (While they had collaborated in Hollywood, they worked individually in New York.) This, apparently, encouraged the rest of the boys. Burke and Van Heusen, Harry Warren, and Livingston and Evans — among others — all tried it in the following decade; all went back West, licking their wounds.
