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Contract Signed ("Jerome Kern" and "Dorothy Fields"), 2 pp recto and verso, legal folio, New York, NY, November 24, 1936, assigning the Canadian copyright to the song "Bojangles of Harlem" from Swing Time, witnessed by Rose Kohner and notarized twice on verso by E. J. Brechlin, light creasing, tearing near corner, and staple perforations at the upper left margin.

Jerome Kern is one of the giants of 20th-century musical theater, perhaps best remembered for the score to the musical Show Boat. Dorothy Fields, the first woman elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, wrote lyrics to such classic tunes as "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "On The Sunny Side of the Street." Kern and Fields first teamed up in 1935 to write "Lovely to Look At" for the musical, Roberta. Two years later they would write the music for one of the greatest Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films, Swing Time. 

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Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields Signed 1936 Contract for Bojangles of HarlemJerome Kern & Dorothy Fields Signed 1936 Contract for Bojangles of Harlem
Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields Signed 1936 Contract for "Bojangles of Harlem"
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