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Topic: american-songbook

A lit Broadway theater marquee in New York (file photograph)

Thursday, 7/2, 06:10 PM

Robert Kimball, who rescued lost lyrics of the American songbook, dies at 86

Robert Kimball, a historian and archivist who did more than almost anyone to preserve the lyrics of America's great theater songwriters — Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart and others — has died at 86, according to The New York Times.
His painstaking detective work rescued songs that might otherwise have been lost.

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