Includes a fascinating history booklet with show titles, dates of productions, singers, directors and producers. Recording dates range from 1949 to 2008. Indispensable for all lovers of Broadway musicals, "The Rodgers & Hammerstein Songbook" features indelible Richard Rodgers melodies and top singers recorded at the height of their careers.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II came together professionally at what seemed like the perfect moment in their careers – certainly at the perfect moment for the American musical theater. They were very different men in style and personality. But their understanding of their collaboration was as wise and perceptive as it was successful.

- Introduction to the liner notes

Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Additional arrangements by Robert Russel Bennett. Additional orchestral and choir conducting by Lehman Engel.