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Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.

Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio.[1] It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.

Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American singer, an alto, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s.
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Collins put her on radio in 1931. That year, she performed the controversial top twenty song of 1931, "That's Why Darkies Were Born" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Her biggest hits were "River, Stay 'Way From My Door" (1931), "The Woodpecker Song" (1940), "The White Cliffs of Dover" (1941), "Rose O'Day" (1941), "Last Time I saw Paris" (1942), "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (1942), "There Goes That Song Again" (1944), "Seems Like Old Times" (1946), and "Now Is the Hour" (1947).

Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain";

she had helped write the lyrics. Smith greeted her audience with "Hello, everybody!" and signed off with "Thanks for listenin'."

George Melachrino (born George Miltiades; 1 May 1909 — 18 June 1965)[1] was a musician, movie composer, and musical director who was English born of Greek and Italian descent. He was an accomplished player of the violin, viola, oboe, clarinet and saxophone.

Willie Nelson references her in Devil in a Sleepin' Bag on Shotgun Willie thus:

Just got back from New York City Kris (Kristofferson) and Rita (Coolidge) done it all Bought perfection there for all the world to see Lord, I heard an angel singing in that Philharmonic Hall Rita Coolidge, Rita Coolidge, cleft for me

Coolidge's greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977-1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits. The list consisted of covers of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher",

Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone",

and The Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do", followed by "You".

Being an old folkie (also raised around greater Boston) . . .