Introduction

The great broadway song writer stephen santam is my guest. His book, finishing the hat, published by knof, is the first volume of his collected lyrics. It's one i've been waiting for eagerly, from west side story to merrily we roll along. I wonder when you first began to hear miri, i know they were often oscar hammerstein's. Had the difficulty occurred to you? No, i'd never thought about writing them. And i don't think hammersteins were the first i heard. In fact, they weren't.