About this episode

This episode explores great songs by Broadway artists that were nominated for Oscars but did not win.

Nobody Does It Better!--in advance of Sunday night's Oscars, we give you the great songs written by Broadway artists that were nominated but didn't get the statuette: runners-up by Marvin Hamlisch, Jerome Kern, Kander and Ebb, Lerner and Loewe, and many more.

People in this episode

Host: Laurence Maslon

Topics covered

• Oscar nominations
• Broadway songs
• music history
• film music
• songwriters

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