# George M. Cohan. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102 "2003-12-20T02:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/1 "2003-12-20T02:24:17Z")
Ever since I saw _Yankee Doodle Dandy_ I’ve been interested in the life and music of Mr. Cohan. My problem is that there is very little information about him, either on the web or in print. My BIG problem is that I can’t find any compilations of his work, except for the Yankee Doodle soundtrack. Does anybody know where I can find a CD or three of original Broadway productions (or just compilations) of his music? Also, is there any songwriter out there who has had more of his lyrics made into movie titles than Mr. Cohan\*? Right off the top of my head I can come up with: Yankee Doodle Dandy Born on the Fourth of July Johnny Got his Gun\*\* Give my Regards to Broad Street\*\* Over There \*Without actually being somewhat responsible for the movie that is - perhaps the Beatles can beat him, certainly Elvis can, but they appeared in the movies and sang songs for them. Except for YDD, Cohan had nothing at all to do with the other movies, and he didn’t even appear in YDD. \*\*Rephrasing of lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/2 "2003-12-20T03:15:21Z")
There was a broadway musical in the sixties called GEORGE M with Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters telling his life story. The cast album should be out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/3 "2003-12-20T03:17:58Z")
And a quick trip to AMAZON says George M is on CD. You can also get YANKEE DOODLE DANDY ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/4 "2003-12-20T03:50:46Z")
In terms of movie titles, Irving Berlin has him beat: White Christmas Alexander’s Ragtime Band Easter Parade Blue Skies Top Hat Puttin’ On The Ritz Always There’s No Business Like Show Business …and that’s just song titles used as movie titles. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/5 "2003-12-20T03:52:02Z")
He really needs a good bio–the only ones ever written were by Ward Morehouse (1943) and John McCabe (1973), and were only so-so. Man was a genius. [Here](http://www.musicals101.com/cohan.htm) is a good web site on him. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-m-cohan/220102/6 "2003-12-20T04:22:41Z")
And as Eve and I and other Dopers can tell you, HIS MAUSOLEUM HAS A LEAKY ROOF! (Boy there’s a song title for ol’ Irving B. or one of the other boys from the Tin Pan clan: “Georgie’s Mausoleum’s Got a Leaky Roof.” I can hear it now. Give me a C. Give me a bouncy C!)