Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein is an album by Karrin Allyson recorded in tribute to the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It earned Allyson a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. "Many a New Day" peaked at 13 on the "Billboard" Jazz album charts. Christopher Loudon reviewed "Many a New Day" for the "Jazz Times" in October 2015 and wrote, "At last, the Hammerstein portion of the Rodgers canon is getting serious, full-length appreciation...There's no room on this album
Oscar Hammerstein I own. Infamously, he compared paying his daughters to "the eccentricities and actions of the late lamented King Lear." Hammerstein contracted kidney problems and paralysis, eventually permanently falling into a coma. He died in 1919 in Lenox Hill Hospital at Park Avenue and 77th Street in Manhattan. His contractual ban on presenting opera was due to expire in 1920; at his death he was busy planning his return to the opera stage. A 1910 song by Jack Norworth entitled "For Months and Months and Months" references Hammerstein himself, during the first verse. The Manhattan Opera House was bid for $145,000 by