Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "I Have Dreamed" for "King and I"
Rodgers
Pal Joey
ABC Stage 67 - 1966 Rodgers and Hart Today 1-20 was released on: USA: 2 March 1967
I'd Rather be right
Great Performances - 1971 The Rodgers and Hart Story Thou Swell Thou Witty 27-7 was released on: USA: 6 January 1999
Rodgers and Hammerstein met in college studying art and music.
Richard Rodgers partnered with two other men at different times: Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Perhaps Muddy Waters, B.B. King, or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Duke Ellington was very influential as well.
It was called Rodgers and Hart and was a melange, as you stated with a thread bare plot connecting bridges of songs. from Cody, luke and Owen
I believe it was written as a novel or short story by Damon Runyon.
Richard Rodgers, the composer who collaborated with Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein, died on 30 December 1979.