Jerome Kern: Showboat - Choral Suite: SATB: Vocal Score

Novello Ladies' Barbershop- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man was a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein composed for the musical 'Showboat'. Associated with many of the greatest singers ever this beautiful work about forbidden love is a touching and heartbreaking ballad. Nicholas Hare's beautifully crafted arrangements for SSAA are suitable for anything from four to four hundred singers. He has added helpful performance notes for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two staves for easy Piano rehearsal. The sound of a Ladies' Barbershop singing this smooth tune with romantic overtones and heart rendingundertones would be a memorable event for all involved. It's a fun song to sing and the bittersweet harmonies make it all the more emotional. A series of outstanding songs taken from the bestselling Close Harmony Ladies' Barbershop Songbook selected for their appropriateness for female singers arranged for close-harmony quartets or women's choirs.

From Jerome Kern's 1927 musical Showboat the first real American broadway musical.