But Rodgers had been a successful composer long before his work with Hammerstein. In 1919 at the age of 16 me met Lorenz Hart when they worked together to write songs for an amateur club show. Their first broadway show opened on May 17, 1925 at the Garrick Theatre. The show was called the Garrick Gaieties.

Lorenz Hart was born in 1895 to a Jewish German immigrant family in Harlem, New York. To nearly all, but his mother, he was called Larry.

When the motion pictures began to talk in the late 20′s, many broadway performers and writers went to Hollywood. The song writing team of Rodgers and Hart were included in those ranks. It was in Hollywood in 1934 that they wrote Blue Moon.

By 1935, the team was brought back to Broadway by Billy Rose to write the the songs for his production, Jumbo. Between 1936 and 1943 the team worked on 8 musicals among them Babe in Arms and Pal Joey.

The final collaboration between Rodgers and Hart was the revival of their A Connecticut Yankee. The show included six new songs by the team and opened on November 17, 1943. By this time Rodgers had already began working with Hammerstein. Hart had been ill while they worked on the project. He developed pneumonia and died on November 22, 1943.

The formula was created by John Sith Pemberton. It was originally a cocawine, an alcoholic beverage that combined wine and cocaine. In 1886 Georgia introduced Prohibition which forced him to replace the wine with non-alcoholic syrup.

When Pemberton began work on a coca and kola (cola) nut beverage, his intention was to develop a product to stop headaches and calm nervousness. It’s also thought that he was trying to create a pain reliever for himself and other wounded Confederate veterans.

The famous Coca-Cola logo was created in 1885 by Frank Mason Robinson. Robinson at the time was Pemberton’s bookkeeper. Not only did Robinson name the product he was the one who chose the logo’s distinctive cursive script, a typeface known as Spencerian script.

Coca-Cola used the imagine of Santa Claus so well in some of their ads of the early 20th century, some have credited them with the invention of the modern Santa Claus, the Jolly Old Elf in the red suit. That image was common by the time and derives greatly from the 19th century drawings of Santa Claus by Thomas Nast.

In 1971 Coca-Cola started to use an advertising jiggle called, ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sings.’. The song was written by roger cook, Roger Greenaway, Bill Backer and Billy Davis. The jiggle was so popular that it was recorded by the New Seekers and became a Number 1 hit.

Lorenz Hart was born in 1895 to a Jewish German immigrant family in Harlem, New York. To nearly all, but his mother, he was called Larry.

In 1919, he met the 16 year old Richard Rodgers when they worked together to write songs for an amateur club show. Their first broadway show opened on May 17, 1925 at the Garrick Theatre. The show was called the Garrick Gaieties.

When the motion pictures began to talk in the late 20′s, many broadway performers and writers went to Hollywood. The song writing team of Rodgers and Hart were included in those ranks. It was in Hollywood in 1934 that they wrote Blue Moon.

By 1935, the team was brought back to Broadway by Billy Rose to write the the songs for his production, Jumbo. Between 1936 and 1943 the team worked on 8 musicals among them Babe in Arms and Pal Joey.

The final collaboration between Rodgers and Hart was the revival of their A Connecticut Yankee. The show included six new songs by the team and opened on November 17, 1943. Hart had been ill while they worked on the project. He developed pneumonia and died on November 22, 1943.

Tammi Terrell was born on April 29, 1945 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her birth name was Thomasina Winifred Montgomery. By the time she was 13 she was performing live and signed with Scepter Records in 1961 using the name Tammy Montgomery.

Between 1961 and 1964 she recorded songs for three different labels. Scepter Records, where she was first signed, Try Me Records, which was owned by James Brown and Checker Records. Berry Gordy signed her to his Motown label in 1965.

After a pair of singles that were only of moderate success, Motown teamed her with Marvin Gaye. She recorded as a duo with him singing songs composed by the husband and wife team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

On October 14, 1967 just as the team of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were reaching the top of the charts and recording their second album, Tammi Terrell collapsed during a concert at Hamden-Sydney College in Virginia. Shortly afterward she would be diagnosed with the brain tumor that would take her life a few years later on March 16, 1970.

In all the duo would release three albums. Some of the songs on the albums were songs that Terrell recorded as a solo act and the Gaye vocals were overdubbed at a later time. It is even rumored that Valerie Simpson recorded many of the vocals credited to Tammi Terrell on the duo’s third and final album Easy.

Hershey planned more than just a place to live and work for his employees. He also planned for an recreation area. On April 24, 1908 he opened a theme park that allowed his employees to picnic, boat and watch Vaudeville and other theatre productions from the bandstands and pavilion. This was the opening of Hershey Park.

The factory and his theme park continued to grow and by 1915, the town had a population close to 1000 with more than 100,000 visitors coming to see the Hershey Park’s attractions. These attractions included a merry-go-round that was opened on July 4, 1908, a carousel added in 1912 and a train.

In 1927 Hershey split his holdings into three companies, Hershey Chocolate Corporation, Hershey Corporation, and Hershey Estates. Hershey Park was park of the company called Hershey Estates and in 1980 was renamed to Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, INC. Hershey Park is part of the Hershey Entertainment Group division of that company.

During the Depression of the 1930′s, Milton Hershey used his money to his to people in the area employed with construction of buildings for the town. Many of the towns structures were built during this period. This helped turned the town into a tourist attraction.

Had it not been for a strange course of fate, Milton Hershey may have died in 1912. He and his wife were scheduled to return to the United States from England. His wife, Catherine or “Kitty”, fell ill and cancelled his reservations on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

Here are a few of the songs that may have been played on the Titanic on its maiden and final voyage.

Maple Leaf Rag – 1899 written by Scott Joplin.
The song was one of his earliest works and he predicted that it would make him, “King of Ragtime composers.” In a time when sheet music sales gauged the popularity of a song, it became the first to sell over a million copies.

Alexander’s Ragtime Band – 1911 written by Irving Berlin.
This was one of his first major hits, and although it was about a ragtime band, the song has little of its characteristic features. The song celebrated the liveliness, spirit, and irresistible nature of ragtime and helped make Berlin a star songwriter. Many of the survivors of the Titanic recall hearing this song played on the night it sank.

In The Shadows
Music by Herman Finck, Words by E. Ray Goetz.

What was the last song that they played? Since none of them survived no one knows for certain, although through survivors accounts it is commonly agreed that the final song was either the hymn “Nearer my God to Thee,” or as Titanic’s junior wireless operator Harold Bride recalled, while aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, “Autumn,” likely referencing the popular waltz at the time “Songe d’Automne.”