The Independent - London, June 26th, 2002
In the male, Jewish club of great songwriters, there were two anomalies - Cole Porter and Dorothy Fields. Fields wrote for Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Arthur Schwartz, and others, lyrics for Depression- era cheerer-uppers ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), meltingly romantic ballads ("The Way You Look Tonight"), and bawdy numbers about the female need for sexual variety ("A Lady Needs a Change").
Fields could write for sophisticated ladies, but she also managed what few male songwriters could: a warm, earthy quality that glowed through full-blown paeans to love and sex or illuminated her more ...
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