This Grateful Dead leader was named after "Show Boat" composer Jerome Kern
... As the leader of the Grateful Dead and a mammoth cultural icon on par 
with the ... Jerry is named Jerome in honor of Broadway composer Jerome Kern, 
who, ... Cherry Garcia was Ben and Jerry's first ice cream flavor named after a... [DOC] [TLE] Oscar Hammerstein II - Songwriter - Biography.com [PAR] May 25, 2016 ... With composer Jerome Kern, Hammerstein wrote the groundbreaking musical 
Show Boat (1927).