 When the pair discussed the song that would become " Soliloquy " , Rodgers improvised at the piano to give Hammerstein an idea of how he envisioned the song . When Hammerstein presented his collaborator with the lyrics after two weeks of work ( Hammerstein always wrote the words first , then Rodgers would write the melodies ) , Rodgers wrote the music for the eight @-@ minute song in two hours . " What 's the Use of Wond 'rin ' " , one of Julie 's songs , worked well in the show but was never as popular on the radio or for recording , and Hammerstein believed that the lack of popularity was because he had concluded the final line , " And all the rest is talk " with a hard consonant , which does not allow the singer a vocal climax . 
