Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs for Broadway Shows and Hollywood MusicalsIn this warm and affectionate book, William Zinsser describes his lifelong love affair with American popular song and the American musical theater. |
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Sigmund Romberg and the Europeans | 13 |
Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein and Show Boat | 17 |
George and Ira Gershwin | 23 |
Early Rodgers Hart | 31 |
Anatomy of the Popular Song I The Verse 2 The Chorus 3 The Lyric | 37 |
Vincent Youmans | 49 |
DeSylva Brown and Henderson | 55 |
The Songs of World War II | 151 |
Johnny Mercer | 157 |
As Time Goes By and Laura | 165 |
Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke | 171 |
Rodgers Hammerstein | 179 |
Singers of the Song | 185 |
The Theater Songs | 189 |
Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn | 193 |
Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler | 59 |
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz | 67 |
Andy Razaf and the African Connection | 71 |
Sheet Music | 75 |
Cole Porter | 85 |
Porgy and Bess | 95 |
Writing for Fred Astaire 1 Irving Berlin | 103 |
Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern | 107 |
George and Ira Gershwin | 113 |
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn | 117 |
Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish | 123 |
ІЗІ Late Rodgers Hart | 131 |
Harry Warren and Al Dubin and Mack Gordon | 137 |
E Y Harburg and The Wizard of | 145 |
Frank Loesser | 199 |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green | 207 |
Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein | 213 |
Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn | 219 |
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe | 229 |
John Kander and Fred Ebb and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick | 235 |
Songs by Category | 245 |
Acknowledgments Sources and Notes | 253 |
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Permissions | 277 |
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Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs William Zinsser No preview available - 2001 |
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