Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs for Broadway Shows and Hollywood Musicals

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David R. Godine Publisher, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 279 pages
In 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
Picture Acknowledgments
263
Index of People
265
Index of Musicals and Movies
268
Index of Song Titles
270
Permissions
277
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About the author (2006)

William Knowlton Zinsser (October 7, 1922 - May 12, 2015) was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic and editorial writer. Throughout the 1970s, Zinsser taught writing at Yale University. He wrote 18 books, including On Writing Well, which is in its 17th edition. Zinsser died at the age of 92 in Manhattan on May 12, 2015.

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