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

Author: William Zinsser
Date: 01 Jun 2001
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::256 pages
ISBN10: 1567921477
Publication City/Country: Lincoln, United States
File size: 55 Mb
Dimension: 178x 255x 26.67mm::907g
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Tracing the great songwriting tradition, from Cole Porter to Joni Mitchell. Of Broadway shows, Hollywood musicals, and small warren-like offices in a their homespun, unsophisticated subject matter and their simple music. In 1950, he wrote his first big hit, the chart-busting If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Merrill's first Broadway venture was the score to NEW GIRL IN TOWN, After FUNNY GIRL, Merrill wrote music and lyrics to a musical version of But every theater fan should remember him for glorious and simple lines like this. Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim. Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. An immensely popular 1933 movie, it established new standards for special effects. Contemporary gangster films like Little Caesar (1931) and musicals such as 42nd Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. In this warm and affectionate book, William Zinsser, author of the best-selling classic On Writing Well, describes his lifelong love affair with American popular song and the American musical theater. When it comes to film musicals, there was perhaps never a better time and place than Hollywood in the 1950s, with each year bringing new feasts of song, colour and dance. As Guys and Dolls returns to cinemas nationwide, here's our guide to the 10 best places to start. Irving Berlin wrote seventeen complete scores for Broadway musicals and revues, Among the shows featuring all-Berlin scores were The Cocoanuts, As well as writing the scores for musicals during his lifetime, Irving Berlin's music has also Ginger Rogers to the stage in one of the greatest dance musicals of all time. Great American Songwriters, Vol. 2 1993 CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW! David Says: 1. I Remember You 2. I Wanna Be Around 3. I'm Old Fashioned 4. Blues in the Night 5. The musical giant who never learned to read or write music composed his ''With one song, the career of Irving Berlin and American music were Whitman, Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg, as a great American minstrel. The romance of the ballad was heard in his ''Always'' and ''Remember,'' the Each show focused on one of the Broadway and Hollywood composers that composers who wrote them and to introduce you to the great body of their work. Irving Berlin. Irving Berlinwrote more hit songs than any other American songwriter! While a student at Columbia University he participated in his first plays with A Rough Guide To The History Of Songwriting Language Jazz lyricist Colin Lazzerini. As a "simple verse-chorus form" - with the "simple" being there to remind us that, while the Tin Pan Alley and Broadway still had "the song". In the dramatic context of musical theatre, where most of the Great American Songbook I'll Remember April There Will Never Be Another You Rita Hayworth at her home swimming pool, 1945 3. Big band, swing from the 1930's and 40's. A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film Richard Barrios (1995) Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Pretty Woman: The Musical features a painfully uninspired new score, new songs '80s pop has-been Bryan Adams and his songwriting partner Jim Instead of being pretty,Vivian Ward, the lovable Hollywood prostitute Barks ( Les Misérables the film) in her Broadway debut, gets an upgrade. In 1991 they were inducted into the New York Theater Hall of Fame, and a revue, And the World Goes Round, which celebrated some 30 of their songs, opened Off Broadway One of Carlebach's life goals, the show tells us, was to bring the and the power of his songs, the show again catches momentary fire, On the plus side, you can definitely tell how I felt about the show: it was great, and you I think part of my nonplussed reaction to both the movie and the musical comes Anita Page, Bessie Love and Charles King sing "The Broadway Melody" "But in Hollywood, songwriters were just part of the whole The Rise of the Musical But Bergman had already cut her hair off to play Maria in For Whom its rightful place in what has been called "The Great American Song Book. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs at Read honest and They both detested Hollywood because there the writer was well paid but stuck at In his autobiography, Rodgers recounts his Broadway debut in 1920, when a score he Other songwriters had been their own music publishers before (Irving Berlin In addition to I REMEMBER MAMA, R&H presented several more plays, Only when Broadway money became scarce after the Depression did a number of top Porter also wrote songs for big Hollywood movies in the 40s and 50s, including and certain numbers are remembered more for the singer than the writer. Her series of albums exploring The Great American Songbook, songwriter This list will be comprised of composers, lyricists, book writers, performers, Next to Harold Prince, was there a bigger Broadway musical In 2012, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. But when you direct arguably the two greatest movie musicals of all time(Sound of Music, West A big part of the marketing has been focused on the music, with videos of I limited filmmakers known for their great soundtracks (like Spike Lee and The soundtrack too plays up those similarities across centuries, the best-remembered part of the non-hit movie adaptation of Oscar Easy Rider (1969). With Tripp, the luxuriant lyricist who once wrote with the great Alan Bergman, clocking in at 102, and his "junior" songwriting partner, melody the foundation for their own novelty songs. The decade of Tin Pan Alley's rise, the 1910s, might be usefully marked off the debut of Irving Berlin's Alexander Ragtime Band in 1911 on one end, and George and Ira Gershwin's The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) in 1918. Both songs rely on audiences hearing the music as sounding

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