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America's Songs: The Stories behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley.(Book review)
* America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and the Tin Pan Alley, by Philip Furia and Michael Lasser. Routledge (270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016), 2006. 336pp. $29.95.
America's Songs is a storybook, a collection of vignettes that covers almost seven decades of our country's musical history. It is a look inside the circumstances that saw the creation of hits like "Fascinating Rhythm," "My Favorite Things" and "Over the Rainbow." It places these songs and their creators in historical and social perspective, and without quite a few surprises. I don't want to spoil anything here, but you'll discover which song almost didn't make it into The Wizard of Oz and how a tune conceived on a hot day in July overcame all odds to become Nat King Cole's biggest-selling recording (hint: there's nothing hot about the song.)
More than anything, this book is fun to read. Those who have grown up with these songs will find themselves on a wonderful trip down memory lane, and those who may never have heard the names Jimmy Van Heusen or Vernon Duke will quickly recognize the tunes and the influences these ...
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- Magazine article from: Library Journal Schueneman, Bruce R. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...various aspects of Tin Pan Alley, including "Film Music," "Coon Songs," "Song Folios," "Demonstrator...Composing a Pop Song," "Publishing a Popular Song," and "Jazz in the Tin Pan Alley Era." In "Hit Songs," Jasen includes...
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- Magazine article from: Booklist November 1, 2003 700+ words
...Eventually, Tin Pan Alley became...create popular songs and promoted...and popular song, previously...Remembered Songs, 1899...history of Tin Pan Alley from...published songs. The lists...which each song was performed...only would Tin Pan Alley ...
- American Song: The Complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Song. (Reviews).(Volumes...
- Magazine article from: Booklist January 1, 2002 700+ words
...information about song titles and writing...people and popular songs of Tin Pan Alley in the broadest...lists every song title for that...Although American Song is the most comprehensive...source for data on songs from the musical theater and Tin Pan Alley, it ...
- * Hischak, Thomas S. The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia.(Book Review)(Brief...
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...Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia and...American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia. Unlike the many Tin Pan Alley narrative...on individual songs in the style of...on "Alternate Song Titles," "ASCAP...Parade," and "Tin Pan Alley Standards...resource on popular songs ...
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- Magazine article from: Library Journal Zaslow, Barry November 15, 2001 700+ words
...s important American Song: The Complete Musical...7/96) and Hollywood Song: The Complete Film and...95) focus on popular songs from the early 1890s to 2000, defining "Tin Pan Alley" broadly to incorporate...Volumes 3 and 4 of American Song, they act as a stand...
- America's Songs: The Stories behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
...Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Furia, Philip...about 600 well-known songs from musicals, movies, and Tin Pan Alley from 1910 to 1977...songwriters, the song's genesis, and musicals and other songs they were associated...
- The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Quinn, Mary Ellen January 1, 2003 700+ words
...95 (0-313-31992-8). Tin Pan Alley refers to the American...twentieth centuries, and the songs written for parlor pianos...of more than 1,200 popular songs, many of which are still familiar...entry includes the year the song was published and highly readable...
- Performing arts & film.(Springing Forward)(The John Adams Reader: Essential...
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly January 23, 2006 700+ words
...text and images. ROUTLEDGE America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley (Apr., $29.95) by Philip Furia and Michael Lasser tells of these songs' creation and examines what makes them...
- A Song for America, The Lost Generation Wobbles: Irving Berlin wrote more than...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek June 28, 1999 700+ words
...the possibility of writing a song that would have something to...a very strange Irving Berlin song because I knew my father as...earthy vernacular writer of songs like "Alexander's Ragtime...that anybody singing that song makes as they sing it. And...
- The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910.
- Magazine article from: American Music Myers, Gordon March 22, 1993 700+ words
By Nicholas E. Tawa. New York: Schirmer books; London: Collier MacMIllan, 1990. ISBN 0-02-872541-7. Pp. xii, 296. $29.95. Several years ago, in a conversation with Nick Tawa, I asked him how he went about researching materials for a book. Later that morning, I made some notes regarding his answer.
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