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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)...
Series
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Wallraven has been wrongfully dismissed from his post at a British public school and goodhearted Wanda Fleming is a cello player driven to busk on the streets. They find sympathy and understanding in each other as they share their misfortunes.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of America's greatest performers, Bobby Darin lived a rags-to-riches life. He worked his way from shady nightclubs to his dream destination, the Copacabana, where he wowed the crowds with his songs. He was a marvel at singing, songwriting and performing - stealing the hearts of fans everywhere despite the suffering in his own heart.
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xix, 521 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousand songs, collaborating with all the great popular composers and jazz musicians of his day, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, and as cofounder of Capitol Records, helping to promote the careers of Nat "King" Cole, Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee, and many other singers. Mercer's songs--sung by Bing Crosby,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Lorenz Hart, together with Richard Rodgers, created some of the most beautiful and witty songs ever written. Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication, yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. Rodgers and Hart, who wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films, were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise, punctual, heterosexual,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A frank personal account by the Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter traces the story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her formative relationships to her collaborations with some of today's leading composers and music artists, "--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Leonard Cohen's music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen. This book is about the ethos, origins, and traditions in Cohen's lyrics. He was as familiar with Christian traditions as he was Jewish. He is not concerned with confessional barriers, they simply impede access to the deep well of spiritual lore from which he draws. This is not a biography but a biographical narrative into the treatment of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a frequent music and culture contributor to The New Yorker, the mysterious, true story of the life of Connie Converse-a mid-century New York City singer/songwriter whose haunting music never found recognition-and the tale of one man's quest to uncover the truth"--
12) Night and day
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Swellegant and ellegant. Deluxe and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in the 20th century songwritting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant."
13) Autobiography
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender, " from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen enticed unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daughter of one composer and the mother of another, Mary Rodgers was herself a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Here she tells how she became not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic Freaky Friday) as well as a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard School. --
Author
Series
Songwriters on songwriting volume 2
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Da Capo Press edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 658 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Blaze
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
Author
Publisher
Dey St
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Songwriter and actress Linda Thompson breaks her silence for the first time to share the extraordinary story of her life, career, and her epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars--Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner. Contains lyrics to many of her songs.
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