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Interview with Lee Adams.

Title
Interview with Lee Adams.
Author
Adams, Lee, 1924-

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Additional Authors
Wilk, Max
Found In
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Description
1 streaming audio file (approximately 1 hr.) : digital, mono.
Summary
Adams, an American lyricist, speaks about how to succeed in songwriting and how he personally succeeded; musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse and writing Bye bye Birdie; what inspired him to make writing lyrics his profession; Cole Porter and his works; the 12 years he struggled before reaching stardom; artists he associated with; Mel Brooks' attempt and failure to get him into TV shows, and such. Adams and Wilk discuss radio reporting, some people in the TV show industry such as Phil Donahue, Dick Van Dyke, Merv Griffin, Carol Burnett and others, prejudices of critics and Brooks Atkinson in particular, various issues of show business such as the meaning of success, the definition of high standards, the economic side of show business, the perils of putting on a show, and more.
Alternative Title
  • They're playing our song.
  • Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Subject
  • Adams, Lee, 1924- > Interviews
  • Strouse, Charles
  • Lyricists > United States > Interviews
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Sound recordings.
Note
  • Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
  • Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.
Access (note)
  • Access to original item restricted.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53141.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53141
OCLC
871339164
Author
Adams, Lee, 1924- interviewee.
Title
Interview with Lee Adams.
Playing Time
010513
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Lee Adams, interviewee ; Max Wilks, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in Westport, Connecticut 1971 May 8.
Access
Access to original item restricted.
Additional Formats
Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53141.
Linking Entry
Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Local Note
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2154.
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Added Author
Wilk, Max, interviewer.
Added Title
They're playing our song.
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Found In:
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Research Call Number
*LDC 53141
*LT-10 2154
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