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Interview with Dorothy Fields

Title
Interview with Dorothy Fields, 1971-11-21.
Author
Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974
Publication
1971.

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Additional Authors
Wilk, Max
Found In
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Description
2 streaming audio files (approximately 81 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
Fields, lyricist and librettist, who sometimes collaborated with her brother Herbert, speaks about the beginning of her career in American popular culture when she met the popular song composer J. Fred Coots who introduced her to another composer and song-writer Jimmy McHugh who helped her to get a job at Mills Music, Inc., where one of her first assignments was to write the lyrics for a tune commemorating aviator Ruth Elder's attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean; songs that became hits (I can't give you anything but love, Diga Diga Doo, Exactly like you, Blackbirds of 1928, etc); her easy collaboration with Jerome Kern and one tense incident that involved her new Cord car; work in Hollywood; and her return to Broadway and collaboration with composers Arthur Schwartz, Cole Porter, her brother Herbert, and many others. Fields and Wilk exchange stories about people related to show business (Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Ethel Merman, etc)
Alternative Title
  • They're playing our song.
  • Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Subjects
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 (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53156.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53156
OCLC
879646266
Author
Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Dorothy Fields, 1971-11-21.
Production
1971.
Playing Time
005943 002121
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Dorothy Fields, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in New York City 1971 November 21.
Access
Access to original item restricted.
Additional Formats
Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53156.
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 2166.
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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 53156
*LT-10 2166
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