Research Catalog

Title

Singers and the song : II / Gene Lees.

Author

Lees, Gene.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xiv, 251 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987, is being rereleased in an expanded edition.
• The new edition retains a number of famous pieces from the original volume, some in expanded form, such as Lees' classic profile of Frank Sinatra. Lees has also retained his essay on lyric writing, his piece on the art of Edith Piaf, and his admiring look at the genius of songwriter Johnny Mercer. The expanded edition offers seven new essays that are no less accomplished.
• Here readers will find a tribute to "the sweetest voice in the world," Ella Fitzgerald; a moving interview with Jackie Cain and Roy Kral; Lees' account of his involvement with Bossa Nova music and his collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim.
• We also read about Julius La Rosa, another of the great singers, the lyrics of Yip Harburg, Henry Warren's unforgettable compositions, and the elegant Arthur Schwartz, composer of "Dancing in the Dark" and many other masterpieces of the great period of American songwriting.

Subject

• Popular music > United States > History and criticism
• Singers > United States

Contents

William and Harold and How to Write Lyrics -- Pavilion in the Rain -- The Squirrel: Yip Harburg -- Style Is the Man: Arthur Schwartz -- Jeepers Creepers: Harry Warren -- Roses in the Morning: Johnny Mercer -- The Paradox: Frank Sinatra -- GI Jo: Jo Stafford and Paul Weston -- In from the Cold: Peggy Lee -- Sweetest Voice in the World: Ella Fitzgerald -- Phrasing: Julius La Rosa -- A Family Affair: Jackie and Roy -- The Sparrow: Edith Piaf -- Um Abraco No Tom: Antonio Carlos Jobim.

ISBN

• 0195115562
• 0195122089 (pbk.)

LCCN

97029823

OCLC

ocm37426210

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries