The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals

by Movies / Music

Other authorsRoy Hemming (Author)
Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

791.430909357

Collection

Publication

Newmarket Press (1999), Overiszed Trade Paperback, 388 pages

Description

Lavishly illustrated with 162 photos, this book covers 16 songwritters: Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, McHugh, Porter, Rainger, Rodgers, Warren, Whiting, Brown, Carmichael, Loesser, Schwartz, Styne, and Van Heusen. Includes complete listings of over 800 movies and 200 songs."A buoyant book, that characterizes movie musicals at their best". -- Smithsonian Magazine

Language

Physical description

388 p.; 10.5 inches

ISBN

1557043809 / 9781557043801

UPC

001557043809

Local notes

discussed:
harold arlen, irving berlin, george gershwin, jerome kern, jimmy mchugh, cole porter, ralph rainger, richard rogers

harry warren, richard whiting, nacio herb brown, hoagy carmichael, frank loesser, arthur schwartz, jule syne, james van heusen
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