Music by a wide variety of artists is covered including: George Gershwin Billie Holiday Cole Porter Rogers & Hart Paul McCartney Dave Brubeck Irving Berlin Jerome Kern John Coltrane and many others. Some chapters tell the story of just one song others sketch the life stories of the artists. Music lovers will find new facts and deeper understanding about old friends in the book and readers unfamiliar with the standards will find the book accessible easy to read and delightfully entertaining and informative. Paperback From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway and Hollywood this book tells the stories of our most popular songs with humour drama and insight. This is timeless music written in unique ways that is constantly being reinterpreted by each generation. This is a book about singers musicians lyricists and composers taking their talent into the atmosphere of immortality. They are fascinating and they set the standards by which popular music is measured. They may not have lived easy lives but their creativity drove them to new heights and they changed the face of music forever.
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