Dory Previn Songbook

(P/V/G Composer Collection). Dory Previn is a composer, lyricist, author, playwright, recording artist, and performer. Her songs have received numerous awards and have been recorded by artists such as Georgia Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Darin, Tyne Daly, Judd Hirsch, Bernadette Peters, Dexter Gordon, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, and more! This collection features a preface by Theodore Chapin, a biography, art, and 15 songs, including: Be Careful, Baby, Be Careful * Beware of Young Girls * The New Enzyme Detergent Demise of Ali McGraw * Play It Again, Sam * With My Daddy in the Attic * and more.

From the famous, including Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson, to the not-so-famous, including Arch West, the inventor of the Dorito, this riveting collection of the 164 best obituaries from The New York Times, written by top journalists, is organized chronologically. Original.

Harold Arlen's songs like "Over the Rainbow" and "Stormy Weather" form a crucial part of the American soundscape of the twentieth century. From their origins at the Cotton Club of Harlem, the Broadway stage, and Hollywood film studios, they capture an extraordinary range of emotions and styles. Harold Arlen and His Songs is the first book to look at Arlen's music across his long career and through his collaborations with the top lyric writers of his time, including Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, and Ira Gershwin. The book also discusses Arlen's activities as a singer of his music, as well as the performances of vocalists with a strong affinity for it, like Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand.

From Abba to ZZ Top by way of James Brown, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, this comprehensive reference book on popular music encompasses the extraordinary range of modern music from country, cabaret, reggae, folk, gospel, rock 'n' roll, and swing. More than 3,000 entries illuminate the careers of top performers, sognwriters, and musicians and outline the histories of important record labels.

A beautiful souvenir collection of 66 tunes from the British composer who penned hit songs for stage and film, including the soundtracks for Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Dr. Doolittle, Victor/Victoria, and many others. This collection includes dozens of color and black and white photos, a biography, a foreword and autobiographical notes by Bricusse himself, and extensive notes about each of the shows. Includes PVG arrangements of: Can You Read My Mind? * The Candy Man * Goldfinger * Gonna Build a Mountain * If I Ruled the World * Le Jazz Hot * Once in a Lifetime * Pure Imagination * A Shot in the Dark * Somewhere in My Memory * Talk to the Animals * Thank You Very Much * This Is the Moment * What Kind of Fool Am I? * When I Look in Your Eyes * Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)? * A Wonderful Day like Today * You Only Live Twice * and more.

In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "If My Friends Could See Me Now." While Fields's name may be known mainly to connoisseurs, her contributions to our popular culture--indeed, our national consciousness--have been remarkable. In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete, serious treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world.

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Leonard Rosenman, and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order, the chapters offer accounts of the various composers’ concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer’s music for films with his or her music for the concert hall, and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book, complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars, researchers, and general readers with an interest in film music and concert music.