They're Playing Our Song
Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award , reprinted and revised several times since, They're Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th Century, original, classic and timeless songs and lyrics as popular today as ever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Profiles of composers and lyricists illuminate Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Irving Berlin. According to PW , ``Readers who recall Wilk's The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1971) should anticipate the same nostalgic kicks and anecdotal richness in his hefty new book.''