Download or read book Rod Stewart Best of the Great American Songbook written by Rod Stewart and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our collection features 15 of the best of Stewart's two recordings, The Greatest American Songbook , Volumes 1 & 2. Includes: Don't Get Around Much Anymore * For All We Know * I'll Be Seeing You * It Had to Be You * Moonglow * That Old Feeling * They Can't Take That Away from Me * Till There Was You * Where or When * and more.
Download or read book The Great American Songbook The Singers written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Crooners, wailers, shouters, balladeers some of our greatest pop vocalists have poured their hearts and souls into the musical gems of the Great American Songbook. They sang in nightclubs and concert halls, on television and in films, and left us a legacy of recordings still in play today. Their interpretations entertained us, moved us to tears, and wove lyrics and music into the fabric of our lives, making us see ourselves in these quintessentially American songs. This folio features 100 of these classics by Louis Armstrong (Hello Dolly * What a Wonderful World), Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), Rosemary Clooney (Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep), Nat "King" Cole (Route 66), Bing Crosby (True Love), Doris Day (Bewitched), Ella Fitzgerald (How High the Moon), Judy Garland (Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody), Dean Martin (Everybody Loves Somebody), Frank Sinatra (Young at Heart), Barbra Streisand (People), Mel Torme (Heart and Soul), and many, many more.
Download or read book The B Side written by Ben Yagoda and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed cultural historian--drawing on previously untapped archival sources and interviews with such voices as Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert--presents a social history of the great American songwriting era.
Download or read book The Great American Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Songbook). 15 timeless classic standards as arranged for piano solo by Phillip Keveren: All the Things You Are * All the Way * Autumn in New York * Blue Skies * Come Rain or Come Shine * If Ever I Would Leave You * In the Still of the Night * Isn't It Romantic? * Mona Lisa * Skylark * Summertime * Take the "A" Train * There Will Never Be Another You * Time After Time * When You Wish upon a Star.
Download or read book The Great American Songbook Country written by and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For voice and piano or guitar(s), with chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.
Download or read book Listening for America Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim written by Rob Kapilow and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist • The Marfield Prize [National Award for Arts Writing] “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star “If you want to understand American history, listen to its popular music,” writes renowned NPR host Rob Kapilow. “If you want to understand America’s popular music, listen to its history.” Through the songs of eight legendary American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim—Kapilow listens for the history not just of musical theater, but of America itself. Combining close readings of Broadway hits like “Summertime” and “Stormy Weather” with a wide-angled historical point of view, Listening for America shows us how we too can listen along as America discovered its identity through the epochal transformations of the twentieth century.
Download or read book But He Doesn t Know the Territory written by Meredith Willson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway Edition Composer Meredith Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Now featuring a new foreword by noted singer and educator Michael Feinstein, this book presents Willson’s reflections on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Willson’s whimsical, personable writing style brings readers back in time with him to the 1950s to experience firsthand the exciting trials and tribulations of creating a Broadway masterpiece. Fresh admiration of the musical—and the man behind the music—is sure to result.
Download or read book City Songs and American Life 1900 1950 written by Michael L. Lasser and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book The Great American Country Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements with tab for 50 all-American country classics, including: Act Naturally * All My Ex's Live in Texas * Boot Scootin' Boogie * Crazy * Elvira * Faded Love * Folsom Prison Blues * For the Good Times * Friends in Low Places * Georgia on My Mind * Hey, Good Lookin' * King of the Road * Lucille * Rocky Top * Sixteen Tons * Take Me Home, Country Roads * There's a Tear in My Beer * You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.
Download or read book The Great American Songbook written by Sam Allingham and published by Strange Object. This book was released on 2016 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the characters in these stories, love and music are almost indistinguishable. A famous songwriting duo is destroyed by their creative differences, a jazz musician is consumed by his inability to speak or play, a man takes a pop song literally and charts his love onto buildings. These stories cover songs and riff on melodies. They unearth chords that bridge the gap between past and present. A playful, elegant debut collection, The Great American Songbook explores the profound hold that music has on our lives.
Download or read book The Gershwins and Me written by Michael Feinstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Feinstein was just 20 years old when he got the chance of a lifetime: a job with his hero, Ira Gershwin. During their six-year partnership, Feinstein blossomed under Gershwin's mentorship and Gershwin was reinvigorated by the younger man's zeal. Now, in The Gershwins and Me, Michael Feinstein shares unforgettable stories and reminiscences from the music that defined American popular song, along with rare Gershwin memorabilia he's collected through the years. Includes an accompanying CD packed with Feinstein's original recordings of 12 Gershwins' songs.
Download or read book A Fine Romance written by David Lehman and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews. An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing—with a Yiddish accent. He guides us through America in the golden age of song, when “Embraceable You,” “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “My Romance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Stormy Weather,” and countless others became nothing less than the American sound track. The stories behind these songs, the shows from which many of them came, and the shows from which many of them came, and the composers and lyricists who wrote them give voice to a specifically American saga of love, longing, assimilation, and transformation. Lehman’s analytical skills, wit, and exuberance infuse this book with an energy and a tone like no other: at once sharply observant, personally searching, and attuned to the songs that all of us love. He helps us understand how natural it should be that Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen was the son of a cantor who incorporated “Over the Rainbow” into his Sabbath liturgy, and why Cole Porter—the rare non-Jew in this pantheon of musicians who wrote these classic songs shaped America even as America was shaping them. (Part of the Jewish Encounter series)
Download or read book Sane Singing written by D. Brian Lee and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sane Singing will show you how to find and evaluate training programs and teachers, chart your own abilities, and advocate for yourself as a singer. Included is the Self-Assessment Protocol for Singers, a step-by-step plan for tracking your progress - for singers of all levels.
Download or read book Radio My Way written by Ron Della Chiesa and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. With a voice as smooth as a Charlie Parker alto saxophone solo, Boston broadcasting icon Ron Della Chiesa has brought music and musical legends alive for over thirty-five years. These are the inside stories of Della Chiesa’s career in radio. Discover Boston's vibrant music scene as only Ron can tell it: through his interviews with everyone from opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, to jazz artists Dizzy Gillespie and Dave McKenna, beloved song legends Rosemary Clooney and Bobby Short, composers David Raksin and Andre Previn, the brilliant raconteur Jean Shepherd, to his close friend, musical legend Tony Bennett.
Download or read book American Popular Song Edited and with an Introd by James T Maher written by Alec Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Performer Standards The Best Selections from the Great American Songbook written by Jan Sanborn and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians or any Popular Performer. Titles: *Ain't She Sweet * As Time Goes By * Bidin' My Time * Dancing in the Dark * The Days of Wine and Roses * Embraceable You * Over the Rainbow * Theme from New York, New York * When I Fall In Love * You Make Me Feel So Young
Download or read book Popular Performer Great American Songbook Complete written by Dan Coates and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most famous selections from the Great American Songbook are included in this collection. These classic favorites, masterfully arranged by Dan Coates for advanced piano, sound rich and full and will delight audiences as well as provide hours of enjoyment for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians, or any "popular performer." Titles: *Anything Goes *Cry Me a River *The Days of Wine and Roses *Dream a Little Dream of Me *Embraceable You *Falling In Love with Love *Fly Me to the Moon *Fools Rush In *I Get a Kick Out of You *I Got Rhythm *I Only Have Eyes for You *I'm in the Mood for Love *In the Still of the Night *It Had to Be You *I've Got You Under My Skin *The Lady Is a Tramp *Long Ago (And Far Away) *Love Is Here to Stay *Make Someone Happy *My Funny Valentine *On the Street Where You Live *The Shadow of Your Smile *Singin' in the Rain *Skylark *So In Love *Someone to Watch Over Me *Stardust *Summertime *They Can't Take That Away from Me *When I Fall In Love *Where or When *With a Song in My Heart *You'll Never Know
