This comprehensive collection from the legendary folk icon features lyrics from each of Simon's 10 original studio albums, as well as lyrics from the renowned Simon & Garfunkel records. 50 b&w photographs throughout.
William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin' And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to ...
Way by Charles Harris told of orphans who were seen as “ always in the way ” . In another song , Harris wrote For Sale — A Baby , based on a newspaper story of a mother who tried to sell her starving baby . Ida by Eddie Leonard ( words ) ...
Bob Dylan - vinder af Nobelprisen i Litteratur 2016.THE LYRICS: 1961 - 2012Dette smukke værk indeholder Bob Dylans sangtekster fra begyndelsen af hans karriere til i dag - illustreret med grafisk kunst fra treogtredive pladeomslag og med ...
To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook.
A Selection of Stage & Screen Lyrics Written for Sundry Situations, and Now Arranged in Arbitrary Categories : to which Have Been Added Many Informative Annotations & Disquisitions on Their why & Wherefore, Their Whom-for, Their How, ...
Roosevelt's Blues: AfricanAmerican Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
One of the most distinguished lyric-writers of his time, Ira Gershwin wrote for his brother George as well as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen, Arthur Schwartz, & others. In...
Here are the origins of "Let It Be," "Lovely Rita," "Yesterday," and "Mull of Kintyre," as well as McCartney's literary influences, including Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Alan Durband, his high-school English teacher.
B. Lee Cooper offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary American society as it has been captured and transmitted in the lyrics of more than 3,000 popular recordings. By tracing the...
ere once was a union maid Who never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company nks And the deputy sheriff who made the raid. She'd go to the union ... Chorus Oh you can't scare me, I'm stickin' to the union. I'm stickin' to ...