That particular brand of wordsmithing, that special turn of phrase, Mercer has been coming up with all these years. Can he explain where it comes from? He grins. “No. I get lyric ideas from anywhere. Maybe from a billboard on the street ...
They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim - the Stories Behind the Words and Music of Two...
America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike ...
Appendix includes a list of the songs co-written by Carole Bayer Sager.
"In this memoir, Carole Bayer Sager tells the surprisingly frank and darkly humorous story of a woman whose sometimes crippling fears and devastating relationships inspired many of the songs she would ultimately write.
The careers, inspirations, and techniques of Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin and seventeen other classic songwriters...
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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, these classic and timeless songs and lyrics are as popular today as ever.
They're Playing Our Song: The Truth Behind the Words and Music of Three Generations