| Description |
xi, 489 pages : portraits ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Lee Adams -- Harold Adamson -- Richard Adler -- Milton Ager -- Fred E. Ahlert -- Harold Arlen -- Burt Bacharach -- Ernest R. Ball -- Alan Bergman -- Marilyn Bergman -- Irving Berlin -- Leonard Bernstein -- Chuck Berry -- Eubie Blake -- James A. Bland -- Jerry Bock -- David Braham -- Lew Brown -- Nacio Herb Brown -- Boudleaux Bryant -- Felice Bryant -- Johnny Burke -- Irving Caesar -- Sammy Cahn -- Hoagy Carmicheal -- Johnny Cash -- George M. Cohan -- Cy Coleman -- Betty Comden -- Con Conrad -- J. Fred Coots -- Hal David -- Reginald De Koven -- B.G. De Sylva -- John Denver -- Neil Diamond. |
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Howard Dietz -- Fats Domino -- Walter Donaldson -- Ervin Drake -- Paul Dresser -- Al Dubin -- Vernon Duke -- Bob Dylan -- Fred Ebb -- Gus Edwards -- Duke Ellington -- Dan Emmett -- Ray Evans -- Sammy Fain -- Dorothy Fields -- Fred Fisher -- George Forrest -- Stephen Foster -- Arthur Freed -- Rudolf Friml -- George Gershwin -- Ira Gershwin -- Mack Gordon -- Jay Gorney -- Adolph Green -- Johnny Green -- Woody Guthrie -- Merle Haggard -- Marvin Hamlish -- Oscar Hammerstien II -- W.C. Handy -- Otto Harbach -- E.Y. Harburg -- Ned Harrigan -- Charles K(assell) Harris -- Lorenz Hart -- Ray Henderson. |
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Victor Herbert -- Jerry Herman -- John Hill Hewitt -- Billy Joel -- Tom Jones -- Gus Kahn -- Bert Kalmar -- John Kander -- Jerome Kern -- Carole King - -Kris Kristofferson -- Burton Lane -- Carolyn Leigh -- Alan Jay Lerner -- Jay Livingston -- Frank Loesser -- Frederick Loewe -- Jimmy McHugh -- Henry Mancini -- Edward B. Marks -- Johnny Mercer -- Bob Merrill -- Roger Miller -- Jimmy Monaco -- Randy Newman -- Mitchell Parish -- Cole Porter -- Ralph Rainger -- Harry Revel -- Lionel Richie -- Marty Robbins -- Leo Robin -- Richard Rodgers -- Sigmund Romberg -- Harold Rome. |
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George Frederick Root -- Harry Ruby -- Harvey Schmidt -- Arthur Schwartz -- Jean Schwartz -- Neil Sedaka -- Richard M. Sherman -- Robert B. Sherman -- David Shire -- Carly Simon -- Paul Simon -- Noble Sissle -- Stephen Sondheim -- Bruce Springsteen -- Joseph W. Stern -- Charles Strouse -- Jule Styne -- James Taylor -- James Thornton -- Harry (Austin) Tierney -- Dimitri Tiomkin -- Egbert Van Alstyne -- James Van Heusen -- Albert Von Tilzer -- Harry Von Tiler -- Fats Waller -- Harry Warren -- Ned Washington -- Paul Francis Webster -- Kurt Weill -- Richard Whiting -- Hank Williams -- Meredith Wilson. |
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Stevie Wonder -- Henry Clay Work -- Robert Wright -- Jack Yellen -- Vincent Youmans. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Contains 146 biographies of the composers and lyricists who have earned an enduring place in the history of the American popular song. |
| Subject |
Composers -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Composers. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| Subject |
Lyricists -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Lyricists. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| ISBN |
0824207440 |
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9780824207441 |
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