The Melody Lingers on

by Hemming, Roy

• ISBN13: 9781557043801
• ISBN10: 1557043809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Newmarket Pr

Summary

Back in print in a handsome, elegant paperback with 166 evocative photos and movie stills, many of them rare, this is the only illustrated book on the golden age of movie musicals from the composers' point of view. This unique book, a perfect gift and an asset to every film and music library, includes: separate chapters on the careers and complete movie work of Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Cole Porter, Ralph Rainger, Richard Rodgers, Harry Warren, and Richard Whiting; shorter studies of Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, and James Van Heusen; and a detailed filmography for each songwriter, listing more than 800 movies and 2,000 songs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
INTRODUCTION	xi
HAROLD ARLEN	1	(28)
IRVING BERLIN	29	(26)
GEORGE GERSHWIN	55	(30)
JEROME KERN	85	(38)
JIMMY McHUGH	123	(28)
COLE PORTER	151	(36)
RALPH RAINGER	187	(24)
RICHARD RODGERS	211	(42)
HARRY WARREN	253	(48)
RICHARD WHITING	301	(22)
And Not To Be Forgotten: Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, James Van Heusen	323	(50)
Academy Award Nominations/Winners	373	(3)
Bibliography	376	(5)
Index	381