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Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412848180
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375400818
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Reading Lyrics written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive anthology bringing together more than one thousand of the best American and English song lyrics of the twentieth century; an extraordinary celebration of a unique art form and an indispensable reference work and history that celebrates one of the twentieth century’s most enduring and cherished legacies. Reading Lyrics begins with the first masters of the colloquial phrase, including George M. Cohan (“Give My Regards to Broadway”), P. G. Wodehouse (“Till the Clouds Roll By”), and Irving Berlin, whose versatility and career span the period from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Annie Get Your Gun” and beyond. The Broadway musical emerges as a distinct dramatic form in the 1920s and 1930s, its evolution propelled by a trio of lyricists—Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart—whose explorations of the psychological and emotional nuances of falling in and out of love have lost none of their wit and sophistication. Their songs, including “Night and Day,” “The Man I Love,” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” have become standards performed and recorded by generation after generation of singers. The lure of Broadway and Hollywood and the performing genius of such artists as Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Ethel Merman inspired a remarkable array of talented writers, including Dorothy Fields (“A Fine Romance,” “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”), Frank Loesser (“Guys and Dolls”), Oscar Hammerstein II (from the groundbreaking “Show Boat” of 1927 through his extraordinary collaboration with Richard Rodgers), Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Andy Razaf, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim. Reading Lyrics also celebrates the work of dozens of superb craftsmen whose songs remain known, but who today are themselves less known—writers like Haven Gillespie (whose “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” may be the most widely recorded song of its era); Herman Hupfeld (not only the composer/lyricist of “As Time Goes By” but also of “Are You Makin’ Any Money?” and “When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba”); the great light versifier Ogden Nash (“Speak Low,” “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” and, yes, “The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull”); Don Raye (“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Mister Five by Five,” and, of course, “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet”); Bobby Troup (“Route 66”); Billy Strayhorn (not only for the omnipresent “Lush Life” but for “Something to Live For” and “A Lonely Coed”); Peggy Lee (not only a superb singer but also an original and appealing lyricist); and the unique Dave Frishberg (“I’m Hip,” “Peel Me a Grape,” “Van Lingo Mungo”). The lyricists are presented chronologically, each introduced by a succinct biography and the incisive commentary of Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball.
Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265196
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.
Author : Barbara Muhammad
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469167247
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book And Eggs Ain't Poetry written by Barbara Muhammad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book "and eggs aint Poetry" is not based on personal or significant meaning. It was chosen because it is catchy and funny! Its title comes from a song bearing the words, "Grits aint groceries, and eggs aint poultry, and Mona Lisa was a man". Smile! Expressive or entertainment art, be it poetry, fictional novels, plays or whatever, is just that: entertainment. The ideas for such are ingenious of the individual writers imagination, experiences, perceptions, beliefs and/or emotions. When we focus on and understand the writers message and where the idea for his/her work stems, then the outcome of the reading will be more enjoyable, by flowing along and engulfing the words. Then we may be able to understand the mindset the writer was in when he or she first created the "work". My point being, no "real" right or wrong way to design this book (inside or out)was used, except through the Authors ingenuity. Everyone is genuine and distinctive, and should make their own footprints in life, setting standards and even barriers for themselves. Not letting others dictate their existence nor agenda!! But, write their own stories. Hope you enjoy the book, "and eggs aint Poetry". Be blessed.
Author : Sue Ellen Cooper
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446549037
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Red Hat Society (R)'s Laugh Lines written by Sue Ellen Cooper and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life begins at 50! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. In The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines. Sue Ellen Cooper and the women of the RHS celebrate the life experiences that have made them who they are today. Over the years, they've accumulated well-earned laugh lines and cry-lines from wonderfully funny, incredibly touching stories that will warm readers' hearts and touch their souls. Just as there is so much more to each of these women than a purple outfit and a red hat, there's so much more to their lives than the RHS--"from their husbands, children, and grandchildren to living life fabulously after 50. This book is a collection of some of the most touching and funniest stories that they want to share with their sisters, and is filled with sidebars recommending their favorite books and movies. With contributions from members across the country, this collection is bound to thrill all Red Hatters--"and those who soon will be.
Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312330996
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Skylark written by Philip Furia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of lyricist Johnny Mercer, discussing how he brought his quintessentially southern style to both his life in New York and his lyrics.
Author : Robert Miklitsch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548985
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Siren City written by Robert Miklitsch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Miklitsch has convinced me. Sound and music in film noir are every bit as important as the visuals. Siren City drives home this argument with authority and elegance. Highly recommended."---Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture --
Author : William Luce
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573642401
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Barrymore written by William Luce and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of this work by the master of one-character biographies for the stage.
Author : Michael Seth Starr
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589795989
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Bobby Darin written by Michael Seth Starr and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Darin fit a lot into his 37 years. By the age of 22, Darin topped the charts, but soon reinvented himself as a Sinatra-style crooner, winning a Grammy Award, the adulation of millions, a Hollywood contract, and a starlet wife. Bobby Darin examines the entertainer's entire life, from his boyhood in the Bronx to his rise as a musical sensation, his rocky marriage to Sandra Dee, the evolution of his career, and the shocking secret Darin learned later in life.
Author : Lara Freidenfelds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019086981X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy written by Lara Freidenfelds and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a couple plans for a child today, every moment seems precious and unique. Home pregnancy tests promise good news just days after conception, and prospective parents can track the progress of their pregnancy day by day with apps that deliver a stream of embryonic portraits. On-line due date calculators trigger a direct-marketing barrage of baby-name lists and diaper coupons. Ultrasounds as early as eight weeks offer a first photo for the baby book. Yet, all too often, even the best-strategized childbearing plans go awry. About twenty percent of confirmed pregnancies miscarry, mostly in the first months of gestation. Statistically, early pregnancy losses are a normal part of childbearing for healthy women. Drawing on sources ranging from advice books and corporate marketing plans to diary entries and blog posts, Lara Freidenfelds offers a deep perspective on how this common and natural phenomenon has been experienced. As she shows, historically, miscarriages were generally taken in stride so long as a woman eventually had the children she desired. This has changed in recent decades, and an early pregnancy loss is often heartbreaking and can be as devastating to couples as losing a child. Freidenfelds traces how innovations in scientific medicine, consumer culture, cultural attitudes toward women and families, and fundamental convictions about human agency have reshaped the childbearing landscape. While the benefits of an increased emphasis on parental affection, careful pregnancy planning, attentive medical care, and specialized baby gear are real, they have also created unrealistic and potentially damaging expectations about a couple's ability to control reproduction and achieve perfect experiences. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy provides a reassuring perspective on early pregnancy loss and suggests ways for miscarriage to more effectively be acknowledged by women, their families, their healthcare providers, and the maternity care industry.
Author : Paul A. Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475833539
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Focus on Thinking written by Paul A. Wagner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents recognize the importance of developing deliberative and reflective thinking skills. This book uniquely combines two things. First, it provides resources for classroom teachers in middle and secondary school that make it possible to, at a moment’s notice, take advantage of a teachable moment by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. Second, it gives the reader an overview of the rationale and the research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and that are not limited to training for testing success.
Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135471991
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book America's Songs written by Philip Furia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Songs tells the stories behind the most beloved popular songs of the last century. We all have songs that have a special meaning in our lives; hearing them evokes a special time or place. Little wonder that these special songs have become enduring classics. Nothing brings the roarin '20s to life like Tea for Two or I'm just Wild About Harry; the Great Depression is evoked in all of its pain and misery in songs like Brother Can You Spare a Dime?; God Bless America revives the powerful hope that American democracy promised to the world during the dark days of World War II; Young at Heart evokes the postwar optimism of the '50s. And then there are the countless songs of love, new romance, and heartbreak: As Time Goes By, Always, Am I Blue...the list is endless. Along with telling the stories behind these songs, America's Songs suggests, simply and succinctly, what makes a song great. The book illuminates the way each great song melds words and music - sentiment and melody - into a seamless whole. America's Songs also traces the fascinating but mysterious process of collaboration, the give-and-take between two craftsmen, a composer and a lyricist, as they combined their talents to create a song. For anyone interested in the history of the songs that America loves, America's Songs will make for fascinating reading.
Author : Vicki Gold Levi
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781562829346
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (293 download)
Download or read book You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby written by Vicki Gold Levi and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Separatedat Birth? books will adore this opportunity to glimpse Harrison Ford, Paula Abdul, Burt Reynolds, William F. Buckley, Candice Bergen, and the New Kids on the Block in this entertaining book representing more than 100 famous people as they looked in their childhood years. Half of the proceeds from this celebration of childhood will be donated to the Starlight Foundation to grant the wishes of seriously ill children.
Author : Robert Riche
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781477275689
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Brock Downsized written by Robert Riche and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brock Downsized" the story When the prostheses and condom manufacturing factory where Bill Brock has been Communications Manager goes belly-up Brock finds himself out on the street. In this comic but ultimately serious novel, Brock is obliged to take up the somewhat undignified role of wedding videographer. At the same time he is suddenly faced with a series of mid-life setbacks. His prostate goes floppy down, and the jolly, high-spirited doctors prescribe every type of wrong medication, while at the same time the nutty sexy wife of his nutty psychiatrist tries to seduce him, his aged father is dying in a nursing home, his nextdoor neighbor draws him unwittingly into a kiddyporn ring, and his artist son is implicated as a terrorist storing fertilizer and metal bomb parts in the family's backyard, while his daughters infatuation with a married man is about to drive him crazy. After all this, and quite a bit more, Brock finds himself, one could say, a bit discomfitted. Brocks spirit is indomitable, however, as he flounders about attempting to gain control over his life. The humor is laugh-out-loud comical, and yet the book has moments that are often deeply moving, while eschewing false sentimentality.
Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457428388
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Popular Performer: Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Mercer is one of the most prolific lyricists in history, having written the words for more than 1,000 songs. He collaborated with many composers, including Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Henry Mancini, to name a few. These beautiful arrangements by Melody Bober are perfect piano solos for lessons, recitals, or social gatherings. To show the clever brilliance of Mercer’s craft, the lyrics have been included. Titles: * Blues in the Night * Come Rain or Come Shine * Days of Wine and Roses * The Glow Worm * Hooray for Hollywood * Jeepers Creepers * On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe * Skylark * Summer Wind * You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.
Author : Stella Jayne Phillips
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509226869
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sweet Dreams at The Palace Hotel written by Stella Jayne Phillips and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Benton crossed the threshold of the historic Palace Hotel, leaving her shattered dreams behind. Determined to follow in the footsteps of the hotel's original owner, she puts her heart into creating an intimate lodging experience while becoming an integral part of the community. So what if she takes lessons on embracing life? And does it truly matter that her teacher, Mrs. Victoria Wyatt, is the hotel's live-in ghost?
Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104859
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2006 written by Billy Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women." In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.
