The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs

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Presented in the striking format of Ken Bloom’s successful Broadway Musicals, this rich visual history of popular song covers all of the prominent figures behind the music, in front of the bandstand, and on top of the piano. “The Singers” includes Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, and dozens more; “ The Songwriters” features Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Foster, Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington, Cole Po

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  1. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    A fine contribution, November 11, 2005
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    Art Hilgart –
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    This review is from: The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs (Hardcover)
    “Ken Bloom’s superb The American Songbook has the unique quality of service to two distinct audiences. Readers of a certain age will enjoy hours of pleasure recalling the music of their lives and responding to the inevitable impulse to listen to records they haven’t played for years. Young people like those in my university musical theater courses will encounter the music and the people who made it- in their historical contexts- and will be led maze-like to new experiences as they seek out films and recordings in libraries and nostalgia bins. And not least, The American Songbook will help extend the great contributions of Bloom’s subjects into the new century.”

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  2. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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    The American Songbook by Ken Bloom, March 18, 2006
    This review is from: The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs (Hardcover)
    This is a superb “dipper-inner”! If you are into the songs that have become American standards, you will find in this book a wealth of entertainment. The photos are chosen for interest and the anecdotal material–gossipy, behind-the-scenes stories about singers and songwriters–is fascinating. The book is pretty darn comprehensive with short pieces on the more obsucre songwriters and singers and in depth pieces on the greatest American singers and songwriters of the 20s,30s,40s and 50s. The index is thorough and very useful.

    Allen Johsnon, Jr. – Kid’s writer and jazz guitarist

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