The Johnny Mercer Centennial Sheet Music Collection

Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265196
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to commemorate Mercer's centennial year, an all-encompassing treasury of the Academy Award-winning Big Band lyricist's songs includes nearly 1,500 entries and offers insight into his collaborative achievements and enduring influence.

Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457428388
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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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 : Hoagy Carmichael
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hoagy Carmichael Centennial Collection written by Hoagy Carmichael and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This super collection is a treasure trove of hits from the master composer/songwriter in new authoritative editions, with several songs published for the first time. Features photos, a biography, a discography, a foreword by his son Hoagy Bix Carmichael, and 56 terrific standards: Georgia on My Mind * Heart and Soul * I Get Along Without You Very Well * Ivy * Lazy River * The Nearness of You * Skylark * Star Dust * Two Sleepy People * more.

Author : Bob Bach
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
ISBN 13 : 9780818404504
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Huckleberry Friend written by Bob Bach and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Mercer's popular song lyrics are accompanied by a survey of his life and a collection of letters, sheet music, photographs, and other memorabilia

Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780818403316
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Huckleberry Friend written by Johnny Mercer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines Johnny Mercer's popular song lyrics with a survey of his life and a collection of letters, sheet music, photographs, and other memorabilia.

Author : Carol Thalimer
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581570864
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide Atlanta written by Carol Thalimer and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for travelers features tips on dining, lodging, transportation, shopping, recreational activities, landmarks, and cultural opportunities.

Author : Johnny Mercer
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780739074770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Johnny Mercer Centennial Sheet Music Collection written by Johnny Mercer and published by Alfred Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Author : Glenn T. Eskew
Publisher : Wormsloe Foundation Publicatio
ISBN 13 : 9780820349732
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Mercer written by Glenn T. Eskew and published by Wormsloe Foundation Publicatio. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousand songs, collaborating with all the great popular composers and jazz musicians of his day, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, and as cofounder of Capitol Records, helping to promote the careers of Nat "King" Cole, Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee, and many other singers. Mercer's songs--sung by Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and scores of other performers--are canonical parts of the great American songbook. Four of his songs received Academy Awards: "Moon River," "Days of Wine and Roses," "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." Mercer standards such as "Hooray for Hollywood" and "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" remain in the popular imagination. Exhaustively researched, Glenn T. Eskew's biography improves upon earlier popular treatments of the Savannah, Georgia-born songwriter to produce a sophisticated, insightful, evenhanded examination of one of America's most popular and successful chart-toppers. Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World provides a compelling chronological narrative that places Mercer within a larger framework of diaspora entertainers who spread a southern multiracial culture across the nation and around the world. Eskew contends that Mercer and much of his music remained rooted in his native South, being deeply influenced by the folk music of coastal Georgia and the blues and jazz recordings made by black and white musicians. At Capitol Records, Mercer helped redirect American popular music by commodifying these formerly distinctive regional sounds into popular music. When rock 'n' roll diminished opportunities at home, Mercer looked abroad, collaborating with international composers to create transnational songs. At heart, Eskew says, Mercer was a jazz musician rather than a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, and the interpenetration of jazz and popular song that he created expressed elements of his southern heritage that made his work distinctive and consistently kept his music before an approving audience.

Author : Richard M. Sudhalter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030053
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stardust Melody written by Richard M. Sudhalter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who else could have composed these classic American songs but Hoagy Carmichael? He remains, for millions, the voice of heartland America, eternal counterpoint to the urban sensibility of Cole Porter and George Gershwin. Now, trumpeter and historian Richard M. Sudhalter has penned the first book-length biography of the man Alec Wilder hailed as "the most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great songwriters--the greatest of the great craftsmen." Stardust Melody follows Carmichael from his roaring-twenties Indiana youth to bandstands and recording studios across the nation, playing piano and singing alongside jazz greats Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and close friends Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong. It illuminates his peak Hollywood years, starring in such films as To Have and Have Not and The Best Years of Our Lives, and on radio, records and TV. With compassionate insight Sudhalter depicts Hoagy's triumphs and tragedies, and his mounting despair as rock-and-roll drowns out and lays waste to the last days of a brilliant career. With an insider's clarity Sudhalter explores the songs themselves, still fresh and appealing while reminding us of our innocent American yesterdays. Drawing on Carmichael's private papers and on interviews with family, friends and colleagues, he reveals that "The Old Music Master" was almost as gifted a wordsmith as a shaper of melodies. In all, Stardust Melody offers a richly textured portrait of one of our greatest musical figures, an inspiring American icon.

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316264866
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Film Music written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer's working practices.