They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters

They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters
ISBN-10
1935212591
ISBN-13
9781935212591
Series
They're Playing Our Song
Category
Music
Pages
388
Language
English
Published
2011-06-21
Publisher
Easton Studio Press, LLC
Author
Max Wilk

Description

Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award , reprinted and revised several times since, They're Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th Century, original, classic and timeless songs and lyrics as popular today as ever.

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