Herbert Fields Book (11 results)

Sheet Music. Condition: Fair. Fair/acceptable paperback sheet music. Edges of covers are lightly rubbed and the corners are lightly creased. Spine was torn and has been repaired with book-safe tape. Light pencil marks to the pages, mostly near the guitar cords, but this does not affect the music itself. "EH" is stamped in the upper right corner of the front cover. Sheet music is now protected in an acid-free bag with a board to prevent further creasing and damage. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK mild old tea stain top left corner sheets. ; black titles on pink paper covers.back cover shows carry over of cover art feeling with.more simple line drawings than great art. for 5 more songs from this musical. ; SHEET MUSIC; 6pg pages; BACK COVER ADVERT BERLIN'S Excerpts from Annie Get Your Gun. Illustrated by PINK, BLACK & RED Cover (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; VERY "BUSY" COVER ART.SEVERAL LONG GUNS POINTED UP.iNDIAN HEAD, DRAPERY & OTHER CREDITS ACROSS BOTTOM COVER. ; SHEET MUSIC; 6pg pages; BACK COVER ADVERT BERLIN'S Excerpts from Musical Production.Annie Get Your Gun. Illustrated by PINK & Black & RED White Cover (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD ++. 1st Edition. Beginning Monday, June 2, 1941. 36pp, staple bound in stiff paper covers, (staples not rusty), with the binding tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated Cover (illustrator).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated Cover (illustrator).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. small area of discoloration on rear cover, no loss of text or design. Illustrated Cover (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Foxing on covers and inside. Name of former owner on cover.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. Folio (30.5 cm.). Pictorial cover. Owner' signature at top of front cover. Else clean and bright ephemera.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Fine, fresh example, 9" x 12" staple bound, fan figured front cover, 12 pp. with pictorial front and rear wraps. Illustrated with photos of the stars and the stage play and with bios of the main cast (Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, Betty Grable (still a brunette), Benny Baker, Ronald Graham, Charles Walters as well as a biographical sktch of Cole Porter. Musical stage play "Du Barry Was A Lady" opened in New York on December 6, 1939 at the 46th Street Theater, later transferred the Royals. The successful show ran for 408 performances through December 12, 1940. The male lead, Bert Lahr would in 1939 play the role of The Cowardly Lion" in "The Wizard of OZ"; Ethel Merman was already considered "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage"; 23-year old Betty Grable, though having appeared in a few "B" movies for Fox and Paramount, began her to prominence when she was noted in this role by 20th Century Fox where she would be the studios biggest star in the 1940s. …

Wraps. Condition: Good. 12 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some color inside). This production was staged and directed by Richard Barstow. A rare item of Phyllis McGuire stage and musical career. Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (18601926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler (18471926). Songs that became hits include "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)". The principal performers were:Phyllis McGuire, Walter Farrell, Lulu Bates, Ned Wertimer, Edgar Daniels, Robert Bernard, Cherry Davis, Gene Foote, and Daniel Keyes. This program includes The History of the Show. With narratives on the producers, director, choreographer, musical director, and production designer, there is a synopsis of the show. The last page and inside the back cover are photographs of the General Manager, Lighting Director, and a large ensemble cast. This production toured: Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pa; Camden County Music Fair, Haddonfield, NJ; Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, L.I.; Storrowton Music Fair, West Springfield, Mass.; and Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, Md. Ms. McGuire, with her older sisters Christine and Dorothy, shot to success overnight after winning the televised "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts" contest in 1952. Over the next 15 years, they were one of the nation's most popular vocal groups, singing on the television variety shows of Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Andy Williams and Red Skelton, on nightclub circuits across the country and on records that sold millions. The sisters epitomized a 1950s sensibility that held up a standard of unreal perfection, wearing identical coifs, dresses and smiles, moving with synchronized precision and blending voices in wholesome songs for simpler times. Their music, like that of Perry Como, Patti Page and other stars who appealed to white, middle-class audiences, contrasted starkly with the rock 'n' roll craze that was taking the world by storm in the mid-to-late '50s. In 1965, as the trio's popularity began to fade, The McGuire Sisters retired from public appearances in 1968, Christine and Dorothy to raise families, Phyllis to continue as a soloist. She appeared regularly in Las Vegas, where she lived for the rest of her life in a mansion with a swan moat and a replica of the Eiffel Tower rising through the roof. In 1985, the sisters reunited for a comeback and performed for almost two decades at casinos and clubs in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere. They sang their own hits, 1950s pop hits and Broadway show tunes, and Phyllis did impersonations of Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Pearl Bailey and Ethel Merman. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus [presumably for a Summer Stock tour].…