The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals - Softcover

Roy Hemming

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9781557040176: The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals

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ISBN 10: 1557040176 ISBN 13: 9781557040176

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1988

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Critic Roy Hemming's one-of-a-kind book chronicles the careers and complete movie work of 16 songwriting legends. Includes 162 evocative photos and stills, many of them rare, and lists more than 800 movies and 2,000 songs in records, video and compact discs.

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About the Author:

Roy Hemming wrote about movies, music, and the media for more than thirty years. His other books include Discovering Great Music-A New Listener's Guide to the Top Classical Composers and Their Masterworks and, with David Hajdu, Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop, both published by Newmarket Press.

Review:

A unique and highly valuable work. . . . An authentic guide to an important aspect of American musical creativity in films. -- Adolph Green

An absolutely lovely guide and everything a fan could desire from a critical and cultural historian, including good sense and great taste. These are the classic composers-Hollywood immortals all-whose songs come back like a lump in the throat or a big bloomy feeling in the chest. . . . Hemming examines not only the film scores but their Broadway originals when there was one, what got dropped, what survived, and what new was added. -- Kirkus Reviews

An outstanding, accurate and joyful exploration of the work of the great songwriters for Hollywood's great musicals! . . . I love this book. -- Michael Feinstein

Roy Hemming displays the racy phrasemaking of a '30s lyricist. . . . A buoyant book, a crystallization in print of the frothy elegance that characterizes musicals at their best. -- Smithsonian Magazine

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