Robert Kimball
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"Johnny Mercer's early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, "Too Marvelous for Words," "Jeepers Creepers," "Skylark," "I'm Old-Fashioned," and "That Old Black Magic."" "During a career of more...
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"When Cole Porter died in 1964, he left a treasury of unpublished songs. From it, Robert Kimball, edited of Cole, has selected 23 of the best. All of them are signed with that magical phrase that spelled show business success for over 30 years and added a new kind of sophistication to the American musical theater: Words and music by Cole Porter. Most of these songs were written for specific stage and film musicals and were dropped only because they...
12) Cole
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The essay (p.[ix]-xix) is followed by a chronological collection of illustrations, correspondence, anecdotes, etc., and Cole Porter's lyrics.