Yours for a Song Collection of Noncommercial Video Recordings [videorecording] / Lumiere Productions.

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Yours for a Song Collection of Noncommercial Video Recordings [videorecording] / Lumiere Productions.

The collection consists of materials used in the production of the 1999 documentary Yours for a Song profiling the lives and work of four women songwriters of the Tin Pan Alley era; Kay Swift, Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell. Includes archival footage, interviews and/or musical performances by Cy Coleman, Albert Hague, Artis Wodehouse, Gary Stevens, Michael Feinstein, Nora Michaels, Philip Furia, David Lahm, Deborah Grace Winer, Katharine Weber, Max Morath, Joan Morris, Russell Warner, Peter Mintun, Richard Renaldo, Oscar Brand, and Doris Fisher, among others.

63 videocassettes (BetacamSP) : sd., b&w and col. ; 1/2 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233162

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Winer, Deborah Grace

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Weber, Katharine, 1955-....

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Hague, Albert, 1920-2001

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Albert Hague, composer. Book by Emlyn Williams and Joshua Logan. Lyrics by Emlyn Williams. From the play The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams. From the description of Miss Moffat: typescript, 1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122466875 ...

Stevens, Gary, 1962-

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Lahm, David

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Renaldo, Richard.

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Morris, Joan, 1943-

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Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974

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Dorothy Fields, lyricist and librettist, was born in Allenhurst, New Jersey, July 15, 1905. She was the daughter of Lew Fields, comedian and producer, and Rose (Harris) Shoenfeld. Her first well known song was "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," which she wrote with James McHugh in 1928. She collaborated extensively with her brother Herbert Fields, who also was a librettist. Their most famous production was "Annie Get Your Gun," produced in 1946. Her other brother Joseph Fields was a dramatic ...

Warner, Russell

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Ronell, Anna Petrov

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Ann Ronell (1903-1993) composer and lyricist, was born Anne Rosenblatt in Omaha, Nebraska. She transferred from Wheaton College to Radcliffe College and graduated in 1927. In 1935 she married Lester Cowan, an independent film producer. Encouraged by Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, Ronell wrote the words and music of popular songs including, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", "Willow Weep for Me," and "Whistle While You Work." She wrote scores for many films and adapted a series of opera sco...

Wodehouse, Artis Stiffey

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Suesse, Dana, 1911-

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Feinstein, Michael Nicholas, 1982-

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Singer and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Los Angeles], to Jim [Fuld], 2001 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914755 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], to Jim [Fuld], 2000 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914754 ...

Brand, Oscar

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Michaels, Nora

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Mintun, Peter

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Lumiere Productions.

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Swift, Kay, 1897-1993

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Composer of "Can't we be friends" and other songs, friend and protegeĢe of Gershwin. From the description of Autographed page of concert program : New York, to James Fuld, 1978 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910507 American musical theater composer. From the description of The Kay Swift papers, 1894-1993 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152168 Kay Swift (1897-1993) is known today primarily for her close assoc...

Coleman, Cynthia

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Cy Coleman, composer. David Zippel, lyricist. Larry Gelbart, librettist. From the description of City of angels: typescript, 1990. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652017 From the description of City of angels: typescript, 1989. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517274 Cy Coleman, composer. Book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, based on Little Me by Patrick Dennis. From the description of Little me: typescript, n.d...

Fisher, Doris, 1915-2003

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Furia, Philip, 1943-....

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Morath, Max

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