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The Man That Got Away : The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen /

Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Ir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rimler, Walter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Buffalo, NY
  • New York, NY
  • "Get happy"
  • The Cotton Club
  • Anya
  • "Stormy weather"
  • On Broadway with Ira and Yip
  • "Last night when we were young"
  • Marriage
  • Death of Gershwin
  • Hooray for what!
  • The wizard of Oz
  • An itinerant songwriter
  • Writing with Johnny Mercer
  • "One for my baby"
  • "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive"
  • St. Louis woman
  • Descent into misery
  • "She was sweet and adorable and then she went mad"
  • A star is born
  • House of flowers
  • In search of fame
  • An opera
  • Two debacles
  • The 1960s
  • Waiting.