Skylark Libretto
Author | : Ricciardi / Ames / Holmes / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 178 |
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ISBN | : 1312283300 |
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Author | : Ricciardi / Ames / Holmes / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 178 |
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ISBN | : 1312283300 |
Author | : Philip Furia |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466819235 |
Skylark is the story of the tormented but glorious life and career of Johnny Mercer, and the first biography of this enormously popular and influential lyricist. Raised in Savannah, Mercer brought a quintessentially southern style to both his life in New York and to his lyrics, which often evoked the landscapes and mood of his youth ("Moon River", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"). Mercer also absorbed the music of southern blacks--the lullabies his nurse sang to him as a baby and the spirituals that poured out of Savannah's churches-and that cool smooth lyrical style informed some of his greatest songs, such as "That Old Black Magic". Part of a golden guild whose members included Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Mercer took Hollywood by storm in the midst of the Great Depression. Putting words to some of the most famous tunes of the time, he wrote one hit after another, from "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" to "Jeepers Creepers" and "Hooray for Hollywood." But it was also in Hollywood that Mercer's dark underside emerged. Sober, he was a kind, generous and at times even noble southern gentleman; when he drank, Mercer tore into friends and strangers alike with vicious abuse. Mercer's wife Ginger, whom he'd bested Bing Crosby to win, suffered the cruelest attacks; Mercer would even improvise cutting lyrics about her at parties. During World War II, Mercer served as Americas's troubadour, turning out such uplifting songs as "My Shining Hour" and "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive." He also helped create Capitol Records, the first major West Coast recording company, where he discovered many talented singers, including Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole. During this period, he also began an intense affair with Judy Garland, which rekindled time and again for the rest of their lives. Although they never found happiness together, Garland became Mercer's muse and inspired some of his most sensuous and heartbreaking lyrics: "Blues in the Night," "One for My Baby," and "Come Rain or Come Shine." Mercer amassed a catalog of over a thousand songs and during some years had a song in the Top Ten every week of the year--the songwriting equivalent of Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak--but was plagued by a sense of failure and bitterness over the big Broadway hit that seemed forever out of reach. Based on scores of interviews with friends, family and colleagues, and drawing extensively on Johnny Mercer's letters, papers and his unpublished autobiography, Skylark is an important book about one of the great and dramatic characters in 20th century popular music.
Author | : David H. Albert |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0865714010 |
The author tells the story of how he and his partner Ellen followed their daughter's interests in designing a home school program and used the resources within their community to fill the gaps in their knowledge areas.
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1312376821 |
Agent finds a potential child star on a farm and goes to court him to Hollywood. Once there, she finds his guardian, a rival agent, whom she ran out of the business years before.
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1304856429 |
Father Ruiz has always dreamed of circumnavigating the globe in a hot air balloon. When he finally gets up in the air, however, he finds himself confronted by his conscience, the four winds and, finally, the Devil himself.
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1312354526 |
Those two old pilots just can't keep their plane in the air! After crashing in Horseshoe, Iowa - at the wrong air show - they become instant celebrities. Soon, they are being hounded for their opinion on everything in this satire on the Cult of Celebrity.
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2014-02-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 131203341X |
Based on the fairy tale Riquet With the Tuft, by Charles Perrault
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 110 |
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ISBN | : 1312543833 |
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2014-08-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1312440775 |
1954. A group gets together for their annual pageant on Leonardo da Vinci.
Author | : Ricciardi / Nugent |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 110 |
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ISBN | : 1312959533 |