The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
by Mercer, Johnny, Kimball, Robert, Day, Barry, Kreuger, Miles, Davis, Eric
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- 0307265196
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265197
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Robert Kimball was educated at Yale College and Yale Law School. He has been the music critic of the New York Post and is the co-author or editor of many books on musical theater, including Cole, the celebrated book about Cole Porter that he edited with Brendan Gill. He also edited for the Complete Lyrics series the volumes of Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Frank Loesser. He is co-editor, with Robert Gottlieb, of Reading Lyrics. He lives in New York. Barry Day was born in England and is an MA from Balliol College, Oxford. He has written or edited some twenty books as well as plays and musical revues showcasing the work of Dorothy Parker, P. G. Wodehouse, the Lunts, Oscar Wilde, and Sherlock Holmes. His eight books on Noël Coward include Noel Coward: The Complete Lyrics. He has also edited P. G. Wodehouse: The Complete Lyrics. He is a Trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation, a board member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire “for service to British Culture in the United States.” Miles Kreuger is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Columbia Grammar School and Bard College. He has been writing about musical theater and film since 1958, including the definitive study of Show Boat . In 1965, he created the world’s first academic course on the American musical, at New York University, and has since taught at Columbia, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. He is president of The Institute of the American Musical and lives in Los Angeles. Eric Davis is an avid student of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American popular music. He received his BA from Indiana University and is currently pursuing graduate studies in musicology at the University of Southern California.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- C26710
- Title
- The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
- Author
- Mercer, Johnny, Kimball, Robert, Day, Barry, Kreuger, Miles, Davis, Eric
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307265196
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265197
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2009-10-20
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