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- English
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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra
About this book
Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers.
Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront.
Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream.
Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.
Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront.
Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream.
Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: The Democracy of American Music
- 1 Bing: Out of Nowhere
- 2 Bing: Just One More Chance
- 3 Billie’s Blues
- 4 Frank in Hoboken
- 5 Ella: You’re Going to Hear from Me
- 6 Baby Gumm
- 7 Diana’s Dream
- 8 Bing at the Top
- 9 Billie and Ella
- 10 The Hoboken Four
- 11 Judy Swings
- 12 Sweet Leilani and Mexicali Rose
- 13 Billie Swings Her Way and Ella Finds a Hit
- 14 Band Canary Frank
- 15 Judy and Mickey and the Rainbow
- 16 Bing: Minstrelsy and Father O’Malley
- 17 Billie and Ella Travel Light
- 18 Frank: The Voice
- 19 Judy: The Girl Next Door
- 20 Barbara and the Mirror
- 21 Bing: Homecoming and Feet of Clay
- 22 Billie: Lover Man
- 23 Ella Bebop
- 24 Judy and Frank at MGM
- 25 Bing and Dixie
- 26 Billie’s Clef Blues
- 27 Frank’s Fall and Rise
- 28 Judy on the Comeback Trail
- 29 Frank and Ella Make Album History
- 30 Lady in Satin and Billie at the Met
- 31 Judy and Barbra
- 32 Ella and Frank
- 33 Judy: After You’ve Gone
- 34 Barbra at the Top
- 35 Frank and Ella at the Crossroads
- 36 Bing in Winter
- 37 Movie Star Barbra and Frank and Ella on the Road
- Coda: Barbra in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- About the Author