I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby
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I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby

Dorothy Fields and Her Life in the American Musical Theater

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eBook - ePub

I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby

Dorothy Fields and Her Life in the American Musical Theater

About this book

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and . . . Dorothy Fields. These are the giants of the golden age of musical theater. Although she may not be as well known as her male counterparts, Dorothy Fields was America's most brilliant and successful female lyricist, who for five decades kept up with the greats.



As the only woman among the boys' club of popular song, Fields was welcomed by her fellow male artists, who considered her as both an equal and a beloved colleague. Working with thirteen different composers, Fields wrote the lyrics and/or librettos for unforgettable masterpieces, such as Annie Get Your Gun, Redhead, and Sweet Charity. Her more than four hundred songs include the standards "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Pick Yourself Up," and "The Way You Look Tonight," among other classic tunes.



This book introduces the trailblazing Fields to audiences who may not know her name but surely know her five decades worth of work. Beginning in the 1920s, Fields was one of the few women writing for commercial theater, and she did it so remarkably well that her work was recognized with a Tony Award, an Oscar, and the accolades of ASCAP president Stanley Adams, who referred to her as "the most important woman writer in the history of ASCAP."

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Information

Publisher
Applause
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781493050956
Edition
1
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1 “Hello, Daddy”
  4. Chapter 2 “Growing Pains”
  5. Chapter 3 “I Feel a Song Coming On”
  6. Chapter 4 “I’m Doin’ That Thing”
  7. Chapter 5 “Here Comes My Blackbird”
  8. Chapter 6 “Raisin’ the Roof”
  9. Chapter 7 “I’m Livin’ in a Great Big Way”
  10. Chapter 8 “Every Night at Eight”
  11. Chapter 9 “You Couldn’t Be Cuter”
  12. Chapter 10 “A Lady Needs Change”
  13. Chapter 11 “Close as Pages in a Book”
  14. Chapter 12 “I Like It Here”
  15. Chapter 13 “Merely Marvelous”
  16. Chapter 14 “After Forty, It’s Patch, Patch, Patch”
  17. Chapter 15 “If My Friends Could See Me Now”
  18. Chapter 16 “It’s Not Where You Start, It’s Where You Finish”
  19. Conclusion
  20. Appendix A Song List
  21. Appendix B Composer List
  22. Appendix C Project List
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography