Yours for a Song Collection of Noncommercial Video Recordings

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Creator

Yours for a Song Collection

Location

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

Extent

• 63 videocassettes (BetacamSP) : sd., b&w and col. ; 1/2 in.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to the public. Users never directly handle video recordings. Viewing selections are transmitted through a playback system.

Scope/Contents Note

The collection consists of materials used in the production of the 1999 documentary Yours for a Song profiling the lives and work of four women songwriters of the Tin Pan Alley era; Kay Swift, Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell. Includes archival footage, interviews and/or musical performances by Cy Coleman, Albert Hague, Artis Wodehouse, Gary Stevens, Michael Feinstein, Nora Michaels, Philip Furia, David Lahm, Deborah Grace Winer, Katharine Weber, Max Morath, Joan Morris, Russell Warner, Peter Mintun, Richard Renaldo, Oscar Brand, and Doris Fisher, among others.

Controlled Access Terms

• Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974.
• Swift, Kay, 1897-1993.
• Suesse, Dana, 1911-
• Ronell, Ann.
• Women composers -- United States.
• Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.
• Popular music -- United States -- 20th century.

Additional Creator Names

• Coleman, Cy. ive
• Hague, Albert, 1920-2001. ive
• Wodehouse, Artis Stiffey. ive
• Stevens, Gary, 1962- ive
• Feinstein, Michael. ive
• Michaels, Nora. ive
• Furia, Philip, 1943- ive
• Lahm, David. ive
• Winer, Deborah Grace. ive
• Weber, Katharine, 1955- ive
• Morath, Max. ive
• Morris, Joan, 1943- ive
• Warner, Russell. ive
• Mintun, Peter. ive
• Renaldo, Richard. ive
• Brand, Oscar. ive
• Fisher, Doris, 1915- ive
• Lumiere Productions.
• Gift of Lumiere Productions.