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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 53 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Johnny Mercer, a prominent lyricist who collaborated with many famous composers, explains his adaptability by the good feeling for tunes that enables him to write successful lyrics. He speaks about his team work with composers Harold Arlen, Walter Donaldson, Richard Whiting, Harry Warren, Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, and some others. He discusses popular songs and traits that make them trendy, his ability to get along with composers, aspects of popularity and fame, influence of a background, nostalgia for melody era, and more.

Alternative title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Subject

1. Sound recordings
2. Interviews
3. Composers > United States
4. Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 > Interviews
5. Lyricists > United States > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53168

Note

1. Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
2. Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.

Access (note)

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53168.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Author

1. Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Johnny Mercer, 1972-02-29.

Production

1. 1972.

Playing time

1. 005305

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Johnny Mercer, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in New York 1972 February 29.

Access

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53168.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Local note

1. Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2176.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wilk, Max, interviewer.

Added title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Found in:

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Research call number

1. *LDC 53168
2. *LT-10 2176