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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

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

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (approximately 96 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Burton Lane, a composer whose popular and successful works include "Finian's rainbow" and "On a clear day you can see forever" speaks about the early manifestation of his talent; collaboration with Al Dublin (a talented lyricist with a drinking problem); a contract with J.J. Schubert when he was only 15 which the Schuberts did not honor and cheated him out of his royalties; his and Harold Adamson's (a gifted lyricist) move to California and work at Metro (film studio); collaboration with songwriter Frank Loesser; move back to New York and partnership with Yip Harburg; return to Hollywood where wartime musicals boom began and creative reunion with Harburg; prominent people in show business such as the brothers Gershwin, Fred and Adele Astaire, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner etc. and their works: their successes and failures, and much 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 > Interviews
4. Lane, Burton, 1912-1997 > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53164

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 (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.

Linking entry (note)

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

Author

1. Lane, Burton, 1912-1997, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Burton Lane, 1971-11-15.

Production

1. 1971.

Playing time

1. 005650 003913

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Burton Lane, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in New York 1971 November 15.

Access

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats

1. Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.

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 2174.

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 53164
2. *LT-10 2174