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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 81 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Jay Gorney, a theater and film song writer, speaks about his family and their life in Białystok, Russia; pogroms and immigration to America; life in Detroit; his lessons in piano and college education; enlisting in the Navy during WWI and forming a band on a ship; coming to New York; composing the famous song "Brother, can you spare a dime" dedicated to the Great Depression; his songwriting experience in Hollywood; meeting and introducing Shirley Temple to Fox Studios in 1932; period of decline in Hollywood due to blacklisting and limitations on freedom of speech, and more about many show business people.

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. Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990 > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53158

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 53158.

Linking entry (note)

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

Author

1. Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Jay Gorney, 1971-09-28.

Production

1. 1971.

Playing time

1. 004405 003720

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Jay Gorney, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in London 1971 September 28.

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 53158.

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 2168.

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 53158
2. *LT-10 2168