The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Title The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer PDF eBook
Author Johnny Mercer
Publisher Knopf
Pages 489
Release 2009-10-20
Genre Music
ISBN 0307265196

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The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

The Peoples Game

The Peoples Game
Title The Peoples Game PDF eBook
Author Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher African Books Collective
Pages 170
Release 2017-08-08
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9956763934

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This book weaves together a rich tapestry on football fandom in Zimbabwe. Based on empirical research focusing on the different dimensions of fan practices and experiences, the book is the result of multiple fieldwork processes with fans in Zimbabwe spanning a period of eight years including desk research, interviews, observation, focus group discussions and netnography. It demonstrates the nexus between social identities and supporting a sports team, highlighting that there are deeper underlying meanings and assumptions to ones support of a sporting team. Manase Chiweshe highlights the various nuances of supporting football clubs. This book provides an alternative way to understanding communities and how sport can be viewed as a serious lens into societal organisations. It offers important insights into how Zimbabweans are also engaged in leisure activities and that play is also part of their life worlds. Given the major focus on poverty, disease and conflict, African stories of intimate play and enjoyment tend to be sidelined. Soccer has the power to bring together or divide communities. In many an African context, just as in Zimbabwe, everyday ethnic and religious rivalries are played out through football matches. It is thus important to capture this space and use football as a way to heal historic and deep-seated conflicts.

Rock Guitar Classics - Budget Book (Songbook)

Rock Guitar Classics - Budget Book (Songbook)
Title Rock Guitar Classics - Budget Book (Songbook) PDF eBook
Author Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 679
Release 2010-10-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1458444465

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(Guitar Recorded Versions). A super-saver collection of over 40 hits! Includes: American Girl * Dance the Night Away * 867-5309/Jenny * Gloria * Heartbreaker * Hey Nineteen * I Wanna Rock * Jet Airliner * Ramblin' Man * Smokin' in the Boys Room * Too Hot to Handle * The Zoo * and more.

Nixon Agonistes

Nixon Agonistes
Title Nixon Agonistes PDF eBook
Author Garry Wills
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 469
Release 2017-06-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1504045408

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With a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review). In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often “very amusing” look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews). Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others—from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew—but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately “paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation’s—and Nixon’s—travails” (The New York Times). Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like “conservative” and “liberal” over recent decades, Nixon Agonistes is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America’s most acclaimed historians.

Box Office

Box Office
Title Box Office PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 858
Release 1941
Genre Motion picture industry
ISBN

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Motion Picture Herald

Motion Picture Herald
Title Motion Picture Herald PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 652
Release 1941
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN

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Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review

Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review
Title Showmen's Motion Picture Trade Review PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 540
Release 1941
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN

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