The Great American Songbook - The Composers: Music and Lyrics for Over 100 Standards from the Golden Age of American Song

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From Berlin to Gershwin to Rodgers to Waller, this folio features a comprehensive collection of standards from the greatest American composers, along with photos and bios of these masters of song. Includes beloved standards from: Fred Ahlert (I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)) * Harold Arlen (It's Only a Paper Moon) * Irving Berlin (Blue Skies) * Sammy Cahn (All the Way) * Hoagy Carmichael (Georgia on My Mind) * Cy Coleman (Witchcraft) * Duke Ellington (Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Mood Indigo) * Dorothy Fields (A Fine Romance) * George Gershwin (Somebody Loves Me) * Johnny Green (Body and Soul) * Jerome Kern (All the Things You Are) * Burton Lane (How Are Things in Glocca Morra) * Lerner and Loewe (I Could Have Danced All Night) * Livingston and Evans (Que Sera Sera) * Frank Loesser (Two Sleepy People) * Johnny Mercer (Moon River) * Cole Porter (I've Got You Under My Skin) * Rodgers and Hammerstein (The Surry with the Fringe on Top) * Rodgers and Hart (My Funny Valentine) * Billy Strayhorn (Satin Doll) * Fats Waller (Ain't Misbehavin') * and many, many more

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 416
Weight: 2.97lbs
Size: 12.00h x 7.18w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781423419549

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