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Bound in finely woven black cloth stamped brightly in gold and blue lettering on the front boards and on the spine. A very good copy, crisp and clean. In very good dust jacket with the original price of $4.95 at the top of the inside front flap. Light rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends. The rear panel has a black and white photo of Harold Arlen. With photographic endpapers featuring black and white photo of American composers and authors. Bottom corner of rear panel bumped. This copy is inscribed in red flair ink by Harold Arlen: "For John, D.D. & Beau Love, Harold 1/61" on the half title page. I have copies of books signed & inscribed to Dorinda or D.D. Ryan by Andy Warhol, Harold Arlen, and Truman Capote, her close friend. D.D. Ryan (Dorinda Dixon Ryan), was a fashion designer at Harper's Bazaar where she worked with Diana Vreeland and Richard Avedon. Included in Dorinda's circle of friends were: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Hilary Knight, Kay Thompson, and many others. D.D. was married to John Barry Ryan, III, and the couple is mentioned in Frewin's book "The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker" on p.305 in a paragraph listing a gathering "of social notables." Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music,[2] who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including "Over the Rainbow", which won him the Oscar for Best Original Song, he was nominated as composer for 8 other Oscar awards. Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA.[3][4]In 1929, Arlen composed his first well-known song: "Get Happy" (with lyrics by Ted Koehler).[2] Throughout the early and mid-1930s, Arlen and Koehler wrote shows for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.[2] Arlen and Koehler's partnership resulted in a number of hit songs, including the familiar standards "Let's Fall in Love" and "Stormy Weather".[2] Arlen continued to perform as a pianist and vocalist with some success, most notably on records with Leo Reisman's society dance orchestra.In the mid-1930s, Arlen married, and spent increasing time in California, writing for movie musicals. It was at this time that he began working with lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg.[2] In 1938, the team was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to compose songs for The Wizard of Oz,[2] the most famous of which is "Over the Rainbow", for which they won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. They also wrote "Down with Love" (featured in the 1937 Broadway show Hooray for What!), "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", for Groucho Marx in At the Circus in 1939, and "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe", for Ethel Waters in the 1943 movie Cabin in the Sky. (Wikipedia) Stated "First Edition"at the bottom of the copyright page. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1357
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Titel: Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues The Life ...
Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Pantheon
Erscheinungsdatum: 1961
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1. Auflage
