Michael G. Garber is an internationally respected expert on Tin Pan Alley and the American musical on stage and screen. He was a research fellow of the University of Winchester and the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He is the author of My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface A Note on Song Popularity Chapter 1: Women in the World of Tin Pan Alley Chapter 2: The Twenties "Sugar Blues" (1918/1923), Lucy Fletcher, lyricist "Mexicali Rose" (1922/1923), Helen Stone, lyricist "The Down Hearted Blues" (1921), Lovie Austin, composer; Alberta Hunter, lyricist "Serenade" from The Student Prince (1924), Dorothy Donnelly, lyricist "I Know That You Know" (1926), Anne Caldwell, lyricist "Backwater Blues" (1927), Bessie Smith, composer-lyricist "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (1927/1955), Lil Hardin Armstrong, composer Chapter 3: "Can't We Be Friends" (1929), Kay Swift, composer Chapter 4: "It Happened in Monterey" (1929/1930), Mabel Wayne, composer Chapter 5: The Thirties "Siboney" (1931), Dolly Morse, lyricist "Say Si Si" (1936), Francia Luban, lyricist "Taboo" ("Tabu," 1934), Margarita Lecuona, composer-lyricist "Them There Eyes" (1931), Doris Tauber, composer "Accent on Youth" (1935), Tot Seymour, lyricist; Vee Lawnhurst, composer "I Wished on the Moon" (1935), Dorothy Parker, lyricist "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" (1938/1940), Mary Lou Williams, composer-lyricist "Some Other Spring" (1939/1940), Irene Armstrong Wilson Kitchings, composer "I'll Never Smile Again" (1939), Ruth Lowe, composer-lyricist Chapter 6: "My Silent Love" (1931/1932), Dana Suesse, composer Chapter 7: "Willow, Weep for Me" (1932), Ann Ronell, composer-lyricist Chapter 8: "Close Your Eyes" (1933), Bernice Petkere, composer-lyricist Chapter 9: "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" ("Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado," 1934), Maria Grever, composer-lyricist Chapter 10: "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), Dorothy Fields, lyricist Chapter 11: The Forties "How High the Moon" (1940), Nancy Hamilton, lyricist "I Dream of You" (1944), Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser, composers-lyricists "The Man with the Horn" (1945), Bonnie Lake, composer "It's a Good Day" (1946), Peggy Lee, lyricist "A Sunday Kind of Love" (1946), Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, composers-lyricists "It's Too Soon to Know" (1947), Deborah Chessler, composer-lyricist "Scarlet Ribbons" (1949), Evelyn Danzig, composer Chapter 12: "God Bless' the Child" (1940), Billie Holiday, composer-lyricist Chapter 13: "Good Morning, Heartache" (1945), Irene Higginbotham, composer Chapter 14: "Put the Blame on Mame" (1945/1946), Doris Fisher, composer-lyricist Chapter 15: "Far Away Places" (1947/1948), Joan Whitney, composer-lyricist Chapter 16: The Fifties "Too Young" (1949/1951), Sylvia Dee, lyricist "Twisted" (1952), Annie Ross, lyricist "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955), Fran Landesman, lyricist Chapter 17: "Just in Time" (1956), Betty Comden, lyricist Chapter 18: "Witchcraft" (1957), Carolyn Leigh, lyricist Chapter 19: "Nice 'n' Easy" (1960), Marilyn Keith Bergman, lyricist Chapter 20: What Happened Next Endnotes Selected Song Title Index General Index