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Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (Hardcover)
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Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (Hardcover)
Series: Broadway Legacies
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In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Dorothy Fields penned
the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits
such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You
Anything But Love," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "If My Friends
could See Me Now." While Fields's name may be known mainly to
connoisseurs, her contributions to our popular culture--indeed, our
national consciousness--have been remarkable.
In I Feel a Song Coming On, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most
complete, serious treatment of Fields's life and work to date,
tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in
1904 into a show business family--her father, Lou Fields, was a
famed vaudeville comedian turned Broadway producer--Fields first
teamed with songwriter Jimmy McHugh in the late 1920s and went on
to a series of Hollywood collaborations with Jerome Kern, including
the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic Swing Time. With her brother
Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's
Broadway shows, as well as for Irving Berlin's phenomenally
successful Annie Get Your Gun. More stage hits would follow, among
them Redhead and Sweet Charity, as Fields remained active right up
to her death in 1974. Fields's lyrics--colloquial, urbane,
sometimes slangy, sometimes sensuous--won her high praise from
later generation songwriters including Stephen Sondheim and Fred
Ebb, and her stellar career opened a path for other women in her
profession, among them Betty Comden, Dory Previn, and Marilyn
Bergman.
Meticulously researched and filled with sharp insights, this
lively biography not only illuminates Fields's life but also offers
unique insights into the golden ageof popular song.
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