Ten songs, from ""Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home"" (1902)
to ""You Made Me Love You"" (1913), ignited the development of the
classic pop ballad. In this exploration of how the style of the
Great American Songbook evolved, Michael G. Garber unveils the
complicated, often-hidden origins of these enduring, pioneering
works. He riffs on colorful stories that amplify the rising of an
American folk art composed by innovators both famous and obscure.
Songwriters, and also the publishers, arrangers, and performers,
achieved together a collective genius that moved hearts worldwide
to song. These classic ballads originated all over the
nation-Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan-and then the Tin Pan
Alley industry, centered in New York, made the tunes unforgettable
sensations. From ragtime to bop, cabaret to radio, new styles of
music and modes for its dissemination invented and reinvented the
intimate, personal American love ballad, creating something both
swinging and tender. Rendered by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald,
and a host of others, recordings and movies carried these songs
across the globe. Using previously underexamined sources, Garber
demonstrates how these songs shaped the music industry and the
lives of ordinary Americans. Besides covering famous composers like
Irving Berlin, this history also introduces such little-known
figures as Maybelle Watson, who had to sue to get credit and
royalties for creating the central content of the lyric for ""My
Melancholy Baby."" African American Frank Williams contributed to
the seminal ""Some of These Days"" but was forgotten for decades.
The ten ballads explored here permanently transformed American
popular song.
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