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The Man That Got Away - The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen (Paperback)
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The Man That Got Away - The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen (Paperback)
Series: Music in American Life
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Loot Price R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just
a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is
hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a
gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of
us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent him a fan letter and
became his publisher. Bob Dylan wrote of his fascination with
Arlen's "bittersweet, lonely world." A cantor's son, Arlen believed
his music was from a place outside himself, a place that also sent
tragedy. When his wife became mentally ill and was
institutionalized he turned to alcohol. It nearly killed him. But
the beautiful songs kept coming: "Blues in the Night," "My Shining
Hour," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Man That Got Away."
Walter Rimler drew on interviews with friends and associates of
Arlen and on newly available archives to write this intimate
portrait of a genius whose work is a pillar of the Great American
Songbook.
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