Portrait Of Johnny
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Portrait Of Johnny
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Author : Gene Lees
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2009-08-19
Portrait Of Johnny written by Gene Lees and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Something’s Gotta Give”—the honor roll of Mercer’s songs is endless. Both Oscar Hammerstein II and Alan Jay Lerner called him the greatest lyricist in the English language, and he was perhaps the best-loved and certainly the best-known songwriter of his generation. But Mercer was also a complicated and private man. A scion of an important Savannah family that had lost its fortune, he became a successful Hollywood songwriter (his primary partners included Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern), a hit recording artist, and, as co-founder of Capitol Records, a successful businessman, but he remained forever nostalgic for his idealized childhood (with his “huckleberry friend”). A gentleman, a nasty drunk, funny, tender, melancholic, tormented—Mercer was a man immensely talented yet plagued by self-doubt, much admired and loved but never really understood. In music historian and songwriter Gene Lees, Mercer has his perfect biographer, who deals tactfully but directly with Mercer’s complicated relationships with his domineering mother; his tormenting wife, Ginger; and Judy Garland, who was the great love of his life. Lees’s highly personal examination of Mercer’s life is sensitive as only the work of a friend of many years could be to the conflicts in Mercer’s nature. And it is filled with insights into Mercer’s work that could come only from a fellow lyricist (whose own lyrics were much admired by Mercer). A poignant, candid, revelatory portrait of Johnny.
Portrait Of Johnny
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Author : CPP Belwin
language : en
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Portrait Of Johnny written by CPP Belwin and has been published by Warner Bros. Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Music categories.
(Legendary Performers Series, #10) A collection of 29 songs, photos, biography and discography. Titles include: A Certain Smile * Misty * Too Much, Too Little, Too Late * What Will My Mary Say * Without Us * Wonderful! Wonderful!
Johnny Golightly Comes Home
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Author : Pat Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Johnny Golightly Comes Home written by Pat Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Artists categories.
'For years I'd been struggling with an identity crisis,' says the slight, immaculately dressed Boerma as he plunges a fork into a slice of carrot cake topped with a blob of cream and a pink bougainvillaea petal. 'My mother was English, my father Dutch; I was gay, while the Nelspruit community I grew up in was macho; I had fabulous visions of Parisian glamour, but I lived in Hicksville; and I had privilege, while my black friends were oppressed.' When John-Anthony Boerma, in exile in Holland, put down Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, his checkerboard life fell into place - Holly Golightly, the central character, was him. This was the fi rst of several identities that the artist assumed. Pat Hopkins tells the story of this eccentric man in a personal story that at times becomes intertwined with his own story. The result is a very personal and intriguing memoir of a writer describing an artist who leads him on a dance of discovery.
Johnny Haynes
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Author : James Gardner
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Johnny Haynes written by James Gardner and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Johnny Haynes: Portrait of a Football Genius is the biography of one of England's greatest ever footballers - a player described by Pele as 'the greatest passer of a ball I have ever seen.' He was capped 56 times, 22 as captain, including the 9-3 hammering of the Scots at Wembley in 1961. He succeeded Denis Compton as the 'Brylcreem Boy'. When he became the first AGBP100-a-week player it cemented his celebrity superstar status as the David Beckham of his day. Haynes only ever played for one professional club and finished his playing career in South Africa. He retired into relative obscurity and lived the last 20 years of his life in Edinburgh before tragically dying in a car accident in 2005. In his obituary, James Lawton wrote, 'Haynes was still the beginning and end of how football should be played. He had the wit to change the way the game was understood and played in this country.' His fascinating life story is told through his family, ex-team-mates, famous journalists and celebrities as well as his fans.
Johnny Mercer
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Author : Glenn T. Eskew
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Johnny Mercer written by Glenn T. Eskew and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Herndon “Johnny” Mercer (1909–76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousand songs, collaborating with all the great popular composers and jazz musicians of his day, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, and as cofounder of Capitol Records, helping to promote the careers of Nat “King” Cole, Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee, and many other singers. Mercer’s songs—sung by Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and scores of other performers—are canonical parts of the great American songbook. Four of his songs received Academy Awards: “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.” Mercer standards such as “Hooray for Hollywood” and “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” remain in the popular imagination. Exhaustively researched, Glenn T. Eskew’s biography improves upon earlier popular treatments of the Savannah, Georgia–born songwriter to produce a sophisticated, insightful, evenhanded examination of one of America’s most popular and successful chart-toppers. Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World provides a compelling chronological narrative that places Mercer within a larger framework of diaspora entertainers who spread a southern multiracial culture across the nation and around the world. Eskew contends that Mercer and much of his music remained rooted in his native South, being deeply influenced by the folk music of coastal Georgia and the blues and jazz recordings made by black and white musicians. At Capitol Records, Mercer helped redirect American popular music by commodifying these formerly distinctive regional sounds into popular music. When rock ’n’ roll diminished opportunities at home, Mercer looked abroad, collaborating with international composers to create transnational songs. At heart, Eskew says, Mercer was a jazz musician rather than a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, and the interpenetration of jazz and popular song that he created expressed elements of his southern heritage that made his work distinctive and consistently kept his music before an approving audience.
Johnny Cash International
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Author : Michael Hinds
language : en
Publisher: Fandom & Culture
Release Date : 2020
Johnny Cash International written by Michael Hinds and has been published by Fandom & Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Music categories.
"How the world shows it loves Johnny Cash:: a Brazilian records "Hurt" and posts it to YouTube;an elderly shopkeeper in Northern Ireland plays Johnny Cash every day on his tape recorder ; a young man in Tomb, a farm town in southern Norway, sports a Johnny Cash tattoo; a woman in the Netherlands maintains the Johnny Cash Infocenter, an exhaustive resource of Johnny Cash materials worldwide--and gets to wear June Carter's clothing and sleep in Johnny Cash's bedroom. One might have suspected that Johnny Cash's appeal was universal, given his nonstop touring schedule for more than 40 years. But the breadth-and nuance-of his appeal worldwide is stunning, as is the way in which his fans have sought both to further that appeal as well as protect his legacy. International Cash: How the World Loves the Man in Black explores the nature of Johnny Cash's appeal worldwide from the fan perspective, explaining what the worldwide love of the artist tells us about him, the world, the United States, and the nature of fandom. It's also a series of stories about technology and authenticity, as a world easily navigated by the Internet is also one that conceives authenticity as a type of commodity easily displayed. Different eras of technology have also produced different fan behaviours and activities, and they are represented in continuity with one another here. There are Cash superfans who travel extensively to trail Cash's life and perform in homage to him, but there is also another population of Cash fans who express themselves more discreetly, often online. There they are often expressing their love for Cash in uncertain spaces, forums where there are no guarantees that everyone feels the same way as themselves. Here Cash is seen as somebody not only worth admiring, but worth fighting for, and this book shows that Cash fandom is a more active field of politics and commitment than might routinely be assumed"--
Johnny Appleseed
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Author : Howard Means
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Johnny Appleseed written by Howard Means and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth” (Ken Burns). This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation’s feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America’s inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage did for its western one.
Anchored In Love
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Author : John Carter Cash
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Release Date : 2007-06-12
Anchored In Love written by John Carter Cash and has been published by Thomas Nelson Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From his mother's birth in the rural mountains to her moving and very public death.
Johnny Paradise
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Author : Robert Bernardo
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-09-28
Johnny Paradise written by Robert Bernardo and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Little Johnny had been painted at birthhis portrait hung to dry on the wall of a perfect stranger. It would be thirteen years later that Johnny, by virtue of his poor choices and deceitful ways, would be united with the man who would be a stranger no more.
The Complete Lyrics Of Johnny Mercer
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Author : Johnny Mercer
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009-10-20
The Complete Lyrics Of Johnny Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-20 with Music categories.
The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.