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This pop culture history takes 12 legendary songs and, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding, provides an extended history of each. The circumstances under which each was written and first performed are explained and their musical and lyric content are explored. Those who were responsible for making these songs famous and performers who have left their unique marks on them are also identified. Variations in style, classic and obscure versions, brilliantly original interpretations, and ghastly travesties in the performance lifetime of each song are discussed. Also included are revelations of facts, such as Herman Hupfeld, who wrote "As Time Goes By," had a much bigger hit with "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba"; Billy Strayhorn wrote about "a week in Paris" in "Lush Life" when he was a teenager and had never been to any city larger than Pittsburgh; and the first-ever public performance of "I Got Rhythm," sung by Ethel Merman, featured Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller.
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Lush Life, New York, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Cole Porter, Ben Webster, Bing Crosby, Cotton Club, Mack the Knife, New Orleans, Girl Crazy, Billie Holiday, Jerome Kern, Nat Cole, Tin Pan Alley, Benny Goodman, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Earl Hines, Richard Rodgers New!
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