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The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs Hardcover – October 17, 2005

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Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik are the co-authors of Sitcoms.  Bloom is the author of The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs; Jerry Herman: The Lyrics; and a two-volume history of Twentieth Century-Fox music, among other books. He lives in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Dog & Leventhal; First Edition (October 17, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1579124488
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1579124489
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 1.5 x 13 inches
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Ken is a Grammy Award-winning authority on American popular song and musical theatre. As a co-founder of Harbinger Records, Ken has produced over fifty albums including such artists as Peggy Lee, Maxine Sullivan (Grammy nomination) and songwriters including Harold Arlen, Bock and Harnick, Cy Coleman, Jones and Schmidt, Kander and Ebb, Hugh Martin, and Charles Strouse. He and Richard Carlin won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for their album Shuffle Along. He has produced and directed shows in in New York, Paris, San Francisco and Washington D.C.. He has written sixteen books on Broadway, Hollywood, popular songs, sitcoms, theatre anecdotes and most recently co-authored with Carlin, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race. Ken's books have won the George Freedley Award, New York Times' top reference book of the year, Choice Magazine Award and have sold over 100,000 copies. On radio he was an arts reporter for NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. He also broadcast on the CBC and Serius as well as fifteen years on WKCR. He most recently co-produced, directed and wrote the documentary Merely Marelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon. A complete biogaphy can be found on Wikipedia.

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