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Interview with Burton Lane
- Title
- Interview with Burton Lane, 1971-11-15.
- Author
- Lane, Burton, 1912-1997
- Publication
- 1971.
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- Additional Authors
- Wilk, Max
- Found In
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 96 min.) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- Burton Lane, a composer whose popular and successful works include "Finian's rainbow" and "On a clear day you can see forever" speaks about the early manifestation of his talent; collaboration with Al Dublin (a talented lyricist with a drinking problem); a contract with J.J. Schubert when he was only 15 which the Schuberts did not honor and cheated him out of his royalties; his and Harold Adamson's (a gifted lyricist) move to California and work at Metro (film studio); collaboration with songwriter Frank Loesser; move back to New York and partnership with Yip Harburg; return to Hollywood where wartime musicals boom began and creative reunion with Harburg; prominent people in show business such as the brothers Gershwin, Fred and Adele Astaire, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner etc. and their works: their successes and failures, and much more.
- Alternative Title
- They're playing our song.
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
- Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.
- Access (note)
- Access to original item restricted.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
- Call Number
- *LDC 53164
- OCLC
- 879646193
- Author
- Lane, Burton, 1912-1997, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Burton Lane, 1971-11-15.
- Production
- 1971.
- Playing Time
- 005650 003913
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audiocomputer
- Type of Carrier
- audio disconline resource
- Performer
- Burton Lane, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
- Event
- Recorded in New York 1971 November 15.
- Access
- Access to original item restricted.
- Additional Formats
- Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
- Local Note
- Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2174.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wilk, Max, interviewer.
- Added Title
- They're playing our song.Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Found In:
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Research Call Number
- *LDC 53164*LT-10 2174