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ASCAP radio interview with Ervin Drake

Title
  1. ASCAP radio interview with Ervin Drake [sound recording].
Published by
  1. [196-?]
Author
  1. Drake, Ervin.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Bookspan, Martin.
  2. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Found in
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Description
  1. 1 streaming audio file (20 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
  1. Martin Bookspan interviews American lyricist and songwriter Ervin Drake during an undated broadcast. Drake discusses his studies for graphic design, and switching his career from visual artist to lyricist and composer; his hit songs like Tico-Tico (1942), Perdido (1944), and The rickety rickshaw man (1945); his work as a producer in television; his collaborators; and the Broadway productions such as What makes Sammy run? (1964) for which he wrote music and lyrics, including his famous song A room without windows.
Alternative title
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Subject
  1. Radio interviews
  2. Drake, Ervin > Friends and associates
  3. Composers > United States > Interviews
  4. Lyricists > United States > Interviews
  5. Television producers and directors > Interviews
  6. Radio programs
  7. Drake, Ervin > Interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Radio programs.
  2. Radio interviews.
Call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2832
Additional formats (note)
  1. Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50233, tracks 1-4.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Author
  1. Drake, Ervin. Interviewee
Title
  1. ASCAP radio interview with Ervin Drake [sound recording].
Imprint
  1. [196-?]
Additional formats
  1. Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50233, tracks 1-4.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Local note
  1. Archival original (1 sound tape reel (20 min.) : analog, mono. ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2832.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Bookspan, Martin. Interviewer
  2. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  3. Rhodes, Roger. Donor
Added title
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Found in:
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Research call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2832
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