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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (approximately 90 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Leo Robin, a lyricist and songwriter, who collaborated with such composers as Ralph Rainger until the latter's untimely death, and then continued to work with other composers including Vincent Youmans, Sam Coslow,Jerome Kern, and Richard A. Whiting, speaks very affectionately about his partnership with Whiting in Hollywood; Maurice Chevalier for whom he and Whiting composed "Louise"; and Adolph Zukor, a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. Robin reminisces about the making of the musical Monte Carlo with Jeanette MacDonald directed by Ernst Lubitsch; circumstances that separated him from Whiting and teamed up with Rainger; the success of the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Broadway, and discusses such issues as working for movies versus shows, the state of the music, the quality of lyrics, and such.

Alternative title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Subject

1. Lyricists > United States > Interviews
2. Interviews (Sound recordings)
3. Robin, Leo > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53171

Note

1. Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
2. 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)

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53171.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Author

1. Robin, Leo, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Leo Robin, 1971-06-08.

Production

1. 1971.

Playing time

1. 010158 003409

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Leo Robin, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in Los Angeles 1971 June 8.

Access

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53171.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Local note

1. Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2178.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wilk, Max, interviewer.

Added title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Found in:

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Research call number

1. *LDC 53171
2. *LT-10 2178