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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

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

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 54 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Abel Green a journalist best known as the editor of Variety for forty years, comments on shows, composers, the difference between success at the box office and critics' reviews, financial operations of various theaters (Shubert Theater, Music Box Theater, Jewel Box Theater, Eugene O'Neil Theater, Billy Rose Theater), and owners of these theaters. He recalls many anecdotes from his long career as an editor of an entertainment magazine, closely connected to show business in New York. The rest of the interview he speaks about Irving Berlin, who has been his longtime good friend.

Alternative title

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

Subject

1. Green, Abel, 1900-1973 > Interviews
2. Editors > United States > Interviews
3. Interviews (Sound recordings)
4. Journalists > United States > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53159

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 53159.

Linking entry (note)

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

Author

1. Green, Abel, 1900-1973, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Abel Green, 1971-11-19.

Production

1. 1971.

Playing time

1. 005359

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Abel Green, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in New York 1971 November 19.

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 53159.

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 2169.

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 53159
2. *LT-10 2169