- Additional Authors
- Found In
- ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (20 min.) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- 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
- ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio programs.
- Radio interviews.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50233, tracks 1-4.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2832
- OCLC
- 462997195
- Author
Drake, Ervin. Interviewee
- Title
ASCAP radio interview with Ervin Drake [sound recording].
- Imprint
[196-?]
- Additional Formats
Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50233, tracks 1-4.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
- Local Note
Archival original (1 sound tape reel (20 min.) : analog, mono. ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2832.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Bookspan, Martin. Interviewer
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Rhodes, Roger. Donor
- Added Title
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
- Found In:
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2832