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Interview with Leo Robin

Title
Interview with Leo Robin, 1971-06-08.
Author
Robin, Leo
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 90 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
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
  • 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 (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53171.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53171
OCLC
879646016
Author
Robin, Leo, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Leo Robin, 1971-06-08.
Production
1971.
Playing Time
010158 003409
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Leo Robin, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in Los Angeles 1971 June 8.
Access
Access to original item restricted.
Additional Formats
Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53171.
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 2178.
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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 53171
*LT-10 2178
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