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Interview with Buddy Robbins

Title
Interview with Buddy Robbins, 1971-07-10.
Author
Robbins, Buddy
Publication
1971.

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Additional Authors
Wilk, Max
Found In
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
Description
1 streaming audio file (approximately 51 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
The topic of this interview is "music business in the old days." Bob Robbins (who is in the music business) speaks about his late father, Jack Robbins, who ran his own music publishing firms that were closely associated with Hollywood studios (he sold one to MGM) and engaged a team of prominent American composers (Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Louis Alter, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, etc.) which resulted in publishing musical hits such as "Over the rainbow", "Ballad for Americans" etc.; his stormy relationship with Louis Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; the golden age of the movies; his father's ability to extract themes from film scores and turn them into pop songs; composers C. Porter, I. Berlin, F. Loesser, J. Styne, J. Kern, etc.; famous dance bands; and prominent lyricists such as Gus (Gustav) Kahn, Johnny Mercer, and others.
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 53169.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53169
OCLC
879646032
Author
Robbins, Buddy, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Buddy Robbins, 1971-07-10.
Production
1971.
Playing Time
005107
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Buddy (Howard) Robbins, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in Stamford, Connecticut 1971 July 10.
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 53169.
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 2177.
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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 53169
*LT-10 2177
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