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Interview with Burton Lane

Title
Interview with Burton Lane, 1971-11-15.
Author
Lane, Burton, 1912-1997
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 96 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
Burton Lane, a composer whose popular and successful works include "Finian's rainbow" and "On a clear day you can see forever" speaks about the early manifestation of his talent; collaboration with Al Dublin (a talented lyricist with a drinking problem); a contract with J.J. Schubert when he was only 15 which the Schuberts did not honor and cheated him out of his royalties; his and Harold Adamson's (a gifted lyricist) move to California and work at Metro (film studio); collaboration with songwriter Frank Loesser; move back to New York and partnership with Yip Harburg; return to Hollywood where wartime musicals boom began and creative reunion with Harburg; prominent people in show business such as the brothers Gershwin, Fred and Adele Astaire, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner etc. and their works: their successes and failures, and much more.
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 (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53164
OCLC
879646193
Author
Lane, Burton, 1912-1997, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Burton Lane, 1971-11-15.
Production
1971.
Playing Time
005650 003913
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Burton Lane, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in New York 1971 November 15.
Access
Access to original item restricted.
Additional Formats
Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53164.
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 2174.
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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 53164
*LT-10 2174
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