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Interview with Ira Gershwin

Title
Interview with Ira Gershwin, 1971-08-16.
Author
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983
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 71 min.) : digital, mono.
Summary
Ira Gershwin, lyricist and author of many successful Broadway musicals who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, and after his death with many other prominent composers (Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen), talks about revivals of old shows (e.g. Showboat in London) and changes they undergo, costs of putting on shows at the moment of the interviews compared to those in the past, contemporary British musicals, show business finances, and discusses other topics related to musicals, lyricists, composers, and songs. He also speaks very fondly about Pelham (Plum) Wodehouse (an English writer of short stories, plays, poems, and song lyrics), a close friend and a collaborator on the musical "Rosalie," and reminisces about his brother George Gershwin.
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 53157.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
Call Number
*LDC 53157
OCLC
879646329
Author
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Ira Gershwin, 1971-08-16.
Production
1971.
Playing Time
011148
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
audio disc
online resource
Performer
Ira Gershwin, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
Event
Recorded in Beverly Hills 1971 August 16.
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 53157.
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 2167.
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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 53157
*LT-10 2167
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