It's back in print!
Max Wilk's They're Playing our Song, his book of interviews and encounters with such great songwriters as Irving Berlin, Jule Styne, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers, Betty Comden, Ira Gershwin, and other fabulous personages.
Originally published in 1973, the book won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and has become an evergreen. It is probably the best oral history we have of the classic American popular song. The new edition -- published by Easton Studio Press -- includes a preface by Jule Styne and a foreword by Margaret Whiting,
You can order it here from Amazon.
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