Presented in the striking format of Ken Bloom’s successful Broadway Musicals, this rich visual history of popular song covers all of the prominent figures behind the music, in front of the bandstand, and on top of the piano.
The Singers includes Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, and dozens more; The Songwriters features Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Foster, Richard
Rodgers, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and a host of others; a lively section discusses the Big Bands; and a decade-bydecade insert puts the entire history of popular music in perspective through words and pictures.
