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Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
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- Creator
- Virginia Waring ; foreword by Robert Shaw
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 404 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9780252022951, 0252022955
- OCLC
- ocm34798220
- "[The] CD represents excerpts from radio shows and commercial recordings dating from 1923 to 1963"--p. 403.
- "A note on the recording": p. 403-404.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-378) and index.
- [Book:] Prologue : the man who taught America how to sing -- The Victorian Warings -- Entrepreneur -- Penn State -- The brash kid from Tyrone -- Milk trains -- Stairway to fame -- Paris -- Fred loses his shirt -- Ballet, classics and the Roxyettes -- Radio days -- Henry Ford & Co. -- The legalities of interpretation -- The Waring blendor -- Burgeoning empire -- Hollywood -- "A cigarette, sweet music, and you" -- My debut -- For the sake of one singer -- Music workshops -- Television -- The Anti-Semitic rumor -- Life with Fred -- Golf -- "On the road again" -- Ike and the famous -- Crucible of professionals -- Stroke -- Timing -- Phaetons, Zephyrs and Model A Fords -- What glorious music
- [CD:] Sleep -- Collegiate -- Wobally walk -- Love for sale -- Sing! Sing! Sing! -- Mama don't allow -- Comin' through the rye -- Baseball -- Battle hymn of the Republic -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- I got rhythm -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Funiculi, funicula -- So beats my heart for you -- So long, Mary -- Dry bones -- Bali Ha'i -- Fanny -- Stars and stripes forever -- Remember -- Mr. Frog a courtin' he did ride -- September song -- Hora staccato -- Some enchanted evening -- Without a song -- All the things you are -- Give me your tired, your poor -- Sleep