The Songs of Hollywood

• Extremely well-illustrated with 200 film stills
• Fascinating look at songs in both musical and dramatic films, the first book to cover both in one treatment
• Argues for original film musicals over film adaptations of Broadway musicals, and takes the latter to task for being "stagey"
• Concluding chapter celebrates Hollywood's innovations in recent years, past the "golden age"

Readership: General readers interested in popular song and film. Film scholars and students; scholars and students of American popular song.

Philip Furia, Professor, Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Laurie Patterson, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciene, University of North Carolina Wilmington

"The selection of key works to illustrate the main themes is done with a purpose; focused not filleted, this is a good, readable history" - John Snelson, Times Literary Supplement

1.: "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet"
2.: "That's the Broadway Melody"
3.: "That's the Song of Paree"
4.: "Hip Hooray and Ballyhoo"
5.: "Cheek to Cheek"
6.: "Thanks for the Memory"
7.: "Over the Rainbow"
8.: "Blues in the Night"
9.: "Singin' in the Rain"
10.: "Something's Gotta Give"
11.: "All That Jazz"