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The Songs of Hollywood

Description

From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. Extremely well-illustrated with 200 film stills, this delightful book sheds much light on some of Hollywood's best known and loved repertoire, explaining how the film industry made certain songs memorable, and highlighting important moments of film history along the way. The book focuses on how the songs were presented in the movies, from early talkies where actors portrayed singers "performing" the songs, to the Golden Age in which characters burst into expressive, integral song--not as a "performance" but as a spontaneous outpouring of feeling. The book looks at song presentation in 1930s classics with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and in 1940s gems with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. The authors also look at the decline of the genre since 1960, when most original musicals were replaced by film versions of Broadway hits such as My Fair Lady.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-06
Summary: "Thorough Textbook Applauds Original Movie Songs"

I studied movie musicals in college so had a "been there, read that" attitude going in. But I was impressed by the details included regarding the performers and creators of the original movie musical songs. The focus is mainly on the films from the 20's-60's when the creation of movie musicals with original songs was possible due to lyricists and composers being contracted by studios to create this unique art form with one picture after another. The conversion of movies to sound in the late 20's REALLY got the ball rolling. Then by 1930 the public was tired of movies with people breaking into song, the economy made the public more choosey plus the early equipment prevented creative filmmaking. Soon with the use of boom mikes and mobile cameras and prerecorded tracks, the golden age of movie musicals developed until television in the 50's forced studios to use gimmicks like wide screen Cinemescope, 3D, and stereophonic sound to compete. Studios also were compelled to adapt Broadway shows that were already familiar to audiences in advance as a way to create the movie musical. The authors of this book seem to be more impressed with the integrated musical than the performance musical. But when the integrated musical is adapted from Broadway, it no longer ranks as an original creation and just gets perfunctory mentions. To the authors' credit, the focus of this book is on the songs created for Hollywood but I enjoy well made movie adaptations of Broadway shows so feel they deserve inclusion along with the films with original material.

I do have issues with their descriptions of two particular films. There are two instances in which the description of the song's use is at least misleading and at worse false. "Be a Clown" in The Pirate in 1948 is performed TWICE, both with Gene Kelly and Nicholas Brothers as well as the finale with Gene and Judy Garland. But according to this book, Judy missed so many shooting days the planned duet for her and Gene had to be cut! Well, she DID miss a lotta days and much of the film had to be rewritten and reshot but the movie ends with Judy and Gene singing "Be a Clown." Producer Arthur Freed was no fool! The other example is the description of a song used during the titles of a movie. I am impressed with the author's inclusion of Hollywood songs in different manners ranging from title songs to peformance, but I was confused with the description of "The Way We Were" He says the song was not presented on screen and implies it only appears during the closing credits and is not able to make a connection to the film or relate to the story. But this ignores the important presence of the song early in the film, performed by Barbra Streisand in the background while we see her character Katie's "memories" of college and a young Robert Redford. The song clearly makes the "connection" that he says was missing. So clearly with these two movies the author missed the end of The Pirate and tuned in to The Way We Were after the first ten minutes!

Still in spite of these two egregious errors, this is a fine book with a wonderfully detailed account of Hollywood's original movie musicals. More textbook than coffee table book in tone with an insightful look at how the magic happened.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-21
Summary: "Disappointment"

After reading other reviews, I've decided not to buy this book; not one I'd like to add to my personal library. Will hope that I can read a copy of it from my local library because I heard the author speak on NPR and his book intrigues me. Too bad about the size of the pictures; I fault the publisher.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-28
Summary: "SONGS OF HOLLYWOOD: TINY ILLUSTRATIONS"

Just received this book and was astonished over the tiny postage-size illustrations. I have never seen anything like this before. In looking over the book it seems very informative and the authors seem to have done their job, but whose idea was it to illustrate with stamp like pictures? The publisher? the authors? If there was not enough room they could have used quarter page stills sparingly or as the prior reviewer said no illustrations at all. Makes the whole layout of the book ridiculous. I have given this book three stars since I have just browsed through the book and it looks like it is going to be an interesting read, but the book deserves 1 star for the sloppy layout.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-04-15
Summary: "Songs of Hollywood - Don't Buy For The Photo Illustrations"

I've just received this book, and have only begun to read it, so will reserve judgment and comment on the written portion until a later time. With haste, however, I felt it necessary to warn prospective buyers about a severe shortcoming in this book. The inner leaf of the dust jacket states that this book is "Extremely well illustrated with 200 film stills...", and many film collectors and fans enjoy seeing photos from the various productions (film, after all, was a visual experience!), but the illustrations in this book are sized in a ridiculous manner.
The stills are all reproduced at about the size of a postage stamp, literally! In the majority of these tiny reproductions it is barely possible to determine who is appearing in the still. In leafing through, a stark example is a still of what appears to be a long shot of the Berkeley production number "Lullaby Of Broadway" from GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935. The only reason I know what it is is that I'm thoroughly familiar with the film... otherwise the people in the still appear to be tiny specks. Again, to note that this book is extremely well illustrated must be a joke. It would have been better to leave them out alltogether. I reserve judgment on the written portions, which might be very well done, but I was so taken aback by the ridiculous size of the photos that I couldn't help but warn others about this significant negative.