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Robert Kimball was educated at Yale College and Yale Law School. He has been the music critic of the New York Post and is the co-author or editor of several books on musical theater, including Cole, the celebrated book about Cole Porter that he edited with Brendan Gill. He also edited Knopf’s four previous books in the Complete Lyrics series. He is co-editor, with Robert Gottlieb, of Reading Lyrics. Mr. Kimball lives in New York.
Steve Nelson is a professor of musical theater at New York University and the producer of the Songwriter Series for the Library of Congress, which releases recordings... Read More
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Reading Lyrics
More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics--a Celebration of Our Greatest Songwriters, a Rediscovery of Forgotten Masters, and an Appreciation of an
Edited by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 21, 2000
Price: $45.00
Reading Lyrics is a collection of the finest American and British song lyrics written between 1900 and 1975. More than one hundred lyricists are represented: from Irving Berlin and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to the greats of Broadway and Hollywood, including Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Yip Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Frank... Read more >
More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics--a Celebration of Our Greatest Songwriters, a Rediscovery of Forgotten Masters, and an Appreciation of an
Edited by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: November 21, 2000
Price: $45.00
Reading Lyrics is a collection of the finest American and British song lyrics written between 1900 and 1975. More than one hundred lyricists are represented: from Irving Berlin and "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to the greats of Broadway and Hollywood, including Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Yip Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Frank... Read more >
The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
Edited by Robert Kimball
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $65.00
Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of American popular music.
Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by... Read more >
Edited by Robert Kimball
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $65.00
Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of American popular music.
Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by... Read more >
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Written by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $65.00
The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.
Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in... Read more >
Written by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $65.00
The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.
Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in... Read more >
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Written by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $51.99
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Written by Johnny Mercer, Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $51.99
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