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The House That George Built
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The House That George Built
Wilfred Sheed is the author of six novels, two of which, Office Politics and People Will Always Be Kind, were nominated for National Book Awards. He has written three collections of criticism, one of which was nominated by the National Book Critics Circle. Among his other books is a notable memoir of Clare Boothe Luce, who told him that Irving Berlin was the vainest man she ever met and George Gershwin one of the most basically modest. He lives with his wife, Miriam Ungerer, in North Haven, New York
From the Hardcover edition.
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Title of
ebook: The House That George Built
ISBN: 9781588367228
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 741 kb
Released online for download: 05-13-2008
Author of eBook: Sheed, Wilfrid
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The House That George Built
With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
Chapter 1
The Road to Berlin
There are several ways of defining and measuring an era, but an excellent place to start is by checking out the media of the day and what they could or could not do at the moment. For example, when sound recording first came along, the singers belted into it as if performing to an empty stadium. The name that springs to mind is Caruso, the world’s biggest voice. But with the coming of microphones in the 1920s, singing became more personal, and the name became Bing Crosby, the world’s friendliest voice. So songs became brisker and less operatic, to suit not only the mike but the piano rack and the record cabinet. In short, the familiar thirty-two-bar song, which now seems to have been fixed in the stars, ... read full excerpt from The House That George Built ebook
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