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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters—tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
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Always Magic in the Air
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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1101156058 9781101156056
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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
September 26, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0143037773 9780143037774
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Always magic in the air: the bomp and brilliance of the Brill Building era
2005, Viking
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0670034568 9780670034567
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Always magic in the air: the bomp and brilliance of the Brill Building era
2005, Viking
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ), and index.
The original cool cats -- A Broadway divided -- Lonely avenue -- "My daughter bought it, what are you going to do about it?" -- Partners in chutzpah -- The young lovers -- Putting the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp -- In the garden of Aldon -- "It was Jewish Latin" -- Baby talk -- At work in the Elvis atelier -- The magician and the mensch -- Selling out -- Seesaw -- Double trouble -- Golden girls -- "Somethin' died" -- Swinging London -- From the Monkees to Thomas Mann.
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"In October 1957, New York traded the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Los Angeles-based songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller."
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