Reading Lyrics (2000) presents the lyrics to over 1000 songs that celebrate the 20th Century’s greatest songwriters. A glance at the list of songwriters in this 706 page volume gives you an idea of the range of songs and lyrics that grace the pages of this book.
Many of my favorite songs and songwriters show up on these pages: Noel Coward and “Let’s Do It,” Cole Porter and “Anything Goes,” Ira Gershwin and “A Foggy Day (In London Town)”, Alec Wilder and “I’ll Be Around,” and Stephen Sondheim and “Send In the Clowns.”
Which songwriters do you like? GRADE: A
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Lyricists included: Anne Caldwell — Otto Harbach — George M. Cohan — Henry Creamer — P.G. Wodehouse — Cecil Mack — Bert Kalmar — Harry Ruby — Joseph McCarthy — Sam M. Lewis — Joe Young — Edgar Leslie — Shelton Brooks — Gus Kahn — Clifford Grey — Haven Gillespie — Irving Berlin — Maxwell Anderson — Noble Sissle — Grant Clarke — Cole Porter — Al Dubin — Clarence Gaskill — Morton Dixon — Jack Yellen — Roy Turk — Walter Donaldson — Herman Hupfeld — Ted Koehler — Arthur Freed — B.G. (Buddy) DeSylva — Lew Brown — Ray Henderson — Leo Robin — Lorenz Hart — Irving Caesar — Oscar Hanmerstein II — Andy Razaf — E.Y. Harburg — Paul James — Howard Dietz — Harry Woods — Ira Gershwin — Mann Holiner — Noel Gay — Hoagy Carmichael — Noel Coward — Mitchell Parish — Kim Gannon — Edward Eliscu — Eric Mashcwitz — Ned Washington — Meredith Willson — Ogden Nash — Sam Coslow — Irving Kahal — Ray Noble — Eddie DeLange — Mack Gordon — Allan Roberts — Doris Fisher — Dorothy Fields — Herb Magidson — Harold Adamson — Alec Wilder — Edward Heyman — Ralph Freed — Paul Francis Webster — Harold Rome — Johnny Burke — Don Raye — Don George — George Marion, Jr. — Johnny Mercer — Frank Loesser — Bobby Troup — Mack David — Jack Lawrence — Tom Adair — Sammy Cahn — William Engvick — Hugh Martin — Ralph Blane — Robert Wright — George Forrest — Irving Gordon — Jay Livingston — Ray Evans — Bob Russell — Bart Howard — Billy Strayhorn — Betty Comden — Adolph Green — John LaTouche — Bob Hilliard — Alan Jay Lerner — Jack Segal — Ervin Drake — Bob Merrill — Peggy Lee — George David Weiss — Richard Adler — Jerry Ross — Joseph McCarthy, Jr. — Marshall Barer — Sandy Wilson — Lee Adams — Sheldon Harnick — Alan Bergman — Marilyn Bergman — Carolyn Leigh — Fran Landesman — Gene Lees — Stephen Sondheim — Lionel Bart — Leslie Bricusse — Jerry Herman — Fred Ebb — Dave Frishberg — Richard Malty, Jr.
