The Great American Songbook : The Stories Behind the Standards

Personalities: Irrepressible Genius 1(36) Someone to Watch Over Me: George and Ira Gershwin 3(6) Take the A Train: Billy Strayhorn 9(3) White Christmas: Irving Berlin 12(4) Seven Come Eleven: Charlie Christian 16(5) I've Told Every Little Star: Jerome Kern 21(4) Giant Steps: John Coltrane 25(4) Ornithology: Charlie Parker, Benny Harris, Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton 29(4) Kind of Blue, So What: Miles Davis 33(4) Curiosities: "I Never Knew That!" 37(22) Too Marvelous for Words: Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer 38(2) Mr. Ed Meets Mona Lisa: Livingston and Evans 40(5) Strange Fruit: Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday 45(3) Can't We Be Friends?: Kay Swift 48(5) Blue Moon: Rodgers and Hart 53(2) It's De-Lovely: Cole Porter 55(2) Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars: Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gene Lees 57(2) Aha! The Moment of Inspiration 59(12) It Had to Be You: Isham Jones 61(3) Yesterday: Paul McCartney 64(3) I Can't Give You Anything But Love Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh 67(2) My Heart Stood Still: Rodgers and Hart 69(2) Personalities: Eccentrics Anonymous 71(18) God Bless the Child: Billie Holiday 73(3) Night and Day: Cole Porter 76(4) It Might as Well Be Spring: Richard Rodgers 80(5) Take Five: Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck 85(4) The Hard Way: The Fight for Love and Glory 89(16) Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn 91(4) Get Happy: Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler 95(3) Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg 98(3) Love for Sale: Cole Porter 101(4) Torch Songs 105 Nancy (with the laughing face): Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen, and Frank Sinatra 107(2) The Way You Look Tonight: Jerome Kern andm Dorothy Fields 109