Reminiscences of Jack Yellen : oral history, 1958.

Biographical Note

Songwriter.

Scope and Contents

Breaking into songwriting, 1913; working methods with Abe Olman and Milton Ager; writing for the moving-pictures in the 1920s and 1930s; negro influence on songwriting; rock; payola; changes in music publishing.

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures and music.
• Oral histories.
• Popular music--Writing and publishing.
• Yellen, Jack.

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