{"product_id":"lets-face-the-music-golden-age-of-popular-song-benny-green-1989","title":"Let's face the Music by Benny Green","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLet's face the Music (First Edition Survey of Great Songwriters, in Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Survey of the Golden Age of Popular Song and the Great Songwriters Behind It, by Jazz Broadcaster Benny Green\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Let's face the Music: The Golden Age of Popular Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benny Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pavilion Books Limited in association with Michael Joseph Limited, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1989\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781851454891\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1851454896\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in Great Britain in 1989. Published in association with Yorkshire Television.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's blue cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Large format hardcover, approximately 235 x 175 mm, 224 pages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good (VG)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The blue cloth boards are clean, with a few tiny pale specks near the top edge of the front board. The spine is straight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The text pages are clean and cream-coloured, with no foxing or markings. The binding is tight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e No inscriptions, bookplates or stamps. A printed dedication reads: 'To Beloved Antoinette'.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. The illustrated jacket, with photographs of dancers, shows some surface scuffing, scratches and light marks to the front and back panels, with no major tears. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet's Face the Music: The Golden Age of Popular Song is Benny Green's survey of the great songwriters of the classic American musical stage and popular song repertoire. Through a series of biographical portraits it follows the careers of figures such as Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Schwartz and Dietz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen wrote as a working jazz musician and broadcaster, and his affection for the composers and lyricists of this era runs through the book. It was published in association with Yorkshire Television, and is a handsomely produced large-format volume, well suited to readers and collectors of popular music history and the songbook tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Benny Green\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBernard 'Benny' Green (1927-1998) was a British jazz saxophonist, broadcaster and writer, best known for his radio programmes and books. He was jazz critic for the Observer from 1958, and later literary editor of The Spectator and film critic for Punch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wrote more than thirty books, among them a literary biography of P. G. Wodehouse (1981), Benny Green's Cricket Archive (1985), The Last Empires (1986), the autobiography Swingtime in Tottenham, and Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenny Green Let's Face the Music · golden age of popular song book · Great American songbook composers biography · Benny Green songwriters first edition · Gershwin Porter Berlin Kern book · Pavilion Michael Joseph 1989 · popular music history hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pavilion Books Limited in association with Michael Joseph Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58786644033839,"sku":"TCB-000346","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/let-s-face-the-music26143_cover_1.jpg?v=1793859673","url":"https:\/\/timeless-collectible-books.com\/products\/lets-face-the-music-golden-age-of-popular-song-benny-green-1989","provider":"Timeless Collectible Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}