Meredith Wilson:the Unsinkable

by John C. Skipper

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Meredith Willson marched into the hearts of American music lovers with productions such as the "The Music Man" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", and unforgettable show tunes like "76 Trombones". It is the amazing story of how a youngster with talent and tenacity, possessed with what he would later call a streak of "Iowa stubborn", rose to become one of America's most famous musicians. It is the story of a remarkable career in which Willson: helped scientist Lee deForest in experiments that developed sound for motion pictures, wrote the music for Charlie Chaplin's first "talkie", wrote a song recorded by the Beatles, and won the first Grammy award ever presented.
  • ISBN10 1882810783
  • ISBN13 9781882810789
  • Publish Date 1 October 2000
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
  • Imprint Savas Woodbury Publishers,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 227
  • Language English