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Author: Bruce Turkel Publisher: ISBN: 9781737379003 Category : Languages : en Pages : 438
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Successful people reach a point of "relative" success and decide to change their lives. Is That All There Is? explores this phenomenon and includes interviews with 14 people who have successfully changes their lives.
Author: Bruce Turkel Publisher: ISBN: 9781737379003 Category : Languages : en Pages : 438
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Successful people reach a point of "relative" success and decide to change their lives. Is That All There Is? explores this phenomenon and includes interviews with 14 people who have successfully changes their lives.
Author: James Gavin Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 145164180X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 608
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Praised by the New York Times Book Review as “fascinating, suspenseful, careful, musically detailed, and insightful,” this is a long-overdue biography of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. Miss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She epitomized cool, but her trademark song, “Fever”—covered by Beyoncé and Madonna—is the essence of sizzling sexual heat. Her jazz sense dazzled Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. She was the voice of swing, the voice of blues, and she provided four of the voices for Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, whose score she co-wrote. But who was the woman behind the Mona Lisa smile? With elegant writing and impeccable research, including interviews with hundreds who knew Lee, acclaimed music journalist James Gavin offers the most revealing look yet at an artist of infinite contradictions and layers. Lee was a North Dakota prairie girl who became a temptress of enduring mystique. She was a singer-songwriter before the term existed. Lee “had incredible confidence onstage,” observed the Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop; yet inner turmoil wracked her. She spun a romantic nirvana in her songs, but couldn’t sustain one in reality. As she passed middle age, Lee dwelled increasingly in a bizarre dreamland. She died in 2002 at the age of eighty-one, but the enchantment with Lee has only grown. “Raucously entertaining [and] full of evocative scenes, wry humor and exasperated sympathy” (Publishers Weekly), Is That All There Is? paints a masterful portrait of an artist who redefined popular singing.
Author: LINDA MacKENZIE-McINNIS Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465377492 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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This story has not been written without buckets of tears and sorrow. It’s a heart-breaking story of love and betrayal, and of loss, almost too difficult to bear. It’s also a testament to the strength and determination of the human spirit and the ability to go forward without a vision of future, or hope of one. This is her story, pieced together from things we learned after her passing from her sisters, who felt we had the right to know the true story of our mom, and we’re so grateful for the their insight and honesty
Author: Robert Strom Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Peggy Lee holds a special place in the history of American popular and jazz music. From her birth on May 26, 1920, to her final recording on August 26, 1995, to the New Yorker's obituary from February of 2002, this chronological record covers every moment of her professional life. Detailed entries describe recordings (both albums and songs), radio and television appearances, her work in films, and her songwriting efforts, drawing from interviews with Lee and others, nightclub and concert reviews, and a wealth of other sources. Appendices list CD releases of Lee's recordings and the songs she composed. Illustrated with many rare photographs.
Author: Bruce Turkel Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books ISBN: 0738219207 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 314
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A branding expert shows how anyone who is successful lives by three words--"all about them"--and shows how focusing on others leads to success in business and life
Author: Thomas King Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 0887846963 Category : American literature Languages : en Pages : 184
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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Author: Jerry Leiber Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416566805 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 339
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The hitmakers behind Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock” recount their rise to songwriting stardom while authoring the classic American R&B sound of countless chart-topping singles. In 1950 a couple of rhythm and blues–loving teenagers named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met for the first time. They discovered their mutual affection for R&B and, as Jerry and Mike put it in this fascinating autobiography, began an argument that has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight. Leiber and Stoller were still in their teens when they started working with some of the pioneers of rock and roll, writing such hits as "Hound Dog," which eventually became a #1 record for Elvis Presley. Jerry and Mike became the King’s favorite songwriters, giving him "Jailhouse Rock" and other #1 songs. Their string of hits with the Coasters, including "Yakety Yak," "Poison Ivy," and "Charlie Brown," is a part of rock ’n’ roll history. They founded their own music label and introduced novel instrumentation into their hits for the Drifters and Ben E. King, including "On Broadway" and "Stand by Me." They worked with everyone from Phil Spector to Burt Bacharach and Peggy Lee. Their smash musical Smokey Joe’s Café became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Lively, colorful, and irreverent, Hound Dog describes how two youngsters with an insatiable love of good old American R&B created the soundtrack for a generation.
Author: Tish Oney Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 9781538183113 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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A June 2020 Library Journal Starred Review One hundred years after the legendary singer's birth, this book brings to life the career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, popular music, and film music remain unparalleled.
Author: George Levine Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691149100 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 273
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This book provides a balanced and thoughtful approach for understanding an enlightened, sympathetic, and relevant secularism for our lives today. Bringing together distinguished historians, philosophers, scientists, and writers, this book shows that secularism is not a mere denial of religion.
Author: Bruce Turkel
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