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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Ol' Man River, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, All the Things You Are, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, the Way You Look Tonight, Long Ago, Pick Yourself Up, Mis'ry's Comin' Round, Bill, I'm Old Fashioned, I Won't Dance, the Song Is You, Make Believe, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, They Didn't Believe Me, Yesterdays, a Fine Romance, the Last Time I Saw Paris, You Are Love, Never Gonna Dance, Who?, Look for the Silver Lining, Remind Me, You Couldn't Be Cuter, She Didn't Say Yes, Why Was I Born?, I'll Be Hard to Handle, Let's Begin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Ol' Man River" (music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) is a song in the 1927 musical Show Boat, that contrasts African American hardship and struggles of the time with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River, from the point-of-view of a dock worker on a showboat. It is the most famous song from the show. It is sung complete, once, by the black dock worker "Joe" who travels with the boat, and is re-sung three times more in brief reprises. Joe serves as a sort of musical one-man Greek chorus, and the song, when reprised, comments on the action, as if saying, "This has happened, but the river keeps rolling on anyway". The song is notable for several aspects: the lyrical pentatonic-scale melody, the subjects of toil and social class, metaphor to the Mississippi, and as a bass solo (rare in musicals solos for baritones or tenors being more common). Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra had a no. 1 hit recording of the song in 1928 featuring Bing Crosby on vocals and Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. A second version by Paul Whiteman with Paul Robeson on vocals was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006. The song was first performed in t...http://booksllc.net/?id=1002449 ... Read more