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Author Ken Emerson
Sunday, December 4th, 7pm - 9pm
on Bob Brainen's show 91.1 wfmu
Bob Brainen welcomes Ken Emerson, author of the brand-new book, "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era," and previously of "Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture." We'll be discussing the seven songwriting teams Emerson chronicles: Lieber and Stoller, Pomus and Shuman, Bacharach and David, Sedaka and Greenfield, Goffin and King, Mann and Weill, and Barry and Greenwich. We'll also cover an assortment of other characters and publishing and record companies that helped the music from 1619 and 1650 Broadway flourish in the late 1950s and early 1960s. We'll be playing lots of music by these writers whose collective efforts helped create a soundtrack for several generations.