Astaire, Fred.
Summary: A self-portrait by the influential Hollywood icon traces his childhood entry into the vaudeville circuit through his famous Hollywood performances, in an account that includes coverage of his relationships with such contemporaries as Eleanor Powell, Rita Hayworth, and Ginger Rogers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: itbooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASTAIRE, FRED ASTSummary: Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SWIContents: v. 1. (1934-1945) The continental / Fred Astaire -- Lullaby of Broadway / Dick Powell -- The way you look to-night / Fred Astaire -- Sweet Leilani / Bing Crosby -- Thanks for the memory / Bob Hope & Shirley Ross -- Over the rainbow / Judy Garland -- When you wish upon a star / Cliff Edwards -- The last time I saw Paris / Kate Smith -- White Christmas / Bing Crosby -- You'll never know / Dick...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ENVContents: Vol. 1. East side of heaven / Bing Crosby -- A woman in love / Frankie Laine -- Soliloquy of a fool / Johnny Ray -- Unforgettable / Nat "King" Cole -- Night and day / Dick Haymes -- I've got you on my mind / Fred Astaire -- The way you look tonight / Nelson Eddy -- Here comes heaven again / Perry Como -- Love walked in / Louis Armstrong -- The man I love / Nat "King" Cole -- Shall we dance /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: United Audio Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL CROThomas, Tony
Contents: Interview with Ira Gershwin -- Interview with Alfred Newman --Interview with Fred Astaire ; Astaire sings Gershwin songs -- Interview with Arthur Schwartz -- Rhapsody in Blue : selections from Paul Whiteman's original recording -- Interview with Alfred Newman -- Interview with Oscar Levant ; Levant plays Gershwin piano tunes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Facet 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Taking Back Sunday (Musical group)
Contents: Set phasers to stun -- Bonus mosh pt. II -- A decade under the influence -- This photograph is proof (I know you know) -- The union -- New American classic -- I am Fred Astaire -- One-eighty by summer -- Number five with a bullet -- Little devotional -- ...Slowdance on the inside.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Victory Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TakinContents: Frederick Ashton -- Ashton ballets -- Fred Astaire -- George Balanchine -- Balanchine ballets -- Balanchine lost ballets -- Balanchine dancers -- Mikhail Baryshnikov -- August Bournonville -- Commentary -- Critical voices -- Merce Cunningham -- Sergei Diaghilev -- Isadora Duncan -- Suzanne Farrell -- First Person -- Margot Fonteyn -- Martha Graham -- Historical -- Interviews -- Lǒnide Massine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 REASummary: Beginning with the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, this program provides a detailed look inside that most distinctly American of film traditions, the musical comedy. Interviews with dancer Cyd Charisse, famous for her starring roles in MGM musicals, and Hermes Pan, renowned choreographer and collaborator with Fred Astaire, help to illuminate the advent and evolution of the genre. Excerpts...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Gershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Embraceable you (Bing Crosby) -- S'Wonderful (Kate Smith) -- Love is here to stay (Nat "King" Cole) -- Someone to watch over me (Helen Forrest) -- A foggy day (Fred Astaire) -- Nice work if you can get it (Dinah Shore) -- They can't take that away from me (Perry Como). But not for me (Rosemary Clooney) -- He loves and she loves (Fred Astaire) -- Somebody loves me (Peggy Lee) -- They all...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GERStine, Megan.
Summary: "Born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, Michael Jackson was definitely not a regular kid. A superstar with The Jackson 5 before he was eight years old, he became the King of Pop as a solo artist. Michael was a creative--yet deeply troubled--genius who always remained devoted to his art right up until his death is 2009 before a much anticipated tour. He had a pitch-perfect voice and footwork...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Garland, Judy.
Contents: CD 1. Over the rainbow (Wizard of Oz) -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- Liza all the clouds'll roll away -- But not for me -- Zing' went the strings of my heart (Listen darling) -- I'm just wild about Harry (Babes in arms) -- Embraceable you (Girl crazy) -- Easter parade (duet with Fred Astaire) -- I wish I were in love again (Words and music) -- The boy next door (Meet me in St. Louis) -- Our love...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Collection/Union Square Music 2002
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL GAR V.1Call number: CD VOCAL GAR V.2
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Morlock, Rachael
Summary: "What are pesticides? Why are animals given antibiotics before they become food for us? Can hormones in the animals we eat affect our bodies? Readers explore the answers to these questions in this accessible look at a hot-button issue in nutrition and science. Balanced text presents important information in an objective way, while detailed sidebars provide even more detail. Readers are also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.9 MORGershwin, George
Contents: I got rhythm / Ernestine Anderson -- Nice work if you can get it / Billie Holiday -- Embraceable you / Joe Williams -- Who cares? / Anita O'Day -- A woman is a sometime thing / Louis Armstrong -- Love walked in / Sarah Vaughan -- Love is here to stay / Blossom Dearie -- Oh, lady be good! / Fred Astaire -- Of thee I sing / Ella Fitzgerald -- For you, for me, for evermore / Morgana King -- A...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL GERNewman, Thomas.
Contents: Old Alabama / B.B. and Group -- Monstrous big -- The two dead girls -- The mouse on the mile -- Foolishment -- Billy-be-frigged -- Coffey's hands -- Cheek to cheek / Fred Astaire -- Condemned man -- Limp noodle -- Scared of the dark -- Wild Bill -- Cigar box -- Circus mouse -- The bad death of Eduard Delacroix -- Boy's eye -- Two run-throughs -- Red over green -- I can't give you anything but...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GREContents: Disc 2. Night and day ; Isn't this a lovely day? ; Cheek to cheek ; A fine romance ; They can't take that away from me / Fred Astaire -- I feel a song comin' on / Frances Langford -- Jeepers creepers / Louis Armstrong --You go to my head ; More than you know / Billie Holiday -- Day in, day out / Helen Forrest -- Taking a chance on love / Benny Goodman orchestra with Helen Forrest -- Skylark /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL AMEPiedra, Tony
Summary: "Deep in the tropical forest of Costa Rica, ten sticky frog eggs cling to a leaf. Only nine eggs hatch. Only eight tadpoles wind up in the water below. What will it take to survive the countdown to adulthood and begin the cycle again? This beautifully designed, color-drenched introduction to frog metamorphosis peeks at this animal's habitats and predators as it illustrates competition and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.8 PIEContents: Disc 3. The boy next door / Judy Garland -- Something to remember you by / Dinah Shore -- Alone together / Jo Stafford -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye / Benny Goodman Quintet with Peggy Mann -- I only have eyes for you / Frank Sinatra -- A cottage for sale / Billy Eckstine -- You are too beautiful / Dick Haymes -- They say it's wonderful / Perry Como -- I'll get by / Buddy Clark -- Little Girl...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL AMEPorter, Cole
Contents: I've got you under my skin (Dinah Washington) (5:12) -- Love for sale (Shirley Horn) (3:50) -- Let's do it (let's fall in love) (Louis Armstrong) (8:42) -- Anything goes (Ella Fitzgerald) (3:30) -- What is this thing called love (Mel Torme) (2:54) -- You'd be so nice to come home to (Helen Merrill) (4:13) -- At long last love (Bill Henderson) (2:28) -- I love you (Anita O'Day) (2:03) -- Just...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PORSchuttner, Scott.
Contents: Basic stair design -- The stairwell -- A simple, straight-run stair -- An L-shaped stair: skirts, treads and risers -- An L-shaped stair: newels, rails and balusters -- An open-riser ladder stair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 694.6 SCHCollins, Katherine
Summary: "Neil the Horse ran 15 issues in the 1980s. With its tagline, "Making the world safe for musical comedy" it is the world's only musical comic book. It is a totally original hybrid influenced more by Carl Barks and Fred Astaire than by the underground comics of the time. Originally produced under the name Arn Saba, Neil's creator transitioned to Katherine Collins after the last issue. Neil and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 341.6 GOLGill, Jonathan
Summary: The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORROS, BORIS GILContents: Let me sing and I'm happy (Ben Salvin & his orchestra) -- Puttin on the ritz (Jan Garber & his Greater Columbia Recording Orchestra) -- Say it isn't so (Connie Boswell) -- I love a piano (Arthur Schutt) -- Face the music medley. Soft lights and sweet music ; On a roof in Manhattan ; Manhattan madness ; Let's have another cup of coffee ; I say it's spinach (Victor Young & The Brunswick Orchestra...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1988