Sing for your supper : the Broadway musical in the 1930s / by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A lady needs a change : the state of the art -- Carry on, keep smiling : musical comedy I -- We're off to Feathermore : Mymph errant, Anything goes, and Jubilee -- Harlem on my mind : the black shows and Porgy and Bess -- Leave it to Katarina : operetta begins its forty-year death scene -- Fun to be fooled : revue -- A song with social significance : politics -- It's better with a union man : the leftist revue -- Life's a dance : the choreography of the 1930s -- I got rhythm : the music of the 1930s -- All in fun : musical comedy II.…”

And then we wrote American composers and lyricists sing, play and conduct their own songs.

Table of Contents: “…Handy's orchestra) -- Like he loves me (Beatrice Lillie, vocal; Vincent Youmans, piano) -- Someone to watch over me (George Gershwin, piano) -- Star dust (Hoagy Carmichael, vocal, whistling, and piano; Artie Bernstein, double bass; Spike Jones, drums) -- Honeysuckle rose (Fats Waller, piano) -- Mood indigo (Jungle Band; Duke Ellington, piano) -- Anything goes (Cole Porter, vocal and piano) -- Strip polka (Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and his orchestra) -- Sunday in the park (Harold Rome, vocal and piano) -- You are never away (Mary Martin, vocal; Richard Rodgers, piano; orchestra conducted by John Lesko) -- A sleepin' bee (Harold Arlen; orchestra arr. and conducted by Peter Matz) -- Anyone can whistle (Stephen Sondheim, vocal and piano) -- If my friends could see me now (Cy Coleman, with orchestra).…”