Pop Chronicles Interviews #156 - Jimmy Van Heusen, part 2
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- Johnny Burke continued; "That's Putting It Mild" 0:05:31
- Prolific writing versus perfectionism; what makes a song take off; Johnny Burke; "It Could Happen To You"; first movie with Burke; "Love Thy Neighbor" 0:07:15
- Hollywood and New York; Palm Springs; Broadway; "Darn That Dream" (in Swingin' the Dream); how much movie script dictates contents of a song; "Swingin' on a Star"; "Going My Way" 0:06:57
- "Swingin' on a Star" continued; whether lyrics or music come first with different songwriters; music publishing business; Hoagy Carmichael; Mel Torme; Bob (Robert) Levenson; popular demand for sheet music; how wartime tax rates influenced business decisions 0:04:46
- Sheet music continued; "Personality"; movie The Road to Utopia; "Welcome to My Dream"; "Sunday, Monday, Or Always"; Thoroughly Modern Millie 0:05:26
- AFM recording ban and "Swingin' on a Star"; "Road" pictures with Crosby and Hope 0:02:06
- "Road" pictures with Crosby and Hope continued; Bells of St. Mary's; Bob Hope's joke files; stories about working with live camels 0:07:17
- Hope and Crosby continued; "philosophical songs"; ballads in comedy movies; "But Beautiful"; "Would You"; Road to Morocco; "Put It There"; Harold Arlen; Stormy Weather; "Harlem Hospitality" 0:09:15
- Harold Arlen continued; Van Heusen's early songs; writers he liked when he first started; Sinatra; day jobs; playing piano 0:05:53
- Story of "Nancy with the Laughing Face" (continued in Part 3) 0:05:38
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #156 - Jimmy Van Heusen, part 2, audio recording, July 22, 1971; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692070/: accessed March 20, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.