Product Description
Robert Waltrip Short (1924 - 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist who interpreted songs by popular composers from the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Richard A.
Whiting, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.
Short also championed African-American composers of the same period such as Eubie Blake, James P.
Johnson, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, presenting their work not in a polemical way, but as simply the obvious equal of that of their white contemporaries.
Short's dedication to his great love - what he called the "Great American Song" - left him equally adept at performing the witty lyrics of Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" or Gershwin and Duke's "I Can't Get Started".
This copy is near fine in black cloth with silver titles on the spine.
Slight bumping at the spine ends.
No other marks or damage.
The unclipped DJ has slight soiling and minor chipping on the edges.
Signed and dated on the half title page.
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