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• n  a book containing a collection of songs

• Also presents a rare songbook signed by Richard Rodgers.
• Since 1970's disastrous Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, which featured a Shatneresque take on Eleanor Rigby, he has clung to the great American songbook and insisted on .
• Bruce Springsteen has a songbook that reads like a union membership log.

News & Articles

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• Tom Wopat, Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Rebecca Luker and More Headline "American Songbook at NJPAC" Taping for PBS ...
  The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has partnered with NJTV, New Jersey's public television network, on the production of a new music television series, "American Songbook at NJPAC."
  June 15, 2013 - Playbill
• INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner
  All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson).
  June 15, 2013 - All About Jazz
• Boston Symphony Orchestra to invest $30 million in Tanglewood
  Visitors find shady spots on the lawn to listen to the Boston Pops play Michael Feinstein’s ‘Great American Songbook’ with him at the last performance of the season last year at Tanglewood in Lenox. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has pledged $30 million to the venue.
  June 13, 2013 - Berkshire Eagle

Quotes

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• Nancy Sinatra in San Jose Mercury News
  Nancy Sinatra said her brother deserves the honor because he "is practically, single-handedly, keeping the American songbook alive."
• Bette Midler in Pittsburgh Channel.com
  In an interview with the Boston Globe, Midler said that she's looking into withdrawing from her nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "The Rosemary Clooney Songbook" because it would be "in bad form" to win over Clooney --...
• Ed Robertson in The Province
  It's a new chapter for the band, but we'll be bringing the whole songbook with us,said Robertson. "We'll be playing our favourites from the last 20 years, as well as songs from our new record. The only known cure for spring fever is a...