Songs of the 40's: The Decade Series (EZ Play Today, for Organs, Pianos & Electronic Keyboards, No. 230) [Sheet music] Review

If you like and appreciate great melodies from the 1940s decade then you will like this collection of tunes.

I have bought a number of these Decade Series collection songbooks and like all of them. The selections are always broad and fresh.

I have played out of this particular songbook collection for many years now and still love to play them on my piano.

Contents:

Across The Alley From The Alamo
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)
Anniversary Song
Bewitched
Blueberry Hill
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Breeze And I
But Beautiful
Candy
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Cruising Down The River
Daddy
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
God Bless' The Child
Harlem Nocturne
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
How Are Things In Glocca Morra
How High The Moon
I Could Write A Book
I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
I'll Be Around
I'll Remember April
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Imagination
It's A Grand Night For Singing
It's A Most Unusual Day
Juke Box Saturday Night
June Is Bustin' Out All Over
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Lilli Marlene
Mairzy Doats
Managua, Nicaragua
Moonlight In Vermont
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Oklahoma
Old Devil Moon
The Old Lamplighter
The Old Soft Shoe
Opus One
People Will Say We're In Love
Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
Polka Dots And Moonbeams
Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week
Seems Like Old Times
Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
So In Love
Speak Low
A String Of Pearls
A Sunday Kind Of Love
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Swinging On A Star
There Must Be A Way
The Things We Did Last Summer
The Third Man Theme
Tuxedo Junction
When You Wish Upon A Star
Wunderbar
You Can't Be True Dear (Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein)
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
You'll Never Walk Alone

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I recommend this songbook collection to you!

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61 songs, featuring: Come Rain or Come Shine * God Bless the Child * How High the Moon * The Last Time I Saw Paris * Moonlight in Vermont * A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square * A String of Pearls * Swinging on a Star * Tuxedo Junction * You'll Never Walk Alone.

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88 Keys - The Making of a Steinway Piano (Amadeus) [Hardcover] Review

This is fundamentally an oversized pamphlet.It is double-spaced with wide margins and still only has about 130 pages including many illustrations.Steinway has a CD-rom, which one can obtain quite easily, which covers many Steinway construction topics with better illustrations (including video) than this pamphlet. Anyone with any knowledge at all of piano construction (viewers of the Steinway CD- rom video, and a couple of manufacturers' brochures) will be disappointed in this book.
The book contains no photographs.Hard to believe, eh? The illustrations are excellent, but do not seem to be integrated with the text and very few are diagrammatic showing how things work, just show how they are, if you are lucky.
Many topics are described without detailed reference and explanation with an illustration or diagram.
E.g..Pg. 15 clavichord mechanism is described verbally, without diagrams.
Pg 64:English style ... "the hammer heads are placed at the far end of the mechanisms and move forward when the keys are struck."I am clueless as to what this would look like. " a glimpse at any contemporary grand piano keyboard will..." How about a picture?
Pg 48-49 Re:matched veneers:" a careful look at the case of any natural wood-finished Steinway will show you how good they are."No photographs or illustrations.
Pg 52 re Scales."these characteristic dimensions differentiate pianos from different makers more than any other technical element."Perhaps I do not understand the statement, but a Steinway salesperson will point out three distinct differentiations between Steinway and its competitors, which are technically related in my mind.
I was abhorred to look down at the page number, 62, half way through the book, and realized I had only learned a few things of interest and had not learned anything of several topics which I had assumed would be covered.While I did not keep track of the time, I felt I had only been reading a short while.
On several occasions the author begins on what appears an interesting topic, but he either aborts early or has no illustrative diagrams and I cannot follow, despite very good grades in science classes from a prestigious private etc.
Pg. 56.He starts talking about harmonics, but has no diagrams, and again, if one does not know harmonics will probably just be confused.
He talks about sound board gluing, but again no illustrative diagrams or dimensions on final cut.How thick is a soundboard?
Bridge: verbally describes making one, but no diagrams or detailed illustrations.
I will stop with the last.One thing I would certainly expect from a book on making a piano is a detailed explanation with diagrams of how the action works. Pg.71 (this paragraph is unbelievable):"A model of a piano's action is a fascinating thing to behold.I used to play with one for hours on end ..." "The answer is that the pianos action has evolved over years of experimentation."That's it!No explanation of how the mechanism of the action actually works.One very nice still illustration, but no explanation or additional diagrams.
If this book does not sell on Amazon, it will not sell anywhere, because I would never have bought this oversized pamphlet at a bookstore.
Sorry.

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I'll Be Seeing You: 51 Songs of World War II (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) [Paperback] Review

I have been looking for a piano book of WWII songs.Anyone who loves those songs from that era will be more than pleased with this song book.It will bring back memories for those old enough to remember!

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A salute to the music and memories of WWII, including a year-by-year chronology of events on the homefront, dozens of photos, and 50 radio favorites of the GIs and their families back home, including: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy * Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) * I Don't Want to Walk Without You * I'll Be Seeing You * Moonlight in Vermont * There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To * and more.

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