AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 100 a-d OHV

Anita Ellis

With Harriett Milnes

130 East End Avenue New York, New York

November 12, 1982 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a:                                                                                                                         pp. 1-17

Opening preliminaries--dividing music into categories--the music business--communication with the Inner Mongolians--public performance--working for clean water--singing on WLW in Cincinnati--studying opera--radio work in the 1940s--auditioning for the CBS radio show--growing up in Canada--the outdoor life. 

Side b:                                                                                                                         pp. 17-33

Family reaction to show business--compositional process--learning a song--creating a sub-text--Ella and Billie--Billy Strayhorn--"Hims"--"Dance of Life"--"Shake It But Don't Break It"--"Bless You"--Duke Ellington--jazz vs. radio--"The Show of Shows"--"Three Penny Opera^" by Bernstein and Blitzstein--"Flower Drum Song"--marrying in or out of the music business. 

Side c:                                                                                                                         pp. 33-49

Daily routine--"Nothing Lasts Forever Hilarious"--impromptu singing--Billie Holiday--Judy Garland--Barbara Streisand--Ella Fitzgerald--the Gene Kelly circle--recording studio technique--Fred Astaire--dubbing for Rita Hayworth--the critics. 

Side d:                                                                                                                         p. 49-52

Robert Alden--his death and AE's return at Michael's pub--marijuana and alcohol.