Always magic in the air
Subtitle: the bomp and brilliance of the Brill Building era
By: Ken Emerson.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism; Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism; Composers -- New York (State) -- New York; Lyricists -- New York (State) -- New York
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ), discography (p.   ), and index.
The original cool cats -- A Broadway divided -- Lonely avenue -- "My daughter bought it, what are you going to do about it?" -- Partners in chutzpah -- The young lovers -- Putting the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp -- In the garden of Aldon -- "It was Jewish Latin" -- Baby talk -- At work in the Elvis atelier -- The magician and the mensch -- Selling out -- Seesaw -- Double trouble -- Golden girls -- "Somethin' died" -- Swinging London -- From the Monkees to Thomas Mann.