Bibliograph

Dream lucky, when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--, Roxane Orgill

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Dream lucky, when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--, Roxane Orgill

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dream lucky

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Roxane Orgill

Sub title

when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat--

Summary

The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City. Dream Lucky covers politics, race, religion, arts, and sports, but the central focus is the period's soundtrack-specifically big band jazz-and the big-hearted piano player William "Count" Basie. His ascent is the narrative thread of the book-how he made it and what made his music different from the rest. But many other stories weave in and out: Amelia Earhart pursues her dream of flying "around the world at its waistline." Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., stages a boycott on 125th Street. And Mae West shocks radio listeners as a naked Eve tempting the snake. Critic Nat Hentoff praises the "precise originality" with which Roxane Orgill writes about music. In Dream Lucky, she magically lets readers hear the past

Target audience

adult

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