Playboy Swings

Author : Patricia Farmer,Will Friedwall
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780825307171

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Playboy Swings by Patricia Farmer,Will Friedwall Pdf

You already know about the Bunnies, now learn about the music that helped shape Playboy. Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, is the celebration of the female form. The second, readers may be surprised to learn, is Playboy's involvement in the music scene. The playboy experience has never been just about sex, but about lifestyle. Hugh Hefner's personal passion for music, particularly fine jazz, has always been an essential component of that. Full of interviews with hundreds of people who were on the scene throughout the rise, fall, and on-going renaissance, Playboy Swings carries readers on a seductive journey. Farmer focuses on Playboy's involvement in the music scene and impact on popular entertainment, and demonstrates how the empire helped change the world by integrating television and festivals. Join Patty Farmer as she guides the reader through the first inception of the Playboy empire through the 1959 Jazz Festival, and club opening after club opening. With 60 pages of photos and a complete reference guide, readers will associate music, not just Bunnies, when thinking about Playboy after reading this enthralling look into the history of one of the world's most infamous brands.

Author : Patty Farmer
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780825307645

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Playboy Laughs by Patty Farmer Pdf

Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs. Playboy Laughs invites readers onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After Dark. These popular variety series brought top-tier comedians, impressionists, and monologists—as well as the finest musicians—into people’s homes each week. Readers will learn how before he ever dreamed of conquering the magazine publishing world—and along the way establish a worldwide brand—Hugh Hefner harbored aspirations of making his mark in the world as a cartoonist. Playboy Laughs delves into the darker aspects of the time as well, tackling the ways Playboy and its comedy stars helped break down social and racial barriers as well as sexual ones. Known for her devotion to meticulous research and clear, honest storytelling, Farmer has gained the full cooperation of the Playboy organization—and Hugh Hefner himself—making this not only an entertaining read but a trustworthy history of an under-appreciated aspect of American comic culture.

Author : Kurt Dietrich
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781976600203

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Never Givin' Up by Kurt Dietrich Pdf

The inspiring story of an iconic singer from Milwaukee This is the first biography to chronicle the life and career of one of the most distinguished and beloved musical artists to come out of Wisconsin: Al Jarreau. From his earliest days singing in the 1940s until his death in 2017, Jarreau defied categorization. While his biggest hit, “We’re In This Love Together,” is pure pop, he smashed music industry stereotypes as the first artist to win Grammy Awards in three genres: jazz, pop, and R&B. Never Givin’ Up traces Jarreau’s singing career from humble beginnings in his hometown of Milwaukee to international fame. The narrative includes his formative student days at Ripon College and the University of Iowa, as well as the years spent honing his craft at nightspots in Milwaukee, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities. After he was signed by Warner Bros. Records in 1975 at the age of 35, Jarreau achieved stardom with his innovative vocal stylings and electric live performances. This book includes more than 20 sidebars with bonus information about every Jarreau album and behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the records. Author Kurt Dietrich conducted interviews with dozens of Al's friends, fellow musicians, professional associates, and family members—most notably Al’s sister, Rose Marie Freeman, who was a major contributor to the project. Featuring 54 images spanning Jarreau’s life, from never-before-seen family snapshots to stills from his legendary stage performances, Never Givin’ Up celebrates a Milwaukee hometown hero and global sensation.

Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : Broadway Legacies
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199862092

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Bernstein Meets Broadway by Carol J. Oja Pdf

A super-star of 20th-century music, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his multi-faceted artistic brilliance. Best-known on Broadway for "West Side Story," a tale of immigrant struggles and urban gang warfare, Bernstein thrived within the theater's collaborative artistic environments, and he forged a life-long commitment to advancing social justice. In 'Bernstein meets Broadway: collaborative art in a time of war', award-winning author Carol J. Oja explores a youthful Bernstein-a twenty-something composer who was emerging in New York City during World War II. Devising an innovative framework, Oja constructs a wide-ranging cultural history that illuminates how Bernstein and his friends violated artistic and political boundaries to produce imaginative artistic results. At the core of her story are the Broadway musical On the Town, the ballet Fancy Free, and a nightclub act called The Revuers. A brilliant group of collaborators joins Bernstein at center-stage, including the choreographer Jerome Robbins and the writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. With the zeal of youth, they infused their art with progressive political ideals. On the Town focused on sailors enjoying a day of shore leave, and it featured a mixed-race cast, contributing an important chapter to the desegregation of American performance. It projected an equitable inter-racial vision in an era when racial segregation was being enforced contentiously in the U.S. military.

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 023114430X

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Men to Boys by Gary S. Cross Pdf

When did maturity become the ultimate taboo? Men have gone from idolizing Cary Grant to aping Hugh Grant, shunning marriage and responsibility well into their twenties and thirties. Gary Cross, renowned cultural historian, identifies the boy-man and his habits, examining the attitudes and practices of three generations to make sense of this gradual but profound shift in American masculinity. Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity.

Author : Edwin Silberstang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0872237621

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Playboy's Guide to Football Betting by Edwin Silberstang Pdf

Author : Ashlee Mallory
Publisher : Entangled: Bliss
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633757202

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The Playboy's Proposal by Ashlee Mallory Pdf

Doctor Benny Sorensen has had it up to here with her party-throwing playboy neighbor. She’s declaring war. She doesn't care how gorgeous or charming he is, he's going down. That is until he proposes something she's not sure she can say no to... Wealthy ad man Henry Ellison lives an uncomplicated life that revolves around work, women, and partying. In that order. Until Benny storms into his life. To placate his attractive but hotheaded neighbor, Henry offers to help her land a date with the man of her dreams. Only as Henry makes her over and coaches her on the fine art of flirting, he realizes that the idea of this woman in any other man’s arms but his own is unacceptable. But Benny's a forever kind of girl and forever might just be the one commitment he can't make. Each book in the Sorensen Family series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Her Backup Boyfriend Book #2 Her Accidental Husband Book #3 The Playboy's Proposal Book #4 Her Surprise Engagement

Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061965104

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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Pdf

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Author : John Goodman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520954687

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Mingus Speaks by John Goodman Pdf

Charles Mingus is among jazz’s greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which performers were the real thing (or not), and much more. These in-depth interviews, conducted several years before Mingus died, capture the composer’s spirit and voice, revealing how he saw himself as composer and performer, how he viewed his peers and predecessors, how he created his extraordinary music, and how he looked at race. Augmented with interviews and commentary by ten close associates—including Mingus’s wife Sue, Teo Macero, George Wein, and Sy Johnson—Mingus Speaks provides a wealth of new perspectives on the musician’s life and career. As a writer for Playboy, John F. Goodman reviewed Mingus’s comeback concert in 1972 and went on to achieve an intimacy with the composer that brings a relaxed and candid tone to the ensuing interviews. Much of what Mingus shares shows him in a new light: his personality, his passions and sense of humor, and his thoughts on music. The conversations are wide-ranging, shedding fresh light on important milestones in Mingus’s life such as the publication of his memoir, Beneath the Underdog, the famous Tijuana episodes, his relationships, and the jazz business.

Author : J. M. Synge
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547354727

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The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Playboy of the Western World" (A Comedy in Three Acts) by J. M. Synge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Joan Kramer,David Heeley,Richard Dreyfuss
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780825306723

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In the Company of Legends by Joan Kramer,David Heeley,Richard Dreyfuss Pdf

Starting with their award winning profiles of Fred Astaire in 1980, Joan Kramer and David Heeley documented the lives and careers of many Hollywood legends, establishing a reputation for finding the un-findable, persuading the reluctant, and maintaining unique relationships long after the end credits rolled. These were recognized as high-quality, definitive film portraits, which revitalized the genre and made it a mainstay of television programming. This is their insiders’ view of the famous and the powerful: Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Lew Wasserman, Ronald Reagan, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Jane Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Audrey Hepburn, and Bette Davis, among others. Kramer and Heeley’s behind the scenes stories of the productions and the personalities involved are amusing, sometimes moving, often revealing, and have never been told before.

Author : Miranda Lee
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488001130

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The Playboy's Ruthless Pursuit by Miranda Lee Pdf

His most challenging conquest When you're as handsome, dynamic and wealthy as British tycoon Jeremy Barker-Whittle, there's no shortage of stunning women willing to share your bed. So when Alice Waterhouse says no, it's a challenge the jaded playboy can't refuse. But discovering Alice's carefully guarded innocence brings an end to Jeremy's thoughts of briefly stolen passion. The cynical CEO must put aside this delicate beauty…until Alice shocks him by asking him to take her virginity! As Jeremy toys with the temptation to be the first man to show Alice pleasure, he's unaware that she could be the first woman to tame him…

Author : Mary Lyons
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459251809

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The Playboy's Baby by Mary Lyons Pdf

The millionaire daddy… Tycoon Matthew Warner had broken Samantha's heart once—she was determined never to let him get close to her again. But what he was proposing wasn't exactly marriage, but more of a casual affair. Samantha knew she should refuse, but Matt was hard to resist. Besides, Samantha was older now and wiser. A single-minded and successful career girl, she could handle a no-strings relationship with a devastatingly sexy playboy, couldn't she? Only, Samantha had broken two unwritten rules—she'd fallen in love with Matt…and fallen pregnant! She's sexy, she's successful…and she's PREGNANT!

Author : Karen Toller Whittenburg
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460368251

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The Playboy's Office Romance by Karen Toller Whittenburg Pdf

BRYCE BRADDOCK: The Middle Braddock Brother Has Never Met a Woman He Can't Charm. Except One… SpoilecL.Braddock! Lara Richmond couldn't believe that irresponsible playboy, Bryce Braddock, would be CEO of Braddock Industries—and Lara's new boss. Surely the tabloids' favorite Braddock brother would grow bored without his fast cars and faster women? Lara wasn't about to examine why the thought of enduring Bryce's maddening presence every day caused her heart to beat faster! Bryce reveled in the chance to prove his right to the Braddock legacy. And to provoke no-nonsense Lara Richmond. Until one intense encounter hinted that their battle of wills hid an earth-shattering passion. It was time for a new corporate strategy—a takeover of the heart! Billion Dollar Braddocks: Born to a legacy of wealth and power, three handsome brothers discover that love is the ultimate privilege.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858035056591

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Playboy by Anonim Pdf