- Collection:
- Johnny Mercer Oral History Project
- Title:
- Hugh Fordin oral history interview
- Creator:
- Fordin, Hugh, 1935-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Paton, Christopher Ann, 1956-
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1995-04-25
- Subject:
- Lyricists
Popular music - People:
- Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- application/pdf
audio/mpeg - Description:
- In this interview, Hugh Fordin discusses his impressions of Johnny Mercer, gained during interviews of Mercer that Fordin conducted for his book on Arthur Freed in 1974. Topics discussed include Mercer's personality, his collaborators, his work for Broadway and films, his work on The Harvey Girls, the founding of Capitol Records, Blues Opera, Mercer as he appeared and behaved during the last two years of his life, and the quality and value of Mercer's lyrics. The interview was conducted in Mr. Fordin's offices in New York City.
Hugh Fordin was born in 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Syracuse University (B.S., 1957). Fordin began his multi-faceted career as the producer of several touring shows in New York and New England in the 1950s. In the 1960s he turned to film, producing such well-known works as Hello Dolly! and M.A.S.H. During the decade of the seventies, he was the author of several biographies of important figures in the theater and film industries, including Arthur Freed (The Freed Unit, 1974), Oscar Hammerstein II (Getting To Know Him, 1977), and Jerome Kern (The Jerome Kern Story, 1979). He has also served for many years as the director of DRG Records. - Local Identifier:
- M010_FordinH
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/merceroh/id/78
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/merceroh:78/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this digital collection available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. Please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ for more information.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: M010_FordinH, Johnny Mercer Oral History Project, Popular Music and Culture Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
- Extent:
- Audio: 00:46:23, 30 page transcript
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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