"Goodbye" combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when, on account of his father's death in 1984, Bruce Jenkins began his research. Paralleling the story of Gordon Jenkins's personal life is a veritable history of popular music, featuring luminaries from ...
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"Goodbye" combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when, on account of his father's death in 1984, Bruce Jenkins began his research. Paralleling the story of Gordon Jenkins's personal life is a veritable history of popular music, featuring luminaries from Irving Berlin to Billie Holiday. This richly anecdotal biography relates a wealth of heretofore untold stories of his encounters with icons like Sinatra, who was uncharacteristically awestruck by him, and Judy Garland, whom only Jenkins could convince to go onstage when she was crippled with anxiety. A concluding chapter documents Jenkins's slow, difficult death from ALS, leaving readers with an unforgettable image of a legend dying with dignity and unexpected good humor.
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Seller's Description:
First Edition, second printing in near fine/ very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Dust jacket has a couple tears (taped), edge wear, creases, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing.
Bruce Jenkins has written a compelling portrait of his father, Gordon Jenkins, and the lofty world in which "Gor" worked and lived.
Malibu before development, New York City, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, radio performances and recordings in the great old studios of LA and NY: great stories abound, with deep insight into the man, the music, and the era.
