"This volume contains biographies of the leading American lyricists who wrote popular songs from the 1920s to the 1960s. Featured are interviews with legendary lyricists from Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood
Whorf, a broadcaster, producer, and writer, draws on about 70 taped interviews he recorded for a radio series at WJR in Detroit in the mid-1970s for this volume profiling 39 composers of popular song.
