Acknowledgments. Introduction: Where You''re Terrific If You''re Even Good. 1. Smile Through Your Fear and Sorrow: Film Music Before the Soundtrack. 2. Every Note….Is Like a Lover''s Kiss: The Invasion of the Songwriters. 3.

Open Your Golden Gate: The Émigré Composers. 4. Lonely Rivers Flow to the sea: Aaron Copland, Jerome Moross, Bernard Herrmann; Alex North, Ernest Gold, Elmer Bernstein. 5. Work Like A soul Inspired: Fred Astaire and the Great Songwriters. 6. Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?: Paramount Pictures. 7.

I Recall Picnic Time With You: Columbia Pictures. 8. She Gave Your Very First Kiss to you: Alfred Newman and Twentieth Century-Fox. 9. Waltzing in the Wonder of Why We''re Here: The Freed Unit at MGM. 10. Just Make Up Your Mind: The Screen Composers Association and HUAC. 11.

I Only Know I Must Be Brave: Western Music in the Movies. 12. Leave Your Worries on the Doorstep: Jazz Arrives by Streetcar. 13. A Passing Breeze Filled with Memories: Henry Mancini, from Universal to International. 14. Makes No Difference Who You Are: The Animation Composers. 15.

Make it Mine, Make it Mine, Make it Mine!: The Rise of the Movie Song. 16. Threw a Part in the County Jail: The Rock ''n'' Roll Soundtrack. Epilogue: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.