Family Songbook Reader's Digest Author:Compilation - arranged by Dan Fox This is a song book featuring many of the songs that everyone knows. The "guide" in the front says the songs are divided into 8 categories - 1. Down Memory lane - the Jazza age, and the depression years. 2. All-time Broadway Hits - Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, Youmans, Weill and others. 3. Great music from the movies - such as D... more »oris Day and Gone with the Wind. 4. The Swing Years - Tommy Dorsey , Louis Armstrong, and the Andrew Sisters. 5. Operetta and Semi-Classical - those romantic musicals. 6. Gaslight - our great-grandparents' music. 7. Greensleeves and other Folk Song favorites, from Elizabethan ballads and country dance tune to 60s music. 8. Music to Lift the Spirit - hymns and anthems - patriotic tunes, etc. Some song examples are: America, April in Paris, As Time Goes By, Black is the Color, Embraceable You, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, In the Good Old Summertime, It's Magic, Mack the Knife, The Marine's Humn, Red River Valley, Puff the Magic Dragon, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, Shenandoan, etc. This is a great large book, easy to read!« less