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James Melton: the Tenor of His Times Online uHbL5 (Mobile ebook) James Melton: The Tenor of His Times Online [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times Pdf Free Margo Melton Nutt audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1854156 in Books 2013-04-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .61 x 6.00l, .80 #File Name: 1482391449268 pages | File size: 59.Mb Margo Melton Nutt : James Melton: The Tenor of His Times before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised James Melton: The Tenor of His Times: 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. An excellent, balanced view of an enormous but flawed talentBy Eleanor DuganWhy do people write biographies? Most authors come to the task with such a strong bias, positive or negative, that intelligent readers must seek out several other bios before they can begin to grasp the real person behind the words.This is NOT the case with James Melton: The Tenor of His Times. Margo Melton Nutt has drawn such a clear, believable portrait of her enormously talented, but deeply flawed father, that this book should stand for a long time as the definitive bio of the famous tenor. From youth to his final days, James Melton had the enormous ego essential for survival in the crushing world of professional performers, but, as she shows, this same unrelenting optimism also contributed to his ultimate downfall. His highs and lows were so extreme that, although Nutt never says so, he may even have had bipolar disorder, a disease only recently recognized.For the necessary raves about Melton's stellar career successes and many personal virtues, Nutt draws on her mother's unpublished adoring biography. She balances these passages with meticulously researched facts, dates reviews, interview quotes, and personal memories, illustrating Melton's great charm and often-infuriating inconsistencies.Despite the erudition, the book is an easy and engaging read, almost a page turner as one yearns to know what is going to happen next to this bigger-than-life individual.The only flaw, a profound one for such an invaluable and informative book, is the lack of an index. I hope that a second edition will remedy this so that both general readers and scholars can find out all they want to know about Melton the man, his music, his antique car collection, and his radio, film and concert careers.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Interesting But Not DefinitiveBy Dennis E. FerraraJames Melton had one of the finest lyric tenor voices heard on radio throughout the late 20's, 30's and early 1940's and recordings including the early Columbias (1927-1932), black seal RCA discs, Brunswicks and Deccas. His career with The Revelers and on radio was certainly praise worthy. His daughter has written an interesting but hardly noteworthy biography. There is no discography nor a list of his Met perrformances. Granted, she talks quickly about his films; however, a complete filmography with a list of performers would be professional. She discusses some of the light as well as the dark sides of this tenor: drinking and drugs. It is doubtful if another book will be issued on James Melton.The daughter had a rare opportunity to write a really definitive work with the help of professional writers, opera specialists, record collectors/discographers, and film writers to really do an outstanding and definitive biography. Sad to say, it is only a weak, mild attempt to discuss the life of a once beautiful voice. Typical with so many artists of the past, Melton needed money for his expensive hobby (i.e. collecting over 100 rare automobles) and recorded for cheap labels in the 50's including TOPS. A cheap dimestore $1.98 label and with his voice in poor shape, these recordings do a terrible disservice to the artist. Sad to say, many people only know him through these discs which should never have been issued. These recordings are not even mentioned.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A loving recollection of James Melton, a tenor whose times were troubledBy jamespegMargo Melton Nutt has written a compelling biography of her father, James Melton. In fact it is just as much the fascinating story of three people: Melton, Nutt and her mother. A biography written by someone who lived with the subject should provide a stronger emotional reaction on the reader than one written by a "stranger." And indeed this one does. With the exceptional letters of her mother covering Melton's early years as a singer, Nutt's recollections cover her father's later years. Nothing could come closer to giving the reader the sense of a singer who ultimately lost control of himself. I suppose he gave in to the power of fame. And yet what a wonderful voice. “America’s Favorite Tenor.” That was what they called James Melton from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was perhaps the first multi-media performer—in a career that spanned concerts, recordings, movies, the Metropolitan Opera, radio and television. His fame as a singer was equaled by his renown as an antique car collector. In this hobby he was a pioneer in recognizing these vehicles not only as an important part of America’s history, but as works of art. His career and his hobby reflected the two great technologies that knit the country together in the first half of the 20th century—radio and the automobile. The James Melton story is the story of an era: from the Roaring Twenties, through the Great Depression, World War II, and post-war prosperity. It is a story filled with interesting characters—his friends and colleagues. He toured the Southwest with Will Rogers to raise money for dustbowl denizens in 1931; he collaborated with George Gershwin in 1934 on a concert tour of 28 cities in 29 days; while in Hollywood making movies for Warner Bros. he visited San Simeon as the guest of William Randolph Hearst; he helped to raise millions at War Bond rallies with performers like Milton Berle and Irving Berlin; he began his TV career after talking Henry Ford II into a Ford Motor Company-sponsored variety show. He created his own lucky breaks through a combination of hard work, talent and charm. All the while he was collecting antique cars, displaying his collection in two museums and participating in car activities. Even fifty years after his death, the provenance of having been in the Melton collection provides added value to those cars. James Melton’s life and career are emblematic of America in the first half of the 20th century—a country possessed by a “can do” attitude—a country that could win two world wars and pull itself out of the Great Depression. The James Melton story also a rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a talented, confident young man who raised himself from obscure beginnings in a tiny Florida town to the height of fame on stage, screen and airwaves—but who could not live without the adulation of an adoring public, and who had nothing to fall back on as he aged and musical tastes changed. The author chose to do a biographical memoir because it allowed her to tell the story from her point of view—anecdotally. It includes her personal exploration of the motivations that shaped her father’s life, and her discovery of the resulting pressures that brought him down. About the AuthorMargo Melton Nutt is the only child of Marjorie and James Melton. She lives in Vermont. This is her first book. [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt PDF [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt Epub [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt Ebook [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt Rar [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt Zip [uHbL5.ebook] James Melton: The Tenor of His Times By Margo Melton Nutt Read Online.
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