They're Playing Our Song
Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters
Max Wilk
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Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reprinted
and revised several times since, They’re Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20th
century, these classic and timeless songs and lyrics are as popular today as ever.
Contributor Bio
Max Wilk wrote 27 books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as numerous television
shows, plays, musicals and movies, in a writing career spanning almost seventy years. He
died in 2011, still singing.