Meredith Willson: The Unsinkable Music Man

Meredith Willson marched into the hearts of American music lovers with productions such as the "The Music Man" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", and unforgettable show tunes like "76 Trombones". It is the amazing story of how a youngster with talent and tenacity, possessed with what he would later call a streak of "Iowa stubborn", rose to become one of America's most famous musicians. It is the story of a remarkable career in which Willson: helped scientist Lee deForest in experiments that developed sound for motion pictures, wrote the music for Charlie Chaplin's first "talkie", wrote a song recorded by the Beatles, and won the first Grammy award ever presented.John C. Skipper is the author of 'Meredith Willson: The Unsinkable Music Man' with ISBN 9781882810789 and ISBN 1882810783.