C'Mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock (Hardcover, Hardback)

Foreword by Savion Glover

Introduction: Why Summer Stock?

I. The Studio: MGM: Dream Factory in Transition

II. The Story: It’ll Make Oklahoma! Look like a Bum

III. The Talent: It’s up to You—Your Blood and Guts

IV. The Production: How Dare This Look like We’re Having Any Fun!

V. The Musical Numbers: A Brilliant Creation!

VI. Marketing, Reviews, Revenue, and Revivals: The Voice of Garland and the Feet of Kelly Are at High Tide in Summer Stock

VII. Straight Up All the Way

VIII. Taking Stock: Who’s Doing Anything Remotely like It Now? I’ll Tell You Who—Nobody!

Key Dates in the Making of Summer Stock

Cast and Crew of Summer Stock

Acknowledgments

Appendix I: Johnny Green and the MGM Orchestra

Appendix II: Arrangements Have Been Made: Conrad Salinger and Skip Martin and the "MGM Sound"

Appendix III: Summer Stock from Vinyl Album to Digital CD

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index