The Song is You (2009) (37 page)

Beginning with its title (Kern-Hammerstein), this book incorporates in its text several song names, some slightly altered, by: Adair-Dennis, Ahlert-Young, Joan Armatrading, Chet Baker, Barry-David, Bix Beiderbecke, the Beloved, the Blow Monkeys, David Bowie, Bretton-Edwards-Meyer, Burke-Van Heusen, Eric Clapton, George M. Cohan, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Concrete Blonde, Vladimir Cosma, Elvis Costello, Noel Coward, the Cranberries, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, DePaul-Raye, Kenny Dorham, the Dream Warriors, Electronic, Duke Ellington, EMF, the English Beat, Victor Feldman, Femi Kuti, Fine Young Cannibals, Michael Franks, Dave Frishberg, Stan Getz, Gordon-Warren, Jerry Gray, Gruber-Mohr, Haircut 100, Herbie Hancock, Heyman-Green, the Housemartins, Joe Jackson, the Jam, Leos Janacek, Jane’s Addiction, Sharon Jones, Keane, Chris Keup, Kraftwerk, Rohan Kriwaczek, Leiber-Stoller, Curtis Mayfield, Mercer-Herman-Burns, Mercer-Kosma, Mercer-Schertzinger, George Michael, Ingrid Michaelson, Mo’ Horizons, Jack Montrose, Van Morrison, Brad Neely, Oliver Nelson, New Order, Orbison-Dee, Charlie Parker, the Pet Shop Boys, Chan Poling, Pomus-Shuman, Cole Porter, Prince, Robledo-Terriss, Rodgers-Hart, Roxy Music, Sade, Carlos Santana, Erik Satie, Scrapomatic, Wayne Shorter, Sigler-Wayne-Hoffman, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, the Smithereens, the Smiths, Regina Spektor, Steely Dan, Sting, the Style Council, Styne-Comden-Green, Styne-Merrill, the Suburbs, the Sundays, Swing Out Sister, the The, They Might Be Giants, Tanita Tikaram, Tuxedo-moon, U2, Suzanne Vega, the Violent Femmes, Antonio Vivaldi, Wang Chung, and Wilder-Palitz-Engvick.

Also, “Space Oddity (Major Tom)” is by David Bowie.

Julia Bucknall, Gabriel Byrne, Gina Centrello, Andrew Corsello, David Daley, Tony Denninger, Chris Eigeman, Jodi Ghorchian, Roger Grenier, Jennifer Hershey, Raj Jutagir, Alice Kaplan, Paol Keineg, Anna Lvovsky, Peter Magyar, Jynne Martin, Mike Mattison, Peter McGuire, Daniel Menaker, Courtney Moran, Beth Pearson, ASP, DSP, ELP (for four gifts), FHP, FMP, MMP (by the skin of his teeth), OMP, Paulina Porizkova, Mihai Radulescu, Marly Rusoff, Nick and Maryanne Shore, Jake Slichter, Toby Tompkins, Peter Turnley, Nancy Viglione, Donna Wick, Tony Wolberg, Daniel Zelman, and, of course, Jan.

A
RTHUR
P
HILLIPS
was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time
Jeopardy!
champion. His first novel,
Prague
, a national bestseller, was named a Notable Book of the Year by
The New York Times
and received the
Los Angeles Times/Art
Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His subsequent novels,
The Egyptologist
and
Angelica
, were both bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

The Song Is You
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright (c) 2009 by Arthur Phillips

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

R
ANDOM
H
OUSE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Phillips, Arthur.

The song is you: a novel / Arthur Phillips.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-793-8

1. Middle-aged men—Fiction. 2. Women singers—Fiction.

3. Inspiration—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3616.H45S66 2009

813’.6—dc22 2008028845

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