Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian
This is the story of one woman's accidental career as a cocktail lounge piano player. Connecting the people she has met with the places she has played and the pianos she has known, Robin Meloy Goldsby discovers the human side, for better or worse, of her audiences - mobsters and moguls, the down-and-out, the downright scary, and ordinary people dealing with life in extraordinary ways.
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This is the story of one woman's accidental career as a cocktail lounge piano player. Connecting the people she has met with the places she has played and the pianos she has known, Robin Meloy Goldsby discovers the human side, for better or worse, of her audiences - mobsters and moguls, the down-and-out, the downright scary, and ordinary people dealing with life in extraordinary ways.
Introduction: Life from the Other Side of the SteinwayviiPart I1976-19791Play Something You Know3Nantucket Sound11Roses and Daffodils16Sand Dunes and Salty Air25Playback 197729Someone to Watch Over Me34Circus, Circus42Handful of Keys52Wonderful Night57Playback 197968Part II1980-199473Travelin' Light75Gypsy, Tempest, and Me79The Man on the Ceiling89The Waterbury Blues96Yellow Bird102Nice Work If You Can Get It112Marble Fountains, Velvet Caves118Playback 1984124All the Sad Young Men128There's a Small Hotel140Just Beyond the Garden Wall153Prisoner of Love (Always a Bridesmaid, Never an Inmate)156Playback 1989171Purple Hibiscus175They Say the Neon Lights Are Bright188Virginia192Like an Angel195The Almond Tree199Little Scraps of Paper204Crash Test211Playback 1990216Starry, Starry Night220Married to the Bass225Walkin' My Baby Back Home229Part III1994-2004235Music of Good-bye237Intermission242Playback 1988246Some Enchanted Evening250Playback 2002256Here Comes That Bride260Playback 2004268Julia's Playback272Acknowledgments276About the Author278
