Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic

A first biography of one of Britain''s leading lyric songwriters. The Man Who Wrote The Teddy Bears'' Picnic tells the story of Irish-born Jimmy Kennedy, one of the last - and arguably the finest - of the professional Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the pre-Beatles ''golden age'' of popular song. A fascinating insight into the life of a man who rose from small town beginnings to become for fifty yea...