Tenderly

Music: Walter Gross / Lyrics: Jack Lawrence

Sometimes a Song this week is a Great American Songbook selection called “Tenderly.” The melody was composed by Walter Gross, a child prodigy who grew up to be a pianist for a number of big bands, including Tommy Dorsey’s, and who was an executive for Musicraft, a recording company where he worked as a composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, and talent…