Sometimes a Song

Random posts from my wife, Debra, whose head and heart are brimming over with wonderful old popular songs that she wants to share with anyone willing to lend an ear.

During Dvorak's illness, famed violinist Fritz Kreisler came to visit his friend, and asked him, “Anton, do you have any works that you have not yet…
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Just a Song at Twilight | In the United States, we adopted many our “our” folk songs from the native lands of those who immigrated to America and…
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Rogers and Hammerstein | Sometimes a Song can be sad and yet have a beauty born of suffering, of sorrow, of love lost.
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Rodgers and Hart | As successful as they were, Rogers and Hart could hardly have imagined that a song they had written for a cast of teenagers would…
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Revisiting a Delightful Song
If you have ever seen the film or watched the television show, “M.A.S.H,” you already know the most famous piece of music written by the composer of…
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Will Hudson, composer. If there’s one thing that hits you over the head when you take even a brief look at popular music of the mid-20th century, it’s…
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Anthony Newley / Leslie Bricusse
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"Jingle Bells" as you've never heard it before!
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Sammy Fain (music)
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And Mr. New Year's Eve
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Ancient Welsh Tune
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Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
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Leroy Anderson
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Irving Berlin
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Irving Berlin
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Can you imagine a Broadway show featuring a score by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein being a flop? The thought is preposterous. I can hardly…
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Alonzo Elliot (Composer)
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Traditional Irish Tune
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“You’ll Never Walk Alone" is a song of hope, written when the world was literally at war, when so many were suffering so greatly, and when optimism was…
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During Dvorak's illness, famed violinist Fritz Kreisler came to visit his friend, and asked him, “Anton, do you have any works that you have not yet…
16
Just a Song at Twilight | In the United States, we adopted many our “our” folk songs from the native lands of those who immigrated to America and…
26
Rogers and Hammerstein | Sometimes a Song can be sad and yet have a beauty born of suffering, of sorrow, of love lost.
14
Rodgers and Hart | As successful as they were, Rogers and Hart could hardly have imagined that a song they had written for a cast of teenagers would…
7
Revisiting a Delightful Song
If you have ever seen the film or watched the television show, “M.A.S.H,” you already know the most famous piece of music written by the composer of…
6
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