AND THE BEAT GOES ON . . . THE SAGA OF TELEVISION AND AMERICAN ROCK AND ROLL From Doo-Wop to Disco, American Rock and Roll was the soundtrack of the lives of Post World War II teenagers who moved and grooved to a new sound that roared out of radios and television sets. Rock and Roll was the first popular music to define a specific age group who were ready to Shake, Rattle and Roll!...
Read MoreAS TIME GOES BYThe Forgotten Tunesmiths of The Great American Song Book Shine On Harvest Moon, My Melancholy Baby, For Me and My Gal, Happy Days Are Here Again – who wrote these songs? As Time Goes By celebrates the forgotten composers and lyricists who created musical memories alongside George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter. You may not recognize the names of Gus...
Read MoreMAKE ‘EM LAUGH! The Funny Men of Broadway & Hollywood Make ‘em Laugh! salutes the great comics of Broadway and the Movies. From Bert Lahr to Nathan Lane, from Jimmy Durante and Groucho Marx to Zero Mostel, from Ray Bolger to Donald O’Connor, audiences have roared at the comics who tickled and entertained us on the Great White Way and the Silver Screen. The comics of Burlesque,...
Read MoreHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas!The Holiday Music of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas so kick off the holiday season with a celebration of the Christmas music of the Great American Songbook. The tunesmiths of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley created holiday memories for generations of Americans with songs that have become the sound of Christmas....
Read MoreFLY ME TO THE MOON The Great Male Singers Fly me to the moonLet me play among the stars,Let me see what spring is likeOn Jupiter or Mars . . . From Rudy Vallée to Frank Sinatra, from Bing Crosby to Tony Bennett, from Cab Calloway to Johnny Mathis, from Louis Armstrong to Nat King Cole, from Fats Domino to Elvis Presley to the Beatles, the great men of song have chronicled a romantic history of...
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