Category: Songs

Roxies Hart

Prompted by the Fosse/Verdon eight-parter, I’ve been rooting through the backstory of the musical Chicago. Among my discoveries:...

Above, Jean Miro. You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s...

Pick hits from my program last week: In 1924, three weeks before he premiered Rhapsody in Blue and...

Last week I came upon two major examples of The Song Behind the Song. Like so many things,...

Among the great women folk singers of the early to mid Sixties, Joan and Judy (Baez and Collins)...

Last week I was putting together a set of songs for my show (Dog’s Breakfast, Monday mornings, 5-6:30...

Ondrej Havelka and His Melody Makers, whose music I’ve featured on-air a couple of times, are like Max...

Randy Newman has a new album out, Dark Matter, his first in nine years. One cut that especially struck...

At the end of the last post I referred to Harry “the Hipster” Gibson, and once he’s onstage...

Late in her life I saw Peggy Lee perform at a club in New York. She was chair-bound,...

Toward the end of my radio show last night I went into a death spiral with Spotify and...