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Episode 19062/9 The Alleyman. These are professional songwriters who kept Americans singing through the first thirty years of the twentieth century. They…
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Episode 1905 2/2 My Syncopated Melody Man. Take away the syncopation and there’s not left. It’s at the heart of what makes American popular song both…
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Episode # 18307/28 The Rainbow Sign - Is there anything new to say about a rainbow? The task and trick for songwriters is to reinvent what we all know…
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Episode # 18297/21 Frank Sinatra 100 Years Later - Frank Sinatra was born slightly more than a century ago, but this isn’t an hour of biography. It’s a…
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Episode # 1828 7/14 Fascinating Rhythm - When rhythm songs were at this peak, and the story of the man who introduced the most famous of them. Cliff…
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Episode # 18277/7 Razzle Dazzle - Songs are often self-referential. They sing about song, music, and singing. Sometimes they sing about a larger…
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Episode # 1813Few tender ballads but a lot of exuberant comedy in songs about the beasts, the birds, and the bees.
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Fascinatin' Rhythm Program 1706I Do the Best I Can with What I've GotThe night stretches out but the years whiz by, and life happens to happen—parceled…