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Episode #204811/28 In the Kitchen Songs set in the living room? Sure. The bedroom? Definitely. But the kitchen, too? You bet. Attitudes toward women, sex,…
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Episode #204711/21 Women on the Edge Most of these songs feature a woman speaking for herself. Sometimes she faces things and sometimes she faces things…
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Episode #204611/14 Early Cole Porter Cole Porter dropped out of Harvard Law School to write songs for Broadway musicals. He failed so utterly that he fled…
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Episode 204511/7 Charm Songs Talk about a ballad or a plot song or a character song or a production number, and people are with you. Say Charm Song and…
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Episode #2043There’s ragtime and there are ragtime songs, the blues and blues songs, waltzes and waltz songs. And there are marches and march songs. A…
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Program #2039 (repeat of #1728 ) Yip Harburg wrote love songs but used his irreverent way of playing with words to avoid the obvious.
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Episode # 2037Everything jumped in the ‘40s when hepcats jitterbugged from Harlem to the Avalon Ballroom.
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Episode # 2035 Mark Twain’s AmericaTom Sawyer and Huck Finn are in America’s DNA. Tom is a book for boys, Huck for adults, yet neither shrinks from the…
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Episode # 2034 Bolero on RyeFood isn’t the most common reference in song lyrics, but it does keep showing up, often in odd and unpredictable ways. You…
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Episode # 2033 Not Your Everyday Rain SongsSongwriters aren’t necessarily great innovators, but the good ones have a gift for reinventing the familiar.…