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Episode # 21256/19 How They Wrote the Songs What’s the trick? How do they do it? Sometimes there’s no story at all. Somebody sat at a piano, wrote a song,…
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4/24 Episode #21-17 The Wit of Dorothy Fields The crackle of irreverence and intelligence set to the rhythms of everyday speech: that’s Dorothy Fields in…
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Episode #194912/7 Three Decades of Ballard MacDonald MacDonald moved successfully from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood, scattering hits along the…
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Episode #194611/16 Songs of Kalmar and Ruby Sometimes composer Harry Ruby worked with other lyricists. Sometimes lyricist Bert Kalmar worked with other…
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Episode #194411/2 Lew Brown, Co-Lyricist Lew Brown, who came to America as an immigrant from Russia, wrote a lot of hit songs, beginning in the 1920s.…
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Episode # 19246/15 One Damn Thing Of course most songs are about love, but romance in today’s songs is generally incidental. These are mostly list…