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2/22 Episode # 2008 Most catalogue songs are exercises in wit based on a single premise—“You’re the Top” or “Let’s Do It.” They’re about the songwriter’s…
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Episode # 19164/20 Billy Rose, Occasional Songwriter Sometimes Billy Rose wrote every word in a lyric. Sometimes he added or changed a single word.…
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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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If They’d Lived LongerProgram 1727George Gershwin died young, but he wasn’t the only important 20th century songwriter whose life and achievement were cut…