Slouching Towards Birdland (Will Friedwald's SubStack)
Will Friedwald, Elizabeth Zimmer, MuchoMusic from Dan FortuneWill Friedwald's Substack - covering mostly music (primarily jazz and the Great American Songbook) but also theater, film, fiction, comics, Muppets, and other aspects of popular culture.
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Johnny Mercer Confidential: “Laura” (part 2)
“Laura”
Music by David Raksin
Lyric by Johnny Mercer
Introduced instrumentally as the theme from the 1944 Otto Preminger film Laura
Introduced vocally by …. See below!
Special thanks to Nick Rossi for helping with this column an...
Johnny Mercer Confidential: “Laura” (part 1)
“Laura”
Music by David Raksin
Lyric by Johnny Mercer
Introduced instrumentally as the theme from the 1944 Otto Preminger film Laura
Introduced vocally by …. See below!
Special thanks to Nick Rossi for helping with this column an...
Memories of MAD: “If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics”
Does anyone remember a time when Mad magazine was the purveyor of the hippest satire around? At its height, in the late 1950s and early 1960s (as well as in the earlier comic book iteration) Mad was far hipper than either The National L...
70 YEARS AGO: Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, & Louis Armstrong—Two Days (and one night) in Los Angeles that shook the jazz world
Quite possibly the ballgame that Nat and Sweets attended on the evening of August 15, 1956, before they recorded the first session of AFTER MIDNIGHT. This was roughly two years before the Dodgers (and their stadium) came to Los Angeles, but...
FLYING HOME! Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller: Fathers of Vocalese?
This time special thanks to the very great Mark Cantor, as well as to Michael Lavine for finding the “Flying Home” (Sid Robin edition) sheet music, and as usual to Elizabeth Zimmer, Daniel Weinstein & Nick Rossi. Yes!
Okay, the titl...
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