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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Irving Berlin, the Marx Brothers, and Other Gentlemen Who Prefer Blondes
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
Music & Lyric by Irving Berlin
Introduced in London and first recorded by Joyce Barbour in R.S.V.P. (1926)
Introduced in America by Groucho Marx (as “Henry W. Schlemmer”) and chorus girls in The Cocoanuts (“...
Cliff Edwards & "Singin' in the Rain": Part 2 of 2
In his autobiography, Fred Astaire remembers how “Ukulele Ike stopped the show every night with “Fascinating Rhythm,’” in the 1924 Broadway show Lady, Be Good!. We have no film footage of that, alas, but we can watch Edwards stopping the sh...
Cliff Edwards & "Singin' in the Rain": Part 1 of 2
Cliff Edwards is hardly forgotten—just ask Donald Fagen. Still, he isn’t as widely acknowledged as he should be as a major pioneer and trendsetter of jazz and American pop music. There are at least three reasons why everyone should know his...
Stupid Band Tricks, Part 2: AI Edition
The original “Stupid Band Tricks” grew out of what I have also called “The Rock List” which I have been chuckling over for roughly 30 years already. (I still can’t remember who sent it to me to begin with — possibly Irwin Chusid?) I posted...
Bobby Darin at 90: "Artificial Flowers"
“Artificial Flowers”
Words by Sheldon Harnick
Music by Jerry Bock
Introduced by “Ron Husmann and The Parishioners* in the 1960 Broadway musical Tenderloin.
Recorded by Bobby Darin (Atco 45-6719)
Last Thursday, May 14, marked the 90...
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