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November 9, 2016 (November 9, 2016)

Sa-lute! to The Man That Got Away

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UIP author Walter Rimler has won the Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the pop music field for his book The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of […]

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June 17, 2016 (June 16, 2016)

Feel the Magic, Sing the Song

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Whatever happened to love? If you think there’s not enough of it in this old world, don’t blame Barry Manilow. Born on this day in 1943, he arrived on an […]

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February 24, 2016 (February 23, 2016)

The composer and the Scarecrow

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Harold Arlen composed some of the great classics of the Great American Song Book including “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Blues in the Night,” “Stormy Weather,” and, of the Wizard […]

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September 21, 2015 (September 22, 2015)

The Man That Got Away

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Harold Arlen wrote the soundtrack to long nighttime walks on wet streets, to the staring contests we hold with memory out of the windows of our lonely room, to the melancholy […]

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