Consider the following bits of text: “Doe, a deer, a female deer,” “Oh, what a beautiful morning!”, “We’ll have Manhattan,” “Some enchanted evening.” Unless you are wholly ignorant of popular music before the Beatles, you will not be able to read those words without hearing in your head the music that drapes them as perfectly…
American Treasures: The Songs of Richard Rodgers
Today many think of Broadway musicals as esoteric or effete, but from the 1920s through the 1960s, they were mainstream popular entertainment, spinning off hit songs recorded by stars like Bing Crosby and Judy Garland. My Uncle Keith, for example, was a tough Army vet, a man’s man, yet he loved musical theater. When we…
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