New Series Launches with 1951 Academy Award-Nominated Best Original Song “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” & 1961 Academy Award-Winning Best Original Song “Moon River.” Now Available on Bandcamp & Coming ...

This essay is part of a special project devoted to Willie Nelson where you’ll find more essays about the Red Headed Stranger, our new podcast “One by Willie,” an animated rendition of “On the Road ...

"How better to understand 20th century American history and culture than through its popular music? Music that, by all accounts, is some of the finest ever written, with beautiful melodies and ...

The so-called "Great American Songbook" is made up of popular songs that made your grandparents and parents dance. They were written for movies and Broadway musicals by composers like Rodgers and Hart ...

Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and Judy Garland are just a few artists who were standouts for singing music from what is called the Great ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Great American Songbook Foundation, known for preserving American music history, is facing funding uncertainty after the Institute of Museum and Library Services placed its ...

The American Songbook is an oasis. It draws artists who devote their lives to drinking from its well of timeless melody and deft lyric. It’s also a place where singer/songwriters who have hit a dry ...

Stars oft fade within their calendar lifetime; superstars influence the next generation; megastars are forever. So, in Songbook terms, ask musically literate people in the street who stars like Andy ...

At first, it sounds like a mistake: The opening notes are blurred, like something has gone a bit wrong in either the playing or the recording. But after a few bars, we realize that these bent tones ...

It’s often considered the low point in Frank Sinatra’s career: the moment the singer growled, “Hot dog, woof!” during a lecherous novelty song he cut in 1951 with the statuesque TV personality Dagmar.