Recent Posts Tagged With 'musicals'

• Happy Birthday Harold Arlen: The Man that Got Away

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 18:36 in music, movies, musicals, judy garland, musical theater, harold arlen, the man that got away

  Harold Arlen was born and named Chaim Arlook on February 15th 1905 in Buffalo New York. His father was a cantor in a local synagogue. He changed his name to Harold Arlen after he began to have a bit of success as a singer and pianist in New York in t...

• Judy Garland: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 20:41 in music, Film, movies, musicals, judy garland, liza minelli, have yourself a merry little christmas

  Judy Garland debuted the song Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas in the 1944 film Meet Me In St. Louis. The song has undergone two major changes in lyrics, first at the insistence of Garland’s and the film’s director, Vincente Minnel...

• Bing Crosby: Brother Can You Spare A Dime?

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 12:36 in jazz, musicals, broadway, show tunes, brother can you spare a dime, e y harburg, george gershwyn, jay gorney

  In 1929 E.Y.”Yip” Harburg was a co-owner of the Consolidated Electrical Appliance Company. He wrote poetry, which was sometimes published in the local newspapers. After the stock market crash Harburg was unemployed and $50,000 in debt. H...

• Al Jolson: Dirty Hands Dirty Face

  Posted on Saturday July 26th, 2008 at 19:49 in musicals, the jazz singer, talkies, blackface, al jolson

  The clip below is a scene from The Jazz Singer, the first feature film “talkie,” which was written for and starred Al Jolson, who was one of the biggest stars of Broadway at the time. It was released in 1927. Al Jolson was born in Lithuan...