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15/11/2009

Russell Davies celebrates the art, craft and inspiration of the popular song.

Every Sunday Russell Davies presents the history of popular song, spotlighting its greatest exponents.

He focuses on top songwriters and composers like the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer, as well as some lesser-known names such as Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert; Ted Koehler, Walter Donaldson, Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin.

Russell features the artists who gave their songs wings: Fred Astaire, Ella, Bing, Peggy Lee, Sinatra, Julie London, The Mills Brothers, Boswell Sisters and many more. He pays birthday and centennial tributes, marks important deaths, and finds topical items that illuminate the subject in a variety of entertaining ways, with the occasional star interview.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 15 Nov 2009 21:00
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Mills Brothers

    Swing Is The Thing

    • Chronological Mills Brothers.
    • JSP.
    • JSP CD 304.

  • Doris Day & Andre Previn - Fools Rush In

  • Bing Crosby, Mary Martin & Jack Teagarden

    The Waiter & The Porter & The Upstairs Maid

    • Bing Crosby & Friends.
    • Vocalion.
    • CDUS 3000.

  • k.d. lang

    Skylark

    • Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil OST.
    • Malpaso.
    • 46829.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    I Wanna Be A Dancin' Man

    • Way Ahead Of The Game: Lyrics Of Johnny Mercer.
    • Black Box.
    • BBJ 2018.

  • Chris Connor

    Laura

    • Chris Connor 鈥� Classic.
    • Contemporary.
    • CCD 14023-2.

  • Lennie Niehaus

    I'm An Old Cowhand

    • Chronological Bing Crosby (March 鈥� July 1936).
    • Jonzo.
    • JZCD 18.

  • Sandy Stewart & Dick Hyman

    I'm Old Fashioned

    • Sandy Stewart Sings The Songs Of Jerome Kern.
    • Audiopphile.
    • ACD 205.

  • Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini

    Moon River

    • Permission For Use Granted By Mercer Estate, & Ginny Mancini Through Ken Barnes.

  • Daryl Sherman & Wycliffe Gordon

    The Bathtub Ran Over Again

    • Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Tribute.
    • Arbors Records.
    • ARCD 19388.

  • Billie Holiday with The Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Trav'lin' Light

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    My Shining Hour

    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook.
    • Verve.
    • 314 519 832-2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Nov 2009 21:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2