David Alpern, JazzVoice.org member and former host of For Your Ears Only (previously Newsweek On Air) has been interviewing vocalists for many years. He wanted to share additional favorites with us!
CABARET CONNECTIONS
ANDREA MARCOVICCI, actress, "Queen of Cabaret" and recording artist (“What is Love”, "Sings Movies," “I’ll Be Seeing You”, "Just Kern" and more)
-- on her CD retrospective and longest-ever Fall run (16 weeks) at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room cabaret, NYC -- at 43:20
-- on the "I Am Anne Frank" show and CD she inspired, with lyricist ENID FUTTERMAN and GRAYSON COVIL, director of the NYC Anne Frank Center -- at 40:00
-- on Music and Madness, with Linda Dahl, author of "Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle" (University of Michigan Press) --
-- on "Skylark: A JOHNNY MERCER Centennial" at New York's Algonquin Hotel Oak Room -- at 35:06
-- on MABEL MERCER and BOBBY SHORT -- at 27:42
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PERFECTLY FRANK, following SINATRA's death, with singer/actress/ producer TINA SINATRA, his daughter; cabaret star ANDREA MARCOVICCI; novelist/critic/music historian WILFRID SHEED, Grammy winner for liner notes on Sinatra's Columbia recordings; Shawn Levy, author of "Rat Pack Confidential" -- at 35:23
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STEVE ROSS, "Crown Prince" of International Cabaret
-- on the Golden Age of American Song and "The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty," by WILFRID SHEED
-- on "The Master," NOEL COWARD, his “Coward Off-the-Record" CD and an exhibit at the New York Public Library/Lincoln Center -- at 27:30
-- with singer KAREN OBERLIN on the faux film romance of FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER ROGERS, celebrated in their show "Cheek to Cheek" at the 54 Below cabaret, NYC -- at 35:21
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KT SULLIVAN, cabaret star, Mabel Mercer Foundation artistic director, on lady lyricists and her "Rhyme, Women and Song" show at The Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel, NYC - at 35:27
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MARGARET WHITING, cabaret and recording artist, daughter of songwriter RICHARD WHITING ("Moonlight in Vermont," "Too Marvelous for Words," "Hooray for Hollywood," many more with JOHNNY MERCER and others)
--as recalled by cabaret star KT Sullivan, at 35:07
--as recalled by daughter Debbi Whiting, co-host of Mabel Mercer Foundation tribute concert, “It Might As Well Be Spring,” Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, (212) 247-7800 and -- at 35:25
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AMANDA McBROOM, singer/songwriter ("The Rose" and many more)
-- on songs to steer by in her show "Strange Days" at The Metropolitan Room, NYC -- at 19:29
-- on her show “A Valentine Rose” at Café Carlyle, NYC -- at 35:26
-- with her husband, stage and screen veteran GEORGE BALL, on release of his first solo CD, “Think of Me” (LML Music), and appearances at the Catalina Jazz Club, Hollywood; and the 54 Below supper club, NYC --
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MARK NADLER, singer/pianist/arranger
--on new trends in pop culture 50 years before, as explored in his “CRAZY 1961” show at The Laurie Beechman Theater, NYC -- at 27:25
-- on the songs of 1935, celebrated in his show "A Very Good Year," with the New York Pops, for the 75th anniversary of Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts -- at 35:07
-- on "Runnin' Wild: Songs and Scandals of the Roaring Twenties," his show at the 54 Below supper club, NYC -- at 35:12
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NANCY LAMOTT, cabaret singer and recording artist, recollected by songwriter DAVID FRIEDMAN, also her producer, and accompanist/music director CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Thank YOU for the opportunity, Alexis. One last group coming soon.
Thanks so much @david.ears.only for posting these great interviews!