The Songbook Blog
Spotlights, educational content, interviews and more from the Great American Songbook Foundation family!
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6/15/2023
In May, I, the Songbook Foundation’s Music Librarian, finished processing a large collection that I’d been working on for over six months. The Richard Himber Collection of about 1500 musical arrangements came to us in March 2022.
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3/15/2023
Check back for new hidden gems found in the Songbook Archives!
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3/1/2023
International Women's Day is a day to celebrate women. So let's celebrate songstresses of the Songbook!
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3/1/2023
This blog explores the music and moments of American Songbook history from women who have have made a permanent impact on music and American culture over the past century. Today we celebrate the women of the Songbook in honor of Women's Equality Day.
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3/1/2023
We've searched the shelves of the Songbook Foundation library housed in our Archives and selected some of our favorite books for Women's History Month.
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1/19/2023
Ella Sings the Songbook focuses on a celebrated series of eight albums recorded for Verve Records in the 1950s and '60s, when the respected jazz singer took a new and highly successful direction...
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1/19/2023
There is no American social movement of the 20th or 21st century more closely connected to music than the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
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12/1/2022
Explore the Songbook Foundation's collection of holiday artifacts from Christmas specials to a snow globe gifted to Rosemary Clooney from Irving Berlin.
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12/1/2022
Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” is not only the most popular holiday song of all time, but holds the title of the best-selling single, with 50 million recordings sold.
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12/1/2022
Ray Charles, affectionately known at the Songbook Foundation as the “other” Ray Charles, was an arranger who served as the music director of many beloved holiday television specials hosted by Bing Crosby, the Carpenters and Perry Como
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12/1/2022
Within the bountiful boxes of arrangements from the Andy Williams collection are complete orchestrations from his popular televised Christmas specials.
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12/1/2022
Natalie Cole’s inspiration for her 1994 holiday album Holly & Ivy came from her father's masterpiece The Magic of Christmas (1960)
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