The Songbook Blog
Spotlights, educational content, interviews and more from the Great American Songbook Foundation family!
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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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10/5/2022
How Johnny Mathis' "Heavenly" portrait was saved
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5/19/2022
Dick Schwartz shares his all-time favorite songs of the Great American Songbook in this blog series.
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3/23/2022
Writer Raj Tawney on his favorite song
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3/18/2022
Take a look at music and scripts used for Julie Andrews' tribute at the Kennedy Center Honors in the Songbook Library & Archives.
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