The Songbook Blog
Spotlights, educational content, interviews and more from the Great American Songbook Foundation family!
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11/21/2023
Dick Schwartz shares his all-time favorite songs of the Great American Songbook in this blog series.
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11/10/2023
The story of America's unofficial anthem.
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9/26/2023
"Gershwin’s music was as influenced by his own Jewish heritage and his well-documented humble beginnings. His career highlights the evolution of a very personal songwriting style."
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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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