Every song tells a story
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VintageMusicConcerts trace musical, romantic & historic themes with
clever lyrics, memorable tunes & amusing anecdotes. Delighted adults
and seniors find their favorite tunes graced with wit and warmth, while
hosts say our themes are easy to promote.
Crooners, Swingers and Idols — Concert of hits & ballads popularized by heart-throb crooners, Rat Pack swingers & TV-dinner idols of 1950s & 1960s — hit songs for a generation that found pop music on record players, transistor radios, juke boxes, the movies & sock-hops in high school gyms.
Vintage Guitar Roadshow — One hundred years ago today's vintage acoustic guitars were new instruments. Program offers syncopated ragtime, early jazz & rhythmic swing from 1920s, 1930s & 1940s played on vintage acoustic guitars from the same era. You'll hear back-in-the-day tunes — most of them familiar — that people heard when musicians initially performed them as new music.
Poets of the Prairie — Concert explores impact of 20th Century's most talented musical artists – Midwesterners including Woody Guthrie, Gene Autry, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Jimmy Webb, and Canadians including Ian Tyson and Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell & Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Kingston Trio Redux — Concert of well-known, much-loved tunes by the most successful combo of the 1960s, a trio that stretched the pop music scene with their brand of folk, folk-rock, calypso and show tunes they performed in small clubs, coffee houses, colleges and hugely successful LPs.
The Moon, The Stars and You — Concert summons the moon and stars for romantic insight with such classics as Blue Moon, Pennies From Heaven, Fly Me To The Moon, As Time Goes By, Stars Fell On Alabama, Beyond The Sea, Stardust, Dream A Little Dream Of Me & I'll See You In My Dreams.
Roots of American Jazz — Concert of jazz hits heard for the first time in the late 1920s and early 1930s in speakeasies, saloons, juke joints, live on the radio and 78 rpm records crafted by popular and obscure cats — from Isham Jones, Ruth Etting and Bix Beiderbecke to Mildred Bailey, Bessie Smith, Rudey Vallée, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael.
MidCentury Melodies — Concert of pop music from 20th Century’s heart – songs by Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford, Vaughn Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Eydie Gormé, Patti Page, Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Dinah Washington and others.
She Did It Her Way — Concert honors lives, careers & tunes of female composers,
vocalists & pop recording artists of 1950s & 1960s. Program also touts previously unheralded songwriters, including Dorothy Fields, Claire Rothrock, Cindy Walker and Sadie Vimmerstedt.
He Did It His Way — Concert honors lives, careers & tunes of male song writers, pop vocalists and recording artists of 1950s & 1960s. Program also celebrates unheralded composers from Joe Kosma Bart Howard, Ned Washington and J.D. Loudermilk, to Johnny Black, Neil Moret & Richard Whiting.
My Achy Breaky Heart — Concert of tear-stained ballads, steamy pop standards and love-struck laments from the 1950s and 1960s written by N.Y., L.A. and Nashville songwriters for movie, folk, Broadway and country music fans. Everyone deserves an hour of musical heartburn.
Great American Cabaret — In 1950s and 1960s couples dated, dined & danced in cabarets, juke joints, hotel ballrooms and nightclubs with fine dining, live music & dance floors. We offer ballads, swing standards and pop hit tunes of jazz combos, saloon singers and dance bands.
Folk Song Boomers — Concert of the folk, protest, traditional & ethnic songs that were sing-along anthems, radio favorites and hit recordings for the post-WW II teenagers known as Baby Boomers.
Broadway
Song Mementos — Tunes that Great White Way producers used to push dramatic and comedic storylines,
tout ingénues, spur media publicity and draw extra income. Others chose sheet music sales, radio airplay, cast recordings, jukebox selections and conversion to feature movies.
Great American Songsters — Song and stories of the 20th Century composers, vocalists and musical scamps who spawned genres now known by their marketing monikers: jazz, folk, blues, Americana, swing, boogie-woogie, hokum, folk rock, country 'n western, and Brill Building pop.
Hollywood Souvenirs — Concert of
songs that enabled Hollywood moguls to capitalize on the background music and storyline tunes in
celluloid dramas, torrid romances & screwball comedies.
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