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Steyn’s Song of the Week

ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD)

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Johnny Mercer Song of the Day by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer This week saw Johnny Mercer's one hundredth birthday, but we're continuing the celebrations to the end of the month here at SteynOnline. You can hear part one of our centenary podcast here, and read my anniversary appreciation here. Plus,...

Steyn on People

MOON RIVER AND HIM

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Today - November 18th - would have been Johnny Mercer's one hundredth birthday. You can hear part one of our centenary podcast here, and also read my thoughts on Goody Goody, Blues In The Night, Hooray For Hollywood, and Midnight Sun. But this is what I have to say about Mercer...

Steyn on Culture

HUMBUG

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Jim Treacher asks, "Guess who hates capitalism now?" The first guy to make $20 million for saying words & making faces in front of a camera. True. Jim Carrey , currently starring as Scrooge in the not-quite-as-boffo-as-it-should-be new version of A Christmas Carol, opines: “I was thinking about it this morning, how this...

Steyn on Stage and Screen

YOU CAN SING MOST ANYTHING

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Fifty years ago - November 16th 1959 - The Sound Of Music opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and, with it, the most successful partnership in theatre history came to a close. A few months later, Oscar Hammerstein was dead, and Richard Rodgers found himself the lone survivor of...

Steyn on Books

PAYING FOR OUR SINS

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Seven and a half years ago, a girls’ school in Mecca caught ﬁre. Many of the pupils were able to escape the burning building, but unfortunately they ran straight into the hands of the mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s “religious police,” who flayed them for having fled the conflagration without first putting...

Ave atque vale

FOOTNOTES AND FOOTSTOOLS

Sunday, 08 November 2009

HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review I was overseas when Senator Edward Kennedy died, and a European reporter asked me what my “most vivid memory” of the great man was. I didn’t like to say, because it didn’t seem quite the appropriate occasion. But my only close encounter with the Lion of...

THE STEYNONLINE HIT PARADE

Mark's most popular Songs of the Week

1) HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1944)

2) TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1908)

3) SOLILOQUY (from Carousel) (1945)

4) THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC (1862)

5) EDELWEISS (1959)

6) BUTTONS AND BOWS (1947)

7) AUTUMN LEAVES (1945)

8) SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (1933)

9) THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (1939)

10) GUESS WHO I SAW TODAY (1952)

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A SONG FOR THE SEASON

From Auld Lang Syne to White Christmas via My Funny Valentine, Easter Parade, Summertime, Autumn Leaves - plus songs for St Patrick's Day, baseball season, Father's Day, Halloween, and never before published essays on Ain't Misbehavin', Loch Lomond and more:
A musical year with Mark!
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