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NOW IN HARDBACK!
Mark's writing on one of his favorite lyricists and one of his favorite composers are now available with a Steyn classic on Cole Porter, Frank Sinatra and "I've Got You Under My Skin" - all together in one handsomely illustrated brand new hardcover book
Mark Steyn's
American Songbook
(also available with
musical accompaniment)
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A CARL SIGMAN CENTENARY SPECIAL |
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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Song of the Week #140
An audio medley by Carl Sigman
Among many other distinctions, Carl Sigman co-wrote "A Marshmallow World", my Christmas single with Jessica Martin from last year. So we could hardly not mark his centenary this week. We'll be observing the anniversary in our traditional format throughout the week, with a different song each day beginning tomorrow. But to kick things off we're doing something we've never done before: an audio edition of Song of the Week, featuring not just me and Jessica doing "Marshmallow World" but Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Placido Domingo, the Specials, the Andrews Sisters, Frankie Laine, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, the Righteous Brothers, Louis Prima, Cilla Black, Nat "King" Cole, and many others performing Carl Sigman songs, including "Pennyslvania 6-5000", the theme from Love Story, "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)", "It's All In The Game", "Arrivederci Roma", "Answer Me", "Ebb Tide", and a few curiosities from the more cobwebbed corners of my record collection.
You can get the podcast here - it's great fun, and you'll be singing along within seconds. And don't forget to join us every day for the rest of the week for a Carl Sigman Song of the Day. By the way, Carl's son Michael Sigman has his own centenary tribute to his dad over at the Huffington Post.
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Steyn’s Song of the WeekThursday, 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,... Read more... Steyn on PeopleTuesday, 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... Read more... Steyn on CultureWednesday, 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... Read more... Steyn on Stage and ScreenSaturday, 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... Read more... Steyn on BooksThursday, 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... Read more... Ave atque valeSunday, 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... Read more...
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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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By popular request: The book of the Song Of The Week!
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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