On the Town
Dads - on-screen, on-stage, and off
Mark talks to Jack Lemmon about doughnuts and drama
Easter Parade
Here's a special Steyn podcast on the most famous pop hit about Easter and its (sort of) centenary...
A Particular Place
A SteynOnline audio special, in which Mark makes a rare excursion into rock'n'roll to remember Chuck Berry
The Song Is Yule
Fifty years of Sinatra Christmas classics
On Stage with Sinatra
Mark talks to Frank's conductor and pianist during the Seventies and Eighties: Vincent Falcone
The Song Is You: Nice 'n' Easy
Alan Bergman, co-author of "The Way We Were" and "Windmills of Your Mind", talks to Mark about the songs he wrote for Sinatra...
The Song Is You episode six
Composers and lyricists tell the stories behind some of the great standards Sinatra sang...
The Song Is You episode five
Composers and lyricists tell the stories behind the songs Sinatra sang
The Song Is You episode two
Mark talks to the songwriters of "Tea For Two", "Almost Like Being In Love", "On A Clear Day" and "Willow, Weep For Me"
"Where Are You Working Next Week?"
Part Two of Mark's audio special with Frank Sinatra's longtime pianist and conductor Vincent Falcone Jr.
The Song Is You episode one
The first of a new audio series with Mark in conversation with great songwriters
Mark's Halloween Horror!
Yes, it's Steyn's night of horror. No, not his flight on United. That was just the warm-up.
Following his spooky interpretation of a 1970s rock classic for last Halloween, Mark thought he'd try something even scarier for this All-Hallows Eve. He's always wanted to do one of those 1980s rock videos - moody, menacing, monochrome, full of smoke and guitars. So click below and stand well back:
With a tip of the hat to Tweety, Sylvester ...and Sting.
For the backstory, see here.
For more, see here.
A Theme to a Kill
An encore presentation of Mark's audio salute to James Bond's music man, John Barry
WHAM!!!!!
The Avengers: Age of Ultron has opened, heralding the start of yet another superhero summer at the multiplex. Rick McGinnis writes about the age of the comic-book movie here, and I've expressed my disquiet about the damage to heroism that comes when you prefix it with "super-". But they're all that's keeping the big studios in business these days, and the new Avengers movie is likely to be one of the biggest-grossing of all time. Captain America, the Mighty Thor, Iron-Man... They're bringing in billions these days, for everyone but the fellows who drew them month-in month-out way back when. A successful novelist - the ones who are ostentatiously boycott PEN's Charlie Hebdo award, for example - gets big advances and lives very comfortably, ...
Billie Holiday: Don't Explain
Steyn marks the centenary of a great singer, born one hundred years ago today in Philadelphia
Ain't That A Kick - Sammy Cahn All The Way
2015 is Frank Sinatra's centenary year, which necessitates a few modifications to SteynOnline's music, film and entertainment coverage. Our official observances commence tomorrow when our Song of the Week department becomes a Song of the Semi-Week in order to squeeze in 100 Sinatra songs of the century between now and December. Several other folk seem to have opted for this approach, too - our old friend the Pundette has launched a dedicated Sinatra Centenary site for that very purpose - so we hope you'll have lots of finicky fun nitpicking through competing hit parades and demanding to know why this or that song hasn't made the list. Don't worry, we'll still make space for other musical content this year, not least because I need to come ...
Moment of Ecstasy
Steyn marks the centenary of screen siren and spread-spectrum siren Hedy Lamarr
One for the Road
Mark is in Chicago this weekend promoting his new book, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn. As we mentioned a week ago, Hugh Hewitt read it and said:
"Moon River and Me" @MarkSteynOnline '09 essay on Johnny Mercer alone worth the price of book...
Indiana Cole and his Temple of Tunes
Cole Porter died fifty years ago this week - October 15th 1964, in Santa Monica...
Beautiful Dolls and Only Girls
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, the conflict that gave us the modern world - Communist Russia, the post-Ottoman Middle East, Europe's loss of civilizational confidence. The catalyst for war was the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, which Mark noted here a month ago. In the weeks ahead, we'll be looking at some of World War One's cultural legacy, for good or ill. As a curtain-raiser, here's an encore presentation of a SteynOnline audio special, celebrating the British Tommies' favourite ballad of the war years, "If You Were The Only Girl In The World", and its composer Nat D Ayer.
Ayer was a two-hit wonder, with an ocean between them: "If You Were The Only Girl" was his British hit; his American hit from five years earlier was known to generations of Looney Tunes viewers for most of the next century - "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". This special podcast was first broadcast to mark the 100th birthday of "Beautiful Doll" in 2011...
Life is a Cabaret
Mark talks to Kander & Ebb, writers of Cabaret and Chicago - and recalls his own small place in their oeuvre
A Land Fit for Superheroes
...but whatever happened to non-super heroes?
And Then There Was One...
The last of the Mamas and Papas when all the leaves are brown...
Pajama Nights on Broadway
A SteynOnline audio special to mark the 60th birthday of The Pajama Game
Artie Shaw: Beginning the Beguine ...and Ending It
No sooner do we release the new eBook of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade than readers start bombarding me with demands to know where the audio book is. Well, here's the nearest to an audio excerpt from the book - a salute to Artie Shaw...
What Made Buddy Run?
Mark's centenary salute to Budd Schulberg, the Hollywood survivor who wrote What Makes Sammy Run?, On The Waterfront and Face In The Crowd...
PAUL SIMON, LONE TEEN RANGER
In lieu of our usual Song of the Week, we present a SteynOnline audio special: Mark talks to singer-songwriter Paul Simon - including a tour of Simon's boyhood neighborhood and a live performance of his very first song
PAUL SIMON: SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT THE MOON?
In Part Two of our audio special, Paul Simon talks to Mark about songwriting, demonstrates the original ska version of "Mother And Child Reunion", and muses on the alleged homosexual subtext of "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard"
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