A Salute to the Golden Age of American Popular Music

We salute the music from Broadway, Hollywood, New Orleans, Tin Pan Alley and the "melody makers;" i.e. the bands and singers that brought the music to us via the radio, recordings and live events in the period from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is the golden period of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, etc.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Writer to present Frank Sinatra program in New Jersey

International lecturer/presenter Rick Busciglio of Memory Lane Presentations (and The Great American Songbook blog writer) will offer "Frank Sinatra -- The Man and His Music" on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2 pm at the Sussex-Wantage Library in Wantage, New Jersey.


This audio/video presentation will cover Sinatra's life, starting with the early years in Hoboken, winning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, the Big Band years with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, his four marriages, the movies, the records, his friends, and some of the high and low career points of his life. There will be featured excerpts of 30 of Sinatra's greatest songs, including Night and Day, I've Got the World an a String, My Way and New York, New York.

Mr. Busciglio is a former broadcast executive, radio disk jockey, TV presenter and cruise entertainer. He involves the audience with his detailed stories and anecdotes of the many stars that he has worked with in his 45-year broadcast career. This program is sponsored by Friends of the Wantage Library.

It's free, but reservations are required. Call the library at (973) 875-3940 or visit its Web site. Location: near McCoy's Corner on Route 639, near the intersection of Rt 565 Wantage, New Jersey.

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