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.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Rosie meets Gershwin...Clooney sings "But Not For Me"


Here from a Jazz Festival in Japan is Rosemary Clooney singing one of the great love songs of The Great American Songbook.  The song is "But Not For Me," from George and Ira Gershwin. Rosemary's home on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills  (now demolished) had been the last home of George Gershwin (circa 1937). Her next door neighbor was George's brother, and lyricist, Ira. One of her best CD's is the "Songs of Ira Gershwin."
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