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.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Nancy Sinatra is 70 !

Oops...we failed to note Nancy Sinatra's birthday last week . On June 8, 1940: (singer/actress) Nancy Sandra Sinatra was born to Frank and Nancy Sinatra.


Young Nancy reports: "Dad was in Hollywood with the band (Tommy Dorsey) when I was born at Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City (New Jersey).
Already I was being prepared for having to share him with the rest of the world. It was the start of one of the themes of my life: a father who was always going away. But as Jo Stafford recalled, "He was so excited that all he did all night was talk about his new baby girl." Happy Belated Brthday Nancy!
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