Tag: James Gavin
Bart Howard
May/June 2015 BART HOWARD by Rob Lester He said that “the song poured out of” him “in twenty minutes,” but it sure has lasted: “Fly Me to the Moon” put composer-lyricist Bart Howard on the map with just that one audience-pleaser. Successful both as an uptempo number and its original setting as a romantic ballad, […]
Lena Horne
June 2009 LENA HORNE On nightclub stages, on records, on Broadway and on the screen, Lena Horne has long been on top and on target. Turning 91 this month, her glow and glamour remain, her influence and stardom monumental. She was last on disc embracing songs of friend Billy Strayhorn. (His biographer, David Hadju, told […]
Peggy Lee and the American Popular Songbook by James Gavin
Like all defense mechanisms, fantasizing has its positive and negative aspects.
