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New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations For Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from pannist Joy Lapps, a Carla Bley tribute by Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison & Ted Nash, the WJ3 All Stars, saxophonist Jean Fineberg, vocalist Sylvia Brooks plus a single from pianist Lauren Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Mary Osborne, lyricist Dorothy Fields, Phoebe Snow, Gayelynn McKinney, Akua Dixon, Lauren Sevian and Lauren Lee, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so ...
read moreLadies Don't Write Lyrics - Celebrating the Words of Dorothy Fields
by Mary Foster Conklin
The broadcast begins with several Dorothy Fields standards to celebrate her birthday. Although the daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields who coined the phrase That was no ladythat was my wife," he did not approve of her vocation, saying Ladies do not write lyrics." She retorted I'm no ladyI'm your daughter!" The rest is herstory. Also included are new releases from the Osmond Chapman Orchestra, plus singles from Brandee Younger with more birthday shoutouts to Phoebe Snow, Natalia M. King, ...
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