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This week, the bad piano player assays the great lyricist Lorenz "Larry" Hart. Why did we wait so long? Because his composer-partner was Richard Rodgers, who is also featured. Please enjoy our look at Rodgers & Hart.
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Can the Bad Piano Player do an episode on 60's songs without doing The Beatles? As it turns out, yes he can! Right now this week!
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As a boy, the Bad Piano Player loved going to the movies, so this week, he's featuring six songs written for movies, from 1929 to 1965. Composers, plot lines, and some of the usual suspects! Tune in!
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The Bad Piano Player returns to his roots this week with an episode of Jazzy 1940s torch songs. Well, okay, most of them are torch songs, certainly enough to burn this baby down. And kids, please don't play with matches.
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This week, the Bad Piano Player revisits musicals of the past for some great song and great memories. Musicals you'll remember, songs you might not.
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This week, the Bad Piano Player goes on strike for better working conditions. He holds up a sign saying MORE DOWNLOADS, as we explore the history of Union Songs and Socialist music in America in the last two centuries.
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This week, the bad piano player goes back in time, revisiting a songbook from his boyhood piano. Robbins Mammoth Book of World Famous Songs.
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This week, The Bad Piano Player goes modern again with the poet, singer, guitarist, songwriter, Buddhist and Montrealer, the mystical Leonard Cohen. "Go by brooks, love..."
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This week, the Bad Piano Player takes a third dive into Harry Warren while saluting his longtime number one fan. 2
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This week, the Bad Piano Player plucks a gem of a lyricist from the royal palace of Madagascar as we feature the great Andy Razaf and his wonderful composer partners, Fats Waller included.
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This week, the Bad Piano Player finally gets around to Burton Lane, last of the Gershwin acolytes. Six songs so hard we had to bring in a good pianist for the last one. Enjoy!
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This week, the Bad Piano Player goes over the amazing career of Dorothy Fields, the first woman ever enshrined in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
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This week, the bad piano player will be featuring lyricist Mort Dixon. What? You've never heard of him? Well then you'd better tune in, because he's AWESOME.
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A little more than a year after his first foray into the melodic stylings of Hoagy Carmichael, the Bad Piano Player returns for a second bite at this perfect Indiana apple.
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This week, the Bad Piano Player rights a great wrong by finally getting around to the father of country music, as we feature Jimmie Rodgers. The Just Okay Singer will be along, as well as our new guest, The Bad Yodeler. Enjoy!
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The Bad Piano Player liked the pre-1920 music from last week so much, that he decided to do a whole episode of pre-1920 music, including two songs on either side of World War I. Set a spell, take your shoes off...
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Finally, at episode 57, the Bad Piano Player assays the great George M. Cohan. Why did he wait so long? Tune in to find out!
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This week, the bad piano player tackles Harry Woods, a virtually unknown songwriter who wrote at least five standards, including "Side By Side".
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This week, the Bad Piano Player takes a second dive into the impressive catalog of Sam Stept, including his most famous song, and several of his not-so-famous songs. Don't sit where?
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This week, the Bad Piano Player dives back into his file of female composers and lyricists. The famous and the not-so-famous. See what the girls in the back room are having and tell them I'm not having the same.
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