Miles Borocky
Familiar Face
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Listening to a radio program on Richard Rodgers last night--and delighting in all of those great Rodgers-Hart collaborations they played--I started to wonder what other TFL members highlight as their favorite Tin Pan Alley standards.
Me? I'm a sucker for the great songs of the 1930s, when songwriters, it seems, tried to will an American population out of the doldrums with a bevy of earnest, unstoppably happy songs: "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930); "Pennies from Heaven" (1936)... Lovely.
Or Cole Porter, especially lesser known Porter songs that evince his trademark world-weary sensibility-- "Allez Vous-En" is a favorite of this type.
Your thoughts?
Me? I'm a sucker for the great songs of the 1930s, when songwriters, it seems, tried to will an American population out of the doldrums with a bevy of earnest, unstoppably happy songs: "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930); "Pennies from Heaven" (1936)... Lovely.
Or Cole Porter, especially lesser known Porter songs that evince his trademark world-weary sensibility-- "Allez Vous-En" is a favorite of this type.
Your thoughts?