WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Everything Old is New Again - Again!

Sat, Sep 14, 2024 6:00 AM

FRED ASTAIRE, JEFF HARNAR, STACEY KENT & MORE

This Week on Everything Old Is New Again we kick-off our 46th Fall Season featuring the music of

Fred Astaire

Some of the songs from his career that we will hear:

Isn’t This A Lovely Day
Cole Porter’s After You Who?
Fascinating Rhythm in duet with Adele Astaire and George Gershwin on piano
Sweet Sorrow (Fred Astaire / Gladys Shelley)
of course, Top Hat, White Tie And Tails, Let’s Face The Music And Dance, A Couple Of Swells
And MORE!

We’ll Listen to Four Renditions of Things Are Looking Up

music by George Gershwin & lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Damsel In Distress with performances by:

Hal Kemp & His Orchestra with Bob Allen on the vocal
Fred Astaire with The RKO Studio Orchestra conducted by Victor Baravelle
Daryl Sherman
Queen Esther

Album Pick of the Week:

Jeff Harnar Sings Sammy Cahn - The Second Time Around

Catch Jeff on September 13th & 14th at The Pheasantry, London  &  on October 7th at the Birdland Theater NYC

You Must Remember This 
Previously Released Albums to Keep In Mind:

Stacey Kent - Let Yourself Go - Celebrating Fred Astaire

Kicking off our coverage of the Fall ’24 Music Scene with an interview with Frank Dain, Editor-In-Chief of Cabaret Scenes Magazine!

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