The Big Town
Songbook
The New York Daily
News has a great music feature called the Big Town Songbook which
"Celebrates New York's Musical Heritage". They have an archive on their
web site of all the articles. The pieces are short but they cover an
incredibly wide range of musical topics. I guarantee that as much as you
think you know about music, you will learn something from this fine
series of articles. They cover everything from depression era songs to
the New York Dolls. Here is an index of each story in the series that
will link straight to it's location on the Daily News web site. Make
sure you pick up a copy of the Daily News the next time you are in New
York, it's a great paper.
Not selling out Pop goes Blondie, 1979
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Victory ensemble Roarin'
Columbia, 1934
By MIKE SANTANGELO
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Something to join: The Junkie
Choir
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Play it again: Herman
Hupfeld's greatest hit
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Toy, joy, oi: worst baseball
song ever written
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Root root root: The great
baseball song
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Suavecito
By BRIAN KATES
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Mark Hellinger's Broadway,
1926
By MARK HELLINGER
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Hard knocks: The Richard
Craze, 1947
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Light up the sky
By JAY MAEDER
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Unexplored territory: Whiteman
on Gershwin
By BEN GROSS
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Turning into history: the
birth of network radio, 1926
Ben Gross
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Maybe if it had some lyrics: A
Century of Star Dust
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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State of mind
By MARA BOVSUN
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The right kind of war songs:
Loesser and Rodger 1945
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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beyond the copyright laws:
Buchanan and Goodman
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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The word guy: George's Brother
Ira
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Pre-fab: Peter, Paul and Mary
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Point man: Max Fleischer and
the bouncing ball
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Doomed girl brings glow to
city
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
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Man out of time
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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The running meter Harry Chapin
in the mirror
By PATRICK FENTON
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Undead Political question at
the Garden, 1943
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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Not really about music: Kiss
BY MARA BOVSUN
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Long player: Inventing urban
contemporary, 1975
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Statistically small change
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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Not the national anthem: Nah
Nah The Goodbye Song
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Into the red: The official
arrival of rock 'n' roll, 1955
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Rewrite at Holiday Inn: Irving
Berlin's Easter Song
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Sweets for the sweet: The
Archies
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Next theatrical trend: Hair
BY MARA BOVSUN
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Waiting to sing: The Legacy of Doris Troy
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Slogging through hell: Depressive sorbidity, 1932
By
FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
MacINTYRE
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Wonderful world: Blowing over Pops, 1971
By JAY MAEDER
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Latent power Marian Anderson at Town Hall
By
KAREN CHAPMAN
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Some Time in New York
City: John Lennon's Town
No byline
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Masculine charms
The Village People
By MARA BOVSUN
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Teen spirit Frankie Lymon's Good Times
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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True red Shostakovich trapped in New York, 1949
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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The way you're supposed to be The New York Dolls
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Jack Benny at Carnegie Hall, 1959
BY ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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Bye bye blackbird Burying Florence Mills, 1927
By JAY MAEDER
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Reindeer games Rudolph for Christmas
By MARA BOVSUN
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Tony Bennett
wins the argument, 1986
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Wide open Getting a little tenderloin
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
MacINTYRE
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Adam Sandler
writes something for Jewish kiddies
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Over there again War returns to Tin Pan Alley, 1941
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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War Comes to
Carnegie Hall, Dec. 1941
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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The history of rap in the city, Part four of six
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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The history of
rap in the city, Part three of six
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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The history of
rap in the city, Part two of six
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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The history of rap in the city
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Man out of time
John Kirby
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Emergence of new urges, summer 1956
By JAY MAEDER
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Getting together
in a moment's sunlight, 1969
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Leadbelly takes Manhattan, 1935
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Dean and Jerry
and the Copa Crowd, 1948
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Love Boat Merry
on the Ferry, 1939
By MIKE SANTANGELO
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Alice and Arlo and Thanksgiving at Carnegie Hall
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Back in town The transformation of MacHeath
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Change in plans Roxy's wondrous musical hall
By JAY MAEDER
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Faint lavender The Jolson story
By JAY MAEDER
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Not 100% Billy Joel salutes America, 2002
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Something about
his voice The lost balladeer
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Knock on wood
Jacksons at the Apollo, 1967
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Top of the world
The Apollo
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Massuh
watches the fun and misses the point
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Mobile radio
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Social extermination Being seen at the opera, 1883
By KAREN CHAPMAN
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Mother's Day Cissy Houston up top
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
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Hole in the wall
The crummiest shrine in the world
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Firestorm Incident
at the Stork Club, 1951
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Jimmy Walker goes
into the record business, 1945
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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No Jolt Fried Neil
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Wonderbar Thirty dollar Yiddish song
By PATRICK FENTON
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The gift Concert in
the park, 1983
By JAY MAEDER
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Yes, I can do it'
Roberta Peters Zings, 1950
By BRIAN KATES
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The old song and
dance Al and Ruby
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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The honker King
Curtis
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Deadly aim Sinatra
at the Paramount, 1944
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Hit by lightning
Incident at CCNY, 1991
By JAY MAEDER
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No white gloves The
Shangri-Las
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Dorothy Dandridge
plays the Waldorf, 1955
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Swamp of
opportunity Songwriters at the fair
BY ELLIOT ROSENBERG
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Happy hour At
ground level with Lovin' Dan
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Hot little
number Rosalind Elias gets a tattoo, 1961
By BRIAN KATES
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Living in America
Black 47
By PATRICK FENTON
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Benny Goodman at
Carnegie Hall, 1938
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Overnight
sensation: "Make Mine Manhattan," 1948
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
MacINTYRE
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Marketing target,
Teens and their zines
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Eclipsing the waltz
Polite society discovers polka, 1844
By DAVID HINCKLEY
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Good fellowship
Radio City hails Leningrad, 1942
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