Not selling out Pop goes Blondie, 1979
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Victory ensemble Roarin'
Columbia, 1934
By MIKE SANTANGELO
----------------------------------------------------
Something to join: The Junkie
Choir
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Play it again: Herman
Hupfeld's greatest hit
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Toy, joy, oi: worst baseball
song ever written
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Root root root: The great
baseball song
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Suavecito
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Mark Hellinger's Broadway,
1926
By MARK HELLINGER
----------------------------------------------------
Hard knocks: The Richard
Craze, 1947
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Light up the sky
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Unexplored territory: Whiteman
on Gershwin
By BEN GROSS
----------------------------------------------------
Turning into history: the
birth of network radio, 1926
Ben Gross
----------------------------------------------------
Maybe if it had some lyrics: A
Century of Star Dust
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
State of mind
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
The right kind of war songs:
Loesser and Rodger 1945
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
beyond the copyright laws:
Buchanan and Goodman
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The word guy: George's Brother
Ira
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Pre-fab: Peter, Paul and Mary
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Point man: Max Fleischer and
the bouncing ball
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Doomed girl brings glow to
city
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Man out of time
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The running meter Harry Chapin
in the mirror
By PATRICK FENTON
----------------------------------------------------
Undead Political question at
the Garden, 1943
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Not really about music: Kiss
BY MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Long player: Inventing urban
contemporary, 1975
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Statistically small change
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Not the national anthem: Nah
Nah The Goodbye Song
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Into the red: The official
arrival of rock 'n' roll, 1955
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Rewrite at Holiday Inn: Irving
Berlin's Easter Song
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Sweets for the sweet: The
Archies
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Next theatrical trend: Hair
BY MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Waiting to sing: The Legacy of Doris Troy
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Slogging through hell: Depressive sorbidity, 1932
By
FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Wonderful world: Blowing over Pops, 1971
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Latent power Marian Anderson at Town Hall
By
KAREN CHAPMAN
----------------------------------------------------
Some Time in New York
City: John Lennon's Town
No byline
----------------------------------------------------
Mobile radio
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Social extermination Being seen at the opera, 1883
By KAREN CHAPMAN
----------------------------------------------------
Mother's Day Cissy Houston up top
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Hole in the wall
The crummiest shrine in the world
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Firestorm Incident
at the Stork Club, 1951
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Walker goes
into the record business, 1945
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
No Jolt Fried Neil
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Wonderbar Thirty dollar Yiddish song
By PATRICK FENTON
----------------------------------------------------
The gift Concert in
the park, 1983
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Yes, I can do it'
Roberta Peters Zings, 1950
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
The old song and
dance Al and Ruby
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The honker King
Curtis
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Deadly aim Sinatra
at the Paramount, 1944
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Hit by lightning
Incident at CCNY, 1991
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
No white gloves The
Shangri-Las
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Dorothy Dandridge
plays the Waldorf, 1955
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Swamp of
opportunity Songwriters at the fair
BY ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Happy hour At
ground level with Lovin' Dan
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Hot little
number Rosalind Elias gets a tattoo, 1961
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Living in America
Black 47
By PATRICK FENTON
----------------------------------------------------
Benny Goodman at
Carnegie Hall, 1938
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Overnight
sensation: "Make Mine Manhattan," 1948
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Marketing target,
Teens and their zines
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Eclipsing the waltz
Polite society discovers polka, 1844
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Good fellowship
Radio City hails Leningrad, 1942
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Career move, The
Sugar Ray Robinson Show
By BILL GALLO
----------------------------------------------------
Near future: Jimi'S
lady, 1970
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Cracking the code
Billy Strayhorn
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Frantic, Harry the
Hipster
By CHRIS ERIKSON
----------------------------------------------------
American soundtrack
Tin Pan Alley goes to war, 1917
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Flo and Anna and
the 1907 Follies
BY JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Tweet dreams (Part
2 of 2) Whistlers of the city
BY MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Tweet dreams
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Cautionary Tale
Springsteen and Diallo
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Andrew Carnegie and
the Philharmonic
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
When beer was beer
and jingles were jingles
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Mitch Miller and
the public taste
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The Yellow Rose of
New York
No byline
----------------------------------------------------
Hucklebuckin' all night
long
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Potential of Blues
Black Swan
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Silenced drum Chano
Pozo's last brawl
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Night flock The Rev.
Gensel's Jazz Ministry
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Anesthetizing the
masses A Little Elevator Music
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Stephen Foster, Charity Patient
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Absence of clack The
Philharmonic and the Riffraff
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Swell tunes an'
everything: Ragtime Jimmy
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Skitch Henderson's New
York Pops
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Curtis Mayfield at
Wingate Field, 1990
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
George Gershwin goes to
Hollywood
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
America's No. 1
recording artist, 1900-1920
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Leonard Bernstein Conducting, November
1943
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Roar of the crowd
Victor Herbert's Neighbors, 1912
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Play it again: Herman
Hupfeld's Greatest Hits
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Unchained melodies A
Little Sedition Music, 1734
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
No blackout on music
Philharmonic at war
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Looking at hell No
Nukes, 1979
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
True Confessions Irving
Berlin and the Shiksa, 1926
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Headliner Sam Cooke
at the Copa, 1964
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Boys and Girls Together
Down at Coney Isle
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Hearts full as glasses
Federal Song and Drink, 1788
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The Classicist and the
Bobby Soxers, 1944
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
The Mayor of Central
Park, 1933
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Ruthless ambition
The House That Nanette Built
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Hot wax trax The
Billboard charts
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Howard Cosell Recaptures the
Magic, 1975
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Anger and love Sing
Out! and the folk argument
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Happy in her work
Florence Foster Jenkins
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Palisades Park, 1930s
-1970s Part Two of Two
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Palisades Park,
1890s-1930s Part One of Two
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Part of the land
'Skyscraper,' 1965
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
A good concert room
Building Philharmonic Hall, 1846
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
The Ballad of
Washington Square, Spring 1961
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Heartbreak songs The
chanteuse that time forgot
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Self-portrait Bob
Dylan invites himself
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Divinity Bette of
the baths
By SHANTI GOLD
----------------------------------------------------
Bongs bursting in air
The NBC Chimes
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Bundled with plot
Carnegie Hall: The Movie
By
ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Old violins Alberta
Hunter
By JERE HESTER
----------------------------------------------------
On the mall Edwin
Franko Goldman
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Truth in packaging Joe
Franklin
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Laughing out loud Happiness and George W. Johnson
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The hotel with the hyphenated name
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Same old stand Pennsylvania
6-5000
By MIKE SANTANGELO
----------------------------------------------------
Proper young ladies
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
The voices within
Tiny Tim
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Tidal wave Alan
Freed and the Suburban Living Room
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
banjo tunes
The Virginia Minstrels - Part 2 of
2
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Daddy Rice and the
original Jim Crow
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Gilbert and Sullivan
in New York, 1879
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
The kid on the couch
Phil Spector's New York
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Writing records
Leiber and Stoller
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Ungodly Directions
100 Years of Fats Waller
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Everything can
change New York minute, 9-11-01
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Wheels that hum The
Magic Train of Dreams, 1961
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE
----------------------------------------------------
How good can it get
The Rascals
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
No sideways Living
large at the opera
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Peace and unity The
American-Soviet Music Society
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Play-a de music When
organ grinders ground
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Only game in town Rosalie Allen country
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
A tale of two lost
cellos
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Turnover Switching
Drifters, 1958
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Not ready for prime
time Elvis Comes to Town, 1955
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Big talk The Day the
Music Died, 1982
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Bump 'em right back
Subway sonata, 1912
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Looking for an echo
The Crests
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------Clay Cole's clean teens, 1960
By
DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
When New York wasn't
ready for opera, 1833
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
The Philharmonic's
Lincoln Concert, 1865
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Hit parade The
Jackie Robinson Song, 1949
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Reminder of excellence Fiorello's Pet
Project
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Battlefront Witchcraft at the Opera,
1994
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Brothers Simon and Garfunkel and
Goodman
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Being a Belmont The Guys
Behind
Dion
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Fatal pages Death at the Met, 1960
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Brooklyn Kid The Alan Dale Story
By PATRICK FENTON
----------------------------------------------------
To get to the other side Jingling for
jaywalkers
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Devil's own night A hick on the Bowery
By MIKE SANTANGELO
----------------------------------------------------
Must know somethin' Not an ordinary
musical, 1927
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Something to join The Junkie Choir
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Proles on Broadway Orson Welles vs. Uncle Sam, 1937
By
ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Somewhere in the night Billy May's New
York
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Celebrated delineator Bert Williams in
blackface
By
DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Miracle of the canaries Toscanini
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Stopping the white wash Rahsaan Roland
Kirk on TV
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Too hip for the room Johnny Staccato
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Resurrection Easter Parade
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Mysterious music lover Moondog
By BRIAN KATES
----------------------------------------------------
Moth to flame New Kid at the Bon Soir
By PATRICK FENTON
----------------------------------------------------
Concrete jungle Petulant moments in New
York song
By
DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Dynamite James Brown Live at the Apollo,
1962
By TIM ADAMS
----------------------------------------------------
Adam Clayton Powell on the Record, 1967
By
DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Spirit of the music Dueling Klezmers
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
WQXR and how it
got that way
By
DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Voyage to Neverland Frohman at Sea,
1915
By
ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Big New York jock thing Murray the K
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Begging for more Jackie Wilson leaves 'em
panting
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Eagle from crag Durable Sousa
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
New York Knick Peter Stuyvesant on
Broadway, 1938
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Union label The ILGWU theme song
By MIKE SANTANGELO
----------------------------------------------------
Sunday melodies The W.E. Hill Report, 1941
No byline
----------------------------------------------------
Broader principles ASCAP Part 1 of 2
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Dancing after retirement Cohan Plays
Roosevelt, 1937
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
The Philharmonic at the Roxy, 1950
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Coffee break Irving Berlin at the
Automat, 1932
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Future of radio Martin Block makes believe
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
When the ship comes in Downtown Man,
Uptown Girl
By SHANTI GOLD
----------------------------------------------------
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Holly in New York, 1958
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Off the record James Caesar Petrillo
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
No bad habits Eubie Blake's century
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Marilyn serenades JFK, and JFK listens
politely, 1962
By STEPHEN McFARLAND
----------------------------------------------------
Gift from heaven Jenny Lind, 1850
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Spaghetti death The Fugs
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Real sob ballad The Ink Spots find their
song, 1939
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Golden days past Guy Lombardo rings in the
new
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Wild Side Twisting at the Pep, 1961
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Salable pop The Weavers and the blacklist
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Spike Jones giffs Hitler der old
birdaphone, 1942
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Harry Richman's Birdman Holiday, 1936
By JAY MAEDER
----------------------------------------------------
Too much for Fun City The Topless Cellist,
1967
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Quite a hit Alexander's Mildly Similar
Band, 1911
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Fracas at the Philharmonic, 1936
By ELLIOT ROSENBERG
----------------------------------------------------
Some kind of formation The Esquire jazz
shoot, 1958
By DAVID HINCKLEY
----------------------------------------------------
Freaks from Iowa: Cherry Sisters on
Broadway, 1896
By MARA BOVSUN
----------------------------------------------------
Alabaster bosoms Broadway's first musical,
1866
By FERGUS GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
----------------------------------------------------
Irving Berlin and Kate Smith bless
America, 1938
BY
JAY MAEDER