Mary Costa has a fascinating career that few people realize. She is an operatic soprano as well as a Hollywood actress. She sang over 44...

Jo Stafford is almost an unknown today but she had a huge career from the 1930's to the 1980's. She sang with the Pied Pipers and Tommy...

One of Judy Garland’s most remarkable talents was her ability to forge an emotional connection with the songs she performed. She didn't...

This was one of my grandmother's favorite songs. A Jerome Kern gem written for the 1933 Broadway show, Roberta, this song found a new and...

This song is a great tune written by the team of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. Originally written in 1929 for the Broadway shoe, Spring...

Rodgers & Hart . At their heyday they were among the popular songwriters in America. They wrote songs for both Broadway and the movies....

Everybody knows Irving Berlin ’s songs but nowadays no one knows Irving Berlin. Confusing right? He was born in 1888 and lived until he...

Noël Coward  wore many hats during his life. Born and raised in England you could say he was, a playwright of drawing room comedies, an...

Songwriter Al Sherman  was born into a musical family. In fact, his father was a court composer for Emperor Franz Josef. Fleeing Europe...

Cole Porter  songs can be very difficult to sing and master but boy, how great they are. While he wrote both words and music, Porter was...