I was 19 years old and a student at New York University. One day while walking on 8th Street, I came across a record store (remember those?). That’s when I discovered Carmen McRae and I fell in love with her music. When I was older and CDs came out, I tried to buy a CD of Carmen’s album, Second to ... Read More »
My generation was the one of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Moody Blues, etc. I love that music and have a lot of it, but my heart belongs to the generation that came before me. I love the movie musicals from the 1930s and I also love the big band era. When I think of this music I ... Read More »
Many years ago my daughter, Brandy, and I were in a Banana Republic waiting to pay for our purchases. Suddenly there was the most beautiful music coming from a big screen television which was in another room. Brandy, who is a musician, and appreciates the music as much as I do, looked at me and said “what is that?” I ... Read More »
Moonlight always feels right to me because I am a night person. When the sun goes down, I go up. The best part of my day is night. In my art room, my spirits soar while listening to this music. So, on the next Sherry’s Cherries, we are going a little “beyond” into the world of light rock of the ... Read More »
Way back . . . when I was a child I fell in love with TV themes. Wagon Train was on every Wednesday night and I so looked forward to the show and the theme song. Robert Horton, who played Flint McCullough, was the lookout for the wagon train and I remember thinking “golly, he’s cute”, and I was only ... Read More »
Movies, Anyone? I have been listening to this music in my art room all of my life. I’ve been collecting it since childhood. Sharing the music with you is one of my greatest joys. Thank you. This week I will be debuting a new show, Sherry’s Cherries, and the first show will feature some of my favorite movie soundtracks. These ... Read More »
When I was young and my daughter, Brandy, was three years old, I had a lovely young woman work for me who helped me care for Brandy and the work in the house. One day she came to work and said she saw this wonderful movie and that she had seen it several times. In the span of a few ... Read More »
There are Giants in the Sky and here on earth. Stephen Sondheim is one of them. Stephen is embarrassed by all the accolades and awards that have been presented to him. Consider that he has received the Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, including a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theater, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, several Laurence ... Read More »
Frank Sinatra was quoted as saying that Vic Damone had “the best pipes in the business”. Vic was an extraordinary singer and he created an incredible body of work. Vic passed away last month. Though Vic’s career had its ups and downs, Vic delighted his fans for decades. I saw him in Las Vegas with his then wife, Diahann Carroll, ... Read More »
The eyes had it. Or at least in one of the later photographs of Richard Rodgers, you could see the sadness . . . the losses. Rodgers and Hammerstein changed the face of Broadway. Their successes were phenomenal and although they wrote in the 1940s and 1950s, their work is still performed today on Broadway and in Road Shows around ... Read More »
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