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Please join us for a new tribute to lite rock. As a teenager, in the age of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, I was caught in a time warp. I was hooked on the music of Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and others. But through the years, I did …

As my streaming Internet radio station Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond has evolved since first launching several years ago, the number of ways you, my beloved listeners, can hear the station continues to grow. I wanted to take a moment and point out some of the most popular ways listeners are finding and listening to Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond without visiting this website …

You know what it’s like, you hear a song and the melody lingers on long after the song is finished. Most of us have heard the expression: Dance as if no one is watching and sing as if no one is listening. Many years ago my husband had seen the movie, The Days of Wine and Roses. He liked the …

What do Josh Groban, Steve Lawrence, Sarah Vaughan, K.D. Lang and Engelbert Humperdinck all have in common? They are all wonderful singers with distinctive voices who created beautiful music.  Please join Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond as we pay tribute to these many wonderful performers. Also included will be Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Doris Day, Eydie Gorme and …

Cole Porter was a genius. He wrote the words and composed the music to some of the most beautiful songs of his era. On our next Sherry’s Cherries, you will hear some of my favorite songs from Cole Porter and other masters of their game. I have 38 versions of Cole Porter’s Night and Day. So many singers have sung …

I’m often asked what my favorite song is. Oh my! Would that be Broadway, movie soundtracks or pop music. I actually have hundreds of favorites.  Sherry’s Cherries new show will present some of these personal favs. When I was 17 and a student at NYU, I bought my first Carmen McRae album, Second to None. To this day I cherish …

Classical music is timeless. Many films have used classical music to enhance their storytelling. Whenever people remember 2001: A Space Odyssey, one immediately thinks of Richard Strauss’ Sprach Zarathustra. Producer of Gone with the Wind, David O. Selznick used two of Claude Debussy’s pieces, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn, and The Girl With the Flaxen Hair in the …

From the opening bars of music from the film, Jaws, you know the shark is nearby and there is very little time left.  Many of my friends have husbands who love action and adventure films. Sometimes the guys would go to these movies as a group and the women would go to the “chick-flicks”.  I love movie soundtracks. On our …

Many years ago, I drove my daughter and her friends to dance classes. Two hours later I would pick them up, but I would always arrive early, sit in the car, and listen to the radio. One night I heard a ‘song on the radio’ that I had never heard before, and I fell in love again.  In those days …

“Only music may span that space between the finite and the infinite…”  – Edgar Cayce.   On our next Sherry’s Cherries, Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond will pay tribute to Broadway and some of the most beautiful music from the greatest composers and lyricists. For all you soundtrack people – you might like this one. Most of these songs originated on …