Rudy vallee biography ahebang

  • Rudy Vallee—the whole shebang overseen by a shy Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.
  • Veteran showmen claim he is the first great singing band- leader since the days of Rudy Vallee...
  • Rudy Vallee, and God knows what else.

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    Arf, arf! Who's there? Sandy, the Wonder Dog of Broadway, that's who — back for a third Main Stem stay with Annie, who, befitting Daddy Warbucks' adopted daughter, settled Nov. 8 into a palace — The Palace — for what looks like a long winter's nap.

    If this 35th-anniversary revival proves anything, it proves how well-crafted and crowd-pleasing this musical can be. And the three wise men responsible were present to take well-deserved bows at the curtain: Charles Strouse, 84, who wrote the still-exuberant, buoyant and varied music; Martin Charnin, 77, who matched those melodies with dead-on, delightful lyrics — and (back in 1977) directed the whole shebang; and Thomas Meehan, 83, whose crackerjack jokes and heart tugs remain ageless.

    They created the show against a monstruös maelstrom of naysayers. If there fryst vatten a worse premise for a musical than Harold Gray's daglig newspaper comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," which ran from 1924 to 2010, it would be "Don Quixote" or The

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    List of songs about Oklahoma

    • "Oklahoma" (Since 1953, Oklahoma's official state song) – Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1943.[177]   "Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain."
    • "Oklahoma" – written by Webb Pierce, Max Powell and DeWayne Phillips, recorded by Cal Smith, 1968.[178]   "Oklahoma how I wish I could come home."
    • "Oklahoma" – Sammy Kershaw, 1979.[179]   "Oklahoma, you got the best part of me."
    • "Oklahoma" – The Call, 1986.[180]   "Another hot Oklahoma night."
    • "Oklahoma" – Written by J. C. (Christer) Ericcson, recorded by Lasse Stefanz, 1986. In Swedish.[181]   "Långt bort till Oklahoma, bort till Nashville Tennessee."
    • "Oklahoma" – P (Johnny Depp and Gibby Haynes), 1995.[182]
    • "Oklahoma" – Scud Mountain Boys, 1995.[183]   "She's gone to Oklahoma/I don't know where that is."
    • "Oklahoma" – Quarkspace: band members Paul Williams, Darren Gough, Chet Santia, Jay Swanson, 1996.

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      Great radio history books for the holidays

      If you are a total, gob smacked radio fan like me, you never tire of reading history books about the subject. Here are some of my faves:

      Anthony Rudell’s Hello everybody! The Dawn of American Radio is a wonderful introduction not only to the beginnings of American radio, but to the culture of the 1920s and early 1930s. You get a front row seat for a unique cast of characters: Aimee Semple McPherson, medicine crackpot John Romulus Brinkley, Father John Coughlin, crooner Rudy Vallee—the whole shebang overseen by a shy Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. The narrative concludes with the Roosevelt fireside chat years.

      Warning to policy wonks (I include myself in this category): Hello everybody! doesn’t get very deep into the regulatory history of the era, which is why it makes a great gift for your non-policy wonk radio loving friend.

      Susan Douglas’ Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination is the best single