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Noon Edition
MUSIC CLIP - OSCAR PETERSON, “MOONGLOW”
Welcome to Afterglow, I’m your host, Mark Chilla.
This week on the show, my spotlight is on one of the most prolific lyricists in the American Songbook—Dorothy Fields. From the 1920s through the 1970s, Fields worked alongside some notable composers to pen over 400 songs, establishing herself as the foremost female songwriter of her generation. This hour, we’ll explore her work with composers like Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, and Cy Coleman, and sample from her songbook, which includes treasures like “Pick Yourself Up” and “They Way You Look Tonight.”
It’s A Fine Romance: The Dorothy Fields Songbook, coming up next on Afterglow
MUSIC - JUNE CHRISTY, “REMIND ME”
June Christy in 1960 from her album Off-Beat with the song “Remind Me,” music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
MUSIC CLIP - DAVE BRUBECK, “A FINE ROMANCE”
Mark Chilla here on Afterglow. On this show, we’re exploring the songbook of lyricist Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields was born in New Jersey in 1905, the daughter of notable vaudeville comedian Lew Fields. Although her father didn’t want his children to follow him into
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Sweet Charity
Opening night: 29th January 1966 Musical Numbers | A Good Impression (cut) I Can't Let You Down (cut)I Love To Cry At Weddings, I'll Take Any Man (cut) I'm Way Ahead (cut) I'm A Brass Band I'm The Bravest Individual I've Tried Everything (cut) If My Friends Could See Me Now Keep It In The Family (cut) Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10 (cut) Poor Everybody Else (cut) The Rhythm Of Life Sweet Charity There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This Too Many Tomorrows When Did You Know? (cut) Where Am I Going? You Can't Lose Em All (cut) You Should See Yourself You Wanna Bet (cut) |
Far and away the most successful musical Fields wrote, Sweet Charity is the only Fields show which gained lasting public recognition. It was adapted from a Fellini film Nights of Cabiria, and tells the story of an eternally hopeful but repeatedly disappointed dance club hostess. This bizarre choice of occupatio
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