Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin had the right idea concerning popular - now standard - song when he gave us Play A Simple Melody (1915). As you will know there are songs about everything, well, take this month:

June Comes Around Every Year -sang Bing Crosby in Here Come The Waves (1945), then there's ebullient June Is Busting out all over, a Rodgers and Hammerstein success. Carousel (1950).

A compelling June Night (1924), yet another Crosby favourite, June in January, from Here in My Heart (1935). Doubtless one or other of the above are among your favourites, tunes mostly by standard composers who deserve to be heard, and what is more played on radio airwaves packed with too much rock, pop and noise!

As a musicologist I cherish so much music in the vast standard catalogue.

It's a rich field to plough, and doubtless grossly unfair of me to present you with a pick of Lollipops that I'm sure are familiar.

As you see a sprinkling from the super standard catalogue,  many growing gracefully with age, a golden age if you like. Now, if you have a favourite song or tune from early on to the 1960s and want to know more about songs, music and artists, don't hesitate to write, I'll be happy, hopefully to have the answers.

Wherever there's 'our' type of music, there's me. 
 
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