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Beginning with Frank Sinatra singing My Funny Valentine, this new Valentine's Day public radio special includes a brief history of the holiday followed by the greatest of the Rodgers and Hart love songs: Lover; My Romance; I Could Write a Book; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; You Are Too Beautiful; There's a Small Hotel; I Didn't Know What Time it Was; Where or When; Falling in Love with Love; and Thou Swell as sung by great vocalists of the past and present: Bing Crosby, Dorris Day, Maureen McGovern, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes; Melissa Errico, Lanny Meyers, and Ivy Austin. Hosted by Steve Jencks. Written and produced by Fred Flaxman.
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Piece Description
Beginning with Frank Sinatra singing My Funny Valentine, this new Valentine's Day public radio special includes a brief history of the holiday followed by the greatest of the Rodgers and Hart love songs: Lover; My Romance; I Could Write a Book; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; You Are Too Beautiful; There's a Small Hotel; I Didn't Know What Time it Was; Where or When; Falling in Love with Love; and Thou Swell as sung by great vocalists of the past and present: Bing Crosby, Dorris Day, Maureen McGovern, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes; Melissa Errico, Lanny Meyers, and Ivy Austin. Hosted by Steve Jencks. Written and produced by Fred Flaxman.
Broadcast History
This is the world premiere of this special.
Transcript
MUSIC Cut 1: Frank Sinatra sings "My Funny Valentine" from "The Best of Rodgers & Hart" [Chestnut CN1016, track 20] [2:33]
STEVE JENCKS VT-1: Hello and welcome to "A Rodger's and Hart Valentine's." I'm Steve Jencks, and that Hart is spelled H-A-R-T. But the next hour is going to be devoted to affairs of the H-E-A-R-T as we're going to be listening to some of the most beautiful love songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. They'll be sung by great vocalists of the past and present, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Maureen McGovern, Lena Horne, and Dinah Shore.
Is there a more appropriate way to spend an hour on Valentine's Day? Well, perhaps there is, but I'm not going to go there.
You know, Valentine's Day goes back a long, long time. But how it became associated with love is anyone's guess. It used to be called Saint Valentine's Day and it u...
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Additional Credits
Steve Jencks, host
Fred Flaxman, writer, editor
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