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Dorothy Fields

From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
Length: 59:00

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A small sampling of the career of one of America's greatest female lyricists. Read the full description.

Facebook_small You know that song that goes Pick Yourself Up, Dust yourself Off, and Start all over again? How about I Can’t Give You Anything But Love? I’m in the Mood for Love? I love you just the way you look tonight? Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street? Those lyrics all came from Dorothy Fields, the first woman to be a successful lyricist in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway stages, and Hollywood films. I’m Janean Jorgensen, hear a few of the 400-plus songs by Dorothy Fields on the next Broadway Matinee

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Piece Description

You know that song that goes Pick Yourself Up, Dust yourself Off, and Start all over again? How about I Can’t Give You Anything But Love? I’m in the Mood for Love? I love you just the way you look tonight? Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street? Those lyrics all came from Dorothy Fields, the first woman to be a successful lyricist in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway stages, and Hollywood films. I’m Janean Jorgensen, hear a few of the 400-plus songs by Dorothy Fields on the next Broadway Matinee

Broadcast History

Spokane Public Radio KPBX 91.1 Wednesdays 11 a.m.

Related Website

http://www.broadwaymatinee.com