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143 episodes
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The Bad Piano Player John Wing Jr.
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4.2 • 18 Ratings
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A weekly musical podcast diving into popular music of the 20s, 30s, and 40s.
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Song Hits Magazine
Send us a Text Message.This week, the Bad Piano Player takes a look at the short-lived Song Hits magazine of the mid 1930s. They included music and we're doing three each from three issues in 1935. Songs written by some people we know and some we don't. Tune and sit back. It's going to be old-school musical!
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Peter Allen
Send us a Text Message.This week, our post Canada Day episode features the Australian born, Judy Garland discovery, singer-songwriter Peter Allen. Composer, lyricist, singer, one-man show dynamo. Gone too soon. Six of our picks of his best. Enjoy, kids, in the full flower of summer.
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James Monaco III
Send us a Text Message.This Fortnight Tuesday, the Bad Piano Player, who has featured Harry Warren, Tom Waits, Irving Berlin, Sam Coslow and Frank Loesser three times, gives a third episode honor to James V Monaco. And as always, we hope you enjoy this well deserved inclusion. Tune in and be dazzled again by his great music.
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Matt Malneck
Send us a Text Message.For our first June episode, the Bad Piano Player features jazz violinist, composer and arranger Matt Malneck (1903-1981). New Jersey born songwriter who has long deserved and finally gets his own episode. Tune in, kids, because it is gonna swing.
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Sam Coslow III - Stories
Send us a Text Message.This week, the Bad Piano Player goes into his bag of Sam Coslow songs and stories for-- would you believe it-- a third time! Six great songs and fabulous stories to go along with 'em. Mae West, Garbo, Mabel Normand, and some sketchy singing too! How can it miss, when the chorus goes like this! Tune in, my darlings. I'll be at the piano.
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Kahal & Fain
Send us a Text Message.This week, Fortnight Tuesday brings two more giants of the American songbook, the team of Irving Kahal, lyricist, and Sammy Fain, composer, both members of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame, and two men we've featured before, but at last they get the singular honor of their own private, six-song episode. Tune in, my beauties, and be enchanted.
Customer Reviews
Nothing else like it
Listening to this podcast is like hanging out in someone's living room listening to songs with a little bit of history thrown in, which is my idea of a good time. If you like pop music and pop music history, this is for you. And even if you don't, this is definitely for you.
I like it.
I like to know about these old songs. Any other time I’ve heard them was during some weird social situation where the music was just part of it.
Taste and Wit
Just listen and enjoy. Fresh light on standards, new gems you didn’t know about.