Little Georgie Benson Flies Right
George Benson. Inspiration: A Tribute To Nat King Cole (Available to audition on Spotify.) Consider the amazing career of...
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Eliane Elias: From Brazil with Chet
I Thought About You (A Tribute To Chet Baker) (available to audition on Spotify) Eliane Elias long ago made her bones in the jazz...
read moreReviews: Willie, Molly, Maddy, Mike
Four singing stars bring modern sensibilities to the American Songbook. Here are our takes. Mike the Knife There once was a...
read moreLady Day and Ray
Madeleine Peyroux has charted a unique course as an artist. American by birth, French in adolescence, and completely immersed in both...
read moreWillie Dances On
Willie Nelson is an Untouchable, even to people who don’t always buy his records. At the seemingly ancient age of 40, he invented a...
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There once was a singer who operated very successfully in the worlds of both pre-rock and rock-era popular music. This mythological...
read morePretty in Pink, Promising in Jazz
Okay, here’s the big news: Molly Ringwald is not quite a jazz singer—not if she aspires to the command and confidence of her idols,...
read moreCan Seth Save the Songbook?
Update, Feb. 25. The votes are in, and not just for the Academy Awards, but also for Seth MacFarlane as host of the Oscar telecast....
read moreHard Times for Easy Listeners
The recent passing of Patti Page has prompted a reexamination of the curious reign of Easy Listening, the music style and radio...
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The American Tune Tribune is a news source for classic and new recordings, video, films, and contemporary performances of the pre-rock American Songbook. Focusing on the composers (Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and their peers) and lyricists (Berlin, P.G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, Porter, "Yip" Harburg, Johnny Mercer, and their contemporaries) as well as the performers (Bing, Judy, Frank, Ella, Tony, Rosie, and many, many others), we provide historical and current information in articles, blog posts, and multimedia. Bookmark us, and visit the American News Tribune for news and views on the greatest popular music of the last century as it is honored and supported by fans today and tomorrow.