Michael Bublé Book Giveaway!
Michael Buble has the number-one CD in the country, and to acknowledge his accomplishment, we’re giving away a signed copy of...
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Reviews: 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...
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Madeleine Peyroux has charted a unique course as an artist. American by birth, French in adolescence, and completely immersed in both...
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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...
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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,...
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Click here for all the latest news on artists and performances of the American Songbook and vocal jazz. Check out the left column of...
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On December 13, the Library of Congress announced that Carole King would be the recipient of the 2013 Gershwin Prize in Popular...
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As someone who now has an iTunes library (my second, the pre-rock one) of almost 3.000 songs, I’m finally starting to develop the...
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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.