You’ve Got a Friend Again
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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The Importance of Being Oscar
In March, PBS will air a new documentary on one of the seminal figures of 20th-century songwriting, Oscar Hammerstein II. The film is...
read moreFrank Loesser’s Centennial Roll
Frank Loesser’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opens March 27 with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role. See...
read moreAn Appreciation: Hugh Martin
Update: March 15, 2011: A great, great retrospective of Hugh Martin‘s and Ralph Blane‘s interviews and performances...
read moreFrank: A Man and His Videos
Shout Factory, one of the classiest repackagers of classic pop material, has released the Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music TV...
read moreOriginals: Rooney and Garrett
Buy DVD of Words and Music. Two stars of that great (and notoriously inaccurate) American Songbook institution, the Hollywood biopic,...
read moreVideo: Songbook and Ads—BFFs
Update, Feb. 19: Winner and new champion: Royal Caribbean’s commercial featuring Hal Kemp’s “It’s Winter...
read moreNat’s TV Show on iTunes!
The classic Nat ‘King’ Cole television show, which aired in 1956 and 1957, has found new life in a surprising place other...
read more“Christmas” in August
“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” (and you thought Mel Brooks was the first composer to command that his name be placed above 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.