The Great American Songbook
One of my favorite weekend pastimes is listening to “Saturday Night Swing Session” on WQLN Erie. Hosted by Phil Atteberry, the program features “mainstream jazz with an emphasis on musical history and swing”, drifting at times “toward traditional jazz with some Dixieland… and into classic pop with the likes of Sinatra, Nat Cole and Bing Crosby”. Recently Phil completed a retrospective on the music of Irving Berlin with three unpublished Berlin songs from the 1970s, excellent songs that were not marketable in the era dominated by Rock and Roll and the Beatles. He commented that Berlin’s last contribution to “the Great…