This show is dedicated to the Sperling Family and the memory of Michael ‘Spatz’ Sperling, who passed away last week.

In this episode of American Highways, pianist Guy Livingston brings us music inspired by his father-in-law, a German emigrant to South Africa who created a beautiful wine farm, against all odds, and planted thousands of trees, in an attempt to re-create the Black Forest of his youth. On a mountainside overlooking Cape-Town and the ocean.

Join me in raising a glass to honor this stubborn and heroic bon-vivant.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #97 FAREWELL

Theme Music:

Jan Jeroen (J.J.) Spijkervet & Immersive Sound

“American Highways” Jingle

Sounds About Right

composed for Concertzender

Phil Moore

It’s A Rainy Day

Lena Horne

CMC Home Entertainment ‎– 20057-2

Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler

Get Happy

Brad Mehldau, pianist

Nonesuch 9362 48608-2

Fats Waller

Viper’s Drag

Antti Sarpila Swing Band, with Bob Barnard

Antti Sarpila Oy ‎– ASCD-28

Garth Hudson/Ruby Pickens Tartt/Vera Hall

Wild Ox Moan

Taj Mahal

Columbia GP 18 US 1969 (rerelease)

Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb

So what?

Lotte Lenya, Cabaret Cast

Bear Family Records BCD16019

traditional

I Know I’ve Been Changed

Dixie Humming Birds

Body & Soul BS 2439

Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht

Unzucht

Lotte Lenya

Bear Family Records BCD16019

Kurt Weill

One Life To Live

Danny Kaye, Maurice Abravanel

GEMM CDS 9294 Disc 2

Kevin Volans

String Quartet No. 2: Hunting: Gathering

I

II

III

Kronos Quartet

Elektra Nonesuch ‎– 7559-79253-2

Raymond Scott

Dinner Music

Raymond Scott Ensemble

Basta 30-90362