The Bad Piano Player

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The podcast features Allie Wrubel this week. Sax player in big bands, Broadway composer, movie composer, Oscar winner, and all around musical fellow. Tune in for tunes! Stay for the bad piano playing! A virtual tour of the Nepotism Studio awaits the winner of next week's sponsorship contest! See you there, kids.

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This week, the Bad Piano Player goes way back to an obscure lyricist/occasional composer named Benny Davis. Was that his real name? Did he write any famous lyrics? Is he a member of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame? To answer these and other pertinent (Where is Elroy??) queries, please tune in, music fans!

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This week, the bad piano player does his third grab bag episode, finding six songs that defy category and are pleasing to the ear and heart, Tune in and be pleased, my darlings. 

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For episode 164, the Bad Piano Player celebrates songs with the word "Baby" in the title, or as we quaintly call it..."Baby Songs". Grab your pacifiers, kids, and settle in! Ah one, ah two, ah one, two, three...

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This week, the bad piano player brings back his favorite theme from last season, with a second go-round of Most Obscure Songs. A little Bowie, perhaps? Some Edward Bear? A dollop of J. Tull, my darlings? Tune in and be dazzled by the unknown.

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This week, the Bad Piano Player brings together a superb singer and a master lyricist. The singer is Peggy Lee, and so is the lyricist. And baby, is she gonna give you some fever. In the morning and all through the night. Tune in for the cure.

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This week, the bad piano player features old friend composers and lyricists for songs that Dick Powell, boy singer, sang in the movies early in his career. Later he was the first man ever to play Philip Marlowe onscreen, but in the 30's he was sweet-faced heart-throb tenor Dick, who charmed the ladies with music. We hope you'll tune in and be charmed as well.  

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The Bad Piano player celebrates Tax Day with the third of the "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episode, featuring composer/lyricist Billy Hill, who wrote more western-style songs than Gene Autry and you won't believe what his most famous song was. Tune in to hear it done by a bad piano player!

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April Fools Fortnight Tuesday begins with our second "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes with the tuneful Joe Burke. A Tin Pan Alley veteran, Philadelphia born Joe had a bevy of Billboard hits in the 1930s. And an inaugural class inductee to the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Tune in to enjoy the bevy!

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This week, the Bad Piano Player begins a series of three "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes and we begin with Fats Domino's favorite lyricist, the great Al Lewis. Why was he Fats Domino's fave lyricist? Tune and find out!