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This week, the Bad Piano Player features songs done by Sister Acts in Vaudeville. There will be no Chekhov quotes or Pointers, or even Dionne quintuplets. But please tune in anyway. As Alice Walker wrote, "Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?"

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Today the Bad Piano Player answers the age-old question nobody ever asks: What were Musicals like 100 years ago, anyway? We feature musicals from the 1920s in a display of hubris that has you all thinking, "No, NO, Nanette!" Tune in, turn on, learn some old songs.

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The Bad Piano Player today features a singer with a 3-and- a-half-octave range, and a songwriter whose two biggest hits were written by other people. And they're the same guy. Say hello to Harry Nilsson! Called the doctor, woke him up! Tune in.

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For the first Episode of Season Four, the Bad Piano Player returns to a composer from the first season. Born Chester Babcock, but we know him as Jimmy Van Heusen. Today we're looking at the 1940's when he and Johnny Burke were Bing Crosby's personal songwriters. Enjoy, kids! Mellow greetings. Yukie Dukie.

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This week, the Bad Piano Player drops his second ever Christmas episode. A little history, some favorite carols and one Christmas classic song with a lyric by an old BPP fave, Mitchell Parish. Peace on earth, goodwill to all people. See you in 2023!

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For the Bad Piano Player’s Season finale, we’re featuring two songs each by three of our favorite lyricists and/or composers. There’s Frankie and Johnny and Harry and Teddy and just tune in kids! The fun will be contagious.

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This week, the Bad Piano Player travels to six of his favorite cities and sings a song about each of them in our long awaited second place names episode. Tune in and thanks for waiting!

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This week, The Bad Piano player features a long forgotten singer. The flapper who became a cartoon. The Britney Spears of the 1920s. Miss Helen Kane. Boop boop-a-doop, people!

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This week, the Bad Piano Player explores the first of the 1970's new wave in Britain. No, not Elvis Costello. The first was Graham Parker. We journey through the career of the boy from Hackney who grew up to write songs and sing them. That's the Rumour, anyway. Come join us.

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This week, the Bad Piano Player returns to Canada for a regional songfest for Nova Scotia, long a hotbed of musical styles and topics. We also introduce our new statistician, Elroy! Tune in for no great mischief.