January 2010
PROGRAM 1001
UPLINK January 7
RELEASE DATES January 7-14
PROHIBITION — Alcohol may have been illegal for fourteen years but songs about it weren’t, especially in its first few years.
PROGRAM 1002
UPLINK January 14
RELEASE DATES January 14-21
ALLEYMEN OF THE 30s — A handful of forgotten songwriters who wrote songs we still can’t get out of our heads.
PROGRAM 1003
UPLINK January 21
RELEASE DATES January 21-28
TWO CHEERS FOR AMERICA — E.M. Forster wrote a book called Two Cheers for Democracy. Songwriters of skeptical (but never cynical) admiration take up the call.
PROGRAM 1004
UPLINK January 28
RELEASE DATES January 28-February 4
BACKSTAGE — Theater people intrigue us, everybody from the star to the star’s mother. Their backstage stories are the stuff of “frontstage” songs.
February 2010
PROGRAM 1005
UPLINK February 4
RELEASE DATES February 4-11
THE SCHOOL OF MERCER — Songs from the 1940s, not necessarily by Johnny Mercer, but influenced by his view of America that was a lot broader than the poles of Broadway and Hollywood.
PROGRAM 1006
UPLINK February 11
RELEASE DATES February 11-18
BEFORE I MET YOU — Lovers looking back regret the wasted time before they met; what’s most interesting is the variety of moods and attitudes.
PROGRAM 1007
UPLINK February 18
RELEASE DATES February 18-25
FALLING IN LOVE — The easy part of a love affair, from attraction to invitation to tumbling to figuring it out – and the ecstasy that comes with it.
PROGRAM 1008
UPLINK February 25
RELEASE DATES February 25-March 4
THE GERSHWINS IN HOLLYWOOD — They had to drag George kicking and screaming to Hollywood. He couldn’t wait to get back to New York. But in those last few years of his life, he and Ira wrote some of their greatest songs together.
March 2010
PROGRAM 1009
UPLINK March 4
RELEASE DATES March 4-11
WHATEVER HAPPENED? — Things get lost, times change, fascinations fade, love ends. One response: the raising of questions to place blame, look within, get yourself past it.
PROGRAM 1010
UPLINK March 11
RELEASE DATES March 11-18
MR. JAZZ HIMSELF — First ragtime songs were about ragtime. Then Jazz Age songs got it into their heads to sing about jazz.
PROGRAM 1011
UPLINK March 18
RELEASE DATES March 18-25
WHERE ARE THE SONGS? — We like what we know; we like what we remember, what we grew up on. Especially when it comes to songs.
PROGRAM 1012
UPLINK March 25
RELEASE DATES March 26-April 1
AMONG MY SOUVENIRS — Songs about mementoes: objects that conjure up precious memories of other times.
April 2010
PROGRAM: 1013
RELEASE DATES: April 1-8, 2010
OPTIMISTIC, UPBEAT JERRY HERMAN – No songwriter for Broadway was ever as consistently optimistic in outlook and endings as Jerry Herman. It was a matter of temperament.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 0644) 1014
RELEASE DATES: April 8-15, 2010
BLUES SONGS – There are traditional blues and urban blues, and then Tin Pan Alley borrows from both to give us “Blues Songs.”
PROGRAM: 1015
RELEASE DATES: April 15-22, 2010
NIGHT & DAY… AND MORE – “Night and Day” is one of Cole Porter’s most famous song. Its importance reflects its time, its performances, and its associations with other songs.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 0620) 1016
RELEASE DATES: April 22-29, 2010
TWO SETS OF SISTERS – In the 30s, they were named Boswell, and a decade later they answered to Andrews: what they accomplished and why we liked them so much.
May 2010
PROGRAM: 1017
RELEASE DATES: April 29-May 6, 2010
SONGS FOR SONGWRITERS – Songwriters were never reluctant to write love songs about writing love songs.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 0608) 1018
RELEASE DATES: May 6-13, 2010
CAKEWALKIN’ BABIES FROM HOME – Just as they influenced our music, black people have also shown us new ways to dance.
PROGRAM: 1019
RELEASE DATES: May 13-20, 2010
ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND PLUS – There has never been a more important song than “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” now almost a hundred years old.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 0637) 1020
RELEASE DATES: May 20-27, 2010
THE DANCING CASTLES – When they danced, millions of women followed their lead and a nation changed.
June 2010
PROGRAM: 1021
RELEASE DATES: May 27-Jun 3, 2010
FANCY YOU FANCYING ME – Playful songs about the fanciful, imaginative business of falling in love.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 604) 1022
RELEASE DATES: Jun 3-10, 2010
JAVA JIVE – Songs for the first – and the second – cup of coffee. We sing as we sip.
PROGRAM: 1023
RELEASE DATES: Jun 10-17, 2010
JUST GO TO THE MOVIES – Songs about sitting in the movie house and what you think and feel about what (and who) appears on the screen.
PROGRAM: (Repeat 610) 1024
RELEASE DATES: Jun 17-24, 2010
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT’S LOVE – Once you figure it out, you have to tell somebody. In fact, you feel as if you have to tell everybody.
PROGRAM: 1025
RELEASE DATES: Jun 24-Jul 1, 2010
SAMMY FAIN AND IRVING KAHAL – One of the best, most successful, and least known of all the collaborations.
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