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Live review: Jimmy Webb at Largo at the Coronet
Pop & HissThe veteran songwriter mixes recent tunes with tales of his vaunted past. A quick synopsis of any Richard Harris movie, according to Jimmy Webb, goes like this: He plays the king. He yells a lot. He dies at the end....... -
Theater review: 'Hoboken to Hollywood' at the Edgemar
Culture MonsterIt's a mass seduction. A guy saunters in, snappily attired in a single-breasted charcoal suit. Setting aside his fedora, he turns his sexily hooded eyes to the audience and, as the band strikes up, emits a dreamy baritone. The clock...... -
Album review: Heavy metal singers salute Frank Sinatra in 'SIN-ATRA'
Pop & HissFrank Sinatra may well be spinning in his grave over the heavy metal hijacking of a dozen cornerstone numbers from his repertoire for "Sin-atra," a tribute to the Chairman of the Board.... -
Dionne Warwick speaks up about 'Celebrity Apprentice': In tune or sour note?
Show TrackerDionne Warwick hit the top of the charts in 1985 alongside Steve Wonder, Elton John and Gladys Knight with "That's What Friends Are For," a rousing ode to friendship. One of the key lines of the song spoke of sticking...... -
Valentine's Day countdown: Singer Keely Smith's favorite love song
Culture MonsterWhether you need just one more track to finish off your ironically sappy mix for your sweetheart or are searching for a tune to soothe the pain of a Valentine gone wrong, we’ve got you covered. For the next eight...... -
Behind the scenes of 'Robin and the 7 Hoods,' a swinging new musical at the Old Globe
Culture MonsterA new musical opening Friday at the Old Globe theater in San Diego arrives with an old name. As a story in Sunday’s Arts & Books section explains, 19 songs from the celebrated Oscar-winning songwriting team of Sammy Cahn and...... -
Theater review: 'Robin and the 7 Hoods' at the Old Globe
Culture MonsterSan Diego -- Something slightly felonious is happening with the goldmine of tunes by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, the songwriting team that helped revitalize Frank Sinatra’s hip factor in the 1960s. The new musical “Robin and the 7...... -
'Robin and the 7 Hoods' revives Cahn and Van Heusen tunes
Of the following fabled songwriting teams of the 20th century, which won three Oscars, garnered eight Oscar nominations, but never won a Tony?
A) Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
B) George and Ira Gershwin.
C) Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick...Tags: Crimes, Peter Falk, Dean Martin, Movies, Tony Awards
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'Robin and the 7 Hoods' has the Van Heusen sound
Among other things, the new musical "Robin and the 7 Hoods" is a love letter to composer Jimmy Van Heusen. On first glance it might seem an homage to Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in their heyday, but it's Van Heusen's infectious melodies, found in "Come...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Cole Porter, Bing Crosby, Vehicles, Music
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Los Angeles Philharmonic gala at Disney Hall
Times Music CriticPierre Boulez once infamously called for burning down opera houses as a way of beginning all over again with what seemed, to progressives in the 1950s, a moribund art form. He, of course, kept his matches in his pocket. Thursday night during a Los...Tags: Lincoln Center, Music Theater, Duke Ellington, Walt Disney, Music Industry
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Old Globe's summer season offers mad British kings, singing Chicago gangsters, late romance
Culture Monster"King me!" is what checker players love to shout, but it could also be a slogan this summer at the Old Globe in San Diego -- although both British kings on display, Shakespeare's legendary Lear and Alan Bennett's historical George...... -
Ann Powers: Lee finds his swing on Sinatra night
Idol TrackerIt's informative to listen to the two versions of "All the Way," the ballad by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy van Heusen, recorded by the presiding spirits of this week's "American Idol." This week's mentor, Harry Connick Jr., took on the tune last year in a jaunty...
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