The song of the day for Monday, May 13, 2024, is “The Man That Got Away.” About This Song “The Man That Got Away” was written by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin for Judy Garland to sing in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born, with James Mason. Her performance of the song is […]
Quote of the Day
My mother, Anna Suraci Benedetto, sewed dresses. She worked in a factory by day and brought home dresses at night because she was paid by the piece and had to support my brother, my sister, and me. My father had died when I was ten. Every night, we’d meet my mother at the Dithers Boulevard el train stop, the north terminal of the lines from Queens, when she returned from Manhattan and help her carry home a big bundle of unsewn dresses. We’d climb the stair, and she’d start to sew as soon as she got home. She’d stop to make us dinner, and after that, while we kids read or listened to music, she would bend over her sewing machine again to continue stitching dresses.
Sometimes she’d get her thumb caught under the sewing needle. She’d cry out in pain but put on a bandage and go back to work. She couldn’t afford to stop. Watching her made me vow, in my heart, to be so good at something I loved that my mother wouldn’t have to work again.
Tony Bennett
Song of the Day: My Mom
The song of the day for Sunday, May 12, 2024, is “My Mom.” About This Song “My Mom” was written in 1932 by Walter Donaldson. It was quite popular at the time, with recordings by George Jessell and Rudy Vallee, among others. In his autobiography The Good Life, Tony Bennett relates that his father used […]
Song of the Day: Shaking The Blues Away
The song of the day for Saturday, May 11, 2024, is “Shaking The Blues Away.” About Today Today we are honoring one of the great American songwriters, Irving Berlin. He was born on May 11, 1888, in Tolochin, Belarus as Israel Beilin. A school dropout, he was drawn to music and worked as a bar […]
Song of the Day: Tangerine
The song of the day for Friday, May 10, 2024, is “Tangerine.” About This Song “Tangerine” was written by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer for the 1942 movie The Fleet’s In, which starred Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken and introduced Betty Hutton. The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, with vocalists Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly, made […]