These two musical giants from Alabama are linked by the 1958 film  St. Louis Blues. Cole played Handy in the film named after one of his bes...

Rolling Stone magazine recently released a list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time":  "For the first time in 17 years, we...

J ohn Benson Brooks [1917-1999] was a jazz pianist and composer born in Maine. In the early part of his career in the 1940's he wrote...

Bing Crosby [1903-1977] was one of the most popular singers, recording artists, and radio, film and television stars for several decades in...

I've recently been going through the several hundred vinyl records that Dianne and I own. Talk about a trip down memory lane. In among a...

In June 2015 I posted an item on "Some Alabama Songs from the Early 20th Century."  Since there are so many of these tunes from th...