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Sid Ramin’s birthday is apparently approaching – but when? Depending on what you read, the orchestrator might be 100 on January 22nd, as Wikipedia claims. Or is Ramin a mere ninety-five, as says the website for Columbia University where many of Ramin’s papers are stored? There’s a third possibility which I’m most inclined to believe […]

I’ve always wondered what got her on Richard M. Nixon’s famous Enemies List. In fact, some years back when I interviewed Carol Channing for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archives at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, I even began the taping by mentioning the condemnation. For a while, Ms. Channing […]

Once again, I wish that the Tonys would give an award for Best Song. It really should, you know. Note that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dispensed an annual Oscar for Best Song since 1934. You’d think that the Tonys, which has a Best Musical category – which the Oscars don’t […]

Ever since moving to New York, I’ve more often than not sauntered into Times Square on New Year’s Eve to watch the fabled ball drop. So this past Monday night, while en route to my destination, I passed by the locale where the 1962 TV special JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL was taped. (That’s […]

When TAKE ME ALONG recently marked its fifty-ninth anniversary, Elliot J. Cohen went to Facebook and posted pictures from the original Broadway production. One of them had Jackie Gleason and Walter Pigeon strutting their stuff while performing the nifty title song. They were close to the edge of the stage, for right behind them was […]