Archive for November, 2014
Sesame Street Turns 45
Performing Songwriter picks 12 favorite musical guest spots to celebrate Sesame Street’s anniversary since the first episode aired on PBS on November 10, 1969.
Happy Birthday Bonnie Raitt!
To celebrate Bonnie birthday, songwriters John Prine, Karla Bonoff, Richard Thompson, Chris Smither, Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin tell us how she has impacted their lives.
Happy birthday, Joni Mitchell!
November 7, 1943 gave the world one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th Century when Roberta Joan Anderson was born in Alberta, Canada. A few years later her family moved to the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where she attended public schools and lucked out in having what she called “one radical teacher who drew out […]
Oz Anniversary: Behind Somewhere Over the Rainbow
The story behind The Wizard Of Oz’s classic theme “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harbug, and performed by Judy Garland.