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Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Warner Chappell Music
9 episodes
9 months ago

These are the songs you've been singing your whole life, but you might not know who wrote them...

Setting the Standard: Stories from the Great American Songbook, a new podcast from Warner Chappell Music, BANG and Audiation, explores the stories behind some of the most influential and treasured songs ever written - the songs from the Great American Songbook.

Replete with key interviews from a bevy of cultural icons such as Billy Corgan, Michael Feinstein, and Alan Bergman, this podcast grants the listener unparalleled access into the world of this formative era in music history.

Hosted by Joe Levy of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and VH1, each episode focuses on a different legendary songwriter or team, using historical sources intertwined with new interviews with scholars, critics, and family members to tell the stories of their lives, filtered through the lens of their most iconic songs.

Setting the Standard Official Companion Playlist: https://warnerchappellmusic.lnk.to/settingthestandard

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These are the songs you've been singing your whole life, but you might not know who wrote them...

Setting the Standard: Stories from the Great American Songbook, a new podcast from Warner Chappell Music, BANG and Audiation, explores the stories behind some of the most influential and treasured songs ever written - the songs from the Great American Songbook.

Replete with key interviews from a bevy of cultural icons such as Billy Corgan, Michael Feinstein, and Alan Bergman, this podcast grants the listener unparalleled access into the world of this formative era in music history.

Hosted by Joe Levy of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and VH1, each episode focuses on a different legendary songwriter or team, using historical sources intertwined with new interviews with scholars, critics, and family members to tell the stories of their lives, filtered through the lens of their most iconic songs.

Setting the Standard Official Companion Playlist: https://warnerchappellmusic.lnk.to/settingthestandard

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Music Interviews
Music,
Music Commentary,
Music History
Episodes (9/9)
Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 8: Harold Arlen
“Over the Rainbow”, “Get Happy”, “Come Rain or Come Shine”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, travel somewhere over the rainbow into the singular mind of renowned composer Harold Arlen, a key contributor to the American Songbook whose hundreds of pop tunes became runaway hits during the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s.
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2 years ago
43 minutes 40 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 7: George & Ira Gershwin
“I Got Rhythm”, “Summertime”, “The Man I Love”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, the men you love are at the forefront: George and Ira Gershwin, brothers who wrote a plethora of immortal songs that both reflected and shaped the dynamic forces of American modernism during the Jazz Age.
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2 years ago
57 minutes 20 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 6: Cole Porter
“You’re the Top”, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, “Night and Day”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, you’ll fall freely in love with Cole Porter, the master of melody and lyrics who changed the soundscape and language of American music - and America itself.
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2 years ago
37 minutes 50 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 5: Lerner & Loewe
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”, “Get Me to the Church on Time”, “If Ever I Would Leave You”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! This week’s episode is guaranteed to be “loverly”, as we dive headfirst into the life and times of Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, one of the greatest songwriting teams in history responsible for the most stylish, sophisticated theater music of the 20th century.
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2 years ago
35 minutes 46 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 4: Yip Harburg
“Paper Moon”, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, “Over the Rainbow”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, feast your ears on a wealth of knowledge as we pull back the curtain on Yip Harburg, “Broadway’s social conscience” who was unique among his peers for always integrating his worldviews into his shows and songs.
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2 years ago
48 minutes 30 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 3: Johnny Mercer
“Moon River”, “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Hooray for Hollywood”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, we say hooray and honor of the life of four-time Oscar winner Johnny Mercer, preeminent songwriter whose poetic lyrics vividly captured the complexities of human experience.
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3 years ago
49 minutes 21 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 2: Jule Styne
“People”, “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, everything’s coming up Jule Styne, one of the undisputed architects of American musical theater.
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3 years ago
45 minutes 38 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Episode 1: Harry Warren
“At Last”, “Lullaby of Broadway”, “That’s Amore”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, come along and listen as we take a deep dive into the life and times of Harry Warren, one of the most prolific composers and lyricists in American musical history.
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3 years ago
49 minutes 4 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
Trailer | Introducing Setting the Standard: Stories from the Great American Songbook
These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, but you may not know who wrote them..Listen here for a sneak peek of Setting the Standard: Stories from the Great American Songbook, a new podcast from Warner Chappell Music, BANG and Audiation.
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3 years ago
2 minutes 32 seconds

Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook

These are the songs you've been singing your whole life, but you might not know who wrote them...

Setting the Standard: Stories from the Great American Songbook, a new podcast from Warner Chappell Music, BANG and Audiation, explores the stories behind some of the most influential and treasured songs ever written - the songs from the Great American Songbook.

Replete with key interviews from a bevy of cultural icons such as Billy Corgan, Michael Feinstein, and Alan Bergman, this podcast grants the listener unparalleled access into the world of this formative era in music history.

Hosted by Joe Levy of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and VH1, each episode focuses on a different legendary songwriter or team, using historical sources intertwined with new interviews with scholars, critics, and family members to tell the stories of their lives, filtered through the lens of their most iconic songs.

Setting the Standard Official Companion Playlist: https://warnerchappellmusic.lnk.to/settingthestandard