Send us a text After featuring him in a team episode (with Irving Kahal) and several times with single songs in other episodes, Sammy Fain finally gets his very own episode. Six of the best from this incredibly versatile, completely self-taught composer. Tune in for great tunes!

Send us a text This fortnight Tuesday the Bad Piano Player does a special episode of songs that lay dormant for many years before bursting onto the charts. We call it Not Hits -- Hits! Tune in for the discoveries.

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player gives it his all with Bandleader, composer, arranger, and occasional movie actor Ted Fiorito. Never heard of him, you say? Well, then you're in for a gigantic treat, aren't you? Come for the tunes, stay for the tunes. Tune in!

Send us a text This week, episode 171 of the Bad Piano player podcast, we feature the great composer Harold Spina with his own episode. We learn six of his songs. And I play them. Badly. (It's in the name, people). Maybe not too badly. I also sing them, not too badly, I hope. And Elroy has an announcement. Kidding! He'll be playing with his phone as usual. Tune in anyway.

Send us a text The Bad Piano Player beats the post-Labor Day blues with a new episode we call 1960's Romance. Six songs from the nineteen-sixties, speaking of lost love, found love, misplaced love, "It was here yesterday..."A simple group of songs for a simpler time. Plus some harmonies from Mrs Pretty Damn Good Singer. But you must tune in to hear it!

Send us a text The Bad Piano Player is in tune with the tides this week, featuring old and new friends with songs about the moon in an episode we call "Moon Songs". Which, according to Elroy, is a catchy title. We're all about the sea of tranquility this week. Tune in and share the Moon light. We learn the songs so you don't have to!

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player features Big Band Leaders of the 1940s in a special episode we call "Big Band Leaders". Some famous, some not so famous, songs galore, a tale or two and the usual bad piano playing and oversinging. It's what we do! Tune in and be transported.

Send us a text The podcast features Allie Wrubel this week. Sax player in big bands, Broadway composer, movie composer, Oscar winner, and all around musical fellow. Tune in for tunes! Stay for the bad piano playing! A virtual tour of the Nepotism Studio awaits the winner of next week's sponsorship contest! See you there, kids.

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player goes way back to an obscure lyricist/occasional composer named Benny Davis. Was that his real name? Did he write any famous lyrics? Is he a member of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame? To answer these and other pertinent (Where is Elroy??) queries, please tune in, music fans!

Send us a text This week, the bad piano player does his third grab bag episode, finding six songs that defy category and are pleasing to the ear and heart, Tune in and be pleased, my darlings.

Send us a text For episode 164, the Bad Piano Player celebrates songs with the word "Baby" in the title, or as we quaintly call it..."Baby Songs". Grab your pacifiers, kids, and settle in! Ah one, ah two, ah one, two, three...

Send us a text This week, the bad piano player brings back his favorite theme from last season, with a second go-round of Most Obscure Songs. A little Bowie, perhaps? Some Edward Bear? A dollop of J. Tull, my darlings? Tune in and be dazzled by the unknown.

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player brings together a superb singer and a master lyricist. The singer is Peggy Lee, and so is the lyricist. And baby, is she gonna give you some fever. In the morning and all through the night. Tune in for the cure.

Send us a text This week, the bad piano player features old friend composers and lyricists for songs that Dick Powell, boy singer, sang in the movies early in his career. Later he was the first man ever to play Philip Marlowe onscreen, but in the 30's he was sweet-faced heart-throb tenor Dick, who charmed the ladies with music. We hope you'll tune in and be charmed as well.

Send us a text The Bad Piano player celebrates Tax Day with the third of the "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episode, featuring composer/lyricist Billy Hill, who wrote more western-style songs than Gene Autry and you won't believe what his most famous song was. Tune in to hear it done by a bad piano player!

Send us a text April Fools Fortnight Tuesday begins with our second "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes with the tuneful Joe Burke. A Tin Pan Alley veteran, Philadelphia born Joe had a bevy of Billboard hits in the 1930s. And an inaugural class inductee to the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Tune in to enjoy the bevy!

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player begins a series of three "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes and we begin with Fats Domino's favorite lyricist, the great Al Lewis. Why was he Fats Domino's fave lyricist? Tune and find out!

Send us a text This fortnight, we finally honor the most excellent Oscar Hammerstein the second with his own episode. Six songs will be learned. Three Kerns, and three Rodgers. It's going to be semi-epic, kids. Tune in to be enthralled by the master lyricist. (And semi-enthralled by the bad piano player, right, Elroy? Right??)

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player goes for a second Ray Noble episode, with the emphasis on Ray's longtime vocalist, the great Al Bowlly. We'll be learning six songs Al recorded, five written by Ray. And the sometimes okay singer will be channeling his best voice to even approach the perfection of Al Bowlly's voice. Tune in to see how we do!

Send us a text This week, the Bad Piano Player takes two Bing Crosby movies from the mid 1930s, and pulls three Gordon & Revel songs from each one. Hence: Two Movies - Six Songs. We throw in some synopses and a plot or two, some scenery ideas. You know, maybe some throw pillows. Elroy thinks the Nepotism Studio would look better in purple. Tune in for the songs, stay for the stories.