"BARBARA
LEA - "THE MELODY LINGERS ON #2" AT JUDY'S CHELSEA
Barbara
Lea will celebrate the release of her latest CD "THE MELODY LINGERS
ON" in a series of six Friday night shows at JUDY'S CHELSEA (169 Eighth
Avenue, NYC - 212-929-5410 - http://www.judyschelsea.com/)
running from September 20th through October 25th at 8:30 pm. Miss
Lea will be teamed with her long time pianist Wes McAfee, who accompanied
her in a series of one night a week engagements at the former JAN
WALLMAN'S CABARET on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village and the
midtown location on West 44th Street through the 1980s until the club
closed in 1990. There is a $15 cover charge, $12 food/drink minimum.
"The Melody Lingers On"
opened at JUDY'S CHELSEA in the spring of this year and was so successful
(all shows sold out) that she is returning by popular demand with
a few favorites from the previous edition, but mostly new material.
Both the show and the CD highlight songs from the book of the same
name by the late Roy Hemming subtitled "Great Songwriters and Their
Movie Musicals."
Barbara captures the truly
great songs of Porter, Berlin, the Gershwins, Kern, Arlen, and Rodgers
& Hart, as well as lesser-known composers such as Ralph Rainger, Harry
Warren, and Arthur Schwartz - the legendary tunesmiths of the best
of the American Popular Song, whose works have survived changing fashions
in movies and music and who are heralded in Hemming's chronicle.
Roy Hemming was an ardent
fan of Barbara Lea and rarely missed her performances at the club
which was her home base for over ten years. He featured her in another
book, "DISCOVERING GREAT SINGERS OF CLASSIC POP (from Jolson to Minnelli)"
coauthored with David Hajdu. The CD and these evenings are a tribute
to Hemming and the songwriters both he and Barbara Lea most admired.
For more information, see
http://www.barbaralea.com/.
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