Cy Coleman: Our Private World

Cy Coleman: Our Private World

by | Nov 17, 2016 | Song of the Day

My “Song of the Day” blog began this week with an enchanted train; in actuality, a wheezy rickety commuter train on the Long Island Rail Road.  Today, I’ll turn to the “prince of wheels—the luxury liner of locomotive trains”:  the Twentieth Century, Ltd., which zoomed...
Coleman: If You Hadn’t But You Did

Coleman: If You Hadn’t But You Did

by | Dec 29, 2015 | Song of the Day

I have loved the song “If You Hadn’t But You Did” ever since I heard the original cast recording of Two on the Aisle (where it was performed by powerhouse Dolores Gray, who sounds as if she could sing Amneris). Cy Coleman is at his peak, and lyricists Betty Comden and...