Michael Lund will present an audio lecture, “Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett: Great Singers of the American Songbook,” at 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library. Lund adds commentary to the great recordings from Columbia and Capitol Records by these two great balladeers of the American songbook and America’s Tin Pan Alley. Songwriters featured will include George Shearing, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Fred Astaire, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, and Robert Farnon. Some of the arrangers include Nelson Riddle, Ralph Sharon, George Siravo, Marty Manning, Marion Evans, and Peter Matz.
Michael Paul Lund has sung and recorded the American Songbook with members of the original Tonight Show Band in New York City. He has also written pop songs including one for Shirley Bassey. He also wrote lyrics with composers Bee Walker and Richard Lane (Bee Walker also wrote “Hey Jealous Lover” for Frank Sinatra).
Lund has delivered illustrated music talks all over the united States, including libraries, schools, historical societies, senior colleges, and theaters-in-the-round. He has done radio commentary on commercial stations coast to coast, including two-hour specials on WGBH-FM in Boston. He regularly writes music criticism for major record companies in the form of liner notes that accompany classical CD re-issues by legendary performers. Recordings of Sinatra, Bennett, and others will be available to purchase at this event.
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