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Michael Feinsteins American Songbook  Putting on the Tailfins

How Singers like Frank Sinatra updated the American Songbook during the 1950s and 1960s. Details

 

Program: Michael Feinsteins American Songbook

Episode: Putting on the Tailfins

Putting On the Tailfins, focuses on the 1950s and 1960s, when the Great American Songbook was in competition with new forms like rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Viewers learn how iconic singers like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Rosemary Clooney kept the Songbook alive by reinventing pop standards of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Duration: (11:17)
Premiere Date: 10/06/2010
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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