Past Weekly Tunes in Alphabetical Order

 When I started this website decades ago, MIDI and the digital revolution had made it possible to do passable music recordings at home, without the expense and bother (and added pressure) of hiring a proper recording studio.

     I had no experience with the computerized recording programs, but I had a keyboard and thought it would be fun to learn this new-fangled stuff.  Because I was a beginner at all of this and not technically fluent, the quality of these recordings varies widely.  None of them is really first rate, but I let them go because I thought of this as a sort of exercise,  a sketch book, a place to try out different things.

     Since all pianists in this style are perforce arrangers – every tune one plays is one’s own sense of how it should be – it was especially enjoyable to be able to bring on virtually any other instrument in synthesized form.   Strings, brass, saxes etc., they were all at my fingertips so as I gained some skills I tried to add them in.  The process brought me back to my high school band camp days, listening to the various sectional rehearsals and then hearing how they all came together.  Eventually, I asked some singer friends to participate.  It was a fun aspect of my life at the time.  The results are below.

All Through the Day (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) CLICK HERE

All Through the Night (Cole Porter) CLICK HERE

April Love (Sammy Fain) CLICK HERE

A Second Chance (Previn and Langdon) CLICK HERE

Autumn Nocturne (Josef Myrow) CLICK HERE

Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke) CLICK HERE

The Bad and the Beautiful (David Raksin) CLICK HERE

Call Me Irresponsible (Van Heusen, Cahn) CLICK HERE

The Christmas Waltz (Jule Styne) CLICK HERE

A Cottage for Sale (Willard Robison, Larry Conley) CLICK HERE

Count Your Blessings (Irving Berlin) CLICK HERE

Don't Blame Me (Jimmy McHugh) CLICK HERE

Dream Dancing (Cole Porter) CLICK HERE

Et Maintenant? (Gilbert Becaud) CLICK HERE

From This Moment On (Rodgers & Hart) CLICK HERE

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional) CLICK HERE

Good Morning, Heartache (Higgenbotham, Drake, Fisher) CLICK HERE

Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (Styne, Cahn) CLICK HERE

The Happy Time (Kander and Ebb) CLICK HERE

Haunted Heart (Dietz and Shwartz) CLICK HERE

Heart and Soul (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) CLICK HERE

Hymne a l'Amour (Marguerite Monnot, Edith Piaf) CLICK HERE

I Concentrate on You (Porter) CLICK HERE

If I Ruled the World (Ornadel, Bricusse) CLICK HERE

I'll String Along With You (Harry Warren) CLICK HERE

I'm Old Fashioned (Jerome Kern) CLICK HERE

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Mann and Hilliard) CLICK HERE

Isn't It A PIty? (George and Ira Gerswhin)CLICK HERE

Isn't This a Lovely Day (To be Caught in the Rain?) (Berlin)CLICK HERE

It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers and Hammerstein)CLICK HERE

It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers and Hart)CLICK HERE

It Seems to be Spring (Richard Whiting)CLICK HERE

I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (Fats Waller, Harry Link, Billy Rose)CLICK HERE

June in January (Robin and Rainger)CLICK HERE

Just In Time (Jule Styne, Comden, Green)CLICK HERE

Keep Christmas with You (All Through the Year)CLICK HERE

The Lady's in Love With You (Lane, Loesser)CLICK HERE

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (George Gershwin)CLICK HERE

Let's Face the Music (Berlin)CLICK HERE

Limehouse Blues (Braham)CLICK HERE

Love is Here To Stay (Gershwin)CLICK HERE

Make Believe (Kern and Hammerstein)CLICK HERE

Manhattan (Rodgers and Hart)CLICK HERE

Me, Myself and I (Gordon, Roberts, Kauffman)CLICK HERE

Merry Christmas, Darling (Carpenter, Pooler) CLICK HERE

Mind if I Make Love to You? (Cole Porter) CLICK HERE

Moonlight Becomes You (Van Heusen, Burke) CLICK HERE

The Nearness of You (Hoagy Carmichael) CLICK HERE

Nuages (Clouds) (Django Reinhart) CLICK HERE

Old Folks (Robison, Hill)CLICK HERE

Ole Buttermilk Sky (Hoagy Carmichael) CLICK HERE

On a Slow Boat to China (Loesser) CLICK HERE

Penthouse Serenade (Burton, Jason)CLICK HERE

Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Van Heusen, Burke) CLICK HERE

The Rainbow Connection (Williams)CLICK HERE

Red Sails in the Sunset (Williams (Grosz) and Kennedy)CLICK HERE

Saving All My Love for You (Gerry Goffen, Michael Masser)CLICK HERE

A Second Chance (Previn and Langdon)CLICK HERE

September in The Rain (Harry Warren) CLICK HERE

Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin) CLICK HERE

Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) CLICK HERE

Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year (Frank Loesser)CLICK HERE

StarDust (Carmichael, Parrish)CLICK HERE

Sunday Kind of Love (Belle, Leonard, Rhodes, Prima)CLICK HERE

S’ Wonderful CLICK HERE

Tea for Two (Vincent Youmans)CLICK HERE

There's a Lull in My Life (Harry Revel, Mack Gordon)CLICK HERE

There's a Small Hotel (Rodgers and Hart CLICK HERE

There Will Never Be Another You (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) CLICK HERE

Time After Time (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) CLICK HERE

'Tis Autumn (Henry Nemo) CLICK HERE

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Frank Loesser) CLICK HERE

What Is There To Say? (Vernon Duke) CLICK HERE

What Now, My Love? (Gilbert Becaud) CLICK HERE

Where or When (Rodgers and Hart) CLICK HERE

A Wink and a Smile CLICK HERE

Winter Was Warm (Julie Styne, Bob Merrill) CLICK HERE

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Barris) CLICK HERE

You Leave Me Breathless (Hollander) CLICK HERE

Young and Foolish (Hague, Horwitt) CLICK HERE