Recording: City Of StarsArtist: Ryan Gosling and Emma StoneAlbum: La La Land Original SoundtrackAcademy Award Winners for Best Original Song (2017). Wait... Yes!

Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood

Recording: May Jean Goes To HollywoodArtist: The ByrdsAlbum: Ballad of Easy RiderWritten by a 21-year-old Jackson Browne. Played by the Clarence White Byrds. What could be better?

Blue Money

Recording: Blue MoneyArtist: Van MorrisonAlbum: His Band & The Street Choir

An Irish sage visits the San Fernando Valley.

Tara's Theme (Act One Recap)

Recording: Tara's ThemeArtist: John Williams & The Boston PopsAlbum: A Celebration

Act 2 - An Actors' Life For MeLook At Me

Recording: Look At MeArtist: Bobbie DarinAlbum: Bless You California

Act Naturally

Recording: Act NaturallyArtist: Dwight YoakamAlbum: 21st Century Hits

Malkovich

Recording: MalkovichArtist: Dweezil ZappaAlbum: Via Zammata

Son of Mr Green Jeans? Son of Frank Zappa meets Malkovich.

The Raven

Recording: The RavenArtist: Jeff BridgesAlbum: Sleeping Tapes

Visit Jeff's Squarespace "Sleeping Tapes" site HERE:

New Kid In Town

Recording: New Kid In TownArtist: JD SoutherAlbum: Natural History

The four most dreaded words in Hollywood.

Theme From "A Summer Place"

Recording: Theme From "A Summer Place"Artist: Percy FaithAlbum: Percy Faith Plays Movie Themes

Composer Max Steiner strikes again!

Act 3: The Wayfaring Stranger, The Wizard of Whimsey & Recessional Hollywood Hymns

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Recording: Big Rock Candy MountainArtist: Burl IvesAlbum: Greatest Hits

Which Side Are You On?

Recording: Which Side Are You On?Artist: The Almanac SingersAlbum: Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music

How a confluence of economical and political conditions made two very different men "fellow travelers..."

Two disparate show business figures seemed to fall into a concentric orbit during a unique period of Hollywood history.One, was a man of the dusty road who brought the sensibility of depression era America to the mainstream.The other, became thought of as one of the country’s homegrown geniuses. His name began to embody a brand of American commercial artistic creativity.One man was Burl Ives, the other was Walt Disney.Both exuded Americana. Both made personal political decisions that somewhat singed their historical images. The choices they made involved their testimony before The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Each individual that was called had a difficult decision to made. These two men made essentially the same choice.Burl Ives began as an itinerant singer and banjo player. By 1940, he had his own radio show where he performed the versions “of record” of hobo and road songs.He popularized the Irish war ballad ’Foggy Dew", the minstrel tune ”The Blue Tail Fly" and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" a song celebrating an idealized version of the Hobo life.Ives also performed with the Almanac Singers a folk group which at different times included Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger.By most measures, his biggest hit over time is version of the 17th-century English song "Lavender Blue.” The song became a hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its use in the 1949 Disney film So Dear To My Heart. The film is thought to be Walt Disney's most personal films, and a point where he came into his own as a producer of live action films.

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