Grant Clarke

Send us Fan MailThis week, in the penultimate episode of season seven, the Bad Piano Player looks at seven songs written for movies in the year of our Lord 1939. Did I say "looks at"? I meant we PLAY those songs. Plus the movie plots, right Elroy? Right. Tune in, turn on, be the music. 

Send us Fan MailThe Bad Piano Player returns to the fold with a composer, a lyricist, a modest career arc with a couple of hit songs, and someone only my core-within-the-core will know. We feature Cliff Friend on episode 198. Six of his best and I do my best to sing them as he would have liked. Tune in for songs.

Send us Fan MailThis Fortnight Tuesday, the Bad Piano player brings you an episode from the heart, getting to the heart of the songs, singing heartily. Every song a newly discovered classic song about the human heart. With some of our favorite composers, no less. Don't be heartless, tune in!

Send us Fan MailThis week, the bad piano player tackles one of the great topics: Marriage. Songs of love, songs of breakup, songs of contracts between two consenting adults. All done by the bad piano player and the singer of recent online distinction. Tune in for the nuptials, no Mendelssohn!

Send us Fan MailThis week, for episode 195, the bad piano player has a group of songs that deal with addiction. We cover alcoholism, drug addiction, and other pernicious afflictions of the lifelong cravers. Tune in for tunes, chord progressions and sober reflections of a long day's journey. 

Send us Fan MailThis week, the bad piano player presents a lyricist who died young, but not before producing some of the finest lyrics in the American songbook. Tune in to hear Grant Clarke's words, and some music, too, of course.

Send us Fan MailThis week, the bad piano player features famed tunesmith Jimmy McHugh! Composer of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love “ which we did in our season one Dorothy Fields episode. A full slate of McHugh melodious on tap! Tune in and drink deep!

Send us Fan MailThis week, the bad piano player finally gets around to featuring the great Victor Young, song and score composer. Songs you know and songs you may not know. Tune in for both and be dazzled by Victor.

Send us Fan MailThis Week, The Bad Piano Player does an episode of slightly obscure jazz songs of the 1940s. We call it, Mostly Forgotten Jazz Songs Of The 1940s. Songs, Stories, a little Duke Ellington, a little Sunny Skylar, and a whole lot of diminished chords. Tune in for the resolutions. 

Send us Fan MailThis week, the bad piano player goes back to the 1970s, and finds some classics hiding in the cellar of the Billboard top 100. Hope you can drop by for the memories. Tunes ahoy!