According to researchers, John Gay’s 1728 work The Beggar’s Opera can lay claim to being the first jukebox musical. https://youtu.be/Lq7g_NRKHU0?si=zwCJdljRyI-9qC8w The opera contained musical and lyrical references to songs with which its audience would be familiar – songs from other operas, folk songs, popular numbers, all treated with greater or lesser degrees of derision. The... Continue Reading →
ARTISTS WE LOVE: ALICIA KEYS
Bob Dylan’s 2006 album, Modern Times, kicked off with a track called “Thunder on the Mountain” which contains these lines: I was thinkin’ ‘bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from cryingWhen she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the lineI'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could beI been looking for her... Continue Reading →