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The brightest guy on the listserve Songbirds and the world's biggest Sondheim fan now has a blog!

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Highly recommended.

Mystery vocalist of the day. I'll never tell; but the backing musicians are Lou Levy, Max Bennett and Chuck Flores.

Get the hook!

Leonard Reed emcees a typical mid-1950s weekly Apollo Theater Talent Show (Windows Media Player required) American Idol can't hold a candle to this! (A quarter-hour in length; might take a few minutes to download.)

Betty Hutton in Person

Hardly a dry in the house for this extraordinary 1983 appearance by the great Betty Hutton. This is a slightly abridged version of what is believed to be her last public peformance . And here is part two

Leonard Reed (left) welcomes Laurence Olivier (center), Joan Plowright (2nd from right), Alan Bates (right) and unident. to Harlem's Apollo Theater (!), late 1950s