After featuring him in a team episode (with Irving Kahal) and several times with single songs in other episodes, Sammy Fain finally gets his very own episode. Six of the best from this incredibly versatile, completely self-taught composer. Tune...

This fortnight Tuesday the Bad Piano Player does a special episode of songs that lay dormant for many years before bursting onto the charts. We call it Not Hits -- Hits! Tune in for the discoveries. 

This week, the Bad Piano Player gives it his all with Bandleader, composer, arranger, and occasional movie actor Ted Fiorito. Never heard of him, you say? Well, then you're in for a gigantic treat, aren't you? Come for the tunes, stay for the t...

This week, episode 171 of the Bad Piano player podcast, we feature the great composer Harold Spina with his own episode. We learn six of his songs. And I play them. Badly. (It's in the name, people). Maybe not too badly. I also sing them, not t...

The Bad Piano Player beats the post-Labor Day blues with a new episode we call 1960's Romance. Six songs from the nineteen-sixties, speaking of lost love, found love, misplaced love, "It was here yesterday..."A simple group of songs for a simpl...

The Bad Piano Player is in tune with the tides this week, featuring old and new friends with songs about the moon in an episode we call "Moon Songs". Which, according to Elroy, is a catchy title. We're all about the sea of tranquility this week...

This week, the Bad Piano Player features Big Band Leaders of the 1940s in a special episode we call "Big Band Leaders". Some famous, some not so famous, songs galore, a tale or two and the usual bad piano playing and oversinging. It's what we d...

The podcast features Allie Wrubel this week. Sax player in big bands, Broadway composer, movie composer, Oscar winner, and all around musical fellow. Tune in for tunes! Stay for the bad piano playing! A virtual tour of the Nepotism Studio await...

This week, the Bad Piano Player goes way back to an obscure lyricist/occasional composer named Benny Davis. Was that his real name? Did he write any famous lyrics? Is he a member of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame? To answer these and other perti...

This week, the bad piano player does his third grab bag episode, finding six songs that defy category and are pleasing to the ear and heart, Tune in and be pleased, my darlings. 

For episode 164, the Bad Piano Player celebrates songs with the word "Baby" in the title, or as we quaintly call it..."Baby Songs". Grab your pacifiers, kids, and settle in! Ah one, ah two, ah one, two, three...

This week, the bad piano player brings back his favorite theme from last season, with a second go-round of Most Obscure Songs. A little Bowie, perhaps? Some Edward Bear? A dollop of J. Tull, my darlings? Tune in and be dazzled by the unknown.

This week, the Bad Piano Player brings together a superb singer and a master lyricist. The singer is Peggy Lee, and so is the lyricist. And baby, is she gonna give you some fever. In the morning and all through the night. Tune in for the cure.

This week, the bad piano player features old friend composers and lyricists for songs that Dick Powell, boy singer, sang in the movies early in his career. Later he was the first man ever to play Philip Marlowe onscreen, but in the 30's he was ...

The Bad Piano player celebrates Tax Day with the third of the "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episode, featuring composer/lyricist Billy Hill, who wrote more western-style songs than Gene Autry and you won't believe what his most famous son...

April Fools Fortnight Tuesday begins with our second "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes with the tuneful Joe Burke. A Tin Pan Alley veteran, Philadelphia born Joe had a bevy of Billboard hits in the 1930s. And an inaugural class induc...

This week, the Bad Piano Player begins a series of three "Songwriters You've Never Heard Of" episodes and we begin with Fats Domino's favorite lyricist, the great Al Lewis. Why was he Fats Domino's fave lyricist? Tune and find out!

This fortnight, we finally honor the most excellent Oscar Hammerstein the second with his own episode. Six songs will be learned. Three Kerns, and three Rodgers. It's going to be semi-epic, kids. Tune in to be enthralled by the master lyricist....

This week, the Bad Piano Player goes for a second Ray Noble episode, with the emphasis on Ray's longtime vocalist, the great Al Bowlly. We'll be learning six songs Al recorded, five written by Ray. And the sometimes okay singer will be channeli...

This week, the Bad Piano Player takes two Bing Crosby movies from the mid 1930s, and pulls three Gordon & Revel songs from each one. Hence: Two Movies - Six Songs. We throw in some synopses and a plot or two, some scenery ideas. You know, m...

We begin season six of the Bad Piano Player Podcast with a look at Oscar nominated songs from the 1940s -- that did NOT win. Some lost to better songs. Others lost to, well....crap. But we picked some corkers for you, our loyal listeners. Tune ...

It's the Season finale, friends! Season five has come and gone and we celebrate with a great songwriting team and their hits. Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert wrote some classics for you to rediscover today! Thanks for all your support and we'll see yo...

The penultimate episode of season five finds the bad piano player doing a second grab bag episode featuring two Oscar Levant compositions, a Johnny Burke we missed for his episode, a Hy Zaret restaurant classic, and many more. Okay two more. Tu...

This week, the Bad Piano Player features composer Ray Henderson, charter member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, writer of Animal Crackers In My Soup, Bye Bye, Blackbird, Don't Bring Lulu, The Birth of The Blues, The Best Things In Life Are Fr...

This week, in response to many emails and texts, the Bad Piano Player decided we couldn't wait until Robbie Burns day or St. Patrick's day to do another Celtic songs episode. The demand was too great! So we learn six songs from the cradle of go...