Singing Songwriters
By Will Friedwald, eMusic Contributor
As Sammy Fain says on one of these albums, the old adage about children can be applied in reverse for songwriters: they were supposed to be heard but not seen. On another CD, Dorothy Fields tells the story of Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg driving home after a Hollywood party, and despondently asking each other, "How come no one asked us to sing?" Before the 1960s &mdash specifically Bob Dylan and the Beatles &mdash singing and… more »