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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

GGACP Classic: Michael Feinstein

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates May's Jewish Heritage Month by revisiting this 2022 interview with Grammy and Emmy-nominated musician and historian Michael Feinstein. In this episode, Michael serenades Gilbert and Frank with classic tunes from the “Great American Songbook” and talks about performing at Hollywood parties, dining with Frank Sinatra, “accompanying” Judy Garland, befriending Rosemary Clooney and Ira Gershwin and recording his latest album “Gershwin Country.” Also, Paul Lynde gets plastered, Liberace morphs into Carol Channing, Irving Berlin begs Groucho not to perform his songs and Vincent Price carries on the memory of Dolores del Rio. PLUS: Bert Lahr! The music of Hugh Martin! The genius of Yip Harburg! Peter Lorre meets…Peter Lorre! Uncle Hymie inspires Inigo Montoya! And Michael favors the boys with “I Love a Piano” and “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And our guest this week is a musician, singer, composer, arranger, conductor, and Emmy nominated

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in detainer in a multi-platam Grammy nominated recording artist. In his very active and prolific

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career, this man has recorded nearly three dozen albums including Tributes to Irving Berlin,

1:54.4

Frank Sinatra, and NGM musicals, as well as his ambitious songbook project. Recording

2:03.9

the songs of legendary composers often accompanied by the composer himself, including Burton Lane,

2:14.3

Julie Stein, Jerry Herman, you Martin, Jay Livingston, and Ray Evans, and our pal and

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podcast Jimmy Webb. He's also an educator, archivist, cultural historian, and the ambassador

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of the great American songbook and has been featured in Emmy nominated TV specials like

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Michael Feinstein's American songbook and Michael Feinstein's The Sanatural Legacy.

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He also hosts the critically acclaimed NPR series, song travels with Michael Feinstein,

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and somehow he found time to write two books. Nice work if you can get it and the LA Times bestseller,

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The Gertwins and Me. But there's more. There's more. Yeah. And if you order now.

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He's performed on Broadway at Carnegie Hall at the White House, the Sydney Opera House,

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and even fucking him palace. And his popular nightclub finds Stein's at the Regency,

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Feinstein's 54, and Feinstein's at the Nico Hotel have presented top musical talents,

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