Emma Degerstedt and ensemblephoto credit: Joan MarcusIt's not that I wasn't listening to the radio during the 1950's and 1960's, but I just didn't think that such songs as "Baby Baby," "Poison Ivy," "Yakety Yak," and "Shoppin' for Clothes" were connected to composers. Now I know that. But I actually didn't know they were until 1975 when I saw the first Broadway production of  "Smokey Joe's Cafe." After close to tw…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 10:13AM on July 24, 2018