Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' "The Telephone Hour" from "Bye, Bye Birdie"Â (1960).Composer Charles Strouse was born on this date ninety-four years ago. His more than thirty stage musicals, including thirteen for Broadway, contain some of my personal favorite songs written for the theatre, none more so than "Put On a Happy Face" from Bye, Bye Birdie. Too young to have seen the original Broadway show in 1960, I fell…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:26AM on June 7, 2022