Whenever there's a discussion of the great songwriters of the Golden Age of popular music (1920s to 1960s), we hear the names Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, ...

Field (Sheldon), Dorothy Lenore Age 93; of Holly; passed from this world to the next on March 17th 2017, just three short weeks following Rex’s passing. The two were married 71 years. Dear mother of ...

This Christmas week we rebroadcast our series on American popular song, and begin with the late lyricist Dorothy Fields. Born in 1905, she was the only woman in the pre-rock era to sustain major ...

In 1936 Jerome Kern (1885-1945) and Dorothy Fields (1904-1974) collaborated to create several songs for the movie musical, Swing Time, starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. "Pick Yourself Up" ...

Those are words by Dorothy Fields, who was born on this day, July 15, 1905. She was one of the very first professional female songwriters in America, and one of the most successful ever. When she died ...

First things first: Dorothy Who? It’s sad to have to explain, and there’s no need once you see the show, since her work sings for itself, without the need to advertise or trumpet its virtues. That’s ...

In Loving Memory of Dorothy Barbara Fields “Dot Pritti” was born and raised in Eureka. After graduating from Eureka High, Dorothy married Wayne L. Fields and they began their family. Dorothy was a ...

The scholar Warren Vache Sr. has written a very useful volume of composer biographies, which he calls “The Unsung Songwriters.” It includes data on nearly every songwriter except the very familiar big ...