"A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (Home Recording)" Single Release

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This version of Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody” was created for WNYC’s Public Song Project in March of 2023.  The original song was published in 1919, and became the theme song of the “Ziegfeld Follies,” a theatrical revue which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931.  In addition to being considered part of the Great American Songbook, “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody” recently entered the public domain.  When interpreting older songs, I try to find the darker side of these often up-tempo major key classics; often a love song is just a brush stroke away from being transformed into something menacing.   My version of this song is presented in a minor key, accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Mark Caserta on both bass and resonator guitar, and country singer Kathryn Lewis on accompanying vocals.  To harken to the original recording quality of the source material, this…