Jerome Kern

Picture This Playlist 123: Lost in the Stars (with Kurt Weill and in Act II, Jerome Kern)

A show in two acts, Act I featuring the timeless music of Kurt Weill from his days writing with Bertolt Brecht in Germany and progressing through his Broadway and Hollywood songbooks …Happy in the Act II to finally get to the work of Jerome Kern, who wrote some of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most enduring melodies …


Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, Playlist 122-Lorenz Hart (and Richard Rodgers), the Blue Moon Playlist

The theme of this show, specifically, is the career of the songwriting team of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, with an emphasis on Hart and Richard Linklater’s 2025 biopic about the night Hart experienced the beginning of the end of …



Picture This Playlist 120: Favorite Fakes (singers playing characters, actors playing singers)!

(This program was broadcast Sunday, March 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) Note: The idea with this program was to focus on a kind of fiction within the fiction that sometimes …


Meta-hits of 1967: Spotlight on the Year Pop Music Celebrated Itself in Song

(This piece originally appeared on the Mischief Time Blog: https://wcresser.com/2025/11/18/meta-hits-of-1967-spotlight-on-the-year-pop-music-celebrated-itself-in-song/ on 11.18/2025). By Wayne Cresser | WRIU | February 19, 2026 In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes …