And Then You Kissed Me (sheet music)

“And Then You Kissed Me” with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jule Styne.

Cole Porter Performing at the Piano

Cole Porter at the place he loved best, in front of the piano.

Frank Sinatra

Irving Berlin with his wife, Ellin Mackay Berlin

Jule Styne, Barbra Streisand, and Sidney Chaplin

Jule Styne plays the songs from the new musical Funny Girl for stars Barbra Streisand and Sidney Chaplin

Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson Perform

Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson perform (Feinstein’s at the Regency, NY, NY).

Michael Feinstein and Karen Kennedy

Michael Feinstein meets with Karen Kennedy, singer Bob Kennedy’s (1922-2008) daughter, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to view her collection.

Michael Feinstein and Rosemary Clooney

Michael Feinstein and Rosemary Clooney performed about 200 concerts together.

Michael Feinstein at Work

Michael Feinstein in his recording studio.

Michael Feinstein Explores Earl Brown’s Collection

Michael Feinstein prepares to examine the belongings of composer and arranger Earl Brown, who left Feinstein all of his music when he died.

Michael Feinstein Rehearses “Come Fly with Me”

Michael Feinstein rehearses at Palm Beach Community College, West Palm Beach, FL.

Nat King Cole, “Ballads of the Day”

Nat King Cole’s recording, Ballads of the Day, had an original release date of 1956. The recording includes: “A Blossom Fell”; “Unbelievable”; “Blue Gardenia”; “Angel Eyes”; “It Happens To Be Me”; “Smile”; “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup”; “Alone Too Long”; “My One Sin”; “Return to Paradise”; “If Love Is Good to Me”; “The Sand and the Sea." Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle; by Billy May on “Angel Eyes."

Performer, Musician, and Collector Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein exploring a collection.

Sheet music for “In the Wee Small Hours”

“In the Wee Small Hours” sheet music. Propitiously, the 33 1/3 rpm record was just coming into vogue, replacing the 78 rpm disc. On 78s, the choice of songs and their order hadn’t been so important, as individual songs could be easily purchased and played. As the 10-inch 78 was replaced by the LP, Frank Sinatra and his producers were able to imbue these long playing records with concepts, carefully choosing the songs and their order. Once Sinatra was back on top, riding the popularity of such carefully crafted and enduring discs as “In the Wee Small Hours” and “Songs for Swinging Lovers,” Sinatra stayed there.

Sheet music for “Night and Day”

Fred Astaire on “Night and Day”.

It had a long range, very low and kind of very high, and it was long, as they all said, and I was trying to figure out what kind of dance could be arranged for it. I asked him to play it again and again, and after four or five times I began to get with it…It was a known fact that it made the show. “Gay Divorce” had an awfully rough trip when it first opened on the road and later in New York. It was known after it caught on as “The Night and Day Show”.

The Sinatra Project

Michael Feinstein performs songs from his “Sinatra Project” CD in London, with a seventeen-piece big band conducted by arranger Bill Elliott.

Collector Max Wilk and Michael Feinstein

Collector Max Wilk and Michael Feinstein, Westport, CT.

Collectors Roy Bishop and Harold Jacobs with Michael Feinstein

Collectors Roy Bishop and Harold Jacobs with Michael Feinstein, Valley Village, CA.

Harold Jacobs in His Sheet Music Closet (photo: Roy Bishop)

Harold Jacobs with Songwriter Doris Fisher at a Sheet Music Luncheon

Harold Jacobs, Roy Bishop, and Beverly Hamer. (photo: Sandy Marrone)

Harold Jacobs and Roy Bishop in their living room with music dealer Beverly Hamer. (photo: Sandy Marrone)

Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

Irving Berlin with his wife, Ellin Mackay Berlin

Margaret Whiting and Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein visits with legendary singer Margaret Whiting in her Manhattan apartment, where he presented her with a recently recovered recording of one of the programs she made for World War II servicemen.

Marvin Hamlisch Plays Piano with Michael Fenstein

Marvin Hamlisch plays piano with Michael Fenstein at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Champagne-Urbana, IL.

Michael Feinstein and the U.S. Marine Corps Band Perform

Michael Feinstein and the U.S. Marine Corps Band perform “We Dreamed These Days,” an original song with music by Feinstein and words by Maya Angelou, composed in 2009 in honor of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

Michael Feinstein with Collector Marty Halperin

Michael Feinstein with collector Marty Halperin (Woodland Hills, CA) listening to rare recordings of Margaret Whiting performing for an Armed Forces of the United Nations Recording.

Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin music

Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra play the music of George Gershwin. Whiteman commissioned Gershwin to write a classical piece for the famous Aeolian Hall concert.

Paul Whiteman, “The King of Jazz”

Popular song purists tend to dismiss Paul Whiteman because he was dubbed “The King of Jazz.” Whether his was actually a jazz band is beside the point. Whiteman brought popular music into the jazz age as a transitional figure who understood how popular music needed to change.

Portrait of Songwriter, Mitchell Parish

Songwriter, Mitchell Parish first rejected the song “Stardust” but then relented and wrote the lyrics for the Hoagie Carmichael song in 1929.

Roy Bishop and a Portion of His Alice Faye Collection

Roy Bishop and Alice Faye at the Los Feliz Theater, Hollywood

The King of Jazz

Way back in the distance is Whiteman, leading the orchestra in the 1930 film musical, The King of Jazz.” They don’t make musicals like that anymore.

The Paul Whiteman Orchestra

The Paul Whiteman Orchestra, augmented for the historic 1924 Aeolian Hall concert in which George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered.

Collector and Musician Vince Giordano (photo: Steve Friedman)

David Hyde Pierce and Michael Feinstein

David Hyde Pierce and Michael Feinstein perform at Feinstein’s at the Regency in New York.

Joe Franklin with Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein visits legendary television talk show host and collector Joe Franklin in Joe’s Times Square office, which is just one of many locations around New York City where Joe stores his memorabilia.

Lyricist Ira Gershwin and Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein was hired by the Gershwin family to catalog the Gershwin Collection of Recordings in 1976.

Michael Feinstein and Jim Caruso

Michael Feinstein and Jim Caruso at Cast Party, as Michael Feinstein prepares to perform Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” with previously undiscovered lyrics from Berlin.

Musician and Collector Vince Giordano and Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein plays a duet with bandleader and collector Vince Giordano in Vince’s Brooklyn home, which houses Giordano’s collection of 33,000 dance band arrangements and a complete array of vintage musical instruments. Here, Michael plays a 1922 Steinway baby grand player piano, while Vince plays a string bass made of aluminum—the high-tech material of the 1920s.

My Kid’s a Crooner (sheet music courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Sheet music from Peter Mintun’s collection of more than 13,000 individual pieces. (courtesy: Peter Mintun)

New Yorker (magazine courtesy: Peter Mintun)

A vintage magazine cover from Peter Mintun’s collection of 2500 periodicals from the early 1900s. (courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Night Life (magazine courtesy: Peter Mintun)

A vintage magazine cover from Peter Mintun’s collection of 2500 periodicals from the early 1900s. (courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Peter Mintun and Michael Feinstein

Musician, historian, and collector Peter Mintun and Michael Feinstein play piano on Peter’s Welte-Mignon grand.

The Girl From Utah (sheet music courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Sheet music from Peter Mintun’s collection of more than 13,000 individual pieces. (courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks (photo: Michael Lenic)

Yours For a Song (sheet music courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Sheet music from Peter Mintun’s collection of more than 13,000 individual pieces.  (sheet music courtesy: Peter Mintun)

Michael Feinstein and Hugh Hefner

Michael Feinstein and Hugh Hefner check out Hef’s vintage Wurlitzer jukebox in the Playboy Mansion’s fabled “Game House.”

Michael Feinstein visits with entertainer Rose Marie

Michael Feinstein visits with entertainer Rose Marie, who literally opened in Las Vegas in 1947, at the first big casino/nightclub, The Flamingo.

Jerry Herman teaches Michael Feinstein one of his songs.

Broadway composer/lyricist Jerry Herman teaches Michael Feinstein one of his unpublished, unrecorded “trunk” songs.

Michael plays one of Liberace’s rhinestone encrusted pianos

Michael plays one of Liberace’s rhinestone encrusted pianos in the now-closed Liberace Museum in Las Vegas. Liberace used to travel with his own glazier who was responsible for re-gluing all the rhinestones on his pianos and cars that were damaged in transport.