{"id":17620,"date":"2025-06-17T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:06:09","slug":"episode-358-gay-eccentrics-pride-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/episode-358-gay-eccentrics-pride-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 368. Gay Eccentrics (Pride 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 368. Gay Eccentrics (Pride 2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1583-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Brynley and Norman Notley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere along the line in planning my Pride 2025 episodes, I hit upon the idea of paying tribute to Gay Eccentrics. (Maybe because I am one of them myself?) There are many mad queer geniuses in the history of music, and I have chosen today to focus on three twentieth-century case studies. First, the husband and husband team of Norman Notley (1890 \u2013 1980) and David Brynley (1902 \u2013 1981), musical and artistic polymaths who settled in the small Dorset village of Corfe Castle. They were both members of the innocuously-named New English Singers, which was actually an early version of the high-caliber vocal chamber ensembles in such profusion today. In recent times their archives have been digitized and exhibited at the Dorset Museum and Art Gallery, which has led to their story going viral. In 1957 while living in the US, the pair made a recording of Elizabethan Songs that is a model of its kind and is featured on the episode. Next up us Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883 \u2013 1950), much better known as Lord Berners, the quintessential upper-class British eccentric who also happened to be the leading British avant-garde composer of his day (as well as a \u201cnotorious\u201d homosexual!) I feature an excerpt from his single opera as well as a passel of songs from his small output. Finally, we cross the Atlantic to encounter the prescience, acerbic wit and borderline insanity of Ben Bagley (1933 \u2013 1998), the producer of off-Broadway theatrical revues and a series of recordings featuring unknown material by the top Broadway composers of the day, including fellow gay eccentrics Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart. I may be a day late with this week\u2019s episode, but I\u2019m definitely not a dollar short! This episode has something for everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-and-Notley-at-the-Piano.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-and-Notley-at-the-Piano.png 785w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-and-Notley-at-the-Piano-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-and-Notley-at-the-Piano-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-and-Notley-at-the-Piano-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Thomas Morley: It Was a Lover and His Lass. Norman Notley, David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Horsie-1024x667.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Horsie-1024x667.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Horsie-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Horsie-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Horsie.png 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners [Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson], Heinrich Heine: Du bist wie eine Blume (<em>Lieder Album<\/em>, No. 1). Ian Partridge, Len Vorster [2000]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-and-Oliver.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-and-Oliver.jpg 650w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-and-Oliver-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ben Bagley (R) and the pop star Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cole Porter: I\u2019m a Gigolo (<em>Wake Up and Dream<\/em>) [as heard in the Ben Bagley revue <em>The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen through the Eyes of Cole Porter<\/em>]. William Hickey, musical arrangements by Skip Redwine, vocal arrangements by Bud McCreery [1965]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-PJs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17956\" style=\"width:598px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-PJs.png 430w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-PJs-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cole Porter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/William-Hickey-in-Off-Bway-Production-of-Next.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/William-Hickey-in-Off-Bway-Production-of-Next.jpg 615w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/William-Hickey-in-Off-Bway-Production-of-Next-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Hickey in a <em>Next<\/em>, a 1969 Off-Broadway production<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dorset Museum&#8217;s Notley\/Brynley archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorsetmuseum.org\/david-brynley-and-norman-notley-archive\/\">https:\/\/www.dorsetmuseum.org\/david-brynley-and-norman-notley-archive\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Windrose Rural Media Trust&#8217;s archive of excerpts from Notley and Brynley&#8217;s home movies: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=odE75RtB7GY&amp;t=1s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=odE75RtB7GY&amp;t=1s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"17957\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-with-Hund-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-with-Hund-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-with-Hund-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-with-Hund-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-with-Hund.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"17958\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-with-Hund-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-with-Hund-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-with-Hund-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-with-Hund-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-with-Hund.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Jones: Will Saide to His Mammy. Norman Notley, David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-Beautiful.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-Beautiful.jpg 502w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-Beautiful-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The unearthly beauty of David Brynley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Thomas Campion: Thrice Toss these Oaken Ashes. David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Frances-Hodgkins-Portrait-of-David-for-David-and-Norman-1945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Frances-Hodgkins-Portrait-of-David-for-David-and-Norman-1945.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Frances-Hodgkins-Portrait-of-David-for-David-and-Norman-1945-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Portrait of David<\/em> by Frances Hodgkins, 1945 (&#8220;for David and Norman&#8221;)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Corfe.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Corfe.png 833w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Corfe-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Corfe-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of Norman Notley&#8217;s paintings depicting the village of Corfe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John Hilton [the Younger]: As Flora Slept. Norman Notley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Boats.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Boats.png 870w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Boats-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Norman-Notley-Boats-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Boats<\/em> by Norman Notley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Boys-on-the-Beach.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Boys-on-the-Beach.png 1020w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Boys-on-the-Beach-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Boys-on-the-Beach-768x496.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Robert Jones: My Complaining. Norman Notley, David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-in-Caftan-1024x781.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-in-Caftan-1024x781.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-in-Caftan-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-in-Caftan-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-in-Caftan.png 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Brynley in a caftan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-at-their-cottage-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-at-their-cottage-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-at-their-cottage-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-at-their-cottage-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-at-their-cottage.png 1473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Henry Lawes: The Angler\u2019s Song. Norman Notley, David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Paul-Wolfe.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Paul-Wolfe.png 770w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Paul-Wolfe-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Paul-Wolfe-768x1013.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Wolfe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-older.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-older.jpg 669w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brynley-older-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John Dowland: Now, O Now I Needs Must Part. David Brynley, Paul Wolfe [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-older.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-older.jpg 628w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-and-Brynley-older-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A very interesting piece about Lord Berners&#8217; most famous work, the ballet <em>The Triumph of Neptune<\/em>, which includes some wonderful photos of the first production: <a href=\"https:\/\/madeleinesstage.co.uk\/2022\/03\/12\/forgotten-ballets-the-triumph-of-neptune-1926\/\">https:\/\/madeleinesstage.co.uk\/2022\/03\/12\/forgotten-ballets-the-triumph-of-neptune-1926\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Berners-Gregorio-Prieto.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Berners-Gregorio-Prieto.png 605w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Berners-Gregorio-Prieto-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lord Berners as painted by Gregorio Prieto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Heinrich Heine: K\u00f6nig Wiswamitra (<em>Lieder Album<\/em>, No. 2). Meriel Dickinson, Peter Dickinson [1977]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Meriel-Dickinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17970\" style=\"width:547px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Meriel-Dickinson.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Meriel-Dickinson-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meriel Dickinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Hugh.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Hugh.png 519w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Hugh-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lord Berners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Georges Jean-Aubry: Romance (<em>Trois Chansons<\/em>, No. 1). Ian Partridge, Len Vorster [2000]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Partridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Partridge.jpg 554w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Partridge-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Partridge-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ian Partridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Gertrude-Stein.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Gertrude-Stein.png 920w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Gertrude-Stein-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-and-Gertrude-Stein-768x689.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lord Berners and Gertrude Stein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, libretto after Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e [sung in English]: Oh, that angel treats me just the way she likes (<em>Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement<\/em>) [sung in English]. Ian Caddy, John Winfield, Nicholas Cleobury, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [BBC Recording 16.VIII.1983]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"417\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Caddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17974\" style=\"width:545px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Caddy.jpg 417w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ian-Caddy-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ian Caddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique-1485x2048.jpg 1485w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-excentrique.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Thomas Dekker: Lullaby (<em>Three English Songs<\/em>, No. 1). Felicity Lott, Peter Lawson [1997]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Flott.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Flott.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Flott-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Flott-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Felicity Lott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Caricature.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Caricature.png 493w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Caricature-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Caricature of Lord Berners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Robert Graves: The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward (<em>Three English Songs<\/em>, No. 2). Meriel Dickinson, Peter Dickinson [1977]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Graves.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Graves.png 664w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Graves-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Graves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"17986\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Heber-Percy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Heber-Percy-1.jpg 514w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Robert-Heber-Percy-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Heber-Percy, the Mad Boy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"675\" data-id=\"17985\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Painting-of-Percy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Painting-of-Percy-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Berners-Painting-of-Percy-1-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Heber-Percy as painted by Lord Berners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Esther Lilian Duff: The Green-Eyed Monster (<em>Three English Songs<\/em>, No. 3). Meriel Dickinson, Peter Dickinson [1977]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-1024x624.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-1024x624.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-1536x937.png 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson-1600x976.png 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Peter-Dickinson.png 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Peter Dickinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bernard-Dickerson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bernard-Dickerson.jpg 488w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bernard-Dickerson-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bernard Dickerson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, John Masefield: Theodore, or The Pirate King (<em>Three Sea Shanties<\/em>, No. 2). Bernard Dickerson, Richard Rodney Bennett [1977]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Masefield-1024x656.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Masefield-1024x656.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Masefield-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Masefield-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/John-Masefield.png 1342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Masefield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1269\" height=\"1669\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17992\" style=\"width:579px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1.jpg 1269w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Serge-Lifar-Lord-Berners-and-Alexandra-Danilova-1-1168x1536.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1269px) 100vw, 1269px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Berners (C) with Serge Lifar and Alexandra Danilova in <em>The Triumph of Neptune<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners, Traditional Sea Shanty: A Long Time Ago [Hilliard\u2019s Shanty] (<em>Three Sea-Shanties<\/em>, No. 3). Ian Partridge, Len Vorster [2000]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"862\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Berners.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17977\" style=\"width:640px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Berners.png 608w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Berners-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Young Gerald Tyrwhitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lord Berners: Red Roses and Red Noses. Meriel Dickinson, Peter Dickinson [1977]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Keller Whalen&#8217;s invaluable piece on Ben Bagley as published on his Cab Calloway blog, <em>The Hi-De-Ho Blog<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehidehoblog.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/ben-bagley-cab-calloway-and-the-great-broadway-composers\">https:\/\/www.thehidehoblog.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/ben-bagley-cab-calloway-and-the-great-broadway-composers<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"829\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-829x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-1243x1536.jpg 1243w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-1657x2048.jpg 1657w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kaye-Ballard-1600x1977.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kaye Ballard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cole Porter: Down in the Depths (On the 90th Floor) (<em>Red, Hot and Blue<\/em>) [as featured in <em>The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen through the Eyes of Cole Porter<\/em>]. Kaye Ballard, musical arrangements by Skip Redwine, vocal arrangements by Bud McCreery [1965]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-Porter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17997\" style=\"width:565px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-Porter.png 379w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cole-Porter-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"17999\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arthur-Siegel-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arthur-Siegel-833x1024.jpg 833w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arthur-Siegel-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arthur-Siegel-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arthur-Siegel.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arthur Siegel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"280\" data-id=\"17998\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dorothy-Loudon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17998\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dorothy Loudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart: Don\u2019t Tell Your Folks (<em>Simple Simon<\/em>) [as included in <em>Rodgers and Hart Revisited<\/em>]. Dorothy Loudon, Arthur Siegel, musical direction and arrangements by Norman Paris [1964]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry-Hart-Halo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18009\" style=\"width:497px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry-Hart-Halo.png 393w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry-Hart-Halo-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lorenz Hart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Charles-Strouse.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Charles-Strouse.png 487w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Young-Charles-Strouse-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The young Charles Strouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mike Stewart, Charles Strouse: Man\u2019s Inhumanity to Man (<em>Ben Bagley\u2019s Shoestring Revue<\/em>) Bill McCutcheon, Beatrice Arthur, Fay De Witt, Dody Goodman, Dorothy Greener, John Bartis, Eddie Hilton, G. Wood, Dorothea Freitag (also musical direction and arrangements), Liza Redfield, Ralph Roberts [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shoestring-revue-program.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18001\" style=\"width:531px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shoestring-revue-program.jpg 250w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shoestring-revue-program-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joel-Grey.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joel-Grey.png 609w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joel-Grey-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joel Grey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vernon Duke, Ogden Nash: You\u2019re Far from Wonderful (<em>The Littlest Revue<\/em>). Joel Grey, Orchestra conducted by Will Irwin [1956]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vernon-Duke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18015\" style=\"width:542px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vernon-Duke.jpg 500w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vernon-Duke-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vernon-Duke-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vernon Duke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tammy-Grimes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18006\" style=\"width:515px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tammy-Grimes.png 452w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tammy-Grimes-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tammy Grimes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vernon Duke, Ogden Nash: I\u2019m Glad I\u2019m Not a Man (<em>The Littlest Revue<\/em>). Tammy Grimes, Orchestra conducted by Will Irwin [1956]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ogden-Nash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18014\" style=\"width:553px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ogden Nash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dody-Goodman.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18002\" style=\"width:529px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dody-Goodman.png 437w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dody-Goodman-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dody Goodman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Herb Hartig: Tennessee Williams\u2019 Notes for Certain S.R.O. (<em>Ben Bagley\u2019s Shoestring \u201857<\/em>). Dody Goodman [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"703\" data-id=\"18005\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Sheldon-Harnick.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Sheldon-Harnick.png 972w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Sheldon-Harnick-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Sheldon-Harnick-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheldon Harnick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"439\" height=\"304\" data-id=\"18004\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/David-Baker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/David-Baker.jpg 439w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/David-Baker-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Baker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheldon Harnick, David Baker: Someone Is Sending Me Flowers (<em>Ben Bagley\u2019s Shoestring Revue<\/em>). Dody Goodman, Dorothea Freitag (also musical direction and arrangements), Liza Redfield, Ralph Roberts [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dorothea-Freitag.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dorothea-Freitag.png 419w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dorothea-Freitag-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dorothea Freitag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"947\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Charlotte-Rae.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Charlotte-Rae.jpg 754w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Charlotte-Rae-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charlotte Rae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles Strouse, Lee Adams [after Hugo Wolf]: Spring Doth Let Her Colours Fly (<em>The Littlest Revue<\/em>). Charlotte Rae, Tommy Morton, George Marcy, Orchestra conducted by Will Irwin [1956]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hyuogo-Wuelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18013\" style=\"width:531px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hyuogo-Wuelf.jpg 250w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hyuogo-Wuelf-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hugo Wolf (Look what they&#8217;ve done to my song, Ma!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bea-Arthur.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bea-Arthur.png 495w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bea-Arthur-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sheldon Harnick: Garbage (<em>Ben Bagley\u2019s Shoestring Revue<\/em>). Beatrice Arthur, Dorothea Freitag (also musical direction and arrangements), Liza Redfield, Ralph Roberts [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rodgers-and-Hart-WTF-is-this.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rodgers-and-Hart-WTF-is-this.png 599w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rodgers-and-Hart-WTF-is-this-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WTF is this?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart: From Another World (<em>Higher and Higher<\/em>). [featured on <em>Rodgers and Hart Revisited, Volume II<\/em>]. Bobby Short, musical direction and arrangements by Norman Paris [ca. 1969]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bobby-Short-746x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bobby-Short-746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bobby-Short-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bobby-Short-768x1054.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bobby-Short.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bobby Short<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"914\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-at-his-keyboard.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-at-his-keyboard.png 914w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-at-his-keyboard-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-Bagley-at-his-keyboard-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>G. Wood: On a Shoestring (<em>Ben Bagley\u2019s Shoestring \u201857<\/em>). Beatrice Arthur, Dody Goodman, Dorothy Greener, Fay De Witt, Bill McCutcheon, John Bartis, G. Wood, Dorothea Freitag (also arr.), Liza Redfield, Ralph Roberts [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ben-and-Meowface.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18021\" style=\"width:577px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"574\" data-id=\"18018\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Queen-Berners.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Queen-Berners.png 430w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Queen-Berners-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"18020\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Notley-Brynley-1.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"823\" data-id=\"18019\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bagley-and-Meow-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bagley-and-Meow-1.png 694w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bagley-and-Meow-1-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 368. Gay Eccentrics (Pride 2025) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Somewhere along the line in planning my Pride 2025 episodes,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1626,1075,2109,2891,2261,1625,2399,5137,7698,1072,6486,2260,808,2329,2755,3272,4980,2550],"tags":[4200,7838,4352,4351,7871,7841,3291,2595,1894,3965,1937,5144,7833,2569,4353,7839,7872,7854,7870,7840,7867,7836,7850,7862,7856,1197,7860,7851,648,7864,2417,7853,7842,7859,7524,7865,4061,7863,4421,6638,7847,6635,1524,4037,7873,7866,7834,7846,7845,7835,7861,7868,4633,7848,928,3666,7869,7858,1899,7843,3968,4343,4437,7844,7837,5515,6637,7855,7849,7852,3966,7857],"class_list":["post-17620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-american-singers","category-art-song","category-broadway-and-musicals","category-comic-relief","category-full-figured-baroque","category-gay-pride","category-great-baritones","category-great-tenors","category-honor-your-mentors","category-in-memoriam","category-melodie","category-music-for-a-world-in-crisis","category-needle-drop","category-opera-in-translation","category-pop-icons","category-singers-of-color","category-twentieth-century-opera","category-voiceless-wonders","tag-arthur-siegel","tag-bea-arthur","tag-beatrice-arthur","tag-ben-bagley","tag-bernard-dickerson","tag-bill-mccutcheon","tag-bobby-short","tag-bud-mccreery","tag-charles-strouse","tag-charlotte-rae","tag-cole-porter","tag-david-baker","tag-david-brynley","tag-dody-goodman","tag-dorothea-freitag","tag-dorothy-greener","tag-dorothy-loudon","tag-eddie-hilton","tag-esther-lilian-duff","tag-fay-de-witt","tag-felicity-lott","tag-g-wood","tag-george-marcy","tag-georges-jean-aubry","tag-gerald-hugh-tyrwhitt-wilson","tag-heinrich-heine","tag-henry-lawes","tag-herb-hartig","tag-hugo-wolf","tag-ian-caddy","tag-ian-partridge","tag-joel-grey","tag-john-bartis","tag-john-hilton-the-younger","tag-john-masefield","tag-john-winfield","tag-kaye-ballard","tag-le-carrosse-du-saint-sacrement","tag-lee-adams","tag-len-vorster","tag-liza-redfield","tag-lord-berners","tag-lorenz-hart","tag-meriel-dickinson","tag-mike-stewart","tag-nicholas-cleobury","tag-norman-notley","tag-norman-paris","tag-panama-hattie","tag-paul-wolfe","tag-peter-dickinson","tag-peter-lawson","tag-prosper-merimee","tag-ralph-roberts","tag-richard-rodgers","tag-richard-rodney-bennett","tag-robert-graves","tag-robert-jones","tag-sheldon-harnick","tag-shoestring-57","tag-skip-redwine","tag-tammy-grimes","tag-tennessee-williams","tag-the-littlest-revue","tag-the-shoestring-revue","tag-thomas-campion","tag-thomas-dekker","tag-thomas-morley","tag-tommy-morton","tag-vernon-duke-ogden-nash","tag-will-irwin","tag-william-hickey"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bagley-and-cats-Butch-Fogarty-and-Emily-300x119.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a 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