In the newfangled world of clubs and computer-generated electronic music, rap, emo, screamo, heavy metal and popular music where icons like Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi rule, the classic, quiet sounds of easy listening music and love songs may have inadvertently been pushed by the wayside.
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But those who remember the days when people flocked to nightclubs to see entertainers like Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra are making an effort to bring back the old scene and make sure those days have not been forgotten.
Lenny Starwood, of Red Bank, is one of those performers. Starwood’s new CD, “The Way of Love,” has just been released, and it’s a blast from the past with songs that include “Our Day Will Come,” “The Way of Love,” “Brazil,” “At Last,” “On Broadway” and “You Don’t Know Me.” And since Starwood is fluent in six languages, most notably Italian and Spanish, the CD also features songs such as “Sabor A Mi” and “Voy Apagar La Luz.”
No matter how you look at it, it’s about love, and Starwood loves the music of that era and puts his heart into his performances.
Starwood grew up in the Bronx, N.Y., and loved singing and listening to the music of Cole and Sinatra, and also credits his influences as being Mario Lanza, Jerry Vale, Frankie Valli, James Brown and Johnny Mathis, to name a few. Read more..
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