Music History Monday: The Word’s the Thing: Betty Comden and Adolph Green

We note the birth on May 3, 1917 – 104 years ago today – of the American actress, singer, lyricist, playwright, and screen-play author Betty Comden (born Basya Cohen), in Brooklyn New York. We are going to use Ms. Comden’s birthday as all the excuse we need to examine the career of one of the greatest writing teams in the history of Broadway and the movies: Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1914-2002).

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Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.