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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randy Edelman, Renowned Film Score Composer & Songwriter

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest,  Randy Edelman, is a renowned, multi-award winning composer, musician, producer and singer-songwriter, whose body of work is truly monumental.  

As a solo artist, he’s recorded 16 albums and had numerous hit singles including “Uptown Up-tempo Woman”, “Concrete and Clay” and “Nobody Made Me”.   But most of his classic songs became huge hits for some of the greatest music stars of all time.  Everyone from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Shirley Bassey, to Petula Clark, the 5th Dimension, and Kool and the Gang, have recorded his songs.  

Some of his biggest hits include “Weekend in New England” by Barry Manilow, “I Can’t Make Music” by The Carpenters, “Isn’t it a Shame” by Patti LaBelle, “Down in the Everglades” by Willy Nelson, “If Love is Real” by Olivia Newton-John, “Blue Street” by Blood, Sweat and Tears, “The Laughter and the Tears” by Dionne Warwick, and of course, “Sunny Days”, recorded by his mega-talented wife, Jackie DeShannon.   

And if that weren’t enough, our guest is also one of the most highly acclaimed composers for movies and television, having written over 100 soundtracks for movies, including “My Cousin Vinny”, “The Mask”, “Ghostbusters 2”, “Twins”, “Kindergarten Cop”, “Six Days Seven Nights”, “Dragonheart”, “Beethoven”,  “Anaconda”, “Diabolique”, “Gettysburg”, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, and “Last of the Mohicans”.  Some of the TV shows and series he’s scored include “MacGyver”, “Backdraft 2” for Netflix, and “Citizen X” for HBO. And believe me, I’m just scratching the surface of this man’s compositions.  

He’s received some of the most prestigious awards including an Emmy Award, 13 BMI Awards including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement, the Composer and Lyricist’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.  In addition, he received nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a BAFTA  Award for “Last of the Mohicans”, and nominations for the Saturn Science Fiction Award for “Dragonheart”, and a Gold Spirit Best Comedy Award nomination for “Leap Year”.   His live show entitled “A Life in 80 Minutes” played to sold out audiences and got rave reviews.  

He’s written a musical entitled “Short Cut” about the construction of the Panama Canal.  And he has a new album coming out, entitled “Can’t Be Killed By Any Conventional Means”.  AND his brand new single entitled “Everything is Possible”, on which he collaborated with legendary rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel, is now available for streaming.

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/

To see more about Randy Edelman, go to:

https://www.randyedelman.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPOMaKamdeM6_yfNYIO4yg

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3shMd6Vll0mOcviQ3hrk8m?autoplay=true

https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/randy-edelman/3297021

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Debby Boone, Renowned Singer, Actress and Author 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s guest, Debby Boone, is an immensely popular singer, actress and author who became an immediate global superstar in 1977 with her mega-hit song, “You Light Up My Life”.   

The song became one of the greatest multi-platinum singles in pop music history, spending an unprecedented 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts, and selling over 4 million albums. She received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and since then, she’s received another 7 Grammy nominations, and winning 2 more – in 1980, for Best Inspirational Performance, and 1983, for Best Gospel Performance.    

She’s also won a slew of other awards, including Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards, 2 Dove Awards for Best Album, a Music City News Award for Best New Female Artist, and 7 Record World Awards.  She’s recorded 13 albums, including “You Light Up My Life”, “Love Has No Reason”, “With My Song”, “Savin’ it Up”, “Surrender”, “Friends for Life”, “Home for Christmas” and my 2 personal favourites,  “Reflections of Rosemary”, which is a beautiful tribute to her late mother-in-law, the legendary Rosemary Clooney – and her latest album, “Swing This”, which has solidified her reputation as one of the best vocal interpreters of the Great American Songbook.    

Our guest has appeared in dozens of TV shows and starred in 2 of her own TV specials - AND she co-starred in one of the most popular TV movies of the 80s, “Sins of the Past”, co-starring Kirstie Alley, Kim Cattrall  and Anthony Geary.    

On the stage, she starred on Broadway in “Grease”, as everybody’s favourite “bad girl”, Rizzo.  And in 1990, she starred in the highly acclaimed revival of “The Sound of Music” at Lincoln Center, which earned a Drama Desk Award nomination.  She’s starred in hugely successful national touring productions of “7 Brides for 7 Brothers” and “The Sound of Music” - which I had the great pleasure of seeing here in Toronto in 1987.   

She’s had starring roles in many regional theatre productions including “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “South Pacific”, “The King and I”, “42nd Street”, “Into the Woods”, and many more great shows.   

And if that weren’t enough, she’s also written six bestselling children’s books, illustrated by her dear husband Gabriel Ferrer.   

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ 

http://debbyboone.com/

https://www.facebook.com/debbyboone/

https://twitter.com/debbyboonemedia

https://www.instagram.com/debbyboonemedia/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UkHCANZmdkKyVNvTLMrcJ 

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Mark Sendroff, Superstar Entertainment “Lawyer to the Stars” 

About Harvey's guest: 

It’s often said that show business is 10% “show” and 90% “business”.  So lawyers play a HUGE role in the entertainment industry.   

Today’s guest is Mark Sendroff, one of the most respected and accomplished entertainment lawyers in America.   

He's commonly referred to as “the lawyer to the stars”, because his client list is a veritable who’s who in the world of theatre, film, television and music, including Linda Lavin, Frank Langella, Lucie Arnaz, Bob Mackie, Marc Shaiman, AND some of the giants in the business who are no longer with us, including Bette Davis, Rosemary Clooney, Rex Harrison, Barbara Cook and so many more.   He represents writers, directors, musicians and choreographers of such Broadway shows as “Kinky Boots”, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”, “Hairspray”, “Rock of Ages”, “The Full Monty”, “Legally Blonde”, and dozens more, including the upcoming Broadway musicals, “Some Like it Hot” and “Smash”.    

He’s represented the stars of TV shows like “The Nanny”, “Two and a Half Men”, and “Black-ish”.  He’s a much sought-after speaker and lecturer at law schools, and he was named “Broadway’s Top Legal Eagle” by Broadway World.com.  And he’s been on the New York Times prestigious list of Super Lawyers every year since 2010. 

For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ 

https://sendroffbaruch.com/mark-d-sendroff/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sendroff-&-baruch-llp 

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