Galt MacDermot's "Let the Sunshine In" A three-time Grammy winner, composer Galt MacDermot, who died on Dec.17 one day before his 90th birthday, was best-known for co-writing, with lyricists James Rado and Gerome Ragni, the landmark Broadway musical Hair. “I last saw my beloved Mister MacDermot while singing with Jim Rado last year at Jim’s birthday celebration,” recalls Broadway and rock chanteuse Annie Golden, who starred as Jeannie Ryan in the 1979 movie version of Hair. “

Joe Osborn interview excerpt One of the key members of the fabled group of 1960s and early ‘70s Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, bass guitarist Joe Osborn died Dec. 14 at 81. “I’m sorry to tell you that we’ve lost another friend,” said Denny Tedesco, son of late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and director of the 2008 documentary The Wrecking Crew, in announcing Osborn’s death on the film’s Facebook page. “He made his impact in rock ’n’ roll an

Darlene Love, with Bryan Adams, sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on The View. “Ain’t no one like Marvin Gaye,” Darlene Love announced midway into Saturday’s second night of her annual New York Christmas shows, this year at new Times Square venue Sony Hall. She then saluted Gaye, one of the legion of great singers she sang backup for at one point or other in her own great singing career, with two of his Ashford-Simpson classics “You’re All I Need to Get By” and “Ain’t

Mollie B and Clint Eastwood in "The Mule" (Malpaso Productions) Music often plays a significant part in Clint Eastwood’s movies, be it intrinsic to the plot (Play Misty for Me, Honkytonk Man) or through soundtracks and scores that delineate characters and evoke mood. Eastwood’s new movie The Mule is no exception, with Spiral Staircase’s 1969 pop hit “More Today Than Yesterday” being central to the family part of the plot, vintage pop and country radio hits like Roger Miller’s