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Michael Feinstein's American Songbook Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Time Machines
Fri, Feb 3, 2012 57 mins
Season 2 opens with Feinstein investigating the role of technology in preserving yesteryear's great songs and singers. The quest takes him to the Playboy Mansion in L.A., where Hugh Hefner shares rare footage of cabaret singer-pianist Bobby Short and crooner Al Bowlly, who achieved fame in the U.K. and U.S. during the 1930s.
Episode 2
Lost and Found
Fri, Feb 10, 2012 57 mins
Feinstein sets out to authenticate a previously unknown song by one of the giants of American popular music. He also convinces Broadway composer Jerry Herman to share one of his previously unknown tunes. Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole also appears.
Episode 3
Saloon Singers
Fri, Feb 17, 2012 57 mins
The curtain falls on Season 2 with Feinstein exploring the history of nightclub entertainment, from Harlem's Cotton Club to Las Vegas. Along the way, he talks with Rose Marie, who helped open Vegas in the 1940s; and Maya Angelou, who once had a calypso act. He also tours the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, where he plays one of the rhinestone-encrusted pianos.
