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Send us Fan Mail This Fortnight Tuesday, the Bad Piano player brings you an episode from the heart, getting to the heart of the songs, singing heartily. Every song a newly discovered classic song about the human heart. With some of our favorite composers, no less. Don't be heartless, tune in!

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player tackles one of the great topics: Marriage. Songs of love, songs of breakup, songs of contracts between two consenting adults. All done by the bad piano player and the singer of recent online distinction. Tune in for the nuptials, no Mendelssohn!

Send us Fan Mail This week, for episode 195, the bad piano player has a group of songs that deal with addiction. We cover alcoholism, drug addiction, and other pernicious afflictions of the lifelong cravers. Tune in for tunes, chord progressions and sober reflections of a long day's journey.

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player presents a lyricist who died young, but not before producing some of the finest lyrics in the American songbook. Tune in to hear Grant Clarke's words, and some music, too, of course.

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player features famed tunesmith Jimmy McHugh! Composer of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love “ which we did in our season one Dorothy Fields episode. A full slate of McHugh melodious on tap! Tune in and drink deep!

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player finally gets around to featuring the great Victor Young, song and score composer. Songs you know and songs you may not know. Tune in for both and be dazzled by Victor.

Send us Fan Mail This Week, The Bad Piano Player does an episode of slightly obscure jazz songs of the 1940s. We call it, Mostly Forgotten Jazz Songs Of The 1940s. Songs, Stories, a little Duke Ellington, a little Sunny Skylar, and a whole lot of diminished chords. Tune in for the resolutions.

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player goes back to the 1970s, and finds some classics hiding in the cellar of the Billboard top 100. Hope you can drop by for the memories. Tunes ahoy!

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player returns to a topic that got the most downloads last season. And I’m not just doing it to enhance my popularity in Taiwan. Please enjoy Baby Songs Two!

Send us Fan Mail The Bad Piano Player returns to a stalwart, a composer everybody knows and nobody knows with our fourth Harry Warren episode. Seven fabulous songs from the master of melody and progression, with Lyrics by Johnny Burke, Gus Kahn, Al Dubin, Ira Gershwin, Edgar Leslie, Mort Dixon and Joe Young. Only the best for my listeners. Tune in for tunefulness!

Send us Fan Mail This week the bad piano player features lyricist Lew Brown, born Louis Brownstein in Odessa , Russia in 1893. He estimated that he had collaborated on more than seven thousand songs in his career. We’re learning a small percentage of those for this episode. Tune in!

Send us Fan Mail This week the bad piano player rights a great wrong and finally does a second Gus Kahn episode. The lyricist extraordinaire, who worked with literally every major popular song composer from 1915 to the early 1940s. First featured in season 1,  episode 11, he makes his encore appearance now in season 7, episode 186. Words for the tunes, my friends.

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player does his second-ever Blues episode, featuring composer Clarence Williams, 1893-1965. Six of his best, five provided by our special friend Norman. Tune in for some blues history and some great blues played by a bad pianist!

Send us Fan Mail This Fortnight Tuesday, the bad piano player returns to Broadway to feature a great composer who was active on the Great White Way for more than forty years. Tune in for the Cy Coleman story and stay for the songs.

Send us Fan Mail This week, the bad piano player pulls together six songs from the (kind of) miscellaneous file and makes a wonderful episode out of them. We call it Grab Bag Four. Tune in and see if you can spot your favorite!