Dinah Shore: The Golden age of Crooners and Records with Frank King – Lecture

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2025 2PM

Dinah Shore: The Golden age of Crooners and Records with Frank King

A Music Appreciation Class

Between the Big Band years of the ‘30s and ‘40s and the onslaught of Rock ‘n Roll was a “Golden Age” of beautiful, recorded music. It was a period when the great vocalists – Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Nat “King” Cole, and many more – sang the timeless standards of the American Songbook, accompanied by full orchestras and glorious arrangements by masters like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins.

Join Frank King for a musical lecture where you’ll get to hear the standout songs of this Golden Era – including rare, seldom-heard recordings – and also learn some fascinating secrets about the singers and the songs.

Frank King’s lecture will focus on the life and songs of the great Fannye Rose Shore — DINAH SHORE, including her amazing string of top-charting songs from her 50-year career, as well as the highlights of her interesting personal life: growing up in the only Jewish family in her small home town in Tennessee; winning an early battle with polio; her two marriages; and many romances, most famously with Burt Reynolds – 20 years her junior.

Mr. King holds a BA from Princeton and a Masters in Broadcasting from Boston University. A lifelong devotee of recorded music, he has hosted music programs on WBUR radio, was a News Producer at WCVB TV, an Asst. Professor at B.U., and VP of the International Television Association. His lectures draw from the music and art from his personal collection of over 2500 record albums. He’s presented over 900 highly acclaimed music lectures around Greater Boston and Cape Cod since 2014.