Happy New Year to our listeners around the world. Tomorrow we shall be back to the glum stuff from the hell of the headlines. But, for today, Mark presents the concluding part of his tip of the hat to those from the music world we lost in 2023 - singers and songwriters plus various other figures. Some of the names are famous - Tony Bennett, Sinéad O'Connor, Jimmy Buffett; others are obscure, but of significance, and at least one is a bona fide tragedy. It's an hour-and-a-half of songs known and unknown from Rossini to Manilow via the serving maids' favourite of the mid-nineteenth century.
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You can hear Part One of Mark's farewell to those we lost in 2023 here.
~Last Call is a special production of The Mark Steyn Club. For more on the Steyn Club, see here.
There's a whole cavalcade of musical delights over on our Netflix-style music home page, where you'll find easy-to-access live performances by everyone from Herman's Hermits to Liza Minnelli; Mark's interviews with Chuck Berry, Leonard Bernstein and Bananarama (just to riffle through the Bs); and audio documentaries on P G Wodehouse's songs, Simon after Garfunkel, and much more. We'll be adding to the archive in the months ahead, but, even as it is, we hope you'll find the SteynOnline music home page a welcome respite from the woes of the world.
