What exactly is a taxi dance?

by | Aug 10, 2009 | Books, Music | 1 comment

I’m one of those lady teachers,A beautiful hostess you know,The kind the Palace featuresAt exactly a dime a throw.That’s how Rodgers and Hart immortalized the Taxi Dance craze of the 20s and 30s. Taxi dances and other bits of detritus from New York’s...

Richard Rodgers

by | Jul 1, 2009 | Music | 1 comment

It’s been a while since I checked in on NY1’s “Today in NYC History” feature. Here’s what I found today:On this date in…1893…President Grover Cleveland secretly undergoes surgery aboard a yacht sailing up the East River. The...