Steve Cooper talks with singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester. In 1980, Melissa became the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year, Through The Eyes Of Love from Ice Castles and I’ll Never Say Goodbye from The Promise, and to perform them both on the Oscar telecast. She has starred in the national tours of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music Of The Night and Song And Dance, and created the role of Maddy, the title character’s mother, on the NBC hit TV series Blossom. Nominated for a Grammy in 1980 for Don’t Cry Out Loud, she won the Grammy Award for best female vocalist in 1982 singing You Should Hear How She Talks About You. She has also composed music for the animated features The Great Mouse Detective and Lady And The Tramp II, the sequel to the Disney classic. In addition to composing the scores for the theatrical musicals I Sent A Letter To My Love and Sweet Potato Queens, she also cowrote the radio mainstays Midnight Blue, Come In From The Rain and Whenever I Call You Friend.
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Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult - Episode 1,004
Phil Hendrie, radio legend - Episode 1,003
Reed Diamond - Episode 1,002
Rich Redmond drummer of Jason Aldean - Episode 1,001
Mick Mars from Motley Crue - Episode 1,000
Tom Bailey from Thompson Twins - Episode 999
Terry Serpico from Law & Order: SVU, Army Wives, Cobra Kai - Episode 998
Guthrie Govan from The Aristocrats - Episode 997
Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba - Episode 996
Joe Bonamassa - Episode 995
Artimus Pyle from Lynyrd Skynyrd - Episode 994
Al Sapienza from The Sopranos and Reacher - Episode 993
Malcolm Goodwin from Reacher and iZombie - Episode 992
Adam Baldwin from Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, etc. - Episode 991
Actress Anne-Marie Johnson - Episode 990
Billy Crain from Henry Paul Band & The Outlaws - Episode 989
Nick Bakay - co-creator of HBO Max’s Bookie - Episode 988
Steven Bauer from Scarface, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad...Part 2 - Episode 987
Steven Bauer from Scarface, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad...Part 1 - Episode 986
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