All-American Song Spectacular! Starring the century's leading musical talents!

The people and events that put the music in our lives are celebrated in this lively anthology, hosted (and featuring vocals) by Michael Feinstein, that traces popular music from its roots in ballads and minstrel shows through the jazz age, big bands, Broadway and Hollywood. Delight as Fats Walter boogies, George Gershwin invents a musical rhapsody, Arthur Freed becomes the wizard of oohs and aahs and biopics like Three Little Words (boop-boop-bedoo!) brings lives of famous tunesmiths to the screen. Among some rare performance footage, Bessie Smith sings the blues, Hoagy Carmichael is touched by Stardust, Ferd and Ginger dance the Depression away and Judy pines for the place beyond the rainbow. It all adds up to one very special musical treat!