Mark Gordon Gaskill

Songs From Then and Now

Gahanna, Ohio singer and songwriter Mark Gordon Gaskill performs for multiple audiences a wide-ranging repertoire of songs from 1900 to the present, accompanying himself on keyboard and guitar.  He offers programs from the radio and television series "Your Hit Parade," standards from The Great American Songbook, 50's to 90's cover Songs From Then And Now, and original compositions.

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The Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook is the canon of the most popular and enduring songs from the 1900s through the 1950s, created for Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musical film.  The Songbook comprises the most important and influential standards from the 20th century, and includes such notable composers as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and many others.

Mark plays these classics from the songbook:

Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael

How Deep Is The Ocean by Irving Berlin

Over The Rainbow by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg

Singing In The Rain by Nacho Herb Brown and Arthur Freed

Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller and Mitchell Parish

On the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe by Johnny Mercer

Night And Day by Cole Porter

My Funny Valentine by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

. . . . and many more