Previous posts for July 15th are here: Harrison Birtwistle (2019), Julian Bream (2020), Dorothy Fields (2021)., and Charles Anthony (2022)
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Linda Ronstadt (b. 15 July 1946) is an American popular singer,
Wandering One
Her Pirates should not have been heard!
The idea, from the start, was absurd;
And Ronstadt as Mabel
Left pundits unable
To explain how the casting occurred.
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Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music.
Binge Listening
Mantovani worked with arranger and composer Ronald Binge, who developed the "cascading strings" effect (also known as the "Mantovani sound"). -- Wikipedia, s.v. "Mantovani"
I’ve never heard of Ronald Binge,
Which I admit with just a tinge
Of guilt, or better put, dismay,
Because it seems that in his day,
This Ronald Binge was he who found
The key to Mantovani’s sound,
Where strings cascading as a group
Provide a sort of seasick swoop.
You might have heard this sound and cringed
While never knowing you’d been Binged,
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