She’s got rhythm and music, so who could ask for anything more from a singer performing an Ethel Merman tribute concert? The spirit of Merman, the Broadway star who made George Gershwin standards like ...

Two biographies of Ethel Merman in the same month? You may think that’s overkill, but you may also think that one biography of Ethel Merman is overkill, considering that there already are two, one of ...

In terms of solo, studio LPs featuring her standard song repertoire, Ethel Merman's list may begin with Songs She Made Famous, a ten-inch Decca LP pressing of a 1947 collection of seven of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the Broadway legend’s tough, self-assured exterior was a loving grandma that only Barbara and her brother got to see. “She ...

Bad ideas really don’t come much worse than this, now do they? In 1979 — the very tail-end of the disco era, if not the beginning of the post-disco era — A&M thought it wise to make “The Ethel Merman ...

As delightful as it is to hear the pure, unamplified human voice soaring beyond the footlights of a Broadway-size house, there’s little that’s delicious or de-lovely about “Call Me Miss Birds Eye,” ...

Ethel Merman, who made her Broadway debut in 1930 in Girl Crazy, was born January 16, 1908. Merman went on to become one of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, a woman whose name is synonymous with ...

It started off as a chance encounter with a drug-addicted female impersonator and turned into a personal anthem about being gay. Playwright and actor L. Robert Westeen’s one-man show Cocaine & Ethel ...

Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line everybody now ...