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Pete Smyser - 7 string guitar
Tom Lawton - piano
Madison Rast - bass
Dan Monaghan - drums
Song: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" composed in 1933 by Al Dubin & Harry Warren

Pete Smyser (7 string guitarist) leads a quartet of all-star Philadelphia jazz musicians (Tom Lawton on piano, Madison Rast on bass and Dan Monaghan on drums) for a concert at Moravian College in (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) in 2013. The concert is available for purchase as a digital download or on CD through iTunes, Amazon.com, etc. The album is titled "An Affair to Remember ...celebrating the songs of Harry Warren."

This track was on WRTI's "Jazz Hot 11 Countdown" for 7 weeks and occupied the #1 spot for 3 consecutive weeks. WRTI (90.1 FM in the Philadelphia area) is the region's top jazz station.

Harry Warren (1893-1981) was one of the most successful composers in the history of popular American music...

He was nominated for 11 Oscars, winning three times for best song: "Lullaby of Broadway" in 1935, "You'll Never Know" in 1943 and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe" in 1946.

He had 42 top 10 hit songs on the radio show "Your Hit Parade" and 21 of these reached #1 on the radio program. At one point he achieved 24 consecutive top 10 hits on the popular show.

Harry Warren had 27 #1 songs in either the US or the UK.

His song "I Only Have Eyes for You" is one of the 25 most performed songs of the 20th Century, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

Harry Warren wrote the music for the song that became the very first gold record in history -- Glenn Miller's 1941 recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."

Warren's songs eventually appeared in over 300 films and 112 of Warner Brothers "Looney Tunes" cartoons.