New book traces Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe's musical legacy
New book traces Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe’s musical legacy By Brad Barker Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe was a trailblazer. Back in the early 1940s, Lowe took on the male-dominated music business and composed two songs for Frank Sinatra, the first of which helped launch the singer’s career. Lowe wrote I’ll Never Smile Again in 1940, and it became an instant hit when Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra recorded the song with vocals by a young Sinatra. The song has since become a standard, and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1943, Lowe teamed up with Paul Mann a...
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