{"id":188277,"date":"2023-08-31T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188277"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:03:25","slug":"bing-and-billie-and-frank-and-ella-and-judy-and-barbra-an-interview-with-author-dan-callahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188277","title":{"rendered":"<i>Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra<\/i>: an interview with author Dan Callahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-callahan-book-cover-2023-e1693506792199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-callahan-book-cover-2023-e1693506792199.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-callahan-book-cover-2023-e1693506792199-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-callahan-book-cover-2023-e1693506792199-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dan-callahan-book-cover-2023-e1693506792199-67x100.jpg 67w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve interviewed Dan about almost every one of his books! It&#8217;s almost a ritual now. His latest is, so far, his most ambitious: a book about, of course, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Barbra Streisand: how these people influenced each other, influenced American (and world) culture, through their voices and their art. Dan is so so good on the details. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/interviews\/dan-callahan-on-his-new-book-bing-and-billie-and-frank-and-ella-and-judy-and-barbra\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I interviewed him about the book<\/a> for Ebert. <\/p>\n<p>He goes into this legendary team-up in great detail so for reference, and also just for sheer pleasure: <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Euvz1s70iQ?si=SPmarFnQjjHo22P-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra<\/i> comes out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreviewpress.com\/bing-and-billie-and-frank-and-ella-and-judy-and-barbra-products-9781641609227.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next week<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve interviewed Dan about almost every one of his books! It&#8217;s almost a ritual now. His latest is, so far, his most ambitious: a book about, of course, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Barbra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,4,17,16],"tags":[532,2064,600,370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188283,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188277\/revisions\/188283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}