JOHN WALLOWITCH -  IN MEMORY OF

The Second Time Around

Celebrating 25 Years with John Wallowitch

Lynn Lobban with John Wallowitch at the piano

 

Lynn Lobban sang songs (and a few with John) from the critically acclaimed Photographs, The Eyes of Lovers, and Frankie & Johnny & Me - Under the Influence of Sinatra & Wallowitch - Parts I & II.

 

WALLOWITCH & ROSS: THIS MOMENT

Compelling, entertaining documentary about private and artistic lives of composer John Wallowitch and choreographer/dancer Bertram Ross from director Richard Morris and producer Roberta Morris-Purdee. These NY-based talents with quite a following were legends in their own time, and with good reason. Wallowitch has written more than 1,000 songs, Ross danced with Martha Graham for more than 25 years. The delight they felt in life, their optimistic spirits, and their expressions of friendship, are uplifting. You wanted to invite the gentlemen home with you.

 

HILLARY'S PAL SINGS PRAISES OF THE FIRST LADY

IN NEW TUNE ABOUT MRS. CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN FOR U.S. SENATE

 

John Wallowitch, a well known cabaret performer who once regaled Hillary Clinton and a few of her friends for six hours in his New York studio in 1991,  recorded "Hillary O! Hillary," a tune about the First Lady's campaign for the United States Senate.

The song, a parody of "Lydia O! Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" immortalized by Groucho Marx, calls Hillary "a first class lady" and was written by Henry and Bobbie Shaffner, a husband and wife songwriting team from Bala Cynwyd,Pennsylvania.

Speaking of the First Family the song declares, "Chelsea and Hil and a fellow named Bill are a family we've grown to know/ Now she is the star, on her own she'll go far and, right now, she is the show.

Wallowitch recalled that Bill Clinton delivered Hillary to his studio in 1991 after the couple attended a performance by Dixie Carter at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. Bill could not stay because he had to attend to the business of running his Presidential campaign.

The Shaffners met Wallowitch, a fellow native of Philadelphia, at the New York Sheet Music Society, where they are members. President Jimmy Carter personally thanked the Shaffners at the White House for writing a song for his inauguration. The United States Army Band performed the Shaffners' song "Wallenberg" in the Capitol Rotunda in ceremonies honoring the World War II Holocaust hero.