While the country and the world turned upside down with the stock market crash in 1929, the great composers kept churning out songs that helped folks temporarily forget their troubles. Songs like Happy Days Are Here Again and Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries are a couple, while Brother Can You Spare A Dime and Ten Cents A Dance spoke to the woes of the Depression itself.

About Stuart Johnson 

In 2007, as an outreach of the Michigan Jazz Record Collectors (MJRC), Stuart Johnson began and continues to lecture on Jazz and Jazz related topics at numerous locations throughout the Metro Detroit Area including libraries, the Adult Learning Institute, the Music Theater class at U of D-Mercy, SOAR Wayne State and MORE Macomb CC, other senior groups and organizations, and at a convention of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors.