I’m honored to have some of my children’s songs included in McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.’s comprehensive new educational program for pre-kindergartners. Nationwide sales are going very well.
Wow, what fun! With 4 fabulous actors–Darlene Popovic, Valentina Osinski, Joe Osborn, and Sean O’Brien, we had ’em rolling in the aisles–even though there were no aisles–at the Seafood Peddler New Year’s Eve. It was a joyous night.
San Rafael’s Seafood Peddler’s cookin’ up some highly entertaining New Year’s Eve fare–Rita Abrams’ 5-STAR REVUE! For one night only, Emmy-winning Abrams & her cast of Bay Area notables–Valentina Osinski, Darlene Popovic, Joe Osborn, Sean O’Brien–will serve up a concoction of hilarious songs & satire comprising the best of her work, vintage & new. TICKETS: Seafood Peddler: (415) 460-6669 or Murphyproductions.com
Watch my new video, starring Sadie Slotnik–BUBBIE GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER. My dear friend Dr. Elmo let us use the track from his megahit Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. And a group of fabulous friends joined in for the video wonderfully directed by Tim Amyx. Hope you like it, and forward it!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/08/MNOV1EP0CK.DTL#ixzz0w5iQbQgo
40-year reunion of ‘Mill Valley’ third-graders
Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Correspondent
Monday, August 9, 2010
My dear friend Michael Krasny interviewed me, along with 2 of the former Mill Valley singers, for the 40th anniversary of the release of the song, on Wednesday, August 4th, on KQED radio, San Francisco.
Below is the link to the live broadcast, in case you missed it:
http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=4073
Columns – Friday, July 23, 2010
Behind the Sun: Talk of the town
Hippie schoolmarm brainwashes youth with tale of socialist utopia…
by Jason Walsh
40 years ago
From the Sun vaults, July 22 – 28, 1970
America was “talkin’ ’bout Mill Valley” 40 years ago this week.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leah Garchik
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Composer and singer Rita Abrams was at the center of the reunion last week on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of her hit song, “Mill Valley.” The singers, who were in the third-grade class of the Strawberry Point School when the album was made, have grown up, of course. Seven of them attended the reunion, along with five of their mothers. “It was incredible,” said Abrams of the “Mill Valley” video (which is on YouTube), “watching those carefree little 8-year-olds frolicking around, with their grown-up selves.”
The co-writer of the musical I’m composing, TYPE TALKING, just had the Wall Street Journal name her book one of the Top Five Medical Biographies! She’s not only a writer, an oncologist, and Stanford Professor, but she can sing and act too!