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More Than Santa Baby

June 5, 2025 ypadmin

Composer Philip Springer who wrote several songs with Yip, mostly in the 1970’s during Yip’s final decade, is the subject of a new documentary, More Than Santa Baby. The film, by Tamar Springer, the composer’s daughter, won the Documentary Short Audience Award at the 28th Annual Dances With Films Festival in June 2025 at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

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For the last ten years it’s been impossible to sell a good song to a publisher. The influence of the radio, of television is ruining the whole culture of the United States. It’s because the sponsors are more interested in seeing their own commercials than in doing something worthwhile. A country whose President can’t speak a simple declarative sentence doesn’t deserve anything better for its children. The esthetic quality of life is disappearing and one reason is the Cold War. We’re living in an age devoid of elder statesmen like Edmund Burke or Tom Paine or Lincoln or Jefferson. The beautiful language of diplomacy is gone. We have fight language like “Kill the ____.” How can we expect this not to seep through to our children? This is the atmosphere our kids are brought up in. Rock’n’roll, torch songs which are maudlin, self-pitying, undignified!

Yip, more than 65 years ago… From “Age of the Unthinking” by John Crosby. New York Herald Tribune, May 13, 1960.
 

 

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