Julie Mandel

Composer & Lyricist

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A Wonderful Birthday Celebration!

The two performances of Livin’ It, the collection of 26 of my songs which were performed at Theater555 on W42nd Street on September 11th and 12th were wonderful, and the second was timed to land on my 100th Birthday. It was a terrific way to celebrate. I am very grateful to Denise Puriceli, who’s been such a staunch advocate of my work the past few years, to Mary Kunicki who introduced us, to Eric Krebs the warm generous producer (how often do you hear those words together?) who made this all happen, to Hannah Ryan who worked with Denise to whittle down from a very long list of hundreds of songs to a manageable number and weave them together into a compelling 80 minutes, and to the amazing cast - Erica Spyres, Cassondra James, Sydney Borchers, and Nikita Burshteyn - who did such an amazing job with these songs on just 20 hours of rehearsal! Thank You!

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Lost and Found - "Three Musketeers" for Sesame Street

Back in the early days of Sesame Street I wrote some songs on spec and sent them in hoping that they’d be interested in some of them, or ask me to write for the show occasionally. I never heard from them. This one for three - um, four muppets - still makes me laugh.

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The Richard Mills / Mills Music Demos

I’ve forgotten the circumstances around the making of these two demos, on opposite sides of a slightly scratchy 78 RPM disk, but the label says Richard Mills, Mills Music. It must have been the early 1960’s. I have no idea who the studio singer was, but she did such a great job!

Two Little People, or Its A Miracle was from a very early show I wrote with my husband called Love From Sandy.

David, of course, was for my husband David Dachs.

Click the image above to jump to the recordings, or visit the Recordings page.

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MOODS for violin & cello on Classical Discoveries with Marvin Rosen, Tuesday August 10, 2021 — Julie Mandel

Marvin Rosen , long-time host of Classical Discoveries , says "I hope you will join me this Tuesday morning, August 10, 2021 from 7am till 10am for Classical Discoveries. On 103.3FM Princeton NJ. or www. wprb.com Celebrating its 25th year on the air!".

Marvin Rosen, long-time host of Classical Discoveries, says "I hope you will join me this Tuesday morning, August 10, 2021 from 7am till 10am for Classical Discoveries. Here is a list of some of the works and composers to be presented: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2007) by American composer, Lee Actor (1952- ) Divertimenti In Italia (String Quartet No. 6) (2012) by American composer, Curt Cacioppo (1951- ) Concertino for alto saxophone and orchestra by Brazilian composer, Radames Gnattali (1906-1988) Moods for violin, viola and cello (2010) by American composer, Julie Mandel, Utopia Symphony for chorus and orchestra (2005) by Russian composer, Vladimir Martynov (1946- ) Plus music by: Priscilla Alden Beach, Betsy Jolas, Max Nagl, Cristina Spinei and others if time allows.

On 103.3FM Princeton NJ. or www. wprb.com Celebrating its 25th year on the air!".

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Frank Music Demo Recordings - "Julie Mandel Showcase" — Julie Mandel

In 1956 or 1957 I think Frank Music recorded demos of seven of my songs with several singers. Sadly, I don’t know who they were. The musical direction was a little more dated than some of the demo recordings that TRO and Mills Music would later make, but I’m very glad to have them anyway. Songs used

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Lost & Found: an amazing performance of “Its Commercial” circa 1958 — Julie Mandel

During my years stalking the Brill Building I kept getting told by one publisher after another that they loved my songs, but that “its just not commercial”. In one particular case I played them my song “David”, which they loved but they passed on, saying “David just isn’t a very popular name”. In a

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Updated Home Page !!! — Julie Mandel

I’ve been having a lot of fun working with my son and webmaster Joshua expanding my home page. The previous short bio focused mainly on chamber music and we wanted to add more information about my background, my teachers, my pop songs and show scores. It was amazing what we’ve been finding the old f

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My Blue Notes Have Never Been So Blue - More Lost and Found — Julie Mandel

Larry Coleman at TRO/Dartmouth who handled my work for a while produced several demo recordings on 10” 33 1/3 rpm discs and 45’s so he could shop my songs around to artists that might be interested. This could have been around 1965. This song, called My Blue Notes Have Never Been So Blue , is one o

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Baby Wanna Play - More Lost and Found — Julie Mandel

Well, as I slowly find and digitize old vinyl recordings, I come across things I wrote that I had completely forgotten, like this one from the mid 60’s.

Clearly intended as special material for a duo like Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, a publisher named Larry Coleman at TRO/Dartmouth that handled my work for a while must have produced this studio-made demo so he could shop it around to artists that might be interested. On the unmarked paper sleeve in barely legible pencil are the names of singers John Gary and Gale Garnett (who both had their share of records and hits), and for some reason also trumpeter and bandleader Al Hurt (I have no idea why, since the track is recorded with just a piano, one of life’s little mysteries). I’m guessing that means that Gary and Garnett are the ones who sang on this demo, and if so, they did a great job! Then it took a day of searching around the house to find the sheet music. Its fun to hear it after all this time! Enjoy. 

Visit www.juliemandel.com/blog/2021/6/20/baby-wanna-play-more-lost-and-found

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Lost and Found - My Commercial ! — Julie Mandel

In 1969 my cousin Evelyn Waldman, who managed to succeed in Mad Men-era Madison Avenue advertising, landed me my one and only commercial, for a French-sounding suntan lotion called Ambre Solaire. I channeled my best cross between Edith Piaf and Jaques Brel, who was very au courante at the time., s

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In 2016 the fantastic pianist Blanche Abram, who’s been a wonderful friend and supporter of my work, played four of my series of 24 Intervals pieces as a part of a LICA concert. She did a beautiful, heartfelt job with these, and I was really pleased to come across the live recording from that day

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Paul Taub, in Memorium — Julie Mandel

The warm and wonderful flautist Paul Taub passed away on March 13, 2021. He will be sorely missed. Paul performed some of my music, including ‘Blues for Paul’ which I wrote for him, and even included me in a program on what must have been one of his very last performances in late February. His frie

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Julie Mandel - Composer Demos — Julie Mandel

Back in the day I actually had a pretty good voice and usually sang my songs live in publishers’ offices. Sadly I didn’t have great tape recorders. This is a collection of some rough self-tapes of my songs captured on inexpensive cassette decks. The recordings date from the 60's through the 90's. My