"The highlights of the evening are the Harriet Goldberg jazzy " '40s" songs. She can channel that style and sophistication like no one else and put it over seamlessly, as if the lyrics had been there all along: "We Stole a Kiss on the Train (...We disembarked and discovered the moon.") The lyricism and mood just about take your breath away. You know what they always say. They don't write 'em like that any more but they're wrong. Goldberg does."

--Beverly Creasey (The Theater Mirror, May 2008)

"Bring Back the Moonlight" Nominated

Harriet Goldberg's CD "Bring Back the Moonlight" has been nominated by Just Plain Folks for Best Vocal Jazz album in 2004. Four of her individual songs, "Tired of Hearing Love Songs," "Crazy," "I Don't Mind," all performed by Debra Mann and "Suddenly You Walked By," performed by Cassandre McKinley, are all nominated in the Best Vocal Jazz Song category.

"The Just Plain Folks Music Organization has officially announced the nominees for their 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards. After receiving over 10,000 albums and 140,000 songs from 85 countries, Nominations for Best Song in 48 Genres and Best Album in 57 categories have been posted." Winners will be announced November 7, 2004. JP Folks is a "community of over 25,000 Songwriters, Recording Artists, Music Publishers, Record Labels, Performing Arts Societies, Educational Institutions, Recording Studios and Engineers, Producers, Legal Professionals, Publicists and Journalists, Publications, Music Manufacturers..."

Other Prizes and Awards

  • Second Place Winner in the Jazz category of the 11th Annual Billboard Songwriting Contest for "Suddenly You Walked By."

  • Honorable mention in the Jazz category of 11th Billboard Songwriting contest for "Somewhere" and "Take Care," and in the Country/Folk category for "Soar."

  • Finalist in the 2003 USA Songwriting Competition for "Suddenly You Walked By."

  • Honorable mention in the Jazz category of the 12th Annual Billboard World Song Contest for "Crazy," "Before," and "We Stole a Kiss on the Train," and for "Before" in the Pop category.

Centastage
Puts A Song in Your Heart

Reviewed by Beverly Creasey

BOSTON SINGS BOSTON is a love fest: Three versatile singers (one pianist and one special guest each night) deliver a slew of sassy, sensational songs by local songwriters, cabaret-style, this week and next. Centastage wears its heart on its sleeve and puts its money where....

And what delightful songs these are (not to mention what delightful performers Melinda Stanford, Chip Phillips and Will McGarrahan are!) Pianist Tim Evans and company belt the heck out of hilarious numbers like Iris Tanner's [Men should Come With] "Warning Labels"("Do not mix with beer.") and Stephen Murray's naughty "Football Fan" (who follows the "tight end with his backfield in motion") or classy, old fashioned cabaret songs like Harriet Goldberg's "Tired of Hearing Love Songs" ("those silk and satin glove songs"). What fabulous rhymes. What cheek! What fun. Centastage has paved Boston's own Tin Pan Alley.

Dear Harriet,

I'm writing to tell you how very much we enjoy your CD, Bring Back the Moonlight. We live just above NYC..., We love the old standards. Our current favorites, besides you, are Diana Krall and Jane Monheit. Your songs are the upbeat, singalong stuff we enjoy. I tell people who we're playing them for the first time that they sound like songs we're been listening all our lives. Who writes these songs anymore? You do. Please do more. Please let me know if you do. Also, is there a place in NY we could purchase these for our friends.

Thanks,
Sally Harr