079 Howard Fishman on Connie Converse

About this episode

Marc talks with Howard Fishman about the life and music of Connie Converse, exploring her mysterious disappearance and the impact of her unreleased music.

On this episode, Marc talks with Howard Fishman, author of "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse", published in May of 2023. It's part biography, part detective story, as Fishman combs through the facts and myths behind singer and guitarist Connie Converse, who made music in the 1950s that went unreleased in her time, and then vanished in the mid-70s at age fifty, never to be heard from again. Fishman meets her family members, friends, people who saw her pl...

People in this episode

Host: Marc Masters

Guest: Howard Fishman

Topics covered

• biography
• music history
• mystery
• interviews
• 1950s music

Keywords

• Connie Converse
• Howard Fishman
• music biography
• 1950s music
• mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

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