Lenny Levine

Lenny Levine attended Brooklyn College, graduating in 1962 with a BA in Speech and Theater. Immediately thereafter, he became a folk singer, then a folk-rock singer and songwriter, and finally a studio singer and composer of many successful jingles, including McDonald’s, Lipton Tea, and Jeep. He's composed songs and sung backup for Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Peggy Lee, Diana Ross, Barry Manilow, the Pointer Sisters, Carly Simon, and others. In addition, I performed for a number of years with the improvisational comedy group War Babies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay, Bamboo Ridge, Bitter Oleander, Blue Lake Review, Cairn, Crack the Spine, The Dirty Goat, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Eleven Eleven, Evening Street Review, FOLIO, Forge, The Griffin, Hobo Pancakes, The Jabberwock Review, Litbreak Magazine, Lowestoft Chronicle, The Opiate Magazine, The Penmen Review, Perceptions Magazine, Rio Grande Review, riverSedge,Rougarou, Sandpiper, SLAB, Teleport Magazine, Treehouse Arts Magazine, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Verdad, Westview, and Wild Violet.

We Come, We Go

Lenny Levine

“Thank you, New York!” Justin Howitzer stood bathed in spotlights, his right fist raised aloft, his left hand idly tracing patterns on the fingerboard of his Stratocaster, as if impatient to begin the last song of t...