Steve Tyrell's Nod to "Beautiful" at the Café Carlyle

Now in his tenth year performing at the Café Carlyle, Steve Tyrell started his set this week wondering why audiences rarely ask for songs by the songwriters' names, only by the crooners who made them famous. And so began a show organized around a history of the American songwriter: "Taking a Chance on Love," Vernon Duke's tune with John LaTouche and Ted Fetter's lyrics, Harry Woods' "The Way You Look Tonight," "Try a Little Tenderness" and "What a Little Moonlight Can Do." He sang Isham Jones-Gus Kahn's "It Had to be You," and Sammy Cahn's "It's Magic," spontaneously pointing his