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Valentine’s Day Music
Valentine’s Day isn’t just about perfunctorily purchasing tokens of affection for philistines. There’s love, too. And with love there is sometimes sadness. Here’s one of my favourite country/bluegrass tunes, “Is The Blue Moon Still Shining” written by Bill Monroe’s daughter Melissa, performed by Laurie Lewis.
Early morning music
Music Mike gives us “Volcano” by The Three Suns from 1960. This track is very similar to the sound on their Fever and Smoke album that followed a year after this song’s release.
Early morning music
“Stir it up” by Bob Marley and the Wailers. I’ve been humming this for the last couple of days, “I push the wood / I blaze a fire / Then I satisfy your heart desire.” Yah mon.
A candidate for rescoring
Last night TCM ran Barbarella as part of it’s underground film series. It’s a real piece of crap, so it’s not suprising it has possibly the worst soundtrack in cinematic history, though that’s not universally acknowledged. Obviously a low point in Bob Crewe’s career, it’s the only film in which he was given the role […]
Early morning music
A little bel canto sing-along from Act 2 scene 3 of Bellini’s Norma, a concert performance of the duet "Mira, o Norma" (followed by "Cedi…deh cedi") with sopranos Edita Gruberová and Vesselina Kasarova accompanied by Friedrich Haider on piano.
In case you’ve forgotten the lyrics, here they are;
ADALGISAMira, o Norma, a’ […]
Early morning music
Here’s a Christmas nostalgia pill, a classic for certain people of a certain age; on YouTube, on vinyl at 33 RPM, the 1958 version of The Little Drummer Boy performed by The Harry Simeone Chorale.
Early morning music
This is a little nostalgia nugget I dug up for my father the other day at his request: The Merry Minuet by the Kingston Trio. It’s an old song–written in 1958 and recorded a year later–so I’m sure it’s irrelevant today.
Internet revived the radio star
Here’s a site worth bookmarking if you enjoy listening to old radio programs, the OTR Network Library, with over 12,000 shows readily available in streaming .ram files. Besides all the drama and comedy–neatly arranged alphabetically on the main page and then chronologically on the back pages–there are vintage news and sports broadcasts; sections I would […]
An evening at the pops
One of my favourite vinyl records within my reach when I was little–besides the one I mention here–was a Living Stereo recording of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops playing Rossini’s Overture to William Tell on one side, and Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March on the other (here’s a CD reissue). As children of the time, my […]
No exception to the rule
Someone just posted this on YouTube, a live version of “Everybody Plays the Fool,” a 1972 hit by the original group, The Main Ingredient. I was a little boy when it came out, and I believe it wasn’t too long after this song hit the charts that I proved for the first–but certainly not for […]
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