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Friday Night Music-with Commentary

Friday, February 3, 2012

The furor over the Susan Komen situation has gotten a lot of people upset and has raised a lot of questions. It got me thinking of the ACORN fiasco a few years ago. Recall that ACORN then, like Planned Parenthood now, had, for reasons having no rational basis, become the whipping boy for the right […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, January 27, 2012

In the past I have tried, on this feature, to abide by a few rules, all of which I have broken when the need arose. No lip syncing, no music with only a photo to go along with it; and no repeated artists. It has been most difficult to adhere to the last of those. […]

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Friday Night Music-Carolina on our minds

Friday, January 20, 2012

In case you missed it: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c James Taylor & Stephen Colbert – “Carolina in My Mind” www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive This next one is for Newt. I’m breaking a rule here, but I couldn’t find a version with actual […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, January 13, 2012

Someone I know sent me this link, and I thought the video and the music was great. Get the full story here. Dave Brubeck in Russia, joined by a Russian violinist. Things like this make you think that things would be so much better in the world if the politicians, the bankers and the priests […]

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Friday Night Music, in which Randy Newman channels John McCain

Friday, January 6, 2012

I know I’ve put up a lot of Randy Newman, but hey, it’s my blog and the guy is great. I came up with this particular choice after watching this video on the TPM youtube channel: I wracked my own senescent brain for a song about someone who bemoans the fact that he or she […]

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Friday Night Music, New Year’s Edition

Friday, December 30, 2011

Seeing that the New Year is coming, it’s only right that this week’s pick be somewhat appropriate. Other than Auld Lang Syne, which I would post only if tortured, no obvious candidates come immediately to mind. There are no New Year carols, after all. But choose I must. One must first determine, then, whether one […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, December 16, 2011

Okay, at first I figured I really should put up something Christhmasy, but then I remembered we liberals are waging war on Christmas, and anyway there’s one more Friday to go before the big day arrives. So I decided to stick to just regular music for one more week and do something seasonal next week, […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, December 9, 2011

One source of rather dismal inspiration for this feature is the obituary page. This week Dobie Gray died. According to the Times he was both a singer and a songwriter, having written hits for a number of major artists. I’ve chosen two videos, one from 1965, one from 1974. In a way they illustrate the […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, December 2, 2011

Well, this is something completely different. Glenn Hardy is a local guy, who many years ago had the misfortune of trying to teach our kids to play the piano. Alas, he had no success in inspiring them to fall in love with the instrument, though they can both play tolerably and both went on to […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, November 25, 2011

It’s been a bit of a hectic week, what with Thanksgiving and all, so I haven’t had any time to think about this. I did a bit of free associating on YouTube and came up with this, Chuck Berry and John Lennon singing Johnny B Goode.     

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