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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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Friday Night Music

Friday, November 18, 2011

Many years ago now my son and I went to see Me and My Girl at the Weston Theater in Vermont. It’s a silly British comedy, not quite as silly as the average Gilbert & Sullivan, but respectably silly. The plot, such as it is, concerns a lower class guy from Lambeth who, it turns […]

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Friday Night Music-The Hollies

Friday, November 4, 2011

Just returned from a pre-election get together/fundraiser at Groton headquarters, and have since been scrambling trying to find something to put up for this feature. I don’t think I’ve done the Hollies before, but who knows. I spent a bit of time researching to try to make sure that the lead singer on this version […]

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Friday Night Music, getting obscure

Friday, October 28, 2011

Thank God for the power of Google. Periodically it has occurred to me to put up this song, but usually when I’m away from my computer. I always liked it, but I could never remember either the title of the song or the name of the band, though the lyrics (“the world is, a bad […]

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Friday night music

Friday, October 21, 2011

Continuing with the topical stuff, and in further tribute to the occupiers throughout the land, one song that I should have thought of earlier and one that’s not quite on point, but is close enough. Both suggested, in one way or another from things I read wandering the web. The first in an opinion piece […]

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