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Friday Night Music, a song for the times

Friday, May 8, 2020

I first heard this song on a CD I bought back in 1992: American Dreamer, by Thomas Hampson. I never heard of the guy before, but he turned out to have a great voice. The album is a collection of songs by Stephen Foster. Unfortunately, while you can listen to his version on youtube, there’s […]

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Good Friday Night Music

Friday, April 10, 2020

I have posted this video every Good Friday since I started this humble blog back in 2005, when we thought we had reached a nadir of sorts with the reelection of W. I don’t think it’s ever been so timely as this year, though I’m of two minds about whether Brian should, in fact, follow […]

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A Song for our Times

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Many years ago my then quite young son and I went to see Me and My Girl at the Weston Theater in Vermont. We had a great time and I subsequently bought the CD of the then recent Broadway version. Yesterday one of the songs from the show popped into my head and it occurred to me […]

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Friday Night Music returns, if a bit of a bummer

Friday, March 27, 2020

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted what was once a regular Friday night feature, but today I stumbled on this Paul Simon video and I couldn’t resist. I remember when this song came out. I though it was great, and that it perfectly caught the tenor of the times. Who would have thought […]

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A Good Friday tradition

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Today is Good Friday, and as I’ve done each Good Friday for the past 13 or so years (yes, I’ve been producing this drivel that long) today I pass on a Good Friday lesson. It’s a lesson that this year of all years we must take to heart. For… Some things in life are bad […]

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Friday Night Music: Where is P.F. Sloan when we need him?

Friday, November 2, 2018

Or, Bob Dylan for that matter. Little did we know at the time that it was more like the early morning of Destruction. I know it’s a small part of things, but we could use a song like this in the present day. It’s a shame Sloan’s no longer around to update the lyrics. If […]

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Friday Night Music, Something a bit different

Friday, October 26, 2018

I was trolling around at youtube trying to find something to put up tonight, when I chanced upon this video, which appears to be from a tribute to Mel Brooks, probably at the Kennedy Center. It’s a fun video, but also liked the fact that it brought back memories of a time when the President […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, October 12, 2018

This video raises the question: Why are the songs protesting the very stable genius being sung by 76 year olds. Maybe there are others out there, but I haven’t heard about them. I hope that’s the case. I do know that the Vietnam War, as bad as it was, was nowhere near the existential threat […]

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Friday Night Music-Jefferson Airplane

Friday, October 5, 2018

Marty Balin died last week, which made it easy to pick a band this week. This performance of Somebody to Love is clearly not lip synced. It’s from the Dick Cavett show, and David Crosby is apparently pitching in. I realize that Balin plays a sort of secondary part in this song, but I like […]

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Friday Night Music, a bit topical

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Very Stable Genius has to be considered the very acme of liars, lying even when he has no need to, so he certainly puts Brett Kavanaugh in the shade. But, Brett is still up there, since, yesterday, almost every word he uttered was a lie or a statement meant to misdirect. The atrocities are […]

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