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Friday Night Music-Live From Sesame Street

Friday, October 22, 2010

Stevie Wonder

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Friday Night Music-Twin Bill, No Bagpipes

Friday, October 15, 2010

Yes, that’s right. After two weeks of bagpipe themed musical extravaganzas, we’re back to real music. Last week, after finally finding the Rare Air video with the jazz bagpipes, I started free associating on youtube, and had a good night. I’ve got a bunch of 60s stuff stockpiled, and this week I’m featuring two. The […]

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Friday Night Music-Mea Culpa

Friday, October 8, 2010

Last week I opined that bagpipe music began and ended with Amazing Grace. Last night, to prove me wrong, one of our liberal drinkers loaned me a CD by a group called Rare Air. The CD is named Primeval. The group pretty much defies categorization, but I would say Celtic jazz is as close as […]

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Friday Night Music-Something Completely Different

Friday, October 1, 2010

Despite my godlessness, I do like various kinds of sacred music. A few weeks ago I thought it might be fun to get various versions of Amazing Grace, but very few really struck my fancy until I found this. One could make a compelling argument that the repertoire of the bagpipe begins and ends with […]

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Friday Night Music-Take Five

Friday, September 24, 2010

Back in the long ago, at least before Bitches Brew came along, if there was one jazz album in what was otherwise a collection of 60s rock, it was likely to be Time Out by Dave Brubeck. The album has certainly passed the test of time. It’s still great. The signature track was Take Five.

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Friday Night Music

Friday, September 17, 2010

A few weeks ago, on my Labor Day Special, I posted an audio of Paul Robeson, but reserved the right to revisit him, since there was no video with the song I posted. So, that’s what I’m doing tonight. According to the liner notes of my set of Show Boat CDs (the John McGlinn reconstruction): […]

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Friday Night Music-Is this a repeat?

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Have I done this one before? I’m too lazy to check it out. Of all the one hit wonders from the sixties, Iron Butterfly may have been the wonderest of them all. You had to be there, I guess, but who can forget In a Gadda da Vida? Amazingly, it appears, via youtube, that those […]

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Friday Night Music-Labor Day

Friday, September 3, 2010

This post was partly inspired by Paul Krugman’s use of a youtube video of Al Jolson singing Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime, to which I made reference in a previous post. I decided to put together some labor themed songs. I find that I must break a number of my self imposed rules. I […]

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Friday Night Music-Judy Garland

Friday, August 27, 2010

This one was suggested by the Krugman post I referenced in my previous post. I know that we’re all supposed to believe that Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made, and it was a great movie, but for my money, the prize should go to the Wizard of Oz. How many times have you […]

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Friday Night video-desperation

Friday, August 20, 2010

I am in the Ludlow Vermont public library on one of the ten most beautiful days of the year. I must be crazy. I have discovered that, for reasons I can’t fathom, you cannot copy embed code at youtube when using an Ipad. I think I may have worked around it, but if this doesn’t […]

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