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Friday Night Music-Memorial Day Edition

Friday, May 28, 2010

This being the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, I tried to think of some appropriate music, something that would hark back at least a little to the original purpose of the day. For the most part, the honored dead consist of the type of guy this song is about. Those graves are not full of […]

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Friday Night Music-Mr. Bojangles

Friday, May 21, 2010

I always loved this song, which has been covered by quite a few people, but it was written by this fellow, Jerry Jeff Walker: I’m not crazy about this performance, but it’s the best of his I could find on youtube. Here, by the way, is the real Mr. Bojangles, a fellow named Bill Robinson, […]

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Friday Night Music-Lena Horne

Friday, May 14, 2010

Okay, I admit that I don’t really know much about her, but she did die this week, and she was a great singer. This is her signature song, from the movie of the same name.

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Friday Night Music-Something Completely Different

Friday, May 7, 2010

When I got my first CD player, sometime around 1986, I started to branch out a bit, musically speaking. Partly that was because, at first, there was more classical music on CD, and partly because I wanted to learn about classical music. I also started listening to a lot of pre-rock stuff. I quickly got […]

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Friday Night Music-Randy redux

Friday, April 30, 2010

Okay, I know I’ve done him before, but I’m a Randy Newman fanatic, and anyway, this has more than a a passing relevance to current events.

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Friday Night Music-Sam Cooke

Friday, April 23, 2010

Several years ago I spent a good part of an evening trying to find Sam Cooke videos. They didn’t exist, at least not on youtube, except for music only videos, which are not allowed on this feature. I think I settled for Fats Domino, but I noted on the post that I had been frustrated […]

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Friday Night Music-The Duke

Friday, April 16, 2010

This song was a recent oldie when I got my first transistor radio. A seminal work. Gene Chandler doing Duke of Earl. I love this video. The man loves his work.

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Friday Night Music

Friday, April 2, 2010

This being Good Friday I was once again toying with the idea of posting “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from The Life of Brian. However, starting with that song, I began playing the links on youtube. I can’t begin to reconstruct the stream of consciousness that led me to this, but I […]

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Friday Night Music-Anniversary Edition

Friday, March 19, 2010

Today is the 32nd anniversary of my marriage to one of the most saint like persons on earth. She has had to be, to put up with me. So, this song’s for her. Hard to believe Elton John was ever so young.

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Friday Night Free Association

Friday, March 12, 2010

Well, I started out looking for Ray Charles singing Georgia on My Mind, but decided to go with this, a duet with Willie Nelson: That video led me to this one (it was on the sidebar at youtube), Ray Charles singing Ring of Fire on Johnny Cash’s television show: Which put me in mind of […]

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