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Friday Night Music-Them

Friday, November 20, 2009

A very young Van Morrison leads his then band mates in what I believe was their first state side hit. No doubt about this being a live performance. Sorry about the long intro.

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Friday Night Music-James Brown

Friday, November 13, 2009

Fairly sure I haven’t done James Brown yet. I’m starting with this clip as much in tribute to Ed Sullivan as James Brown. Everyone loved making fun of Ed Sullivan, but the truth was that he was great at spotting talent. Even more important, he was an equal opportunity employer before it was either hip […]

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Friday Night Music-Another Twofer

Friday, November 6, 2009

Primarily, I wanted to do a girl group this week. I actually found a good live version of the Shirelles (one of the best of breed-girl group wise) singing Will You Still Love Me, Tomorrow? I have no idea why the sides of the video are squoshed together (and yes, I know that “squoshed” is […]

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Friday Night Music-I Shall be Released

Friday, October 30, 2009

One of my rules for Friday Night Music (and all rules are for breaking) is non-repetition. I’ve tried not to repeat the same artists twice, even the sacred Beatles. Another rule is that the video has to actually be a video-no still pictures with the music in the background. Today I’m going to bend those […]

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Friday Night Triple Feature

Friday, October 23, 2009

First, for the quality, Stevie Wonder singing Superstitious, Live on Sesame Street. I’ve been putting up these videos for several years,trying not to repeat artists, and I’m fairly sure I haven’t gotten around to Stevie Wonder, which just goes to show how deep the bench is when it comes to 60s era music. That’s actually […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, October 16, 2009

I have posted less frequently than usual this week. For this the world owes a debt of gratitude to The Office. I’ve spent a good chunk of my free time watching Season 3. I noticed that a fellow named Creed Bratton was billed as a guest star at the end of each show. I had […]

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Friday Night Music-The Righteous Brothers

Friday, October 9, 2009

I don’t think I’ve done them before. Unfortunately, there are no good video non lip synched versions of You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling, one of the great songs of all time. My wife tells me that this song, Unchained Melody, is one of the great slow dance songs (I was far too nerdly to dance, […]

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Beatle Remasters

Saturday, September 26, 2009

So, I was at Best Buy helping a neighbor buy a computer (a PC, mores the pity) and I saw the new Beatles remastered CDs. At first I was a bit shocked at the price, $30.00 per, but then realized that was for the records with the toy inside. If you just go for the […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, September 25, 2009

I am ashamed to admit that I thought of this song because of Tom Delay. I saw some footage of him making a fool of himself on a TV dance show, which he was doing to this tune. This song is arguably the greatest song by any one hit wonder. At least I think the […]

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Friday Night Music-Mary Travers and friends

Friday, September 18, 2009

It’s an unfortunate fact that I often get inspiration for this feature from the obituaries. This time it’s Mary Travers, who died a couple of days ago. Mary is the Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary. It’s not easy to explain how important this folk group was for a few very critical years. They sort […]

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