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Category Archives: Music

Friday Night Music-The Righteous Brothers

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, […]

Beatle Remasters

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 […]

Friday Night Music

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 […]

Friday Night Music-Mary Travers and friends

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 […]

Friday Night Music

Tracy Chapman. You can’t beat the video and audio quality on this one. Fast Car

Friday Night Music

These two songs have, so far as I can see, nothing much in common, though they were only one degree of separation in the youtube stream of consciousness. One of the truly great rock songs, truly unintelligible at any speed. This one occurred to me last week. It illustrates something about rock music in the […]

Friday Night Music

A mini concert somewhat suggested by Teddy Kennedy’s passing. I think for a lot of us who lived through the turbulent sixties, his death brings back memories of former years and former Kennedys. First choice is obvious I guess. Dion singing Abraham, Martin and John. I guess now Teddy’s on that hill, though we can […]

Friday Night Music-The Drifters

Well, there hasn’t been all that much sun, but as I’m sitting here right now I can honestly say it’s sticky enough to make this song appropriate for the season. This is going up early today, since I may not have an opportunity to post it tonight. A great song.

Friday Night Music-New Riders of the Purple Sage

I’m not sure I want to make a habit out of this. Old rock stars, whether of the top or second tier, are dropping off with some regularity, so this feature could start to resemble the obituaries. John “Marmaduke” Dawson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage died recently, so it seemed appropriate to […]

Friday Night Music-Double Header

My younger son is visiting this weekend, and I asked him to recommend some music for tonight. These videos don’t quite qualify under my usual guidelines, as neither are live performances, but rules are for breaking, or at least bending. Rather than choose between his suggestions, I’m posting both. Yo La Tengo: And Pearl Jam