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British girl makes good

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Watch this: Half the world has seen it already. If you don’t shed a tear you’ve got a harder heart than me. Some pertinent thoughts here.

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Friday Night Music-Devil in a Blue Dress

Friday, April 10, 2009

Just returned from NYC, where we celebrated Good Friday by visiting our son. This is by way of explaining the fact that this is being posted fairly late. This is one of my wife’s favorite songs, if not her favorite. There are no old videos of Mitch Ryder that I could find, but in this […]

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Friday Night Music for Hard Times

Friday, April 3, 2009

This week, rather than searching for a song by a specific artist, I decided to search for the best version(s) of a song. I first heard this song on an album of Stephen Foster’s music sung by Thomas Hampson, a classical music singer. The album is called American Dreamer, and if you think Stephen Foster […]

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Friday Night Music-Rick Derringer

Friday, March 27, 2009

I actually represented this guy many years ago. When he called me he told me he was Rick Derringer, expecting I would recognize the name, but it meant nothing to me (I don’t think I ever heard Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo), but I was mightily impressed when he told me he was the guy […]

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Friday Night Music-The Eagles

Friday, March 20, 2009

Double feature. Take it Easy, with Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne playing along. And Silver Threads and Golden Needles, with just Linda.

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Friday Night Music-The Tokens

Friday, March 13, 2009

Unbelievable that they can still sing this song. According to the youtube entry, this was recorded live in 2008. There’s an interesting story about this song. It was written by a poverty stricken African who remained poverty stricken for the rest of his life, while the song made millions for the folks who bought the […]

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Friday Night Music-Smokey Robinson

Friday, March 6, 2009

You can’t say much for the video in this clip, but the sound is great, and if the person who posted this to youtube is to be believed, this performance took place in October 2008. His voice is still superb, unlike some of the geezers who are still out there.

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Friday Night Music-Percy Sledge

Friday, February 27, 2009

Number One on the Big-D for an ungodly number of weeks in a row. When a Man Loves a Woman.

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Friday Night Music-Buddy Holly

Friday, February 6, 2009

A few days ago, February 3rd, was the 50th anniversary of the day the music died, so it seems only fitting that we feature the folks who died that day. Buddy Holly on, of all things, the Arthur Murray Dance Party. The Big Bopper: Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a single video of Richie Valens, (one […]

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Friday Night Music-Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi

Friday, January 30, 2009

I was holding a bunch of Friday Night suggestions from a liberal drinker in reserve, but the first few I checked either had embedding disabled or had been pulled down. My wife suggested this song, from the Obama Inaugural Concert. It doesn’t top the Pete Seeger clip, but it’s right behind it.

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