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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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Friday Night Music-Don McLean

Friday, January 23, 2009

One of the weirder moments in the Inaugural concert was Garth Brooks singing “American Pie”. He chose to stick to the chorus and didn’t sing the verses. It’s an odd song, to say the least, to sing at a concert that is delivering a message of hope and optimism. The song does neither. It reminds […]

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Sunday night music special

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen and a cast of thousands: I’ve always thought the Democrats should have closed their convention with Pete and assorted others singing this song. This is even better, and he sings all the verses. UPDATE: Too good to be true. Josh Marshall says it well: As most of you likely know, […]

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Friday Night Music-Los Lobos

Friday, January 9, 2009

Once again, thanks to a reader/Liberal Drinker, who suggested this performance. A great band.

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Friday Night Music-Mavis Staples

Friday, January 2, 2009

Thanks to a reader for this suggestion, as well as a few more that I’m keeping in reserve. I never heard of this lady before, but I enjoyed this song.

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Friday Night Music-The White Stripes

Friday, December 26, 2008

Both of my sons are here for the Holidays, and I asked the younger, a former college radio music director, to recommend a music video for tonight. My thinking was that he could recommend something of which I was unaware, and which might broaden my horizons and those of the folks who read this blog. […]

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Friday Night Christmas Music

Friday, December 19, 2008

Well, what else could you expect the Friday before Christmas? The following song is on my Ipod Christmas playlist. It seemed like a good choice. Unfortunately, I had a choice between a video with poor quality audio that wasn’t so obviously lip synced, or one with better audio but bad lip syncing. I decided to […]

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