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Friday Night Music, Something a bit different

Friday, October 26, 2018

I was trolling around at youtube trying to find something to put up tonight, when I chanced upon this video, which appears to be from a tribute to Mel Brooks, probably at the Kennedy Center. It’s a fun video, but also liked the fact that it brought back memories of a time when the President […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, October 12, 2018

This video raises the question: Why are the songs protesting the very stable genius being sung by 76 year olds. Maybe there are others out there, but I haven’t heard about them. I hope that’s the case. I do know that the Vietnam War, as bad as it was, was nowhere near the existential threat […]

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Friday Night Music-Jefferson Airplane

Friday, October 5, 2018

Marty Balin died last week, which made it easy to pick a band this week. This performance of Somebody to Love is clearly not lip synced. It’s from the Dick Cavett show, and David Crosby is apparently pitching in. I realize that Balin plays a sort of secondary part in this song, but I like […]

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Friday Night Music, a bit topical

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Very Stable Genius has to be considered the very acme of liars, lying even when he has no need to, so he certainly puts Brett Kavanaugh in the shade. But, Brett is still up there, since, yesterday, almost every word he uttered was a lie or a statement meant to misdirect. The atrocities are […]

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Friday Night Music-School Days

Friday, September 21, 2018

So, this is going up a bit early, because in a short while I’ll be hitting the road to attend the first of two events connected to my high school reunion ( HPHS!!!! SAY IT LOUDER! WE’RE THE BEST). I won’t say how long it’s been, but if you guessed that the first digit is […]

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Friday Night Music: channeling Trump

Friday, September 7, 2018

This song has an odd history. This video is not, I’m sure, by the actual artist, whose name may be lost to history. When it first came out, sometime in my high school years, it shot to the top of the Big D Swinging 60 survey. It was getting plenty of air time until, all […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, August 31, 2018

This is Labor Day Weekend. I can’t claim to know the details of exactly how it became a holiday, but it’s always been my impression that it had something to do with…you know…labor. Working people. Unions. Nowadays, of course, no one cares about working people, except the ones who go to diners in the Midwest […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, August 17, 2018

Aretha. Who else could it be? I can’t explain why this brought tears to me eyes, but it did.

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Friday Night Music

Friday, August 10, 2018

This is the last night of our annual Vermont vacation. For the entire time we’ve been here, Vermont has been taunting us. The sun comes out for a while, and then it rains, and before you know it, the sun is back out. I was driving up the mountain on Route 100A up by Calvin […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, July 27, 2018

So, posting will be even more infrequent, as we just began our annual Vermont vacation. I don’t know if I ever posted anything by Rhiannon Giddens before, but she is well worth a return trip. I think she’s great, and I’m going to get the new album, from which this song is taken, as soon […]

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