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Good Friday Night Music

Friday, March 29, 2013

I’m a strong believer in traditions, at least when they serve my purposes, and here at CTBlue we now have a tradition of posting this video on Good Fridays. I am adhering to this tradition for a number of reasons, chief of which being that it spares me from having to overtax my brain by […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, March 22, 2013

A week or so ago I realized that I did not have A Whiter Shade of Pale either in my CD collection or on iTunes, and I set out to correct this massive oversight. I’ve done so, but in the process I learned a lot about this venerable song. First, I found out that the […]

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Friday Night Music-35th Anniversary Edition

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Tuesday will mark 35 years of wedded bliss for me and my girl. Well, not all bliss, especially for her, but we’ve been hanging in there ever since the JP made us legal in our living room before a crowd of four. Somehow, against all odds, she’s put up with me for that long. So, […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, March 8, 2013

It’s yet another snowy Friday, it being exactly one month since the actual blizzard we endured four weeks ago today. I spent some time looking for songs about winter, and trying to find suitable videos for the titles I found. Not much luck, until I found this one, in which the video and audio quality […]

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Friday Night Music, Twin Bill

Friday, March 1, 2013

Okay, these videos have almost nothing in common, except that they’re both from the dim and distant past, and there’s a bit of religion in both of them. I had to pass this along because it blew me away when I saw it on the Washington Monthly’s “Political Animal” blog. This is sister Rosetta Tharpe, […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 22, 2013

Dedicated to Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News. Actually, only the title fits, but it’s not a bad song. If you don’t get the reference, let Stephen Colbert explain. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 15, 2013

I know this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. My only excuse is the meteor in Russia, which is sort of like an extraterrestrial visitor, which is sort of what this song is about. This is also a song that appealed to me a lot when it came out, but then, I was […]

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Friday night music

Friday, February 8, 2013

Thanks to MB for suggesting The Troggs, whose lead singer, Reg Presley, just died. Got to keep those dying rockers coming, as they provide great fodder for this feature. Unfortunately, I can't use the video he suggested, as it won't play on my iPad, and given the frequent storm caused interruptions in our electrical service, […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 1, 2013

It’s a shame that the Beatles stopped live performances at some point in their career, so that for a fairly large percentage of their time together, there are only videos like this of some of their better songs. This is topical and, since the right tends to not get irony, might very well become the […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, January 18, 2013

Last week I wondered who did put the ram in the ram a lang a ding dong, and I got in answer in the comments. Turns out it was Cynthia Weil Barry Mann, this information coming via a commenter, who included a list of some of the great songs the co-wrote. Being as I’m beginning […]

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