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I'm A Loser, John Lennon, music, performance, pop, rock, song, The Beatles
The Beatles: I’m A Loser
24 Saturday Aug 2019
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Category Archives: Music
Get Your Plane Right On Time
22 Thursday Aug 2019
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Art Garfunkel, guitar, Josh Turner, music, Paul Simon, perfect, performance, Simon and Garfunkel, song, songwriting
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It’s not enough that Josh Turner plays perfect guitar and the best Paul Simon covers you’ll ever hear, but the freakin’ guy actually does the Artie Garfunkel part for “Only Living Boy In New York” as well. Just amazing.
The reverb is courtesy of a tunnel in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. And stay tuned for the announcement after the song. Wish I could hop on a plane.
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Pretty Little Angel Eyes
19 Monday Aug 2019
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It’s Monday morning, summer of 1961, Evergreen Avenue in Bradley Beach, New Jersey to be exact, and the kid across the street has hauled out his record player to the front porch and is playing Curtis Lee’s “Pretty Little Angel Eyes,” over and over, far into the night, the fireflies flashing in syncopated time, stopped only by the sound of the approaching ice cream truck …
Thanks to YouTuber brianfromLI
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It’s De-Lovely
12 Monday Aug 2019
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Cole Porter, It's De-lovely, jazz, Mel Torme, music, performance, song, songwriting
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Monday morning Mel Torme, and it’s just as fresh as a newly picked raspberry.
Thanks to YouTuber TheRecordChanger
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Dawn: The Four Seasons
09 Friday Aug 2019
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dawn, Frankie Valli, lyrics, music, performance, pop, song, songwriting, The Four Seasons
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Gotta love the tight harmonies and the drums, especially on the final tags.
Thanks to YouTuber Hailey Blogs And More
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Blue Moon: Reina and Toni
05 Monday Aug 2019
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Blue Moon, doo-wop, Lorenz Hart, performance, Reina del Cid, Richard Rodgers, Rodgers and Hart, song, The Marcels, Toni Lindgren
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Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren wax astronomical this Monday morning with a tip of the hat to the Marcel’s great Doo-Wop arrangement of the Rodgers and Hart standard.
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Helpless: Rachel Sage and Judy Collins
01 Thursday Aug 2019
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Helpless, Judy Collins, music, Neil Young, performance, Rachel Sage, song, songwriting
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Rachel Sage is new to me, but Judy Collins is no stranger; the two of them are just beautiful together on this Neil Young classic.
Thanks to YouTuber rachaelsage
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Here, There and Everywhere
29 Monday Jul 2019
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Monday morning, one of the great McCartney ballads, from a live 1993 tour.
Thanks to YouTuber Joivanpa
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Fool’s Gold
26 Friday Jul 2019
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Anthony Newley, broadway, music, musical, performance, song, songwriting, Stop The World--I Want to Get Off!", theater, theatre, What Kind of Fool Am I?
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The great and idiosyncratic Anthony Newley, singing, in costume, the song from Stop The World, I Want To Get Off! that had him laughing all the way to the bank.
Thanks to YouTuber Anthonay Newley
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No Wonder My Happy Heart Sings
22 Monday Jul 2019
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As everyone knows, the major means of transportation in NYC is the hansom cab. Failing that, Monday morning, Bobby Rydell will fly. He had just turned eighteen in this clip, at a time when it seemed all the tv comedians were Jewish, and all the singers were Italian.
Thanks to YouTuber NRRArchives
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Ginsberg And Dylan At Kerouac’s Grave
17 Wednesday Jul 2019
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Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, grave, Jack Kerouac, music, poem, poet, poetry
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Three poets in Lowell, Massachusetts.
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Thanks to YouTuber Swingin’ Pig
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Jazz and Self-Determination
16 Tuesday Jul 2019
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Arts Express, Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, jazz, John Coltrane, left forum, music, musician, performance, radio, self-determination, Sun Ra, WBAI
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These are some excerpts broadcast today on Arts Express from a fascinating panel called “Jazz and Self Determination” at this year’s Left Forum. The speakers you’ll hear in order are Jeremiah Hosea, Ras Moshe Burnett, Ahmed Abdullah, Greg Tate, and moderator Althea Sully Cole. Listen as they grapple with what self-determination means to a jazz musician both personally and creatively.
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That Business Called Show
15 Monday Jul 2019
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broadway, Ethel Merman, Irving Berlin, music, performance, song, songwriting, There's No Business Like Show Business
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Monday morning, Miss Merman doing what she did best.
Years ago, I was visiting someone in Roosevelt hospital in NYC, and to my surprise, there was Ethel, unpretentiously doing volunteer clerk work.
Thanks to YouTuber Alan Eichler
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“You Can Keep The Dime…”
12 Friday Jul 2019
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folk, guitar, Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen, music, Operator, performance, pop, song, songwriting
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Jim Croce’s mini three-act drama, “Operator,” a little songwriting gem.
Thanks to YouTuber upperdarbybill
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Heaven’s Door
08 Monday Jul 2019
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Bob Dylan, Carson McKee, country, folk, guitar, Josh Turner, Knockin on Heaven's Door, music, performance, song
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I’ve posted a great Dylan version of this song on the blog previously, but Monday morning I’m posting this one too, because it’s very good, and we’re all looking over our shoulders these days.
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Small Circle Of Friends
06 Saturday Jul 2019
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Bob Dylan, Coyote, folk, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, music, performance, Roger McGuinn, Rolling Thunder, song
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That time when Joni Mitchell dropped by Gordon Lightfoot’s place and Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn just happened to be there…
Fly on the wall time…
Thanks to YouTuber Swingin’ Pig
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All The Things You Are: Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald
01 Monday Jul 2019
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All The Things You Are, Audra McDonald, broadway, Jerome Kern, music, Norm Lewis, Oscar Hammerstein, performance, pop, song, songwriting
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Monday morning, we go legit. If you follow my blog regularly, you might know that this is one of my favorite jazz standards (see here and here and here for other versions). But it was originally written for a Broadway play for two duets with a lush orchestra. Here are two wonderful legit singers, Norm Lewis and the extraordinary Audra McDonald, with their heavenly version.
Thanks to YouTuber Kylie Briggs
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The Boy From New York City: The Ad Libs
24 Monday Jun 2019
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doo-wop, Mary Ann Thomas, music, pop, r&b, rock and roll, song, The Ad Libs, The Boy From New York City
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Monday morning, The Ad Libs a one-hit wonder group from 1965 with a great American Bandstand beat. Mary Ann Thomas from Bayonne, New Jersey on vocals.
Thanks to YouTuber shoderzmuzik
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Our Individual and Collective Identities: Music And Why You Like It, Part Two
23 Sunday Jun 2019
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Arts Express, book, interview, music, Nolan Gasser, radio, WBAI, Why You like It
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A continuing conversation with composer and musicologist Nolan Gasser, author of Why You Like It: The Science And Culture Of Musical Taste. In part two of our interview with Gasser, we track down the connections of music to emotions, economics, class, politics, and psychology.
To hear part two of the interview, as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program, click on the grey triangle above.
You can listen to Part One of the interview here.
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“…This Never Happened To Pablo Picasso…”
22 Saturday Jun 2019
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art, comedy, humor, Modern Lovers, music, Pablo Picasso, performance, song, songwriting
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As The Museum of Modern Art closes for major renovations for the summer, we take this opportunity to remember this ditty by the Modern Lovers.
Thanks to YouTuber smeetie1
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You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?
20 Thursday Jun 2019
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The Tennessee Ernie Ford classic in a very credible version.
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How High The Moon: Sarah Vaughn
17 Monday Jun 2019
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“I Like To-may-to, You Like To-mah-to”: Why You Like It, Part One
16 Sunday Jun 2019
Posted in Books, Life, Music, Performance, Writing
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Arts Express, book, interview, music, music genome, Nolan Gasser, pandora, performance, radio, song, WBAI, Why You like It, writing
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Why does one person enjoy listening to Mozart while another likes Taylor Swift and still another enjoys Kendrick Lamar? Nolan Gasser set out to uncover the roots of musical taste and ended up with a wide-ranging book about music, its origins, its structure, but above all else about Why You Like It.
Gasser, the author of Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste, talks with us about his Music Genome project for Pandora, and his explorations into the secrets of musical preferences.
You can hear part one of the interview I conducted, as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, by clicking on the grey triangle above.
You can listen to Part Two by clicking here.
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“Well, Blow, Roy, Blow”
10 Monday Jun 2019
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Anita O'Day, big band, dance, Gene Krupa, jazz, Let Me Off Uptown, music, performance, Roy Eldridge, song
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Monday morning Gene Krupa, Anita O’Day, and Roy Eldridge in “Let Me Off Uptown.”
Thanks to YouTuber JUSTASITTINANDAROCK
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Murder In My Heart For The Judge: Nellie McKay
06 Thursday Jun 2019
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Betty Boop, cartoon, Moby Grape, Murder In My Heart For The Judge, music, Nellie McKay, performance, song
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Nellie McKay‘s version of the Moby Grape song. And dig the great Betty Boop cartoon to which she set it.
A week observing immigration court will have you singing this too.
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