New to me, but I think a very funny and personable comedian.
Thanks to YouTuber The Late Late Show with James Corden
New to me, but I think a very funny and personable comedian.
Thanks to YouTuber The Late Late Show with James Corden
Monday morning, Art Garfunkel, from his New York home in 2021, 56 years after the original recording. Music and lyrics, of course, by Paul Simon.
Thanks to YouTuber Juanfunkel
Charlie Freeman on vocals and percussion here for the Meetles
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Move over Chris Rock and Will Smith: the hilarious Rowan Atkinson gives us the awards ceremony that we’d like to see.
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I’m grateful to Stephanie Schubert, Operations Coordinator of the Pacifica Network, for conducting and publishing this interview she did with me about the recent Arts Express production of To The Lighthouse. At the end of the article, you’ll find a link to our podcast page, if you’d like to hear the production.
Monday morning, a really excellent cover with three part harmony and Toni Lindgren’s big guitar. Lauren O’Connell on lead and Elle Cordova backing up.
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Tap dancer Demi Remick tells the story through tap of the Legend of Zelda in the kingdom of Hyrule.
Thanks to YouTuber PostmodernJukebox
The versatile Carl Einer Hackner as Mr. Fiasconi!
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The Tempos had the original song, but this version by The Happenings made the song a hit.
Thanks to YouTuber 60s70sThe Best
Leonard Bernstein rehearses and conducts the orchestra for a 1984 recording of West Side Story. Oh, the perfection!
Thanks to YouTuber Cristiano Pieraccini
For the first time since I started this blog, I didn’t post a song on Monday–somehow I got confused about Labor Day and didn’t realize it was Monday yesterday. Anyway, here’s a special treat to make up for it: Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore with a perfectly delightful medley.
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Juggler Michael Davis with a funny, topical, and alarming juggling routine. The Axes of Evil?
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What a cast of hilarious looney tunes SCTV bred!: Eugene Levy as the host, and Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Andrea Martin, and Dave Thomas as the eager high school contest students.
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One of the great songs that John Prine wrote in the last part of his career. Like the lyrics of Paul Simon, Prine’s lyrics tells you just enough about the story to intrigue you, but open enough to let you complete it with your own experience.
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Monday morning, a 1961 Carole King penned song for Bobby Vee, as sung in 1974.
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Thanks to YouTuber Bobby Cole
Monday morning, Rick Danko and The Band start all over again
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The Smothers Brothers salute their Austrian friends…
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Brooklyn’s own cowboy, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Pete Seeger make some music.
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Monday morning, McCartney walks down the path. Paul reportedly hated Phil Spector’s epic orchestration and choral parts on this song, but somehow it works for me.
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Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Robbie Robertson on vocals on one of the great songs of all time IMO. This live version is from the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Big controversy on who wrote the song himself and whether Robbie was a shithead. Yeah, he probably was, but no matter now.
RIP Robbie Robertson
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To The Lighthouse was a novel I had been intrigued with since my twenties. When I heard that it had just gone out of copyright, I thought it would be fun to write a radio adaptation and to direct and edit it.
I started writing this adaptation back in January of this year, rehearsed it and recorded it in April and May with a fine company of actors, and then edited it in June and July. I’m happy to say we’ve finally completed it.
Here’s the logline:
In this adaptation, prepared especially for radio, Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking stream of consciousness novel, To The Lighthouse, is brought to life.
In a sort of ghost story that plays with time, memory, and recollection, a young boy, over a period of ten years, tries to journey to the lighthouse, a stormy boat ride away from his family’s summer vacation home. The life of his nurturing mother, hemmed in by social and family strictures, is contrasted with that of her artist friend who lives in artistic freedom, but alone.
Included is a brief three minute introduction to give the context of the novel and the era in which Virginia Woolf was writing.
Our cast, in order of appearance:
James Ramsay…..Byron O’Hanlon
Mrs Ramsay….Mary Murphy
Mr. Ramsay…Jack Shalom
Charles Tansley….Joe Levine
Andrew Ramsay….KeShaun Luckie
Lily Briscoe….Lucy McMichael
William Bankes….Marty Levine
Cam Ramsay….Sarah Taylor
Prue Ramsay….Vivienne Shalom
Minta Doyle….Emma Mueller
Paul Rayley….David Lepelstat
Monday morning, the Sam Cooke song that I loved as a child. Sung by Elle Cordova, who used to go by the name of Reina del Cid
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When satire is overtaken by reality…
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Paul Reubens, who passed away this week, spent a good part of his life convincing people he was his alter ego, the delightful Pee Wee Herman, a guy who never grew up, but stayed just as strange as that guy in third grade that you knew. His children’s show, Pee Wee’s Playhouse was an amazing surreal trip every week that adults and children flocked to on Saturday mornings. My favorite part of this appearance: fun with caps!!
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One of the classic Bob Newhart comedy routines.
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