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Put On A Happy Face

08 Saturday Dec 2018

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Dick Van Dyke and the eloquent Sharon Lerit from the Broadway stage production of Bye Bye Birdie dance up a storm.

Van Dyke learned years later that the producers had wanted to fire him out of town, but Gower Champion had fought hard to keep him. Van Dyke and the show made it to New York and hit it big.

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Hymn For A Sunday Evening

02 Sunday Dec 2018

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Department of Self-Referential Videos Department.

The original Broadway cast of Bye Bye Birdie–including the fabulous Paul Lynde– singing the Ed Sullivan song–on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Jenny

02 Friday Nov 2018

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The daffy comic musical team, Flight of the Conchords sing about a rare chance meeting of lovers. The comedy duo has as perfect timing together as any stand-up team since Abbott and Costello or The Smothers Brothers.

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Railroad Bill

29 Monday Oct 2018

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Woody Guthrie from Oklahoma and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott from Brooklyn sing Monday morning about the legendary bad man Railroad Bill. They’re joined by Sonny Terry on harmonica, who if I’m not mistaken, takes a verse towards the end.

More at  Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Topic

They Say Our Love Won’t Pay The Rent

22 Monday Oct 2018

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Monday morning while sourpuss Bob was telling his Babe that It Ain’t Me, the sunnier Sonny and Cher were singing reciprocally to their Babes that I Got You.

Here are Sonny and Cher long after they were professionally—or privately—a couple, singing their signature song. (I like the way Cher pretends she’s forgotten the words—after all she must have sung it literally thousands of times—as if she’s way beyond that now.)

Thanks to YouTuber Cher Fan Club

Compared To What?

18 Thursday Oct 2018

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Nellie and Company take a swing at the Eugene McDaniels classic made famous by Les McCann and Eddie Harris

piano & vocals – Nellie McKay; bass – Alexi David; guitar – Cary Park; drums – Kenneth Salters

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“Go To Sleep, You Weary Hobo”

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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Woody Guthrie’s rendition of Goebbel Reeves’s “Hobo Lullaby,” a song about a heaven where there are no policemen around to harass anyone.

That’s David Carradine playing Woody hopping the boxcars in Hal Ashby’s film, Bound For Glory.

Thanks to YouTuber FreeNeverSaid

Nellie’s Updated Fixin’s

08 Monday Oct 2018

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Monday Morning, Mckay makes mischief.

The versatile Nellie McKay, performing on The Jimmy Dore Show, updates an old Country Joe and The Fish anti-war standard. (NSFW)

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More Nellie at http://www.nelliemckay.com/

“Autumn Leaves Must Fall…”

05 Friday Oct 2018

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Chad and Jeremy singing “A Summer Song” 40 years after it was first released in 1964.

Thanks to YouTuber Independent Musicians Foundation

Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying

26 Wednesday Sep 2018

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A terrific version of the Gerry and the Pacemakers’ song by the multi-talented Nellie McKay. It’s so good it makes me want to keep playing it over and over.

Thanks to YouTuber eTown

Angels on High

24 Monday Sep 2018

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Monday morning, atheists believe.

If there is a heaven, then surely one must be greeted by something like the celestial sounds of Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush.”

Thanks to YouTuber Don Giller