14 Monday Aug 2017
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performance, song, music, songwriting, Michael Jackson, Beat It
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Monday morning, trouble brewing.
Live from Toronto, 1984, with all the Jackson brothers joining Michael.
Thanks to YouTuber Dorian Diaconu
10 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in Life, Music, Performance, Writing
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Burton Cummings, Diane Linkletter, Guess Who, jazz, music, performance, Randy Bachman, rock, She's Come Undone, song, songwriting, Undun
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Burton Cummings of the Guess Who does a great vocal on his bandmate Randy Bachman’s quirky and evocative song. Some may recall the story of Diane Linkletter…
04 Friday Aug 2017
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music, performance, song, songwriting, The Beatles, This Boy
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One of the early Beatles ballads from A Hard Day’s Night with John singing lead.
Thanks to YouTuber gardner9
31 Monday Jul 2017
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Bright as You Can, folk, Mike and Ruthy, Mike Meranda, music, performance, Ruthy Ungar, song, songwriting, Summer Hoot
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Monday morning, it’s Mike and Ruthy again with another great song performed at the Ashokan Summer Hoot.
27 Thursday Jul 2017
Posted in Music, Performance, Writing
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CLearwater, folk, Mike and Ruthy, Mike Meranda, music, performance, rock, Rock On Little Jane, Ruthy Ungar, song, songwriting, The Mammals
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Mike Meranda and Ruthy Ungar are two incredible Hudson Valley musicians who I had the pleasure of meeting this week. Here they are singing at the Clearwater Festival 2015. The song was written for their little daughter Opal, but as Mike says, it was hard to rhyme with Opal, so they used Jane. The song is my new morning waker-upper.
Thanks to YouTuber Jim Motavalli
17 Monday Jul 2017
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How High the Moon, jazz, June Christy, Mel Torme, music, Nat King Cole, performance, song, songwriting
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Monday morning swings with moon-messaged melody
June Christy, Nat King Cole, and Mel Torme
Thanks to YouTuber PUNISHER6002
13 Thursday Jul 2017
Posted in Life, Music, Performance, Writing
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antiwar, Country Joe and the Fish, Fixin' To Die Rag, Joe McDonald, music, performance, protest music, song, songwriting, Vietnam War, war
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As we continue making war in Afganistan and Iraq, and head towards more war in Syria, let’s remember Country Joe and the Fish, back in the day when there was actually an anti-war movement.
10 Monday Jul 2017
Posted in Music, Performance, Writing
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Monday morning, Paul sweats as Ringo drives on relentlessly.
Live at the Washington Coliseum 1964.
Thanks to YouTube channel Paul McCartney
07 Friday Jul 2017
Posted in Music, Performance, Writing
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There’s something about the musical structure of this song that made it one of my favorites from the first time I heard it. Great lead by John and harmonies by Paul.
Thanks to YouTuber MrSquooze
29 Thursday Jun 2017
Posted in Comedy, Life, Music, Performance, Writing
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Folk music, Jack Benny, music, performance, Peter Paul and Mary, song, songwriting, television, Waukegan
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The once popular radio and television comedian Jack Benny welcomes some unlikely guests to his TV show, the folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary. They prove that you can make a folk song out of anything—even stingy Jack’s home town of Waukegan.
