Music and Mirth
Biff Rose is truly a one-of-a-kind artist. I can't think of anyone else that even remotely resembles him. But let me try. For older readers of this review, he's a little like very early Randy Newman. Others may be reminded of folk artist Tom Paxton (if he didn't play guitar). He's sort of a free-spirit…
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"Hippies came out of no where and sort of co opted it, I think it was quite deliberate...they wanted to give the anti-war movement a face that would be completely unacceptable to mainstream America...I mean everything about them was offensive to mainstream America,…
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Life Could Be A Dream The Doo-Wop Sound movie was released Jan 28, 2003 by the Kultur Films Inc. studio. The exciting story of Doo-Wop: the unique form of harmony singing that ultimately swept the world and transformed popular music, captured in this definitive look at the music and performers of that era. Life Could Be A Dream The Doo-Wop Sound video The video features members of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers,…
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Chicago Blues, Live Vol.1
Featuring performances from George Baze, Pistol Pete, Ron Hytower, Lonnie Brooks, Hubert Sumlin, Junior Wells, James Harman, Magic Slim and Travelling Blues.
Delta Entertainment presents Chicago Blues, Live Vol. 2
Featuring performances…
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I hope you enjoy this funky offering from Soul Jazz records. Part two of the New Orleans Funk compilation...Saturday Night Fish Fry.
Track List: The order of the songs in the player is mixed up, but all tracks are there. :>)
* Roger & the gypsies - Pass the hatchet
* Betty harris - Mean man
* Dixie cups - Iko iko
* David batiste - Funky…
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Let's say you were around in the early days of rock and…
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Everybody's Polish.
Dyngus Day is here!
It's nine o'clock in the morning.
Let's have another beer!!!
( verse from the local anthem of Dyngus Day)
The Grateful Dead - Beer Barrel Polka -
In old Poland, the day after Easter was a sort…
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Slim Gaillard was a charismatic, jive-talking carnival of a man who was the quintessential bebop-era hipster in the 1930s and 1940s. Gaillard's frequent use of his own invented hip language was at once dizzyingly funny and warmly inviting. Gaillard, a multi-instrumentalist…
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We've run it before, and we'll run it again...as long as it keeps popping up online.
Watch it while you can.…
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Following last week's Record Row - the Story of Chicago Soul and R&B from 1997, here's another Chicago special: The Chess Records Story which originally aired in 2011. Watch…
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James "Yank" Rachell was the primary exponent of blues mandolin, although he also played guitar, violin, harp and sang expertly well. Born on a farm outside Brownsville, Tennessee, Yank Rachell picked up the mandolin at the age of eight, mainly teaching himself; an early encounter with "Hambone" Willie…
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Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material encompass an incredibly eclectic range of North American musical…
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Townes Van Zandt was one of the greatest songwriters ever. While there are now tons of audio recordings of Townes' work, thanks to many reissues and releases after his tragic death, there is very little video of him, especially in his prime…
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T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film, released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. It was shot by director Steve Binder and his crew from The Steve Allen Show…
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I have always been fascinated by this song. After doing some research, I find it more delightful than ever!
.......Singer/songwriter/guitarist George Sibanda from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was in effect sub-saharan Africa's first music star, discovered by Hugh Tracey in 1948.
Sibanda's jaunty, tuneful songs quickly became popular radio hits in Rhodesia…
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Happy 90th Birthday Dexter Gordon!!!
Dexter Gordon is considered to be the first musician to translate the language of Bebop to the tenor saxophone.
Dexter Keith Gordon was born on February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first…
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