Fifteen years before the Specials, here’s a horn section bouncing up and down: http://youtu.be/3qbanCEieZY And here’s the Ventures’ classy take on the same tune. Here’s Brassed Off playing the Lone Ranger’s national anthem: http://youtu.be/gz_9FrhCBnI
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(Thanks to Tom Fredrickson, proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax Method, for sending a link to this golden oldie.) According to their Wikipedia entry, “The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling “Have I the Right?”, in 1964… The …
What do these five singers have in common? http://youtu.be/yEjSOqHZNhY
Chapter Three By the end of the week it was time for me to leave for France. Keith waited with me. Aimee had already gone so I had only my personal tape player for company. I grabbed a newspaper, noting the headline stating construction workers had drilled through the final wall of rock to join …
Go here. (Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the link.)
Prehistoric K-pop: http://youtu.be/YnbtmH95Ncw
Chapter Two There was no chance to finish he picked up so quickly. “Hi, I’m here. I’m just screening my calls.” “Why?” “There’s some people I don’t want to talk to.” “So why give them your number?” “I’d like to see you sometime.” His anxiousness to change the subject, made me suspicious. Was he hiding …
Sal Nunziato, of the Burning Wood blog, is offering a Weekend Mix which is a fascinating group of covers: Washington Post March- Tin Men Good Vibrations- Todd Rundgren What Does It Take- Garland Jeffreys I’m Not In Love- Richie Havens Say Goodbye To Hollywood- Ronnie Spector Spooky- Dusty Springfield The Inner Light- Junior Parker For …
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Chapter One I was nervous and excited to move to London. London was where the action was and after spending all my nearly seventeen years in rural France, I was ready for excitement. I was glad I had Aimee, my best friend since girlhood, along. I doubt I would have been brave enough to go alone. We …
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In 2009 a pet chimpanzee went berserk and savagely attacked its owner’s neighbor, literally tearing the woman’s hands and face off. This horrible event was never far from my mind as I watched “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” As reckless genetic engineers ply primates with brain-altering chemicals, then prod them to perform, my …
Here’s a great one! The Bollywood movie “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” (rough translation: “You Only Live Once”) is hugely popular in India right now. This song is blingual — Spanish and Hindi. It features a Spanish flamenco singer. – Robert http://youtu.be/Bo9MEM-LsX0
http://youtu.be/LaK6khs8aMw Last weekend my entire family went to the theater to watch “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” “Rise” is the prequel to the 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell. In a nutshell, “Rise” is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in a theater. Where shall I begin? Well, star …
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