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September 18, 2020 2:04 PM

Since April of this year Neil Sedaka has been posting mini-concerts nearly every day to his YouTube channel, and has recorded over a hundred videos of himself playing the piano and singing. Besides that, he did a parody version of one of his best known songs, Masking Up Is Not Hard to Do.
posted by Kattullus (6 comments total)

He is also sharing them on his Instagram.
posted by terrapin at 2:47 PM on September 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Neil Sedaka was my first real concert, I was 8 or 9. It was at a small auditorium in the big retirement community in the metro area I grew up in. I was the youngest person in the audience by far, my dad was the second youngest by quite a bit.

For some reason his music just really grabbed me as a kid, probably because the words were just so good. Set me up for a lifetime appreciation of lyrical cleverness.
posted by padraigin at 4:07 PM on September 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

I haven't heard that name in years :)
posted by infini at 11:14 PM on September 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

Wow, Neil Sedaka is one of those artists I never paid much attention to, because he was considered deeply uncool when I was young. Now that I'm old, I can appreciate his genius. Thanks for posting!
posted by Crane Shot at 10:02 AM on September 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

"Bad Blood" with Elton John is such power pop.
posted by andreap at 10:58 AM on September 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

As a fan of the ancien regime of American music, the fact that Neil Sedaka is broadcasting from his piano nearly every day makes me smile. Thanks for posting this.
posted by ob1quixote at 1:58 PM on September 19, 2020 [2 favorites]