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Do You Like American Music?

Miko — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:54:59 -0800

Sounds of America is a new monthly streaming audio program, a collaboration between the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Global Sound. Up now are 3 episodes: African-American music in New Orleans, Women in American Music, and Freedom Songs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

This is a baseball writing thread

anotherpanacea — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:19:29 -0800

John Rawls gives six reasons why baseball is the best of all games. Marianne Moore's "Baseball & Writing." John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." "Let no one post 'Casey,'" shall be the whole of the law.

Don't Stop Believin'

flatluigi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:33:04 -0800

Who knew when Arnel Pineda, lead singer of a Journey cover band called "The Zoo," posted videos of his band on YouTube that he'd grab the attention of Journey itself and be invited to be its new lead singer? (via) "I was frustrated about not having a singer," explains guitarist Neal Schon, "so I went on YouTube for a couple of days and just sat on it for hours. I was starting to think I was never going to find anybody. But then I found THE ZOO and I watched a bunch of different video clips that they had posted. After watching the videos over and over again, I had to walk away from the computer and let what I heard sink in because it sounded too good to be true. I thought, 'he can't be that good.' But he is that good, he's the real deal and so tremendously talented. Arnel doesn't sound synthetic and he's not emulating anyone. I tried to get a hold of him through YouTube and I finally heard from him that night, but it took some convincing to get him to believe that it really was me and not an imposter."

Songerize

nitsuj — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:28:40 -0800

Songerize [via]

What? No "Muskrat Love"?

amyms — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:07:24 -0800

The 25 Greatest Duets Of All Time (with embedded YouTube videos of each) from retroCRUSH. Duets, by nature, are a corny type of song. Sure, there's a handful that we recognize here that are also some of best tunes ever recorded, but there's something inherently cheesy and fun about duets that make them a fun guilty pleasure for millions to enjoy.

the hellidays spirit

nickyskye — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:16:30 -0800

A good chuckle about surviving the hellidays: Dysfunctional Family Holidays, the music l an interactive karaoke with several songs l What exactly is a dysfunctional family? l What are the roles for the kids? The Other Family Dysfunctional Family Circus (DFC), Wikipedia entry Larry the Cable Guy Presents: Dysfunctional Family Christmas Dysfunctional Family: Christmas video Dysfunctional Family: Dinner Time video Saturday Night live transcript for a Dysfunctional Family Christmas album with hits like "Let's Pretend We Like Each Other (This Christmas)", "The Almost Perfect Christmas", "Peace On Earth? Where?" The Free-Floating Dysfunctional Family CircusTM Archive v1.1.2 Trondog’s DFC Driven By Boredom DFC gallery The Family Circuss Previously, the wonderful Nietzsche Family Circus In spite of the, *ack, unicorn logo and Web 1.0 look, Joy2MeU is a good, not so humorous, site re dysfunctional family roles

I Got Stoned and Missed It

Astro Zombie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:53:19 -0800

Shel Silverstein, songwriter. "A Boy Named Sue," as performed by Johnny Cash; "One's on the Way," performed by Loretta Lynn; "The Unicorn Song" performed by the Irish Rovers. (All YouTube links) "25 Minutes to Go," performed by Johnny Cash; "Cover of the Rolling Stone," "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball," and "Sylvia's Mother" performed by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show; "The Winner," "Tequila Sheila" and "Quaaludes Again," "Mary Laveau" performed Bobby Bare (cowritten by Baxter Taylor); "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" performed by Marianne Faithfull ; "Queen of the Silver Dollar" performed by Dave and Sugar; finally: Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash performing "A Boy Named Sue" and performing "Bunky & Lucille" with Dr. Hook.

Music crossing languages.

jacalata — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:45:07 -0800

Claude François was one of France's most successful popstars, a complete song-and-dance act who remained at the top of the charts for almost ten years before his career was tragically cut short when he tried to change a lightbulb while in the bath (youtube ahead). He started out adapting American hits for the french market, including his most popular song 'Belles Belles Belles' (from the Everly Brothers song 'Made To Love'), 'Si j'avais un marteau' (Trini Lopez' 'If I had a hammer') and 'Je vais a Rio'. He progressed to writing his own french chart-toppers (including 'Alexandra Alexandrie', 'Le Telephone Pleure', 'Marche Tout Droit' and 'Magnolias Forever' among many many more), and eventually his original works were the base of some famous English songs: 'Comme d'habitude' became 'My Way', and 'Cette annee-la' became 'Oh, What a Night'.

me parece bonita

nicolin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:50:14 -0800

First she was a dancer but after an injury she had to sing to make a living. She still dances a little during her songs (a rare feat among flamenco cantaoras). I first heard about her when she made a whole record (cd) of Edith Piaf's songs in spanish. You can get a taste here. She talks about it here (spanish + french, excerpts). She sang les feuilles mortes too. But nothing equals seeing her, I think : so here she is with two covers from a recent documentary : a song by Edith Piaf, a song by Lola Flores. Btw, If you get into french songs in the flamenco idiom, try this.

How being signed turned into a dirty little secret.

phaedon — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:06:11 -0800

"I just turned on my little iMovie, and here I am!" This week, Hollywood Records announced a record deal with female vocalist and underground sensation Marié Digby. Over the past few months, she has over 2.3 million cumulative Youtube hits, and has become a veritable rags to riches story - a testament, if you will, to how the Internet is changing the world of entertainment. What the label failed to mention was that Digby had already been signed to Hollywood Records for almost two years, well before she became a hit. A case of manufactured networking, or simply a "major" misunderstanding?