Another May post that was lost was the Frank Sinatra LP “Come Dance With Me.”
Year: 2007
Folk Festival at Newport 1959
The posts from the missing month of May that represented the most work were the transcriptions from the 3-LP set of the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. I’m not going to try to redo all of the text and HTML tables that I did, but here is all of the audio:
Volume 1, Side 1: Pete Seeger, Martha Schlamme
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_1A.mp3]
Volume 1, Side 2: Leon Bibb, Tom Makem, Pat Clancy, Pete Seeger
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_1B.mp3]
Volume 2, Side 1: Odetta, Joan Baez and Bob Gibson
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_2A.mp3]
Volume 2, Side 2: New Lost City Ramblers, Barbara Dane, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_2B.mp3]
Volume 3, Side 1: Earl Scruggs, Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, John Jacob Niles, Frank Hamilton, Frank Warner,
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_3A.mp3]
Volume 3, Side 2: Earl Scruggs, Oscar Brand, Cynthia Gooding, Ed McCurdy, Earl Scruggs
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Newport59_3B.mp3]
A Bit of Good News
Two very annoying problems with WordPress are now gone, since I’ve restored the most recent (although not recent enough) database and did a bit of post-restore clean-up work. I should have gone to the trouble of copying the text from the most worthwhile posts so I could put them back up again, as they were. It’s easy enough to backdate a posting. Oh, well …. at least the thing is working again.
Colbert Rises From Database Ashes
Ah, yes. I had posted the complete video of Stephen Colbert roasting George Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner. Don’t want this one to languish, because of the database snafu…
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/APR07/ColbertRoastsBush.flv 400 300]
…and I liked Colbert’s cognitive leap that associated Bush’s assurances about Iraq to Charlie Brown being lied to year after year by Lucy about pulling away the football …
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/ColbertPeanuts.flv 400 300]
Swooning-Crooning Again
A fairly recent, now lost, post was the Warner Brothers cartoon Swooner Crooner…
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/SwoonerCrooner.flv 400 300]
Oh, right! Don’t want to forget that I highlighted Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” that’s featured in the cartoon.
Kamichu, the Girl-Child God
Eric had written a special guest blog entry for Kamichu, an Anime series about a girl who somehow becomes a god. Not a great god, but a good one. The text was lost in the Great Database Debacle, but here’s the video…
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/KamiChu.flv 425 240]
As Eric pointed out, this sequence is atypical for the show, which is mostly slice-of-life vignettes, sometimes featuring little spirit creatures.