It’s unsettling that the guy who did this in Nashville…
… played “Downtown” before setting off the blast.
Petula hasn’t said anything about it yet.
Category: Music
The Long and Winding Road to Get Back
Having escaped the clutches of Stephen Colbert and Middle Earth, Peter Jackson continues his work on what had been Let it Be. OMG, this is some kind of wonderful. Merry Crimble!
Slipped My Mind
Looking over long-forgotten drafts for posts, I see that I was going to post this nice tune over three years ago. For some reason that I don’t recall, I didn’t click the publish button.
Did I hear it on Pandora? Was it suggested to me by someone? I don’t remember!
Digging the Groove
One of the most familiar pieces in the traditional Classical music repertoire is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Overplayed.” I’m up for listening to it again, thanks to this early stereo recording that should be heard with a decent pair of headphones to best appreciate its sonic splendor (with apologies to the hearing impaired).
And oh, by the way…
Another post that ticks three blog categories!
Bee-Gee-Buzz!
The Bee Gees had quite a run for more than ten years, changing their sound several times along the way. Here’s an early one, a favorite of mine you may not know, that’s very much of its time.
ABBA Above All
This past week on the DVR I watched the PBS documentary The Eugenics Crusade, showing how the American Eugenics movement contributed to Hitler’s nightmare of a Master Race. Then I watched a PBS fundraiser feature, ABBA Forever: A Celebration. The two programs have a connection in the person of Frida, whose mother bore her as a German soldier’s “Lebensborn” baby, during the Nazi occupation of Norway.
Speaking of PBS, that’s where A Charlie Brown Christmas can be watched tonight. Quite a switch from decades of airing on commercial TV. And with that comment, this posts ticks three of my blog categories.