I should ask former “Jazz snob” Margo Guryan if she can guess who this is. Starting at 2:30 it’s fairly obvious, even for me. There’s a lot of Big Band in this Sixties Jazz sound.
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Bosstown radio
Over the past four years I’ve tracked some of the Boston radio scene events, including:
- Classical music station WCRB switching frequencies
- Steve LeVeille let go by WBZ, then brought back by listener demand
- End of WBCN as on-air station
- Departure of Barnes Newberry from WUMB
- WGBH buying WCRB
Deaths:
- WBZ talk show host Paul Sullivan
- WBZ legend Larry Glick
- WGBH Jazz Decades host Ray Smith
The Internet has had a huge effect on the radio industry, of course. Something I didn’t like for a long time was the Web player that the CBS network was using. I don’t know when CBS hooked up with Radio.com to update the player, but I think the results are excellent, despite a couple of pop-ups that have caused Firefox to crash.
The CBS station WODS — Oldies 103 in Boston — is still the best place to catch The Beatle Years and Beatle Brunch. You’ll find them on the WODS podcast page.
Battle of the babes singing for babies
Ya know, back in the 80’s and 90’s, kid shows in America seemed to be missing something compared to children’s television in some other countries — something that might have made parents, dads in particular, more interested in watching TV with their kids. I wonder what that certain something could have been?
Chantal – France
http://youtu.be/N40uc4wBXrs
http://youtu.be/fMWgZaZG_jU
Dorothée – France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419Ur0FMoN4
http://youtu.be/m5-PQmkETQI
Xuxa – Brazil
Douchka – France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D04ReBGeRY
Sons of a Mitch
Thursday, WBUR here in Boston had an hour on the “On Point” show about Mitch Miller. You can listen to it at this link. I’m not through the podcast yet, but what I’ve heard so far is good.
Les dames de Sixties Française Pop
Swinging London wasn’t the only place in Europe that was swinging in the Sixties. France had its own brand of Pop music, with a decidedly feminine fragrance. This collection of videos includes Sylvie Vartan, Francoise Hardy, Chantal Goya, and France Gall. It starts with — surprise! — Petula Clark, who was a Pop star in France before returning to recording in English with “Downtown”.
So who was Harry Nilsson, and where are the Apple digital downloads?
Almost three years ago I mentioned a documentary called Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)? It seems that at long last the film has a distribution deal, and will be out on DVD before the end of year.
And this just in, Denro says…
I just saw it in an email from James Taylor. The first step in Beatles stuff being available for download?
Apple Records Catalogue Remastered and Reissued on CD and Digital Download, Classics Set for Release on October 26th
Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music raise the curtain on remastered CD and digital download releases of 15 key albums from the Apple Records catalog. All 15 titles will be released on October 26th. Most of the physical CDs will include bonus material. Together, the 15 albums represent the first ever Apple Records releases to be available via digital download.
Is see that somebody has asked what I asked Denro — “Where is “Brother” by Lon & Derrek [Van Eaton]?” And there’s no mention of the other Apple, or iTunes. Perhaps Apple Records is testing the waters for doing its own online Beatles catalog.
The fact is that the ultimate digital copy of the Beatles catalog is already available on Beatles.com, in (lossless) FLAC 44.1 kHz 24-bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats.