Music – Page 27 – Prattling before the Pratfall

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Four days ago I heard Jo Stafford’s “You Belong to Me” as a Pandora QuickMix selection. I was so impressed with her singing that I published this post:

Pitch-Perfect

Then today, while listening to Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out from a couple of weeks ago, I paused about 45 minutes into the show. With a Rory Gallagher track on the phone, I went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.

Returning to the porch I put down the tea and checked my laptop. YouTube was suggesting a video from a month ago. Well, whadda ya know, it’s by a young guy who is obviously delighted with Jo’s singing of “You Belong to Me” and, by coincidence, he’s wearing a Rory Gallagher t-shirt. He shows exactly how well Jo could sing both on-key and deliberately off-key.

Tom is no Turkey

I had no prior notice about the latest DJ gig by Tom Hanks. It’s starting right this very instant on Boss Radio 66! It will be re-played through Thanksgiving Day.

New Amp for Old Music

Once again we have the opportunity for a musical visit with good, ol’ R. Crumb, who has been living in France for — YOWZA! — 32 years. Robert is delving into 78’s that are even more obscure than his usual fare.

OTRS 141 R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM (part 59) “MUSIC OF ETHIOPIA & SOMALIA” special guest’s Robert Crumb & his glorious 78rpm records and that lovable scamp Eden Brower.

I see that I’m not the only one with an audio acquisition. That appears to be a Marantz amp of fairly recent vintage in Crumb’s listening room.

Let’s Twist Again

Jim Dawson occasionally moonlights from his Wednesday night “Not Fade Away” gig on Luxuria Music, to guest host KPFK’s “Rhapsody in Black” show. The November 18 episode is Jim’s tribute to his late friend, the legendary R&B talent Hank Ballard. If you do some twisting of the scroll wheel, it should be available in the station’s archive for a couple of weeks.

https://www.kpfk.org/archives/

Ballard wrote and performed “The Twist”…