Yes, the blog is back! You’ll find my notice about it about 10 posts ago. Those “new” posts are quickie attempts at re-doing a small portion of what was lost. I’m starting to recover psychically from the stress of an extremely tense session of dealing with the database and various iterations of backups.
It Was 40 Years Ago That Day
Back on June 2, before The Bad Thing happened to my database, I had noted the 40th anniversary of the American release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and compared the audio quality of an American LP on the Apple label, and a pressing from the glory days of British vinyl, using “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.” Hmm. Y’know, I’m not sure myself now, which is which. I’ll have to click back-and-forth to figure it out. Just did it. Oh, it’s obvious, which is better.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JUN07/LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds.mp3]
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/JUN07/lucyskydiamonds.mp3]
Come Dance With Me Again
Another May post that was lost was the Frank Sinatra LP “Come Dance With Me.”
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]