Archive for the 'Just Because Music' Category
Bookworm on Feb 08 2012 | Filed under: Just Because Music
I managed to miss most of the music from the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st Century. Don’t ask me how. I just did. So I also managed to miss Ricky Martin entirely. Here’s how I learned about him, and one of his songs: The other day, my husband and I watched the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2012 | Filed under: Just Because Music
This song hit big not long before I went to law school. Unsurprisingly, it was very popular with the student body: One of the things that impresses me is that Browne’s live version is as good as the studio version. Most singers aren’t that good.
Bookworm on Jan 10 2012 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Some time ago, I don’t know when, I posted on this blog John Parr’s St. Elmo’s Fire, a song I’ve always liked. (For those of us who were young in the 80s, the music magic never dies.) As a Tim Tebow admirer, I’m therefore very pleased to present John Parr’s tribute to Tim Tebow. (Yes, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 28 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
I totally don’t get the video, which goes from boring to creepy, and then back to boring again, but I kind of like the song. It’s a bit clunky, but quite cheerful:
Bookworm on Dec 26 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
I’ve spent a lot of time in the car with the children, which means a lot of time listening to their music. I’ve grown quite fond of this one: I have to admit to finding very amusing how young and dorky these boys look, considering that they’ve had the top song on the pop charts [...]
Bookworm on Dec 22 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
It’s not Christmas at the Bookworm Room unless I post my absolute favorite Christmas carol. I know I’m a couple of days early with this, but it’s such a lovely song, sung so beautifully, that I couldn’t wait to share it with you again:
Bookworm on Dec 20 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
I’m still feeling bad about the fact that my knowledge of things military is so pathetic that I managed to call America’s First Sergeant by a rank he hasn’t seen since 1999. It was nice, therefore, to hear Louis Jordan’s G.I. Jive today (about the Army admittedly), and to get reminded that these nuances have [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Bookworm on Nov 28 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
A couple of weeks ago, I brought to your attention a rock group called Madison Rising. It has the distinction of playing classic guitar rock, with conservative, pro-American lyrics. (Sadly, my 14 year old daughter still prefers LMFAO, but there’s only so much one can do as a mother.) A conservative cartoonist caught one of [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
It’s a great video if it satisfies you at a visual, auditory and intellectual level. Madison Rising has achieved that with “Honk If Want Peace,” a song that vividly illustrates the vast disconnect between Leftist “peace” activists and their violent, destructive, nihilistic activities: The lyrics are clear (which I like in a song), but here [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Lee Pockriss, who wrote Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, has died. Another tie to a generation that had a bit of charm has vanished:
Bookworm on Nov 15 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Really good. Freddy Mercury would have been pleased. (Or see here.)
Bookworm on Nov 10 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
The lovely Gloria DeHaven entertaining the boys in Two Girls and a Sailor:
Bookworm on Oct 27 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
A companion piece for the Betty Hutton video, since it’s another song about dancing:
Bookworm on Oct 27 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Bookworm on Oct 23 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
When I grew up, Guy Lombardo was a joke — a bunch of old people playing for my parents’ generation on New Year’s Eve. But watching this video, from 1942, is a reminder that those guys were really fine in their heyday:
Bookworm on Oct 06 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
When this song came out, in 1982, I loved it because I loved Madness, ska and the generally bonhomie of this song. Listening to it on the radio this morning, I added one more reason: aside from the brother who’s “got a date to keep” (my little guy is too young to date) and the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Not new, but I just discovered it, so I’m sharing it with you:
Bookworm on Sep 15 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Do you want to feel good today? Don’t bother eating healthy foods, exercising, doing altruistic works, or any of that ordinary “feel good” stuff. Just watch this video. I guarantee it will have you smiling: Hat tip (with many thanks): Earl
Bookworm on Sep 05 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Does it get better than this, from 1953′s Kiss Me Kate? The dancers are Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Carol Haney and Jeanne Coyne. The music and lyrics are Cole Porter’s.
Bookworm on Sep 04 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Flash mob perfection: It’s hard to imagine any piece of music better suited to the dynamics of a musical flash mob. Hat tip: Power Line
Bookworm on Aug 22 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Heard this on the radio today, and I now have to exorcise it from my head by passing it on to you: Normally, I don’t like Elvis very much (I know, almost un-American), but I’ve always had a fondness for this one. I just love the end where he keeps chanting “hunka, hunka burning love.) [...]
Bookworm on Aug 12 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music, Military
These covers are really, really good: (Hat tip for the above video to The New Editor) (Thanks to a facebook friend for the second video)
Bookworm on Jun 16 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
I’m working on a lengthy article about words and the real meaning lurking beneath them, so this seemed like an appropriate song about words versus thoughts and deeds:
Bookworm on May 25 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Seriously — was there ever a more cool performer than Cab Calloway?