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Tweet Judy Holliday and Dean Martin singing “Better Than A Dream,” from “The Bells are Ringing”:

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Tweet This song has been an ear worm buzzing in my head all day.  Maybe I can shake it off by passing it on to you guys:

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Tweet I like the melody and I like the sentiment.  I appreciate that the Big Girls in the video are dressed in costumes Betty Grable could have worn without raising too many eyebrows.  I wonder, though, whether the watching Muslims occasionally seen in the video agree with the last sentiment:

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Tweet (A word of warning to migraine sufferers: the video is like watching a strobe light. You might just want to listen to it.)

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Tweet I don’t believe it was a monster hit with the little girls, but I like Mulan.  It’s an equity feminist movie, with Mulan competing at game level, rather than whining and changing the game.  Here’s the best, and most inspiring, song from the movie:

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Tweet An oldie, but a goodie (except for those appalling jeggings):

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Tweet How can I not show the “We Are Hungry” video that’s making the rounds?  I have to: You probably recognize that the song the video parodies is Fun.’s “We Are Young.” I really liked that song. Fun. n0w has a new song out that I find equally appealing.  It’s called “Some Nights.” The video [...]

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Tweet The band Train has a charming new song out, called “50 Ways to Say Good-bye.”  Aside from the usual catchy music, the lyrics are simply wonderful, as you can see from this video: Since I always have politics on my mind, when I saw the lead singer nonsensically fielding questions about his girlfriend’s departure, [...]

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Tweet Gotta love it — a catchy song, a non-sleazy video highlighting classic American muscle cars, and lots of Bay Area scenery:

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Tweet Bonnie Tyler bemoaning a Total Eclipse of the Heart:

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Tweet I just love this song.  I think it has the most beautiful lyrics ever written for an American love song — and who better to do it justice than Ella Fitzgerald? Honestly, what can be better than this? I remember, too, a distant bell And stars that fell, Like rain out of the blue [...]

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Tweet I always liked this song:

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Tweet I’ve been spending so much time in my car lately, ferrying the kids hither and yon, that I’ve thought seriously about audiobooks.  My problem, though, is that I simply can’t listen to books in dribs and drabs.  One complicated left turn and I’ve completely lost the thread of the story. I can listen to [...]

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Tweet Last night I saw a performance by Voca People, a group that was making its last San Francisco appearance.  When I went to the show, I knew only that it was a capella singing, which I enjoy.  That was certainly a correct description as far as it went, but it was also about as [...]

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Tweet I’m a fuddy duddy when it comes to the Star Spangled Banner.  I hate howling ululations and piercing shrieks.  It turns out, though, that if you give me a rockin’ good anthem, sung by guys who believe in every word, I will get those familiar chills down my spine that tell me I’m listening [...]

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Tweet Great lyrics:

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Tweet Heard this on the radio today and, once I remembered how much I liked this song, I wanted to share it with you.  I’ve never quite understood the lyrics, which were written as a subversive joke (I always thought it was “one toe” over the line), but I still like it:

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Tweet Donna Summer burst upon the music scene when I was in high school. She was gorgeous, she had a glorious voice, and she sang wild, throbbing disco music.  This was one of my favorites: My love for dancing came about, in part, from bopping around my bedroom to Donna’s golden pipes. As with so [...]

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Tweet Because of my Mom’s and my kids’ needs, I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time in the car lately.  Sometimes I listen to audio books, but that’s not the best way for me to take in information.  I usually fall back on the radio.  After years of listening to music from the past [...]

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Tweet What a silly, enjoyable song this is.  I especially like it when Keith tells off FreddieMac:

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Tweet I like Hot chelle Rae’s new break-up song. Rather than being a whiny dirge about a broken heart, it’s a cheery ditty about walking away from a disastrous, damaging relationship.  I like to think that this will be America’s theme song in November 2012, as voters give Obama the boot. (BTW, the song isn’t [...]

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Tweet I remember the hippies as dirty, drugged-out, pathetic human beings lying on the streets in the Haight Ashbury.  Their continuing legacy is one of drugs, sexual self-indulgence, and mindless statism wrapped up in equally mindless slogans of “love” and “fairness,” as if a government is capable of giving love or imposing fairness from above. [...]

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Tweet Friedrich Nietzsche: “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” (From Twilight of the Idols, 1888) Kelly Clarkson:

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Tweet I was talking with a friend about the consolations of aging, so I promised to post this song: This is the kind of performance that makes one overlook Chevalier’s history as a collaborator.

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Tweet I’ve always loved this song, and thought of it when I read Aaron Goldstein’s homage to Glen Campbell and his farewell tour:

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