Just Because — Ella Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife
It doesn’t get better than this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRyDB4RWJdw[/youtube]
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Just Because — Heart and Soul
Hoagy’s original of Heart and Soul: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CSjDC18b0[/youtube] Cleftone’s doo-wop cover of Hoagy’s song: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFqiSDMn2k[/youtube] Huey Lewis’ Heart and Soul: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VyFOziZIHc[/youtube] T’pau’s Heart and Soul: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because — Sam Cooke
One of my absolute, all-time favorite songs, by one of my favorite singers: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNO72aCnVr0[/youtube]
Continue readingLesley Gore’s anthem seems like an appropriate protest to the Nanny State
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYad-Gv9_Lw[/youtube]
Continue readingOne of my favorite songs, sung by one of my favorite singers
Ella Fitzgerald, singing Cole Porter’s “From this Moment On,” which he wrote for Kiss Me Kate: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGDv483rEBw[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because — Ella Fitzgerald with Sleigh Ride
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAn-bJbmDYs[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because — You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBS7dVrE1U[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because — the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHed0_utrXU[/youtube]
Continue readingOpen thread (and a little music)
I’ve been reading the news assiduously today, but just don’t feel as if I have a coherent message or analysis in my own brain that’s worth passing on. I know it’s late in the day for some of you, but consider this an open thread. Meanwhile, a little Christmas music
Continue readingJust Because — Dion and the Belmonts
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k[/youtube]
Continue readingOne of the best sung Christmas songs
Yesterday I blogged about the way in which businesses, bowing to political correctness, erase Christmas from the holiday shopping season. My personal, Jewish, opinion, is that I like the Christmas season, especially the music. One of my personal favorites is Josh Groban’s O Holy Night. I think there are few,
Continue readingJust Because — It’s Johnny Mercer’s 100th birthday
I couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCp32NBXmU[/youtube] Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer
Continue readingJust Because — Lifehouse’s Chapter One
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyO0NYkMEhU[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because — Trying to be sanguine about yesterday’s vote *UPDATED*
It’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment. I need to relax. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc[/youtube] Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart. UPDATE: The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.
Continue readingJust Because — a song about hitting rock bottom (and an open thread)
With the House of Representatives having gone insane, it seemed like an appropriate time for a song about hitting rock bottom: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53sCut6XxZE[/youtube] Please feel free to make your comments about the bill here. I probably won’t be blogging tomorrow until later in the day, Pacific time.
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