Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There are lots of enjoyable videos floating around that show clips of old Hollywood musicals put to a modern pop soundtrack. This video, though, has the single best match-up I’ve ever seen, matching perfectly the pacing and rhythm of the old dances when compared to a modern song — the
Continue readingHonestly, I don’t think anyone does this song better than Josh Groban. I get chills every year when I revisit it:
Continue readingBack in 2013, when Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines was all the rage, I made the argument that it wasn’t so much rapey, as it was the sleazy descendant of old-fashioned “seduction” songs. And it’s very sleazy song indeed. Thicke keeps saying “you know you want it,” which is the classic
Continue readingIt’s been a long time since I’ve heard a song that seemed to fit into the parameters of my “Just Because Music” category, but here one is — Rachel Platten’s I’m gonna stand by you. And no, I have no idea what those parameters are; it’s just that some songs run
Continue readingHadn’t heard of the Quebe Sisters before, but definitely like them:
Continue readingThis has been out since 2007, but I missed it. It’s an impressive feat:
Continue readingI’ve been a passionate Ella Fitzgerald fan for decades now. The problem with that, though, is that I’m so familiar with her work that I often don’t really listen to it. I hear it, of course, when the songs come up on my playlist, but I don’t listen. Tonight, though,
Continue readingSeveral years ago, Earl Aagaard sent me a link to a delightful video called Bring Me Sunshine, by the Jive Aces. And then, my memory being what it is, I lost the link and lost the song — that is, I couldn’t remember either the name of the song or of the
Continue readingThis video has been kicking around for about 4 years, but it’s suddenly popped up on my Facebook feed and friends have emailed it to me. I don’t know if it really does explain Don McLean’s cryptic lyrics, but it certainly makes a good case:
Continue readingFamed vaudeville stars Van and Schenck have some advice for those feeling a bit bored:
Continue readingWatching this, it’s fascinating to remember that, thanks to such movies as Our Dancing Daughters, which had come out one year earlier, many believed Joan Crawford to personify the modern Flapper. It took some years before Crawford transformed herself into the powerful, almost iconic, line of female characters that shaped
Continue readingDayenu is a traditional Passover song that’s more than 1,000 years old. It’s one of those songs that, like The Old Lady Who Swallowed The Fly, keeps having longer and longer verses. In the case of Dayenu, the ever-lengthening verses add up God’s Passover miracles. After every verse comes the
Continue readingTotally nice song; totally nice video:
Continue readingDon’t really know why, but I’ve always liked this song:
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