I know we’ve run these before but I like ’em:
Category: Music
mainly youtubes
The krazee keyboards of Perez Prado
I’m searching for a word here – is it ‘zany’, ‘syncopated’, ‘happy’, ‘quirky’? What’s the best way to describe this bizarre ‘music’?
Walking back to New Orleans 15
Ray Starita leads his Piccadilly Revels Band, with brother Rudy on drums, through George Gershwin’s Nashville Nightingale (1927): That same year his brother Al had led his Kit-cat band through My Regular Gal.
Rain
Don’t want you getting the idea now that your humble blogger is cheerful in the rain – that’s altogether too Hemmingway – but there can be a certain cheerfulness, shall we say, to melancholy.
Time passes
Some music to get you through brunch
https://hardscrabblefarmer.com/ Such memories, I used to listen to the Marconi Experiment on WMMR in my misspent youth, a great station and show it was, too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMMR