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Song of the Day 10/13: Angela Lansbury, “Beauty and the Beast”

By Alby October 13, 20223 Comments

Angela Lansbury, who died at age 96 on Tuesday, always played older than she was. MGM frequently cast her as a 40-ish woman, usually a villain, while she was still…

Song of the Day 10/12: The Flamingos, “I Only Have Eyes For You”

By Alby October 12, 20222 Comments

I always thought of this as a quintessential doo-wop song, because the Flamingos version is the only one I had ever heard. That's because I was never a fan of…

Song of the Day 10/11: Audience, “You’re Not Smiling”

By Alby October 11, 2022

Audience was a short-lived British band that got lumped in with progressive rock because of the their unusual instrumentation. Formed in 1969, they had no lead guitarist -- their rhythm…

Song of the Day 10/10: Link Wray & His Ray Men, “Rumble”

By Alby October 10, 20222 Comments

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, let's put a dime in history's jukebox to play the only instrumental ever banned by American radio stations. Link Wray, a Shawnee from North…

Song of the Day 10/7: Cab Calloway, “Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man”

By Alby October 7, 20221 Comment

Cab Calloway recorded this in 1932, before cannabis was banned nationwide. Joe Biden didn't undo that 1937 all by himself yesterday, but pardoning everyone convicted of simple possession is widely…

Song of the Day 10/6: Sinéad O’Connor, “All Apologies”

By Alby October 6, 2022

With all the attention to mental health these days, it would seem like a perfect time for a critical re-evaluation of Sinéad O'Connor, whose public behavior had people calling her…

Song of the Day 10/5: Loretta Lynn, “The Pill”

By Alby October 5, 20222 Comments

It's hard for those born later to understand the profound change the oral contraceptive pill brought to society in 1960. Some Christian conservatives haven't gotten over it yet. Loretta Lynn,…

Song of the Day 10/4: Jean-Luc Ponty, “New Country”

By Alby October 4, 20222 Comments

Maybe you recognize his name from his time playing with Frank Zappa and Elton John 50 years ago. Or maybe you heard him with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, or Chick…

Song of the Day 10/1: Lizzo, “About Damn Time”

By Alby October 1, 20227 Comments

I have to admit that before this latest right-wing freak out I had very little idea of who Lizzo was. I heard her name enough to know she was famous,…

Song of the Day 9/30: The Zombies, “Time of the Season”

By Alby September 30, 20222 Comments

Guest post by Nathan Arizona You could say the Zombies saved their best song for the end. Actually, past the end. The British band had already broken up when "Time…

Song of the Day 9/29: Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)”

By Alby September 29, 20221 Comment

I know people in Naples, Fla. I feel even sorrier for them than usual today. Most blues songs about high water trace back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927,…

Song of the Day 9/28: Michael Martin Murphey, “Geronimo’s Cadillac”

By Alby September 28, 2022

As the link in today's open thread illustrates, we never do right by native Americans, even though we've admitted the injustices for a long time now. For example, it was…

Song of the Day 9/27: The Beatles, “Back in the USSR”

By Alby September 27, 20221 Comment

One one level it's just a parody of American exceptionalism as espoused by Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys. But it doesn't seem so funny when Russia flexes its military…