Arts and Entertainment
Song Of The Day: March 19, 2018
These guys reportedly KILLED it at SXSW. I totally understand why. My new favorite group?:
Song Of The Day: March 18, 2018
My fave Sondheim song–at least for this week. One of the great songs about obsession ever. OK, I just can’t quit Sondheim Week w/o the amazing Act 1 finale to ‘Sunday In The Park With George’:
Song Of The Day: March 17, 2018
Hey, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. Which can only mean one thing. My fave ‘Danny Boy’ of all-time:
Song(s) Of The Day
Sondheim Week rolls merrily along with two from Sweeney Todd. We start with Sweeney’s love song…to his razors: In this scene, Toby, who does not trust Sweeney Todd, promises to protect Mrs. Lovett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zet0XrrhiuU
Song Of The Day: March 14, 2018
The Ballad Of Booth from ‘Assassins’. If you ever get a chance to see this show, go. You won’t soon forget it. Victor Garber, unbleepingbelievable:
Song Of The Day: March 13, 2018
Nobody does Sondheim like Bernadette Peters. This song is from “Merrily We Roll Along”, initially a flop that featured a great Sondheim score, one of his greatest in fact. The musical has successfully been reworked, and is now produced all over the world. There are several amazing songs in the score, this is but one […]
Song Of The Day: March 12, 2018
Hey, it’s my Birthday Week, and I’m gonna celebrate it with some Stephen Sondheim. He’s on my Musical Mount Rushmore. I’ve perhaps spent more time listening to Sondheim than any other artist. And I still hear new stuff whenever I listen. In this gorgeous song from a made-for-British-TV production, ‘Evening Primrose’, a store mannequin briefly […]
Song Of The Day: March 9, 2018
They put the ‘psycho’ in psychobilly. Ladeez & Gentlemen, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy and the Cramps:
Song Of The Day: March 8, 2018
Betcha there ain’t a whole ‘nother political blog anywhere featuring this song today. Uh, not that there should be:
Song(s) Of The Day: March 7, 2018
Hasil Adkins, folks. Remember that name. Rockabilly don’t get no weirder than ol’ Hasil from Boone County, WV. Hasil (pronounced Hassel) invented psychobilly back in the ’50’s. He didn’t call it that, and the genre didn’t take off until the Cramps turned Hasil’s warped vision into an entire sub-genre. Not gonna say that Hasil had […]
Song Of The Day: March 6, 2018
We take a baby-step towards rockabilly weirdness today. The screams in the background are from the drummer, who wanted his mom to hear him on the record. BTW, Bamboozer? We take a giant leap into full-blown craziness tomorrow. I’ll give you a teensy-weensy hint: Boone County, West Virginia. As for today?:
Song Of The Day: March 5, 2018
Somebody suggested Rockabilly Week. Welcome to Rockabilly Week. We’ll start the week off with a couple of the classics, and then it’s off to Weirdoville. A year later, another performer recorded it. You might have heard of him:
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