Arts and Entertainment – Page 55

Song of the Day 6/23: LL Cool J, “Mama Said Knock You Out”

By Alby June 23, 20241 Comment

So Trump's latest idea for controlling immigration is to have the equivalent of bum fights. I'm all for it, given that the first person the first contestant gets to fight…

Song of the Day 6/21: Bill Lloyd, “The Fix Is In”

By Alby June 21, 2024

This one's for Aileen Cannon, the unqualified federal judge who's slow-walking Donald Trump's stolen documents trial and refused colleagues' calls to recuse herself. You can figure out why. Bill Lloyd…

Song of the Day 6/20: The Power Station, “Some Like It Hot”

By Alby June 20, 20241 Comment

This one's for commenter Jarvis, who thinks people need to turn off the air conditioning because it's not that hot out there. The Power Station, a super group formed by…

Song of the Day 6/19: The Treniers, “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”

By Alby June 19, 20244 Comments

Baseball's greatest all-around player, Willie Mays, died yesterday at age 93. He retired 50 years ago, so unless you're a Boomer you never saw him play, and it might be…

Song of the Day 6/18: Arrow, “Hot Hot Hot”

By Alby June 18, 20242 Comments

The heat dome that had monkeys falling dead from the trees in Mexico is headed our way. Delaware is expected to dodge the worst of it – places in the…

Song of the Day 6/15: Françoise Hardy, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles”

By Alby June 15, 2024

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Singer Françoise Hardy might have been the coolest person in a cool era, the pre-hippie 1960s. Pretty and waif-like, perfect shoulder-length hair, soulful eyes, legs…

Song of the Day 6/14: James Cagney, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”

By Alby June 14, 20241 Comment

It's Martha Ann Alito's favorite holiday, so here's George M. Cohan's tribute to Old Glory, as delivered by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning turn as Cohan in the 1942 film…

Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

By Alby June 12, 20244 Comments

This YouTuber's shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results…

Song of the Day 6/11: Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets, “I Went to a Party”

By Alby June 11, 2024

Nick Lowe has been playing and touring with surf-rock revivalists Los Straitjackets for a decade now, and he's finally done an album with them. "Indoor Safari" is set for release…

Song of the Day 6/10: Imagine Dragons, “Sharks”

By Alby June 10, 2024

Donald Trump's fear of sharks is well-documented, but I think it's confined to the oceanic sort. That's not the kind of shark Imagine Dragons sang about in this 2022 single,…

Song of the Day 6/9: The Sundays, “Summertime”

By Alby June 9, 20242 Comments

Americans insist on regarding "summer" as the period between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox. That's the astronomical definition of summer, but it's not the only one. The length…

Song of the Day 6/7: Chuck Wood, “Seven Days Too Long”

By Alby June 7, 20241 Comment

I like soul music on Fridays as much as the next guy, but sometimes I get tired of the same old songs. So I turn to Northern Soul, the British…

Song of the Day 6/6: Jim Radford, “The Shores of Normandy”

By Alby June 6, 20241 Comment

Certain minds think alike. Mike Dinsmore posted this in the Open Thread while I was writing it up. It's worth hearing twice. Jim Radford was a British folksinger and peace…