Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 6/27: Spin Doctors, “How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Can Have Me)”
The Spin Doctors’ lament is really about being friend zoned, but it’s the same question the Biden campaign could ask anyone who’s voting for his felonious opponent. The Spin Doctors came out of the same early ’90s jam band scene that produced Phish and Blues Traveler. Their debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” was released […]
Song of the Day 6/26: Neil Innes, “Brave Sir Robin”
This one’s for Bethany Hall Long who, put in a position to cast an important tie-breaking vote, showed her leadership skills: She bravely turned her tail and fled. Neil Innes was the guy the Monty Python troupe turned to whenever music was required. A veteran of the irreverent Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, he provided the […]
Song of the Day 6/25: Fataday Korngor, “Pinky Ring”
New music is El Somnambulo’s territory, but I heard this on WXPN’s local music show last week and I’m not willing to wait until his end-of-the-month roundup to share it. Fataday Korngor is a DelCo guy who makes music with a backing band composed of a childhood friend and a couple of guys he met […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Media chatter has turned to Thursday night’s televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and it seems nobody is pretending anymore that the event has anything to do with educating the electorate. If it were, you’d see articles comparing and contrasting the positions espoused by the two grandpas. Instead we get stories about colleges […]
Song of the Day 6/24: Shaboozey, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
H/t Jason, who posted this in the comments the other day. It was among the songs featured in this this article about the contenders for the Song of the Summer. It cites a bunch of songs that have sold well, which isn’t enough to crown a tune the Song of the Summer. Beyond popularity, the […]
Song of the Day 6/23: LL Cool J, “Mama Said Knock You Out”
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 is Trump. This track serves as a reminder than the current Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud is part of a long hip-hop tradition. James Smith – the […]
Song of the Day 6/21: Bill Lloyd, “The Fix Is In”
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 is a veteran Nashville singer and songwriter, best known as half of Foster & Lloyd. The songwriting duo recorded three albums and landed several singles […]
Song of the Day 6/20: The Power Station, “Some Like It Hot”
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 Duran Duran bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor during the band’s hiatus in 1984, debuted with this single in 1985. It was a hit […]
Song of the Day 6/19: The Treniers, “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”
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 difficult to understand what all the fuss was about. Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947, but when Mays won the Rookie of the […]
Song of the Day 6/18: Arrow, “Hot Hot Hot”
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 upper Midwest and Northeast could see temperatures 25 degrees above normal – but highs are predicted to hit 90 and above most days for the […]
Song of the Day 6/15: Françoise Hardy, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles”
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 meant for a miniskirt, demure, French. Hardy, whose death this week at 80 sparked a lot of happy recollections, was the most important of the […]
Song of the Day 6/14: James Cagney, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”
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 “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” You seldom hear the tune, written in 1906 for Cohan’s musical “George Washington, Jr.,” these days unless you listen to military band […]
Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
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 are amusing mainly for the films the editor chooses to sample, because it’s not hard to find examples of the words in, say, Rick Astley’s […]
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