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Well, the Yankees apparently were not afraid of offending atheists by playing "God Bless America" in the first place.

This is just silly. Kate Smith would never make my list of Top 500 favorite singers, but come on. If you were a pop singer in the 1930's, there's a huge likelihood that you recorded some racist material because racist stereotypes and imagery permeated pop culture in that era. To the best of my knowledge, Kate Smith did not make a career out of recording racist material, nor was she some leader in a white supremacist movement. She sang songs, some of which are blatantly offensive by today's standards. Do we also ban Louis Armstrong for singing "Shine"? You know, this -- Do we also go beyond the realm of pop music? Do we ban the Little Rascals for that one film with the cannibal and his "Yum, yum! Eat 'em up!" catch phrase? Do we ban "Gone With The Wind" or all movies in which Stepin Fetchit or Mantan Moreland appeared? Should all known recordings of the "Amos & Andy" radio show be destroyed? These things existed. They reflected the American consciousness (or lack thereof) of the era. It's unfair to judge the performers or the material based on the social standards of today.

Disc 3 of 4.

Just saw where Jonathan Richman will will be playing in Oakland next month. Hope I can make it to that show. While he doesn't usually perform any of these songs any longer, I got a hankerin' for some early Jojo and this video is great.

Discs 1 and 2 of 4. The humor of Bob & Ray just hits my funny bone dead target. I have a lot of their stuff which has been released on CD and this set has all the memorable characters like Harry & Mary Backstayge, Mr. Science, Biff Burns, Wally Ballou, Ralph R. Kreuger, Jr. and Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy.

Just let Dr. Rudy Wells get to work on it. I'm sure he can bring this project in for under $6,000,000.

They can reissue it. They have the technology. They can make it better, faster, louder . . .

Nina Simone's "Feelings" ain't like your grandfather's "Feelings".

Disc 1 and 2 of 3. Not a bad lineup at this concert: Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, T-Bone Walker and, as the icing on the cake, Miss Helen Humes! The third disc apparently has selections by the same folks from the midnight show that same night.

Does OP play organ on these numbers or why is that instrument depicted on the album cover?

Discs 1 thru 3 of 11 (plus 1 DVD). I recently bought a reasonably priced used copy of this Bear Family Bob Will set. I have been havin' an ever=lovin' hoot listening to these recordings. I had several other Bob Wills collections, the most extensive having been the Proper boxed set, but I had never gone this in depth into his recordings. There's stuff here I never heard before. Bob Wills strikes me as kind of the Woody Herman of Texas swing: both men always fronted a very credible band, and managed to keep them on the road year in and year out; each band kept trying new material over the decades and did not try to exist merely as "greatest hits live" bands; each band featured soloists who would go on to become stars in their own right; and finally, each bandleader was a solid instrumentalist/charming vocalist who was not above a bit of humor to please the audiences. This is jazz with a country flavor, just as there can be jazz with the Latin tinge or a Brazilian flavor. These guys do a version of "Lady Be Good" that is a jam session in which the Dorseys, Big T, Pee Wee, Wingy and Satchmo himself would have felt right at home. While I had never heard Bob Wills do the Billy Eckstine classic "Dedicated To You" before (kind of charming, but yeah, he weren't no Mr. B), I'm pretty sure I also had never heard this version of "I'm A Doing Dong Daddy (From Dumas)" (and it was a close contest, but I believe the judges have called it a split-decision with top honors going to Wills and the Playboys over the Satchmo version -- and we're going to have to replay the tape any way because what was that Tommy Duncan was singing about "morphine, coke and snow"? This is 1937, gentlemen!!! Think of the tiny tots!!!)

It looks like the poster has disabled embedding for this video, but I am watching/listening to a great Gary Burton;"Piazzolla Reunion" concert on YouTube It was recorded at Teatro Gran Rex , Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 26, 2009 and features: * Gary Burton: vibes * Fernando Suarez Paz: violin * Hector Console: acoustic bass * Marcelo Nisinman: bandoneon * Pablo Ziegler: acoustic piano * Ricardo Lew: guitar

Today, the Wayback Machine takes us to April 10, 1971 . . .

Two in a series of well produced audio dramas, complete with musical scores and sound effects, which tell stories based upon characters from the old Dark Shadows TV series. Most of the productions feature one or more actors from the original series. The late Jonathan Frid gave his final performance as the immortal (literally) Barnabas Collins in one of these dramas. The conveniently named Andrew Collins assumes that role on the above disc.

Al Grey – trombone John Young – piano Leo Blevins – guitar Ike Isaacs – bass Phil Thomas – drums

The above video is cued up to a rather fitting performance by Rosemary Clooney accompanied by John Oddo, may he rest in peace.