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Texas Kaos - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
One of the intriguing things about the new podcasting platform is the new life given to some of the stalwarts of the Golden Age of radio broadcasting. This week's Podcast Friday is all about nostalgiacasting. Some of my favorites include: Big Band Serenade-From classics like Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters to long faded singers like Cleo Brown, this podcast is a treasure trove of swing and jazz...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Hafdis Huld Singer/songwriter, ukulelist, and actress Hafdis Huld is from Iceland. By the age of 15, she'd helped form indie-electronica band GusGus, which toured...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
More accurately, the Glenn Miller band, long after Glenn Miller had been killed in a WWII accident. (His P-38 flew into an area in which bombers returning from an incomplete mission dropped their bombs.) Free download of the entire album. Via Boing Boing.
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Derrick Bostrom, a Meat Puppet member and the producer of the jewel-like "Your Favorite Little Podcast" program, points to this download of a terrific out-of-print LP by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, called Do You Wanna Dance? from 1966. Wedding the Miller big band style and DeFranco’s top-notch soloing to go-go dance rhythms, lush easy-listening atmospherics and Command’s trademark high-tech aural experience,...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Benny Goodman has come a long way to be on the limelight despite his name being all over the web. He has been branded as charismatic and stoic. He is the iconic boy from Chicago who was the ninth child to a father of twelve, a poor Hungarian Jew immigrant. Benny earned praise for making [...]
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lalate news (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
IN CONCERT! Tonight’s performance of the new Glenn Miller Orchestra in Redlands just outside of Los Angeles proved that the Glenn Miller Orchestra is as popular as ever! The new 19 member Glenn Miller band not only attracted thousands of fans tonight to the Redlands Bowl near Los Angeles, but brought so many fans that there [...]
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Filed under: Programming , What To Watch Tonight , Reality-Free At 8, CBS has a new Greatest American Dog . PBS has a new Click & Clack at 8, followed by a new Nova scienceNOW . TCM has The Glenn Miller Story at 8, then The Benny Goodman Story . At 9, NBC has a new Baby Borrowers . FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 9. There's a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 9, then a new Criss Angel Mindfreak...
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View from the cheap seats (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
The following was forwarded to me by News Democrat columnist Wally Spiers who had someone forward it to him. It's an article about Stan Musial written by the Kansas City Star's Joe Posnanski. It comes complete with this note from...
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Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
It was kind of a bummer posting Pennsylvania 6-5-DEMO back in February. But now the economy is in the throes of collapse and we are hearing that the hotel Glenn Miller immortalized in song may be spared from the wrecking ball .
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Lately, I've been wondering if I was born in the wrong time period. Although I like all types of music, I believe the origins of rock and roll lie in the late 1930s-1950s. With a nod to the rhythm and blues, jazz, country, gospel and boogie-woogie music of the 1920s and the 1930s. Rock really goes back further...
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The Confidentials (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Dad29 blogs today on the passing of Jo Stafford, an incredible voice from the WWII era. She reminds me a lot of one of my vocal idols, Paula Kelly, who sang with Glenn Miller's Modernaires. This song will always make me think of Saturday evenings in summer :)
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Eastcliff Matters (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
BRINGING SWING BACK WITH BIG BAND SOUNDS 08:00 - 18 July 2008 Big band sounds from the days of Glenn Miller to Jools Holland sweep into Ramsgate on Sunday, July 27, at 7.30pm.That's when Five Start Swing, including former Ivy Benson musician and singer Simone Smith and her husband Chris take a day off from their summer season show at Blackpool's North Pier to make a one night return appearance at the...
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
AMERICAN band Sister Sledge sparked a flood of complaints when their live show could be heard two miles across a seaside down in the early hours of the morning.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
A FULL summer programme of music has been unveiled for Vale Park, in Wallasey, Wirral.
