Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Glenn Miller Orchestra - Moonlight SerenadeMoonlight Serenade" is an American popular song with original music by Glenn Miller and subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was originally named "Now I Lay Me Down To Weep." When Miller recorded "Sunrise Serenade" in 1939, he placed this song on the back. It was an immediate phenomenon as an instrumental arrangement and was adopted...
Total Flanker (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
...from Bill McLaren's grandson Gregor Lawson last week at the great man's funeral: "Papa used to always say he ranked a distant third in nana's affections behind Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. We all knew that was just a tease - he was actually fourth behind Gregor Townsend..." ...showing that wit and a great turn of phrase runs in the family.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
New York, New York -- The big band sound of RG Royal Orchestra will be celebrated around the world today as their new release Impact is released to give the jazz community a shot of adrenaline that it never expected. The main vision of producer Recaredo Gutierrez, is to bring back good music and he said "In addition to Latin music, I love big bands," he says, "including that of Ray Conniff,...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Consortium Ltd. (OTC-UCSO), has acquired a collection of 20,000 of the greatest pop, jazz and classical tracks of all time, from artists such as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams, Jr., Dolly Parton, The London Pops Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,...
The Salitype Society (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
It's time for Fun Friday in our group, Blogging For Fun . We are doing an A to Z challenge. This week, we are working on the letter O. O stands for Once Upon A Time... our Other Half... this is hubby when he was seven years old, wandering in Harz with his father and mutti this is Michael when he was 4 years old, a family friend an artist Mutti said made this. Mutti told me a story about Michael when...
DFLSenate (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
ASV/Living Era almost always does it right, sonically, musically, chronologically. This doubledisc set by Jack Teagarden, putting together two absolutely packed discs of material ranging from 19281954, is a serious case in point. Here Teagarden is showcased leading his own mighty bands and playing in the company of the Louis Armstrong AllStars, Glenn Miller, Benny [...]
Unusual Historicals (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
By Carrie Lofty WWII was a military, cultural, and humanitarian watershed, where just under 200,000 people died every week around the world. To say that citizens and soldiers everywhere needed a good laugh just to make it through the day is a big understatement. New forms of popular culture had already started to flourish in the years leading up to the war. You'd think that the Great Depression would...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Libraries lament loss of funding for databases But many of the hundreds of subscription databases offered by Pennsylvania's public libraries -- and the convenient remote access many of them offer -- will vanish this year, victims of slashed state and local funding. "We are talking about dozens of sources of reliable information, vital educational tools that reach tens of thousands of students...
Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
Rapha’s winter riding list is on last.fm but I also just posted on Spotify . Enjoy a top list from the top cycling store. Period. 1. The Drums – Let's Go Surfing 2. Jimmy Cliff – You Can Get It If You Really Want 3. America – A Horse With No Name 4. The Who – Can't Explain 5. Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries 6. Cult Hero – I'm A Cult Hero 7. Marcia Griffiths...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Ahmad Jamal - Quiet Time (Phantom ) Ann Burton - Rainy Days And Mondays (Indies Japan/Zoom ) Ann Burton - Memory In New York (Indies Japan/Zoom ) Association P.C. - Mama Kuku (MPS (Japan) ) Bei Bei - Into The Wild (Ubiquity ) Canadian Brass - Swing That Music: A Tribute To Louis Armstrong (Opening Day Recordings ) Chet Baker - Sings It Could Happen To You (Jazz Wax Records ) Chicago Underground Duo...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
A few years ago the Austin Film Society showed the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade as part of an anniversary series. Usually the programming director introduces the films, but this time it was one of the founders of AFS, Richard Linklater. This was a side of Mr. Linklater that I had not previously seen: the film buff who wants to tell you some interesting things about an obscure romantic comedy that...
Worldcups-The latest sports feeds (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Jerry Wainwright was fired Monday as the basketball coach at DePaul, which has lost 22 straight regular-season games in the Big East Conference. He was replaced on an interim basis by assistant Tracy Webster. The Blue Demons are 7-8 and 0-3 in the Big East this season, Wainwright’s fifth at DePaul. He has two years left [...]
Across the Great Divide (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Too many acres of badly built generic spaces selling the same crap everyone sells but no one needs, surrounded by asphalt wastelands and owned by over-extended speculators who are walking away from their mortgages. When you put it that way,...
Binary Rock (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
Snowed in, sitting with friends, drinking egg nog, Glenn Miller on the record player. I love winter.
home (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
My dear friends, Simone @ The Bottom of the Ironing Basket and Lori @ Wildflowers have both bestowed on me ............... ..........The Happy 101 Award. Many thanks you two, for my first award of 2010. I now have to tell you 10 things that make me happy, so here goes ............... The first thing that makes me happy are my children. They have been the best. They have never given me any trouble and...
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