Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer. With the publication of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer last month, Mercer's place in the pantheon of artists responsible for the great American songbook seems more secure than ever. Among the more than 1,000 songs for which Mercer is known to have written the lyrics are "I Remember You," "That Old Black Magic,"...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The "Time To Be Heard" special show featuring a black conservative audience aired yesterday on FOX News Channel, and you can watch it here ( and here for the last 1/3 or so of the show). Yesterday, Booker Rising posted reaction to the show . More reaction: Ali Butts: "I Was There - Here's The Backstory" The libertarian in Washington, D.C. writes on Booker Rising's Facebook page...
Liberal Vision (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
If you didn’t laugh you’d cry… A COUNCILLOR has been told he will not be re-selected for next year’s elections after posting a ‘How Sexy Am I’ quiz on Facebook. Councillor Geoff Courtenay, 64, (Con) who represents the Brunel ward in Uxbridge was informed that his postings constituted ‘inappropriate material’. Posting on Facebook, councillor Courtenay...
SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Glenn Beck's Friday show on Fox News featured an audience made up entirely of conservative African-Americans from across America (and many disagreed with the "African-American" label). They touched on many subjects. One talked about changing the image of black conservatives ... another said black children should not be ridiculed for speaking proper English or earning straight As in school...
Duncan Borrowman (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In May 2006 residents of Bickley ward in Bromley elected three Conservative councillors to represent them: Colin Bloom, Gordon Jenkins and Catherine Rideout. In August Colin Bloom announced on his blog that he was giving up being a councillor at the May 2010 elections to concentrate on getting elected as the MP for Erith and Thamesmead. So then there was 2 (although Cllr Bloom still gets paid his
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
[GORDON JENKINS] late 40's - early 50's, any ethnicity, JENKINS, is a hard working Veridian employee who, like a lot of his co-workers, has been burning the candle at both ends recently, working 70-80 hour weeks. TED (Jay Harrington) and his co-workers plan to surprise JENKINS with a cake as a thank you for all his hard work, only to find JENKINS has expired overnight while working at his desk...CO-STAR...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
http://www.mediafire.com/?njmjmbzrwwk Originally released in 1957 this is the 2002 remastered version with bonus tracks During the fifties Sinatra released a series of concept albums. Many of those albums are truly excellent Where Are You? is among the best of those releases. Gordon Jenkins is responsible for most of the arrangements here. "When Gordon Jenkins walked into a recording session,...
Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
My father-in-law has been a jazz guy since the mid-fifties. He collected jazz records, was an early member of the Dallas Jazz Society, and even tracked former Bird associate Buster Smith down to his hideout in Oak Cliff and wrote about that for downbeat. He and I have had many conversations about favorite jazz recordings, [...]
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Well, here it is, the 31st. I thought we'd never get here. Since it's the last day of the month, you get some Happy New Year songs, and a few versions of Auld Lang Syne. Yeah, so I'm predictable. Let's start with the first version of Auld Lang Syne. This time it's part of a medley by The Ames Brothers from the various artists LP Let's Have A Party (MCA Special Markets/Decca DL 734615). The full name...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Rama-bound balladeer overcame troubled childhood to land on stage and on screens big and small.
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 07/19/2009
Another week in this July celebration has passed, so I figure it's time to point you towards another old best-of. This time it's the collection of all the greatest tracks I shared out in July of 2007. I think there's some really good stuff in here, so if you want a nice little package of goodies without all the downloading, sifting and sorting, this is it. The tracklisting is as follows, and the hyperlinked...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
The Strange Boys The Strange Boys are the Austin-based quartette of frontman Ryan Sambol (guitar), Matt Hammer (drums), Philip Sambol (bass), and Greg Enlow...
Days of Transition (Free subscription) | 04/30/2009
I have nothing to report on the big question of the day--Ms. Buyer is taking her sweet time deciding what to do--so I'm simply posting a couple of songs. Somehow the soothing melodiousness of music the 1950s fits my mood today. Perhaps it's an escape from the uncertainty of life at the moment--my mind is sent back to when I was a little boy safe in the confines of the family home, where mother and...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
Elvis Costello is such an intriguing artist and The Brodsky Quartet such flexible foils that there was much to relish at their Barbican Hall gig.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
Harry Nilsson was always a maverick artist, following his own sense of style down the hallways of pop, turning out carefully crafted, sometimes baffling songs that shared no direct affinity with any other artist of his day, although in some ways he resembled Randy Newman, even recording a wonderful album celebrating Newman’s songs. Both men [...]
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