My favorite Christmas carol … and my least December 25, 2007
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Jester Hairston wrote “Mary’s Boy Child” for Harry Belafonte, and no one has ever sung it better.
“Waist Deep In The Big Muddy” November 29, 2007
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Most of my life I have assumed that the kind of songs I sing would not normally get played on the airwaves. I pointed to examples like Woody Guthrie’s song, “This Land Is Your Land” to show that they don’t have to get played on the airwaves. If it’s a real good song, it will get spread around anyway.
But in 1967 I wrote what I thought was a real good song, and I knew there wasn’t time for it to get around the country. People were being killed every day in Vietnam. I had a recording contract with Columbia Records at that time, and my friends there even agreed to put out a record of it; but the sales department just laughed at us both. The records stayed on the shelves and weren’t even sent to the stores.
The Last Waltz: It Makes No Difference and I Shall Be Released October 1, 2007
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Our waltz with The Last Waltz comes to an end, as The Band performs It Makes No Difference:
The Last Waltz: Evangeline and Caravan September 30, 2007
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This next sequence from Martin Scorsese’s documentary The Last Waltz (1978) was shot at the MGM Studios in Hollywood after the Winterland Ballroom concert.
The Last Waltz: Up On Cripple Creek and Helpless September 29, 2007
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In the opening number of their Thanksgiving 1976 farewell concert, The Band performs Up On Cripple Creek:
The Last Waltz: The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down September 28, 2007
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For the next four days, excerpts from The Last Waltz (1978), Martin Scorsese’s documentary of The Band’s farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom, Thanksgiving 1976.
Little Miss Britten September 10, 2007
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From the video of the final West End performance of Beyond The Fringe, Dudley Moore performs his interpretations of songs by Benjamin Britten and Kurt Weill. Introduced by Jonathan Miller.
“For What It’s Worth” August 15, 2007
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Buffalo Springfield at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, introduced by Peter Tork of the Monkees, performing their best-known song.
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The world’s best a cappella group … August 12, 2007
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… has been around even longer than the King’s Singers or Les Compagnons.
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The King’s Singers August 10, 2007
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Next year the King’s Singers will be celebrating their fortieth anniversary.
Zombie jamboree August 8, 2007
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Rockapella, consisting (at the time) of Elliott Kerman, Barry Carl, Scott Leonard, Jeff Thacher and Kevin Wright, performs at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara in 2000.
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“Blue Bayou” July 27, 2007
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“Blue Bayou” by Roy Orbison and Joe Melton, performed by Orbison.
“Bring ‘Em Home” July 19, 2007
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From a 1969 series, The Music Scene, introduced by David Steinberg.
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You can get anything you want April 9, 2007
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Oh, man, this makes me feel old — this year marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”.
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