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Something for Thursday (John Glenn edition)

Former astronaut and politician John Glenn has died. Here is the NASA film commemorating his orbital flight around the Earth (previously featured here). Glenn was 95. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get back to the astronauts being our … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

How about a visit to the wonderful world of K-Pop!!! (What’s K-Pop, you ask? Quoting from Wikipedia: K-pop (an abbreviation of Korean pop; Hangul: 케이팝) is a musical genre originating in South Korea that is characterized by a wide variety … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

My love of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is well-documented, so here’s one of the first season’s funnier song-and-dance numbers: “California Christmastime”.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (and Tone Poem Tuesday!)

It’s pretty clear that in this series I’ve stretched the definition of “Tone Poem” to “Any orchestral work that isn’t actually a symphony”, and hey, I can do that because it’s my blog. So here’s an orchestral suite of extracts … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

I saw this song mentioned yesterday on a list of “Christmas songs that aren’t actually about Christmas”. The notion regarding “We Need a Little Christmas” is that the song, from the Broadway show Mame, actually takes place at a time … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I’d never heard this sad and melancholy song before today, when someone mentioned it in a Facebook thread. The term “Hard candy Christmas” refers to a Christmas in which money is so tight that all the stockings can be filled … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

You don’t really hear “Good King Wenceslas” a whole lot, do you? It’s one of those Christmas songs that you have to look for if you want to hear it. It’s an interesting song, full of details that I suppose … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

I might have used this already…I forgot I had saved it. But it’s still funny.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Just about every musical artist or act that sticks around for any length of time has some sort of Christmas recording out there somewhere, even if it’s a performance or two from a variety show or something. Every year for … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Time for the annual daily bit of Christmas music and/or video ephemera! As always, some of these will be familiar, and some will be less so. We start with a bit of the familiar, because both of these musical talents, … Continue reading

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