Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

The classic movie The Philadelphia Story — the tale of a man still in love with his divorced wife, with said wife still being in love with him although she doesn’t realize it even as she prepares to remarry — … Continue reading →

Who doesn’t like a good rock ballad? People who are dumb, that’s who. But people who are smart and cool like a good rock ballad. That’s how it works. Here’s ZZTop, with “Rough Boy”. “Ain’t got no rap, ain’t got … Continue reading →

Jim Croce’s birthday was the other day — or, it would have been, had he not died in a plane crash just six days before my second birthday. I discovered Croce about fifteen years ago, and I’ve loved him ever … Continue reading →

And another prodigal regular feature round these parts returns. I may have used this before, but it’s utterly gorgeous and I can reuse stuff whenever I want. Here is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing “Shenandoah”. This recording was fascinatingly used … Continue reading →

Dougie Maclean….

Yes, I’ll still be doing my Thursday offerings, even as I do the Daily Dose of Christmas. Here is Herbert von Karajan conducting the last movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 in D. This is one of the most spirited … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to come up with a rationale for this being apropos of Thanksgiving, but…well, I can see it, and if you can’t, then thbbbbpppt! Here is “The Egg Travels”, from the Disney film Dinosaur. Music by James Newton … Continue reading →

Here’s a bit of film music from quite recently. It’s from the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and it scores a scene where Harry Potter and a number of the kids at Hogwarts decide that their … Continue reading →

Nettl used this the other day, and it’s sufficiently good for me to pass on to you all. Here’s the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto: This has been one of my favorite concerted works — in fact, one of … Continue reading →

Several early-morning starts at The Store this week, and a very full “To Do” list, have me feeling a bit irritable, so maybe a mood-lightener is called for. So here’s Kermit the Frog singing “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”.