Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

Wow, I actually forgot what day it was, for purposes of the blog. Sorry about that, folks! Here’s Danny Kaye and the Muppets. Later! Inchworm, inchworm….

Oh Audrey…. (I know it’s really Marni Nixon singing there. It’s Audrey’s body and facial expressions that sell the scene.)

And time to resurrect this weekly feature. Older readers will know that I have some respect for the old disco sound, even if an awful lot of disco was crap and generally speaking the disco sound couldn’t really lead anywhere … Continue reading →

For years I thought I hated the Beatles, until I realized that a bunch of songs that I’ve always loved are actually Beatles songs, and I thus concluded that while I don’t care for the Beatles as performers, I think … Continue reading →

I’ve never seen the show, but I love this song. Here’s “The Last Night of the World”, from Miss Saigon. (BTW, I likely won’t be posting again until Sunday at the earliest, owing to a full weekend lineup. Enjoy.)

Here’s one of my favorite classical works, the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Georges Enescu. It’s nothing more than a collection of Romanian folk songs in orchestral form, and it’s just wonderful. Rapsodia romana Nr. 1 – George Enescu It’s … Continue reading →

This is one of the most achingly beautiful settings of a traditional song I have ever heard. It is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing “Shenandoah”. It was used in the end credits of the movie Nixon, but I first heard … Continue reading →

UPDATED below. This is among a handful of songs that spring from my very earliest memories of childhood, when my parents would put their favorite records on the stereo. Frank Sinatra recorded many better songs than this one, but few … Continue reading →

OK. Back when this song was Madonna’s hot new single, MTV had a contest for viewers to make their own videos for the song. I don’t recall what the prize was for the winner, but that winning video was, in … Continue reading →