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Happy Labor Day Weekend everyone. Here's a great tune from Jack Bruce's wonderful solo album Songs For a Tailor (1969) - "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune," featuring special guest George Harrison on guitar:

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Ah....for such a beautiful spring day, how's about a little Fairport Convention, doing a masterful Dylan cover - Percy's Song:

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Today, we say Happy 52nd Birthday to the great English author Nick Hornby. To honor Mr. Hornby, I've selected my favorite from his 31 Songs (2002) - Carlos Santana's wonderful instrumental Samba Pa Ti

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Happy Passover/Easter/Somali Pirate weekend to you and yours. For a Good Friday, here's a great pop song - The Dwight Twilley Band performing his 1975 hit "I'm On Fire":

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Ah....it's good to be back.

Regular posting to follow....for now, here's the late, great Eva Cassidy with a superb cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Kathy's Song

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We bid a bittersweet Happy Birthday to Kurt Cobain, who would have been 42 years old today. Here's his haunting cover of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" from Nirvana's "Unplugged" appearance in November 1993.

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Here's Joaquin Phoenix committing career suicide on The Late Show....Letterman is a genius.

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The late, great Sylvester was a pioneering electronic dance performer and one of the highlights of the disco era in the late 70's. Though he's best known for his signature tune "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", I've always loved this Hi-NRG classic, "Do You Wanna Funk?". Some of you may recognize it as the song played during the house party scene in Trading Places (1983).

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Since we seem to be going through the 21st century version currently, let's hark back to the Mother of All Storms - the Blizzard of '77. White Death, indeed

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20 January 2009

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Here's one you didn't see coming....the greatest soul belter of his time, Wilson Pickett, demolishes the Steppenwolf anthem Born to Be Wild. Yowza

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What a glorious Noel....The Humanist got everything he wanted and more and was able to bring some joy to family and friends with his choice of presents. He ate too much, (thankfully) didn't drink too much and made it safely back to work.....grumble.

Anyhoo, it's the Friday after Christmas, I got nothing.....so here's one of my favorite bits from Seinfeld. That's gold, Jerry......GOLD!

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I realize I'm a couple weeks late with this, but it's been 7 years since we lost George Harrison. Here's a clip of my 2nd favorite Beatle being exceptionally silly on a BBC special from 1975:

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And my nominee for Worst Lip Synch in a Video: Joe Jackson, I'm The Man:

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Today's installment comes from the soundtrack of Sean Penn's film, The Pledge (2001). The film was little seen in its release, but was a fascinating examination of a retired detective's obsession with finding a child killer. One of the standout songs on the soundtrack was by an artist from Mozambique. The lead singer of that country's top dance band, Orchestra Marrabenta Star, Wazimbo recorded this song in 1988 and re-released it in 2001 when it gained popularity due to its use in the film.

Here is Wazimbo with "Nwalhulwana"

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Tune in, turn on, drop out

This week's installment is a little hippy-dippy, but is a pretty good song. The Moody Blues released "Legend of a Mind" in 1968, but the song is better known for its opening verse:

"Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in."

Timothy Leary was the notorious Harvard professor-turned-LSD advocate who graced the Sixties with his iconic slogan noted in the caption above. After crashing hard in the 70's (including a fugitive run through Algeria and Switzerland and a sentence at Folsom Prison), Leary reemerged in the 80's as a lecturer and personality. Kids like me who weren't around when Richard Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America" saw Leary as a sort of relic of the Hippie Era. His last grab at publicity came around his death from prostate cancer in 1996. Leary arranged to have his head removed from his corpse for the purposes of cryonic preservation and his cremated remains to be loaded on a rocket so he could be buried in space. The rocket, which also carried the remains of Gene Roddenberry, was launched in April 1997 and was in orbit for six years before it burnt up.

Far out, man....

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VICTORY!!!!

President-elect Barack Obama.

Damn, that feels great to say.

I know that the hard work is ahead and this president faces the greatest challenges of any incoming president....yeah, yeah, yeah.

In the here and now, I want to celebrate. To kick off this weekend jamboreee with the Ramones....do you remember rock n' roll radio?

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It's New Wave Friday! I heard this timeless classic on the drive up to Ellicottville this past weekend and the GF and I were rockin' out. I cannot believe this tune is 26 years old....ugh.

The Cars - "Since You're Gone"



P.S. Get well, Mrs. Dunham

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Sorry for missing Friday, but a weekend mini-vacation at a chalet in beautiful Ellicottville beckoned. To honor a great soul singer and one of the most distinctive voices of Motown, I'm posting the Four Tops' signature tune, "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". RIP, Levi Stubbs