This is very funny. I recommend watching the video and letting the words unfurl before you, but for good measure, they are posted below. I am voting for Obama despite the FISA vote, the bailout, and every other characteristic he has to indicate that he is a centrist like both Clintons, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, … More Russian Spies, Singing
It is getting cold in Louisiana, like Lima in winter. There, of course, it is spring, and summer will soon be coming in. And it is the weekend, so we will sing from the memories we wish we had of Lima in the 1940s, with “a waltz and a memory.” Strangely, the Lima I first … More Lima: un vals y un recuerdo
Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. Via Momo. As cool as Mt. Tamalpais. As majestic as Drake’s Bay. Axé.
…from reposting this, and pointing everyone to Momo‘s posts on this matter. In one apartment we used to move the dining table to one side and try to imitate the Four Tops. The hit sound! From Motown! we would shout. * Other great posts now include Historiann on single payer health care and videos of … More I Can’t Help Myself
On Bernadette. Rolling into Heaven. Axé.
ZEFIRO TORNA, Claudio Monteverdi, 9th Book of Madrigals, sung by Ray Bauwens and Richard Conrad. Claudio Monteverdi has to have been born to compose, his very name is so sonorous. I have posted on this song before. Axé.
“I’ll kiss you in my dreams.” Every once in a while we have to have a Huddie Ledbetter Memorial Post, and this is one with excellent, heretofore unseen pictures. Leadbelly’s lyrics, as we know, are very nineteenth century. But the world described apparently lived through the 1960s at least, and I know a man from … More Good Nignt Irene
There are many versions available of this traditional Sephardic song, but this is one of those I like best. Here is one Ladino text: La rosa enflorece en el mez de mayo, mi alma s’escurece, sufriendo de amor. Los bilbilicos cantan, sospiran de amor. Y la pasión me mata, muchigua mi dolor. Mas presto ven … More La rosa enflorece
It is a beautiful weekend, and we must sing. This is Mardi Gras in New Orleans – Jim Crow New Orleans, of course, as it is 1941. It was the last Mardi Gras until the end of the war. It is amazing how little the parades have changed. See those drum majors step! Here we … More New Orleans Mardi Gras, 1941
Check out this amazing performance of Just a Closer Walk with Thee – especially the second half. (No, I have not converted.) But then hear Jackson’s voice float on What a Friend We Have in Jesus. And there are many other amazing performances by Mahalia Jackson. I like I Know It Was the Blood, I … More Mahalia Jackson
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