Westerly Wood
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Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
The Song Title Game
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dwasifar
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"Celery Stalks at Midnight" - Doris Day with Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Before her film career of musicals and bedroom comedies, Doris Day was a jazz singer, and sang lots of jukebox jazz, mainly with Les Brown and his band. Almost all of it swings. It's worth checking out.
Note: I don't think any of the women pictured in the video are Doris, but they're nice looking just the same.
Trivia: Doris Day turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," which eventually went to Anne Bancroft. Bancroft was unforgettable in the role, but Day was a much better actress than she gets credit for, and I still wonder what that film would have been like with her in the role.
Before her film career of musicals and bedroom comedies, Doris Day was a jazz singer, and sang lots of jukebox jazz, mainly with Les Brown and his band. Almost all of it swings. It's worth checking out.
Note: I don't think any of the women pictured in the video are Doris, but they're nice looking just the same.
Trivia: Doris Day turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," which eventually went to Anne Bancroft. Bancroft was unforgettable in the role, but Day was a much better actress than she gets credit for, and I still wonder what that film would have been like with her in the role.
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"Meet Me At Midnight Mary," Joey Powers
dwasifar
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"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" - Vince Guaraldi Trio
This Grammy-winning song, from Guaraldi's Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, came at a time when jazz instrumentals could still be pop radio hits. Legend has it that the television producer Lee Mendelson, searching for the right music for what was to become "A Charlie Brown Christmas," heard this song on the radio in a taxicab and immediately contacted Guaraldi through his agent. Mendelson overcame objections from the network (who wanted traditional children's animation music for Peanuts); Guaraldi scored the special with songs like the delicately beautiful "Skating" and the unforgettable "Linus and Lucy," and that made his career until his untimely early death.
This Grammy-winning song, from Guaraldi's Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, came at a time when jazz instrumentals could still be pop radio hits. Legend has it that the television producer Lee Mendelson, searching for the right music for what was to become "A Charlie Brown Christmas," heard this song on the radio in a taxicab and immediately contacted Guaraldi through his agent. Mendelson overcame objections from the network (who wanted traditional children's animation music for Peanuts); Guaraldi scored the special with songs like the delicately beautiful "Skating" and the unforgettable "Linus and Lucy," and that made his career until his untimely early death.
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"Siko Horepse Sirtaki" - Trio Bel Canto (know these guys from a Greek wedding I went to...)
"White Wedding," Billy Idol
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"Dixie Flyer" - Randy Newman
A great song from Randy Newman's autobiographical album Land of Dreams.
Historically inaccurate, though. He sings about riding the Dixie Flyer from Los Angeles to New Orleans, but the actual Dixie Flyer train didn't go to either of those cities.
A great song from Randy Newman's autobiographical album Land of Dreams.
Historically inaccurate, though. He sings about riding the Dixie Flyer from Los Angeles to New Orleans, but the actual Dixie Flyer train didn't go to either of those cities.
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Westerly Wood
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Mocking Bird - James Taylor & Carly Simon