Underappreciated Music: May 2016

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...

"BNoirDetour": Five Classic Film Musical Numbers

Brian Arnold: David Peña: mariachi Star Wars; Ringo (1978 tv special)

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Fred Blosser: Ennio Morricone (courtesy Bill Crider)

Paul Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Herbie Mann

Roger Catlin: Songs of Protest and War (courtesy Bill Crider) (see also)

Sean Coleman: Donovan at 70; Paul Simon's solo career

David Cramner: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review: "Romance in Durango"

Brubeck Quartet: Time Changes 


Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Film music and the joy of the new: Ennio Morricone 

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5; Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt

Jerry House: Music from the Past; Hymn Time; Tim Buckley

Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone & co.: "Thulasizwe"/"I Shall Be Released"


George Kelley: Don't Make Me Over: The Songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David; Do-Wah-Diddy: Words & Music by Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry

Sam Juliano: Choral Arts Society of New Jersey: "Songs of the Sea"

Kate Laity: Songs for a Saturday

B. V. Lawson: Your Sunday Music Treat

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2015


Evan Lewis: Songs

Steve Lewis: Music I'm Listening To

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Max Fleischer's Sing-Along Short Subjects

Todd Mason: some jazz performance television series in black and white; some jazz in 5/4 time (for May the 4th); some recent recordings of "I Put a Spell on You"; soundtrack composers for Night Gallery; Bebe and Louis Barron: "Bells of Atlantis"

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

James Reasoner: Middle of the Night Music

Charlie Ricci: Arlo Guthrie: Presidential Rag

Luisa Domingo: Paul Hindemith, "Sonata for Harp" (1939)


Bhob Stewart: Anita O'Day

Vienna: Trudy Stevens dubbing for Lizabeth Scott

Bernie Williams Band: "Go for It"


Ennio Morricone and his orchestra: music from For a Few Dollars More