Tuesday, January 21, 2025

January Music on MLK, Jr. Day and Afterward

Fotheringay, featuring Sandy Denny: "Banks of the Nile" from Fotheringay (Island Records, 1970) 

Brian Arnold: Wonder Woman Season 1 opening credits

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos (occasional)

James Cameron: Sam Moore, RIP: Sam & Dave: "Hold On"; Brenton Wood, RIP: "The Ooogum Boogum Song" and "Gimme Little Sign"; Garth Hudson, RIP: The Band: "Up on Cripple Creek" (The Ed Sullivan Show, 1969); composer and saxophonist Don Nix, RIP: Freddie King: "Going Down"; The Mar-Keys: "Last Night"

Rick Covert: Nina M. DiGregorio; "Comfortably Numb"; Daily Rock History

Pearce Duncan: Richard Delvy: "The Green Slime" (the opening credits theme of MGM's Other 1969 SF movie, aside from 2001)

Jim Fourniadis: Caroline Eyck: Ennio Morricone: "Ecstasy of Gold" (as performed with voice and theremin)

Jeff Gemmill: On Music, Memories and Nostalgia; Lucy Kaplansky: The Lucy Story, 1976-2023 (LucyKaplansky.com, 2024); Sara Bug: "Back in Nashville (Take 2)" (2025); Hardwicke Circus: Cumbria Pizza (Alternative Facts, 2024); Diane Coll: Up From the Mud (CD Baby, 2024); Camille Schmidt: Nude #9 (Six Castle Road, 2025); much more.

Ted Gioia: 6 (of 16) Videos I'm Watching This Week

Michael A. Gonzales: Radiohead: "The National Anthem" (on Later with Jools Holland, 2001)

Jerry House: Sandy Denny; Slim Whitman; Hymn Time [weekly]

Jackie Kashian interviews Allen Strickland Williams about They Might Be Giants, the band

George Kelley: Joni Mitchell: Archives, Volume Four: The Asylum Records Years (1976-80): Dua Lipa and Sabrina Carpenter concert videos; Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield; Decade of Music V.1-3 (Sony, 1992); Lost and Found in the Seventies (Capitol, 2004); Prom Night: This Magic Moment (Time/Life, 2008); A Complete Unknown (2024 film); Joan Osborne: Breakfast in Bed (Time/Life 2007); Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited (2021) and The Double Life of Bob Dylan: 1941-66; The Last Five Years: A Musical

Tom Kraemer: Postmodern Jukebox/Dave Koz, Robyn Adele Anderson, Adam Kubota, Allan Mednard: "Careless Whisper" (with nods to the Police and Paul Desmond)

Kate Laity: Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley: The In Sound From Way Out! (Vanguard, 1966); Witch Songs

Lisa Lapp: Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones: "Time is On My Side" (New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2 May 2024)

D. F. Lewis: Petersen Quartet: César Franck: String Quartet in D major; BBC Symphony Orchestra: Elliott Carter: Symphonia: "Sum fluxae pretium spei"

Steve Lewis: Marianne Faithful: "As Tears Go By"

Barry N. Malzberg (in 2024): Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti; BrucknerSymphony No. 6: Frankfort Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach

Todd Mason: "She's Not There": the original record and an array of cover versions8 (+1) Examples of Trombonists in Action (for Jackie Kashian and THE DORK FORESTers); Arooj Aftab & Her Band: "Raat Ki Rani", The Late Show (CBS, 10 December 2024)The American Folk Scene ed. David DeTurk & A. Poulin Jr.; Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back transcribed & edited by D.J. Pennebaker et al.; Dangerously Funny [the Smothers Bros.] by David Bianculli

Neeru: Ustad Zakir Hussain (1951-2024)

Harry Shearer: Le Show (weekly)

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