Editor’s Note: I ‘d like to thank Scott Dwight, a site visitor, for submitting this guest post. He noted that much of the content is from Wikipedia...
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Truly. This is Borge’s version of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. The other guy isn’t credited in the notes. He’s funny too.
This morning the site featured The Blasters, who are heavily influenced by rockabilly. In this video, the great Imelda May suggests that rockabilly started a...
The Blasters performance above is from the first Farm Aid in 1985. I wasn’t familiar with the band, but a site visitor sent me a clip and the unfortunate...
In a post about Henry Mancini earlier this week, I linked to an iMDB bio that mentioned the relationship between jazz and movies. Along those lines, check out...
Bobby Darin — born in 1936 as Robert Walden Cassotto in the Bronx — accomplished a lot in his life, which only lasted 34 years. Here is a short bio...
I bet people who were around during World War II would say this song sums up many of the emotions of those times, especially when things looked bleakest. The...
The above, which features Mick Taylor, was recorded at John Mayall’s 70th birthday concert in 2003. It’s not the Roy Orbison song. Mayall is a...
I ran across a couple of versions of The Peter Gunn Theme by the late, great Roy Buchanan while looking for Henry Mancini clips. It’s quite a tribute to...
The “cat” Mancini refers to in his little intro is sax player Don Menza. He played a key role in one of the most recognizable opening passages in...