We're 24 hours into WFMU's 2011 fundraising Marathon ! Tune in now through March 13th to join in on the radio party of the year with DJ tag teams and prize giveaways galore. We've also put together a fine batch of DJ Premiums : any of these handcrafted CDs are available for a pledge of $75 or more. Check the blog daily to sample what's available from today's DJs and don't forget to support WFMU ! Tuesday's lineup [ view on pledge page ] [...]
Harry Lauder - Roamin' in the Gloamin' (1912) Bert Williams - Nobody (1913) Morton Harvey - I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier (1915) This is the third part of my explorations of pre-country music. Here is one more little compilation I've made of various songs and tunes from the first half of the 1910s. Musically speaking, ragtime is still very popular, and the arrival of Afro American syncopated music is related by Tin Pan Alley or vaudeville singers [...]
Bessie Smith - T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do ( buy ) (1923) Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business ( buy ) (1947) Here's one of these blues standards that was sung by almost everybody. If you think it's by Eric Clapton, you're wrong (again)... The theme of this song is universal and holds in the title : it's a song of freedom. Freedom from the universal "what will the neighbors say ?". That's the reason why it became so popular among the [...]
Modern Songsters: Bert Williams Columbia Orchestra, I Thought I Was a Winner, or, I Don't Know, You Ain't So Warm. Silas Leachman, The Fortune Telling Man. Bert Williams and George Walker, My Little Zulu Babe. Bert Williams, Nobody. Bert Williams, Let It Alone. Bert Williams, Play That Barbershop Chord. Nora Bayes, You Can't Get Away From It. Bert Williams, You Can't Get Away From It. Bert
2nd Anniversary: 100 Years (in Ten Jumps) On a stretch of pavement, with a bit of chalk, draw a straight line from curb to stoop. Take a long step forward and draw a smaller, parallel line; repeat this act nine more times, making the last line as long as the first. Then find a child, or a sprightly adult, and ask her to leap from line to line. It's an act that, properly executed, will take about
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River's Invitation
Locust St.
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The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Song Of The Week: Glass Candy "Life After Sundown"
Friday Remixes
M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" (Urban Noize Remix)
