100 Years (in Ten Jumps) 1946: Spade Cooley and His Orchestra, Three Way Boogie. Delmore Brothers, Boogie Woogie Baby. Henry "Red" Allen, Get the Mop. Big Joe Turner, My Gal's a Jockey. Moon Mullican, New Pretty Blonde (New Jole Blon). Edith Piaf, C'est Pour Ça. Billie Holiday, Big Stuff. Peggy Lee, I Don't Know Enough About You. Charlie Parker Septet, A Night in Tunisia. The Bebop Boys, Webb
Hello Dear Friends, this is FiL from pogo a go-go, and I'm most thrilled that Bethanne saw fit to include me in her Blogathon 2006 team of glitterati. The posts so far have been fabulous and funky - well done by all involved! I'm somewhat daunted coming on right after the prolific contributions by Jeff, but I'll do what I can to keep you all entertained. I know you are all here primarily for the

It's Quatorze Juillet, festive fires are already up in France, so why not celebrate this sunny day with a hymn to love. Edith Piaf sang the original Hymne á L'Amour in 1949, and lots of artists covered the song, like Mireille Mathieu, Johnny Halliday en Delphine Mailland. Most recent cover was done by Clémentine on her just released new album, Lumière . Clé is an interesting singer, she's quite big in Japan, but relatively unknown in her home-country. I'm not even sure her albums are available in France. Lumière is mostly [...]