So how many versions of this song (played at the Etihad Stadium before every home game) do you know...? » Supra - Blue Moon (Man City Version) Probably far less than you thought. Below are a good number I've collected and this is still the tip of the iceberg. There are still more out there. Before we begin though, one more Man City version - this to celebrate the FA Cup win [...]
Simon Reynold's article in Slate on grunge nostalgia is a good read. Especially the idea that grunge was "the last blast of rock as a force at once central in popular culture yet also running counter to mainstream show biz values." I agree. The White Stripes might have come as close to that as anyone since then, but in the end they didn't change much of anything. But one thing Reynolds gets totally wrong is the idea that nostalgia is something new: "a pop culture increasingly characterized by a compulsion to revisit and [...]
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I may have mentioned in passing, but usually keep quiet because I like to keep some neutrality on F&M. But today I am breaking that rule and celebrating Manchester City's FA Cup win. I am a long, long suffering City fan. I've been there at Maine Road, I've stood in the Kippax. I was also there away at places such as Colchester, Wycombe and Chesterfield. Then in the summer of 1999 they began their journey back... I [...]
The story of Blue Moon — its transition from a movie song that was rewritten several times to jazz song and then pop hit — was told in The Originals Vol. 40 , which included the first version, The Bad In Every Man, sung on film by Shirley Ross. This collection of 38 versions covers all manner of approaches. There are the early jazz interpretations, most of them with vocals (though Gene Krupa, Django Reinhardt and in 1944 the Cozy Cole Allstars do it instrumentally). Then it became something of a torchsong number in the hands of [...]
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It's hard to think about the holiday season when temperatures have been soaring above 90 degrees of late, but news surfaced last week that Bob Dylan had headed into the studio to record material for - of all things - a Christmas album . Dylan, who is no stranger to Christian rock, has already laid down renditions of Must Be Santa, Here Comes Santa Claus, I'll Be Home For Christmas and O Little Town of Bethlehem. Nothing like scaring the hell out of your kids with Zimmy's renditions of these holiday classics. [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Jimi Hendrix 's early-morning dismantling of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' may be the truly immortal moment from the hippie gathering that was Woodstock (which, if it's still possible you haven't heard, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month). But how many can name the band that immediately preceded the guitar wizard to the stage? That would have been Sha Na Na, the doo-wop anachronism that somehow became an overnight sensation at the height of a generation that wanted nothing more than to overthrow the cultural [...]
This coming weekend one of the many famous Man City fans... No, the other one. Not him either... ...now you are just taking the piss. I mean the boxing one: Ricky Hatton (nickname: The Hitman) will be fighting Manny Pacquiao (nickname: Pacman) in Las Vegas . [...]
Thanks to PrimeBuzz, we learned of Kansas House Bill 2082, which, basically, makes it illegal for a musical group to assume the identity of another group in order to sell tickets or recordings or the ... Continue reading "Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of Sha Na Na Convinces Kansas to Pass "Truth in Musical Performance Advertising Act"" >
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