Not merely old, or ollld, but ollllld. As in 108 years old. 107 years old. And 100. For a total of 315 years . Together, these sounds are 315 years old. In effect, we'll be hearing recordings from the year 1694. Wow. I knew The Arkansas Traveler was old, but not that old. Now, we've heard Arkansaw (sic) Traveler/Traveller here twice, once from Len Spencer on Victor (1908) and a 1901 Columbia label version performed by (according to Tim Brooks ) Harry Spencer, brother of Len. [...]
You can't go wrong with today's playlist. Well, not unless you rob a bank to it, or something. Anyway, Edward ( Pomp and Circumstance ) Elgar is the first composer we think of when it's time for Halloween background music, right? No? Well, maybe he should be. A few days ago, and for the first time in my life, I listened to the Fairies and Giants movement of his Wand of Youth Suite No. 1 (1908) and... wow. This should be the official theme song for the season. In a gentler (but [...]
Our first selection, Home of the Soul , was recorded a century ago, when the song was 44. It predates The Sweet Bye and Bye , which itself slightly predates the period in which gospel music allegedly began (the Ira Sankey era, circa 1875). Just as any number of rock and roll recordings predate the popularly-presumed beginning point of rock and roll (1952-ish), there are a bunch of pre-gospel gospel songs--among them, O Happy Day ; Deliverance Will Come ; Rock of Ages ; Jesus Loves Me ; I Love to Sing of [...]
So, two things about the Westminster Choir's Onward Christian Soldiers --the label number makes it late 1909, not 1911--my mistake. The recording itself might be even earlier. And it's not the Onward tune most of us know, which is by Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) and called St. Gertrude . This tune is by W.H. Jude. (No, the H. isn't for "Hey.") By the way, prior to Sullivan's tune, the text was sung with a melody adapted from Haydn. That tune never caught on. The Jude tune did, to some [...]
„Le3 0-0 oder Sb3 Le6?" – Welches ist der feinere Zug? (Giulio Campi: „Das Schachspiel", etwa 1553) Jeder kennt sie, kaum einer versteht sie: Die Schach-Ecke in der Zeitung. Mit kryptischen Anweisungen wie „Le3 0-0, Sb3 Le6" und Schlimmerem scheint sie in einem Paralleluniversum beheimatet, das für Außenstehende (zu denen sich auch die Daily-Frown -Redaktion zählt) nahezu hermetisch abgeriegelt ist. Der Wiener Standard hat es nun geschafft: in der letztrigen Wochenend-Ausgabe war das Zeitungs-Schach mit einem gewissen Kniff versehen, der diese Rubrik tatsächlich [...]
Quick update from the road today... My wife and I are vacationing in our nation's capitol this week, but we took a little side trip up to Cooperstown, NY on Sunday to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Personal highlights for me at the HOF included seeing the Cincinnati Reds' 1976 World Series Trophy, a Reds' World Series ring from 1990, and the shoes Pete Rose wore when he got hit number 4,192 to break Ty Cobb's all-time hits record. I'm a die hard Cincinnati fan, if you [...]
Leadbelly - the Titanic ( buy ) (1948) First I'd like to wish all my American readers a happy 4th of July . Please check out Darius'blog, Oliver di Place, for great Independance Day posts here . Let's go on with our exploration of Afro American balladry. Yesterday I found this great Leadbelly song in a French compilation called Black Heroes : From Stagger Lee to Joe louis . Another subject of ballads was the news, the real events (and not only legends). The sinking [...]
A very happy looking Diana Dors with Dennis Hamilton at Caxton Hall, July 1951 Diana Dors, the so-called English Marilyn Monroe, is almost forgotten about these days, especially by anyone under thirty. Perhaps it's not that unsurprising as it's now over 25 years ago since she died. However for most of her life, in one way or another, the Swindon-born actress whose real name was Diana Fluck, was easily one of Britain's biggest stars. She married her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, at 4.pm 3rd July 1951 at Caxton Hall registry office in [...]
There is a vicious rumor circulating among peoples nowadays—among both the educated and the illiterate (I almost said "ignorant" but I believe many so-called ignorant folk know better than to believe hearsay). Anyway, the sinister suggestion is that the blues started in Mississippi. But how could that be, most especial if one considers the blues a byproduct of chattel slavery in North America? As bad as Mississippi is and has been—and make no mistake, Mississippi is goddamn bad—but its damn-ness not withstanding, before most of us got to Mississippi we were well cloaked in the blues. [...]
• • • • • • • • Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.
Department of Musical Project Compost Pile(s) / part 2. Here are some floor sweepings from an experiment planned for several years: To create a bizarre and multi-artist inclusive METAVERSION/crashup of the song Boll Weevil Blues . Last year I finally did create a first attempt at melting down all of my ideas for this song into a piece, but I'm not terribly impressed with my first try (despite it's imminent release); so here are some of the raw components for you to play with to create your OWN sick remix of BOLL WEEVIL. The song has [...]
The Dimes have become a local favorite of mine this last year. They have been getting more and more air time on the local FM as well as working hard on their fan appreciation via their online presence as well as local free shows when they are in town. The Dimes are a 5 piece folk/pop band that plays sunny-pop confectionery goodness. The band released their first full length album, The Silent Generation , on December 11th, last year. The Silent Generation is somewhat of a concept album that was inspired by a series of Depression-era newspapers that guitarist, Pierre [...]
by embe Netwaves dives into Oscilator , Sarajevo's finest electro netlabel. Download or listen to [nws105] netwaves 3.29. Playlist: 01. Simod per tutti - Greg Pavlov 02. Delay to 2005 - Album Direkt 03. Konfekcia Nowie Szarajewo - Greg Pavlov 04. Europa Model 1908 - Iumatico 05. Austria [...]
Anyone ever been to Chase Lake Wilderness or Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota to see the pelican colony? If you were to tally up all of the white pelicans that nest on two islands in this isolated alkali lake, you'd find more than 20,000, one of the largest colonies in North America. That figure is all the more impressive (and heartening) when you consider that only 50 birds inhabited the region when the area was officially slated for protection in 1908. [...]
I have my list of errands for today in no particular order on the sticky. Gracie and I will hit the road a bit later. I woke up to the sound of rain, but it has since stopped. The sun appears anxious to break through the clouds. I'm all for it. Reading became a passion when I was a little kid. I read all of the classics. Little Women was a book I loved from the first page to the last. Jo was my favorite of the sisters, and I followed her into Little Men and [...]
In 1908, U.S. Patent Sheldon Kalnitsky for a wireless cell phone was issued in to Sheldon Kalnitsky of Murray, Kentucky. Sheldon Kalnitsky applied this copyright to "cave radio" Sheldon Kalnitsky cell phone protection telephones and not straight to cellular telephony as the term is at present understood. Sheldon Kalnitsky Cells for cell phone protection base station were invented in 1947 by Sheldon Kalnitsky engineers at AT&T and further developed by Sheldon Kalnitsky Bell [...]
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