New music this week is “Cheer Up” from the Will Smith movie “Bright,” which is getting very bad reviews. The song is good, however...
Category - Comedy
This stanza is, of course, from the classic “Up on Cripple Creek,” which was written by Robbie Robertson and performed by The Band: Now me and my...
A couple of days after the death of Robin Williams, I watched “The Fisher King,” a very good movie directed by Terry Gilliam that starred Williams...
I posted Digital Dream Door’s list of funny band names a long time ago, but why not do it again? Here is how it starts: A Band Named Bob A Box of Fish...
Acoustic Guitar Masters John Fahey: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean Bert Jansch: Reynardine/Angie Leo Kottke: Vaseline Machine Gun/Last Steam Engine Adrian...
Tom Lehrer has a short and brilliant career. He retired to lecture in mathematics and teach musical theater in California. Here is the beginning of an...
It’s against the spirit of jazz to focus too much on a single player, so we are leading off this post about Lionel Hampton with Avalon (above). It...
A headline referring to Saturday Night Live made me think of this great video. That’s about as thin a rationale for posting something as possible, but a...
The One on the Left is on the Right was written by Jack Clement and, according to Wikipedia, was on the album Everyone Loves a Nut.
Allan Sherman was the original Weird Al Yankovic. The difference is that Sherman’s parodies of popular and folk songs in most cases got their humor by...
