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Sunday, May 23rd, 2021

Right now I feel as though civilization is slipping away. Here is what keeps me sane.

Jimmy Buffet.

Dan Seals. I still miss him.

Dan and Marie

A very young Dan Seals.

Russians playing US soft rock

Michael Martin Murphy “Wildfire.”

More Leonid and the Russians.

A little Herb Alpert.

George Strait

Willie and Merle. Pancho and Lefty

The Bee Gees !

I took the kids to Dodger Stadium to see these guys.

Ronnie Milsap.

Ronnie again. This one is special.

Chuck Mangione.

Beethoven flash mob.

Incredible Eliana Garanca in “Carmen.”

Beethoven 9th by 10,000.

Star Spangled Banner.

The Edmund Fitzgerald

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

I ran across this and, since Gordon Lightfoot is one of my favorites, I thought I would post it. It includes underwater video of the ship after it sunk.

Jo Stafford

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Jo Stafford

I grew up in the 1940s and that was the end of the big band era. When I was in high school, we had several of them play at high school proms as they were in decline at the time. I remember listening to records of the female vocalists, especially Margaret Whiting and Jo Stafford. Jo Stafford began in the 1930s as a band singer, at first with Frank Sinatra, and was hugely popular all through the war. Her albums kept coming out when I was in college and my favorite still is Ski Trails. That was the first of the “theme albums” and she and her husband Paul Weston thought it up and brought it out. She died this weekend at 90 and was interviewed two years ago about her career. She had a perfect voice and a great personality to match. Her voice is part of my youth.