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October 20th, 2007

Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife Video - 1959

I love this song - I can’t even tell you why, other than that his voice is cool and I can envision the band. One of the things that makes me love Bobby Darin so much is that he was a performer in every sense of the word. He had a pretty tragic life, and […]

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July 18th, 2007

For Dexie - “Someone To Watch Over Me”

Fellow b5media blogger Dexie Wharton put in a song request yesterday - She said this song is for her mom, and that it’s quite special to her. Personally, I get a little mushy and sentimental whenever I hear this song myself.
I present the music and lyrics to Gershwin’s “Someone To Watch Over Me”… this version […]

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July 9th, 2007

What defines a “crooner”?

According to some, crooners are only male. Others believe in female crooners. Here’s how Wikipedia defines crooner:
Crooner is an epithet given to a male singer of a certain style of popular songs, dubbed pop standards. A crooner is a singer of popular ballads thus a “balladeer”. The singer is normally backed by a full orchestra […]

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