When an established star offers a young musician a first chance to record.....He doesn't really expect the young musician to walk out of the sessions upset at having to do so many takes of the same song. But Harry Belafonte found out the hard way....One or two takes...that's it. That's all Bob Dylan wanted to do. This is not the track that was eventually released on "Belafonte". This is a...
Mogger Eric 5776 has been painstakingly going through his... (Pain..stakin...steak..stak..stac... screw it close enough) entire collection alphabetically. And that has inspired me to take a look at my entire collection (Not the boxes in the attack, but the library on my computer) and consider; just how big of an undertaking would it be for me to go from A to Z.So the story began in 2006; I pur...
Singing "Turn the World Around."This was always one of my favorite Muppet bits. Great visuals, and the music for this particular song is outstanding, I feel. The original airdate of this ep was November 8, 1978.
Don't ever let the facts get in the way of a whopper of a story. Submitted for your approval is the tale of a little girl praying for scarlet hair ribbons. But the stores are already closed, so that wish won't be answered. But lo and behold, the next day, said girl has scarlet ribbons aplenty! How was this Christmas wish granted? On Christmas eve, Henry Corwin, a department store Santa Claus, foun
One thing I like about my new iPod shuffle (gift from my mate after the iPod croaked) is the unexpectedness. I load it up with Autofill, and await the day's surprises (like hearing several Spector Christmas songs in a couple of days). And here's the delight that turned up this morning.Talk about unexpected. When I first heard this song, many years ago, I laughed till it hurt. It was so weird, a...
Monday I followed Robin Sparkles' advice and ventured to the mall. I headed to Hallmark, because I care enough to send the very best, and I discovered they finally have some good music going on in there. I am still not very excited about their new line of music cards, but I was thrilled to hear Harry Belafonte singing "Jump in the Line" as I went thru the store. Yes, I was dancing, despite m...
My dad used to have an 8 track of Harry Bellafonte songs and this was on it. It's hilarious, about a flea which goes looking for human victims and what happens. Harry makes it halarious though. Perhaps I'm being a bit sentimental?