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Nice to see a video tape of a live TV performance. Nice to hear Circle Game without that chorus that is always in the backgorund of Joni's other versions of this song. Notice how she frets the guitar over the top of the neck on certain chords and has some support on her strumming hand. I heard...

What is so beautiful about this entire album is the way that Anita Kerr singers set up Al Hirt for his flights of fancy around the melody they sing so smoothly. Really great artists are not intimidated by having other great muscians around them and Al was supported by some really great artists o...

And then Uncle Barack took Dennis for a ride on Air Force 1 and Dennis turned into a whimpering little puppy who peed all over himself when the healthcare vote came up. Just like he jhas done every election when he loses his quixotic quest for the presidential nomination and ends up backing whi...

@TheWaldis0 Jet=Fuel and requires oxidation from surrounding atmosphere

Rocket=Fuel and oxidizer contained within the craft in order to support combustion.

Too rarely is the video material worthy of the music on many youtube postings. Your own video rendition of "The Windows of The World" is one of rare and worthy exceptions. I congratulate you on it. Having seen senseless wars (and what war really makes sense anyway?) from Vietnam to Bosnia to A...

Interesting film artistically and historically. It was a really great "b" movie, made in black and white with a one dimensional and predictable cast of characters, (except for Kirk Douglas' character). As such, it required a screen play that depended on plot twisats instead of character develop...

A nice rendition of a classic hit. Best of all Ray found a way to end the thing without a fade out repeating the same line over and over. Thanks for the memory.

What are the chances that four guys with such great voices would ever get together, blend so well, have such a brillianty arranger among them (Gene Peurling) and stay together for as many years as they did. Just amazing. Isn't it great that we have so many recordings video and audio to enjoy an...

Bigger vs smaller balls, big ass fields, this could only happen in

Canada where they know how to not take themselves too seriously Bravo CFL now if you could only explain how your standings work.

The Hi Lo's harmonies are superb, they sing--they even breathe--as one which is both amazing and almost impossible for most other performers without any accappella performance experience. Their visual manner while performing what is supposed to be a bitter-sweet lyric of a working man trapped be...

Great artists like Sinatra and the Hi Lo's can perform together and not diminish or be diminished by each other. What a great clip--thanks for posting this.

Pure and beautiful sound and can't you just imagine everyone from Ward Swingle's Swingle Singers and Double Six of Paris, to Manhatten Transfer, to Chanticleer drawing inspiration from their ground breaking work in ensemble singing?

If you know, when was this recording done? My guess is that ...

Another great song from the beautiful and too long deceased mind of Laura Nyro. The visual setting and Marilyn's enunciation are supurb! She looks and sounds both strong and vulnerable at the same time. If you know, what TV production was this excerpted from?

What a fascinating concept! Addicts are like the rest of us but only moreso either from impaired physical brain development or behavioral abuse. Thanks so much for the post!

What i love about this performance compared to the rollicking '69 performance in which she explains how Marcie and Nathan go together (also on the tube) is the more intimate sound of her music before a smaller crowd. From '67 to 70 (when she did the BBC concert) her musical artistry just explod...

Thr piano and cello frame her voice so perfectly! The way she caresses her lyric with her voice (unlike Barbara Sterisand who, though she too has a magnificent voice, can't seem to pass up many sustained notes without having to hot dog all around them) gives this performance such a wallop.

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Using the brain to explain the mind and conflating the two is as out of context as explaining using the CPU to explain the programing that runs it. Both are seperate--To borrow from Shakespeare, "The fault is not in our brain(s)' circuitry but in our mind's programming. All the cerebral stroke...

Intriguing lyric and nicely done visual essay. Would you consider doing a similar job on Stewart's Dark Watrer cut on the same album? This is also a very visual lyric crying out to be illustrated--but so far no takers on you tube.

What a weenie!

Thomas Watson wasn't the anti-semite--he was just a money-grubbing amoral capitalist--Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rockefellers of Standard Oil were the anti-semites who worked hand-in-glove funding the Nazis and exchanging technology for the purpose of buildig a war ma...