Eisengeiste: By the Way

May 08, 2007

Dr. X posts this from a sunny afternoon in California:

"Amazing what's on Youtube, isn't it? Have a nice day."

VMM said...: What a nice song -- welcome to 1987!

Perhaps THIS is what you meant to link to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElvHcaXKEgI; May 8, 2007 at 6:11 PM
Latouche at Large said...: Dr. X posts this from the corner of Beales and Main:

"More like 1970. There was a time when I was a kid when you could turn on the tv and see Armstrong jamming with Johnny Cash, or Derek and the Dominoes playing with Cash and Carl Perkins (starts around 4:12), or Donnie and Marie on Sonny and Cher...(you can find that one yourself).

"Well, as long as we're at this, here's Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow" on live tv in 1957. Lester Young, the second soloist (2:36), was Basie's tenor man and had been her lover once. He was seriously ill, could barely stand. By 1959 they were both gone. His solo is..., um, good.

"Or you can watch this guy catch glasses with his face."; May 8, 2007 at 11:41 PM
VMM said...: Oh. I thought for sure you had intended us to see that grizzly kill that moose. I regret the error.; May 8, 2007 at 11:51 PM