Archive for the ‘Music’ category

Ballad of Easy Rider: The Byrds

July 24, 2012

Born To Be Wild: Steppenwolf

July 24, 2012

Bar-B-Que: Wendy Rene

July 23, 2012

Barbecue Any Old Time: Brownie McGhee

July 23, 2012

Leaving on a Jet Plane: We know I Can’t Name the Singers!

July 22, 2012

When I went back to Bolga, Ghana last summer, my former students sang Miss Ryan’s song to me, and it was this one. They have been singing it the last forty years whenever they get together. Last week a former student I hadn’t seen last summer called to say hello and said she’d meet me at the airport. She ended the conversation by singing this song.

Airplane Song: The Royal Guardsmen

July 22, 2012

Trains and Boats and Planes: Dionne Warwick

July 22, 2012

Coming in on a Wing and Prayer: Anne Shelton

July 22, 2012

This is from 1943.

Massachusetts: Anita O’Day with Gene Krupa & Stan Kenton

July 21, 2012

North to Alaska: Johnny Horton

July 21, 2012