Georgia gets “Georgia on My Mind.” Kentucky gets “My Old Kentucky Home.” Oklahoma gets “Oklahoma!”
With its insipid lyrics and unsingable melody, why do we Californians get saddled with “I Love You, California“?
I love you, California, you’re the greatest state of all.
I love you in the winter, summer, spring and in the fall.
I love your [...]
In Wednesday’s episode of “Pushing Daisies,” Olive (Kristin Chenoweth) sings a bit of They Might Be Giants’ “Birdhouse in Your Soul” in duet with aunt Vivian (Ellen Greene):
What a voice Chenoweth has: gorgeous and rich, yet quirky and fun. “Kristin’s singing interludes complete me,” writes Rickey Yaneza, which feels just about right.
Chenoweth’s voice [...]
In a previous post, I began to put together a list of the best music I found while researching Pierre Cruzatte and Lewis & Clark. Here’s most of the rest of that list, starting with what’s available through iTunes (because I just learned that you can publish iMixes, so I have to give it a [...]
Yesterday, my son Noah asked me if I went to school with anyone famous. Rodney Gilfry came to mind immediately. He was a year or two behind me at Claremont High School. Here he is singing a duet with Liliana Nikiteanu in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”:
I showed the clip to Noah. After watching it for 15 [...]
The 201st anniversary of the Buttshot Bicentennial — the anniversary of Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shooting Captain Lewis in the butt — arrives on August 11. To celebrate, I’m preparing (well, to be honest, I’m thinking about preparing) a blog entry describing my purpose here. That purpose is intimately connected with Cruzatte and his endeavors.
In mulling [...]
