In 2017 my Website was migrated to the clouds and reduced in size.
Hence some links below are broken.
One thing to try if a “www” link is broken is to substitute “faculty” for “www”
For example a broken link
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
can be changed to corrected link
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
However in some cases files had to be removed to reduce the size of my Website
Contact me at 
rjensen@trinity.edu if you really need to file that is missing

 

Bob Jensen's Links to Online Music and Video

Bob Jensen at Trinity University.
Email: rjensen@trinity.edu

How to Work Around Broken YouTube Links
There are thousands of YouTube links below. YouTube links are like prairie dogs. They keep disappearing from sight only to re-emerge from other holes. Rather than give up on a broken YouTube link, enter the particular singer or orchestra or song title in the YouTube search box and bring that prairie dog back to the surface.
You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Radiooooo: Discover the Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/radiooooo-the-musical-time-machine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Smithsonian Music --- https://music.si.edu/

Google Music (Beta) --- http://music.google.com/music/usernotinvited
"Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive," by Sarah Parez, ReadWriteWeb, May 10, 2011 ---
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_music_vs_amazon_cloud_drive.php

Google’s Music Timeline: A Visualization of 60 Years of Changing Musical Tastes ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/googles-music-timeline.html

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
Pandora  --- www.pandora.com
TheRadio
(online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

Bob Jensen listens to music free online (with commercials) --- www.pandora.com 

Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free music selections online ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm

Boston Symphony Orchestra Podcasts [iTunes] --- http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/toc_01_gen_noSubCat.jsp?id=bcat12650019

Access to more than 700,000 lyrics from around 40,000 artists/bands since 2000.---
http://www.elyrics.net/

Global Performing Arts Database --- http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/

The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Online (historic music archive, especially folk music) --- http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/hear-the-worlds-oldest-instrument-the-neanderthal-flute.html

From the Scout Report on April 17, 2015

The Infinite Jukebox --- http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

For readers who love listening to their favorite songs again and again, The Infinite Jukebox may come as somewhat of a revelation. For an introduction, readers may go to the site and click on a few of the popular tunes listed on the homepage. For instance, selecting Superstition by Stevie Wonder kicks off the 1972 hit in the way you've always heard it. But then The Infinite Jukebox takes over, matching beats and rhythmic patterns to create intelligent patterns for where the song can go next. No simple loop here. Instead the song plays for as long as the listener would like, but with seemingly infinite variety. Once users understand the basic principle, they can upload their own MP3s for free and let The Infinite Jukebox reorganize them into epic soundtracks for their working day.

Free Music Archive --- http://freemusicarchive.org/

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

From the Scout Report on October 9, 2009

RadioSure 2.0 --- http://www.radiosure.com/ 

Are you looking for pop music from Senegal? The latest news from Romania? It's a fairly safe bet that you can use RadioSure to locate radio stations that will fit the bill. With this program, users can search over 12,000 radio stations, and even use a record button to save audio segments for later use. The stations are categorized by style of programming, city, and language. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 2003 and newer.

Radio David Byrne: Stream Free Music Playlists Created Every Month by the Frontman of Talking Heads ---
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/mRxlH1S9Llo/radio-david-byrne.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Jesse is Back (sort of)
The many links to music shown below for Jesse are broken, but she promises to one day bring her wonderful music links back to the Web.
However, you can go to new home page and click on Music --- http://jessiesweb.com/
For example, try Twelfth of Never --- http://jessiesweb.com/tag/music/
Also scroll down for Jim Reeves --- http://jessiesweb.com/tag/music/
Also see the instructions at http://jessiesweb.com/music/
It's not what it used to be, but it's still good

Free Music Archive --- http://freemusicarchive.org/

Inspirational and Patriotic Music

Romantic Music

Country and Western

1950s-60s Juke Box Tunes

Humor Music

Banjo, Fiddle, Bluegrass, Blues, and American Folk Music

Foreign Folk Music and Other Music From Foreign Lands

Jazz, Big Bands, Drums, and Blues

Classical and Other Orchestral Music (including Broadway shows and movie scores)

Music for Children

Punk, Protest, and Other Rock Music (including Hip-Hop)

Christmas and Other Seasonal Music

Links to Video, Movies, Slide Shows, and Television Shows

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107

Free Music Archive --- http://freemusicarchive.org/

Radio David Byrne: Stream Free Music Playlists Created Every Month by the Frontman of Talking Heads ---
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/mRxlH1S9Llo/radio-david-byrne.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

National Music Museum --- http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/

Great Conversations in Music [multimedia] --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/greatconversations/great-home.html

Ear Chives --- http://www.the-earchives.com/

NPR's Free Music Selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1039

Mel Bay’s Creative Keyboard --- http://www.creativekeyboard.com/

Latin Music USA | PBS --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/latinmusicusa/

From the Scout Report on April 17, 2015

The Infinite Jukebox --- http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html

For readers who love listening to their favorite songs again and again, The Infinite Jukebox may come as somewhat of a revelation. For an introduction, readers may go to the site and click on a few of the popular tunes listed on the homepage. For instance, selecting Superstition by Stevie Wonder kicks off the 1972 hit in the way you've always heard it. But then The Infinite Jukebox takes over, matching beats and rhythmic patterns to create intelligent patterns for where the song can go next. No simple loop here. Instead the song plays for as long as the listener would like, but with seemingly infinite variety. Once users understand the basic principle, they can upload their own MP3s for free and let The Infinite Jukebox reorganize them into epic soundtracks for their working day.

 

From the Scout Report on October 9, 2009

RadioSure 2.0 --- http://www.radiosure.com/ 

Are you looking for pop music from Senegal? The latest news from Romania? It's a fairly safe bet that you can use RadioSure to locate radio stations that will fit the bill. With this program, users can search over 12,000 radio stations, and even use a record button to save audio segments for later use. The stations are categorized by style of programming, city, and language. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 2003 and newer.

Bob Jensen's Education Technology Workshop --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/

Find music and audio books from Akuma --- http://www.akuma.de/

Global Performing Arts Database --- http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/

LocateTV will search over 3 million TV listings across all channels in your area
Type in the name of a TV show, movie, or actor
Locate TV will find channels and times in your locale
http://www.locatetv.com/

From NPR
Live Concert Selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627437

From the Scout Report on April 10, 2009

iConcertCal 2.4 --- http://www.iconcertcal.com/ 

It can be hard out there for a diehard live music fan, especially with the myriad of upcoming summer concert tours. Using this plug-in for iTunes, users can draw on the information from their personal music collection to learn about concerts that will be making their way through their area. Visitors can also create their own concert "playlist", if they so desire. This version is compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.4 and newer and iTunes

 

Mixmatcher --- http://www.mixmatcher.com/

Starting today (September 14, 2006), there's a way to get access to Rhapsody's 2.5 million digital tunes, in any room in your house, straight from the Internet -- without even turning on your computer. This new system is a time/money tradeoff. It saves you time (and what some folks consider a big hassle) in exchange for money: $999 for the basic hardware, plus $10 a month for the music service . . . There are some drawbacks. Because of complex music-industry policies, a small percentage of songs can't be streamed, yet they still show up in Rhapsody's menus, which leads to frustration. And Sonos hasn't been able to implement a search feature yet, which leaves you doing a lot of scrolling through menus.
Walter S. Mossberg, "Rhapsody Uses Sonos For a PC-Free Entry Into a Trove of Music," The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2006; Page B1 --- http://online.wsj.com/article/personal_technology.html

From the Scout Report on October 31, 2008

VideoInspector 2.0.1.114 --- http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?vtb 

Have you ever had a video file that just wouldn't play? VideoInspector 2.0.1.114 may be just the thing for such a situation. VideoInspector helps identify the coder-decoder required to play a specific file and it is available in over 12 languages. There's also online support for this application, and it is compatible with computers running Windows 95 and newer.

 

From the Royal Academy of Music and Other Organizations
Sound Junction ---  http://www.soundjunction.org/

21st Century Music --- http://www.21st-centurymusic.com/

London Music Trades, 1750-1800 --- http://lmt.rcm.ac.uk/

Digital Sheet Music Collection: University of Colorado http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/music/smp/index.html

From NPR
Learning Guitar for Free (for Now) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9291453

All About Audio (a Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,186,00.asp

Google not only lets you search for movie information, it also is a great search engine for music. Google knows the names of tens of thousands of popular performers; all you have to do is enter the performer’s name in the search box, and Google returns specific information about that performer.
Informit.com --- http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=675528&seqNum=14&rl=1

Teoria (interactive music learning tutorials) ---  http://www.teoria.com/  

FindSounds Search the Web for Sounds --- http://www.findsounds.com/

The Ultimate Cell Phone Buying Guide, Digital Duo Video --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,159,00.asp

Two cool hacks let you grab tunes at will. Plus: MP3 goes surround (again). From the Wired News blog Monkey Bites.
"Hacks For Downloading Songs on MySpace," Wired News, January 4, 2006 --- http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/

Bob Jensen's links to electronic literature (including audio literature) ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Yahoo's links to Music Entertainment --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/
Yahoo Music Finder --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Reference/

NPR's World Cafe --- http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=39&agg=1&ps=h1

NPR's Song of the Day --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4703895

The Silent Picture Era --- http://www.silentera.com/index.html

Blog Music Net --- http://blogmusik.net/

Pandora for finding (usually not free) songs and recording artists --- http://www.pandora.com/

2BlogMusic.com --- http://www.2blogmusic.com/?p=47

Musicovery --- http://musicovery.com/index.php?ct=us

NPR Online Concerts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5194329

Search for Music Equipment --- http://www.zzounds.com/

Links to Music Tutorials --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Music

Access to more than 700,000 lyrics from around 40,000 artists/bands since 2000.---
http://www.elyrics.net/

Streaming Radio

While working on the computer, Bob Jensen mostly listens to (free and without commercials) --- http://www.slacker.com/
Free Internet FM Radio (choose the type of music you want to listen to) --- http://www.slacker.com/
Although Slacker is free on your computer, Slacker also has players that will download FM radio via wireless connections.
Walter S. Mossberg provides a review in "Slacker Digital Player Handles the Drudgery For Busy Music Fans," The Wall Street Journal,  December 6, 2007; Page B1---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119690438969515264.html
 

Online Radio Station Guide --- http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/stations/

Forwarded by Bill Mister
Add to your list http://www.bluegrasscountry.org/They stream bluegrass 24 hours a day.
(It works for me by clicking on "Windows Media")

Forwarded by Richard Reams
Broadwayworld.com offers streaming music, mostly from original cast recordings released since 1980. Some songs are rather risque; as they say, "This ain't your grandfather's Broadway." Very eclectic; a great way to explore newer musical theatre songs: http://www.broadwayworld.com/radio.cfm 

National Institutes of Health: Radio --- http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/index.htm

Invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, the phonograph was a device with a cylinder covered with a soft material such as tin foil, lead, or wax on which a stylus drew grooves --- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
The University of California at Santa Barbara has over 6,000 historic cylindars that you can now listen to free over online
Cylindar Radio
--- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

WUMB Folk Radio (click on "Listen Live Now") --- http://www.wumb.org/home/index.php

Online Radio Locator --- http://www.radio-locator.com/

Guide to radio stations --- http://windowsmedia.com/radiotuner/MyRadio.asp

Search for "Streaming Radio" at http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

KPAQ Streaming Classical Music Radio from Phoenix --- http://www.kbaq.org/listen/ontheweb/
(It works for me by clicking "On the Web" and then "Listen" with Windows Media Player)

Debbie Bowling Recommends the Margaritaville streaming radio station --- http://www.radiomargaritaville.com/listen.aspx
It features music by Jimmy Buffet

NPR's Free Music Selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1039

Find an NPR radio station (and forthcoming programs) near where you live ---
http://www.npr.org/schedule/index.php?prgId=24

THE HYPE MACHINE audio blog aggregator --- http://hype.non-standard.net/

Review: SpiralFrog's tunes and videos are free to download, but users pay price in frustration --- http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/19654/?nlid=644
 


Bob Jensen's Archives of New Bookmarks --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookurl.htm

Bob Jensen's Tidbits Blog --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Bob Jensen's Updates on Fraud --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on almost everything ---


"Archaic Sounds Caress Modern Ears," by Rachel Metz, Wired News, March 20, 2006 ---
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70378-0.html?tw=wn_index_5
For the time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

A California library has created an online audio time machine by archiving some of the oldest sounds ever recorded.

A few mouse clicks give way to the jubilant sounds of Billy Murray singing "Alexander's Ragtime Band" or Ada Jones warbling "Whistle and I'll Wait for You." Some pieces, like "Negro Recollections," serve as reminders of America's deeply racist past.

Curators at the University of California at Santa Barbara's Donald C. Davidson Library have digitized 6,000 late 19th-century and early 20th-century wax and plastic cylinder recordings -- precursors to the flat record. The audio, which includes ragtime hits, vaudeville routines and presidential speeches, encapsulates history with crackles and hisses, but archivists say preserving the sounds now is vital because the cylinders are deteriorating.

"The major record companies have been neglecting this aspect of music for the better part of 90 years," said David Seubert, director of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.

Since the site went up in November, audiophiles have downloaded 700,000 recordings, much to Seubert's surprise. The collection excites audio experts and cylinder fans, who now have free access to the works anytime, anywhere. People are burning them onto CDs, using them on internet radio stations and possibly remixing them, he said.

All recordings on the site are in the public domain, Seubert said, and cleaned-up MP3 versions hold a Creative Commons license.

In the cylinder's heyday, people would slip a nickel in an arcade machine to listen to a song, said Mark Ballora, a music technology assistant professor at Penn State University.

"Essentially, we've got one of these arcades again, but it doesn't cost us a nickel as long as we have a computer," he said. "And they probably didn't have 6,000 available in these old arcades; there were probably a few dozen."

But creating quality digital copies of cylinder recordings wasn't possible until recently, said Noah Pollaczek, a UCSB library audio technician. In the past, technicians had to play the cylinders on phonographs, and cylinders running at different speeds each required a different phonograph. Users wound them up, and a needle hit the cylinder's recorded grooves, amplifying the music through a horn. Holding a microphone up to the horn didn't make a high-quality recording.

So a few years ago, French cylinder collector Henri Chamoux invented the Archeophone, which can play cylinders of various sizes and speeds and transfer the sound to a computer through a patch bay.

The Archeophone encodes cylinder music as scratchy-sounding WAV files that users can stream or download as original recordings or cleaned-up MP3 versions.

Peter Dilg collects cylinders and runs Baldwin, New York-based Wizard Record Company, which creates new cylinder recordings. He's thrilled about the project.

"Our American culture is on those records," he said. "Not just our culture, but other cultures. It's the very beginning of home entertainment, as far as music in somebody's living room."

For the time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

 

 


Inspirational and Patriotic Music

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
Pandora (my favorite online music station) --- www.pandora.com
TheRadio
(online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

Top Selling Singles of All Time ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

Smithsonian Music --- https://music.si.edu/

Bob Jensen listens to music free online (with commercials) --- www.pandora.com 

Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free music selections online ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm

The Global Jukebox (music of many cultures) --- https://theglobaljukebox.org/

Boston Pops:  Stars and Stripes Forever ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AV7afHx0-8

The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/11/the-virtual-choir.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Beautiful

My Theme Song
Train of Life (Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline) ---
Click Here

Old Barns --- http://www.youtube.com/embed/J8Ioa1gVVeA?showinfo=0&rel=0

Jackie Evancho -To Believe --- http://www.staged.com/video?v=NtK
Before I lay down to rest ...

I Will Follow Him ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqN9aS2S3L0

Hand Sign for Thank You ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=gr9Zb3sTfYg&feature=player_embedded

Stunning BBC Commercial (What a Wonderful World) --- http://www.youtube.com/embed/auSo1MyWf8g?rel=0

Taps (beautiful) --- http://www.flixxy.com/trumpet-solo-melissa-venema.htm

Video Inspiration:  The Heart of a Teacher --- http://www.heartofateachermovie.com/if

Blind and Crippled at Birth (what determination can do for winners) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=9xwCG0Ey2Mg
This is a must see!

An Unusual Rendition of the U.S. National Anthem --- http://www.starspangledbannerchallenge.com/

Battle Hymn of the Republic --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/Battle Hymn/index.htm

David Attenborough Reads “What a Wonderful World” in a Moving Video --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/sir_david_attenborough_reads_what_a_wonderful_world.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video:  The Lord's Prayer-(Diva)--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYpi3c90rY  

Thank You America (slide show) --- Click Here

John Wayne Recites and Explains the Pledge of Allegiance (1972) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/john-wayne-recites-and-explains-the-pledge-of-allegiance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Bald Eagle Music Video "This Is America" (AEF) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZF4vTAF2M

Human Planet (fantastic photography) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large

The American Eagle (warning:  this is patriotic; proceed at your own risk) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oOZF4vTAF2M&vq=medium

On Broadway --- http://on-broadway.nyc

X-47B UCAS Aviation History Under Way --- http://www.youtube.com/embed/WC8U5_4lo2c?feature=player_embedded

Short Memories (warning:  This is patriotic)  --- http://www.youtube.com/v/AgYLr_LfhLo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param

Tribute to America's fallen heroes  (warning:  This is patriotic) --- http://wwwflixxy.com/trumpet-solo-melissa-venema.htm

USS Midway Museum (warning:  This is patriotic) ---
http://www.youtube.com/v/AgYLr_LfhLo?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param 

Want to Thank Our Military --- http://media.causes.com/576542?p_id=92681239

"Medal Of Honor: Portraits Of Valor" Tells Incredible Stories Of Military Bravery --- Click Here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/medal-of-honor-portraits-heroes_n_1087918.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl6|sec1_lnk1|111739

The WWII/Korean War Version of "Before You Go"
A tribute and thank-you to Veterans of WWII and Veterans of the Korean War ---
http://www.beforeyougo.us/play_byg

Star Spangled Banner (the real story)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Iwa-lSVqA1M&vq=medium

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Gene Simmons Military Tribute --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5MtdIO23MKM

Video:  A Different Christmas Poem --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_P6yU_ymFM&feature=share
T
o those who guard us between darkness and  despair

Lord's Prayer for the Nation --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray For America/index.htm
Barbara Steisand's Rendition --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa9k9VdI8aU

Inspiration Video:  He's No Wimp ---
http://www.wimp.com/watchingthis/

FRIENDSHIP OR LOVE ♥ PRIJATELJSTVO ILI LJUBAV --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfbchq0xQmQ
This is unbelievable

How Great Thou Art (Alan Jackson Hymn) --- http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/UltimateFreedom.htm

VJ Day in Hawii --- http://vimeo.com/5645171

An Irish Blessing --- http://www.andiesisle.com/ThisBlessingIsForYou.html

An Irish Blessing for You --- http://www.andiesisle.com/ThisBlessingIsForYou.html

Thank You Soldiers (Tusing Elementary) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5pfBUUZNbFM

Oliver North Giving Thanks to Our Heroes --- http://www.nragive.com/ringoffreedom/index.html

Here's to the Heroes: A Military Tribute (Australia's Ten Tenors Video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-0mdEg0U4&feature=related

Alice Dancing Under the Gallows --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlccsLr48Mw&sns=em 
The oldest survivor of the Holocaust

Sistine Chapel --- http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Move the mouse around

Soldiers Surprising Their Loved Ones --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hkGzqpGx1KU

The Second Verse of the Star Spangled Banner --- http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/06/07/watch-marine-stuns-crowd-tea-party

American Trilogy Video (Elvis) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moUifEmOcbU

The Ultimate Elvis --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8fjHJbF9Es&feature=player_embedded

Sound And Silence: 'Remembering Sept. 11' At The Temple Of Dendur (complete concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/

'Remember To Love': A Sept. 11 Concert From Trinity Church, NYC (Concert Part 1) ---
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/09/06/140221544/remembering-sept-11-at-trinity-church-nyc

Lord's Prayer (ANDRE BOCCELLI) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray For America/index.htm 

Penguins You've Got to Love --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=SkY03n0_sD8&vq=medium

Thanksgiving --- http://www.cpmsglife2.org/MSG/Pres/td/td1.html  

North Platte Nebraska in WW III --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=07DGeLvDw8I

Video:  Return of a fallen marine to New Braunfels, Texas ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAyKZu3kZo

Carrie Underwood With Vince Gill (Hymn) ---
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ourcountry/94317/carrie-underwoods-how-great-thou-art-moves-the-masses/

The Rhema Marvanne Story  (at age seven) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sewa1KkKOfc

Sunrise_Sunset --- http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/96795/Sunrise_Sunset

My Beautiful America --- http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm

Video:  Awaken, Oh America --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzKY0hS_Pw

Invisible Woman (video for inspiration, not music) --- Click Here

Il Divo - Amazing Grace (beautiful performance) --- http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/il-divo-amazing-grace/Ctpn38c2wJT3a3-QXGGCKQ
Elvis (Amazing Grade (classic performance) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3XdXEJEI4E
Also Try --- Amazing Grace ---
http://www.clarrissegill.com/videoclips/amazing_grace.php 
Mahalia Jackson (Amazing Grace with deep, deep feeling) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJg5Op5W7yw

Born Again American --- http://www.bornagainamerican.org/

Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/watch-simon-garfunkel-sing-the-sound-of-silence-45-years-after-its-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

All That is or Ever Will Be" - Cosmos A SpaceTime Odyssey ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CYoTwhsDs

 

President's Day --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/PresidentsDay9.wmv

America [multimedia] --- http://www.america.gov/

I Fought for You --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KTb6qdPu8JE

Farmer and the Lord (Jim Reeves) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TY_-sgoqA8

The Nurture Movie (Link forwarded by Scott Stratton) --- http://www.thenurturemovie.com/

TEDxSF - Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ

Born Again in America --- http://www.bornagainamerican.org/

Tell Me Why (composed and sung by a boy at age 13) --- Click Here

Take Just One Minute --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=AsMkz5vSjdo

Beauty from Space (Exceptional) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/Blue Bueaty/index.htm
It all looks so peaceful and beautiful from miles above the corruption, crime, war, and poverty.

Great Outer Space Photos and Music (soothing and inspirational) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/somewhere in time/index.htm

There is Love (Peter, Paul, and Mary ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7050D2sVFc

MilitaryCredentials. (no music) --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/MilitaryCredentials.pps

Wonderful World --- Click Here

Somewhere in Time --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/somewhere in time/index.htm

Mountain Pictures Slide Show --- Click Here

Art of Being Well (Slide Show) --- Click Here
After it loads, click on the right arrow button.

Magnificent Figure Skating 2009 World Championship Kim Yuna SP (English commentary --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeW9Ml92YM 

Conan O'Brien - ''Pilobolus'' --- http://youtube.com/watch?v=3n8gxEwLx0w

Ernesto Cortazar “Eternal Love Affair” Adriana Le Miroir --- Click Here
http://www.authorstream.com/presentation/tdhoanh-241086-le-miroir-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/

Great Quotations (forwarded by James Don Edwards) --- http://mk1.simpletruths.com/t/2155000/8563223/7769/0/

Flying By the Statue of Liberty --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZK5ip8ZIjY

Bob Jensen listens to music free online  --- http://www.slacker.com/ 

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Bob Jensen's patriotism message/music on September 10, 2007
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2007/tidbits070910.htm 

Videos Lending Insight Into Leading Terrorists and Their Motives

Imagining Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah bravely standing knee deep in Jewish blood raising Hezbollah's yellow and green flag before masses of his fighters in Tel Aviv is sheer fantasy. Instead he'd have to bury himself much deeper than bin Laden and never show his head again in open air. Terrorism's a nobody-wins game! It's only a losing game of revenge.

For example, when retreating (literally sounding retreat on bugles) in August/September of 2007, British commanders admitted that they lost southern Iraq to Iranian snipers and roadside/vehicle bomb makers. These commanders specifically claimed the most troublesome clandestine terrorists were actually Iranian. The majority of American people want the U.S. to also retreat from all of Iraq even if it means giving all of Iraq to Iran. But Iranians may find collecting that prize is a terrorizing experience when the U.S. withdraws under its new president. Terrorism's a nobody-wins game!

Iran is No Threat in Reality (Obama) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_DFfIolOE
Obama's Military ---
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVqGuwRqnw
This broken link was more frightening ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs

Some Argue That the U.S. Military Under George Bush is Hopelessly Incompetent and Defeated

There are Some Who Argue That Our 9/11 Enemies Were Faked by Republican Party Puppets and
the Zionists Who Pull Their Strings

Some Argue That the U.S. Military, Israel, England, and U.S. Business Enterprises, Comprise an Evil Empire
That Needs to Be Either Defeated or Politically Dismantled

Jensen Comment
Quotations and Photographs of War --- Click Here
I believe that the United States is not an Evil Empire.
It's instead the beacon of hope for democracy and
freedom surviving against a totalitarianism war being
waged by a clever, albeit cowardly, enemy
hiding amongst and terrorizing innocent civilians!
As our allies retreat in surrender to fear of terror,
America may soon find itself standing alone in the
face of nuclear and biological terror of unbelievable magnitude.
But at the moment the only war we're really losing is the
propaganda and a dysfunctional partisan-political war!

Bravo America!
Tomorrow (September 11 Anniversary)  is a day we should honor our dead and wounded and
give thanks for those who bravely sacrificed so much for our freedom and well being.


Gen. Petraeus letter to the troops on September 7, 2007 ---
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/images/stories/CGs_Corner/070907_cg_mess.pdf

General Kevin Bergner is a spokesman for the Multi-National Force in Iraq and generally gives straight talk a world of distorted and biased media --- http://www.mnf-iraq.com/
Some of his favorite blogs are as follows:

Small Wars Journal --- http://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php
Blackfive --- http://www.blackfive.net/
The Mudville Gazette --- http://www.mudvillegazette.com/

Tribute to the Great --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TributeToTheGreat.htm

If you want to help our badly injured troops, please check out
Valour-IT: Voice-Activated Laptops for Our Injured Troops  --- http://www.valour-it.blogspot.com/

A San Antonio friend and hero named Tex Hill dies --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2007/TexHill.htm  

 

 

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Beautiful America's Fifty States --- http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - High on a Mountain Top --- http://www.youtube.m/watch?v=g9s2AF7Cs9c he

Mormon Tabernacle Choir - The Sound Of Music --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYzcV4K7lQ 

The Morgan State Choir: Heritage in Song --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18576282
Includes
America the Beautiful

Tribute to the Flag (Elvis) --- http://home.comcast.net/~nw-fla/tribute_flag_B_thompson.htm

Those Old Westerns --- http://oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm

One Day at a Time With Messages (forwarded by Auntie Bev) --- http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimdandy/specials/onedayatatime/onedayatatime.htm

Many, Many, Many, Free Original-Recording Downloads, Including Inspirational Downloads,  from Barb --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/
Long listing of inspirational recordings ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/theindex_three.html

John Eliot Gardiner's Historical Beethoven At Carnegie Hall (full concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/15/142340577/john-eliot-gardiners-historical-beethoven

Slavoj Žižek Examines the Perverse Ideology of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/slavoj-zizek-examines-the-perverse-ideology-of-beethovens-ode-to-joy.html

Beautiful Photographs Accompanied by the Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) --- Click Here

From Celine
What a Wonderful World ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/wonderful_celine.html

Hear the 150 Greatest Albums by Women: NPR Creates a New Canon of Albums That Puts Women at the Center of Music History ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/the-150-greatest-albums-by-women.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video:  We Are the World --- Click Here

An Accounting Love Song
One of Tom Oxner's former students (Travis Matkin) wrote and recorded this song a couple of years ago. It has now made it to U Tube ---
http://www.cfo.com/blogs/index.cfm/detail/13525940?f=search

Il Divo in Various Languages --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Divo

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

I Did it My Way

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Two Men (slide show) --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/TwoMen.pps

Video: Ti lascio una canzone - 'O sole mio: Trio Ginoble-Boschetto-Barone (what talent) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUkUjeF4-c

Patriotic Melodies --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html

From Sachmo
What a Wonderful World (Sachmo) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/wonderfulworld.htm
Also at  ---
http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/wonderfulworld.htm

Many Original Recordings from Jesse --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
(Scroll down to see the wide selection. This site has some great graphics as well).

Many Original Recordings from Janie --- http://mjbreck.com/

How to Live Your Life --- Click Here

RefuseToHate --- http://vimeo.com/2213624

lvis Page from Janie --- http://mjbreck.com/epsandsoftimebyjbw1107.html

Who I Am Makes a Difference (video)--- http://www.blueribbonmovie.com/


Amazing Grace ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/grace.html
Amazing Grace sund by Anne Murray --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/grace_2.html

America, Why I Love Her --- http://sagebrushpatriot.com/america.htm

Watch an artist at work (video) --- Click Here

The Cactus Cuties sing The National Anthem --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCVS57j284

Beautiful Winter Photographs and Music (PowerPoint Show) --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/Debussy.pps

Tribute to those WW 2 Veterans (forwarded by my favorite taxi driver in San Antonio) --- http://www.pillowsforsoldiers.com/soongone.html
Pillows for Soldiers Home Page (Great Music --- Proud to Be An American) )  ---
http://www.pillowsforsoldiers.com/

Amazing Wine Glass Music (video) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=phqymc8anO0

A Tribute to the Incredible Gilda Radner --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scSpb6Q949o

NPR explores a vivid (World War II nostalgia and humor ) chapter in the life of violinist Jascha Heifetz
(Includes choices with Jack Benny and Bing Crosby) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6467452

Why Me Lord (Kris Kristofferson) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h003/whyme_kris.html

Three months ago Kris Kristoferson turned 73 --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristoferson

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Chet Atkins: The Lasting Influence Of 'Mr. Guitar' --- http://www.npr.org/2011/12/17/143837702/chet-atkins-the-lasting-influence-of-mr-guitar

A Crippled Boy's Prayer --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/boysprayer.html

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Janie Breck's tribute to Virginia Tech
http://mjbreck.com/tragedyinamerica07.html
http://mjbreck.com/VirginiaTechGodBlessThemAllInMyHeartandPrayers.html 
You can read about the April 17, 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy at
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/18549/

Remembering the Good Times (yes, I remember them well) --- http://www.bentbay.dk/in_oldDays.html

You (We) Are Blessed as forwarded by Dick and Cec --- http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimdandy/specials/blessed.htm

7 year old sings National Anthem --- http://video.aol.com/video-detail/7-year-old-sings-national-anthem/40945200

From a Distance --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/fromadistance.html

Bring on the Rain (Jo Dee Messina with Tim McGraw) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/bringontherain.html

Is That All There Is? (Peggy Lee) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-hiDMpcN9Y

Some National Anthems

The politically correct Iwo Jima --- http://www.goodolddogs3.com/If-IwoJima-Happened2day.html

Diamond Rio Song (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066s9xrzV2M
Urban Legend --- http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/diamondrio.asp

Frankie Laine had the most famous version of “I Believe” (for once he didn't go flat)---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/believe_frankie.html

Wishy's Ways (Great 1950s Rock and Roll original recordings) --- http://www.wishyswavs.com/
Others from Wishy's Ways include Holiday Music, Native American Music, Spiritual Music, Patriotic Music, Piano Music, Movies and Television Music, and Country Music)
Click on the Next Button

Two Beautiful Young Women (daughters of one of my best friends at Trinity University) --- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6401938583781257121

A physician's tribute to those WW 2 Veterans (forwarded by my favorite taxi driver in San Antonio) --- http://www.pillowsforsoldiers.com/soongone.html
Pillows for Soldiers Home Page (Great Music --- Proud to Be An American) )  ---
http://www.pillowsforsoldiers.com/

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

My Favorite
Irish Blessing Video --- http://www.andiesisle.com/ThisBlessingIsForYou.html
Also at http://www.e-water.net/viewflash.php?flash=irishblessing_en#

The Irish Blessing --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/blessing.htm 
Also found at http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c001/thebend.html

One of the all-time favorites of the world
Imagine All the People (John Lennon ) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONB23i0KSY
Imagine All the People
--- http://www.jessiesweb.com/imagine.htm
 If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Abide With Me --- Click Here

Impossible Dream (Elvis Slide Show) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXpp69H6jhc

From Janie
I Did It My Way (Elvis) ---
http://mjbreck.com/epthegracelandtreesbyjbw0307.html
Welcome to My World (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/myelviswebsite.html
Janie sent a new Elvis page link --- http://mjbreck.com/SharisDesignsElvisHeWasOnlyADreambyjbw07.html
The above site has links to other Elvis performances.

Celine Dion & an Elvis ghost perform together before a LIVE Studio Audience --- http://thehumorzone.co.uk/Videos/elvis_celine.wmv

Dancing for all life's seasons --- http://www.libertyhigh56.net/special pages/dancing.ht

Symphony in White --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1xVSjFgcE

Star Spangled Banner --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/starspangledbanner.htm

From Barb
Elvis Downloads --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/elvisonstage.html

Pocket Elvis for the iPhone http://www.macworld.com/article/145521/2010/01/pocketelvis.html

Go Rest High on That Mountain --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/restmtn.htm

Can You Sleep Through a Storm? (video) --- http://www.hall4bc04.org/Storm.htm

From Janie
Mansion Just Over the Hill (Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisthegracelandtreesbyjbw.html

Crying in the Chapel (Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/elvischapelontheknollbyjbw.html

Link forwarded by Linda Kidwell
Awesome Photos from Outer Space (Turn up your speakers)
Somewhere in Time ---
http://www.trdaniel.com/somewhere in time/index.htm

From Jessie
In the Garden ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/inthegarden.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Her Dash on Earth (slide show) --- http://www.thedashmovie.com/

Live a Life That Matters --- http://susie1114.com/LiveALife.html

My Beautiful America (with a slide show) --- http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm

Interview With God --- http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/

Ernst & Young Accounting Firm Happy Days (Music) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEp0PHHA80
This may secretly be a celebration of Happy Days brought about by Sarbanes.

Dial One for English --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0

Great Outer Space Photos and Music (soothing and inspirational) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/somewhere in time/index.htm

Black National Anthem  ---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_National_Anthem

The National Anthem of Norway --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhhStVKawbk

National Anthem of Ireland --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aip-a3qEJ2s

Irish Rebel Songs --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-7_c6wazA

Welsh National Anthem (Wales vs. Ireland) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wRRY8eDMSY

Andre Boccelli

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

You Can Let Go --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAmiExU8S4

Music Files from Janie Breck
June 2, 2006 message from Janie

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 
 
 
Thanks!
 
Love Your Links !!!
 
Janie

Here is a great site for patriots --- http://www.goodolddogs.com/
It includes several patriotic songs by Johnny Cash
There are also some nice poems such as the one below:
            
America:  Why I Love Her by John Mitchum---
http://www.goodolddogs.com/America_WhyILoveHer.html

Ragged Old Flag (Johnny Cash) --- http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/raggedoldflag.htm

From Jessie
Morning Has Broken ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/morningbroken.htm
(If the audio does not commence in 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.)

Bryan Adam - Everything I Do (with video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNgnqKW3OI

Historical Political Campaign Song Recordings
Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840- 1860 ---
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/

Forwarded by Auntie Bev

Turn your speakers on and read along with Johnny Cash as you listen. I kinda wish this recording would be played occasionally on broadcast radio for some of the young folks to hear --- http://www.alighthouse.com/flag.htm 

Planet Earth (sound on) --- http://www.theunion.net/lindberg/Pretty Planet/Pretty_Planet.htm

Great Photography PowerPoint Show (turn up your speakers) --- Click Here 

My Cup Has Overflowed --- http://jbreck.com/sendingallmylove.html

My Time on Earth --- http://www.goodolddogs.com/mytime.html

World War II Memorial --- http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/PASSINGOFGENERATION.HTML

America, Land of Dreams --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/LOD.htm

America (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/legendelvis.html

From Janie and Joan Buchanan West
Elvis tribute  ---
http://mjbreck.com/epwhoisthisman.html

Forwarded by Auntie Bev
In March, 2005, this song was performed at a Diamond Rio concert. They received an immediate standing ovation, and continue to do so every time they perform it! Sadly, major radio stations wouldn't play it because it was considered politically incorrect. Consequently, the song was never released to the public. If this song speaks to your heart, share it with friends and loved ones. Then let us cease being the silent majority and join together -- not as a particular political party, but as Americans! --- 
Diamond Rio Song

You've Got A Friend In Me (Randy Newman and Lyle Lovett) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/a001/friendinme.html

God Bless America Again --- http://www.goodolddogs3.com/God-Bless-America-Again.html

What are the 50 state flowers? (Paula sent me a card) --- http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=BP44968270

The Silence of the Moment --- http://www.eaglecanyon.com/pages/patriotic.htm
Scroll down to find this particular selection on the right side of your screen.

From the U.S. Library of Congress (American Music History)
Song of America ---
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/songofamerica/songofamerica.html
Especially note the link
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/

Song of the Patriot (Johnny Cash) --- http://www.goodolddogs.com/

May You Be Blessed (Slide Show) --- http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com/

Ten Guidelines from God --- http://iam.homewithgod.com/nspirn1/GuideLines.html

From NPR
Galileo's Letters Inspire a Musical Tribute ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5420134

From Janie
The Light of His Word --- http://jbreck.com/thelightofhisword.html
I dare you to sit still while listening to this one. Go ahead and clap your hands! Maybe dance around a little.
Others ---
 http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html 

Bagpipe version of Amazing Grace --- http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/bagpipes/amazing.html
From Jessie
Amazing Grace (with bagpipes) ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/amazing.htm
(If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, turn it on at the very bottom of the page.)

A Hopeful Prayer to a Higher Power --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10175206

John Phillip Sousa Homepage --- http://www.dws.org/sousa/

U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp           

             Patriotic concert band recordings --- http://www.ima.lee.army.mil/sites/band/concertSamples.asp

             Jazz ensemble recordings --- http://www.ima.lee.army.mil/sites/band/jazzSamples.asp

             Small group recordings --- http://www.ima.lee.army.mil/sites/band/smGroupSamples.asp

The House of the Rising Sun (and Slide Show of Katrina) --- http://snipurl.com/KatrinaUS

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

From NPR
Jean Ritchie Performs 'West Virginia Mine Disaster' ---

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5131761
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Gathering of Nations (Native American) Music --- http://www.angelfire.com/al2/gasaguali/GCR.htm

Susan Werner's musical path has taken her from opera to pop, jazz and classic folk songs. But in her latest album, The Gospel Truth, this singer-songwriter explores America's gospel roots — an experience that leads to her own spiritual journey --- |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9213008 

The Rose (Bette Midler Video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWAYLZWZBg
The Rose (Bette Midler) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/a001/likearose.html
Also (softly) from
http://jbreck.com/LadyInBlack.html

Great free listening from "HITS OF THE BLITZ" (Click on the MP3 downloads) ---
http://www.jilldaniels.com/MUSIC SAMPLES.htm

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the moments that take our breath away."
Big Mud Puddles and Sunny Yellow Dandelions 

http://members.shaw.ca/mcinnes-hume/mud_puddles__dandelions.htm
 

Memories of 9/11 --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/911.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

When the Children Cry (about child abuse) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/children.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Hope Has Place --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Enya's home page is at http://www.enya.com/

Back on My Feet Again --- http://www.jbreck.com/backonmyfeetagain.html 

When You''re Running Down Our Country Man, You're Walking on the Fighting Side of Me (Merle Haggard) --- http://www.trdaniel.com/Take A Look America/index.htm

Hold Your Head High --- http://inspiringthots.net/movie/heads-high.php

Stay to Tea --- http://jbreck.com/StayToTea.html 

I'm a Soldier in God's Army --- http://jbreck.com/theword.html 

Ballad of Thunder Road --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman777/ThunderRoad.htm

In God We Trust ---
http://www.interviewwithgod.com/patriotic/highband.htm

From NPR
Organ Music: Pulling Out All the Stops ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5448985

Janie's Other Music and Poems --- http://www.jbreck.com/index.html 

Where Have All the Flowers Gone --- http://www.wankei.net/reflections.htm

A Song of Faith, Devotion and Lung Power --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9431443

Richard Wagner MP3 --- Click Here

From NPR
Stories in Song: Regina Spektor's 'Begin to Hope' (in Russian) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5518985

Giving Thanks with Gospel Music's Take 6 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6521848

Rickie Lee Jones' Divine Departure --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9435180

Susan Werner Finds Her Gospel Truth --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10515061

Daddy's Hands --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hands.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The River --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/river.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Let your love flow --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/jackandleslie.html
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Shepard Moon --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/purplesky.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Reflections --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/reflections.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Lazy Days --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/parkmulti.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page

My Life - - - http://www.jessiesweb.com/life.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Travelin' Light --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/travelin.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Negro Spirituals

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Conan O'Brien - ''Pilobolus'' --- http://youtube.com/watch?v=3n8gxEwLx0w

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

New from Jessie in November 2006
Love Me ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/beforeido.htm
One of These Mornings ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/mornings.htm
The Thrill is Gone ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/thrill.htm
If You Wanna be Happy ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/ugly.htm
Bless the Broken Road ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/broken.htm
Beautiful Boy ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/beautifulboy.htm
For each song, if the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Christmas in Dixie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dixie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

A long list of old songs.  Listen to the music on the piano and read the lyrics --- http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa.html

From NPR
Southern University marching band photos and music ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5073233

From NPR
The Music of Pilgrim Baptist Church ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5152069
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Singing of New Orleans, Past and Future ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=523

Hear Marilyn Nelson read her poem "A Wreath for Emmett Till" ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818586

Donnie McClurkin Live Hear full-length cuts from the CD 'Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5025839

It's In the Valleys I Grow --- http://www.nethugs.com/valley.shtml

Negro spirituals performed live --- http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/multimedia.shtml

From NPR
Katrina Healing Music in New Orleans Festival's Gospel Tent --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5367455

Believe --- http://www.dayspring.com/movies/view.asp?moviename=believe.swf

From NPR
Iraq Soldier Describes War in Poetry (with audio) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5126583

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

From Janie

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Greetings My Friends from my little corner of the world - Arkansas.  :-)
 This is another Beautiful-Beautiful poem by Joan Buchanan West... Wow!
 
 
Enjoy!
Hugs and Love to All...
Janie

Mansion Just Over the Hill (Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisthegracelandtreesbyjbw.html

Pieces of My Life
(Elvis) ---
http://mjbreck.com/elvishelovedjbw.html

More Elvis from Janie --- http://mjbreck.com/GladysLovePresley.html

Another Elvis poem  from Joan Buchanan West and Janie Breck --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisandtheevangelists.html

Message from Janie
Another (Elvis) poem by Joan Buchanan West... beautifully written ---
http://mjbreck.com/elvisoursomeonespecial.html

Also see --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisthereisnoone.html

I have added a section to my website especially for the beautifully written 'Elvis' poetry by Joan Buchanan West --- http://mjbreck.com/JoanBuchananWest.html  

From Janie (more Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/JanieandElvisFromTheresa.html 

 

Click here to go to the Menu


Romantic Music

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) ---
http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.aspT

Top Selling Singles of All Time ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

Elevator Music
The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/50-best-ambient-albums-time-playlist-curated-pitchfork.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

NPR Full Concerts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Watch 450 NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Intimate Performances from The Pixies, Adele, Wilco, Yo-Yo Ma & Many More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/450-npr-tiny-desk-concerts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/

Restful --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/Restful.wma

On Broadway --- http://on-broadway.nyc

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Tango Flamenco (Guitar) ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCmubP5h9c&feature=related

Childhood Memories --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/ChildhootMemories.wmv

Videos:  What a Voice for Opera at Age 15 (Mark Vincent) --- http://charliephillips.net/videos/theater-9/mark-vincent.html

Happy New Year - Auld Lang Syne by Sissel (Norwegian Soprano).wmv ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91rBzNKvlc&NR=1

A Romantic Sensation: 'Lucia Di Lammermoor' (Introduction to the Opera) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/09/140333090/a-romantic-sensation-lucia-di-lammermoor

'Porgy And Bess,' Adapted For Modern Times ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140332015/porgy-and-bess-adapted-for-modern-times

Videos:  What a Voice for Opera at Age 15 (Mark Vincent) --- http://charliephillips.net/videos/theater-9/mark-vincent.html

‘The Needle and the Damage Done’: Neil Young Plays Two Songs on The Johnny Cash Show, 1971 --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/the_needle_and_the_damage_done_neil_young_plays_two_songs_on_ithe_johnny_cash_showi_in_nashville_1971.html

Bob Jensen's tribute to a neighbor (well sort of),  the Singing Rage Miss Patti Page --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080722.htm

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107

Songza
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try  Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Bob Jensen's Favorite
Hope Has Place
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Enya's home page is at
http://www.enya.com/

Bob Jensen in retirement
Send in the Clowns --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8C1Kw-hy58
Also try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwJ5KIcKX4&feature=PlayList&p=4BE3BEA460BA53A5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34 
At Las Vegas --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghd5weu5Mpg&feature=PlayList&p=4BE3BEA460BA53A5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35
Also see Barbara explain her version --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7KvnDKNjs

But he has memories
Memory --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY
Audio Only --- Click Here

He lives among the evergreens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPBlGj1huI
 

The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection (music history in theater and the media) ---
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/kayefine/kayefine-home.html

The Mix: The Songs Of The Summer, 1962-2012 ---
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155132353/the-mix-the-songs-of-the-summer-1962-2012?ps=mh_frhdl1
 

And thinks America is beautiful
America the Beautiful --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYCj3IJ_VQ

One of Bob's All Time Favorites
Feeling --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBcHUe4WeQ

And Another All Time Favorite
A Special Love Song (Charlie Rich) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/lovesong_rich.html

Charlie Rich (one of my favorite sad/sexy song singer) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rich

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

And Another All Time Favorite
When I Dream --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c002/whenidream.html

Many, Many, Many, Free Original-Recording Downloads from Barb --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/

Long listing of great and familiar recordings --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/theindex_three.html

TV Theme Song Quiz --- http://www.sptimes.com/2007/webspecials07/interactives/tv-themes-quiz/

Many Original Recordings from Jesse --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
(Scroll down to see the wide selection. This site has some great graphics as well).

Many Original Recordings from Janie --- http://mjbreck.com/

 

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Yahoo's Twenty Most Heartbreaking Songs of All Time --- Click Here

  1. He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20
    Also
    Click Here
     

  2. It's Over (Roy Orbison) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMfQG4DejQ
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/roy-orbison/black-white-night--1989-legacy-cbs-sony/its-over
     

  3. I'm a Fool to Want You (Frank Sinatra) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFq6c855E5w
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/frank-sinatra/where-are-you/im-a-fool-to-want-you 
     

  4. Heart Like A Wheel (Kate and Anna McGarrigle) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrreJuCd28
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/kate-and-anna-mcgarrigle/kate-anna-mcgarrigle/heart-like-a-wheel
     

  5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (The Righteous Brothers) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVrDQQIiweE
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/the-righteous-brothers/reunion/youve-lost-that-lovin-feelin
     

  6. Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O'Connor) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8JWbG6bVw
    Also
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4maWqk0KqU
     

  7. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGlKJDEI1Nk
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/album/the-very-best-of-otis-redding/ive-been-loving-you-too-long-single-lp-version
     

  8. Knowing Me, Knowing You (Abba) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwFDDdt-bY
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/abba/the-albums/knowing-me-knowing-you
     

  9. Stay With Me (Lorraine Ellison) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaYPRzIeVK0
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/abba/the-albums/knowing-me-knowing-you
     

  10. I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt) ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrXIvMmG3s
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/bonnie-raitt/luck-of-the-draw--cm-capitol/i-cant-make-you-love-me
     

  11. The Tracks Of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MGP6vFMdE8
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/smokey-robinson/the-definitive-collection--2008/the-tracks-of-my-tears
     

  12. Long Distance Love (Little Feat) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ij1uiEwQEQ
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/little-feat/the-last-record-album/long-distance-love
     

  13. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Dusty Springfield) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA48IL6bQQU
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/dusty-springfield/dusty/i-just-dont-know-what-to-do-with-myself
     

  14. I Go To Sleep (The Pretenders) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGQEsbmQeE
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/pretenders/the-pretenders-ii/i-go-to-sleep
     

  15. Alone Again Or (Love) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_A24cHNFMo
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/love/forever-changes--1967-elektra/alone-again-or
     

  16. Billie Holiday–The Life and Artistry of Lady Day: The Complete Film --- Click Here
    http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/ibillie_holiday--the_life_and_artistry_of_lady_dayi_the_complete_film.html


  17. Watch Four Iconic Live Performances by Billie Holiday on Her 100th Birthday on April 7, 2015 ---
    http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/four-iconic-billie-holiday-performances-on-her-100th-birthday.html
     

  18. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Billie Holiday) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNRrhNKzbQ
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/billie-holiday/lady-in-autumn-best-of-the-verve-years/dont-worry-bout-me
     

  19. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dm2qEs3B1I
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/soft-cell/the-singles/say-hello-wave-goodbye
     

  20. One Day I'll Fly Away (Randy Crawford:) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcTAf6lVjAg
    Also
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpvaDF6oN3c
     

  21. It Makes No Difference (The Band) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJXc0NRCmRQ
    Also
    http://www.rhapsody.com/the-band/northern-lights-southern-cross/it-makes-no-difference
     

  22. So Sad (The Everly Brothers) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7SE9ApwXg4
    http://www.rhapsody.com/the-everly-brothers/verybestoftheeverlybrothers/so-sad-to-watch-good-love-go-bad
     

Here are a few real heartbreakers that bring tears to my eyes on a lonely Saturday:

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

YouTube's Sad Song Channel --- http://www.youtube.com/user/thesadsongschannel?ob=4

Only You (Platters slide show) --- http://worriersanonymous.org/Share/OnlyYou.htm

The Official Dolly Parton YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/user/dollypartonmusic?blend=1&ob=4

 

Engelbert Humperdinck (good site for a good voice) --- http://www.engelbert.com/

Another Favorite
If You Ever Leave Me ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/if.htm
(If the sound on any song does not commence in 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn the sound on.)

Barry Manilow --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Manilow

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Memory from CATS

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Memory - Kim Bum Soo --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i89DE5StBM
Winter Sonata (My Memory) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEz_dW2wsI

Send in the Clowns (History in YouTube Video for Bob Jensen's retirement theme song)
A song written in two days and never intended to be such a hit:

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Barbra Streisand Video History (an illustration of the history you can find on YouTube)
Unfortunately, sometimes the videos are pulled before you get to enjoy them.

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Andre Boccelli

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

YouTube's Sad Song Channel --- http://www.youtube.com/user/thesadsongschannel?ob=4

Sniff! Sniff!
The Twelfth of Never --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/twelfthofnever.html
Always on My Mind --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/elvis-presley/always-on-my-mind-elvis-presley.html
Bring on the Rain --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/bringontherain.html
Let it Be Me --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/beme.html

Psychological Slow Burn: 'Pelléas and Mélisande' (Introduction to the Opera) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128391584

From Jessie (Outstanding for Romantics) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/
Paint the Sky With Stars --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/paint.htm
Have a Little Faith in Me ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/faith.htm
Good Morning Beautiful
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/beauty.htm
Can't Cry Hard Enough
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/cry.htm 
Thank You for Loving Me
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/thankyou.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Recent (2007) Additions From Jessie (Outstanding for Romantics) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/
(If the sound on any song does not commence in 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn the sound on.)

My Theme Song
Train of Life (Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline) ---  Click Here
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/TOL.htm

The Magnificent Henry Mancini

Days of Wine and Roses (a Mancini movie that still haunts me)

Jack Jones (Judy Garland liked him best) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jones_%28singer%29

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

The Carpenters (who could ever forget Karen's clear voice)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Bette Midler

Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiS8YokFzeY
                                                             Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7ZCCJHGaw
                                                            Also see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e-fzS3-Lz4

                                               (Garry Morris) ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c002/myhero.html

From Barb --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/coolwaters.html
Always (Patsy Cline) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/always_patsycline.html
All Alone Am I --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/allalone.html
All for the Love of a Girl --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/lovegirl.html
All these Things --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/allthesethings.html
Allegheny Moon (Patti Page) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/alleghenymoon.html

From Jessie
Holding All My Love For You ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/holding.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

KD Lang and the Brooklyn Philharmonic

k.d. lang - Honky Tonk Angels Medley --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Cq50myLZs

Adele And Angel Taylor, Recorded Live --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99420931

Barbra Streisand Video History  in Video (an illustration of the history you can find on YouTube)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Jane Froman's Great, Great Voice --- http://www.janefroman.com/

Mickey Gilley --- http://www.gilleys.com/
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Gilley

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Let Me Be Your Hero --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hero.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

All the original Carpenters (sniff, sniff We've Only Just Begun) --- http://www.mymusicattic.org/Page19.html
Other great originals and some midis ---
http://www.mymusicattic.org/

Crazy (Love Ya Patsy) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/crazy.htm  
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Lena Horne -- Activist and Singer -- Dies at 92 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1X7GS_291E&feature=fvst

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

If You Ever Leave Me (Will You Take Me With You) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/if.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR:  Mel Torme Concert (54 minutes) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14215959

From NPR
Delving into Peggy Lee's Steamy Mystique ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5386545

Bette Midler - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Jumpin')--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxUbYUHExs

Somewhere Down the Road ---  http://www.jessiesweb.com/somewhere.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Holding All My Love --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/holding.htm 
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Britain's Six Year Old Connie (without her two front teeth)
 I like this one better video (slide show) ---
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/19214/1/
Winning at a talent show ---
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/7383/1/%3E

Here I Go Again --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hereigo.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From Jessie
The Twelfth of Never
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/12thnever.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

All the original Carpenters (sniff, sniff We've Only Just Begun) --- http://www.mymusicattic.org/Page19.html
Other great originals and some midis ---
http://www.mymusicattic.org/

Amazing 11-Year Old Girl (Video)--- http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/video/x6sfz_amazing-11-year-old

You can listen to foul-tongued Charlotte Church masquerading as an sweet-voiced angel at http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/charlottechurch/
(Click on the listing under Media Clips)

Moonglow, Lamp Low' by Eleni Mandell --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10001874

Judith Owen: Happy and at Home --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11122413

From Jessie
What a Wonderful World ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/wonderfulworld.htm
Wonderful Tonight
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/wonderful.htm
I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/tellingyou.htm
Go Rest High on That Mountain ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/restmtn.htm
Rhiannon ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/rhiannon.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on. Then scroll back to the top for the picture and menu.

Do you remember love (turn on your speakers)
Here's a love poem (about an old dog like me) forwarded by Auntie Bev ---
http://doyourememberlove.com/musiconlymovie.html

From Jessie
I Am Telling You I'm Not Going ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/tellingyou.htm

How True it Is (forwarded by Auntie Bev) --- http://www.members.shaw.ca/va7ana/howtrue.htm

Bring on the Rain (Jo Dee Messina with Tim McGraw) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/bringontherain.html

From Jessie
My Heart Will Go On ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/heartgoon.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Then scroll back to the top for the picture and menu.

From Janie
Elvis singing Memories --- http://mjbreck.com/elvismagicofmemoriesbyjbw.html

From Barb
Elvis Downloads --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/elvisonstage.html

Ahmad Zahir: The Voice Of The Golden Years --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123137188

Happy Birthday Elvis! January 8, 1935 --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisbyjbwhappybirthday2007.html 

Are You Lonesome Tonight? (midi version) --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jwwaller/elvis/

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings (video with a shore commercial in front) --- http://www.pixsy.com/search.aspx?q=Willie Nelson
Other video features
http://www.pixsy.com/

From Jessie
American Pie ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/americanpie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Shirley Bassey: New CD for 'Goldfinger' Diva --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88184207

Singing Man's Homepage --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/

From Janie
I Did It My Way (Elvis) ---
http://mjbreck.com/epthegracelandtreesbyjbw0307.html
Welcome to My World (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/myelviswebsite.html
The above site has links to other Elvis performances.

From Janie
Mansion Just Over the Hill (Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/elvisthegracelandtreesbyjbw.html

From NPR
Free downloads from Broadway's longest running play (Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera)
Scroll down at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5146471

From NPR
Samples from a new Burt Bacharach Collection ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056125
(Scroll down for the samples.)

A Big Bach Download: The Complete Organ Works Free --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/11/a_big_bach_download_the_complete_organ_works_free.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bach Duo --- Click Here

Over The Rhine radio (this site has some neat technology) --- http://www.overtherhine.com/home.html
(This is a good site for continuous play music online with no commercials)
Click on the small (right arrow) Play button

Carnegie Hall Live: Lang Lang Plays Bach, Schubert And Chopin ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/153715008/carnegie-hall-live-lang-lang-plays-bach-schubert-and-chopin

Bartok: From The Fields To The Concert Hall (Classical) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103733863

Simone Dinnerstein Plays Bach Old And New --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101102623

Baroque In Boston: Bach And Company In Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112448300  

Heavens Gates:  How John remembers the 1950s --- http://heavens-gates.com/50s/50s_songs.html
John's Homepage --- http://heavens-gates.com/50s/
(Click on the picture:  Includes 29 full-length oldies bringing tears to us old juke box romantics, including Chances Are and Mr. Sandman)

Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Leigh

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=mMk4kV8aYLs

You Can Let Go --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAmiExU8S4

Here's to Us (a Judy Garland number that never aired) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3spaSdgjs

From NPR
'Nat King Cole Show' Challenged TV's Race Line ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5411446

* Web Extra: Hear Cole Introduce Some of the Guests Featured on 'The Nat King Cole Show'
Songs from the 'King':  * 'Unforgettable' * 'Autumn Leaves' (French Version)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

That's Just Jessie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/thatsjessie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR
Wainwright to Channel Judy Garland, Live ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5475107

From Janie (a great Elvis fan)
The Presley Four ---
http://mjbreck.com/elvisthepresleyfour.html
(Click the play button in the upper left)

Welcome to My World (Elvis Live) --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteII.html

Forever On Your Mind --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/forevermind.html

Gotta Travel On --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/gottatravel.html

Elvis tribute by Joan Buchanan West --- http://mjbreck.com/ephedidnthaveto.html

Marni Nixon: Hollywood's Invisible Voice --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5751867
Jensen Comment
I once listened to a marvelous concert by Marni Nixon at the Magestic in San Antonio. She has an amazing voice and voice control.

Chiquitita (Beautiful) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/Chiquitita/index.htm
Nice nature pictures and great music ---
http://www.greatdanepro.com/Chiquitita/index.htm

From Janie
I Wept ---
http://jbreck.com/IWept.html

From Janie
Thank Heaven for Little Girls --- http://jbreck.com/SweetHeart.html

Unknown Legend --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/legend.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Holding All My Love for You --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/holding.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The Promise --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/promise.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Cast Your Fate to the Wind --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/wind.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The Weepies: Beautiful Music Together --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6041220  

From NPR
Singer India.Arie's Latest 'Testimony' Hear a Live Performance in NPR's Studio 4A ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5565789

Bryan Adam - Everything I Do (with video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNgnqKW3OI

In My Rear View Mirror --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/rearview.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Crazy (Love Ya Patsy) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/crazy.htm  
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Unknown Legend (the Air She Breathes) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/legend.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR
Roberta Flack, In Full Voice on America's Soundtrack ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5300822

Best CDs of 2006 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6579480

From NPR
Cristina Branco: Musical Journey to Portugal, Beyond ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312568

Lonely trumpet sounds of Tomasz Stanko --- 
http://www.tomaszstanko.com/Tomasz_Stanko_The_Jazz_Trumpeter_and_Composer.html
(Click on the Multimedia link)

Mother-Son Duo Makes Perfect Harmony --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10146646

From NPR
The Best Music of 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html
(These will play continuously for one hour)

Also see the Top Ten downloads at the following NPR sites:

Oldies served up by Janie --- http://www.jbreck.com/
Also see here Website III for poems, stories, and music ---
http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html

Do You Remember These? (Statler Brothers)
Statler Brothers with Burma Shave Road Signs Video ---
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm
Another source --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman777/DYR.htm
Another source --- http://www.philsden.com/06/Remember.html
Another Source --- http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm
From Janie --- http://jbreck.com/doyou.html
Others from Janie ---
http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html
 

Who can forget the Statler Brothers
Auto Nostalgia (to the recording of Do You Remember These) --- http://texasbobsworld.com/auto_nostalgia.html

From Janie
Rock and Roll Waltz ---
http://jbreck.com/DecoNights.html
Mom and dad were trying to waltz to a rock and roll song.

Crying in the Chapel (Elvis) --- http://mjbreck.com/elvischapelontheknollbyjbw.html

Bruce Cockburn's What is the Soul of a Man? --- http://cockburnproject.net/flash.html

You Are the Ones (scroll down) --- http://www.kuhlmannsisters.com/theStore.htm

One Night With You (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/onenight.html

Love Me Tender (Evis, tear, tear) --- http://jbreck.com/trulyelvistwo.html

From Janie
Mysterious Lady
---
http://jbreck.com/when.html

From Janie
Back on My Feet Again
---
http://www.jbreck.com/backonmyfeetagain.html

From Janie
Stay to Tea
---
http://jbreck.com/StayToTea.html

From Janie
Power of a Woman ---
http://jbreck.com/powerofawoman.html

From NPR
The Songs of Jule Styne ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5073612
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Amy Rigby's Messy, Modern Love Songs ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055224
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Songs from a Year of 'Music Lust' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5076321
(Scroll down for the samples.)

I'm a Soldier in God's Army --- http://jbreck.com/theword.html

Janie's Other Music and Poems --- http://www.jbreck.com/index.html 

Aretha Franklin sings "Respect" --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11070888

Paint the Sky With Stars
Other great originals and some midis --- http://www.mymusicattic.org/

Surrender --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/surrender.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Good Morning Beautiful --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/beauty.htm
 If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Only a Woman Like You --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/woman.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

It's Your Love --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/yourlove.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Standing Outside the Fire --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/fire.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Always --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/always.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

If I Should Fall Behind --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/fallbehind.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Sunset Dreams --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/sunset.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR
Torme Gets Hip to 'Zaz Turned Blue' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5062814
(Scroll down for these great samples.)

Music for the Morning After, and Beyond --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5698627

Music Video From David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - "Jump In My Car" ---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3382491587979249836&hl=en

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Lady in Red --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/redlady.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Shepherd Moons (in a purple sky) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/purplesky.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Christmas in Dixie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dixie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The River --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/river.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

You've Got a Way With Me --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/way.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Moses --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/moses.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Let your love flow --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/jackandleslie.html
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Eighties Ladies --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/den.htm

I Always Liked That Best --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/best.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Thank You for Loving Me --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/thankyou.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page

Have a Little Faith in Me --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/faith.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page

Secret Garden --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/garden.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page

Lazy Days --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/parkmulti.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

Don't Want to Miss a Thing --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/miss.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

From NPR
New Love's Dizzying Days ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569386

From NPR
Indie Labels Take a Risk, and Win, with Musicals ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187068
(Scroll down for samples, some from Broadway musicals)

Can't Cry Hard Enough --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/cry.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

Bring on the Rain --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/rain.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Iris --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/iris.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page

Put on Your Red Dress Baby --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/reddress.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

White Flag --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/whiteflag.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

Dreams --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/multidreams.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

Angels Weep --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/weep.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.

New York City --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/nycoring.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Hope Has Place --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Enya's home page is at http://www.enya.com/

 From JessieNothing Compares to You --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/compares.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

For enjoyable continuous play Enya snippets, go to http://snipurl.com/EnyaSamples

From NPR
The Sounds of Love: Valentine's Day Music
---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5196270
There are a lot of choices here.

From NPR
Jens Lekman: Idiosyncratic Pop from Sweden ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5133204
Scroll down for the samples

From NPR
Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Geisha,' 'Gardener' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5223502

From NPR
A Key Depression-Era Composer, Remembered (Jay Cagney) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5355935

From NPR
Maude Maggart: A New Generation of Cabaret ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221536

  • 'It's Only a Paper Moon' (Maggart and Fiona Apple)
  • 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'
  • 'Always'

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Guilty Pleasures (Barbra Streisand) --- http://snipurl.com/GuiltyPleasures
Essential Barbara ---
http://snipurl.com/EssentialBarbara
     (These are continuous play snippets only but I enjoy these)

Best of Eddie Arnold --- http://snipurl.com/BestOfEddyArnold
    (These are continuous play snippets only but I enjoy these)

Essential Willie Nelson (snippets) --- http://snipurl.com/EssentialWillie
    (These are continuous play snippets only but I enjoy these)

Keys to My Heart --- http://jbreck.com/keys.html 

A Mournful Longing Beneath the Surface (Amy Millan) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6356037

One Night With You (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/onenight.html

Mysterious Lady --- http://jbreck.com/when.html

Zero Refills by the Pernice Brothers --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=62

Cabaret Pop from Abby Travis on 'Glitter Mouth' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6268053

Blue Note Records --- http://www.bluenote.com/jukebox.asp

Paula Cole: On the Rise Again --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10989649

Erom NPR
Mary J. Blige, Making 'The Breakthrough' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165863

From NPR
A Conversation with Composer John Kander ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5288642
Four from Kander and Ebb 'Maybe This Time' from 'Cabaret,' sung by Liza Minnelli 'All That Jazz' from 'Chicago,' sung by Bebe Neuwirth 'Wilkommen' from 'Cabaret,' sung by Joel Grey. 'A Quiet Thing' from 'Flora the Red Menace,' sung by Liza Minnelli.

Camille, 'Threading' a New Sound --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5563547

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

July 7, 2008 message from michael@1800sunstar.com

Aloha from Hawaii Bob,

I was happy that I somehow landed on one of you're sites while surfing the web today. I ended up reading a number of them for hours. Very interesting stuff. I came across one of you're pages entitled:

"Bob Jensen's Links to Online Music and Video" http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

As well as you're "Music Page"  http://www.resnet.trinity.edu/tdubose/music_page.htm

Since I have a number of free Music downloads on my site to one of the most popular Hawaiian Artists in the islands "Israel Kamakawiwo'ole", I was wondering if you might consider posting a link to my Hawaiian Music website on either of these Music pages..?

I would be happy to post a link to you're Music pages or any linkpage you wish in kind if you would like.

I post some basic info about my site(s) (i.e: the 1st is the Music site, the 2nd is a Hawaii Photo site) below for your consideration and of course feel free to edit any of it as you see fit.

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Title: Free Hawaiian Music Downloads
URL:
http://1800sunstar.com/

Description: "Free Hawaiian Music Downloads", including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow IZ Songs", and Free Legal Music Players.

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Title: Hawaii Photo Beach Pictures Gallery
URL:
http://1800sunstar.com/zzsuzannas-hawaiian-photo-art-gallery/hawaii-art-gallery-01.html

Description: Hawaii beach photos, Hawaiian sunset pictures, Hawaiian flowers, Hawaii photo album.

 

Click here to go to the Menu

 
 

 

1950s-60s Juke Box Tunes


My Theme Song (that I want played at my ultimate memorial service in Sugar Hill)
Train of Life (Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline) ---  
Click Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5FVgCKmDBk

Music and Pictures from My Youth ---
http://nethugs.com/interesting/memories-of-the-1950s/#xBiaK1gChMVywClz.0clz.o
Click on the arrow

The Most Popular Juke Box Tunes of All Time ---
https://jborden.com/2020/04/13/music-monday-the-most-popular-jukebox-songs-of-all-time/
The above  list is based on pop tunes, whereas the coins put into the juke boxes, especially in bars and road houses, more often leaned toward country music
Patsy Cline's Crazy crosses over into country lists as well.  Crazy was a hit, but not Patsy's all-time hit. By the way Crazy was written by Willie Nelson, who wrote songs that became both pop and country favorites recorded by other artists. In Ken Burn's History of Country Music Willie claims he started out as a poet before becoming a song writer.

The Top 100 Country Music Hits ---
https://timelife.com/products/the-country-jukebox-collection/
The alcoholic Hank Williams is now considered a poet after writing the lyrics for over 167 songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Hank_Williams

Top Selling Singles of All Time ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/the-woman-who-invented-rock-n-roll.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Shape Rock and Roll in the 1950s ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/new-web-project-immortalizes-the-forgotten-women-who-gave-birth-to-rock-n-roll-in-the-1950s.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Rock and Roll: An American Story --- http://teachrock.org

Rock Critic Greil Marcus Picks 10 Unexpected Songs That Tell the Story of Rock ‘n’ Roll ---
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/CXQZpywLZPw/greil-marcus-picks-10-songs-that-definte-rock-n-roll.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Rock Music Timeline --- http://www.rockmusictimeline.com

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Those Old  '45s --- http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

Bob Jensen's tribute to a neighbor (well sort of),  the Singing Rage Miss Patti Page --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080722.htm

Music Video Jukebox at http://www.1959bhsmustangs.com/videojukebox_62_to_72.htm#

National Jukebox --- http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

WGHB Open Vault: Rock and Roll --- http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/roll-rock-and-roll

The Earliest Footage of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash (1955) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/the_earliest_footage_of_elvis_presley_buddy_holly_and_johnny_cash_1955.html

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

My Favorite Boogie Woogie
For Boogie Woogie Piano Dancers (GREAT!)
--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QQzbCmlZM4
More free Boogie Woogie by Sylvan Zingg (in concert) --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJv9FnaQys
Others --- Search for "Sylvan Zingg" on YouTube --- https://www.youtube.com/
Other Boogie Woogie Sites (including free lesson sites) --- http://www.boogiewoogiepiano.net/piano-jukebox/other-web-sites/other-websites.html

Boogie Woogie  on Three Grand Pianos --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piBl48SFio

Tommy Johnson  the Boogie Woogie Man --- Search for him on YouTube

Jo Ann Castle from the Lawrence Welk Show --- Search for her on YouTube

Big Tiny Little from the Lawrence Welk Show --- Search for him on YouTube

Bring Back the 50s (Carolyn) --- http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s/sitemap.html

Jim Flora Arts (jazz of the 1950s and 1960s) --- www.jimflora.com

Songza
Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
I tried it for Arturo Toscanini, Stan Kenton, and Jim Reeves.
The results were absolutely amazing!
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581

Mike's Oldies (no nickels required in the jukebox) --- http://www.mikesoldiestoo.com/
Note that there are multiple selections for each artist

Play the Jukebox --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/

Jukebox --- http://hfm3.com/jukebox/jukebox.html

Cars We Drove in the 1950s and 1960s --- http://cruzintheavenue.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Take Me Back to the 60s (thank you Jagdish) --- http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

Old 45s --- http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

Those Old 45s --- http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm  

The popular recording when you graduated from high school (enter the date) ---
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

TV Theme Song Quiz --- http://www.sptimes.com/2007/webspecials07/interactives/tv-themes-quiz/

A Tune to Make You Smile (with great jitterbug dancing) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oXvJ8UquYoo&vq=large%3E
It takes a while to get to the tune!

The Fabulous Jitterbug Era --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitterbug

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

How we change over time in terms of fitting in and wanting to make an impression. I remember my blue suede shoes, pink sweaters, and white corduroy trousers in high school. I must’ve looked ridiculous wearing them with my leather bomber jacket. That’s the way I looked my dad's pink and cream-colored Oldsmobile cruising State Street in Algona, Iowa in 1955.

We be-bopped to Elvis, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Teresa Brewer, etc.

Bill Haley and the Comets (Dance Video) --- Click Here

Video:  TAP e Aeroporto de Lisboa ao rubro! (Rock Around the Clock) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjZX57QQDY&feature=player_embedded

Let's Rip It Up (Bill Haley video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhGtXCGn6M

Statler Brothers Videos --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_Brothers

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Boogie (Eight to the Bar) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie

Forwarded by Paula
For Boogie Woogie Piano Dancers (GREAT!) --- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=26579077
I never could get the hang of it.
Bob Jensen's threads on juke box tunes --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.

More Boogie (Eight to the Bar)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Jerry Lee Lewis (The Killer) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Great Balls of Fire (Dolly) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=igODX-B2r1g

Great Balls of Fire (Tiny Tim) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=c61oGGOUicY

Rock and Roll --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

It's a Wonderful Life (Part 3 with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=DbKPLPhvmNU

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Bill Haley and the Comets --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley
Let's Rip It Up (Bill Haley video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhGtXCGn6M

 

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTubeTeresa Brewer --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Brewer

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Buddy Holly and The Crickets --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly
(Remember "Happiness is Lubbock in my rear view mirror.")
In 1955 Bob Jensen wore horn-rimmed glasses that had no prescription (clear glass).
Buddy Holly's plane crashed in Mason City  about 50 miles from my hometown in Algona, Iowa.

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Many, Many, Many, Free Original-Recording Downloads from Barb --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/

From Barb
Elvis Downloads ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/elvisonstage.html

Blue Suede Shoes --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/e003/bluesuede.html

409 (Beachboys) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/409.html

The cars we drove in 1950s and 1960s (video) --- http://oldfortyfives.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

The 45s of 1960s --- http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

All Shook Up --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/allshookup.html

The Way We Were --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/a001/waywere.html

Grandma Faith (Boogie Through Life) --- http://www.members.shaw.ca/grandmafaiths2/boogie.htm

Let it Be Me --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/beme.html

Back to the Sixties (video) --- http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

Illustrations of Inflation and Culture Change (put to music) --- http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

Atomic Platters: Cold War Music--- http://www.atomicplatters.com/

Wishy's Ways (Great 1950s Rock and Roll original recordings) --- http://www.wishyswavs.com/
Others from Wishy's Ways include Holiday Music, Native American Music, Spiritual Music, Patriotic Music, Piano Music, Movies and Television Music, and Country Music)
Click on the Next Button

Many Original Recordings from Jesse --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/pity.htm
(Scroll down to see the wide selection. This site has some great graphics as well).

Many Original Recordings from Janie --- http://mjbreck.com/

Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto...(Video)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVFnhO3A98

Blue Suede Shoes (Video --- Elvis live in 1969, with moving footage) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYL08wVJUo

Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBchoBv-TY

Bobbie McGee (Johnny Cash) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhAX8BARBs

Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMy762W3RcM
Also at http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHRg_iSWzM

Bobby McGee (Charlie Pride) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcobL2QHgc

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

What We Drove in the 50s and 60s (when gas cost less than 50 cents per gallon) --- http://www.objflicks.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Hits From the 1960s (original recordings) --- http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

This 1963 performance of "Boogie Blues" by Anita O'Day aired live on Japanese TV, then languished in the vaults --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9147573

Rip it Up (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/dimejukebox.html

Heavens Gates:  How John remembers the 1950s --- http://heavens-gates.com/50s/50s_songs.html
John's Homepage --- http://heavens-gates.com/50s/
(Click on the picture:  Includes 29 full-length oldies bringing tears to us old juke box romantics, including Chances Are and Mr. Sandman)

Grandma Faith's Website to Boogie Through Life --- http://www.members.shaw.ca/grandmafaiths2/boogie.htm

Oldies served up by Janie --- http://www.jbreck.com/
Also see here Website III for poems, stories, and music --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html

From Janie  (I was hoping somebody would serve up this since The Singing Man stopped remembering these)
Do You Remember These? (Statler Brothers) ---
http://jbreck.com/doyou.html
Others from Janie --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html
Who can forget the Statler Brothers

From Janie
Rock and Roll Waltz --- http://jbreck.com/DecoNights.html
Mom and dad were trying to waltz to a rock and roll song.

From Janie
Tribute to Elvis
--- http://jbreck.com/ElvisGoldenSinger.html

From Janie
Uptown Girl --- http://jbreck.com/uptowngirl.html

George Wright (Loyola College) tells us he's in the Mood Swings band --- http://moodswings.com/

Jerry Lee Lewis: 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388855

100 Golden Oldies on the Juke Box --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
Be patient with the "Unknown Zone" message. The songs load relatively slow.
The juke box will pass automatically from song to song in a given year.

Hits From the 1960s (original recordings) --- http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

Remember when (Jukebox Days) --- http://www.paulalfrey.com/email/olddays.html

The British Invasion Meets the Everlys' Elegance (Remember the Everly Brothers?) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6712619

Listen to "Ever Present Past" by Paul McCartney --- http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/20070524/#mccartney

Chubby Checker (Twist Again) --- Click Here

From Janie
Love Shack --- http://jbreck.com/loveshack.html

Dutchman's Gold (from old Walter Brennan) --- http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/dutchmansgold.htm

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

From Janie
The Light of His Word --- http://jbreck.com/thelightofhisword.html
I dare you to sit still while listening to this one. Go ahead and clap your hands! Maybe dance around a little.

From NPR
Samples from a new Burt Bacharach Collection --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056125
(Scroll down for the samples. I especially love the first one listed --- it's great!)

All the original Carpenters (sniff, sniff We've Only Just Begun) --- http://www.mymusicattic.org/Page19.html
Other great originals and some midis --- http://www.mymusicattic.org/

Crazy (Love Ya Patsy) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/crazy.htm  
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

All Shook Up (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/RedJuteBox.html

One Night With You (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/onenight.html

Welcome to My World (Elvis Live) --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteII.html

Love Me Tender (Elvis, sniff, sniff) --- http://jbreck.com/trulyelvistwo.html

Malt Shop Sites --- http://www.centex.net/~elliott/maltshop.html

Forwarded by Paula

This is a wonderful nostalgic website, with two decades of music and events to remember.  It is very well done. Just click on the link and sit back and enjoy the memories.

At the top of each segment there are four items to click on for a history lesson..............

It's sure to bring back some memories.......

 
The Fifties:  http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

The Sixties:  http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm 

both found at:  http://oldfortyfives.com/
 

Mr. & Mrs Doo Wop Oldies (original recordings) --- http://www.doo-wop.org/doowop_001.htm
Click on Cafe, Drive-In, Sock Hop, etc. 

Sugar Shack --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/shack.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Singingman (Larry D.) --- Try http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/ 

A Beach Boys Classic Gets an R&B Makeover --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6204757

Doo Wop Christmas Greetings --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html 

For my generation:  I especially remember "those?" --- http://www.singingman.us/DYR.htm 

Debbie Boone (daughter of Pat Boone) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Boone

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Pat Boone --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

K.D. Lang and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Hear

Concert in Full --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4173389 

Web Extra: Lang Plays Cohen at NPR --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4173389 

'Rockin' Bones' Celebrates Rockabilly's Rebels --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6099780

Singing Man's Homepage --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/

Heavens Gates – Remembering the 50s--- http://heavens-gates.com/50s/

From Jessie
American Pie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/americanpie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on

Purple People Eater --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/purple.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Groving --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/poolfe.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Lost in the Fifties' Harbor Lights --- http://home.hiwaay.net/~singer/Fifties.htm

Three Decades of Pop Music, Colliding at Once --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5732930

A Girl-Group Golden Age --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7812660

A Paean to the Music of Summer of 2007 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11477724

"Que Sera Sera" was never this dark. Hear Pink Martini's quirky take on the Doris Day classic --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10144725

Pop Music That Leaks out of the World --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7854423

Ann Margaret Videos

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Also see http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/margret.asp

Some great big band samples (with vocals) --- http://joeythomasbigband.com/broadband/band/music.htm
           I especially like Night Train

           Compare songs for different kinds of dances --- http://www.geocities.com/jaichavan/indexmus.htm

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html

Lost in Time (Midi from the 1950's) --- http://home.hiwaay.net/%7Esinger/Fifties.htm
Click on 'next' at the bottom of each screen.

Doo Wop Christmas Greetings --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html 

From NPR
Delving into Peggy Lee's Steamy Mystique --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5386545

From NPR:
More Recordings To Hear Before You Die --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96495906

Radio Memories ---  http://radiomemories.libsyn.com/

For my generation:  I especially remember "those?"  (Turn up your speakers full blast) --- http://www.singingman.us/DYR.htm 
The home page is at http://www.singingman.us (with more songs)

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Click here to go to the Menu

 


Country and Western

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) ---
http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

Birthplace of Country Music --- http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/

The Top 100 Country Music Hits ---
https://timelife.com/products/the-country-jukebox-collection/
The alcoholic Hank Williams is now considered a poet after writing the lyrics for over 167 songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Hank_Williams

 

Crying - Glen Campbell (Roy Orbison)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmScxQopRI

 

Inflation or Deflation (country music humor) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fq2ga4HkGY&NR=1

The Tennessee Plough Boy (Eddie Arnold) died on May 8, 2008 one week short of being 90 years young..
He' a legend in country music ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Arnold

Hank Williams Sr. --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Hank Williams Jr. --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams%2C_Jr.

Hank Williams III --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams_III

I Love It
Hank Williams Jr, and tiny Hunter Hayes (Jambalaya) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQPEsa5e7K0

Loretta Lynn (the Queen of Country Music) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn

Mickey Gilley --- http://www.gilleys.com/
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Gilley

 

Willie Nelson and Ryan Adams, Spanning Eras Seamlessly ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6444987

Willie Nelson (Video)

Waylon Jennings

It's Hard to Be Humble (humor) --- http://www.celeryhart.com/HardtobeHumble/hardtobehumble.swf

A couple of my many Judd Strunk banjo-picking favorites"

JUDD STRUNK SINGS "THE BIGGEST PAIR-A-KEETS IN TOWN" ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bBBPbU9R_g 

Judd Strunk sings "A Daisy a Day" on the Johnny Carson Show ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB8G0SFmJ1g 

Homesick for Texas

Me and Bobby McGee (Willie, Waylon, Johnnie, and Kris) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=JqB6Wl6zonY

America (Waylon Jennings) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=WGz_xSSgjY0

Jenny Lewis: Drawn Back To Country --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99468180

Square Dance History Project --- http://squaredancehistory.org

Merle Haggard

Tiger by the Tail --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwbDWJNKjI

Mark-to-market country song --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFPCztVle7k

Artie Dean Harris Live --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKb_kl-Dik

A Carolina Christmas, With Kathy Mattea (full concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121476955

Inflation or Deflation? (a humorous country song) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fq2ga4HkGY&NR=1

Johnny Cash
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys ---
http://www.goodolddogs.com/cowboypres.html

Hello Walls --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/hellowalls.html

Statler Brothers Videos --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_Brothers

 

My Woman, My Wife --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/mywoman.html

Half as Much  --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/cw001/halfasmuch.html

Country Music Finds New Star In Darius Rucker --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97181000

Glen Campbell: A Rhinestone Cowboy Returns --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94237070

 

Tanya Tucker: Living In A Country Song --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106474479

Songs about alcohol and its effects are common currency in country music. But in "Drinkin' Problem," Lori McKenna goes in a different direction, sidestepping the usual moralistic dimension in favor of getting under the skin of someone for whom the issue is an immediate concern --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16318418

Country Music Legend Hank Thompson Dies:  Hear the NPR Announcement on November 8, 2007 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16112454
Read about Hank here ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Thompson_%28music%29

Piano Tutorial #20 Wild Side of Life Honky Tonk Angels --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoV-wKbqJzA
Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3ysK0zfGc
k.d. lang - Honky Tonk Angels Medley ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Cq50myLZs

"If My Nose Was Running Money" (country humor) by Aaron Wilburn --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCeIwjIuZM
Also at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqXZCmVSXLg 

Super Harmonica Playing --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfLhnkme2mE

Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt - Trio, 3 songs live on The Tonight Show (1987) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3URfOLj0TZs

He Stopped Loving Her --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/stoppedloving.html

 

Cabin in the Hills (Merle Haggard) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/cabinhills.html

I dare you to sit still in your chair
Harsh and Sweet, Fiery and Cold: '24 Hours a Day' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11930882
Elana James bursts into her own particular (Lively) blend of bluegrass, western swing and jazz.

Hillary vs. Condi Ho Down (turn up your speakers) --- http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/13180/HillaryCondi_HoDown.swf

Killin' Time --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/time.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Garth Barth Brooks Has Friends in Wal-Mart (video) --- http://www.walmartworkersrights.org/

From NPR
Jessi Colter Finds Her Way 'Out of the Ashes' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5232832

From Jessie
Old Hippie ---
http://www.jessiesweb.com/oldhippie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Then scroll back to the top for the picture and menu.

Little Hunter Hayes plays the accordion on a Hank Williams Jr. stage --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQPEsa5e7K0

From the Church to the Tavern and Back (Johnnie Paycheck) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6063412

From NPR
Texas troubadour Jimmie Dale Gilmore's Come On Back ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5047799
(Scroll down for the great samples.  I like "
I Feel Like I've Got to Travel On.That's Bob Jensen!)

Tommy Emmanuel, Finger-Picking Good --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6124857

Had a Little Work Done (country swing video about plastic surgery) --- http://www.ifilm.com/video/2843045

From NPR
Live Concert Selections ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627437

From NPR
The 'Great Atomic Power' of Charlie Louvin ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7718685

From NPR
John Randall's country music ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5043115
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings (video with a shore commercial in front) --- http://www.pixsy.com/search.aspx?q=Willie Nelson
There are great selections at the above link!
Other video features
http://www.pixsy.com/

Tom Rush - Remember Song (country song about growing old) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM

Farmer and the Lord (Jim Reeves) --- http://home.comcast.net/~singingman777/Farmer.htm

Oldies served up by Janie --- http://www.jbreck.com/
Also see here Website III for poems, stories, and music ---
http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html

From Janie
Tribute to Dottie West ---
http://jbreck.com/dottie.html
Also see Country Girl ---
http://jbreck.com/countrygirl.html

From NPR
Rick Moranis, Singing 'Cowboy' (includes "Nine More Gallons and I'll Have Me a Hat) ---
Scroll down to hear the samples at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5036930

From NPR
The Best Music of 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html
(These will play continuously for one hour)

From NPR
A Country Song Springs to Life ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5636052

Best CDs of 2006 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6579480

Bonnie Raitt: 'Souls Alike' (from NPR on November 4, 2005)
Scroll down to the selections listing at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4978863

Professors Revive Country Music Chestnuts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5638682

I love San Antonio (where I lived for 24 years)
San Antonio Rose
---  
http://www.jimspages.com/SAR.html 

The Kooks of Hazard --- http://www.mdna.net/kooks.html

It's hard to kiss the lips that chew your ass out all day long --- http://jbreck.com/itsshardtokiss.html
(Click on the play button in the upper left corner)

From Janie (try to hold still while listening to this one)
Boot Scootin Boogie ---
http://jbreck.com/bootscootinboogie.html

All Shook Up (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/RedJuteBox.html

One Night With You (Elvis) --- http://jbreck.com/onenight.html

Love Me Tender (Evis, tear, tear) --- http://jbreck.com/trulyelvistwo.html

Jingle Bell Rock (Randy Travis) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/jinglebellrock.htm

Mysterious Lady --- http://jbreck.com/when.html

Back on My Feet Again --- http://www.jbreck.com/backonmyfeetagain.html

Stay to Tea --- http://jbreck.com/StayToTea.html

I'm a Soldier in God's Army --- http://jbreck.com/theword.html

Janie's Other Music and Poems --- http://www.jbreck.com/index.html 

Female eMail (online dating country song) --- http://www.garretswayne.com/emailfemale.htm

Great country music from NPR:  Three from 'Modern Sounds' 'Dry River' 'Rank Stranger' 'Burning House of Love' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4951558 
Scroll down and look left.

Song of the Patriot (Johnny Cash) --- http://www.goodolddogs.com/

Jerry Lee Lewis: 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388855

Christmas in Dixie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dixie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Daddy's Hands --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hands.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Picture --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/picture.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

You Got a Friend  --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/friend.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The Dance  --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dance.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Shameless --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/shameless.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Rock in the River --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/rock.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Take Me as I Am --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/rosebed.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Bring on the Rain --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/rain.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Stranger in a Small Town --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/stranger.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Dear Penis (country song) --- http://www.19.5degs.com/element/608.php

Rodney Carrington (Dancing with a Man) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WCbbyChJ4 

That's Just Jessie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/thatsjessie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Games People Play --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/house.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.
Scroll back up to see the water animation.

White Mountains --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/whitemtn.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

When Wild Rockers Grow Quieter and Better
The Who Is Back ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6407635

Magic --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/magic.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Various fireside songs --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/fireplacemulti.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Searching for the South in 'Wrong-Eyed Jesus' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5676275 

Really Bad Country Song Titles (no audio)--- http://www.downstream.sk.ca/country1.htm

One Day at a Time (country midi) --- Click Here

Love Is On A Roll (Don Williams video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5Y3IHluF8

Best of Eddie Arnold --- http://snipurl.com/BestOfEddyArnold
    (These are continuous play snippets only but I enjoy these)

From NPR
A Country Music Outlaw, Resurrected ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5573820

Walk Through This World With Me --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c004/walkworld.html

A Soul-Singing Legend, Reborn in 'Nashville' (Country Music) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6598905

Essential Willie Nelson (snippets) --- http://snipurl.com/EssentialWillie
    (These are continuous play snippets only but I enjoy these)

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Inflation or Deflation (country music humor) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fq2ga4HkGY&NR=1

Click here to go to the Menu


Humor Music

 The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) --- http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

 

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Older Women Singing Country ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4QzHeUE-CM&app=desktop

Senior Moments Video by Golf Brooks --- http://www.youtube.com/embed/9nndS22Qda0?rel=0

Leroy Troy :  Ghost Chickens in the Sky ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk

Leroy Troy:  Grandfather's Clock ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTRpS3wAzQ

Russell Brand and Tracey Ullman Sing the Wonders of “Asstrology” in Eric Idle’s What About Dick? ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/russell_brand_and_tracey_ullman_sing_the_wonders_of_asstrology_in_eric_idles_iwhat_about_dicki.html

James Cagney and Bob Hope --- http://videos2view.net/Hope-Cagney.htm

LATRAVIATA (VERDI) Hors dourves --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/LATRAVIATAVERDI.wmv 

Dutch Treat: Gre Brouwenstijn Sings Verdi And Wagner --- Click Here
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/07/05/137625373/dutch-treat-gre-brouwenstijn-sings-verdi-and-wagner

FEI Second Life Video (thank you Edith) ---
If I Were an Auditor --- http://www.youtube.com/user/feiblog#p/a/u/0/Q-FR_fkTFKY

Hillary vs. Condi Ho Down (turn up your speakers) --- http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/13180/HillaryCondi_HoDown.swf
She's Ready (Hillary Dances) ---
Click here: 2008

It's Hard to Be Humble (humor) --- http://www.celeryhart.com/HardtobeHumble/hardtobehumble.swf

Barbra Streisand's Soprano Opera The Belle of 14th Street (Video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUOITICG58 

Bailout Rap (link forwarded by David Albrecht) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64g_g22iEe8

Tiger by the Tail --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwbDWJNKjI

The Amazing Terry Fator (this is Crazy)--- http://www.rulesdontapply.com/fator.htm

Waking Up is Hard to Do by Five Minnesota anesthetists --- http://nottotallyrad.blogspot.com/2009/11/waking-up-is-hard-to-do.html

Hot Rod Lincoln --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbON8udTPo&feature=fvw

JUDD STRUNK SINGS "THE BIGGEST PAIR-A-KEETS IN TOWN" ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kA-Z4VEmoA

I Just Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore  (video) --- (video) --- http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071221/MULTIMEDIA/283841756
Also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8R51IUtYCQ
Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoZjsHs86A

Who put the dick on the snowman? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSXa5KmYQw&feature=youtu.be

Cold, Cold Heart --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/c002/coldheart.html

Dancing With Her Grandson video --- Click Here 
You must watch this one well beyond the slow beginning

The Bellamy Brothers - Jalapenos --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4j_9IQ6wzk

They call this dancing guy (Robert Muraine) "Mr Fantastic" after the rubber-limbed comic-book hero in the Fantastic Four.

Mark-to-market country song --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFPCztVle7k

Video:  Not the Sharpest Tacks in the Box (What were they thinking?) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJdQWuVqmM

Forwarded by Bob Overn
What Elvis sang when his daughter married MJ --- Click Here

Alan Jackson says its “alright to be a redneck” --- Click Here 

How the Internet Began (Humor) --- http://home.comcast.net/~singingman7777/Beginning.htm

Those Old Westerns --- http://oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm

It's hard to kiss the lips that chew your ass out all day long --- http://jbreck.com/itsshardtokiss.html
(Click on the play button in the upper left corner)
Also enter "chew your ass out" at http://songza.com/

White Trash Christmas --- http://www.andycouch.com/whitetrashxmas/

Celine Dion & an Elvis ghost perform together before a LIVE Studio Audience --- http://thehumorzone.co.uk/Videos/elvis_celine.wmv

From Jessie
Neal and Leandra --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/fireplacemulti.htm
If the music does not start up after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Play arrow.

Mississippi Squirrel Revival --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7777/MSR2.htm
Also enter "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" at http://songza.com/

Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night (Live 2005) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw7rzpvDvS0

"If My Nose Was Running Money" (country humor) by Aaron Wilburn --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCeIwjIuZM

Whiskey for My Men, Beer for My Horses --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/beerhorses.htm
If the music does not start up after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Play arrow.

Bank of America meeting - funny/terrible "One" cover (Universal Studio and banking competitors were not amused) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhYg_7e3X54&eurl=

Holy Lemon Videos (often humorous and/or musical) --- http://www.holylemon.com/

Tom Rush - Remember Song (country song about growing old) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM

Ballad of Thunder Road --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman777/ThunderRoad.htm

Britney Spears singing Everytime at Saturday Night Live --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMccA6IxDdM
I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.
Gary Numan

Super Harmonica Playing --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfLhnkme2mE

The Official Dolly Parton YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/user/dollypartonmusic?blend=1&ob=4

 

Jihad the Musical (humor) --- http://www.jihad-the-musical.com/media/
I WANNA BE LIKE OSAMA

Baby Boomers (Animation with music) --- Click Here

Rodney Carrington (Dancing with a Man) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WCbbyChJ4 

You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd (Roger Miller) --- http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/a001/youcanbehappy.html

The Bobs: Irreverent A Cappella --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92788641

Dear Penis (country song) --- http://www.19.5degs.com/element/608.php
Also see http://www.igc.be/igc/dearpenis.htm

From NPR
Allan Sherman: Beyond 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5279983

Vasectomy (humor) --- Click Here

Strangers on My Flight by Frank Sinatra (well sort of ) --- http://www.beecy.net/frank/ 
Also at http://www.animatronics.org/strangers/strangers.htm

Mixmatcher --- http://www.mixmatcher.com/

Garth Barth Brooks Has Friends in Wal-Mart (video) --- http://www.walmartworkersrights.org/

Fiddler's Grove --- http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/fiddlers/FiddlersGrove.htm

Bailout Humor and Music Videos (forwarded by David Albrecht)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Sponsor a CEO:
        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDC0qcf0kzE
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKmzGPIx4YQ
Where's my bailout?
        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjbMRU1EgU&feature=pyv&ad=2098126103
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9nk8XwHbS4
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTMp1Zl0eGM
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipHNmneFwV0
Would buy weed if given bailout
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYC25oNTx9o
Santa Claus bailout
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBl9BXLom4
Subprime meltdown
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5VeNwG3xms&feature=related
Bailout man song
        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUXXSxZPhw
Twelve days of bailouts
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55xJnIqq9ZI
700 Billion Dollar Bailout - the Song
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzzRzZJmwEM
Wall Street Bailout Song
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD6z5IIWLTs
"Give it to me" Bailout Rap
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRR80Eq3FQM
The SubPrime Blues #2, Will Inflate Stated Income for Food
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5lTymSFxPU
SubPrime Blues
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3G1PdipmtI
Foreclosure Blues
       
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnYZJB-8tf8

 

Jeremiah Was a Bull Frog (Have a Cup of Coffee) --- http://www.castlemountains.net/flashmar/A_Cup_Of_Joy.swf

Quail Hunting School --- http://www.quailhuntingschool.com/flash.php

Chicken Bawk ---  Chicken-Bawk.wav

Kooks of Hazard --- http://www.mdna.net/kooks.html

Fountains of Wayne: Long-Distance Dedication (Humor Music) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9136191

Witty Tunes Are Jonathan Coulton's 'Thing' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6603466

Getting Mooned on Halloween --- http://www.funnybunch.com/hal/starrynight.swf

The Galaxy Song (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) --- http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/astro/music/Galaxy_Song.html

I Don't Do Windows --- http://www.frontiernet.net/~shelby304/specials/dontdowindows/nowindows.htm 

Arnold's Neighborhood Video http://www.arnoldsneighborhood.com/index.html

From NPR
Rick Moranis, Singing 'Cowboy' (includes "Nine More Gallons and I'll Have Me a Hat) ---
Scroll down to hear the samples at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5036930

Accounting Rap: Bruce Lubich sent the following message on April 3, 2006

Next time a student tells you accounting is not cool, share this link with them.
http://buiznt.cob.calpoly.edu/COB/ACTG/TMILLER/446_01/SOX-31.mp3

This site maintains some funny and some offensive video clips --- http://www.michaelhodges.com/stuff/funny/2008cc1.swf

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road (this reminds me of my trolling days in’55 Olds Convertible)

Wedding Dance (a repeat, but a good repeat) --- http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2008/evolution-of-wedding-dance-p1.php?nwsltr

Female eMail (online country song) --- http://www.garretswayne.com/emailfemale.htm

I Am My Own Grandpa (video) --- http://www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm
I'm My Own Grandpa (Ray Stephens) --- http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54702/im_my_own_grandpa/

Fruitcake Lady (didn't she appear on the Johnnie Carson show?) ---
https://home.comcast.net/~jfmelnick/fruitcakelady.wmv

Meta Cafe Funny Videos --- http://www.metacafe.com/

Humor Music (Cartoon Animations) --- http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

Baby Boomers Are Getting Old --- http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2007/11/animation_baby_boomers.html

You've got to hand it to Robert Wilson. The Silicon Valley software engineer can draw a crowd just by squeezing his palms together and making music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579711

Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/muther.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Hubbard's Path: 'Redneck Mother' to 'Wylie Lama' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6082018
* 'Snake Farm' * 'Old Guitar' * 'Kilowatts'

Snow White South of the Rio Grande --- http://www.youtube.com/v/tAq3hWBlalU 

The Unofficial Monty Python Website --- http://www.mwscomp.com/python.html
Note especially The Accountancy Shanty (audio) at http://www.mwscomp.com/sound.html

Three funny short stories accompanied by great music from SingingMan Larry D.---
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7777/Potpourri.htm
(Click the hand on the bottom to go from one to another)

Back to the Cold War with Tom Leher --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TomLehrerMP3.htm

Everything Chocolate --- http://jbreck.com/chocolate.html

Retirement Music:  Some days you can't win --- http://wandascountryhome.com/retirement/

Folk Club Online (there are some funny streaming modules here) --- http://www.folkclub.com/welcome.html

Bob Jensen's Truck
Rusty Chevrolet --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/chev.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Dolly Parton sings "The PMS Blues" --- (http://www.badgirl1.com/PMS.htm)
Note that the audio often doesn't work at the above site.

Pencil Thin Mustache --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/stache.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Elmer Fudd --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/fudd.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

The Unicorn Song --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/unicorn.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Purple People Eater --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/purple.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Cheap Sunglasses --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Going Fishing --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dad.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Witchy Woman (Eagles) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bat.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Monster Mash --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/mash.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/muther.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Hubbard's Path: 'Redneck Mother' to 'Wylie Lama' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6082018
* 'Snake Farm' * 'Old Guitar' * 'Kilowatts'

Momma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Into ... Click Here

From NPR Anne Watts and Boister: Music from Madness ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5309798 

Redneck Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/redneck.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Do Your Own Damn Taxes Video (music from Frank Sinatra) --- http://www.doyourdamntaxes.com/

Whiskey Bar --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/whiskeybar.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

I'd Give it All --- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Epcxee/pig_flash.htm

Blue Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bluejovi.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Men in Coats --- http://www.compfused.com/directlink/767/

Three Turkeys Saying Goodbye --- Click Here

Pipe Cleaner Dance --- http://www.davidbessler.com/pulldown/pipecleaner_dance.html

Tardis (instrumental) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/tardis.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Happy Easter Egged --- http://d21c.com/scratch/holidays/egg.swf

Really Bad Country Song Titles (no audio)--- http://www.downstream.sk.ca/country1.htm

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Click here to go to the Menu


Banjo, Fiddle, and American Folk Music

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Stream 35 Hours of Classic Blues, Folk, & Bluegrass Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways: 837 Tracks Featuring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/stream-35-hours-of-classic-blues-folk-bluegrass-recordings-from-smithsonian-folkways.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive (Blues and Folk Music) Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Greatest Jazz Films Ever Features Classic Performances by Miles, Dizzy, Bird, Billie & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/the-greatest-jazz-films-ever.html

R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country Features 114 Illustrations of the Artist’s Favorite Musicians ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/r-crumbs-heroes-of-blues-jazz-country-features-114-illustrations-of-the-artists-favorite-musicians.html

Leroy Troy :  Ghost Chickens in the Sky ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk

Leroy Troy:  Grandfather's Clock ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTRpS3wAzQ

“Mr. Tambourine Man” & Other Bob Dylan Classics, Sung Beautifully by Kids ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/mr-tambourine-man-other-bob-dylan-classics-sung-beautifully-by-kids.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Steve Martin on the Legendary Bluegrass Musician Earl Scruggs --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/steve_martin_on_the_legendary_bluegrass_musician_earl_scruggs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Earl Scruggs Video Documentary ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK_nqnoWl6o&feature=pyv&ad=3780036702&kw=earl scruggs banjo

Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin Play Dueling Banjos --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqd7mXvHupU
Also see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw

Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt Playing Cripple Creek ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sqishGuYw

Black Gospel Music Restoration Project: Royce-Darden Collection ---
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/portal/collection/fa-gospel

Sing Out! (folk music and political activism) --- http://singout.org/

Watch Simon & Garfunkel Sing “The Sound of Silence” 45 Years After Its Release, and Just Get Hauntingly Better with Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/watch-simon-garfunkel-sing-the-sound-of-silence-45-years-after-its-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Online (historic music archive, especially folk music) --- http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp

Bluegrass in Space --- http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/a-bluegrass-version-of-elton-johns-1972-hit-rocket-man.html

Hear Zora Neale Hurston Sing Traditional American Folk Song “Mule on the Mount” (1939) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/hear_zora_neale_hurston_sing_traditional_american_folk_song_mule_on_the_mountain_1939.html

 commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) ---
http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp/

FolkStreams Presents a Big Film Archive on American Folk Art and Music ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/folkstreams.html

The Blues (Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary series) ---  http://www.pbs.org/theblues/index.html

James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, Live and Together (1970) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/james-taylor-and-joni-mitchell-live-and-together-1970.html

The Banjo's Roots, Reconsidered --- http://www.npr.org/sections/music-news/

Louis Armstrong Plays Historic Cold War Concerts in East Berlin & Budapest (1965) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/louis-armstrong-plays-historic-cold-war-concerts-in-east-berlin-budapest-1965.html

Watch Four Iconic Live Performances by Billie Holiday on Her 100th Birthday on April 7, 2015 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/four-iconic-billie-holiday-performances-on-her-100th-birthday.html

Pickin’ & Trimmin’ in a Down-Home North Carolina Barbershop: Award-Winning Short Film --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/pickin_trimmin_in_a_down-home_north_carolina_barbershop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107

The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail [iTunes] http://www.thecrookedroad.org/default.asp

Songza
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581

Here's a good way to start the morning:
HOWDOWN --- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7777/Hoedown.htm

Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night (Live 2005) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw7rzpvDvS0

Folk Singer Kate McGarrigle Dies At 63 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122728816  

Mountain Stage --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92133820

Square Dance History Project --- http://squaredancehistory.org

Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection --- http://libluna.lib.ad.colorado.edu:8081/insight/sample/SoundModel/index.htm

Adam Haworth Stephens On Mountain Stage (folk music) --- http://www.npr.org/2010/11/19/131441803/adam-haworth-stephens-on-mountain-stage

The Older the Violin, the Sweeter the Music --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin
Fiddle (including fiddling styles) ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle
Violin vs. the Fiddle ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#Violin_vs._fiddle
Turkic and Mongolian horsemen from Inner Asia were probably the world’s earliest fiddlers.

Videos of Famous Violinists --- http://vegyeskar.hu/violin.hegedu.video/

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
The Henry Reed Collection in the Library of Congress ---
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/reed/

 

From NPR (Some great banjo and rhythm) --- 'Old Dan Tucker' 'John Henry' 'Erie Canal'
A Boss Nod to Seeger: 'We Shall Overcome' (Bruce Springsteen) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5361713

From the Scout Report on February 6, 2015

A Year After his Death, Pete Seeger Still Inspires
Smithsonian Folkways: A Tribute to Pete Seeger
http://www.folkways.si.edu/PeteSeeger

M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives: Remembering
Pete Seeger
http://library.albany.edu/archive/seeger

Library of Congress Blog: Remembering Pete Seeger
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/01/remembering-pete-seeger/

Remembering Pete Seeger
http://www.rememberingpeteseeger.org/

Pete Seeger: the man who brought politics to music
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/28/pete-seeger-man-brought-politics-to-music

NPR Music: Pete Seeger
http://www.npr.org/artists/15869924/pete-seeger

 

From the Scout Report on January 31, 2014

Noted singer and activist Pete Seeger passes away
Pete Seeger, Champion of Folk Music and Social Change, Dies at 94
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

Pete Seeger taught America to sing, and think
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/01/28/pete-seeger-obit-appreciation/4781403/

Postscript: Pete Seeger
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/postscript-pete-seeger.html

Dave Matthews on Pete Seeger: "He Made Me Want to Be a Better Person"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-matthews-on-pete-seeger-he-made-me-want-to-be-a-better-person-20140128

Smithsonian Folkways: Tribute To Pete Seeger
http://www.folkways.si.edu/PeteSeeger

Pete Seeger: Career Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/seeger_timeline/

Jensen Comment
Other Pete Seeger Links

Pete Seeger Dies at 94: Remember the American Folk Legend with a Priceless Film from 1947 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/pete-seeger-dies-at-94.html
Pete Seeger was one of favorite musicians but not my favorite economist
.

Pete Seeger Dies at 94: Remember the American Folk Legend with a Priceless Film from 1947

94-Year-Old Pete Seeger Sings “This Land is Your Land” at Farm Aid

Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie at Occupy Wall Street

 

 

Banjo Master Baugus Looks to Old Times --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14099046

Big Country (banjo) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bigcountry.htm

WUMB Folk Radio (click on "Listen Live Now") --- http://www.wumb.org/home/index.php

Home Sweet Home: Life in 19th Century Ohio --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/ohio/ohio.html

Steve Martin Releases Bluegrass Album/Video --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/steve_martin_releases_bluegrass.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Four Hands Guitar (simply amazing) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BYMvVvMg0

'Porgy And Bess': Messing With A Classic ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/21/139784251/porgy-and-bess-messing-with-a-classic
 

Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/14ecf6daff614c60

Mozart's Sister --- http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/08/22/139847160/picturing-nannerl-a-new-film-about-mozarts-silenced-sister

Mozart´s alla turca - played in 4 hand guitar! (even more amazing) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Lu9pWrc38

 

The Lovell Sisters: Virtuoso Bluegrass --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120965786  

Lively folk song downloads (these are good) --- http://www.jamesreams.com/listen.html
With lots to choose from for free

Forwarded by Bill Mister
Add to you list
http://www.bluegrasscountry.org/They stream bluegrass 24 hours a day.
(I work it by clicking on "Playing Now" and choosing Windows Media)

Tommy Emmanuel, Finger-Picking Good --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6124857

Smithsonian Global Sounds --- http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/
There are many samples with links on how to buy the CDs.

Ragtime --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/ragtime/ragtime-home.html

Ricky Skaggs (Introduction) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dS4AaXLtos

Ricky Skaggs (Soldier of the Cross) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLJ1Zuj1sw 

Ricky Skaggs (Uncle Pen) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXsH6sFY2M

Ricky Skaggs (Fast Pig in a Pen) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wejj8G9ZoXY

OLD-TIME MUSIC. Traditional folk music of U.S. Southern Appalachians. http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/interests/otmusic.html 

SPOON PLAYING. "If you can keep the beat by tapping the floor with your toes or by drumming on the table with your fingers, you, too, can play the spoons," says A. Claude Ferguson.

http://www.spoonplayer.com/

http://www.spoonplayer.com/chap12.html 

Professors Revive Country Music Chestnuts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5638682

TENNESSEE. Transcription of the "Company Store Ledger" at the Bright Hope Furnace in western Greene County, Tennessee for the years 1834-35. Contains an index to the several hundred names found in the ledger. http://www.kiva.net/~jeskewic/brighthope.html 

Art of the States --- http://artofthestates.org/
Includes collections titled, "Music of Memory" and "Parody Pieces"

Saving Folk History, One Recording At A Time --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99372779
Hyman's treasures include recordings of Jim Bowles and Harold Hausenfluck — both fiddlers, from Kentucky and Virginia, respectively. Their music is called "old-timey." It's what came before bluegrass.

Two Decades Later, Indigo Girls' Voices Still Strong (folk singers) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9009196

Dierks Bentley On Mountain Stage --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103294756

The Acoustic Music Archive
http://www.acousticmusicarchive.com/lyrics_chords_and_downloads.html 

In the Hands of a Master, the Ukulele Is No Toy --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6155338

From NPR
"'Picturing The Banjo' Through American History," NPR, February 18, 2006 ---

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5223333

  • 'Soon in the Morning Babe,' by Mike Seeger

  • 'Going Where I've Never Been Before,' by John Snipes

  • 'Oh, I'se So Wicked,' by Bob Flesher

  • 'Country Blues,' by Dock Boggs

A Bay-Area Billionaire's Annual Gift of Music (Blue Grass) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6203140  

From NPR
Jelly Roll Morton Plays the Library of Congress ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5039442
(Scroll down for the fabulous and historic samples)

Woody Guthrie's Fertile Month on the Columbia River --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11918998
In May 1941, folk singer Woody Guthrie spent one month working for the federal government. His job was to travel to the Pacific Northwest and write songs promoting huge hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. 

Sugar Hill Records (some great banjo music, etc.) ---
http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/content/pagemaker.cgi?1070910757

Nickel Creek Farewell Concert (Hear the Full Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15731658

Eric Bibb grew up amid the New York City folk scene in the 1950s and '60s, a scene he calls "a magical world that I was born into and never left." Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan would drop by his house. Paul Robeson was his godfather, and his uncle John Lewis famously played with the Modern Jazz Quartet. But Bibb has since become a blues guitarist and songwriter in his own right. His latest album, Get On Board, pays tribute to his musical and spiritual heroes ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88759231

Unearthing an Unexpected Musical Treasure --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6105697

From the Discovered Tapes
* 'Roll on Waters' - Woody Guthrie * 'This Land Is Your Land' - Woody Guthrie

Virginia's Heritage Music Trail
Going Down the Crooked Road
---
http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/crooked/franklin.html

From NPR
Live Concert Selections ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627437

Video: Johnny Cash - Kris Kristofferson - Willie Nelson - Wayloon Jennings - Me and Bobby McGee --- Click Here

Leadbelly's 'Old Man' and the Work Song Tradition --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5686572

Music for Dusty Roads and Endless Possibilities --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9974112

Exploring the Soul of Raul Midon --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5730869

From NPR
Cassandra Wilson Takes Flight on 'Thunderbird' (This is good folk music) ---

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525831

Bloc Party's 'Second-Generation Blues' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9190999

Delayed but Not Denied, a Lost Soul Classic --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9556942

'Take These Thoughts,' Drenched in Harmony --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12028419

The Cajun Swamp Fire Of Feufollet --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97089876

From NPR
The Best Music of 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html
(These will play continuously for one hour)

Also see the Top Ten downloads at the following NPR sites:

From NPR
Live Concert Selections ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627437

Some great fiddle, banjo, and other folk music (all free)
The Florida Folklife Collection (over 5,000 audio and video clips) ---
http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/
Scroll down to the music clips

Forwarded by Bill Mister
Add to you list
http://www.bluegrasscountry.org/They stream bluegrass 24 hours a day.
(I work it by clicking on "Playing Now" and choosing Windows Media)

Jenny Lewis in (Full) Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6254742

From NPR
The Best Music of 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html
(These will play continuously for one hour)

Grim Ingredients Form a Winsome, Pretty Package (folk music) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779359

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (nice downloads) --- http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingocjb.html

From NPR
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in Concert ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5351451

Dion DiMucci used to sing rock 'n' roll hits: That's him on "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer." But he says he's always really been a blues singer. His new CD, Son of Skip James, is his second blues album --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17680145

The Authentic Sounds of the "Ballad of Scarlet Town" --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12391634

Hobart Smith: Stories and Songs from a Banjo Great ---
 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4959156 

Canada Roots Music (I like the song that starts automatically if you wait a bit for loading) --- http://www.rootsmusiccanada.com/main.cfm#loaded

Old time bluegrass banjo downloads --- http://www.silcom.com/~peterf/ideas/fiddlel.htm

Banjo music --- http://www.dhyatt.com/music.html

Banjo music --- http://www.dhyatt.com/music.html   (These are good!)

From the Library of Congress (Click on "How to Listen to Audio")          
          Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier ---
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

Folk Alley's Top 10 CDs of 2006 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6561964

Fiddle and Blue Grass Music --- http://www.1001tunes.com/
           In particular note the link to
http://www.1001tunes.com/CollectionSamples/indexTUNE1.htm

David Wilcox Folksinging --- http://www.davidwilcox.com/dw/index.php?page=songs&display=322# 
These are good --- click on the Listen buttons

Banjo Music:  Charlie Poole's Outlaw Country: 80 Years Old -- and Hot --- http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112241618930996641,00.html?mod=opinion&ojcontent=otep

"Nickel Creek, Playing with 'Fire'," NPR, October 24, 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4969793  
For the free music downloads, scroll down and look left.

From NPR
Isobel Campbell: After Belle Comes 'Ballad' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5288601

KT (folk music) --- http://www.kttunstall.com/
Click on the house in the middle for continuous play

Conjuring Bittersweet Memories of 'Ludlow Street' (Suzanne Vega) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12364072

From NPR (Blues Harmonica)
Corky Siegel's Triple Blues Threat ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056799
(Scroll down for these great samples.)

Chris and Thomas: Drenched in Harmony --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12549024
Click on the Listen Button

From NPR
Cherryholmes: A Bluegrass Family Affair ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5156852
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Okkervil River's (Folk) Music: Spookiness and Bloodshed ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5040648
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Chris Smither, Keeping the Blues Light On --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6083209

Dolorean isn't known for looking on the bright side --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9018532

From NPR (heavy on folk rock and liberal politics)
The Best Music of 2005 ---
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html
(These will play continuously for one hour)

From NPR
Isobel Campbell: After Belle Comes 'Ballad' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5288601

For 30 years, English singer-songwriter Joe Jackson has helped define and redefine pop, rock, alternative, and new-wave music, when he's not delving extensively into classical composition. Hear Jackson perform a brisk mix of new songs and old favorites from WXPN and World Café Live in Philadelphia (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89339315

Best CDs of 2006 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6579480

Folk and Rock Re-Interpreted for the Little Ones --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6210683

Richie Havens: A Folk Icon, Still Strumming --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98123038

From NPR
A Blues and Country Collection for Collectors ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5357441

Great Lake Swimmers in Concert (folk music) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10759840

Matt Nathanson in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11870474

"North Mississippi Allstars' 'Electric Blue Watermelon'," NPR, October 24, 2005 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4968908 
For the free music downloads, scroll down and look left.

Bruce Cockburn's What is the Soul of a Man? --- http://cockburnproject.net/flash.html

Dan Reeder: Making Music from Scratch --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6044111

Fiddle Music --- http://www.1001tunes.com/
           In particular note the link to
http://www.1001tunes.com/CollectionSamples/indexTUNE1.htm

Fiddle and Blue Grass Music --- http://www.1001tunes.com/
           In particular note the link to
http://www.1001tunes.com/CollectionSamples/indexTUNE1.htm

Christian folk music --- http://www.stevevincent.org/music-samples.html

FolkClub Online --- http://www.folkclub.com/welcome.html  (Good folk music, comedy, and serious stuff here)
           Folk Club Playlist ---
http://www.folkclub.com/huldrefolk/playlist/index.html

Amy Smith --- http://www.amy-smith.com/ (This is a good site.  Just let the music sample clips run automatically like commercial-free radio.  You won't hear entire songs, but you will hear very generous portions of those songs.)

Songs of Texas (Yeah!) http://www.lsjunction.com/midi/songs.htm

Over the Rhine has taken on a variety of forms since it was founded in 1989, but it's recently been reduced to the husband-and-wife duo of Linford Detweiler (bass, piano, guitar) and Karin Bergquist (guitar, vocals). Hear the bittersweet folk-pop band perform a concert from WXPN and the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, Pa. --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15771523

Daddy's Hands --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hands.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/irish.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Ain't Misbehavin' --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/porch.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR
John Randall's country music ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5043115
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Jenny Lewis: Questioning God on 'Rabbit Fur Coat' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5228500

From NPR (Some are great and some are funky!)
Director's Cuts: Grammy Time ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5189744

AM Radio Gets a Modern Sheen --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5713293

From NPR
A Christmas Concert from "World Cafe" ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5044299
(Scroll down for the great banjo and folk singing samples)

Entire Concert from NPR
Live Now From XPN: Shawn Mullins in Concert ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164816
Folk-flavored pop songs

More Music from NPR

Prickle-Eye Bush (animated folk music from the U.K) --- http://www.oliver-hayes.co.uk/

World Cafe Live --- http://www.worldcafelive.com/ 

From NPR
Paul Simon on Songwriting and 'Surprise' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5388038

The Return of Shawn Colvin --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6356414

Great list of free midi tunes --- http://www.blackskies.com/midilist.htm

Andrew Bird: Songs from the 'Armchair' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12225088

Folk Legend Pete Seeger Looks Back --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4726633

Folk music links on the Web --- http://www.folklib.net/

Keith Jarrett's Transfixing Tour de Force --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6242814

A Forgotten '80s Classic, Reissued at Last --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6197430

Center for Black Music Research --- http://www.cbmr.org/

Radio Memories ---  http://radiomemories.libsyn.com/

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Click here to go to the Menu

 


Foreign Folk and Other Music From Foreign Lands

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) --- http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107

Forwarded by Romania by Dan Gheorghe Somnea [dan_somnea@yahoo.com]

The Global Jukebox (music of many cultures) --- https://theglobaljukebox.org/

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Dear Professor Bob

Please listen to :

Schrammel und Walzter Musik (Vienna's specific musical backgrounds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QM-tAYzJs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-o9i_VeVfs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPf_fPtb3Yg&feature=related

=======
Bayern München - Tor-Hymne 08/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtaHswIXz3U&feature=related
Bayerische Stubenmusik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLwIT9Aj0o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pcWENACX5w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bONDihaDA&feature=related

=======

American's are yodeling ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDEk2AMJAI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9oxbyLlAYI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIY9fpkA7ow&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIj6mrUGzQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8e8k53YJL0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaoJv-NrEU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOWHoCD7C8&feature=related

and ... Tirol's singers are yodeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_JPjNW6Qg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGHsXWPHZV0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWuC_7LPilw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eI7FrPUHY

Sincerely,
Dan Gheorghe

Israeli & Jewish Music Samples (some of these are long and slow to download, but most are lively and festive) --- http://www.juedische-musik.de/files/15.htm
I had to download a free RealPlayer add-in utility for the above music, but everything was quick and automatic after requesting the first music file selection.)
Also see http://www.your-mp3-source.com/jewish-music-mp3.html

Love Songs Capture Ancient Ritual in New China --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7502196

Fool's Gold: Afro-Hebrew Dance Music (full concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121711550

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Irish Music and Dance

 

Peruvian singer Yma Sumac died November 1, 2008 at age 86. Sumac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of more than four octaves; she could sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96536505

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research --- http://www.visarkiv.se/en/index.htm

Alasdair White Scottish West Highland Fiddle (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtvY5-TPn8

Lori Watson Scottish Borders fiddle (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKS8bB-dVv4

Lila Downs' Cross-Border Musical Influences --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6444880

Canada Roots Music (I like the song that starts automatically if you wait a bit for loading) --- http://www.rootsmusiccanada.com/main.cfm#loaded

Trio Plays Music for a Nordic Winter Wonderland --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6697302

In Baghdad, a Rare Musical Performance --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11202774

Folk Singer Kate McGarrigle Dies At 63 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122728816

Archival Music from India --- Click Here
http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?category=World-and-traditional-music&collection=Music-from-India

Hear Isolated Guitar Tracks From Some of Rock’s Greatest: Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/hear-isolated-guitar-tracks-from-some-of-rocks-greatest-slash-eddie-van-halen-eric-clapton-more.html

Veteran Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer finished recording a solo album just before he died --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11713863

Smithsonian Global Sounds --- http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/
There are many samples with links on how to buy the CDs.

Pepe Romero and the Art of the Spanish Guitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15203122

Hear a bagpipe medley in the Strathspeys & Reels genres played by Alasdair Gillies, bagpipes professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

FOLK MUSIC OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES and AMERICA. http://www.contemplator.com/england/ 

SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: SCOTTISH (DIGITAL) ARCHIVE NETWORK http://www.scan.org.uk/digitalarchive/index.htm 

ENGLISH FOLK AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC ON THE INTERNET http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm

Damien Rice: From a Whisper to a Scream --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6464392

Bagpipe version of Amazing Grace --- http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/bagpipes/amazing.html

From NPR
The Chieftains, Ambassadors of Celtic Folk --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244695

Dennen's Earnest Message Eased by Funky Groove (Folk Songs) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6485623 

From NPR
Varttina: Music from Another World --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5318114

Like many jazz musicians, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim grew up listening to gospel music. His grandmother played piano in the African Methodist Episcopalian Church --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13940226

Afghan Rapper Blends Traditional Tunes, Poetry --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10506358

Burmese Refugees Preserve Culture Through Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97138608

Grada Makes Irish Music New --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87945801

Blue Note Records --- http://www.bluenote.com/jukebox.asp

Audio Samples of the Hardanger Fiddle (Norway music) --- http://www.hfaa.org/music_samples.html

From the slums of Rio de Janeiro --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12255923

Italian Pop Star Takes on U.S. Music Market --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6209758

South African (anti-apartheid and anti-mafia) Singer Miriam Makeba Dies --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96805480

Norwegian bands --- http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Norway/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/Bands_and_Artists/

Choro Ensemble: Brazil Before Bossa --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88102556
Before bossa nova and samba, Brazilian music was choro. Born in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro, choro started when polkas and waltzes mixed with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Beginning in the early part of this decade, it has been heard weekly in New York — thanks to a group called the Choro Ensemble.

Cesaria Évora spends much of her time touring, performing for foreign audiences in regions as remote as Siberia. Yet she always returns home to her native Cape Verde --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11426375

'Rogue's Gallery:' Songs of the Sea --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6105152

Pepe Romero and the Art of the Spanish Guitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15203122

Mike Maloney sings a couple of Irish folk songs --- http://www.stevevincent.org/music-samples.html

Choro Ensemble: Brazil Before Bossa --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88102556
Before bossa nova and samba, Brazilian music was choro. Born in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro, choro started when polkas and waltzes mixed with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Beginning in the early part of this decade, it has been heard weekly in New York — thanks to a group called the Choro Ensemble.

2009 Summer Song Favorites: 'Save It For Later' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111495148

World Music 2007 Top 10
A sampling of year's best releases from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Slavic Soul Party: Heart and Feet Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10859007

A veritable superstar in his native Nigeria, Femi Kuti is the standard bearer for Afro-beat ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11835088

Royal Military College of Canada (Band and Bagpipe Samples) --- http://www.rmc.ca/other/rmc_band/audio/index_e.html

A Joyful Pop Chorus, 29 Members Strong --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6458352

The members of the Refugee All Stars are all survivors of Sierra Leone's bloody civil war ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10980646

Snow White South of the Rio Grande --- http://www.youtube.com/v/tAq3hWBlalU 

Literature and Lullabies from the 'Axis of Evil' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249823

Sara Tavares Balances Musical Influences --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5659390

Ravi Shankar, Master of the Sitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578267

Taking Flamenco and Cranking It Up --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10193478

Oceania - Kotahitanga (Music & Slide Show)--- Click Here

Sanjay Mishra: A Cross-Cultural Exploration in Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6502991

The Acoustic Music Archive
http://www.acousticmusicarchive.com/lyrics_chords_and_downloads.html 

Peking Opera meets Grand Opera Thursday night on the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera, as The First Emperor has its world premiere --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6660144

From NPR
Jazz from the Horn of Africa: 'Ethiopiques' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5560216

Pacha Massive: Latin Music Gets Big --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10812710

Echoes of Africa --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/africa/

Great free listening from "HITS OF THE BLITZ" (Click on the MP3 downloads) ---
http://www.jilldaniels.com/MUSIC SAMPLES.htm

Afrobeat at Its Deceptively Simple Essence --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6056730

From NPR
Reggae versions of songs by Radiohead --- http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/asc117/

From NPR
Techno Fusion from Balkan Beat Box
--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5156870
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Defining 'Jique' as Something Lithe and Worldly --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6062842

The Music of Portugal --- http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/20070503/

From NPR
Duranguense: Mexico Meets the Midwest --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5156569
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Defining Latin Alternative Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244351

Turkish folk music --- http://www.ottomansouvenir.com/Music/Ottoman_and_Anatolian_Folk_Songs.htm

Hungarian and other folk music --- http://www.ottomansouvenir.com/Music/Ottoman_and_Anatolian_Folk_Songs.htm

Songs of Guernsey, Ancient and Authentic --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4735837

From NPR
After Quake, Arts Helped San Francisco Rebound --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5324301

From NPR
Dixie Chicks Return, 'Taking the Long Way' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5424238

What's Filk Music?
A Filk Song Sampler Amanda Kelly and Trent Urness perform three tunes, recorded in Urness' bedroom: 'Romulan Pirate' 'Underwater Zombies' 'Potential Vampire' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4967052
Scroll down and look left.

From NPR
Living in Tehrangeles: L.A.'s Iranian Community ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5459468

From NPR
Diabate's Orchestra Showcases Sounds of Mali --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5578431

New Island Sounds from Cuba's Young Guard --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6126331

Finding the Seduction in Madness (in Brazil) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5581578

Chinese Music --- http://www.chinesemusic.co.uk/english/music.html

  The Internet Chinese Music Archive --- http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/

  Chinese Music Downloads --- http://www.indianchild.com/Music/download_chinese_songs_music.htm

  Guzheng - Chinese Zither --- http://www.philmultic.com/guzheng/

From NPR
'Congotronics 2,' Built on Konono No. 1's Success (Congo Heritage) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488675

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Feeling the Blues of the World (Nuru Kane) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6160895

Russian Folk Tales (not music) --- http://russian-crafts.com/tales.html

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Jazz, Big Bands, Drums, and Blues

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
KWPQ Springfield (Blues & Jazz) --- http://www.kwpq.org/

TheRadio (my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) --- http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.aspTheRadio.com --- http://www.theradio.com/
Note that it will continue to play other songs by an artist even if you selected only one title (it often changes artists after that)
Type in the Name of a song title or the name of a musician or the name of a composer

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107
NPR Full Concerts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109

Meet Viola Smith, the World’s Oldest Drummer: Her Career Started in the 1930s, and She’s Still Playing at 106 ---
 http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/meet-viola-smith-the-worlds-oldest-drummer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Terry Bozzio & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/who-are-the-best-drum-soloists-in-rock.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jensen Comment
Give me Gene Krupa from the big band era any day ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko

Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/watch-an-incredible-performance-of-take-five-by-the-dave-brubeck-quartet-1964.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Stream the “Complete” John Coltrane Playlist: A 94-Hour Journey Through 700+ Transformative Tracks ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/stream-the-complete-john-coltrane-playlist-a-94-hour-journey-through-700-transformative-tracks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Jim Flora Arts (jazz of the 1950s and 1960s) --- www.jimflora.com

Tulane University:  Hogan Jazz Archive --- https://jazz.tulane.edu/

The Women of the Blues: Hear a Playlist of Great Blues Singers, from Bessie Smith & Etta James, to Billie Holiday & Janis Joplin ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-women-of-the-blues.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

A 3,350-Song Playlist of Music (jazz) from Haruki Murakami’s Personal Record Collection ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/a-3350-song-playlist-of-music-from-haruki-murakamis-personal-record-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly” (audio delay at the start)---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/watch-john-entwistles-bass-playing-genius-on-display-in-isolated-tracks-for-wont-be-fooled-again-and-baba-oreilly.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/watch-some-of-the-most-powerful-bass-guitar-solos-ever-geddy-lee-flea-bootsy-collins-john-deacon-more.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/__trashed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

1,000 Hours of Early Jazz Recordings Now Online: Archive Features Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & Much More  ---
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/vast-archive-presents-1000-hours-of-early-jazz-recordings-a-great-resource-for-jazz-novices-aficionados.html

Internet Archive: 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. ---
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/women-of-jazz-stream-a-playlist-of-91-recordings-by-great-female-jazz-musicians.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Cautionary Tales Ep 7 – Bowie, jazz, and the unplayable piano ---
http://timharford.com/2019/12/cautionary-tales-ep-7-bowie-jazz-and-the-unplayable-piano/

Jazz Listening for 2019 ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/favorite-jazz-listening-for-2019.html

Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing Partner ---
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538677517/fascinating-algorithm-dan-tepfers-player-piano-is-his-composing-partner

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Jazz on the Tube: An Archive of 2,000 Classic Jazz Videos (and Much More) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/jazz-on-the-tube-an-archive-of-2000-classic-jazz-videos-and-much-more.html

Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/langston-hughes-presents-the-history-of-jazz-i.html

Riverwalk Jazz --- (vast collection of jazz recordings and links) --- http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/home

Latin Music USA | PBS --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/latinmusicusa/

This talented guitar player is also our UPS driver up in these mountains
B.B. King Blues Guitar Solo Improv by Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack" PRS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0daUkycWaTs
Joe also has a degree in finance and is about as nice a guy as you will find up here in the snow
For his other videos search for "Joey Vaughan" on YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/ 

David Sedaris Creates a List of His 10 Favorite Jazz Tracks: Stream Them Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/david-sedaris-creates-a-list-of-his-10-favorite-jazz-tracks-stream-them-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive --- http://elib.hamilton.edu/jazz-archive

Jazz Old Time Online --- http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm
There's a vast collection here. Some choices are free; Others are not free.

B.B. King Plays and Tells His Story in Two Electric Live Performances and a 1972 Documentary ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/b-b-king-plays-and-tells-his-story-in-two-electric-live-performances.html

The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection (music history in theater and the media) ---
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/kayefine/kayefine-home.html

Monterey Jazz Festival Digital Collection --- http://collections.stanford.edu/mjf/

Songza
Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
I tried it for Stan Kenton, and it worked very well.
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581

Free Hip Hop Beats --- http://www.worldhiphopbeats.com/free_hip_hop_beats.html

Best Dance Scenes:  Top 10 Movie Dancing Moments ---
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/09/25/best-dance-scenes-top-movie-dancing/

Tango Flamenco (Guitar) ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCmubP5h9c&feature=related

 The 50 Best Movie Dance Scenes of All Time---
http://www.vat19.com/blog/2008/07/the_best_movie_dance_scenes.html

10 Great Performances From 10 Legendary Jazz Artists: Django, Miles, Monk, Coltrane & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/10_great_performances_from_10_legendary_jazz_artists.html

\Trivia Question
Who preceded Jo Ann Castle as Lawrence Welk's ragtime and boogie woogie piano player?

Answer
Big Tiny Little

Some of Jo Ann Castle's Ragtime and Boogie Piano Videos

Drummer great Bobby Durham died on July 10, 2008 --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Durham_%28Jazz_musician%29

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell (dancing at its best) --- Click Here
Eleanor Powell & Fred Astaire "Begin the Beguine" Tap Dancing
---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1406ec0aae0b7077

Chicago Jazz --- http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jazzmaps/ctlframe.htm

Hamilton College: Jazz Archives --- http://www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive

NPR's Free Music Selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1039

Born in Baltimore, Md., on April 7, 1915, Holiday had an affinity for jazz from childhood. Her father, Clarence, was a rhythm guitarist for Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, and Holiday recalls "many a wonderful hour" spent listening and singing along to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on the Victrola at a local whorehouse. Holiday ran errands for Alice, the brothel's proprietor, and gladly accepted hours of listening time in place of payment.
Billie Holiday: 'Lady Sings the Blues' (Full Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14894620

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

The Life of Billie Holiday --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

Canada's jazz pianist legend (truly a legend) Oscar Peterson died December 24, 2007 --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson

Rod Digital Library Connection --- http://cdm.lib.uni.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/jbo
First click on a selection then click on "Access This Item"

Monk At Town Hall: Five Decades Of Jazz Lore  --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101247362

Levon Helm Studios --- http://www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm

Jazz And The 50 Most Important Albums Of 2000-2009 ---
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/11/jason_moran_the_bad_plus_decade.html

Louis Armstrong: 'The Man and His Music,' Part 1 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12208712

From NPR:  More Recordings To Hear Before You Die --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96495906

Classic Ray Charles Performance: ‘What’d I Say’ Live in Paris, 1968 --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/classic_ray_charles_performance_whatd_i_say_live_in_paris_1968.html

From NPR
Jazz Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1042

Louis Armstrong Plays Historic Cold War Concerts in East Berlin & Budapest (1965) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/louis-armstrong-plays-historic-cold-war-concerts-in-east-berlin-budapest-1965.html

Red Hot Jazz Archive --- http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Old Cats, New Lions Celebrate Woody Shaw --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98532760

George Shearing On Piano Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120607605

Dave Brubeck at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival (entire concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16437373

Brubeck Oral History Project
http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Digital-Collections/Brubeck-Oral-History-Project.html

An Uplifting Musical Surprise for Dave Brubeck in Moscow (1997) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/an_uplifting_musical_surprise_for_dave_brubeck_in_moscow_1997.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

One of the greatest improvisers in jazz history, Art Tatum also set the standard for technical dexterity with his classic 1933 recording of "Tea for Two." Nearly blind, Tatum had artistic vision and ability that made him an icon of jazz piano, a musician whose impact will be felt for generations to come --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10806270

Drummerworld --- http://www.drummerworld.com/index2.html

Quartet San Francisco: Brubeck On Strings --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123161226

Twenty Years Of A Jazz Piano Christmas ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121520079

Dave Brubeck: A Monterey Pioneer in Concert (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14592776

From the Scout Report on November 18, 2016

Remembering the Life and Music of Mose Allison
Mose Allison, pianist, singer, and "William Faulkner of Jazz," dies at 89
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-mose-allison-20161115-story.html

Mose Allison obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/16/mose-allison-obituary

Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Mose Allison Talking Jazz
http://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-mose-allison

The Mississippi Blues Trail
http://www.msbluestrail.org

Jazz in America
http://www.jazzinamerica.org

 

Great Big Band and Jazz Combo Trumpet Players
Maynard Ferguson --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Ferguson
List of Other Trumpeters --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trumpeters

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Artie Shaw --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Mary Lou Williams, 'Perpetually Contemporary (54 minutes of great big band era music) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11904062

Good band music and good food --- http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=YS11737049

I dare you to sit still in your chair
Harsh and Sweet, Fiery and Cold: '24 Hours a Day' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11930882
Elana James bursts into her own particular (Lively) blend of bluegrass, western swing and jazz.

Charlie Parker Sax (Video) --- http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/video/53031

Sarah Vaughan's Unlikeliest Jazz Classic --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5732357

Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92646654 

Henry Mancini On Piano Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94772943

Nat King Cole: 'The Singer' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18913382
He was also an excellent jazz pianist
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

George Wright (Loyola College) tells us he's in the Mood Swings band --- http://moodswings.com/

Wynton Marsalis (History of Jazz With Great Samples) --- http://joy2learn.com/jazz/index.html

Great Big Band Holiday Music --- http://www.lulliloodesign.com/figaro_tunes.htm

Remembering James Moody's Humble Gift For Music --- http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131968314/remembering-james-moody-s-humble-gift-for-music

The Stan Kenton Band (that I heard this band twice in Iowa ballrooms many years ago)

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

The March King: John Philip Sousa --- http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html

Great Big Band Holiday Music --- http://www.lulliloodesign.com/figaro_tunes.htm

Smithsonian Jazz --- http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/start.asp

African-American Band Music and Recordings --- http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/stocks/stocks-home.html

This 1963 performance of "Boogie Blues" by Anita O'Day aired live on Japanese TV, then languished in the vaults --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9147573

Art Tatum: A Talent Never to Be Duplicated (Jazz Pianist) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6434701

Restful --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/Restful.wma

From NPR
Fats Domino, 'Alive and Kickin' After Katrina --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259801

Terence Blanchard Group: Live In New Orleans (full Jazz concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111318543

Sondre Lerche In Full Pops Concert ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112516565

Teacher, Jazz Artist (Tia Fuller) Draws Inspiration From Family ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8908024

Cyd Charisse died on June 17, 2008 --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyd_Charisse

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

From NPR
New Orleans Social Club: 'Sing Me Back Home' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5313087

Southern singer Lizz Wright crafts a distinct mixture of jazz, folk, gospel, and R&B, but she's been most widely celebrated as a rising star in the jazz world. Wright will perform a concert from WXPN and World Café Live in Philadelphia (complete concert_ --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88666000

Tomasz Stanko and All That (Polish) Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6397911

A Duck-Walking Rock Legend Gets the 'Blues' (Chuck Berry) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10195244

Sammy Davis Song and Dance Man --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522104

Jimmy Heath's 80th Birthday Concert (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16964645

Enthralled By Jazz, Joni Mitchell Sets New Moods --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11460541

James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, Live and Together (1970) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/james-taylor-and-joni-mitchell-live-and-together-1970.html

Joni Mitchell: Singer, Songwriter, Artist, Smoking Grandma ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/joni_mitchell_singer_songwriter_artist_smoking_grandma.html

James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, Live and Together (1970) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/james-taylor-and-joni-mitchell-live-and-together-1970.html

Mother-Son Duo Makes Perfect Harmony --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10146646

The Library of Congress has rescued New Orleans public radio station WWOZ's extensive live broadcast collection. The collection, which was almost lost in Hurricane Katrina, includes great recordings by many New Orleans musicians, including Deacon John, Beau Jocque, and the late James Booker. It's a rare historical testament to the city's roots music.
Carrie Kahn, NPR, February 12, 2008 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18918478

From NPR
Jelly Roll Morton Plays the Library of Congress --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5039442
(Scroll down for the fabulous and historic samples)

Like many jazz musicians, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim grew up listening to gospel music. His grandmother played piano in the African Methodist Episcopalian Church --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13940226

Giant Steps (Jazz featuring the great John Coltrane) ---
http://phenotypical.com/content/multimedia/flash/John_Coltrane-Giant_Steps.swf
 

John Coltrane Plays Only Live Performance of A Love Supreme --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/11/coltrane_only_live_performance_a_love_supreme.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

John Coltrane: Saxophone Icon, Pt. 2 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91859910

A huge selection of Jazz and Blues free downloads --- http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/audio/index.html

The Count Basie Orchestra with Ledisi in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17794048

Kurt Elling, Giving Jazz a Touch of Poetry --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9103349

Saxophone Giant Benny Golson --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88237333

The Eubie Blake Collection (Jazz Piano) ---  http://www.mdhs.org/eubieblake/

American Routes (Jazz) --- http://www.americanroutes.org/

Ragtime --- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/ragtime/ragtime-home.html

A Lounge-Friendly Blend of Beats and Bass --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6620226

Max Roach was the hottest drummer in New York by the time he was 20 years old. By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz. --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12847242

Born and raised among the jazz greats of New Orleans, trumpeter Terence Blanchard honed his skills in the early 80s when he replaced Wynton Marsalis on trumpet for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12840737

The March King: John Philip Sousa --- http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html

Songs about alcohol and its effects are common currency in country music. But in "Drinkin' Problem," Lori McKenna goes in a different direction, sidestepping the usual moralistic dimension in favor of getting under the skin of someone for whom the issue is an immediate concern --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16318418

Drummer Men and Women --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummer
Listing of Notable Drummers --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drummers
List of Notable Percussionists --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_percussionists
Listing of a Few Notable Jazz Band Drummers --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_drummers

Drumming Videos from Jazz Bands

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Percussion --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Boston Pops --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Pops

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

From NPR
Delving into Peggy Lee's Steamy Mystique --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5386545

Patty Griffin in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7241099

One More Once’: A Centennial Celebration of the Life and Music of Count Basie http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/cb/index.html

Lyle Lovett and His Big Band Go 'Large' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16221831

Lionel Hampton on Piano Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89540153

Lionel Hampton --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hampton

Ravi Shankar, Master of the Sitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578267

The Undying Spirit of the Dash (soft piano) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8882981

Sanjay Mishra: A Cross-Cultural Exploration in Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6502991

The James Bond Title Songs Never Say Die --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6473821

From NPR
Jae Sinnett, Drumming Up Interest in Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176440
(Scroll down for the samples)

The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/douglass/

Latin Jazz at Its Most Thoughtful and Thrilling --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9329285

From NPR
Piano Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/

Tammy Hall on Piano Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87812521

Ray Sings and Basie Swings --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6187781

From NPR
Enrico Rava, Italy's Gift to Jazz (featuring the trumpet) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5403156

Piano Jazz: 2007 Christmas Special (Part 1) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17214337

From NPR
Musicians Regroup to Benefit 'Our New Orleans' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5077132
(Scroll down for the samples.)

'Yes We Can' by Allen Toussaint
'When the Saints Go Marching In' by Eddie Bo
'Prayer for New Orleans' by Charlie Miller

From NPR (Blues Harmonica)
Corky Siegel's Triple Blues Threat --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5056799
(Scroll down for these great samples.)

From NPR
Top Jazz Artists --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4565717

From NPR
'Lunatico': Tango for a New Generation --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5366426

From NPR
Torme Gets Hip to 'Zaz Turned Blue' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5062814
(Scroll down for these great samples.)

Young Pianist (Robert Glasper) Ready to Be an Ambassador of Jazz --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9008479

Bitkraft --- http://www.bitkraft.com/

Joe Lovano, Returning to 'The Birth of the Cool' (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6161569

Fats Waller's Playful Jazz Piano Legacy --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6167532

Full Concert from NPR
Bruce Hornsby, Mixing Pop and Improvisation --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5627231

Dorothy Ashby and a Harp That Swings (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6488979

Martin Sexton (Blues) Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9947926

Pianist Hank Jones Plays With Vitality At 91 (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112330985

From NPR
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the heart and soul of some of the most recognizable songs of stage and screen: "Cabaret," "All That Jazz" and of course, "New York, New York." --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5288642

Matt Savage (thirteen year old jazz pianist) --- http://www.savagerecords.com/
Scroll down to find some samples

From NPR
Nicholas Payton: Trumpet is Essence of New Orleans (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5377620

Hear Nicholas Payton 'When the Saints Go Marching In' (from the 'Gumbo Nouveau' CD) 'Zigaboogaloo' (from 'Payton's Place') 'Cannabis Leaf Rag' (from Sonic Trance) 'Do You Believe in Love at Sight?' (from Doc Cheatham

From NPR
Joplin's Ragtime Style Lives on in Print and Song --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346117

Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and pop icon Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender," "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll. But on Chestnut's new CD, Cyrus Plays Elvis, he offers a fresh outlook on Presley --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15039843

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins Still Swinging Strong --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9701347

Steven Bernstein: Mixing the Strange and Familiar (Big Band Trumpeter) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5784063

The 2007 J&R MusicFest showcased an array of artists in New York City's City Hall Park from Aug. 23-25. This year's MusicFest was headlined by R&B legend Chaka Khan, singer/ songwriter Suzanne Vega and Bruce Hornsby (full concerts) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13866477

Lonely trumpet sounds of Tomasz Stanko --- 
http://www.tomaszstanko.com/Tomasz_Stanko_The_Jazz_Trumpeter_and_Composer.html
(Click on the Multimedia link)

'Best Kept Secret:' Jerry Douglas' Dobro Wizardry (from NPR on November 6, 2005)
Scroll down to find the selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4988000

The Jazz of Johnnie Hodges (Click on the Music Clips link) --- http://www.alphalink.com.au/~michaelp/

Oscar Peterson music samples --- http://www.oscarpeterson.com/op/musicframe.html

The Loniousmonk Quartet (with John Coltrane in Carnegie Hall) --- http://www.monkzone.com/site.html

From NPR
Dr. John Brings His Own Magic to 'Mercernary' (New Orleans Blues) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5493160

From NPR
KT Tunstall: Greater Than the Sum of Her Sounds --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187870
Video sample --- Watch Tunstall Perform

The Hypnotic Handrum (video) --- http://www.groovygrooves.com/video/the-hypnotic-handrum

Charmaine Clamor is a jazz vocalist who grew up listening to Ella Fitzgerald on the radio, which shouldn't be surprising. What may be surprising is that Clamor grew up in the Philippines — as a 3-year-old, she sang to passengers on the bus in Manila. Clamor is now a star in her homeland and she's attracting attention in the United States --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16160313

Jazz Loft --- http://snipurl.com/JazzLoft

Shortly before he died, Jazz Saxophonist Michael Brecker summoned the strength to record one more album with musicians who were long-time musical partners, as well as friends --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10459940

Crazy Cool: Nellie McKay in Concert (full concert of Jazz and Broadway-type music) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9044009

Marsalis' Sharp Social Critiques Come with Cool Rif --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7813667

Songs from the CD

  • 'From the Plantation to the Penitentiary'

  • 'Supercapitalism'

  • 'Where Y'all At?'

From NPR
A Chance Encounter with the Blues (Joe Holmes) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5425762

Drummer World's big band sounds featuring drums --- http://www.drummerworld.com/drummersolo.html

Four-year old drummer boy --- http://www.usefulconcept.com/index.cfm/2006/9/18/kickin-the-drums

Miles Davis Jazz --- http://www.milesdavis.com/music.htm

Miles Davis: Miles' Styles (54 minutes) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10818946

Near the end of Miles Davis' career, he gave young Wallace Roney the gift of a trumpet. That blue horn — yes, silvery blue — has engaged in a lot of serious music-making, first with Davis and now with Roney as a solo act.
Hear a Full Concert by Wallace Roney at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15863011

Comedian (Jerry Seinfeld)
Hora Decubitus aka E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too

From NPR
Dan Penn: 'A Little Something I Like' in Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5638465

Andrew Bird: Defying Categorization --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10191823

Not Quite Jazz, Not Quite Rock --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9295210

From NPR
Miles Davis, Beyond Jazz: Rock Hall Honors Davis --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5258932

Musicians Local No. 627 and the Mutual Musicians Foundation: The Cradle of Kansas City Jazz ---
http://www.umkc.edu/orgs/local627/

From NPR
Lil' Ed, A Big Name in the Blues --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5541481

Singer and songwriter Ruthie Foster has been compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9799173

With her no-nonsense voice, Mable John recorded singles for the Stax label throughout the '60s --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9799376

From NPR
Guy Davis: The Language of the Blues --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5479749

A Lone Voice, Emulating a Gentle Wind (Isobel Campbell) ---  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6615028

Ornette Coleman: Decades of Jazz on the Edge --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6449431

Director's Cuts: Holiday Gift Picks for 2006 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6527803

WXPN's 'Blues Show' host counts off the best blues CDs of the year.

Improvising with Keith Jarrett on 'Piano Jazz' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11461504

Going Fishing --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dad.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Trouble --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/trouble.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

What Kinda Girl (lively) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/meetjess.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Hotel California --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/hotel.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR (Holiday Jazz Piano)
Traditions Old and New: 'Jazz Piano Christmas' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054118
(Scroll down for the great samples.)

From NPR (Trombone)
Swinging Holiday Music from BED and Friends --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5061166
(Scroll down for the samples.)

A Soul Legend Emerges, Fully Formed --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5565302

Dizzy Gillespie's Cold War Jazz Diplomacy --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6276832

From NPR
Impulse Records: 'The House That Trane Built' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5452186

"The Thrill Is Strong for 80-Year-Old B.B. King" by Farai Chideya, NPR, September 22, 2005 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4858654

Hear the blues guitar legend play at his own birthday party:

Sweet Georgia Brown and Ain't Misbehavin' --- http://www.elinewberger.com/music_listen.html
137 New Orleans music sites, many with samples --- http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/en/mu/m-bm/m-bm2/m-bm2.html

John Scofield's MP3 audio clips --- http://www.johnscofield.com/music.html

Jazz samples --- http://www.jazzonline.com/

For Chico Hamilton, the Beat Goes On --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6112226

Miricles ---  http://www.jessiesweb.com/miracles.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

NPR has some good links to jazz samples --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4565717
           Also see http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1042

From NPR
Billy Childs and the Lush Jazz of 'Lyric'
--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5156713
(Scroll down for the samples.)

New Orleans Siren --- http://www.timothea.com/

From NPR
Singing of New Orleans, Past and Future --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237133

Play and Explain Options --- http://www.heplaysjazz.btinternet.co.uk/giants.html

Some free oldies (really oldies) --- http://www.turtleserviceslimited.org/jukebox.htm

Some Miles Davis samplers --- http://www.milesdavis.com/music.htm

The Jazz Files --- http://www.thejazzfiles.com/

Lillie Lewis --- http://www.ampcast.com/music/6463/artist.php

Water of Love --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/waterlove.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR Anne Watts and Boister: Music from Madness ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5309798 

Blue Note Records --- http://www.bluenote.com/jukebox.asp

From NPR
The Wood Brothers Return to Their Roots (Jazz) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=537

From NPR
Ralph Towner's Guitar Journey --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5386169

From NPR (Guitar)
Six-String Creation: The Derek Trucks Band --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5300263

An Insomniac's Tender Midnight Ruminations --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6377406

Jazz ensemble (military) recordings --- http://www.ima.lee.army.mil/sites/band/jazzSamples.asp

Jazz:  A film by Ken Burns --- http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

Percussive Thunder and Showers of Brass (Jazz that runs on too long) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story

Click on the Fingers --- http://www.arnelefant.de/iClip_fuer_html.swf

The Golden Age of Jazz, by William P. Gottlieb (lots of photos but no audio) --- http://www.jazzphotos.com/

Ella Fitzgerald Samples --- http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/musicclip.html

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

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Classical Other Orchestral Music
(including Broadway shows and movie scores)

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) ---
http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

The 25 Greatest Classical Pianists of All Time ---
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-features/best-classical-pianists/

NPR: Deceptive Cadence --- www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence

Elevator Music
The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time: A Playlist Curated by Pitchfork ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/50-best-ambient-albums-time-playlist-curated-pitchfork.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch 450 NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Intimate Performances from The Pixies, Adele, Wilco, Yo-Yo Ma & Many More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/450-npr-tiny-desk-concerts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Naxos Records (classical music) --- https://www.naxos.com/

Classical New England --- http://www.wgbh.org/995/index.cfm

Introducing the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives --- http://archives.nyphil.org/

On Broadway --- http://on-broadway.nyc

Itzhak Perlman Appears on Sesame Street and Poignantly Shows Kids How to Play the Violin and Push Through Life’s Limits (1981) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/itzhak-perlman-appears-on-sesame-street.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Montreal Symphony's Evolution Of Music (entire concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/15/136284053/the-montreal-symphonys-evolution-of-music

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Concert HD 2012 Full - Duration over 200 minutes ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkLk3gaLFAM

The Chicago Symphony Plays A Colorful Concert ---
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/09/347102210/carnegie-hall-live-the-chicago-symphony-plays-a-colorful-concert

Glenn Gould Plays Bach on His U.S. TV Debut … After Leonard Bernstein Explains What Makes His Playing So Great (1960) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/glenn-gould-plays-bach-u-s-tv-debut-leonard-bernstein-explains-makes-playing-great-1960.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Finland's Finest: The Seven Symphonies Of Jean Sibelius ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/12/08/458232716/finlands-finest-the-seven-symphonies-of-jean-sibelius

András Schiff Plays Mozart, Haydn, Schubert And Beethoven At Carnegie Hall ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/347112344/carnegie-hall-live-andr-s-schiff-plays-mozart-haydn-schubert-and-beethoven

All of Bach Is Putting Videos of 1,080 Bach Performances Online: Watch the First 53 Recordings and the St. Matthew Passion ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/all-of-bach-putting-performances-of-1080-bachs-works-online.html

Anderson & Roe's Personalized Bach ---
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2015/02/17/384060300/anderson-roes-personalized-bach

Alice Dancing Under the Gallows --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlccsLr48Mw&sns=em 
The oldest survivor of the Holocaust

The Classical Music in Stanley Kubrick’s Films: Listen to a Free, 4 Hour Playlist ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/the-classical-music-in-stanley-kubricks-films-listen-to-a-free-4-hour-playlist.html

Boston Symphony Orchestra Podcasts [iTunes] --- http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/toc_01_gen_noSubCat.jsp?id=bcat12650019

BBC Radio 3: The Early Music Show (music history) --- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tn49

Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/11/watch-j-s-bachs-air-on-the-g-string-played-on-the-actual-instruments-from-his-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Listen to Philip K. Dick’s Favorite Classical Music: A Free, 11-Hour Playlist ---
http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dicks-favorite-classical-music.html

Essentials of Music --- http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/

Great Chinese State Circus (Swan Lake) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sMc-p19FIk&feature=related
Swan Lake (China) ---
http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm 

A harmonica in Carnegie Hall --- http://www.wimp.com/harmonicacarnegie/

Glen Campbell playing the William Tell Overture (with symphony orchestra) and dedicating it to Clayton  Moore, who played the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto.   You may never have seen Glen play like this before. This is world-class guitar playing and Campbell makes it look easy.---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0 

NPR Archives --- http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1107

KPAQ Streaming Classical Music Radio from Arizona State University --- http://www.kbaq.org/listen/ontheweb/
(It works for me by clicking "On the Web" and then "Listen" with Windows Media Player)
Also listen to  ---
http://www.slacker.com/

Naxos Classical Music and Music Education Site --- http://naxos.com/education/links_other.asp

University of Iowa Digital Library: Ignaz Playal Early Editions ---
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/pleyel/

Stile Antico Asks: A Different Kind Of Love? (English Choral Group's Full Concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137800097/stile-antico-asks-a-different-kind-of-love

Cliburn Competition (Piano) Awards Two Gold Medals (listen to the two gold medal winners) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104883567

Leonard Cohen’s 1983 Musical for Canadian Television: I Am a Hotel --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/leonard_cohens_1983_musical_for_canadian_television_ii_am_a_hoteli.html

Eric Johnson: Up Close With A Guitar Virtuoso ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/09/132766283/eric-johnson-up-close-with-a-guitar-virtuoso

St. Olaf College: Archived Concerts and Recitals --- www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/streams/archive.cfm?category=concerts

The Nashville Symphony In Concert (complete concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/07/132654102/nashville-symphony-in-concert

John Eliot Gardiner Leads Beethoven's 'Missa Solemnis' At Carnegie Hall ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/164957592/carnegie-hall-live-gardiner-leads-beethovens-missa-solemnis

The King's Singers: Four Decades Of Close, Sweet Harmony (complete concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/23/132228929/the-kings-singers-four-decades-of-close-sweet-harmony

The King's Singers: Four Decades Of Close, Sweet Harmony (complete concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/23/132228929/the-kings-singers-four-decades-of-close-sweet-harmony

The Nashville Symphony In Concert (complete concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/07/132654102/nashville-symphony-in-concert

Leif Ove Andsnes: Fatherhood And Freedom At The Piano ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/158492258/leif-ove-andsnes-fatherhood-and-freedom-at-the-piano

ACME In Concert: Steve Reich's Complete String Quartets ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/160620377/acme-in-concert-steve-reichs-complete-string-quartets

First Listen: Joyce DiDonato, 'Diva, Divo' --- http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132908108/first-listen-joyce-didonato-diva-divo

Storms And Salvation: 'The Flying Dutchman' (Introduction to this Opera) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/21/133085822/storms-and-salvation-the-flying-dutchman

The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection (music history in theater and the media) ---
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/kayefine/kayefine-home.html

A More Spiritual Salome: Massenet's 'Hérodiade' (hear the introduction to this opera) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/13/136246366/a-more-spiritual-salome-massenets-h-rodiade

A Fairytale Grows Up: Rossini's 'La Cenerentola'(Introduction to the Opera) ---
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132210721/a-fairytale-grows-up-rossinis-la-cenerentola

Tango Flamenco (Guitar) ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCmubP5h9c&feature=related

The King's Singers: Four Decades Of Close, Sweet Harmony ---
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/23/132228929/the-kings-singers-four-decades-of-close-sweet-harmony

Strife and Salvation: Beethoven's 'Fidelio' (introduction to the opera) ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/07/132712125/strife-and-salvation-beethovens-fidelio

All That is or Ever Will Be" - Cosmos A SpaceTime Odyssey ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CYoTwhsDs

Video:  Opera in Italy --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NLjuGPBusxs&vq=medium

A Mother's Desperate Act: 'Margaret Garner' From Opera Carolina --- http://www.npr.org/2010/11/17/131395936/a-mother-s-desperate-act-margaret-garner

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' (Houston Grand Opera's terrific  full performance) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15828636 

Celebrate Carnegie Hall Anniversary with Jascha Heifetz Playing Tchaikovsky --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/carnegie_hall_celebrates_120_years_today.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Tchaikovsky's 'The Queen of Spades' From the Vienna State Opera (Act 1) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17818105

A Sampling of Stormy Classical Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4776354

Gounod's 'Faust'From Houston Grand Opera (five acts) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16097370

The "New" Three Tenors --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUkUjeF4-c

Tilting at Windmills: Massenet's 'Don Quichotte' (Introduction to the opera) --- http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131244769/tilting-at-windmills-massenet-s-don-quichotte

Hauschka Gets The Most Out Of 88 Keys --- http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131245315/hauschka-gets-the-most-out-of-88-keys

Jozef van Wissem: Transcendental Lute --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126147314

David Russell: Tiny Desk Concert (Classical) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126090904
The Restless Guitar Of David Russell ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126166755

Copenhagen Philharmonic Plays Ravel’s Bolero at Train Station --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/11/copenhagen_philharmonic_plays_ravels_bolero.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Duo Siqueira Lima - one guitar, two guitarists --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFmLGVG2fY

First Listen: Eric Whitacre, 'Choral Music' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127376914

From NPR (this fantastic entire opera)
Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11886151

Mozart´s alla turca - played in 4 hand guitar! (amazing) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Lu9pWrc38

From NPR
Beethoven: Hear All Nine Symphonies ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5477647
Beethoven's Sonatas: 'From Darkness to Light' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5528318

A Beethoven Extravaganza Recreated --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12424757

Till Fellner's Journey With Beethoven ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120828246

Stravinsky Gets His 'Rite: Remixed' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92751852

Video: Ti lascio una canzone - 'O sole mio: Trio Ginoble-Boschetto-Barone (what talent) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUkUjeF4-c

Loving 'Leonore': Beethoven's Neglected Opera (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18306733

Haydn's Finest, For London --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104010890

Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca' From Houston Grand Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10817860

Puccini's 'La Boheme' From The Vienna State Opera (Clips from the Introduction) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130239317

A Shocker In Real Time: Puccini's 'Tosca' (hear the introduction) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129300933

Live Tuesday Night: The Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky
Hear Valery Gergiev lead a celebration of Russian music — and help introduce a promising pianist.

Franz Liszt At 200: Performances At Boston's WGBH ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/29/140819795/franz-liszt-at-200-performances-at-bostons-wgbh

NPR lassics in Concert

L.A. Philharmonic Goes Gershwin In Opening Night Gala
Hear the whole concert with superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel and guest pianist Herbie Hancock.

 

Deceptive Cadence

Sound And Silence: 'Remembering Sept. 11' At The Temple Of Dendur
Hear (and download) profoundly moving performances of Basinski, Marshall, Golijov and Schnittke.

 

 

Giacomo Puccini's 'Turandot' From Houston Grand Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12012240

Verdi's 'Aida' from the Houston Grand Opera (Act 1) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16505142

Dutch Treat: Gre Brouwenstijn Sings Verdi And Wagner --- Click Here
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/07/05/137625373/dutch-treat-gre-brouwenstijn-sings-verdi-and-wagner 

LATRAVIATA (VERDI) Hors dourves --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/LATRAVIATAVERDI.wmv   

Verdi's Requiem: An Opera In Disguise ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/04/136928271/verdis-requiem-an-opera-in-disguise

Thomas Hampson's Hand-Picked Mahler --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128338586

Mahler's First Symphony (full concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16013157

Richard Wagner's 'Die Walkuere' From the Washington National Opera (Entire Performance ) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15196750
Placido Domingo, Anja Kampe, Alan Held, Gidon Saks, Linda Watson, Elena Zaremba, and Fricka Zaremba

Wagner and his Operas --- http://www.wagneroperas.com/

The Ring in A Day (Wagner) --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/thering/

Messiah': A Holiday Tradition Transcending Time ---
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/25/144185366/messiah-a-holiday-tradition-transcending-time

A Thanksgiving Feast With Handel
Handel’s Oratorio 'Belshazzar' in Concert in New York City ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16465921

Soprano Beverly Sills: A Silvery Voice, Silenced at 78
Listen to some of her best recordings ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11618782
Watch a historic video of her on the Ed Sullivan Show ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11618782

The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (in its entirety) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9042552

Stephen Hartke's 'The Greater Good' (Opera) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12633609

Ballad Operas Online [iTunes] http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/balladoperas/  

Superman Symphony's Surprise Grammy Nominations --- http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131963885/superman-symphony-grammy-nominations

Best Musical Moments Of 2010: Joyce DiDonato's Matchless Mahler ---
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2010/12/10/131848536/best-musical-moments-of-2010-joyce-didonato-s-matchless-mahler

Decadence and Decay: Kurt Weill's 'Mahagonny' --- http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131932982/decadence-and-decay-kurt-weill-s-mahagonny

Hauschka Gets The Most Out Of 88 Keys --- http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131245315/hauschka-gets-the-most-out-of-88-keys

 

Band Of Gypsies: Haydn And Brahms At Spoleto Festival (full concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127879942

Exclusive First Listen: Helene GrimaudHear A Preview Of Grimaud's New Bach Album --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99962099

Simone Dinnerstein Plays Bach Old And New --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101102623  

Rudolf Buchbinder's Robust Beethoven --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99928050

Brahms' French Horn Of Plenty, In Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103336265

Symphony in White --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1xVSjFgcE

Symphonic 'Enlightenment' In The 18th Century --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103130363

Classical Guitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101262890
The father, Celedonio Romero, and his three sons — Celín, Pepe and Ángel — started performing as a guitar quartet around the Santa Barbara area. The Romeros quickly found a following, and before long, they toured the U.S., played Carnegie Hall, found themselves on The Ed Sullivan Show and landed a recording contract.

German composer Richard Strauss led a full life. He was nearly always controversial, exciting and popular, whether as a brash teenager, composer of cutting-edge operas or grand old man of the concert hall ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10972852

Ballet Staring Rudolf Nureyev

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

The Autumnal Glow Of Strauss' Four Last Songs --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111554634

Opera star Maria Callas died 30 years ago Sunday. But you'd hardly know she was gone, judging from the stream of CDs flowing from her record company. --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14404970

Leonard Bernstein

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Karl Böhm Brahms Symphony No.3 F Major Op.90 Part 1 of 4 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRPBQuloyk
Karl Böhm Brahms Symphony No.3 F Major Op.90 Part 2 of 4 ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zFzz-1uZA
Karl Böhm Brahms Symphony No.3 F Major Op.90 Part 3 of 4 ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zFzz-1uZA
Karl Böhm Brahms Symphony No.3 F Major Op.90 Part 4 of 4 ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN31t_vUpdg

Monteverdi's 'The Return of Ulysses' from the Welsh National Opera (all five acts) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9078832

LATRAVIATA (VERDI) Hors dourves --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/LATRAVIATAVERDI.wmv 

Verdi's 'Macbeth' (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14058055


Verdi's 'Aida' From Houston Grand Opera (Act 1) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16505142

Giuseppe Verdi's 'Falstaff' From Houston Grand Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8901076
Verdi's Falstaff is a brilliantly original and insightful comedy that was written when the composer was nearly 80 years old. The production, by the Houston Grand Opera, stars Bryn Terfel as Falstaff. 
Listen to the Opera: Act 1, Act 2,  Act 3

Met Archives: The Metropolitan Opera --- http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/

Online Conservatory --- http://www.bso.org/images/conservatory/

Pianist Gary Graffman: Left-Handed Miracles (Classical Pianist) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95485851

Marc Andre Hamelin: The Praiseworthy Pianist --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112039260

Fritz Kreisler's Music (And His Violin) At WGBH --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123065333

Zithers: Memory And Music In Davenport, Iowa --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940918

Claude Debussy's Painterly Preludes: The subtle, elusive quality of Debussy's 24 preludes is captured perfectly by pianist Paul Jacobs --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111654948  

Handel --- http://www.gfhandel.org/

Judy Garland ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland#Childhood_and_early_life

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Hearing History in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129917

Symphony No. 5:  Hear samples of the music:
* The First Movement * The Second Movement

Richard Wagner MP3 --- Click Here

Soprano Dawn Upshaw can now call herself a "genius" if she wants. The 47-year-old opera singer and recitalist was named one of the 2007 MacArthur Fellows, an award commonly referred to as the "genius grant." --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14687191
Other 2007 "geniuses" ---
http://www.mahalo.com/MacArthur_Foundation_Fellows_2007
Not an accountant in the bunch --- Sigh!

'Mary Poppins' Musical Adds to the Songbook --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6481277 

Forwarded by Richard Reams (Great streaming music from Broadway)
Broadwayworld.com offers streaming music, mostly from original cast recordings released since 1980. Some songs are rather risque; as they say, "This ain't your grandfather's Broadway." Very eclectic; a great way to explore newer musical theatre songs:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/radio.cfm 

KPAQ Streaming Classical Music Radio from Phoenix --- http://www.kbaq.org/listen/ontheweb/
(It works for me by clicking "On the Web" and then "Listen" with Windows Media Player)

From NPR
'Missa Solemnis,' a Divine Bit of Beethoven (these are terrific) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5202103
(Scroll down for samples)

Great Outer Space Photos and Music (soothing and inspirational) --- http://www.greatdanepro.com/somewhere in time/index.htm

Classical Violin
James Ehnes: A Little Recital And A Grammy ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92404906

Lang Lang's Journey to Beethoven (Chinese Pianist) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10060309

Violinist Julia Fischer Voted Artist of the Year 2007 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14992483

Dudamel Conducts The L.A. Philharmonic --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130381109

Carlo Ponti Jr.: Classical Music For All --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99826016

Yolanda Kondonassis: Impressions Of The Harp --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105927495

Venice Baroque Orchestra in Concert (Vivaldi) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91425865

Bryn Terfel: The 'Bad Boy' Of Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126245009

The 5 Browns: Blending Pop And Classical --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126193811

Alisa Weilerstein: Tiny Desk Concert (cello) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129702424

Innocence Exploited: Gounod's 'Faust' (Acts 1 and 2) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129751569

First Listen: Hilary Hahn Violin Concertos, Old And New --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129750428

Venice Baroque: Thriving On Vivaldi --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121018016

Video:  Kensuke Ota on Piano --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cscl9p6Q8Ig
Thank you Dena for this heads up on his performance in San Antonio

Cleveland Orchestra Performs Wagner --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128513819

John McCormack: The Charming Irish Tenor --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128538000

Betrayal In Brooklyn: 'A View From The Bridge' (hear the introduction to this opera) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128515491

Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo (pianist) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10881145

Composers like Eisler and Matthus experimented within the tradition of Bach and Mozart --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99814511

The James Bond Title Songs Never Say Die --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6473821

James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91757715

Bach Choir of Bethlehem in concert at the First Presbyterian Church in Bethlehem, Pa.---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10094368

Ravi Shankar At 90: The Man And His Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125507150

First Listen: 'Cantique,' With The Music Of Arvo (classical) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129282688

Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Piano Francais --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126723353

Lieberson's 'Songs Of Love And Sorrow' And New Life --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125194412

Suds And Sensibility: Barber's Violin Concerto (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124372493  

Bringing Brahms Alive with Little Fanfare --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9020703

From NPR
Organ Music: Pulling Out All the Stops ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5448985

Three from the Original
* 'The Man in the Moon'
* 'My Best Girl'
* 'If He Walked into My Life'

Ensemble Rebel: Rethinking the Baroque --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16923446

New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10439850

Pianist Glenn Gould's classic 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations has never been out of print. Yet this week, Sony Classical will release a brand-new recording of it.
NPR, May 28, 2007 ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10439850 

Hear the original recordings and the new re-performed versions.

  • Original 1926 recording: Alfred Cortot plays Chopin's Prelude in G-major.
  • New Zenph version: Chopin's Prelude in G-major.
  • Original 1955 recording: Glenn Gould plays Bach's 'Goldberg Variations ("Aria")
  • New Zenph version:Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' ("Aria")

Opera great Pavarotti dead at 71 --- Click Here
Luciano Pavarotti on YouTube

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Memory from Cats (Musical)

 

2007 Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Notes On a Scandal' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7550328

Lawrence Brownlee: A Rising Star Arrives at the Met --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9722214

Best Classical CDs of 2006, from WGBH --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6695447

2006's Top 10 Classical-Music Discoveries, from WGUC --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6617067

Berlin Philharmonic, in Concert at Carnegie Hall --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16227797

From NPR
Birdie Busch in Concert (includes Gigi) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5399803

Pianist Brings Power to Liszt Concerto --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9451775

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has a smiling, generous air about him—even when he's been pulled into a radio studio, after dark, to get bounced back and forth between a Steinway and an inquisitive host. Hear Leif Ove Andsnes play Grieg in the WGBH studio --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19238898

Bach and Beyond: Orpheus Plays Carnegie Hall --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88110058

From the Salzburg Festival
Mozart's 'La finta semplice' (three full acts) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11488099

Pianist Gary Graffman: Left-Handed Miracles --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95485851

Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte' From the Salzburg Festival --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9975366

André Previn --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

I still  have an old 33.3 record album featuring André Previn playing Rhapsody in Blue --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
I could not find a YouTube video of the Previn recording.
However, here are some other video renditions:

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

 

Hoe Down

A Classical Pianist Who Never Showed Off --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6412084

Mutter, Orkis Explore the Genius of Mozart --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6544360

Jules Massenet's 'Manon' From the Vienna State Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9325642

From NPR
Celebrating Mozart's Birthday in Salzburg ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164428
This is a great history site and some of the categories serve up samples.

John Adams' early work Christian Zeal and Activity serves as the center of a musical triptych called American Standard. Its hymn-like composition is employed by a string orchestra that moves with a grace and slowness that reflects the importance of the original song form. In a concert from the Wordless Music Series, recorded by WNYC, the piece was performed live by the Wordless Music Orchestra on Jan. 16, 2008, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. Conductor Brad Lubman led the ensemble (full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89145711

Glimmerglass Opera presents the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12633609

Peking Opera meets Grand Opera Thursday night on the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera, as The First Emperor has its world premiere --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6660144

At the Concert Hall, a Symphony for Space Invaders --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12478692

Drum Machine (with great animation) --- http://opus.roguescholars.com/drummachine.html

From NPR
So Percussion, Playing Pipes Bought for A Song ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5344512

Lieberson's 'Neruda Songs,' Tracing Love's Arc (Classical Music_ --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6696483

As a part of Carnegie Hall's first major international festival — Berlin in Lights — conductor Simon Rattle and the revered Berlin Philharmonic have taken up a week's residency at the hall with more than a dozen performances --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16227797

Upon discovering Gregg Miner's Museum of Vintage, Exotic and Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments in Tarzana, Calif., a couple years ago, Weekend Edition essayist Tim Brookes saw something called a harp guitar. Brookes humorously described it as a "combination guitar and wooden shoulder-mounted grenade launcher." --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13924188

From NPR
Suphala, Savoring the Beat of a Different Drum ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5133803
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Why would an opera named for a desperate and suicidal young man feature happy children singing a Christmas carol? In July? Well, some say that for unhappy people, the holidays are the saddest time of year, and in Massenet's Werther, that's an understatement ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13902472

Harmonica Legend Toots Thielemans on Piano Jazz (Parts 1 and 2) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89179488

From NPR
Edgar Meyer has been hailed as a virtuoso, an original, a genius. The 45-year-old musician and composer has been a bass player for as long as he can remember ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5356189

The most popular combination is probably the one known as "Cav-Pag": Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. Both operas are lurid, Italian dramas centering on illicit lust and murder — a pair of verismo potboilers ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14535210

Pianist Joyce Yang Plays Bach, Liszt --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=47076

Stile Antico: Old-School A Cappella in Boston ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105772791

Orchestra Baobab in Concert (nearly two hours full concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91597883

Audra McDonald: A 'Theater Geek' Turns to Pop --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6099887

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Art of the Etude --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12361634

Garrick Ohlsson: How to Make a Piano Sing --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583419

* Hear Ohlsson Perform Chopin's Etude in C-Sharp Minor
* Hear Ohlsson Perform Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A, Op. 2, No. 2
* Garrick Ohlsson: How to Make a Piano Sing (video)
* Conductor Louis Langree on Mozart (video)

From the Scout Report
Two on J.S. Bach
Bach Cantatas ---
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/ 
J.S. Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/

The Mozart Project (has some nice downloads) --- http://www.mozartproject.org/compositions/k_626__.html

Frank Loesser --- http://www.frankloesser.com/

From NPR
A Musical Trip to 'Grey Gardens' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5245651

'Performance Today' at 20: A Look Back (Classical) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6729424

Art of the States --- http://artofthestates.org/

Joshua Bell: A Sonata in the SouthBell plays Saint-Saens’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in suburban Atlanta. (Full Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13824026

It's hard to believe that Joan Wasser, the singer-songwriter behind Joan as Police Woman, is only now attracting widespread attention. She could easily be considered an industry veteran: She's performed with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and collaborated with the likes of John Zorn, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed and the late Jeff Buckley ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11527627

Crazy Cool: Nellie McKay in Concert (full concert of Jazz and Broadway-type music) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9044009

From NPR:  Film:  Music from the Inside Out
Film Explores Orchestra Players' Calling ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5256792

From NPR
Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Pride and Prejudice' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5245902

Arkansas Traveler: 'Little House' Music and Tales (One Hour Concert for Children) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6518738

From The British Library --- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Read "And Now for a Little Mozart" ---
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70007-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_6

(75 Musical Excerpts)

Classical Music Glossary with downloadable samples for many music terms --- http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
For me some downloads did not play as promised.

An opera dedicated to the trauma of Argentina's Dirty War recently opened in the Argentine town of La Plata, a focus of resistance during the dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16221023

NPR Classical Music Listening --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1041

From NPR
Arias, Updated: The East Village Opera Company ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5405416

Botstein Revives Zemlinsky with a Bard Double-Bill --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12306823

Classical Music from NPR
Jan Vogler and Mira Wang: A Musical Marriage ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5373721

There are some Bernstein samples at http://www.leonardbernstein.com/sound.html

Classical Music Christmas Around the Country 2007 (and 2005) from NPR --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16932702

Sammy Davis Song and Dance Man --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522104

New York Fetes Composer Steve Reich at 70 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6155645

Gaetano Donizetti's 'Anna Bolena' (opera) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9485401

From North Korea (by way of NPR)
Musical Tackles Life in North Korean Prison Camp ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5281517

Chopin Midi Library --- http://www.gressus.se/chopin/midi/chopin.html

Classic Cat free downloads of classical music files --- http://www.classiccat.net/

From NPR
Classical Music: 2005 and Beyond ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5076402
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Classical Guitarist Traverses 'Hemispheres' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5581544

Leos Janacek's 'Jenufa' From the Washington National Opera --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14992132

Teng's Flamboyant Contraption Takes Off (Classical) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5647467

Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10804745

'Too Hot to Handel': A Modern 'Messiah' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6653685

From NPR
Cuban Pianist and Composer:  Bebo Valdes' Long Musical Journey ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5163753
(Scroll down for the samples.)

From NPR
Songs from a Year of 'Music Lust' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5076321
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Elgar, Misunderstood Man of 'Hope and Glory' (controversial classical composer) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10640054

ELENA KUSCHNEROVA Historical Piano Downloads in MP4 ---
http://elenakuschnerova.com/download-free-classical-music.htm

From NPR
A Musical Trip to 'Grey Gardens'  ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5245651

Ira Gershwin Official Site --- http://www.gershwin.com/

Free Recordings of Classical Piano Masterpieces (Click on "Recordings")--- http://www.pianosociety.com/

Daniel Pollack at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18026453

From NPR
Jason Vieaux Picks Out a New Guitar ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5332374

Olivier Messiaen's free classical music downloads --- http://www.oliviermessiaen.org/messiaen2index.htm

From NPR
Daniel Bernard Roumain's 'Dred Violin' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5191628
(Scroll down for the selections.)

Young Tuba Player Gets Nod from Phila. Orchestra --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6077977

Russian Poems Put to Music --- http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/listening2.htm

From 'Popeye' Doyle to Puccini: William Friedkin --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6070626

From NPR
Wainwright to Channel Judy Garland, Live ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5475107

From NPR
After Quake, Arts Helped San Francisco Rebound ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5324301

From Sufjan to Solo, a Star Turn --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6040468

KPAQ Streaming Classical Music Radio --- http://www.kbaq.org/listen/ontheweb/

From NPR
Free downloads from Broadway's longest running play (Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera)
Scroll down at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5146471

From NPR
Oscar-Nominated Scores
: 'Munich,' 'Brokeback' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5233690

'Zaide' Production Imports Mozart to Modern Setting --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5635603

From NPR
Classical Pianist Interprets Lyricism of Elliott Smith ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5481868

Classical pianist Jon Nakamatsu and clarinetist Jon Manasse perform in-studio --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17994676

Jewish Rap from NPR
Singer Matisyahu, Keeping It Kosher ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4774427

(Scroll down for the samples.)

Music4You --- http://www.music4you.it/detect_start.html

Hear Maican and his (symphonic) music on NPR's radio program 'From the Top' and in concert in Washington, D.C. --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11254902

Pepe Romero and the Art of the Spanish Guitar --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15203122

From NPR
'Grendel': An Operatic Monster's Tale ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5542123

From NPR
Classical Music Finds Its Funky Side ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5507990

Digital Mozart Museum --- http://dme.mozarteum.at/mambo/index.php

What's "classical music?" --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Music//

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

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Music for Children

From NPR
Music for Kids That Even Parents Might Love --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5329102

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Amazing Wine Glass Music (video) --- http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=phqymc8anO0

Songs from the (Children's) Classroom to 'Kid Pan Alley' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9107568

Arkansas Traveler: 'Little House' Music and Tales (One Hour Concert for Children) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6518738

From NPR
The Wiggles Rock! (Just Ask Your Kids) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5414895

Computer Animated Music (link forwarded by Ed Scribner) --- http://www.animusic.com/downloads.html
 

 


Punk, Protest, and Other Rock Music

The Best of Free Online Radio Music
TheRadio
(my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Pandora (choose an artist like Enya) --- http://www.pandora.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/

Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note
U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581

Rock Music Timeline --- http://www.rockmusictimeline.com

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

NPR Full Concerts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109

Watch the 10 Most Memorable Performances at Woodstock ---
https://time.com/5645697/woodstock-memorable-performances/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=20190813&xid=newsletter-brief

Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Terry Bozzio & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/who-are-the-best-drum-soloists-in-rock.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Jensen Comment
Give me Gene Krupa from the big band era any day ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko

Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/jimi-hendrix-hosts-a-jam-session-where-jim-morrison-sings-drunkenly.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

March 31, 2008 message from rock musician larry@mightymoonmen.com

I just found your Enron links and stories from 2002...brings up bad memories
I wrote a song based loosely on Jeff skilling ... "Medicine Man"
You can listen to the song and read the lyrics ---
www.mightymoonmen.com 
thanx

Funk On A 45: D.C. Soul Music Rediscovered --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122080915

Best Hip-Hop of 2007 (not my pleasure) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17519166

NPR's Free Music Selections --- http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1039

Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly” (audio delay at the start)---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/watch-john-entwistles-bass-playing-genius-on-display-in-isolated-tracks-for-wont-be-fooled-again-and-baba-oreilly.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/watch-some-of-the-most-powerful-bass-guitar-solos-ever-geddy-lee-flea-bootsy-collins-john-deacon-more.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Plays “Hey Joe” & “Wild Thing” on The Band’s Very First Tour: Paris, 1966 ---
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/sQ2Y1geuh0Y/the-jimi-hendrix-experience-first-tour.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Free Grateful Dead Concert Archive --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/03/free_grateful_dead_concert_archive.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Charmed Life (Mick Jagger) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15524832 

Hear the Never Released Jimi Hendrix Track, “Station Break,” Which Shows Us the Guitar Legend as an R&B Sideman ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/never-released-jimi-hendrix-track-station-break.html

Rock From NPR
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5240374

Embracing 'Cult Status,' with an Eye on Stardom --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11906735

NPR Online Concerts --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5194329

From NPR
War Protest That Sings: Neil Young's 'Living with War' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5377060

Hear Isolated Guitar Tracks From Some of Rock’s Greatest: Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton & More ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/hear-isolated-guitar-tracks-from-some-of-rocks-greatest-slash-eddie-van-halen-eric-clapton-more.html

Protest Anthem That Rocks and Stomps --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5705665

From NPR (heavy on folk rock and liberal politics)
The Best Music of 2005 --- http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/current/index.html

Matt Nathanson in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11870474

Wizard Rock: Harry Potter Goes Punk --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11162595

Neighborhood Bully (Bob Dylan supports Israel) --- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WlHlXHimo_g

Atomic Platters: Cold War Music--- http://www.atomicplatters.com/

(If you can stand it, these will play continuously for one hour)
Entire Concert from NPR
Live Now From XPN: Shawn Mullins in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164816
Folk-flavored pop songs

Life of a Rock Star --- http://collectionscanada.ca/rock/index2-e.html

'Rag and Bone' by The White Stripes (Meg White, Drummer) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15319394

The Americans Are Coming --- http://www.wishyswavs.com/americanscoming.html?1158520005859

From NPR
Giants of Soul: A New Approach --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5161788
(Scroll down to download the samples.)

When Wild Rockers Grow Quieter and Better
The Who Is Back --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6407635

Lily Allen in Concert with The Bird and The Bee --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9348709

Sonic Youth's B-Sides Are Worthwhile and Strong (Hard Rock) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6609925

Guest DJ Songwriter Conor Oberst --- http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/?ps=h1

The Decemberists Soar with 'Crane Wife' Live --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6382494

Drive-By Truckers: Rock Southern Style --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586939

Ain't Talkin  by Bob Dylan --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5752709

Josh Ritter in Full Concert (poetic in the style of Bob Dylan but a better singer) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14939797

Turning the Past Into a Pile of Ash 'Yardsale' by The Avett Brothers (war protest) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8882888

From NPR
Jangly Pop for the Left Side of the Brain --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5483799

Concert Violinist Plays Indie-Rock Gigs --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7677066

Infectious Pop From Peter Björn & John --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9807712

Lifter Puller: Loud, Fast and Out of Control --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6190924

From NPR (Full Rock Concert)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Play DC --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5313569

Michael Brook's Eclectic Rock Tribute --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586671

Barenaked Ladies in Concert (entire rock concert)--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6063654

Hard Rock From NPR
All at Once, a Blazing Introduction --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579853

Billy Bob Thornton Opens Another 'Door' (Rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12128557

From NPR
A Solo Ray Davies Peers into 'Other People's Lives' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5319646

From NPR (Some are great and some are funky!)
Director's Cuts: Grammy Time --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5189744

Full Rock Concert from NPR
Gomez and The Bad Plus in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5496361

Sounds of the '80s, Minus the Artifice --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9167880

Live Rock Concert from NPR
Sleater-Kinney in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583923

Regina Spektor in Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6161219

The Psychedelic Debut of Jimi Hendrix --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6491823

Björk and Konono No. 1 in (Rock) Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9872952

Modest Mouse (Rock) Concert --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9922966

From NPR
New York's Legendary Sonic Youth in Concert (Full Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5480397

SXSW 2008: The Whigs (full rock concert from Austin, TX) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88163137

Boogie with Eddie Bo:--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14078460

Punk Straightface
Existential Angst with an Impish Straight Face --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5652572

Lifter Puller: Loud, Fast and Out of Control --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6190924

From NPR:  More Recordings To Hear Before You Die --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96495906

Tom Waits: The Whiskey Voice Returns --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6519647

The Decemberists Bring 'Crane Wife' to D.C. (Rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6382494

The Black Keys, Black Angels in Concert (full concert of hard rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6424079

A Poppy Rock Band Discovers Hints of Metal --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5783211

Built to Spill in Concert (full rock concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6204355

The Sound of an Angry Mob Gathering Strength --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6389065

Christian Pop Gets Metaphysical -- and Tuneful --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6551361

From NPR On 'The Streets of New York' with Willie Nile (a Bob Dylan-like sound) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5258097 

Taylor Fights, Then Follows, Parents' Musical Path --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6513773

At 68, Hunter continues to create hard-driving, memorable music, but he remains most famous for his guitar heroics and vocals in the '70s glam favorite Mott the Hoople. Hear Hunter perform a concert ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11216414

World Cafe Live --- http://www.worldcafelive.com/ 

Tom Petty Packs 30 Years of Rock for the Road --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586675

From NPR
Two Helpings of Tom Verlaine --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5527064

'The Information' Finds Beck at His Best (Punk Rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6212841

Jose Gonzalez in Concert with Argentina's Juana Molina and Psapp ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5519098

From NPR
Scotland's art-pop hipsters Belle and Sebastian and the Canadian power pop group The New Pornographers visit Washington
--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5235927

From NPR
Neko Case, Martha Wainwright in Concert (Full Rock Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695

Audiotorium (large number of free downloads) --- http://bornpinoy.com/audiotorium.htm

Rock Music from NPR
Loose Fur: 'Born Again in the USA' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5456989

Ray LaMontagne, Back with 'Sun Turns Black' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5704463

From NPR
Umphrey's McGee In Concert (the entire rock concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5374533

Not Quite Jazz, Not Quite Rock --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9295210

From NPR
Sonic Youth: A 25-Year Experiment in Artful Noise --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5479731

A Rock Sleeper Makes Guitars the Star --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9527798 

Ordinary Songs Become Memorable Events (if you liked Bob Dylan then you will probably like Karen Dalton) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5691531

From NPR
A Musical Conversation with T Bone Burnett --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5418424

From 'New False Identity' :  * 'Palestine, Texas' * 'Hollywood Mecca of the Movies'
From 'Twenty Twenty':  * 'Fatally Beautiful' * 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' * 'Driving Wheel'

From NPR
The Montreal Sound? Rock et Roulez --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176473

From NPR
Jenny Lewis: Questioning God on 'Rabbit Fur Coat' ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5228500

Building Power Through Electronic Repetition (Norway rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249187

From NPR
The Wiggles Rock! (Just Ask Your Kids) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5414895

From NPR
"Oscar Song Category Sparse This Year" --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244776

From NPR
Indie Labels Take a Risk, and Win, with Musicals --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187068
(Scroll down for samples, some from Broadway musicals)

It's My Life --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/itsmylife.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR
Reveling in the Joy of Repetition --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5519219

OK Go, French Kicks in Concert from D.C. --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6486100

From NPR
Indie Harmonies from Winterpills --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059402
(Scroll down for the great samples.)

From NPR
John Fogerty Travels 'The Long Road Home' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055071
(Scroll down for the great samples.  These are somewhat unpleasant to the ear.)

From NPR
The Sound of Pure Britpop, Texas-Style --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5512862

From NPR
Solo Acoustic Concert from Colin Meloy, Laura Veirs (listen to the entire concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5171264

Skate Legend Guerrero on Deck with a New CD (Hard Rock) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6636164

Tom Waits: Rock Classics, with a Gravelly Rasp --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6631200

From NPR
Amy Rigby's Messy, Modern Love Songs --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5055224
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Folk Songs for Five Points  --- http://www.tenement.org/folksongs/

From NPR
Flaming Lips Stay True and Reach Out with 'Mystics' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5339886

I Am My Own Grandpa (video) --- http://www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm
I'm My Own Grandpa (Ray Stephens) --- http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54702/im_my_own_grandpa/

From NPR
Suphala, Savoring the Beat of a Different Drum --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5133803
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Gregg Allman: A Classic in a Quieter Space --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6376466

From NPR
Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (Full Concert) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5348723

Travelin' Light --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/travelin.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Two cool hacks let you grab tunes at will. Plus: MP3 goes surround (again). From the Wired News blog Monkey Bites.
"Hacks For Downloading Songs on MySpace," Wired News, January 4, 2006 --- http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

NPR Rocks
The Slow Build to a Crashing Finish --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5585102

From NPR (Hip-Hop)
Modill: Chicago Hip-Hop with a Touch of Soul
--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5313575

From NPR
Classical Music Finds Its Funky Side --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5507990

From NPR
Book Explores Early Work of Bob Marley --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5404537

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Christmas and Other Seasonal Music

Holiday Music Videos

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Christmas Comedy and Blues

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

The Best Holiday Jazz CDs Ever, from WDUQ --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6594501

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

  • Nat "King" Cole: The Christmas Song

  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas

  • Diana Krall Featuring the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Christmas Songs

  • Nancy Wilson: A Nancy Wilson Christmas

  • Dianne Reeves, Christmas Time Is Here

  • "'Zat You, Santa Claus?" (Louis Armstrong)

  • "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Sean Jones)

  • Wynton Marsalis, Crescent City Christmas Card

  • Diane Delin,  "Overture from the Nutcracker Suite"

Christmas Songs (The Carpenters Video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwP9vp1GiA

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

From Jessie
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page.
Bob Jensen's Rusty Chevrolet --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/chev.htm
Christmas in Dixie (not in New Hampshire) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dixie.htm
Blue Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bluejovi.htm
Jingle Bell Rock (Randy Travis) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/jinglebellrock.htm
Jingle Bells (Dean Martin) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/jinglebells.htm 
Please Come Home for Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bellsjovi.htm
Redneck 12 Days of Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/redneck.htm
The Christmas Song --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/poem.htm
Silent Night --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/reminder.htm

Classical Music Christmas Around the Country 2007 (and 2005) from NPR --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16932702

Indiana University Men's Choral Group has a funny montage of Christmas music --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

Happy New Year - Auld Lang Syne by Sissel (Norwegian Soprano).wmv ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91rBzNKvlc&NR=1

Piano Jazz: 2007 Christmas Special (Part 1) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17214337

From Barb
Elvis Downloads (Many are Xmas Songs) ---
http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/elvisonstage.html

Great Big Band Holiday Music --- http://www.lulliloodesign.com/figaro_tunes.htm

Santa's Dreaming of a White Christmas --- http://badaboo.free.fr/merryxmas.swf

Great Orchestration of the 12 Days of Christmas --- http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1017129949136

Who put the dick on the snowman? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSXa5KmYQw&feature=youtu.be

One Hour of Seasonal Music from NPR (mostly classical)
Christmas Around the Country 2007 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16932702

Holiday Songs You Love... and Loathe --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6668863

Happy New Year (forwarded by Paula)
Pop each of the balloons with a left click on your mouse, then enjoy the Happy New Year celebration! http://www.icq.com/img/friendship/static/card_16961_rs.swf

Happy New Year (forwarded by Auntie Bev) --- http://www.senditout3.com/g/n_myw.shtml

From NPR
Hanukkah Lights 2005: Stories and Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5071946
(Scroll down for these samples.)

Christmas in Dixie --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/dixie.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

From NPR (Holiday Jazz Piano)
Traditions Old and New: 'Jazz Piano Christmas' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054118
(Scroll down for the great samples.)

A Christmas Carol (Video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRj7nt05UTI 

From NPR
Putting a 'White Christmas' On Stage
--- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5066315
(Scroll down for samples.)

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html

Elvis Christmas Page  --- http://mjbreck.com/SharisDesignsElvisLeaveTheLightsOn.html

From NPR
Mel Torme Sings The Christmas Song --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5062814
(Scroll down for these great samples.)

Twenty Years Of A Jazz Piano Christmas ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121520079

From NPR (Trombone)
Swinging Holiday Music from BED and Friends --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5061166
(Scroll down for the samples.)

Matisyahu Enlightens Fans with Reggae Hanukkah --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6643335

From NPR
A Christmas Concert from "World Cafe" --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5044299
(Scroll down for the great banjo and folk singing samples)

The Christmas Song --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/poem.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

A Carolina Christmas, With Kathy Mattea (full concert) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121476955

Auld Lang Syne (History) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne

You may have to search for current links to these songs on YouTube

Bob Jensen's Truck
Rusty Chevrolet --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/chev.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Silent Night --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/reminder.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Silent Night Christmas Card --- http://198.30.217.62/

White Trash Christmas --- http://www.andycouch.com/whitetrashxmas/

'Too Hot to Handel': A Modern 'Messiah' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6653685

Doo Wop Christmas Greetings --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html 

Miracles (instrumental) ---  http://www.jessiesweb.com/miracles.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Bells Will Be Ringing --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bellsjovi.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

Blue Christmas --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/bluejovi.htm
If the sound does not commence after 30 seconds, scroll to the bottom of the page and turn it on.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas --- http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html

Live Christmas Webcams from All Over the World --- http://home.hetnet.nl/~zwam0009/kerstmis5-en.htm

Happy Valentine's Day from Janie --- http://jbreck.com/Valentine.html

From NPR
The Sounds of Love: Valentine's Day Music --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5196270
There are a lot of choices here.

Melancholy Melodies from Halloween, Alaska ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4957418

Getting Mooned on Halloween --- http://www.funnybunch.com/hal/starrynight.swf

Three Turkeys Saying Goodbye --- Click Here

Good band music and good food --- http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=YS11737049

Snowball fight
Turn up the volume - DON'T hit Santa - He will swear at you
Move mouse onto the people who are not Santa and click and Enjoy - Remember - Don't hit Santa http://www.elfmovie.com/swf/snowball_fight/index.html

For a history of time machine recordings go to http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

In any language you choose, I wish you a Merry Christmas and  a Happy New Year.
Verba Volant 23-DEC-2005,
Every day a new quotation translated into many languages.

English - merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Albanian - gëzuar Krishtlindjet e Vitin e Ri
Aragones - goyoso Nadal e prospera ańata nuaba
Asturian - bon Nadal y feliz ańu nuevu
Basque - zorionak eta urte berri on
Bolognese - bĺn Nadčl e un ân nôv pén ed felizitč
Brazilian Portuguese - feliz Natal e próspero ano novo
Bresciano - bon Nedal e bu an nof
Breton - Nedeleg laouen ha bloavezh mat
Calabrese - buonu Natali e filici annu nuovu
Cornish - Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da
Croatian - sretan Božic i uspješna Nova godina
Danish - glćdelig jul og godt nytĺr
Dutch - prettige Kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuw jaar
English - merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Estonian - häid Jőule ja őnnelikku uut aastat
Ferrarese - auguri'd bon Nadal e bon an nňv
Finnish - hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
Flemish - zalig Kerstmis en gelukkig Nieuwjaar
French - joyeux Noël et bonne année
Furlan - bon Nadâl e bon an gnűf
Galician - bo Nadal e próspero aninovo
German - frohe Weihnachten und ein schönes neues Jahr
Griko Salentino - Kalň Kristů ce na chrono nčo comŕo 'zze charŕ
Hungarian - békés karácsonyt és boldog új évet
Italian - buon Natale e felice anno nuovo
Judeo Spanish - Noel alegre i felis anyo muevo
Latin - Natale hilare et annum faustum
Latvian - priecigus Ziemassvetkus un laimigu Jauno gadu
Leonese - Bon Nadal y Prestosu Ańu Nuevu
Limburgian - ne zaolige Kiësmes, e gelčkkig Nauwjoër, ęn al wo wčnselek čs!
Lombardo - bon Natal e bon ann noeuv
Mantuan - bon Nadal e bon an
Mapunzugun - ayüwün-ngechi lleqün antü ka küpalechi we tripantu
Mudnés - bňun Nadčl e bňun ŕn
Neapolitan - nu bbuono natale e felice anno nuovo
Norwegian - god Jul og godt nyttĺr
Occitan - polit Nadal e bona annada
Papiamentu - bon Pasku i felis ańa nobo
Parmigiano - bon Nadčl e dla felicitč par al an nňv
Piemontese - Bon Natal e Bon Ann neuv
Polish - Wesolych Swiat i szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese - feliz Natal e próspero ano novo
Rapanui - koa ite navidad ote mata hiti api
Romagnolo - bon Nadél e feliz 'an nov
Roman - bon Natale e bon anno
Sicilian - bon Natali e filici annu novu
Spanish - feliz Navidad y próspero ańo nuevo
Swedish - god jul och gott nytt ĺr
Umbro-Sabino - bon Natale e fecunnu annu nňu
Venetian - bon Nadal e bon ano novo
Wallon - djoyeűs Noyé čt bone annęye
Welsh - Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda
Zeneize - bon Denŕ e feliçe anno neuvo

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Video, Movie, Slide Shows, and Television Links

You may have to search for current links to these items on YouTube

Are you looking for a movie at a theatre in your home town?

Internet Movie Database --- http://us.imdb.com/ 
(You can read in your zip code to find out where and when a current movie is playing nearby.)

Digital Duo Video
The Differences Between DVRs DVR, TiVo, huh?
The Duo clear up the recorder confusion with a history lesson.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124109/article.html

Dan Tynan
Finding Online Video Search tools are just catching up
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122859/article.html

YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/

Stunning BBC Commercial (What a Wonderful World) --- http://www.youtube.com/embed/auSo1MyWf8g?rel=0

Link forwarded by Rick Lillie
Try VideoSurf ( http://www.videosurf.com/ ) to find videos of all types on the Internet.

Video:  100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists ---
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/06/18/100-incredible-lectures-from-the-worlds-top-scientists/

125 Great Science Videos: From Astronomy to Physics & Psychology ---
http://www.openculture.com/science_videos

Hulu's Large Library of Contemporary Videos --- http://www.hulu.com/

American Cinema (video) --- http://www.learner.org/resources/series67.html

The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection (music history in theater and the media) ---
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/kayefine/kayefine-home.html

Monty Python YouTube Channel --- http://uk.youtube.com/user/MontyPython

Great Scholarly Video:  The MediaScape from YouTube to Blogosphere to Social Networks
YouTube distributes more original programming in six months than the U.S. TV networks did in 30 years
Highly Educational and Entertaining About the YouTube Generation
Forwarded by anthropology professor John Donahue
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
(and social networks) by Michael Wesch (55 minute video)--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

Intelligent YouTube: Smart Video Collections --- http://www.openculture.com/2008/03/youtubesmartvideos.html

YouTube versus Viddler versus Other Online Video Sources

July 19, 2008 message from Richard J. Campbell mailto:campbell@rio.edu

Although youtube has a huge "market share", the quality of videos are degraded by the compression techniques that they use. Below is a link to a demo of another, better-quality site.

http://www.viddler.com/learn-more/ 

Richard J. Campbell
 mailto:campbell@rio.edu

July 20, 2008 reply from Bob Jensen

Hi Richard,

Thank you for the Viddler link. I looked into this a bit and discovered that Viddler is more for the short home movies. As you know as well or better than me, video file compression is essential to making online video work well, especially since online video is beginning to clog the Internet. If I were an Internet czar I would ban uncompressed video.

Internet Gridlock Video is clogging the Internet
Video downloads are sucking up bandwidth at an unprecedented rate. A short magazine article might take six minutes to read online. Watching "The Evolution of Dance" also takes six minutes--but it requires you to download 100 times as much data. "The Evolution of Dance" alone has sent the equivalent of 250,000 DVDs' worth of data across the Internet.
"Internet Gridlock Video is clogging the Internet.: How we choose to unclog it will have far-reaching implications," by Larry Hardesty, MIT's Technology Review, July/August 2008 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20919/?nlid=1172&a=f

Uncompressed Viddler videos only run for a max of about a minute. This makes Viddler unsuitable for training and education tutorials and full lectures relative to YouTube where videos in mpg compression can run up to ten minutes each video we upload. YouTube also lets colleges put up entire lectures from universities. For example, one of UC Berkeley's YouTube lectures in physics that runs 1.25 hours is at http://snipurl.com/ucp01  [www_youtube_com] 

It would be absurd to put entire courses or even longer tutorials up in uncompressed video. Compression of a video can save upwards of 90% of the file space required for storage and uploading and downloading --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm#Video

File size is limited on Viddler to 500 Mb in contrast to YouTube’s one Gb limit (usually uploaded in mpg compression) which gives about 10 minutes of viewing at 640 x 480 resolution on YouTube for the general public. UC. Universities like UC Berkeley that put lots of free courses on YouTube must be making special arrangements to have file sizes of 10 GB or more per lesson.

The allowed video time on Viddler is just not good for tutorials. By way of illustration, compare the following tutorials in math and especially compare the image quality versus the running time versus the loading time:

You can view YouTube videos in full screen mode using one button on the bottom left. Viddler videos can also be viewed in full screen by first clicking on the menu button on the bottom left and then choosing the full screen option

Viddler --- http://www.viddler.com/
YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/

Bob Jensen's video helpers --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm#Video

Bob Jensen's guide to free video lectures --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

BigThink:  YouTube for Scholars (where intellectuals may post their lectures on societal issues) --- http://www.bigthink.com/

TED:  Technology, Entertainment, and Design Lectures --- http://www.ted.com/

Open Science Directory --- http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Free Feature Length Documentary Films --- http://www.snagfilms.com/ 

The Visual Dictionary --- http://www.infovisual.info/


The History of Film — 2000 Movies Across 100 Years — Presented in One Big Zoomable Graphic ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/the_history_of_film_--_2000_movies_across_100_years_--_presented_in_one_big_zoomable_graphic.html


An Absolute Must Read for Educators
One of the most exciting things I took away from the 2010 AAA Annual Meetings in San Francisco is a hard copy handout entitled "Expanding Your Classroom with Video Technology and Social Media," by Mark Holtzblatt and Norbert Tschakert. Mark later sent me a copy of this handout and permission to serve it up to you at
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/Video-Expanding_Your_Classroom_CTLA_2010.pdf

This is an exciting listing to over 100 video clips and full-feature videos that might be excellent resources for your courses, for your research, and for your scholarship in general. Included are videos on resources and useful tips for video projects as well as free online communication tools.

My thanks to Professors Holtzblatt and Tschakert for this tremendous body of work that they are now sharing with us.


April 18, 2009 message from Barry Rice [brice@LOYOLA.EDU]

Many of you may be familiar with www.imdb.com, the Internet Movie Database, which was launched in 1990 according to Wikipedia. It is the 41st most popular Web site on the Internet today according to http://mostpopularwebsites.net. However, did you know that they have added the ability to legally view free feature-length movies and TV shows in the past few months? Most of my friends and Loyola College colleagues as well as students with whom I discuss this don't know about this feature. Go to http://www.imdb.com/features/video/ and look at the "Browse All Videos By Type" heading on the left for links to "Full-Length Movies" and "Full-Length TV Episodes" to see the lists of dozens of movies and hundreds of TV episodes that you can view in their entirety at no cost. Yes, many of them are rather old, but they are free.

 

Just hook your computer or other Internet device to your flat screen TV and become a couch potato again. Some information about such devices is available at http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how_to/4213002.html in a one-year-old article. I'm sure other AECMers have more current ways to connect the Internet to TVs.

 

Finally, yes, I am aware that YouTube announced plans for something similar earlier this week. See http://www.pcworld.com/article/163320/youtube_adds_movies_and_shows_goes_after_hulu.html for more information.

 

Barry Rice

AECM Founder

 

To find YouTube videos of your favorite singers, use Google. For example, to find music videos of Bette Midler, enter "Bette Middler" AND "YouTube" in the search boxes at
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

How do I buy online movies and what can I do with them? ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17890&ch=infotech

LocateTV will search over 3 million TV listings across all channels in your area
Type in the name of a TV show, movie, or actor
Locate TV will find channels and times in your locale
http://www.locatetv.com/

Google's search engine for video --- http://video.google.com/

Yahoo's search engine for video --- http://video.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Video and Television Segment Search --- http://video.search.yahoo.com/ 

Free Video Downloads: Check the offerings at your local public libraries
"Free Movies: Video: How to get films for nothing online: from the library," by Yvonne Dennis, The Wall Street Journal,  February 18, 2006; Page P2 ---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114019960025277134.html?mod=todays_us_pursuits

Yahoo Movies --- http://movies.yahoo.com/

InstaPundent's links to videos --- http://www.instapundet.com/

"Searching the Web for Video Clips" by Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret --- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114117478467285971.html?mod=todays_us_personal_journal

Search for Online Video --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#VideoSearch

How many videos are on YouTube at this moment?
How many new videos are added (uploaded) on average each day?

The content on both YouTube.com and YouTube.ca will be the same, but the Canadian site will highlight homegrown material, said international product manager Luis Garcia. The site becomes the 15th country-specific site, Garcia said. ''The only thing that's different is that this is just a Canadian lens into that content, so if a user wants to get the Canada point of view into that global body of content, then they're able to do that,'' Garcia told reporters at the YouTube.ca launch event Tuesday in Toronto. That means that content uploaded by users in Canada will show up as ''top favorites'' and ''recommended content'' on the site. . . . YouTube, which was founded in February 2005, hosts more than 100 million video views every day with 65,000 new videos uploaded daily. Within a year after its launch, YouTube made headlines when Google Inc. acquired the company for US$1.65 billion worth of stock.
"Popular video-sharing site YouTube launches Canadian version," MIT's Technology Review, November 6, 2007
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/19682/?nlid=653
Recall that UC Berkeley has over 300 lectures (mostly in science) on YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley
Other Open Courseware videos --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Jensen Comment
With 15 or more nations having their own YouTube videos, it will make it more difficult to search for given topics since the videos will not be maintained in a single archive. Hopefully, YouTube will one day have a search engine for searching all of its archives at the same time. Of course this will not overcome language barriers.

 

Birth of TV [cultural apocalypse] --- http://www.birth-of-tv.org/

Find music and audio books from Akuma --- http://www.akuma.de/

Kurzfilme is German for short films and maybe thats interesting for your "Online multimedia" section.
You can find netzwelt Kurzfilme at http://www.netzwelt.de/divxvideo/divxkurzfilme.html

Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans --- http://www.doctormacro.com/Galleries.htm
This site has scanned photographs and generous movie clips.  The quality is good and the works are classified by both movie titles and leading performers.  Most of the selections are from the earlier days of film. There are also movie summaries and links.

Classic Movie Links --- http://www.doctormacro.com/Links.htm

YouTube and the Cultural Studies Classroom --- http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/11/13/conway

Tim Conway

Jack Benny

Jack Benny Part 1 (the answer to high fuel prices) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqUjciB0Q80
Jack Benny Part 2 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5vZzoBixAU
Jack Benny Part 3 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8iOU1RWiLw
Jack Benny vs. Groucho (1955) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wNK1Jt4JLg
Jack Benny and Marilyn Monroe --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_IzdZDyT0w
Jack Gives Johnny Carson Advice (1955) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUd1-_91YTk

John Stossel's great ABC Television's "Goes to Washington" videos

 

A free video (approximately 60 minutes) by Captain Coffee is available online at http://www.nationwidespeakers.com/video/343

Hundreds of Clips from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation --- http://archives.cbc.ca/index.asp?IDLan=1

Video Nation (from the United Kingdom) --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/

Pixsy's updates on free videos --- http://www.pixsy.com/search.aspx?cat=12

"Ultimate Guide to Online Video," Wired News, May 1, 1006 ---
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70767-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

MIT's Technology Review launches a new video blog -- TR Vlog! --- http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/video.aspx

Fox to Sell Movies, TV Shows for Download --- http://physorg.com/news74745725.html
"20th Century Fox to sell movies on IGN, MySpace" --- Click Here

Digital Archives --- http://www.dapcentral.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=MasterList2&file=more

This is good!
Fantastic Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell Tap Dancing
 --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/
Also see http://www.reeljewels.com/epowell/epsongs.htm
Eleanor Powell & Fred Astaire "Begin the Beguine" Tap Dancing ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1406ec0aae0b7077

The (Humorous) History Of Dance (during my lifetime) --- http://www.youtube.com/v/dMH0bHeiRNg 

Rap:  Treat Your Mother Right --- http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/03/treatyourmotherright.html

Online Audio, Video, and Movie Finders --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Multimedia

Share your own videos on the Web and see what others are sharing
YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/
"Instantly find and watch 1000's of fast streaming videos":  (I don't know how you do that "instantly.")
Also see (and listen) to a review of YouTube by NPR at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5207368

Darwin Awards --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards#Movie

From NPR
Harry Shearer Spoofs '60 Minutes' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346384

Stories on Stage --- http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/programs/specials/sos/stories.asp 

From NPR
Laughing Along with Lily Tomlin Comic Reflects on a Career Honored by Mark Twain Prize by Scott Simon --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1477875
Watch Videos of Lily Tomlin's Classic Performances

Computer Animated Music (link forwarded by Ed Scribner) --- http://www.animusic.com/downloads.html

NOAA Ocean Explorer --- http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/

Jihad the Musical (humor) --- http://www.jihad-the-musical.com/media/
 

 

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

 

The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions.

The University Channel presents ideas in a way commercial news or public affairs programming cannot. Because it is neither constrained by time nor dependent upon commercial feedback, the University Channel's video content can be broad and flexible enough to cover the full gamut of academic investigation.

While it has unlimited potential, the University Channel begins with a focus on public and international affairs, because this is an area which lends itself most naturally to a many-sided discussion. Perhaps of greatest advantage to universities who seek to expand their dialog with overseas institutions and international affairs, the University Channel can "go global" and become a truly international forum.

The University Channel aims to become, literally, a "channel" for important thought, to be heard in its entirety. Television has become so much a part of the fabric of our world that it should be more than an academic interest. It should be an academic tool.

The University Channel project is an initiative of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is leading the effort to build university membership and distribution partners. Technical support, advice and services are provided through the generosity of Princeton University's Office of Information Technology. Digital video solutions courtesy of Princeton Server Group.

From NPR
Viral Video and the Rise of YouTube --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5454327

Note: Some YouTube posts use language that might be considered objectionable.

* Star Trek Cribs
* Don Rickles Roasted on The Dean Martin Show
* Trailer Parody of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
* Crispin Glover on Letterman
* Hip-Hop Highlight -- Newcleus: 'Jam On It'
* Intro to The Muppet Show

PhysOrg News Videos --- http://physorg.com/

Health Videos from PhysOrg

» Soda: A Weighty Issue - video , Mar 6
» Meditation Helps ADHD - video , Mar 1
» Indoor Tanning Dangers - video , Mar 1
» Exercise For Disabilities - video , Mar 1
» Electronic Nurses - video , Mar 1
» Prone To Play - video
, Mar 1

Free Education and Research Videos from Harvard University --- http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp

Earth From Above --- http://home.fujifilm.com/efa/

Video Poetry --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/index.html
Includes Hillary Clinton reading The Makers --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/hclinton.html
Click down hard on the picture to commence the video reading!

Celebrating 40 Years of Film in New York City --- http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/anniversary/anniversary_home.shtml

Controversial video initially aired in the Arab media by Al Jazeera ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2006/tidbits060306.htm#Video

Poetry Out Loud [mulitimedia] --- http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ 

Please check on your bank account --- http://www.scottstratten.com/movie.html

Free Video Downloads (These are great!)
The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films. Folkstreams.net makes these films easy to find and to see by video-streaming them on the Internet, and also provides in-depth and reliable contextual materials about the subjects and the filmmaking. Folkstreams.net also encourages alternative forms of filmmaking about subjects neglected by mainstream corporate media.
Folkstreams.net --- http://www.folkstreams.net/
Film Titles --- http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmsByTitle.php

Open Source Movies (free downloads) http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies

I really like the Digital Duo show that appears weekly once again on PBS.  I found that you can bring up prior shows on your computer by going to http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/index/0,00.asp

President Bush Press Conference --- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1921276117304287501 

The latest gadgets promise to make driving easier, safer, and possibly even fun. The Duo kick some tires to get at the truth
Great Gear for Cars (Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,150,00.asp

Independent Films Go Live On ClickFlicks.net ---
http://www.internetweek.cmp.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=177102053

ASIFA Hollywood --- http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/index.html

Amazon Launches Video Entertainment Show Hosted By Bill Maher --- http://www.internetweek.cmp.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=177102054

This is good!
Video from The New Yorker
George Packer reports on what American soldiers have learned about battling the insurgency in Iraq, and
whether those lessons have come too late.
http://www.cartoonbank.com/newyorker/slideshows/060410onco_packer.html#

Virtual Vaudeville (from the University of Georgia and the NSF) --- http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/

Afternoon Delight (music with weird daytime lovemaking video) --- http://youtube.com/watch?v=YpQvszWfcSc

James River Plantations --- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/jamesriver/
(This is neat video technology.)
The Library of Congress Webcasts --- http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/index.php

Video from the Department of the Army
Future Combat Systems: 2005 --- http://www.army.mil/professionalvideo/movies/fcs2005_movie.html

Romantic Sleigh Ride with Bud Lite --- http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2004/m_sleigh_ride-p1.php

Hillary Can't Wait --- http://www.michaelhodges.com/missing.html

Fruitcake Lady (didn't she appear on the Johnnie Carson show?) ---
https://home.comcast.net/~jfmelnick/fruitcakelady.wmv

An Educational Film Spoof Video called Big Fat Institute --- http://www.bigfatinstitute.org/
This site is a Webby Nominee that is written up by Frank Ahrens, "An Educational-Film Spoof And Other Webby Nominees," The Washington Post, April 16, 2006 --- Click Here

Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures --- http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/

The Web is a Dangerous Place Video (with dancing sheep) --- http://eclectech.co.uk/dailymailpicnic.php

The Blogging Heads --- http://bloggingheads.tv/?id=64&cid=187

Jay Leno's Free Photo Booth Video --- http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=vEWLwz6JRNE

Show Me the Way to Amarillo --- www.kfmx.com/x2/amarillo1.wmv

The Victoria and Albert Museum [QuickTime] http://www.vam.ac.uk

Gladiator American Style
 http://patriotfiles.org/GladiatorAmericanStyle.htm

Holy Lemon Videos (often humorous and/or musical) --- http://www.holylemon.com/

From NPR
A St. Patrick's Day Tale: Storyteller Eddie Lenihan ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5286174

Giant Steps (Jazz featuring the great John Coltrane) ---
http://phenotypical.com/content/multimedia/flash/John_Coltrane-Giant_Steps.swf

I'm My Own Grandpa (Ray Stephens) --- http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54702/im_my_own_grandpa/

Metacafe Humor Videos --- http://www.metacafe.com/

From NPR
Silver Belles Still Light Up the Harlem Stage --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5573117

Yiddish for Dick and Jane --- http://www.vidlit.com/yidlit/

Deer Tied Down in the Parking Lot (OK at first, but too much of a good thing)--- http://www.wimp.com/deerprank/

Mona Lisa Smile Video ---
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/01/video_mona_lisa.html?sssdmh=dm4.163111

Bill O'Reilly's exchange with David Letterman on the Late Show --- http://www.billoreilly.com/site/preview?pid=3683

The Kooks of Hazard Video --- http://www.mdna.net/kooks.html

Arnold's Neighborhood Video http://www.arnoldsneighborhood.com/index.html

Search for Online Video --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#VideoSearch

History: Public Information Films --- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/

Golden Movie Musicals (not free) 
http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/classact.htm

Trombone Dancing --- http://allowe.com/Humor/video/TromboneDancing.wmv

The History Channel of Television now Videocasts --- http://www.historychannel.com/

From NPR
Bob Mondello's Top Films for 2005 --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5076591

 

Current Movies at Theatres
Internet Movie Database --- http://us.imdb.com/ 
(You can read in your zip code to find out where and when a current movie is playing nearby.)

Rental/Purchase Video Downloads from Amazon.com
People familiar with the situation say the online retailer is talking with movie studios including General Electric Co.'s Universal Pictures, Viacom Inc.'s Paramount and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. about making their content available on its site,
both for Internet rental and purchase. Negotiations are continuing, but a service could begin this summer. Amazon declined to comment.
"Coming Attraction: Downloadable Movies From Amazon," by Sarah McBride and Mylene Mangalindan, The Wall Street Journal,  March 10, 2006; Page B1 --- Click Here

"Searching the Web for Video Clips" by Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, The Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2006, Page D4 --- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114117478467285971.html?mod=todays_us_personal_journal

Video on the Web is all the rage now, the subject of an endless stream of articles and speculation that it's the next big thing. And there's some evidence to back that up. Apple Computer Inc. sold 12 million video clips at $1.99 each from its popular iTunes Music Store in just a few months. Google has made a splash with a similar video download store. According to AccuStream iMedia Research, about 18 billion video streams were online in 2005 and that number is expected to grow by more than 30% in 2006.

But how do you find the video clips you'd like to see, or download? Normal search engines like Google's can sometimes point you to video clips, but they aren't optimized for that task.

So, this week, we dived into the world of online videos, looking for the best ways to find clips. We were impressed by how much material is out there -- much of it free. We used about 10 different video searching/hosting sites to find videos related to TV shows, including "Grey's Anatomy," Hollywood actors, like Matthew McConaughey, and musicians, like Brad Paisley. We also searched for news videos, ads and amateur videos. We even looked for a famous "Saturday Night Live" mock music video, and its imitators.

Our results: AOL Video Search, Yahoo Video Search, and Blinkx TV earned our appreciation because each searches the entire Internet for material, and does a decent job.

Google Video and iTunes also perform video searches, but they search only among the material they host on their own servers, and which they offer for sale, or for free downloading. They don't search across the entire Web. Sites like YouTube.com and GoFish.com have sprung up as central download sites for all sorts of video clips, some by amateurs and some by pros. But they, too, search only the material they offer themselves.

The technology for searching the actual spoken words in a video exists, but is in its infancy. So, most video searches are done by looking for words in a video's title text, or in descriptions or other information embedded in a video file in the form of "metadata" or "tags" -- kind of like the embedded title, artist and album information in a music file. Some TV shows stored on the Web also contain closed captioning data, and that can be searched in some cases.

AOL Video Search (www.aol.com/video) uses the search engines of two smaller, yet powerful, companies that it owns: Truveo.com and Singingfish.com. As you use AOL Video Search, your past search topics are saved in a left-hand column and videos can be saved into a special AOL playlist. An adult content filter is used on AOL's server, meaning users can't turn the filter on or off.

Using AOL, we found and watched the "Saturday Night Live" mock music video called "Lazy Sunday," set in New York, and its West Coast response, "Lazy Monday," set in Los Angeles.

Yahoo Video Search (http://video.search.yahoo.com) can display results in a visually attractive grid of images from each video clip. Unlike AOL, which displays advertisements on its search start and results page, Yahoo doesn't show ads on either page -- though ads will display if they're linked to videos from outside sources. A SafeSearch filter can be used for blocking adult material as you search videos.

Using Yahoo's video search, we turned up clips of a forgettable 1998 appearance Walt made in an East Coast vs. West Coast computer trivia contest held in Boston. Not only was his East Coast team crushed, but they wore puffy colonial shirts while being crushed.

Blinkx TV (www.Blinkx.tv) uses a simple interface and makes searching easy -- an empty box placed on the left of the screen with a collage of 100 tiny clip images playing on the right. After results are returned, you can adjust a horizontal slider between "date" or "relevance," depending on your preference. Our results weren't always as accurate with Blinkx as they were with other video-search sites -- one search returned spreadsheets rather than videos -- but we liked how the results page played animated clips of each video in the same window. Blinkx offers a prominent filtering button to hide adult results.

Google Video (http://video.google.com), which is still in its beta (or prerelease) version, also offers video searching through free videos -- but allows you to search only through material that Google hosts, or streams from its servers. This site eliminates ads -- including Google's word-only ads -- entirely, which is refreshing.

Netflix punishes its best customers
"Netflix Punishes Movie Lovers," by Antone Gonsalves, InternetWeek Newsletter, February 3, 2006

Nowhere but the Internet can you find a company that penalizes customers who like it too much. That's the case with Netflix, the online company that pioneered DVD movie rentals by mail, causing major headaches for brick-and-mortar operations like Blockbuster. While most businesses would kill to get more customers to buy products or use their services, Netflix punishes their heaviest users by making fewer movies available to them and delaying shipments.

Those who find this hard to believe, only have to read Netflix's Terms of Service, which reads, in part, "In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service."

The reason for this less-than-customer-friendly policy is that Netflix makes more money off of the occasional user than from movie lovers who watch DVDs as soon as they get them, and then ship them back in Netflix's pre-paid envelope in order to get more movies. Since everyone pays the same amount each month, it's obvious why film buffs are Netflix's worst nightmare.

Continued in article

The Netflix home page is at http://www.netflix.com/

Jensen Comment
But don't despair, it's easy to hack into Netflix --- http://internetweek.cmp.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=178601092
I subscribed for a time to Blockbuster's rental service. It is very efficient and relatively inexpensive if you want to watch at least one movie per day. The DVD disks come in postage-paid return envelopes. But I found out that I soon ran out of choices that appealed to me --- www.blockbuster.com


"UC Berkeley university puts course videos (but not for credit) on YouTube," PhysOrg, October 3, 2007 --- http://physorg.com/news110638174.html

University offerings at the dedicated YouTube channel include peace and conflict studies, bioengineering courses, and a science class titled "Physics for Future Presidents."

"UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university life: academics, events and athletics," said vice provost for undergraduate education Christina Maslach.

The University plans to continually add videos to the channel, which officially launched Wednesday with about nine full courses consisting of approximately 40 lectures each.

Berkeley lays claim to being the first university to offer full courses on popular video-sharing website YouTube, which is based in Northern California.

The university began online broadcasts, called "webcasts," of its own in 2001 and last year began making audio "podcasts" available for download at Apple's iTunes online store.

"We are excited to make UC Berkeley videos available to the world on YouTube," said Ben Hubbard, who co-manages the university's webcast program.

"I think the whole open content movement is in keeping with what we are as a public institution, we really believe at our core that making this available to the public is truly important."
 

UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to "Physics for Future Presidents," the title of a popular campus course. Building on its initial offerings, UC Berkeley will continue to expand the catalog of videos available on YouTube.
View the Playlist Here --- http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley 
There is a link to the most viewed videos (with star ratings) at the above page.

Examples include Integrative Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, etc.
Links to 201 videos --- http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ucberkeley&p=r
You can search by topic in the search box at the above page.

On October 4, 2007 I could not find any accounting, finance, or economics videos at the UC Berkeley site. There were six courses that popped up for "Business."

Here's a student, who created a RealPlayer playlist, explaining how to these videos --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUfKoXtwEu0

Also see Webcast.Berkeley [iTunes, Real Player] http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ 

UC Berkeley also has XLab --- http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/07/13_xlab.shtml

Nearly all prestigious universities now offer some form of open sharing of course materials, the most noteworthy of which is MIT. Yale, however, has some of the finest lectures on video --- http://www.yale.edu/opa/download/VLP_QuestionsAnswers.pdf

From Princeton
University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

From the University of Texas
Take Five from the University of Texas http://www.utexas.edu/inside_ut/take5/

From Harvard
Introduction --- http://athome.harvard.edu/about/about.htm
Program List --- http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp

Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

Video Lecture Search
Type in "Video Lectures" with quotation marks at http://megite.com/discover.php?q=learning
Example:  David Deutsch Quantum Computation Lectures --- http://www.quiprocone.org/quipmain.htm  

You can read about these and other examples of open sharing at major universities at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI


Copyright Restrictions on Open Sharing/Source Learning Materials

These are only my opinions, and they should not be taken as legal advice.
Just because something can be accessed online does not mean it is an open sharing item. Generally online items are like library books that can be accessed by the public but have copyright restrictions copying and uses other than personal reading. If online learning materials are billed as "open sharing," or "open source" (as in the case of OCW materials at MIT) chances are that they can be used in total or in part for educational purposes in other open sharing materials if proper credits are given. In commercial materials such as books and course videos, there is vulnerability for lawsuit by the copyright owners. In my personal opinion, I think a lot depends upon how central the copyrighted material is to the purchased material. If use is incidental and credits are fully proper, then the risks of lawsuit are less than when the copyrighted material becomes more featured in the material. In any case, it is good advice to seek permission from copyright owners if the use is for some for-profit purpose. This probably includes online or onsite courses for which fees are charged to take the course. The dreaded DMCA is somewhat vague on open sharing materials, but open sharing does not mean that copyright owners have abandoned all rights. You can read more about the dreaded DMCA at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm

This is Very Important --- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/help/faq3/index.htm
MIT is the most open sharing major university in terms of course materials --- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
It's statement on intellectual property sets, in my opinion, precedent for most other open sharing colleges --- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/help/faq3/index.htm

YouTube has a statement about use of YouTube videos at http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_copyright
Also see http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10550&hl=en_US

Since the term "open source" is rooted in computer software, the term is a bit cloudy when it comes to text and multimedia learning materials. You can read more about open sharing and copyrights at the following sites:


How to Excerpt Open Courseware Video, Compress It, and Serve it Up to Students

Suppose that a very long video lecture is available as open courseware for proper use in other learning materials. An instructor may only want to use parts of this lecture in another course or supplemental tutorials for a course. Searching a long video is tedious and time consuming. A better approach is to make audio or video excerpts of portions of the long lecture.

Homemade video tutorial (very basic) on how to record streaming audio on your PC --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPHSDOyj5f8
Note the passing reference to a free sound recorder called Audacity --- http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Note that if you are watching a lecture video that's pretty much a talking head, it saves a lot, I mean a LOT, of file space to only capture the audio.
This might, for example, work very well when capturing parts of  the many UC Berkeley, YouTube, Yale, or Harvard video lectures --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Just in case source streams disappear from the Internet, I suggest capturing what's important to you and saving to external media such as a CD or DVD disk.
Capturing also allows you to only capture what is relevant to you or your students without having to spend a lot of time waiting for the good parts.

If the video open sharing video is a file, you might be able to download the video file and then edit the file using something like the Producer Module in Camtasia Studio --- http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/enhance.asp

However, in most instances open sharing videos are streaming (using the term loosely here) videos for which there is no file to download. In that case the video must be captured in total or in part by software designed for such purposes. The software I like for video capturing is called Camtasia Recorder --- http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/record.asp
Also see http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/education.asp
This is cheaper alternative than many more specialized products for streaming video capture. You can download my PowerPoint file about Camtasia at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/PowerPoint/
Links to examples are given in this slide show.

You can read about other alternatives for streaming video capture at http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#StreamingMedia

When you capture streaming media as an avi file it has the advantage in that you can edit the movie and delete parts you do not want using software like Camtasia Producer  --- http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/enhance.asp
You can also add interaction "skip to" buttons, quiz questions/answers, survey questions, etc.

But captured avi files are generally enormous and cannot be stored efficiently anywhere. After you've excerpted and edited the captured video as an avi file it is almost always necessary to compress it into a wmv, mov, rm, scf, flv, or some related option such as the compression options available in Camtasia Producer. There is not generally a noticeable quality degradation in the compressed versions. However, it is not possible, at least in Camtasia, to alter the compressed version without recapturing it as an avi file.

After you have your compressed file such as a wmv you will need to get it to your students. Chances are that your Blackboard, WebCT, or Web server does not give you enough capacity to serve up a lot of video, including space-saving compressed video. The next best thing is to either distribute your video to students on CD or DVD disks or to send it to them over the Internet.

It is not generally possible to attach large video files to email messages. However there are very good free alternatives for sending files to students over the Internet --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#SendingLargeFiles

Bob Jensen's threads on free online textbooks and other electronic literature --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm 


JUST CLICK ON A DATE AND SIT BACK AND ENJOY

 
1. JACKIE GLEASON ON THE ROCKY MARCIANO SHOW THE MAIN EVENT (1960) 
2.  JAMES DEAN: HIS FINAL TV APPEARANCE 
(1954)  
3.  ELVIS SINGS BLUE SUEDE SHOES 
(1956)  
4.  A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL 
(1959-62)  
5.  THE EDSEL INTRODUCED ON NBC 
(1957)  
6.  BOBBY DARIN'S "MACK THE KNIFE" 
(1959)  
7.  WESTINGHOUSE DEBUTS HI-TECH "ADVANCED TV" 
(1951) 
8.  WILLIAM BENDIX AS LOVABLE CHESTER A. RILEY 
(1956)  
9.  ICONS I: WHAT MADE 50'S TV GOLDEN 
(COMPILATION, (1952-60)  
10.  THE PATTI PAGE SHOW 
(1958) 
11. BLOOPERS FROM THE HONEYMOONERS 
(1957-58) 
12.  THE CENSORED JERRY LEE LEWIS HERE UNCENSORED! 
(1957-59) 
13.  A TRUE 50's DOO WOP TV CLASSIC 
(1958) 
14.  FAMILY AFFAIR 
(1966) 
15.  ALAN FREED'S BIG BEAT DANCE PARTY DANCERS 
(1959) 
16.  THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW 
(1957) 
17.  The Inventor Of TV Sketch Comedy ERNIE KOVACS 
(1954) 
18.  THE RED SKELTON SHOW 
(1959) 
19.  ICONS: THE DELINQUENCY RAMPAGE! 
(COMPILATION, 1957-60) 
20.  FATHER KNOWS BEST 
(1953) 
21.  PETTICOAT JUNCTION 
(1962) 
22.  OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST BOB MATTHIAS 
(1956) 
23.  DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE HAND JIVE 
(1957) 
24.  GROUCHO MARX YOU BET YOUR LIFE 
(1959) 
25.  DRAGNET 
(1959) 
26.  THE IMMORTAL MUSICAL COMEDY OF VICTOR BORGE 
1951 
27.  EDDIE FISHER SINGS A MEDLEY OF HIS BIGGEST HITS 
1953 
28.  ABBOTT & COSTELLO: WHO'S ON FIRST? 
1951 
29.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's THE JITTERBUG 
1958 
30. THE HONEYMOONERS ... IN COLOR! 
1969 
31.  THE ORIGINAL FLASH GORDON SERIAL 
theatres-1939; TV-1960's 
32.  THE LONE RANGER 
1955 
33.  THE ENDEARING GRIMACES OF EDDIE CANTOR 
1952 
34.  BOBBY DARIN NERVOUSLY HOSTS A BEAUTY CONTEST 
1957 
35.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE LINDY HOP 
1959 
36.  SHAKE, BABY, SHAKE!  IT'S THE KILLER AGAIN! 
1958 
37.  THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW 
1958 
38.  SID CAESAR: YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS 
1957 
39.  HERE COMES TOBOR! 
1954 
40.  THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN 
1954 
41.  THE ADVENTURES OF FLIPPER 
1964 
42.  SPIKE JONES 
1951 
43.  CAPTAIN VIDEO & HIS VIDEO RANGERS 
1950 
44.  THE LIBERACE SHOW 
1952 
45.  MEDIC 
1954 
46.  THE BIG VALLEY 
1965 
47.  THE ROOTS OF TV BASEBALL 
1950-57 
48.  Mc HALE'S NAVY 
1962 
49.  HOPALONG CASSIDY 
1952 
50.  DARK SHADOWS 
1966 
51.  
FADS & FANCIES OF THE 50s & 60s 
52.  I LOVE LUCY 
1952 
53.  THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW 
1962 
54.  THE BEATLES FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCE 
1963 
55.  BAT MASTERSON 
1958 
56.  MARTY ROBBINS ON THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW 
1964 
57.  FRANK SINATRA SPEAKS CANDIDLY 
1954 
58.  PASSWORD 
1962 
59.  STAR TREK TV ON DEMAND 
1966-present 
60.  MORE DANCES OF THE 50's: THE SWINGBACK 
1958 
61.  THE LIVE TV FRIDGE COMMERCIAL CATASTROPHE 
1954 
62.  THE ARTHUR GODFREY SHOW 
1957 
63.   BUILDING THE 1958 DODGE 
1957 
64.  FIGHT CLASSIC: ROCKY MARCIANO vs. JERSEY JOE WALCOTT 
1952 
65.  AND MORE GREAT ICONS OF THE 50's VOL III 
1952-59 
66.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS 
1959 
67.  SATURDAY NIGHTLIVE~~ BEFORE SNL 
1954-58 
68.  FELIX THE CAT 
1959 
69.  THE DONNA REED SHOW 
1958 
70.  THE GOLDBERGS 
1952 
71.  LUCILLE BALL & CAROL BURNETT 
1965 
72.  THE LITTLE RASCALS 
1955 
73.  HIGHWAY PATROL 
1956 
74.  LOST IN SPACE 
1966 
75.  BEULAH 
1951 
76.  BEWITCHED 
1966 
77.  I DREAM OF JEANIE 
1966 
78.  SEA HUNT 
1957 
79.  DYNAMITE JOE RINDONE 
1954 
80.  THE MILTON BERLE SHOW 
1957 

 


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