
Sunday Morning Video: The White Stripes From The Basement
Power duo in the basement. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The White Stripes From The Basement
Power duo in the basement. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The White Stripes From The Basement
Gary Brooker 1945-2022. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: A Tribute To Gary Brooker
Here’s a 1982 set before they became big stars. Warning: there are some sound issues with Psycho Killer but the rest of the video sounds fine. Continue reading SMV: Talking Heads Montreux Jazz Festival Live
Revisiting the Holden and MacMurray movie lists yesterday got me thinking about Billy Wilder who had his own list back in 2019. Holden did 3 movies with Wilder and MacMurray two. It gave me the itch to do a poster … Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Billy Wilder
Here’s the veteran singer-songwriter on Austin City Limits. Continue reading SMV: Jackson Browne Live In 2021
Are you ready to rock? Here’s Cheap Trick in all their glory in 1988. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Cheap Trick Live In Australia
Here’s Lyle and his crack band live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Did I say crack? I meant Large. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Lyle Lovett Live In 2007
James Ellroy meets Eddie Muller. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: LA Film Noir
This British teevee special aired on New Years Day in 1972. It’s not a full concert but Harry didn’t do those; this is as close as we’re likely to get. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Music Of Nilsson
Tis the day after Christmas and I’m posting some holiday fare. It’s a short film made in 1945. It tells the “no room at the inn” story in then contemporary drag. It’s good but its pedigree is more interesting than the film. It was the first directorial outing for the great Don Siegel and an early outing for cinematographer Robert Burks who would go on to shoot most of Hitchcock’s films from 1951 to 1964. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Star In The Night
The Velvet Fog is in the house. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Mel Tormé Live
We’ve gone from Beatles week to Bangles weekend. Rock on, y’all. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Bangles Live In 2019
Stephen Sondheim 1930-2021. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: A Sondheim Sampler
Tony Bennett recently retired from live performances. What a career. what a singer, what a mensch. Here he is live in1991 at London’s Prince Edward Theatre. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Tony Bennett Live In London
In case you were wondering if I like Stevie Wonder, wonder no more. Here he is live in 2010 at the Glastonbury Festival: Continue reading SMV: Stevie Wonder Glastonbury Live
I have a fatal weakness for swing era music. Presenting the King of Swing with a small group: Continue reading SMV: Benny Goodman Septet Live In 1982
Boris Karloff week at First Draft concludes on Halloween with this documentary. Continue reading SMV: Boris Karloff The Gentle Monster
The famous French fiddler is joined by David Grisman and his band in this 1982 set. Note that the person who posted this isn’t a good speller either. The second number should sound familiar to Friday Cocktail Hour fans: Continue reading SMV: Stephane Grappelli Live In San Francisco
Longtime readers know that I’m a fanatical Smithereens fan. I thought I’d seen every Reens set available on the YouTube. I was wrong. Lead singer Pat DiNizio had just a year to live in 2016. He looks terrible but sounds great. He does not, however, play rhythm guitar. Jim Babjak makes up for that with a bravura performance. The most interesting thing about this set is the presence of keyboard player Andy Burton. The Reens rarely had a keyboard player in concert. Burton is good and kills it on the rarely performed song Indigo Blues. And yes, Pleasantville, NY looks … Continue reading SMV: The Smithereens Live In Pleasantville
There’s no such thing as too much Vincent Price. His life story is every bit as interesting as his movies. Continue reading Biography: Vincent Price
Woke up this morning… Continue reading SMV: Talking Sopranos with Steven Van Zandt
Rock on, Todd. Continue reading SMV: Utopia Live At The Chicago Theater
It’s a soul summit featuring the O’Jays, Daryl Hall and his crack band. Continue reading SMV: The O’Jays On Live From Daryl’s House
Rock on, Dwight. Continue reading SMV: Dwight Yoakam Live At The Stagecoach
I am not making this up. Here’s a 2010 show from the Anchor and Hope, Charlton. I believe it’s Glenn Tilbrook’s local pub but don’t hold me to that. The camera work is a bit shaky but the sound is good. Continue reading SMV: Squeeze Live In A Pub
Oscar Peterson meets Ben Webster. Continue reading SMV: Oscar Peterson & Ben Webster Live In Hannover
I knew Chris Isaak back in the day. He turned out well. Here he is live on PBS in 2005. Continue reading SMV: Chris Isaak Live On Soundstage