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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2361
Song of the Day: Music to Watch Girls By, composed by Sid Ramin, was a “groovy” instrumental hit for The Bob Crewe Generation in 1967. That track went to #2 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and was matched at #2 by a vocal rendition, with lyrics by Tony Velona,…
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Continue reading →: Holy Schlitt! Cam Schlittler Wins the Cy Young!
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has given the American League Cy Young Award to Yankees’ ace Cam Schlittler. Unanimously! Aside from the fact that Schlittler possesses what WABC sportscaster Ryan Field calls “the most carefully pronounced name in Eyewitness News history,” he is one terrific pitcher. He went 14-6…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2360
Song of the Day: You Stepped Out of a Dream, music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Gus Kahn, was first published in 1940 and went on to become a popular standard. It has been recorded by countless artists through the years, including jazz vocalist Samara Joy, for her 2024…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2359
Song of the Day: It Feels So Good features the words and music of Linus Burdick, Simon Belofsky, Graeme Pleeth, and Sonia Clarke, aka Sonique, on whose album “Hear My Cry” this song appears. The track was released on this date in 1998, hitting #1 on the Billboard Dance Club…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2358
Song of the Day: Things are Swingin’, words and music by Jack Marshall and Peggy Lee, first appeared as the title track on Lee’s 1959 album. Chris Connor recorded her own rendition for her 1962 album, “Free Spirits,” arranged and conducted by Al Cohn, featuring a stellar ensemble of jazz…
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Continue reading →: No Way to Spin This …
… because last night’s election results are a thunderous rebuke to the Trump administration. It may be too much to ask, given the structural dynamics of the current system, but one can hope that shifting fault lines might lead to an overhaul of US foreign policy, beginning with the Iran…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2357
Song of the Day: Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.), composed by jazz trumpeter Tom Browne, is a memoir to the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood of New York City. A #1 R&B hit and a Top Ten Dance Single, this “Jamaica Funk” track was blasting on New York City beaches in the summer…
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Continue reading →: Stills from a Brooklyn Window II
From my hospital bed on October 29, 2025, I posted a slideshow of photos I’d taken over a 12-month period from the window of my Brooklyn apartment to mark the one-year anniversary of my having moved into the Madison section of Sheepshead Bay. Bordered by Homecrest, Midwood, and the beautiful…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2356
Song of the Day: Dancing in the Moonlight, words and music by Sherman Kelly, was originally recorded for Kelly’s band Boffalongo in 1970, but became a hit single for the French-American rock band King Harvest in 1972. The song was also recorded by the English band Toploader in 2000. The…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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