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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2203
Song of the Day: Menagerie [YouTube link] was composed by banjoist Béla Fleck, who is heard in a superb duet with the legendary Chick Corea on the 2007 Latin Grammy Award-winning “Best Instrumental Album,” “The Enchantment.” The duo released another album (“Remembrance“) more than three years after Corea’s untimely passing,…
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Continue reading →: Total Freedom Anniversary
To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of my book, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism, Winton Bates has republished Ed Younkins‘s original review on the Freedom and Flourishing site. I recently published an essay to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the first two books in my “Dialectics and…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2202
Song of the Day: See You Later, Alligator features the words and music of Bobby Charles, aka Robert Guidry, who shares the same surname as Louisiana Lightning (Yankee pitching great, Ron Guidry, for those not in the know). This song was a Top Ten Hit for Bill Haley & His…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2201
Song of the Day: Sweet Freedom, words and music by Rod Temperton, was a Top Ten hit for Michael McDonald, which was originally featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 film, “Running Scared.” “Shine Sweet Freedom, Shine Your Light On Me” is a fittingly prayerful phrase for this Independence Day…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2200
Song of the Day: Rapture, words and music by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, was a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit for Blondie, from their fifth studio album, “Autoamerican” (1980). The song is noted for its mashup of new wave, disco, hip hop, and rap. Harry and Stein were friends…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2199
Song of the Day: Who’s Lovin’ You, written by Smokey Robinson, was first recorded by The Miracles, but its most famous version was recorded by The Jackson 5 (as the B-side to their first #1 hit, “I Want You Back“). This past Wednesday, June 25th, marked twenty-six years that Michael…
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Continue reading →: Lalo Schifrin, RIP
One of the all-time great film-score composers, Lalo Schifrin, died yesterday at the age of 93. Combining jazz, Latin, and other fusion elements into his memorable scores, Schifrin left an indelible mark on the cinema. I’ve featured so many of his themes through the years on my list of “favorite…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2198
Song of the Day: Corean Fantasy [YouTube link], composed by Johnnie Christopher McDonald, appears on the 2024 album, “It’s About Time.” This instrumental, performed by The Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra, is a paean to the great Chick Corea, who was born on June 12, 1941, and who left us much…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2197
Song of the Day: Summer Madness [YouTube link] was composed by Robert “Spike” Mickens, Alton Taylor, and the other members of Kool & the Gang. This song is Oh So Kool. Released in 1974 on their album,”Light of Worlds,” it has been sampled countless times; some sources estimate that the…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2196
Song of the Day: Coney Island [YouTube link] features the words and music of Terry Berkson and the vocals of Steven Delopoulos. I met Jonathan Berkson, Terry’s son, when I moved into my new apartment back in October 2024. He expertly installed my bedroom air conditioner. In our conversations, we…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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