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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1985
Song of the Day: Breaking Bad (“Lee”) [YouTube link], composed by jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney, is heard as source music in a recording by jazz tenor sax legend Stan Getz in Season 3, Episode 11 (“Abiquiu”) of BB, which debuted on May 30, 2010. The song appears on the 1953…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1984
Song of the Day: Breaking Bad (“Ginza Samba”) [YouTube link], composed and performed by the wonderful Vince Guaraldi, is heard in Season 3, Episode 6 (“Sunset”) of BB, which debuted on April 25, 2010. The song originally appeared on the 1965 album, “From All Sides“, a collaboration between pianist Guaraldi…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1983
Song of the Day: Breaking Bad (“The Ballad of Heisenberg”), words and music by Jose “Pepe” Garza and Vince Gilligan, is one of those hilarious musical moments featured in Season 2, Episode 7 (“Negro y Azul”) of BB, which debuted on April 19, 2009. Performed by the regional Mexican band…
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Continue reading →: Breaking Bad Franchise Music Tribute / Song of the Day #1982
I have made no secret of my love for the “Breaking Bad” (BB) universe, as I said back on August 15, 2022, “one of the best written, well-acted, finely-plotted television” franchises in the history of television. The five seasons of BB, its sequel film, “El Calmino” (EC), and its prequel-sequel…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1981
Song of the Day: The Christmas Tree [YouTube link], composed by David Rose, was recorded in 1959 and has been heard as a perennial favorite on the WPIX-TV Yule Log. It’s an annual broadcast that my sister and I so enjoyed. This is the first Christmas Day without my sister,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1980
Song of the Day: The Christmas Waltz, words and music by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, was written for Frank Sinatra and recorded in 1954 as the B-side to his version of “White Christmas“. Check out Sinatra’s original recording as well as other renditions by Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, the…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1979
Song of the Day: Action Jackson and The Magical Disappearing Sock [YouTube link], composed and arranged by Tyler J. Mire, features my long-time friend and coeditor Roger Bissell on trombone. One thing you DON’T want before Christmas is a Magical Disappearing Sock (or Christmas Stocking, if you will). Where will…
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Continue reading →: JARS Grand Finale Update!
I am happy to report that today I signed off with the Penn State University Press copyeditor on the final group of essays for the 2023 double-issue grand finale of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. The next update should come early in 2023, when I sign off on the…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1978
Song of the Day: Why Try To Change Me Now?, music and lyrics by Cy Coleman and Joseph A. McCarthy, was recorded by Frank Sinatra for his 1959 Gordon Jenkins-arranged and conducted album, “No One Cares“. The song was featured in Season 5, Episode 15 (“My Way”) of “The Good…
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Continue reading →: Walter Grinder, RIP
October 12, 1938 – December 4, 2022 When I first saw posts circulating on Facebook that my friend, Walter Grinder, had died at the age of 84, my only thought was: “Oh, no.” We would sometimes share stories of our lifelong health woes, but Walter had sent out an update…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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