Plenty of Nothing

Rock and Roll from 1949

"All She Wants To Do Is Rock" by Wynonie Harris. Listen.

"Good Rockin' Tonight" by Wynonie Harris. Listen.

"Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston. Listen.

"The Fat Man" by Fats Domino. Listen.

Titanic Orchestra Tribute Concert

Glam is 40

David Bowie "Starman" 1972.

Except For the Sound of Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells, 2007.

Four Sticks

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin IV, pretty much the best LP record of all time. Here. Here.

It's All Too Beautiful

Small Faces, Itchycoo Park (1967).

Biidama

I haven't had a new favourite song for a while but "Biidama" by Saori Atsumi is quietly slipping into that position. It's performed in Japanese so there's no way I would have ever heard it if it were not over the closing credits of season one of the Genshiken anime. So it's not new -- 2004. I think the thing that makes it work is that, with its nostalgia for perhaps unhappy times, and its waltz time, it's actually a French chanson. You can listen to it here three times if you need an earworm. These are the lyrics in Japanese and English. Here is a list of other songs of hers that have been used in anime. I would very much like to hear it sung in French. D

It's Late September

Maggie May, 1971.

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Today is Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy.

The Sheik of Araby

Leon Redbone, "The Sheik of Araby". Paul Asaro in the role of Fats Waller.