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Monday Music: Deep Purple, Stones, Chuck Berry
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Thursday Music: Spandau Ballet, She Loved Like Diamond
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Monday Music: Jazz Version of Scarborough Fair
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Monday Music: The Halo Soundtrack
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Millions of people have played the video game Halo, or one of its several successors, and they haven’t just played a game – they have played a game with a memorable soundtrack. It conveys so well the action and suspense of a battle between humanity and a fanatical, multi-species enemy called the Covenant. Enjoy.
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Monday Music: Artie Shaw, Where or When
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Monday Music: Three Versions of Happy Together
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Monday Music: House of the Rising Sun
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Readers may recall the Animals’ House of the Rising Sun, recorded in 1964. There’s much uncertainty about the origin of the song, whether it refers to an actual building in New Orleans (of whatever name), and what activity may have occurred there. What’s undisputed, I think, is that the song is memorable.
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Monday Music: Cowboy Bebop OST – Music for Freelance – Piano Black
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Monday Music: Dave Brubeck Quartet, Take Five, 1959
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Monday Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rain
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Monday Music: Ella Fitzgerald, Anything Goes
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Fear not the modern! Here’s Ella Fitzgerald singing Anything Goes. The Cole Porter 1934 song’s superficially a lament about permissive modern ways, but the playfulness of the song (and in this rendition in Miss Fitzgerald’s voice) belies that starched view. We survived the new of ’34, ’64, and ’94 – we’ll survive the new of…