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Aaron Neville and others: Who Dat? (1983)
In case you didn’t already know, Superbowl XLIV is this weekend. The New Orleans Saints face up to the Indianapolis Colts, a match up between this season’s most winning-est teams. In this footage taken from the long-lost 1983 archives, soul singer Aaron Neville is joined by five Saints Footballers, John Hill, Dave Waymer, [...]
Flogging Molly: Factory Girls
Flogging Molly are as Irish as a California can get, as this is where the band was formed by Irishman Dave King, who moved to L.A. in his twenties. Their musical output consists of the expected Irish drinking songs (Drunken Lullabies), fast paced sea-shanties (Salty Dog), and traditional Irish ballads such as this [...]
Handel: Messiah (For Unto us a Child is Born)
George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is an English oratorio composed in 1741 and is his most famous creation. Handel was a German-born, Italian trained and a resident of London at the time of writing Messiah (he would become a naturalized Englishman). He chose to premier Messiah in Dublin, Ireland on 13 April 1742. [...]
Mannheim Steamroller: Joy to the World
Mannheim Steamroller is a music group founded by Chip Davis, and the band is known foremost for it’s modern instrumental recordings of Christmas music. The name “Mannheim Steamroller” originates from an 18th-century German musical technique, the “Mannheim rocket” (also known as Mannheim Roller), which describes a swiftly ascending passage of music. I [...]
Wichester Cathedral Choir: Gabriels Message
Winchester Cathedral, founded in 642, in Hampshire, England is one of the largest cathedral’s in the UK. The video above is undated, but I can take a guess and say this comes from the mid-late 90’s, which would place David Hill as the Organist and Director of Music of the Winchester Cathedral Choir.
Gabriel’s Message [...]
Crash Test Dummies: White Christmas
In 2002 The Crash Test Dummies (a Canadian band that was briefly popular in the early 90’s with the song “MMM MMM MMM MMM”) depart on a path perpendicular to their regular output of Folk-Rock, and reproduce a version of White Christmas that would probably have given Bing Crosby nightmares. Brad Roberts, The [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas
esterday, we decked the halls with boughs of holly and fa la la la la’d right into the festive spirit. We went and chopped down our Christmas tree, and this wasn’t such a easy achievement! THe first tree farm we went to was closed (we assume the owner was at his normal place [...]
