Vocalist Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler) died on New Years Day. The best-selling female artist of the 1950s, with 15 gold records and three gold albums, she sold over 100 million vinyl records. A former Grammy winner, Patti Page will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in February.
“Someday at Christmas,” by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells, sung by Stevie Wonder.
Happy Holidays.
H/T: Jerry Canavan
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“The Only Thing I Want for Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got)” by Vick Knight, Johnny Lange, and Lew Porter, rendered by Eddie Cantor.
(Lyrics)
h/t: Tom Sutpen
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Music for the Mayan Apocalypse by ancient Mayan songstress Skeeter Davis.
If universal extinction takes longer than two and a half minutes, there’s more music after the jump.
Playwright and film director John Grissmer has written a play about the invention of Basketball by James Naismith in 1891. It’s a musical.
Yago Colás teaches comparative literature, philosophy, and the Cultures of Basketball at the University of Michigan. He’s reviewed the play:
“Basketball, The Musical,” Yago Colás, The Classical
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Suspicious Package in Columbia, Maryland:
“The area around the building was cordoned off with yellow police tape. Just outside the perimeter were police cars, an emergency services command truck, and fire and rescue trucks. ‘We send out equipment based on a worst-case scenario,’ said Assistant Fire Chief Joe Dixon.”
“More than two hours. More than 30 police, fire and rescue workers. And more than enough police cars and big trucks to widen the eyes of three dozen youngsters in day care, all to investigate a suspicious package that turned out to be … an accordion.”
– ”Suspicious package in Columbia turns out to be an accordion,” Jessica Anderson and Andrea F. Siegel, Baltimore Sun
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Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, and The Roots perform a seasonal song of yesteryear on the instruments of your youth. ”All I Want for Christmas Is You,” written by Mariah Carey and arranged by Walter Afanasieff, was originally released in 1994.
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James Marshall Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970.
“Golden rose, the color of the dream I had
Not too long ago
Misty blue and lilac too
Never to grow old.”
More:
“Jimi Hendrix at 70: Rock Stars Remember the Late Guitar Legend,” ABC News
“Happy 70th Birthday, Jimi Hendrix: Seattle’s EMP Museum Celebrates Guitar Hero,” Huffington Post
Official website: jimihendrix.com
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“The Rolling Stones began their 50th anniversary tour with the biggest possible bang on Sunday night, as a host of special guests joined them for a hit-packed show in London’s O2 Arena. Former Stones comrades Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor returned to the ranks, while Mary J. Blige and Jeff Beck were also on hand to help with the celebrations.
Residents of Springfield, Virginia’s Greenspring Retirement Community celebrate Halloween in song lip-sync.
NotionsCapital wishes a safe and sane All Hallow’s Eve to you and yours.
Related:
“The origin of that terrible Monster Mash song,” Tracey Samuelson, Christian Science Monitor
“A Worldwide Celebration Of Halloween,” Zeon Santos, Neatorama
“Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!” Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches
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