Thursday, 6/2/11
by musicclipoftheday
Happy (61st) Birthday, Don!*
Bobby Rydell, “Swingin’ School” (Billboard Hot 100, #5)
Live (TV broadcast), 1960
Of musical memories there is no end.
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lagniappe
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reading table
You see what I am doing: there was an empty space left in the trunk which I am filling with hay; that’s how it is in our life’s baggage; no matter what we stuff it with it’s better than having empty space.
—Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)
*my brother & oldest musical companion
music clip of the day 
i’ve actually heard this on satellite radio a few times recently. comeback! listening to fess now and loving it.
If anyone’s wondering, the “fess” reference is to a birthday present—Professor Longhair, “No Buts, No Maybes: The 1949-1957 Recordings” (Hoodoo Records).
and there’s something fascinating about this combo on your site:
Tags: Bobby Rydell, Ivan Turgenev,
first time those two have ever been linked?