Thursday, 6/2/11

Happy (61st) Birthday, Don!*

Bobby Rydell, “Swingin’ School” (Billboard Hot 100, #5)
Live (TV broadcast), 1960

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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