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More on “Kokomo”
Arkhonia dislikes it.
BeachBoys  music 
5 days ago by M.Leddy
A musical analogy
“Kokomo” : The Beach Boys :: “What a Wonderful World” : Louis Armstrong.
BeachBoys  LouisArmstrong  music 
5 days ago by M.Leddy
Beach Boys reunion dream
During an instrumental break, Mike leaned close to Brian to say “This doesn’t work anymore.” Brian nodded. It all took place in a dream.
BeachBoys  dreams  music 
8 days ago by M.Leddy
Contrapuntalism
A new site from the creator of Blackwing Pages.
music  pencils  photography 
23 days ago by M.Leddy
Arkhonia on the Beach Boys
Arkhonia cares about the Beach Boys’ musical legacy and writes about that legacy at length.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  music 
24 days ago by M.Leddy
On Duke Ellington’s birthday
“The popularity of it doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean anything, because when you get into popularity, then you’re talking about money and not music.”
DukeEllington  jazz  music 
28 days ago by M.Leddy
More imaginary liner notes
My imaginary liner notes for the fifth and sixth 45s in Van Dyke Parks’s singles project are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.
music  VanDykeParks 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Music Man Murray
A 2011 film by Richard Parks.
film  music 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Dick Clark (1929–2012)
A 1958 photograph.
music  photography 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks at the Kennedy Center
Like it says.
music  VanDykeParks 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks in St. Louis
Van Dyke Parks played last night at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis with bassist Jim Cooper and percussionist Don Heffington. The three made beautiful music together.
music  VanDykeParks 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
John Hammond, GR7-7967
The critic and music producer, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Billie Holiday, ED4-4058
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
BillieHoliday  jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Coleman Hawkins, ED4-2697
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
ColemanHawkins  jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington and erasers
“I’m happy to report that Duke Ellington’s name no longer appears on the Blackwing Experience page.”
Blackwing  DukeEllington  music  pencils 
8 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Earl Scruggs (1924–2012)
Porter Wagoner: “Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball.”
banjo  music 
8 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington, Blackwing Johnson’s Baby Powder user
“The context for this post, as explained in an earlier post: a pencil company’s choice to market its merchandise by using the Ellington name.”
Blackwing  DukeEllington  music  pencils 
8 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington, sombrero user
“A pencil manufacturer’s association of the Ellington name with its replica version of the Blackwing pencil is a matter of very wishful thinking. Others might call it misleading.”
Blackwing  DukeEllington  music  pencils 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington, balalaika user
“The context for this post is a pencil company’s choice to market its merchandise by using the Ellington name.”
Blackwing  DukeEllington  music  pencils 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington, Blackwing pencils, and aspirational branding
“It’s curious that as Moleskine steps back from the abyss of aspirational branding (‘the legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, and Chatwin’), California Cedar has jumped in, head first, without even putting on a helmet.”
advertising  Blackwing  DukeEllington  music  pencils 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
VDP on starting out in the arts
“Baring your soul, so that someone else might feel exalted and able.”
music  VanDykeParks 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Garner’s modern American music
“Rock ’n’ roll.”
BryanGarner  music  usage 
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy
A Kerouac notebook page
I was startled yesterday to see the name of our friend Seymour Barab in a post at Ordinary Finds for Jack Kerouac’s ninetieth birthday.
JackKerouac  music  notebooks 
11 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Amsterdam Baroque
Performing Bach.
Bach  music 
11 weeks ago by M.Leddy
The Alabama Syncopators
A 1925 photograph.
ephemera  jazz  music 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Kay Davis (1920–2012)
Katherine McDonald sang as Kay Davis with the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1944 to 1950
DukeEllington  jazz  music 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
This is not your song
Musicians asking Republican candidates not to use their songs as campaign themes.
music  politics 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
More imaginary liner notes for VDP
My imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s latest singles are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
VDP fills out the Bullett questionnaire
“Contented, I know that I’m 20 feet from the spotlight, where I’m able to see the stars.”
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Happy birthday, VDP
Van Dyke Parks turns sixty-nine today.
music  VanDykeParks 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Homemade music
Yesterday morning, half an hour before we had to leave for the airport, Rachel and Ben began trying out this song
family  music 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington and a Blackwing
EKE, in a BBC studio, at work with a Blackwing pencil.
Blackwing  DukeEllington  jazz  music  pencils 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Juneberry78s
A great resource for anyone interested in traditional American music.
music 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Cello exceptions?
“It’s a truism in the rock-music industry: if you want to make a sad song, put a cello in it.” But are there exceptions?
music 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Brian Wilsons
Two takes on a Beach Boys reunion.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  music 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
That (in)famous line
One line from “Cabin Essence,” words by Van Dyke Parks, music by Brian Wilson.
BrianWilson  music  poetry  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
Inara G. and Van Dyke P. in LA
At the Getty Center.
InaraGeorge  music  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
The Parks mark
A review of Van Dyke Parks’s Arrangements, Volume 1.
music  VanDykeParks 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
VDP on “Wall Street” and Wall Street
Van Dyke Parks: “The Creed Is Greed, in a nation dominated by stone-age fundamentalism.”
culture  music  VanDykeParks 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
“[M]yself am hell”
If there’s a hell, smooth jazz is its soundtrack.
music  poetry 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
“My children were raised”
I am happy to learn that the verb “raised” in “Heroes and Villains” is okay by Bryan Garner.
BryanGarner  music  VanDykeParks  words 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Treasures of the Bodleian
An online exhibit, an excellent rabbit-hole.
art  literature  museum  music 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
The Oxford typo
“Carelessness runs through this biography of Son House; this footnote is just an especially glaring example. Ought a reader to expect more from a university press? From Oxford University Press? I would think so.”
blues  music  typos 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Butch Ballard (1918–2011)
One of the few musicians to have played with both the Count Basie and Ellington bands.
DukeEllington  jazz  music 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks’s windshield
Bigger than his rear-view mirror.
music  VanDykeParks 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Jo Jones Centennial Festival
On WKCR-FM.
jazz  music  radio 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Domestic comedy
Substitute chords are your friends.
domesticcomedy  music 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Frank Driggs (1930–2011)
A collector of jazz photographs.
jazz  music  photography 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Fees wrecking film’s distribution
130 songs = $300,100.
copyright  film  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Music for hard times
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
culture  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Wade Mainer (1907–2011)
A pioneer of bluegrass banjo.
banjo  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Sonny Rollins, Kennedy Center honoree
“I’m one of the last guys left, as I’m constantly being told.”
jazz  music  SonnyRollins 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Ben Folds on the tyranny of cool
“Everyone can’t be cool.”
culture  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
“Darn That Dream” within a dream
“Analyzing your own dreams is a good way to save money. Why hire a professional?”
dreams  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
VDP: the four ages of an artist
A joke about the rise and fall of careers.
music  VanDykeParks 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Beach Boys in the NYT crossword
Five song titles divided among nine clues.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  crossword  music 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
David “Honeyboy” Edwards (1915–2011)
The last of the Delta blues musicians.
blues  music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Ross Barbour (1928–2011)
The last original member of the Four Freshmen.
music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Ashford and Leiber
Two American songwriters
music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Eschaton-inspired video
The Decemberists make an Infinite Jest-inspired video.
DavidFosterWallace  film  music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Brian Wilson’s Disney album
The song choices are sometimes spot on (“You’ve Got a Friend in Me”), sometimes cringe-inducing (“Can You Feel the Love Tonight”).
BrianWilson  music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Pi Recordings
Small labels are the only future for almost all the music I care about.
jazz  music  records 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Bananastan and I
My imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s new 45s are now appearing on the Bananastan website.
music  VanDykeParks 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Ben Leddy on YouTube
Playing Balkan and French-Canadian tunes, clawhammer-style.
banjo  family  music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Armstrong lives.
jazz  LouisArmstrong  music 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
Tone balls
The bits of stuff that accumulate in guitars.
guitar  music 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
“Mitt lille land”
A song by Ole Paus.
music 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Mississippi John Hurt for Chevy
MJH’s music in a Chevrolet commercial.
MississippiJohnHurt  music 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Ladies and gentlemen, Ethel Waters
Singing “Heat Wave.”
jazz  music  weather 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
“I changed the Will to Shall”
Pete Seeger, on the development of “We Shall Overcome.”
grammar  music  PeteSeeger  words 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Duke Ellington, pothead?
If Ellington was a “pothead,” his use was a very well-kept secret.
DukeEllington  jazz  music 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
From the National Jukebox
Streaming music, from the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox.
music 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Van Dyke Parks, two singles
Imaginary liner notes for Van Dyke Parks’s new recordings.
music  VanDykeParks 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Fred Steiner (1923–2011)
He wrote the theme music for Perry Mason (and much else).
music  television 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
Glenn Gould in The Bahamas
Glenn Gould cutting loose, from a 1956 short film.
film  GlennGould  music 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
Brian Wilson, judged by history
Q. How do you think you’ll be judged by history?

A. I think as a musical genius, probably.
BrianWilson  music 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
M.A. Numminen sings Wittgenstein
Finnish artist Mauri Antero Numminen set to music excerpts from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
LudwigWittgenstein  music  philosophy 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
A cappella Beach Boys covers
Robert Gotshall covers “Our Prayer,” “Gee,” and “Heroes and Villains.” Thirty-three voices, and just about perfect.
BeachBoys  BrianWilson  music  VanDykeParks 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Bob Flanigan (1926–2011)
One of the Four Freshmen
jazz  music  singers 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
Bananastan Records
Van Dyke Parks’s label has a website.
music  VanDykeParks 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
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