"Romper Room is an American children's television series that was franchised and syndicated from 1953 to 1994. The national version was presented by Nancy Terrell and filmed in Baltimore from its inception in 1953. Romper Room was also franchised internationally at various times in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Finland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Argentina, and Australia. Etiquette was a focus of Romper Room. The hostesses were always addressed as _Miss._ The show also had a mascot, Mr. Do-Bee. Mr. Do-Bee was an oversized bumblebee who came to teach the children proper deportment. "
"This brother group says, (we are) _born in war dedicate their music and lives to peace._ Itai (bass) and Hagai (horns) were born in war torn Israel on a kibbutz and started making music at the age of six and four. "
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. Discogs notes Yes’s this breakthrough third album and Platinum classic marked Steve Howe’s debut with the breathtaking ‘Clap’ and finds the band discovering their trademark sound.
"This is James' debut solo album. According to wiki, he fell f the stage in 2008 during a concert in Iowa, which inspired this recording. He'd previously fronted My Morning Jacket. He's born in Louisville, KY in 1978."
"Picked this from L-Trains playlist from last Sat (Radio Ninja on WMBR). The group - Tommy Cappel, Zoe Jakes, and David Santori -- is a experimental world fusion & electronic music group formed in 2007 in Oakland, CA. Mikes Copland is the producer. This comprises their last of 11 studio releases - wiki "
"You've maybe never heard of Kash, but he's the masterful cellist, bolon/bolong and sarangi player who is a Marshall Allen/Sun Ra Arkestra regular side man. They have duet, Two Stars in the Universe that will likely show up at a later point in the Margin. Kash lives with his wife north of Oakland, CA. "
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was a prominent leader in the civil rights movement and is perhaps best known for his role as the chief organizer of the March on Washington, during which Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. - wiki He debated Malcom X and held a respected place among the formative thinkers and activist of his time. He was a Quaker, and also out-of-the-closet gay....still lesser known as a musician/singer. Click link for deep bio.
"This is off the 8th studio release for the group (aka Rachel Unthank and the Winterset) known for combining traditional English folk, particularly Northumbrian folk music, with other musical genres. Rachel is joined by sister Becky and other members Andrian McNally, Niopha Keegan, and Chris Price. They are acclaimed in their native UK and some of their work (like this song) picked up for use in soundtracks (Fargo, Season 5) and other commercial paths. "
"Frolund is 27 years old and Danish. He sits as principal clarinet of the Danish Chamber Orchestra. He's on bass clarinet for this arrangment. For the rest of the album, he's playing a range of clarinets -- A clarinet, a basset clarinet in A, and bass clarinet in B-flat. "
In October 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the sixteenth female literature laureate since the prize was founded in 1901. She died last October after a short illness (cancer). Her niece is actress Abigail Savage who played Gina on Orange is the New Black (see link)
aka Herbert Buckingham Khaury (b: 1932-1996) was born in in Manhattan. His mother Tillie (née Staff), a Polish-Jewish garment worker, was the daughter of a rabbi. She had immigrated from Brest-Litovsk, present-day Belarus, as a teen in 1914. His father, Butros Khaury, was a textile worker from Beirut, present-day Lebanon, whose father was a Maronite Catholic priest. Tiny Tim himself was a devout Catholic. In 1945, while recovering from appendix removal, he read the Bible and listened to music on the radio. After his recovery, he rarely left his room except to go to school, where he was described as a mediocre student. He dropped out of high school after continuously repeating his sophomore year, taking a series of menial jobs. Around this time, he discovered he could sing in a high register while listening to Rudy Vallée and taught himself to play ukulele using an Arthur Godfrey method book He would later describe this period of his life as a _religious experience_ - wiki This is his debut album
"This is the very first recording of the song _Hey Joe_, ever made. Is a home demo recording by the song's writer, Billy Roberts (1936-2917). The song has a long and complicated history regarding it's authorship, but this is the absolute first version ever recorded. In 1961/62, as a favor to Billy Roberts friend Barry Friedman. n 1965, Roberts was alerted by a friend to a recording of _Hey Joe_ by the Southern California rock band, The Leaves. Roberts knew nothing of the recording and the friend (Hillel Resner, later his producer) offered to ask his father, an attorney in San Francisco, to look into the matter. The attorney discovered that folk singer Dino Valenti had claimed authorship of the song and signed a publishing contract with Third Story Music of Los Angeles. This led to negotiations that resulted in Roberts retrieving his author's rights, but it did not prevent numerous recordings being released that named several other songwriters, in addition to Valenti, as the author. - wiki Who is Barry Freedman...the guy Roberts dedicates the song to? Well, that was Abbie Hoffman's moniker while hiding on Wellesley Island. I had encounters with him when I worked as a bartender there summer of 1981. Longer story, but the point is, Roberts likely had nothing to do with __that_ Barry Freedman. "
Bolette is a Danish born recorder player who now lives in Copenhagen. Her repertoire ranges from medieval through renaissance and baroque to contemporary music and she has world premiered a large number of works. - wiki
"Ola Szmidt describes herself as a songwriter and sound engineer. She lives in NY. She says: My music only happens when I feel warm, present, comfy and I can be a bit like a child not supervised by anybody. I feel like that in a room, in my house. It became my studio. I call it _floating_, as It's not connected to any of the neighbours walls. It is tiny, full of light and enough to provide me an intimate _ I'm truly on my own _ space. - Andrew Hugill interview"
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"Russo (b: 1969) is an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, vocalist and music producer, and one of the two founding members of the rock band Tonic. He is also a founding member of acoustic rock band Low Stars. He's achieved success as a Hollywood film composer, and this tune is lifted from Fargo. He's married to Nina Gordon of the Chicago based outfit, Veruca Salt. "
"aka Agnus Fairbairn is an English saxophonist, singer, poet, and composer. He wrote this in homage to the Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in Dec 2023 at age 44, alongside his brother, sister, and four of her children. DePlume's notes: Alabaster DePlume says: _At this specific time, may I reach you with appreciation, for I admire you for living, and I come to tell you I believe in you. I have faith in you. You are humanity and this time is in your hands. You survive moment by moment, while crimes are committed against you. And there is no state that can defeat you, no nation state, authority, project nor organisation on this earth can ultimately deny you, humanity. I am reaching to you with my love, and this little Christmas song, where at this time I feel grief. In case it voices a grief for you too, I love you._ - Bandcamp Click link to read poem by Alareer
"Yamasaki (b: 1954) is described on Bandcamp as _the fabled folk singer-songwriter/actress/writer with one of the most gorgeous voices of Japanese music_. A pioneer of the folk-boom in 1970s Japan, Hako Yamasaki has had an intensive output, releasing 22 albums from 1978 to 2011. Her first studio release in 1978 was among the first on, Elec, Japan's first independent label. Hako Yamasaki is considered a pioneer in both the creative boom and the rise of feminism of 1970s Japan. "
Many have covered this one since Linda Ronstadt first recorded it in 1970. Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (b: 1947) was born in Queens…Ukrainian-Italian ancestry, and her mother was a jazz singer. Kids in her suburban NJ high school called her a beatnik so she ran away to California. She eventually returned to finish school but was blocked from her commencement because of an overdue library book. - wiki
