A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: T-Bone Walker's "Get These Blues Off Me." (Hilariously, when this was released as a 78 the B-side was "I Got the Blues Again.") See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: T-Bone Walker's "Get These Blues Off Me." (Hilariously, when this was released as a 78 the B-side was "I Got the Blues Again.") See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZZ...
@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From just about five years ago, here's Adele's "Strangers by Nature" (a song Adele says was inspired by watching the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellwegger). See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I love how Joseph Solomon's singing voice manages to be both warm and raw, as in his cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Say a Little Prayer." See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Freddie Jackson died this week at the age of 70. This song, which first came out almost exactly forty years ago on an album that went platinum, went on to be a number-one hit on the U.S. R&B charts as a single. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here, from early 1970, is Oscar Peterson's reimagining of the bossa nova we heard last night. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I promise this bossa nova classic from 1967 doesn't sound quite as melancholy as its name suggests. Here's Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Triste" ("Sad"). See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Gershwins wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me" a century ago—in fact the first recording was made in Oct. 1926, a hundred years ago this month. (The musical it appears in, 'Oh, Kay!,' opened in Nov. 1926.) Here's Blossom Dearie's 1959 interpretation. See you around.
@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From Steely Dan's last studio album—panned by critics but generally (I think) pretty well liked by fans—here's the title track. It's downright epitaphic. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Alexander Glazunov's 1890 "Rêverie" for horn and piano—here performed on a horn from the 1880s and a piano from 1866 (by Anneke Scott and Steven Devine respectively). See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Australian musician Kevin Parker, who records as Tame Impala, in his dreamy, floaty, 2015 song "Yes I'm Changing." Nostalgia-inducing synthesizer work here. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this song for the 1964 movie 'A House Is Not a Home.' This instrumental recording by the Bill Evans Trio—on an album that won a Grammy five months after Evans's September 1980 death—is so sad and filled with yearning. See you around.
@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cellist Pierre Fournier arranged and recorded (with pianist Gerald Moore) these three Bach chorales 80 years ago this month—in the same Abbey Road studio room where the Beatles would record "Tomorrow Never Knows" twenty years later. See you around.
@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since 'Avengers: Endgame' is back in theaters, here's the song that famously comes up at the end. Kitty Kallen sings, Harry James solos on trumpet, and Willie Smith solos on alto sax. It really has been a long, long time. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: 100 years ago this fall, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II started composing and writing 'Show Boat'—even before they had the rights. Here's Peggy Lee's 1964 cover of one of the musical's great songs. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Hilary Hahn playing one of the "doubles" (variations) from within a Bach partita for solo violin. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: What a groove. From Shaun Martin's 2015 album '7 Summers,' here's "Yellow Jacket," inspired in part by music of the jazz fusion band the Yellowjackets. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Corries, the Scottish folk group, recorded this version of the traditional "Skye Boat Song" in 1969. (The song is probably best known to Americans as the theme song, by another performer, to the TV show 'Outlander.') See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Misty Blue" was originally written with singer Brenda Lee in mind, but she didn't want it. So producer Owen Bradley instead brought it to Wilma Burgess, who became the first in a long line of singers to record it. See you around.
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@adamkeiper.comA #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Today's my birthday—and the day I was born was also the day NASA's Voyager spacecraft snapped the first-ever photo showing the Earth and the Moon in a single frame. So I figured I'd close out the day with this Aaron Neville duet with Jim Henson. See you around.