SuBo: Play Nellie at my funeral
The Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
SUSAN Boyle has revealed she wants Nellie The Elephant played at her funeral
Glenn Miller
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Prize-winners rise from brownfields
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Canadian Urban Institute honors work being done to rehabilitate derelict sites across Canada
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LINDA GUILALA on The Christopher Laird Show 23.November.2009
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
THE CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SHOW 23.November.2009 Artists of the Week:LINDA GUILALA SHEEP ON DRUGS – Track X ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL – Fallen Over THE STROKES - Someday LINDA GUILALA – Nadie Se Dará Cuenta THE SISTERS OF MERCY – Gimme Shelter PULP – The Birds In Your Garden KISS – I Was Made For Loving You THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA featuring TEX BENEKE – (I’ve...
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A to Z meme at 3am
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Said I wasn't going to do any more of these for a while...so I lied..well, not lied per se, so much as I didn't know I'd wake up at 2am and not be able to get back to sleep, and I need something to do, cos' who wants to stay up and watch infomercials? A TO Z MEME: A--animals: Three cats. But, I've owned pets all my life, and have had cats, dogs, rabbits, a guinea pig, turtles, chameleons, a mouse,...
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Upcoming Jazz Releases | November 24, 2009
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
African Methodist Choir - African Hymns (Arc Music ) Alessandr Magnanini - Someway Still I Do (Phantom ) Bob Baldwin - Collector's Pack (NuGroove ) Bruce Turner - Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Bruce Turner - The Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Caledonia Jazz Band - Street People ( ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Collage - Fifty Four Minutes...
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I've been on the run, this shadow weighs a ton, it's starting to make sense to me
Mallrat Couture xoxo (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
It was a very rainy day in Vancouver today. Luckily I got out of the rain and went to see Dal Richards (or the 'King Of Swing' as he is known here in Vancouver) play an afternoon show with his big band orchestra. If you don't know Dal, he's a big band leader who has been playing the sax since way back in the 1940's when Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman ruled the radio. And he's still swingin! He truly...
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In The Mood
Miss C Recommends (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Glenn Miller and his orchestra. Send messages to radiofox@gmail.com
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Ex-Radio 2 DJ Malcolm Laycock dies
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Laycock also worked for BBC London and the World Service and helped to set up the original Jazz FM Former BBC Radio 2 DJ Malcolm Laycock, who left the station earlier this year, has died. Laycock died on Sunday, his agent told BBC News. In a broadcasting career spanning more than four decades, Laycock also worked for BBC London, the BBC World Service, and helped set up the original Jazz FM in London,...
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Movie stars with whom I was in love as a kid - June Allyson
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I'm going to do them alphabetically. Tonight I'm featuring June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006): In 1925, when she was eight, a dead tree branch fell on her while she was bicycling. Several bones were broken, and doctors said she would never walk again. She underwent months of swimming exercises, however, and ultimately regained her health. After graduating from a wheelchair to crutches...
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Ex-Radio 2 presenter Laycock dies
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Former BBC radio presenter Malcolm Laycock died on Sunday night, his agent says.
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Big Band Sounds in the Shoals
TimesDaily.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Fans of Big Band Era classics from Glenn Miller, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra and more, are invited to attend the Big Band Benefit Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday. "If you like big band swing, you'll love this concert," said Dr. Lloyd Jones, director of bands at UNA. "This promises to be an enjoyable afternoon of music for all in attendance."
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Coat? Check. Scarf? Check. iPod? Check.
the further adventures of boz (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It's been a good while since I posted one up here, but every year I do a winter playlist for m'AYEpod. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I like the cold and the way it makes me feel. All very melodramatic I'm sure but I do like swooshing through fallen leaves feeling morbid and gloomy. I have just completed this year's playlist, thanks to some help from The Twitterati and recent people on Teh Blogz....
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Yesterday upon the stair . . .
jabblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This is Biddy, senior Jack Russell, taken about 20 years ago. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away. I had only ever known this verse and didn't realise there was more to the poem. It goes on:- When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn't see him there at all!...
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Songs That Won the War CD review
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
'Songs That Won the War' is jammed with jollity tinged with a raw ache for peace. Rating:
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DJ Mixes Records On Gramophones
UniqueDaily.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
“A disc jockey with a difference is taking the music world by storm – using two 1930s wind-up gramophones. Dave Guttridge, 48, is the UK’s only pre-vinyl disc jockey and uses two 70-year-old Picnic gramophones to pump out ‘old skool’ tunes – including old favorite The Teddy Bear’s Picnic – using Shellac 78 records. Known [...]