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Political Lunch 10-06-08
from Political Lunch
October 06, 2008
Today's Monday Lunch (four more to go!) focuses on Ohio: Can McCain slow Obama's momentum in the critical swing states? ALSO: What's worse, a Sixties radical or an Eighties fraud?...
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Blossoms for Tony
from The Palomar
October 03, 2008
Tony PastorA couple of weeks ago I offered up a piece on one of the all-time greats of Jazz, Stan Getz. As a follow up I wanted to feature another great saxophonist who didn’t quite reach the fame of Getz and a band leader who never reached the heights of Miller, Shaw, Goodman or the other greats ...
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Register to Vote, Anyone?
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
October 03, 2008
Voting, Vote For Change, State by State Voter Laws and Registration Deadlines, Vote 411, Project Vote Smart, Orange Moon, Halloween Pet Costumes, 2008 Candy Toy Product Review, Winston Churchill, Genghis Khan, Oh Hell No, Rock The Vote, All Gizah Pyramids, Rosie the Riveter...
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Political Lunch 10-03-08
from Political Lunch
October 03, 2008
Last night Sarah Palin exceeded expectations, according to today's pundits. But is that really a compliment? It all depends on how low the bar's been set. ALSO: What do the candidates say about today's job market woes?...
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Master of Your Own Domain Name
from Rocketboom
October 01, 2008
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Domain name expansion like gold rush , changing to Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation, Easily mispronounced domain names, the OpenNIC Project, Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC), the Public-Root...
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Urban Bears, Unusual Buildings
from Rocketboom
October 02, 2008
Urban Black Bears “Live Fast, Die Young , 1, 2, World s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs), Solar panels installed on Vatican roof, Le Projet Triangle by Herzog & de Meuron, New Paris Building Casts No Shadows, Generates Electricity, Walter Towers by BIG, Scientists...
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Political Lunch 10-01-08
from Political Lunch
October 01, 2008
Today it's Bailout Bill v2.0: where do Obama and McCain stand on the new proposal, and who stands to benefit if the bill passes? ALSO: What do Palin's former debate opponents have to say about her prospects versus Biden?...
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50 Years Ago.... The Soft Sounds of Peter Gunn and Henry Mancini
from The Palomar
September 30, 2008
Can it be that long ago? Can a half-century have passed by already? Where does the time go? As we finish September 2008, I am thinking back to September 1958. I rode the train from Chicago to attend my first semester at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). My father died a year earl...
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Geological Arboreal Intergalactic
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 30, 2008
Nuvvuagittuq, Superior craton, and Tonalites, Zircon, Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad (1, 2, 3), Nature Jewelry, 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent, Preventing forest fires with tree power, Voltree Power, The human airbag that will protect the elderly if they fall, NASA s Glory, Send Yo...
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Joyful Trees in a Park
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 29, 2008
Rocketboom field correspondent Tim Brunsden of Liverpool Stories speaks with David Allan about Joyful Trees , an architectural art installation created by Diller + Scofidio + Renfro for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial....
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Political Lunch 09-29-08
from Political Lunch
September 29, 2008
Today's Lunch takes a look at Friday's debate between Johnny M. and Barry O. The pundits say it was a snooze, but what did the voters think? Also, can Sarah P's prep fix her game in time to face Joey B?...
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Connie Haines - Farewell
from The Palomar
September 27, 2008
So soon after the loss of Jo Stafford, another of Tommy Dorsey's great vocalists has joined the Concert in the Sky. Connie Haines (1921-2008) passed away on September 26th at the age of 87. Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra Oh, Look at Me Now!Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra,Connie Haines and The Pied Pipe...
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Looking Back: New Year's Eve
from The Palomar
September 26, 2008
by Doug Clark Photo: The ball that drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve.Broadcast: New Year's Eve 1945 Few of today’s big band fans recall the glories of New Year’s Eve, when a plethora of dance bands took over the airways of two networks from 11:00 pm to 3:00 am. Only CBS broadcast that late...
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Beards
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 26, 2008
All About Beards, Beards and Baldies, BLF - Beard Liberation Front, Famous Beards Throughout Time, Beard Cricket, World Beard and Moustache Championships, 2007 Winners...
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Political Lunch 09-26-08
from Political Lunch
September 26, 2008
Have no fear, political junkies, it appears tonight's debate is back on as planned. Today Rob and Will take a look at 48 hours of John McCain. ALSO: Are Kissinger and Palin on the same page?...
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Visiting David Blaine in Central Park
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 24, 2008
A visit to David Blaine who is hanging upside down for 60 hours as part of his Dive of Death in Central Park, New York City. Music by b-man. Previously on Rocketboom: Joanne interviews David Blaine in Times Square....
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Anti-gravity
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 25, 2008
Anti-gravity, NASA footage of zero gravity plane, Go-Fast Jetpack, Mythbusters on the Anti-Gravity Lifter Myth, Expl of dynamical BB effect from stand point of ZPF field by T. Musha, Biefeld Brown Effect, UFOs-NASA, Gary McKinnon, Free Gary McKinnon dot org dot uk, Brian Cox, D:Ream, What on Earth...
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Political Lunch 09-24-08
from Political Lunch
September 24, 2008
Everybody takes a hit today as Rob covers the latest lobbyist connection to McCain, Obama and Biden get bit by their own attack dog, and we offer to buy you a beer....
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World Turned Upside Down
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 23, 2008
Tim O Reilly, Web 2.0 Expo New York, Conflux: Vertical Bed, Office for the development of Substitute Materials*, Artificial Time Travel, Astrophysicists weigh galaxy s most massive star, China to snap four shuttles together to build a space station, Zhai Zhigang, China names new crew for space launc...
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Political Lunch 09-22-08: Financial Crisis
from Political Lunch
September 22, 2008
Obama and McCain focus on the financial bailout plan as Wall Street's economic crisis continues. Plus, when you have seven homes, perhaps you need 13 cars, but how many need to be foreign?[correction: Chris Cox is the SEC chairman]...
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What I Really Know About Big Band Music
from The Palomar
June 29, 2008
There are still some 80+ year olds out there who get a warm glow in their hearts and a smile on their face when they hear Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade or any one of many other tunes from the big band era of the 1930's and early 1940's. At 84, I am one of them. My interest in the big bands beg...
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Our Amazon aStores
from The Palomar
July 01, 2008
Next time you visit our big band web site, Tuxedo Junction, please visit our Amazon aStores. You'll find great selections and low prices on big band CD's, DVD's, VHS videos, and books. You'll also find many other items Amazon offers -- and at very competitive prices. Here is the main link to our Ama...
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Bob Wills - The King Of Western Swing - Lone Star Rag
from The Palomar
July 01, 2008
When I was growing up in the southern Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the late forties and the early fifties, my mother was one of the hippest swingers of the time (not the same as “swingers” of today!). She could really bop to Benny Goodman and was as good as they came when it came to...
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The Big Bands
from The Palomar
July 02, 2008
Well, I just wanted to know something, guys. Being a relatively newcomer, I am still collecting the records of different big bands of the 1930's - 1950's. I have been sampling bands like Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and the like. I have found many records not really considered to be big...
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What are the Big Bands?
from The Palomar
July 04, 2008
Bill, that's the kind of question that can lead to LONG discussions, or brief battles, in my opinion. So to help answer it in a sane manner, I went to Wikipedia: Here's what this online encyclopedia offers: Stylistic origins: Jazz Cultural origins: 1920s (United States) Typical instruments: saxophon...
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Esquire's Jazz Book
from The Palomar
July 04, 2008
Rummaging around through some old books, I found one of the first books I ever bought. It was 1944 and the title is the same as I entitled this post: Esquire's Jazz Book Edited by Paul Eduard Miller with an introduction by Arnold Gingrich. Price on the dust jacket, still enclosing the book -- $2.00....
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Homage to the Earle Theatre
from The Palomar
July 20, 2008
The Big Bands of course didn’t just play for dancing. Where today’s rock groups perform (ummm) in huge stadiums, movie theaters served much the same purpose back in the Swing Era. For those of us from the Philadelphia area, one of the locations whose name still resonates is the famous Earle Thea...
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Meet Henry Holloway
from The Palomar
July 19, 2008
Henry Holloway Photos Artie Shaw and Henry (1999) Les Brown and Henry (1999) Neal Hefti and Henry (2003) Sammy Cahn and Henry (1986) Steve Allen and Henry (1999) Big Band Academy Award (2003)to Henry Holloway Eric Kieswetter and Henry (1990's) Henry on the BBC (1999) So, who is Henry Holloway? In a ...
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The Palomar Turns One
from The Palomar
July 01, 2008
George Shearing The Palomar will turn one year old on Tuesday, July 1st. Thanks to our active members who have published so many posts and comments during the past 12 months, The Palomar has indeed become what I had hoped it would -- an interactive, member-driven big band broadcast blog. Sure, not a...
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Jimmy Stewart, Steve Allen and Sal Mineo as Big Band Greats!
from The Palomar
July 31, 2008
Last evening my wife and I had the opportunity to watch three great movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel. “The Glenn Miller Story” (1954), “The Benny Goodman Story” (1955) and “The Gene Krupa Story” (1959). Obviously Jimmy Stewart’s performance was stellar and can be considered ...
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Happy Birthday, Palomar!
from The Palomar
July 02, 2008
Congratulations, George! Best wishes on the first anniversary of The Palomar. I'm sure I can safely speak for all the members in thanking you for allowing us the privilege to not only experience some of the greatest music of all time, but to interact with one other in sharing that joy along with the...
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Anniversary of Swing
from The Palomar
August 04, 2008
The Swing Era begins with the second set of Benny Goodman’s gig at the Palomar Ballroom on August 21, 1935. However, as a musical form, swing dates back to the mid-to-late 1920’s with the experimentation of Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman. The fruits of their work culminated in the charts that...
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Rambling Reminiscences of the Big Band Era
from The Palomar
August 19, 2008
by Doug Clark How many of you remember or even heard of the three orchestras that emerged during the Great Depression whose leaders were known as a new brand of singers, often derisively known as “crooners”? The first of these was that of Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees. Rudy Vallee Rudy...
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Dean Hudson: Moon Over Miami
from The Palomar
August 23, 2008
by Jack Fortes Many remember the pretty tune, “Moon Over Miami” (I was born in that named town and have loved the song for many years), but many probably do not remember the band that used it as a theme: Dean Hudson, out of the University of Florida in the late 1930's and into the 1940's. Here...
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The Sound
from The Palomar
August 26, 2008
I was listening to KAAM radio yesterday while driving to my jobsite when they played a piece from one of the greatest saxophonist’s to ever pick up that instrument. The list is so long it’s really quite unfair to list those below and not to mention all the others, but to make the point about the...
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Count Basie: From My Perspective
from The Palomar
August 10, 2008
by Henry Holloway Count Basie at Birdand (1960) I first met Count Basie in person on Saturday morning, July 14th, 1979, at the Hague in Holland during the Northsea Jazz Festival. The previous evening, my wife-at-the-time, Eve Boswell (who was a famous singer in the 1950's and 1960's in England, havi...
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Ted Heath (1902-1969)
from The Palomar
September 16, 2008
by Jack Fortes Along with the American bands that continued into the 1950s, A British band known as “Ted Heath and His Music” made what George T. Simon called “the first and successful American tour of an English jazz band.” Ted Heath Simon said Heath was “a dignified, dedicated Englishman...
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Big Bands of the 1950's
from The Palomar
September 11, 2008
by "Bill" Schaaf Moonglow/The Theme from "Picnic"Ray McKinley and The New Glenn Miller Orchestra Arnold Dean Interviews Ray McKinley"One Night Stand with the Big Bands" - September 1976 Sometimes, people of today think that with the release of Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" in May 1954 all oth...
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Times Are Bad, Hide Your Sandwich
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 18, 2008
Mickey Mouse must die, says Saudi Arabian cleric (1, 2, 3), Search for Lehman Brothers on eBay, Hurricane IKE Wind!, Future Victim of Everest to Ride Down Mountain on a Unicycle, Oil Addiction Wrecked My Life, Anti-Theft Lunch Bag Deters Sandwich Thieves, World s oldest man to celebrate 113th birthd...
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Political Lunch 09-19-08: Weekly 10-in-3
from Political Lunch
September 19, 2008
Today's Friday 10-in-3 (which, by the way, really is IN 3 MINUTES!!), covers McCain's new economic offense (and why the voters may not care), the GOP brand resurgence (and what the Dems are doing about it), and the final word on the Bridge to Nowhere....
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Political Lunch 09-18-08: Hack Snack
from Political Lunch
September 18, 2008
Today on the Lunch we peak at Sarah Palin's personal email account and why it matters that she uses it for state business. Plus, a look at McCain's invention and Rob goes after the editors of top publications and web sites for distorting the facts....
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Space Junk
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 16, 2008
Space traffic control needed in junk-filled orbits, Flaming space junk narrowly misses jet (2007), New Horizons, Brain Transplant Successful as Checkout Continues, New Horizons on Twitter, Rocketboom on Twitter, Creature Survives Naked in Space, Tardigrades, Tardigrade Facts, NASA Developing Fission...
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