Music: general
This inventory is reasonably complete only from December 2010 on.
Sacred Harp music is in a separate Page.
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☛ 12/24/10: Christmas stories and music:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/christmas-stories-and-music/
☛ 7/16/11: Josef Suk:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/two-deaths-in-the-arts/
☛ 11/24/11: Christmas music update:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/christmas-music-update/
☛ 12/19/11: More Christmas music:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/more-christmas-music/
☛ 4/1/12: Earl Scruggs:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/earl-scruggs/
☛ 5/10/12: The Swiss national anthem:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/the-swiss-national-anthem/
☛ 6/3/12: The craftsman:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/the-craftsman/
Doc Watson
☛ 7/25/12: Gay Messiah:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/gay-messiah/
Rufus Wainwright
☛ 7/29/12: More t-shirt art history:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/more-t-shirt-art-history/
Don McLean’s “Vincent” (“Starry, Starry Night”)
☛ 8/9/12: core music:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/core-music/
hatecore music
☛ 9/7/12: Happy Birthday:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/happy-birthday/
“Happy Birthday to You”
☛ 9/14/12: Until the eagle grins:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/until-the-eagle-grins/
“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”
☛ 11/10/12: After the election:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/after-the-election/
Young Jeezy
☛ 12/4/12: Christmas music bulletin:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/2012-christmas-music-bulletin/
Clubbing Christmas 2008, Bells of Dublin, McGarrigle Family Christmas, Jackson Browne’s “The Rebel Jesus”
☛ 12/21/12: Pocket reference to half-rhyme:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/pocket-reference-to-half-rhyme/
“Ol’ 55” (Tom Waits, The Eagles)
☛ 12/21/12: Still more Christmas music:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/still-more-christmas-music/
Jolly Bolly Christmas
☛ 12/22/12: The multicultural Christmas playlist:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/the-multicultural-christmas-playlist-mostly-jingle-bells/
more Xmas music, a lot more
☛ 12/23/12: Regrettable Christmas songs:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/regrettable-christmas-songs/
☛ 3/12/13: Two great dames:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/two-great-dames/
Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch
☛ 5/29/13: Blessed Assurance on Broadway:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/blessed-assurance-on-broadway/
Blessed Assurance
☛ 6/5/13: Have an X, have a Y:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/have-an-x-have-a-y/
“Marry the Man Today” from Guys and Dolls, “Mr. Goldstone, I Love You” from Gypsy
☛ 7/3/13: Music and words:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/03/music-and-words/
Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, their connections
☛ 7/11/13: Steve Grand, DNA, Timoteo:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/11/steve-grand-dna-timoteo/
Steve Grand, “All-American Boy”, and covering Lady Gaga’s “You and I”
☛ 7/23/13: SRS: the music video:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/23/srs-the-music-video
Steam Room Stories music video
☛ 7/30/13: Groovin’ on the Glocken:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/30/groovin-on-the-glocken/
the glockenspiel, air guitar, Zauberflöte
☛ 8/1/13: The Luffa and the Wompom:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/01/the-luffa-and-the-wompom/
Flanders and Swann, The Wompom
☛ 8/3/13: Howls in Bayreuth:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/03/howls-in-bayreuth/
Castorf production of Wagner’s Ring
☛ 8/11/13: tartare:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/11/tartare/
Die Dreigroschenoper
☛ 8/20/13: No scatting:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/20/no-scatting/
scat singing
☛ 8/23/13: Two stylists:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/23/two-stylists/
Marian McPartland
☛ 8/31/13: Colander song:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/31/colander-song/
“Calendar Girl”
☛ 10/13/13: Brief notice: jazz haiku:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/10/13/brief-notice-jazz-haiku/
jazz haiku
☛ 12/3/13: Three penguin notes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/03/three-penguin-notes/
Penguin Prison
☛ 12/16/13: More for Xmas:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/16/more-for-xmas/
loathesome Xmas music
☛ 5/23/14: Piercing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/23/piercing/
musical humor: Stan Freberg
☛ 9/6/14: Cantus Arcticus:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/06/cantus-arcticus/
Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
☛ 9/9/14: LGBT stamp year:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/09/lgbt-stamp-year/
k.d. lang
☛ 9/21/14: Ages:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/21/ages/
Maria Muldaur, Stevie Nicks
☛ 9/23/14: Puns and their allies:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/23/puns-and-their-allies/
Nadia Boulanger, Bill McGlaughlin
☛ 9/28/14: Wichita is falling:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/28/wichita-is-falling/
Pat Metheny
☛ 10/1/14: Saying but disavowing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/01/saying-but-disavowing/
rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”
☛ 10/4/14: Homage to Marky Mark:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/04/homage-to-marky-mark/
Nick Jonas and his various bands
☛ 10/7/14: On the portmanteau beat:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/07/on-the-portmanteau-beat/
musical tempos; Mahler’s Symphony No. 7
☛ 11/2/14: Sacred Harp by Cantus:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/02/sacred-harp-by-cantus/
the chorus Cantus
☛ 11/10/14: I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/10/ive-got-a-lovely-bunch-of-coconuts/
“I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts”
☛ 11/11/14: Calendar boys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/11/calendar-boys/
“Calendar Girl”
☛ 11/20/14: Muzio Clementi:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/20/muzio-clementi/
Muzio Clementi
☛ 11/22/14: Musical mishearing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/22/musical-mishearing/
Engelbert Humperdinck
☛ 11/24/14: I hurt myself today:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/24/i-hurt-myself-today/
Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails
☛ 11/25/14: Two cartoons and a parody:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/25/two-cartoons-and-a-parody/
The Eurythmics
☛ 11.27/14: Big D:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/27/big-d/
“Big D” from The Most Happy Fella
☛ 12/4/14: Don’t go changin’:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/04/dont-go-changin/
Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”
☛ 12/9/14: Rhyme time at Zippy’s:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/09/rhyme-time-at-zippys/
diatonic vs. atonal piano music, arena hip hop, Iggy Azalea (more hip hop), Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine”
☛ 12/10/14: Scientific language play:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/10/scientific-language-play/
Lionel Richie’s “Three Times a Lady”
☛ 12/16/14: Peter and the Wolf:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/16/peter-and-the-wolf/
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
☛ 12/17/24: The dark side of Xmas songs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/17/the-dark-side-of-xmas-songs/
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
☛ 12/24/14: mirlitons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/24/mirlitons/
Nutcracker Suite; the instrument the mirliton / reed-flute
☛ 12/25/14: Amahl and the Nigh Visitors:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/25/amahl/
Amahl and the Night Visitors
☛ 12/26/14: The Messiah:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/26/the-messiah/
The Messiah
☛ 1/2/15: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/02/glucklich-ist-wer-vergisst-was-doch-nicht-zu-andern-ist/
Die Fledermaus
☛ 1/15/15: Façade:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/15/facade/
Façade music by William Walton
☛ 1/21/15: Theme music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/21/theme-music/
Les Préludes and Flash Gordon; William Tell overture and The Lone Ranger; Love for Three Oranges and The FBI in Peace and War; “Flash” by Queen
☛ 1/21/15: Antonio Soler and the mournful valley:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/21/antonio-soler-and-the-mournful-valley/
Padre Antonio Soler
☛ 1/22/15: More theme music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/22/more-theme-music/
The Flying Dutchman and Captain Video; von Resnicek’s opera Donna Diana and Sergeant Preston
☛ 1/30/15: Doing the fandango, from Venango to Ilopango:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/30/doing-the-fandango-from-venango-to-ilopango/
the fandango
☛ 2/7/15: Emmerich Kálmán in wartime:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/07/emmerich-kalman-in-wartime/
Emmerich Kálmán; The Gypsy Princess, Countess Maritza
☛ 2/20/15: Child’s play:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/20/childs-play/
Elgar, Wand of Youth; Mozart juvenilia; Mendelssohn Octet
☛ 2/24/15: Ode to Almond Joy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/24/ode-to-almond-joy/
Ode to Joy
☛ 3/1/15: abduction:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/01/abduction/
Abduction from the Seraglio
☛ 3/3/15: Peter Sarsgaard, Harold in Italy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/03/peter-sarsgaard-harold-in-italy/
Berlioz, Harold in Italy
☛ 3/7/15: Reynaldo Hahn:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/07/reynaldo-hahn/
Reynaldo Hahn
☛ 3/12/15: The spirit of geometry:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/12/the-spirit-of-geometry/
Whispers, “And the Beat Goes On”; Sonny and Cher, “The Beat Goes On”
☛ 3/21/15: Ethelbert Nevin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/21/ethelbert-nevin/
Ethelbert Nevin; two of his compositions
☛ 3/23/15: Morning names: confrey, comfrey:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/23/morning-names-confrey-comfrey/
Zez Confrey, two of his compositions
☛ 3/27/15: Reuben and Rachel:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/27/reuben-and-rachel/
song “Reuben and Rachel”
☛ 3/28/15: na na na:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/28/na-na-na/
“Hey hey goodbye”, “Katamari Damacy” theme; “Hey Jude”; “Land of 1,000 Dances”; child’s taunt to “Bye, Baby Bunting”
☛ 4/3/15: More na na na:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/03/more-na-na-na/
Silhouettes, “Get a Job”; Sha Na Na, “Don’t You Just Know It”
☛ 4/5/15: At the movies: Julie Andrews:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/05/at-the-movies-julie-andrews/
Julie Andrews: The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins movies
☛ 4/5/15: Andrew Porter:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/05/andrew-porter/
music critic Andrew Porter
☛ 4/7/15: Edelweiss:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/07/edelweiss/
“Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music
☛ 4/11/15: No vowels:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/11/no-vowels/
singer Cassandra Wilson
☛ 4/11/15: Two obits:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/11/two-obits-2/
pianist Ralph Sharon; “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”
☛ 4/12/15: Spring Sonata:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/12/spring-sonata/
Beethoven’s “Spring Sonata” for violin
☛ 4/24/15: Youthful enthusiasm:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/24/youthful-enthusiasms/
folk musician Robin Williamson
☛ 4/26/15: Morning: Great American Dream Machine:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/26/morning-great-american-dream-machine/
Mel Torme singing “Route 66”
☛ 4/27/15: Elsa Lanchester:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/27/elsa-lanchester/
Elsa Lanchester in Bawdy Cockney Songs
☛ 4/27/15: Armenian days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/27/armenian-days/
composer Alan Hovhaness and his Symphony No. 50
☛ 4/29/15: Ignaz Pleyel:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/29/ignaz-pleyel/
composer Ignaz Pleyel
☛ 5/6/15: Morning name: Simon Rattle:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/06/morning-name-simon-rattle/
conductor Simon Rattle
☛ 5/7/15: The most famous beaver of the 17th century:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/07/the-most-famous-beaver-of-the-17th-century/
composer and violinist Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
☛ 5/11/15: Keith Jarrett:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/11/keith-jarrett/
pianist Keith Jarrett
☛ 5/12/15: Morning tune:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/12/morning-tune/
theme song for Three’s Company
☛ 5/18/15: Don’t shade your eyes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/18/dont-shade-your-eyes/
Tom Lehrer’s “Lobachevsky”
☛ 5/20/15: Morning harmony:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/20/morning-harmony/
Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico
☛ 5/25/15: Portmanteau pop music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/25/portmanteau-pop-music/
tv pop/rock music shows: Shindig! Hullabaloo
☛ 6/20/15: Screaming for ice cream:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/20/screaming-for-ice-cream/
ice cream truck music; Cazwell’s “Ice Cream Truck”; “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream” song
☛ 6/21/15: My hard-on belongs to Daddy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/21/my-hard-on-belongs-to-daddy/
“My Heart Belongs to Daddy” song
☛ 6/23/15: La Bayadère:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/23/morning-name-la-bayadere/
Petipa ballet to music by Minkus
☛ 7/1/15: Declaring your race:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/01/declaring-your-race/
jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow
☛ 7/2/15: Initialisms, raunchy and not:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/02/initialisms-raunchy-and-not/
public radio theme music by B. J. Leiderman
☛ 7/5/15: Blowjob, handjob:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/112837.html
Prince’s “Jack U Off”
☛ 7/9/15: Twyla Tharp, truncation, and more:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/09/twyla-tharp-truncation-and-more/
music for Tharp dances
☛ 7/10/15: Madame von Meck:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/10/morning-name-madame-von-meck/
and Tchaikovsky
☛ 7/10/15: Feminist pirates and their chanteys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/10/feminist-pirates-and-their-chanteys/
sea chanteys
☛ 7/11/15: Outrageous art:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/11/outrageous-art
Dead Kennedys, Frankenchrist
☛ 7/15/15: Dead Tongues:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/15/dead-tongues/
Stanford rock band
☛ 7/15/15: Morning names: The Secret of Susanna, The Jewels of the Madonna:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/15/morning-names-the-secret-of-susanna-the-jewels-of-the-madonna/
two operas by Wolf-Ferrari
☛ 7/25/15: Morning names: naked mole rat, Penn Palestra:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/25/morning-names-naked-mole-rat-penn-palestra/
Palestrina
☛ 7/25/15: Name rhymes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/25/name-rhymes/
Cab Calloway, “Everybody Eats at My House”; Paul Simon, “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover”
☛ 7/26/15: Land of 1,000 Dances:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/26/land-of-1000-dances/
Wilson Pickett’s “Land of 1,000 Dances”
☛ 7/30/15: Name play in the comics:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/30/name-play-in-the-comics/
Simon & Garfunkel
☛ 8/2/15: Clown time:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/02/clown-time/
Smokey Robinson, “Tears of a Clown”
☛ 8/2/15:Search for the magic slogan:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/02/search-for-the-magic-slogan/
hip hop music by Professor P & DJ Akilles: “Keep Doing It”
☛ 8/16/15: Mornng: mandolin, mandoline:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/16/morning-mandolin-mandoline/
mandolins
☛ 8/17/15: “Willow Weep for Me”:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/17/willow-weep-for-me/
the song; three versions
☛ 9/1/15: Two hoots:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/01/giving-two-hoots/
the hootenanny; “Hoots Mon” song
☛ 9/10/15: Let’s twist again!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/10/lets-twist-again/
Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again”
☛ 9/11/15: Golden yellow for the end of summer:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/11/golden-yellow-for-the-end-of-summer/
Weill & Anderson, “September Song”
☛ 9/15/15: Dennis Greene:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/15/dennis-greene/
rock band Sha Na Na
☛ 9/19/15: Muffins:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/19/muffins/
“Do You Know the Muffic Man?”
☛ 9/20/15: Boop 2:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/20/boop-2/
“I Wanna Be Kissed By You” (performances in 1928 by Helen Kane, in 1959 by Marilyn Monroe)
☛ 9/21/15: The angle of your erection:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/21/the-angle-of-your-erection/
9/21/15: Be upstanding:
http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/114656.html
“The Object of My Affection” (burlesqued)
☛ 9/21/15: Amber 2:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/21/amber-2/
“Amber” by the band 311
☛ 9/27/15: California squirrels:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/27/california-squirrels/
“California Girls” by the Beach Boys (parody), Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
☛ 9/28/15: Morning name: Ritual Fire Dance:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/28/morning-name-ritual-fire-dance/
by de Falla; performance by Artur Rubinstein
☛ 9/29/15: Morning name: Dudelsack / doodlesack:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/29/morning-name-dudelsack-doodlesack/
bagpipes and bagpipe music; candidates for the Scottish national anthem
☛ 9/30/15: Another bagpiper:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/30/another-bagpiper/
opera Schwanda the Bagpiper and concert work taken from it; theme music for The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
☛ 10/3/15: Earworm time: Springtime for Hitler:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/03/earworm-time-springtime-for-hitler/
song “Springtime for Hitler” from The Producers
☛ 10/8/15: Rocky Horror at 40:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/08/rocky-horror-at-40/
“Time Warp” from Rocky Horror
☛ 10/10/15: Morning: A Long Slow Drag:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/10/morning-bla-long-slow-drag/
“A Long Slow Drag” from Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha; soprano Carmen Balthrop
☛ 10/11/15: From the 80s:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/11/from-the-80s/
musical genres; hit songs of the 80s, notably “Relax”
☛ 10/12/15: You must remember this:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/12/you-must-remember-this/
song “As Times Go By”
☛ 10/16/15: Pasta fazool:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/16/pasta-fazool/
Dean Martin and “That’s Amore”
☛ 10/17/15: That’s a moray:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/17/thats-a-moray/
parodies of “That’s Amore”
☛ 10/18/15: Morning: monotreme, marsupial:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/18/morning-monotreme-marsupial/
Stephen Stills, “All I Know is What You Tell Me”; rapper Father, “Who’s Gonna Get Fucked First”; lullaby, “Hush Little Baby”
☛ 10/23/15: Depilation Row:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/23/depilation-row/
“Desolation Rule”; musicians Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead
☛ 10/31/15: Rosamunde:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/31/rosamunde/
Schubert, incidental music to Rosamunde; mnemonic verses; “Beethoven’s Wig” vocal group, recordings; Schubert’s
“Rosamunde variations” impromptu; song “Rosamunde” (in German”), “Beer Barrel Polka” (in English)
☛ 11/1/15: Follow-up: Heino:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/01/follow-up-heino/
on the singer; on “Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir” and “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain”
☛ 11/2/15: Monkey Puzzle Trio:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/02/monkey-puzzle-trio/
the London-based musical group
☛ 11/9/15: PUMP! Boys and Trojans/strong>:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/09/pump-boys-and-trojans/
musical Pump Boys and Dinettes
☛ 11/10/15: George Crumb:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/10/george-crumb/
composer Crumb; his American Songbooks; his Ancient Voices of Children; mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani
☛ 11/15/15: Octavio Pinto:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/15/octavio-pinto/
and Guiomar Novaes
☛ 11/17/15: Alaskan-cod-pieces:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/17/alaskan-cod-pieces/
an assortment of rock musicians in codpieces
☛ 11/17/15: The House of the Writhing Pun/strong>:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/17/the-house-of-the-writhing-pun/
burlesque of the song “House of the Rising Sun”; performance by The Animals
☛ 11/18/15: Somewhere, looking like Bozo:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/18/somewhere-looking-like-bozo/
burlesque of the song “Over the Rainbow”
☛ 11/19/15: Rushing Sugar:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/19/rushing-sugar/
the song “El Bimbo”
☛ 11/21/15: Zipparchitecture:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/21/zipparchitecture/
guitarist Jimi Hendrix
☛ 11/21/15: Kijé and Jimson:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/21/kije-and-jimson/
Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite
☛ 11/22/15: Luis Valdez:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/22/luis-valdez/
song La Bamba; musicians Richie Valens and Los Lobos
☛ 11/23/15: motion-goal BE:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/23/motion-goal-be/
Charlene, “I’ve Never Been to Me”
☛ 11/25/15: On the campaign trail with Vermin Supreme:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/25/on-the-campaign-trail-with-vermin-supreme/
Screaming Lord Sutch and his rock band, The Savages
☛ 11/25/15: Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/25/tinnitus-tinnitus-semper-tinnitus/
“Jingle Bells” in Latin
☛ 11/30/15: Rhyme or reason:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/30/rhyme-or-reason/
tune for “Humpty Dumpty”
☛ 11/30/15: Monster Mash:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/30/monster-mash-2/
folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; novelty song “Monster Mash”
☛ 12/2/15: I love my Jack Adams:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/02/i-love-my-jack-adams/
Donovan’s song “I Love My Shirt”
☛ 12/5/15: Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/05/tchaikovskys-polish-symphony/
Symphony No. 3
☛ 12/9/15: Piano-Rag-Music / Ragtime:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/09/piano-rag-music-ragtime/
Stravinsky composition; the cimbalom
☛ 12/12/15: Dev Hynes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/12/dev-hynes/
the singer and songwriter aka Blood Orange
☛ 12/17/15: Jockstrap with a rainbow pouch:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/17/jockstrap-with-a-rainbow-pouch/
Elvis Presley singing “Riding the Rainbow”
☛ 12/22/15: Calendrical hunks:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/22/calendrical-hunks/
Club 69’s song “I Want to Be Your Underwear”
☛ 12/26/15: Morning: The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/26/morning-the-futures-so-bright-i-gotta-wear-shades/
the Timbuk3 song
☛ 12/27/15: Morning name: Kakadu:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/27/morning-name-kakadu/
Beethoven’s Kakadu Variations (piano trio); the song “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu”
☛ 12/28/15: Musical Star Wars puns:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/28/musical-star-wars-puns/
4 Star Wars characters playing musical instruments
☛ 12/30/15: Dick in a Box:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/30/dick-in-a-box/
song (and video) by The Lonely Island and Jason Timberlake; other music by them
☛ 1/3/16: testigraphmanteau:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/03/testigraphmanteau/
“Your Body is a Wonderland” by John Mayer
☛ 1/3/16: Misogynistic urinals and sinks:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/03/misogynistic-urinals-and-sinks/
Rolling Stones
☛ 1/5/16: The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/05/the-news-for-penises-issue-1-of-2016/
Flo Rida’s “Whistle”
☛ 1/6/16: The New Year’s resolution:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/06/the-new-years-resolution/
Ravel’s Bolero
☛ 1/8/16: Some favorite music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/08/some-favorite-music/
five favorite compositions, Mendelssohn, two Brahms, Schubert, Mozart; ostinatos and the ground bass
☛ 1/19/16: Silver mammoth:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/19/silver-mammoth/
Silver Mammoth rock band and their 2015 album Mindlomania
☛ 1/24/16: Morning name: John Varvatos:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/24/morning-name-john-varvatos/
“Old Bones” by Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown; proto-punk-rockers The Stooges
☛ 1/25/16: In the burlesque boat with Zippy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/25/in-the-burlesque-boat-with-zippy/
nursery rhyme/song/round “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”; singer-songwriter Michael McDonald
☛ 1/25/16: Put the cello to the metal:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/25/put-the-cello-to-the-metal/
two cello rock bands, Apocalyptica and Rasputina, and musicians and bands whose work theirs resembles or whose work they’ve covered
☛ 1/28/16: Yesteday:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/28/yesterday/
Mozart
☛ 1/29/16: aussieBum, Shearing the Rams, and Slim Dusty:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/29/aussiebum-shearing-the-ram-and-slim-dusty/
Australian country musician Slim Dusty; three songs
☛ 2/2/16: Notes on male ballet dancers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/02/notes-on-male-ballet-dancers/
Ligeti music set to a ballet
☛ 2/4/6: A late Christmas gift:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/04/a-late-christmas-gift/
Steve Grand 2015 cover of Mariah Carey’s song “All I Want fir Christmas is You”
☛ 2/15/16: Young gay love:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/15/young-gay-love/
gay love songs by Eli Lieb, Mat Burrow, Colton Ford; lists of gay love songs for Valentine’s Day
☛ 2/18/16: Morning name: Colton Ford:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/18/morning-name-colton-ford/
Queen, “I Want to Break Free”
☛ 2/19/16: Ting-a-ling:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/19/ting-a-ling/
“Ting-A-Ling” by The Clovers, cover by Buddy Holly
☛ 2/19/16: Nid-February news for penises:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/19/mid-february-news-for-penises/
“The Candy Man”
☛ 2/23/16: Morning names: the two Gracies:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/23/morning-names-the-two-gracies/
Gracie Fields songs
☛ 2/23/16: Who is Silvia?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/23/who-is-silvia/
song from The Two Gentlemen of Verona; setting by Franz Schubert, performance by The King’s Singers
☛ 2/25/16: a katakana para:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/25/a-katakana-para/
songs “Patapan” and (with various spellings) “Mahna Mahna”
☛ 3/6/16: Sex in the shadows:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/06/sex-in-the-shadows/
songs from Dreigroschenoper, Threepenny Opera
☛ 3/12/16: Mayan comics and alliterative music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/12/mayan-comics-and-alliterative-music/
Kurt Moll performing Mozart
☛ 3/13/16: Two very different male body types:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/13/two-very-different-male-body-types/
baritone Craig Verm
☛ 3/14/16: Unnerving Chicano art: Vincent Valdez:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/14/unnerving-chicano-art-vincent-valdez/
song “Strange Fruit” and singer Billie Holiday; music/poetry fusion of Gil Scott-Heron
☛ 3/15/16: Morning name: mock-Swedish nonsense:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/15/morning-name-mock-swedish-nonsense/
1940s novelty songs: “The Hut-Sut Song”, “Mairzy Doats”
☛ 3/18/16: Morning name: Roll Over, Beethoven:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/18/morning-name-roll-over-beethoven/
Chuck Berry and this song
☛ 3/19/16: Cheese Barrel Polka:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/19/cheese-barrel-polka/
Zippy burlesque of “Beer Barrel Polka”
☛ 4/4/16: The watermelon files:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/04/the-watermelon-files/
Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man”
☛ 4/4/16: Morning names: divertimento, serenade:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/04/morning-names-divertimento-serenade/
divertimenti and serenades by Mozart
☛ 4/5/16: Ain’t It the Truth:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/05/aint-it-the-truth/
Daryle Singetary, “Ain’t It the Truth”; Lena Horne, “Aint’s It the Truth”
☛ 4/30/16: The masturbation sleeve:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/30/the-masturbation-sleeve/
Prince, Controversy, with “Sexuality” and “Jack U Off”
☛ 5/3/16: Lawyers, Gubs and Monkeys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/03/lawyers-gubs-and-monkeys/
Warren Zevon, Steve Miller Band
☛ 5/3/16: Morning names: thistles!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/03/morning-names-thistles/
Sacha Distel and “La belle vie”
☛ 5/14/16: Brill me tomorrow, Zippy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/14/brill-me-tomorrow-zippy/
burlesque of Goffin & King “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
☛ 5/15/16: Punch in the presence of the passenjare:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/15/punch-in-the-presence-of-the-passenjare/
Punch Brothers bluegrass band
☛ 5/17/16: Female parts:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/17/female-parts/
bands named Girl Parts
☛ 5/19/16: Definiions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/19/definitions/
Bizarro with a piano performance involving a sledgehammer
☛ 5/26/16: Thurber the illustrator:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/26/thurber-the-illustrator/
Vaughan Williams setting of Housman’s “Oh, when I was in love with you”
☛ 5/26/16: Gerard Hoffnung:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/26/gerard-hoffnung/
musical humor in cartoons, in the Hoffnung Festival performances (and recordings)
☛ 6/2/16: Morning news: death of radio star:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/02/morning-news-death-of-radio-star/
“Video killed the Radio Star”
☛ 6/9/16: What the wind says:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/09/what-the-wind-says/
Maurice Chevalier singing “Louise”
☛ 6/12/16: Name play in Basingstoke:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/12/name-play-in-basingstoke/
musicians Fatboy Slim, Memphis Slim
☛ 6/13/16: The news for penises: wrap it in a bagpipe:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/13/the-news-for-penises-wrap-it-in-a-bagpipe/
condom bagpipe designed and played by Linsey Pollak
☛ 6/19/16: Morning name: at Carnival, with a trumpet, in a tricorn:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/19/morning-name-at-carnival-with-a-trumpet-in-a-tricorn/
“Casrnival of Venice”, “My Hat it Has Three Corners”, “How Much is that Doggie in the Window?”
☛ 7/2/16: Hiphop phrenology:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/02/hiphop-phrenology/
album “Phrenology” by the hiphop group Roots
☛ 7/6/16: Dress for performance and publicity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/06/dress-for-performance-and-publicity/
Guarneri Quartet, Anonymous 4, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Ahn Trio, Kronos Quartet
☛ 7/7/16: Annoying instruments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/07/annoying-instruments/
Bizarro on annoying instruments
☛ 7/9/16: chimichurri:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/09/chimichurri/
The song “Chim Chim Cher-ee” from Mary Poppins
☛ 7/16/16: To be floral, bearded, and young:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/16/to-be-floral-bearded-and-young/
Zwicky Productions show at The Hope and Ruin in Brighton, Sussex
☛ 7/20/16: Lola Albright:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/21/lola-albright/
singer, esp. on Peter Gunn
☛ 7/23/16: Beginning the day with the sins of the world:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/23/beginning-the-day-with-the-sins-of-the-world/
Agnus Dei from Mozart Mass; other recordings of the Agnus Dei
☛ 7/27/16: Arthur Godfrey and friends:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/27/arthur-godfrey-and-friends/
“Stairway to Heaven”; banjo, ukelele
☛ 8/4/16: Zippy and the Edsels:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/04/zippy-and-the-edsels/
“Rama Lama Ding Dong”
☛ 8/5/16: Politically prescient G&S:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/05/politically-prescient-gs/
Iolanthe
☛ 8/6/16: Dick Deadeye in the morning:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/06/dick-deadeye-in-the-morning/
pastiche of Gilbert & Sullivan numbers
☛ 8/11/16: Sit right down:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/11/sit-right-down/
“I’m Gonna Sit Right Diwn and Write Myself a Letter”; Fats Waller
☛ 8/14/16: PE6-5000:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/14/pe6-5000/
Glenn Miller’s “Pennsylvania 6-5000”
☛ 8/18/16: If you wanna be Zippy…:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/18/if-you-wanna-be-zippy/
Jimmy Soul’s “If You Wanna Be Happy”
☛ 8/19/16: Pink motels, Cadillacs, etc. etc.:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/19/pink-motels-cadillacs-etc-etc/
Springsteen, “Pink Cadillac”; Pink Fairies
☛ 8/20/16: Give me some men who are strong-jawed men:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/20/give-me-some-men-who-are-square-jawed-men/
“Stout-Hearted Men” from The New Moon; rock musician Rick Springfield
☛ 8/21/16: “What you done, sunshine, is criminal damage”:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/21/what-you-done-sunshine-is-criminal-damage/
“You Are My Sunshine” performed by Johnny Cash and June Carter; “Good Morning Sunshine” performed by Aqua
☛ 8/29/16: Osmunda, Königin des Waldes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/29/osmunda-konigin-des-waldes/
operas and operetta; Rosamunde, Raimunda
☛ 9/1/16: On foot patrol, part 2:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/01/on-foot-patrol-part-2/
Beatles’ “Piggies”
☛ 9/6/16: Waltzing with Boynton Bears:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/06/waltzing-with-boynton-bears/
“Waltzing with Bears”
☛ 9/7/16: How sweet the daphne smells:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/07/how-sweet-the-daphne-smells/
Dudley Moore’s “Die Flabbergast”
☛ 9/9/16: Julian and Sandy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/09/julian-and-sandy/
Façade
☛ 9/12/16: Breaking bad:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/12/breaking-bad/
Rasputina
☛ 9/12/16: Toucan, get what you need:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/12/toucan-get-what-you-need/
Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
☛ 9/16/16: hinky?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/16/hinky/
“Mademoiselle from Armentières”
☛ 9/26/16: Hipsters, beats, and raconteurs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/26/hipsters-beats-and-raconteurs/
5 Zippys, some with musical characters
☛ 10/2/16: The old oaken desk:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/02/the-old-oaken-desk/
setting of “The Old Oaken Bucket” to music
☛ 10/4/16: Beefcake on screen:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/04/beefcake-on-screen/
showtunes and other popular music on Glee
☛ 10/6/16: Smuggle me budgie down, sport:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/06/smuggle-me-budgie-down-sport/
“Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”
☛ 10/13/16: Bring in ‘da Boyz, Bring in ‘da Funk:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/13/bring-in-da-boyz-bring-in-da-funk/
Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk
☛ 10/14/16: New Yorker bro-toon:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/14/new-yorker-bro-toon/
band Bro & Toons
☛ 10/15/16: Zippy goes out to catch a bite:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/15/zippy-goes-out-to-catch-a-bite/
pop song “Sugar Shack”
☛ 10/16/16: Huzzah!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/16/huzzah/
“Like a Rolling Stone”
☛ 10/17/16: Zwickys of New York: Chuck the mixmaster:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/17/zwickys-of-new-york-chuck-the-mixmaster/
sound mixer Chuck Zwicky
☛ 10/17/16: Workin’ Blue at the Car Wash:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/17/workin-blue-at-the-car-wash/
Jim Croce’s “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues”
☛ 10/17/16: Nick Cave and the Soundsuits:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/17/nick-cave-and-the-soundsuits/
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
☛ 10/20/16: Là ci darem la mano pianoforte:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/20/la-ci-darem-la-mano-pianoforte/
Chopin variations on the Mozart duet; pianists Alexis Weissenberg, Idil Biret
☛ 10/21/16: Pingu watches over the gay boys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/21/pingu-watches-over-the-gay-boys/
the folk wind instrument pungi
☛ 10/29/16: Montage montage:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/29/montage-montage/
children’s song “Monter sur un éléphant”
☛ 10/29/16: Grab It While You Can:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/29/grab-it-while-you-can/
Janis Joplin performance of “Get It While You Can”
☛ 11/2/16: Annals of musical instruments: two 2th-century inventions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/02/annals-of-musical-instruments-two-20th-century-inventions/
the melodica and the bazooka
☛ 11/3/16: Annals of musical instruments: improvised instruments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/03/annals-of-musical-instruments-improvised-instruments/
the ugly stick and the kazoo; performance group Stomp
☛ 11/6/16: True Cpnfessions Ripped from the Tabloids:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/06/true-confessions-ripped-from-the-tabloids/
rap music by Rick Ross
☛ 11/9/16: Eliding the black penis:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/09/eliding-the-black-penis/
Cameo’s “Candy”
☛ 11/13/16: Lukas is back!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/13/lukas-is-back/
Paul McCartney’s “Silly Love Songs”; Backstreet Boys
☛ 11/17/16: Magnificat:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/17/magnificat/
the Magnificat from the Anglican Evensong service, and the elder JKD’s burlesque of it
☛ 11/21/16: You can’t judge a story by its title:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/21/you-cant-judge-a-story-by-its-title/
Bo Diddley song
☛ 11/24/16: Moonlight:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/24/moonlight/
Caetano Veloso singing “Cucurrucucu Paloma”
☛ 11/25/16: Rising in the morning:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/25/rising-in-the-morning/
Mahler, Symphony No. 2, Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Lehrer, “Alma”
☛ 11/25/16: medium-hater:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/25/medium-hater/
Alvin and the Chipmunks
☛ 12/1/16: From the stage directions for two holiday musical productions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/01/from-the-stage-directions-for-two-holiday-musical-productions/
two hymns, played on sexily
☛ 12/7/16: More news for cigars:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/07/more-news-for-cigars/
“Viva Las Vegas” performed by Elvis Presley and by ZZ Top
☛ 12/13/16: Stayin’ Alive:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/13/stayin-alive/
Bee Gees and the music from Saturday Night Fever
☛ 12/15/16: Ignaz Moscheles:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/15/ignaz-moscheles/
the virtuoso performer and composer
☛ 12/17/16: Two late December holidays:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/17/two-late-december-holidays/
Beethoven, Hedwig
☛ 12/20/16: It’s beginning to look a lot like Fishmas:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/20/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fishmas/
“Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
☛ 12/22/16: Morning music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/22/morning-music/
Donnacha Dennehy, Junk Box Fraud
☛ 12/24/16: Pharmaceutical morning names:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/24/pharmaceutical-morning-names/
“The Girl from Ipanema”, Astrud Gilberto
☛ 12/29/16: One more Santa cap:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/29/one-more-santa-cap/
“Deck the Halls”
☛ 1/1/17: Morning names for the new year:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/01/morning-names-for-the-new-year/
Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzie Nelson
☛ 1/2/17: Queens & Cowboys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/02/queens-cowboys/
Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive”
☛ 1/16/17: I won’t even mention the auto-da-fé:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/16/i-wont-even-mention-the-auto-da-fe/
Leonard Bernstein, Candide
☛ 1/19/17: Meaty matters:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/19/meaty-matters/
The Meatmen; “It Ain’t the Meat, It’s the Motion”
☛ 1/21/17: A label of love:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/21/a-label-of-love/
Bon Jovi’s “Labor of Love”
☛ 1/27/17: A kiss is just a kiss:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/27/a-kiss-is-just-a-kiss/
song “As Times Goes By”
☛ 2/2/17: QaF and its men:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/02/qaf-and-its-men/
Mozart/Schickaneder Magic Flute
☛ 2/3/17: Theo Zwicky:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/03/theo-zwicky/
European scholar of jazz
☛ 2/7/17: Saint George, the patron saint of parks at night:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/07/saint-george-patron-saint-of-parks-at-night/
George Michael’s music
☛ 2/7/17: Punk piano:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/07/punk-piano/
the Ramones
☛ 2/9/17: ReFo and K-Man:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/09/refo-and-k-man/
quintuple meter; Brubeck’s “Take Five”
☛ 2/9/17: Dwarfs for a new age:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/09/dwarfs-for-a-new-age/
Jay Z and his music
☛ 2/10/17: Annals of adorable:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/10/annals-of-adorable/
Fun, “Why Am I the One?”; Hedwig and “Sugar Daddy”
☛ 2/14/17: Sex and smiles for VDay:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/14/sex-and-smiles-for-vday/
Tom Lehrer’s “The Old Dope Peddler”
☛ 2/15/17: The news for penguins and, oh yes, penises:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/15/the-news-for-penguins-and-oh-yes-penises/
Chris Brown, “Love Rocket”; Steel Panther/Danger Kitty “Love Rocket”
☛ 2/17/17: dying:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/17/dying/
singer Wayne Fontana; pianish (and showman) Liberace
☛ 2/18/17: They don’t get it:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/18/they-dont-get-it/
singer Tony Bennett
☛ 3/3/17: Name fame:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/03/name-fame/
Jennifer Lopez / JLo
☛ 3/14/17: Pop, ejaculated the weasel:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/14/pop-ejaculated-the-weasel/
tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”; Anthony Newley version
☛ 3/19/17: It was correction killed the desire:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/19/it-was-correction-killed-the-desire/
5 songs with want/need you so bad
☛ 3/19/17: Sexting with emoji:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/19/sexting-with-emoji/
Scissor Sisters, “Let’s All Have a Kiki”
☛ 3/20/17: Save a horse, ride a cowboy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/20/save-a-horse-ride-a-cowboy/
Big & Rich song
☛ 3/21/17: Haley Bonar:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/21/haley-bonar/
Bonar’s “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy”
☛ 3/26/17: On the boulevard of broken dreams with Kip Noll:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/26/on-the-boulevard-of-broken-dreams-with-kip-noll/
Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”; Alabama, “Dancin’, Shaggin’ on the Boulevard:; 1933 hit, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
☛ 3/27/17: JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffe, and gaybros:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/27/jobrobutts-hills-bros-coffee-and-gaybros/
Jonas Brothers, The Bros
☛ 3/29/17: Three:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/29/three/
Così Fan Tutte; Murray Head’s recordings
☛ 3/31/17: The Ahab-Moby affair:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/31/the-ahab-moby-affair/
Moby and his music
☛ 4/5/17: The blat-bray instrumental report:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/05/the-blat-bray-instrumental-report/
☛ 4/6/17: Hail to the Hyena-in-Chief:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/06/hail-to-the-hyena-in-chief/
“Hail to the Chief”; Lee Greenwood, “God Bless the USA”; other American patriotic songs; Haydn, “Gott erhalte…”, Emperor Quartet, hymn Austria, Deutschlandlied
☛ 4/14/17: On the quote watch:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/14/on-the-quote-watch/
Paul Allen, song “Everything Old Is New Again”
☛ 4/16/17: Out gay male bands:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/16/out-gay-male-bands/
PWR BTTM, Superfruit and Pentatonix, Pansy Division, Scissor Sisters, Jinx Titanic
☛ 4/19/17: Calla, calla, calla, California:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/19/calla-calla-calla-california/
Culture Club, “Karma Chameleon”
☛ 4/23/17: Favorite operas:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/23/favorite-operas/
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier; Renée Fleming; history of opera; Mozart’s operas
☛ 4/28/17: Faces follow-up 2: Augusta Savage:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/28/faces-follow-up-2-augusta-savage/
Mozart and Haydn
☛ 5/2/17: To Be Young, Gay, and Chinese-American:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/02/to-be-young-gay-and-chinese-american/
Nina Simone, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black”
☛ 5/3/17: From the FoxFiles:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/03/from-the-foxfiles/
rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
☛ 5/5/17: Four Days in May:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/05/four-days-in-may/
CSNY, “Ohio”
☛ 5/11/17: The news for food, 5/11/17:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/11/the-news-for-food-51117/
the bouzouki; song “The Bloody Bouzouki” by Wolfstone
☛ 5/13/17: missing it:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/13/missing-it/
Ravi Shankar, “I Am Missing You”; John Waite, “Missing You”
☛ 5/14/17: Fags Before Flags, and other in-your-face t-shirts:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/14/fags-before-flags-and-other-in-your-face-t-shirts/
Glenn Danzig
☛ 5/18/17: Complementary ignorances:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/18/complementary-ignorances/
Anne Clark’s “This Be the Verse”
☛ 5/19/17: Ruthie faces the unfamiliar, again:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/19/ruthie-faces-the-unfamiliar-again/
“On the Sunny Side of the Street”
☛ 5/20/17: Brainless Tales, with more news for penises:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/20/brainless-tales-with-more-news-for-penises/
Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Le Bananier
☛ 5/21/17: Hang On Sloopy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/21/hang-on-sloopy/
“Hang On Sloopy”
☛ 5/27/17: Associative thinking:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/27/associative-thinking-2/
Beatles, “A Day in the Life”
☛ 5/31/17: Shamisen moments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/31/shamisen-moments/
the instrument; the rock duo Shamisen Kiki; the animated feature Kubo and the Two Strings
☛ 6/1/17: No te vayas de Zamboanga:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/01/no-te-vayas-de-zamboanga/
a number of folksongs, especially this Filipino song
☛ 6/4/17: Pride Time #3: on the menswear watch:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/04/pride-time-3-on-the-menswear-watch/
gay rapper Cazwell
☛ 6/5/17: For the day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/05/for-the-day/
“American Tune”; Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Indigo Girls
☛ 6/7/17: The word came down on Pentecost:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/07/the-word-came-down-on-pentecost/
Daniel Menche, Flaming Tongues; “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
☛ 6/25/17: The feast day of Saint Geore of the Beverly Tearoom:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/25/the-feast-day-of-saint-george-of-the-beverly-tearoom/
singer George Michael and Wham
☛ 6/28/17: More Magrottean disavowals:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/28/more-magrittean-disavowals/
the song “Three Little Words”
☛ 6/28/17: The Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/28/the-ballad-of-clark-and-bruce-superbat-of-pink-steel-forever/
Coheed and Cambria, “Island”
☛ 6/30/17: In the dunes, in the dunes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/30/in-the-dunes-in-the-dunes/
American folk song “In the Pines”; Lead Belly, Louvin Brothers, Nirvana
☛ 6/30/17: The Treasure of the Singlet Padre:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/30/the-treasure-of-the-singlet-padre/
song “Happy Trails” (Dale Evans / Roy Rogers), album Happy Trails (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
☛ 7/1/17: O Canada! Au Canada: le huard!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/01/o-canada-au-canada-le-huard/
“Ma Cabane au Canada”
☛ 7/17/17: Amoeba humor:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/17/amoeba-humor/
Rihanna’s “Stupid in Love” and some other songs
☛ 7/17/17: Start spreading the gnus:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/17/start-spreading-the-gnus/
Frank Sinatra and “New York, New York”
☛ 7/20/17: Ovaltine mornings:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/20/ovaltine-mornings/
Romi Klinger, “Gay in LA”
☛ 7/24/17: No moths, no squirrels, no rats:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/24/no-moths-no-squirrels-no-rats/
David Fenton, “possum/racoon music”; They Might Be Giants, “No!”; Bruce Springsteen, “No Surrender”
☛ 7/26/17: I sing the body elastic:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/26/i-sing-the-body-elastic/
Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” (with Daddy Yankee); remixes with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande; Mikey Bustos’s parody “I Wear Speedos”; Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me”; MB’s parody “Circumsizing Me”
☛ 7/27/17: Musical synchronicity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/27/musical-synchronicity/
Ricky Martin and his music
☛ 7/28/17: Cover me, slowly:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/28/cover-me-slowly/
covers, versions, and parodies of “Despacito”
☛ 8/4/17: WaynoPOPs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/04/waynopops/
jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker
☛ 8/5/17: The clean-gasm:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/05/the-clean-gasm/
metal band Killgasm
☛ 8/8/17: The taunt:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/08/the-taunt/
the hymn line “Jesus is a friend of mine”
☛ 8/13/17: Reduced coordination, joke forms, and sociocultural categories:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/13/reduced-coordination-joke-memes-and-sociocultural-categories/
Taylor Swift and her songs
☛ 8/18/17: Zwicky Avenue:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/18/zwicky-avenue/
Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue”
☛ 8/19/17: lucanicophilia, peniphilia, and all that:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/19/lucanicophilia-peniphilia-and-all-that/
song “You Are My Sunshine”
☛ 8/23/17: Bluto says: join or else:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/23/bluto-says-join-or-else/
song “Speedo(o)”
☛ 8/24/17: Annals of NomConjObj: Miss Adelaide:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/24/annals-of-nomconjobj-miss-adelaide/
“Marry the Man Today” and other songs from Guys and Dolls
☛ 8/25/17: Revisiting 2: Despacito:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/25/revisiting-2-despacito/
“Despacito” parody
☛ 8/28/17: Solid Chet and lean Bo:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/28/solid-chet-and-lean-bo/
various versions of “Do you wanna dance?” and “Dance with me, baby”; “These Boots Are Made for Walking”; “Riders On the Storm”
☛ 9/3/17: Sex puppies for the holidays:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/03/sex-puppies-for-the-holidays/
Iridium Jazz Club in NYC
☛ 9/6/17: Antique technology and its songs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/06/antique-technology-and-its-songs/
malemusic; mailmusic; overture to William Tell; Sandie Shaw’s “Send Me a Letter”, The Marvelettes’ “Please Mr. Postman”, Buddy Holly’s “Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues”, Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)”
☛ 9/15/17: A marmot sang in Graubünden meadows:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/15/a-marmot-sang-in-graubunden-meadows/
“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”
☛ 9/15/17: The many and the one:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/15/the-many-and-the-one/
film composer Ennio Morricone
☛ 9/16/17: The NL:W punchline:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/16/the-nlw-punchline/
“I’m an Ordinary Man” from My Fair Lady
☛ 9/17/17: Hot Lips:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/17/hot-lips/
Blues song “Hot Lips”; Paul Whiteman
☛ 9/24/17: Stuck in Folsom Prison:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/24/stuck-in-folsom-prison/
parody of “Folsom Prison Blues”
☛ 9/26/17: Tied up in paisley:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/26/tied-up-in-paisley/
Dylan song “Tangled up in Blue”
☛ 10/2/17: One-hit grinders:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/02/one-hit-grinders/
one-hit wonders in pop music, classical music; Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, “Wooly Bully”; Barry McGuire, “Eve of Destruction”
☛ 10/2/17: Two musical flash mobs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/02/two-musical-flash-mobs/
Ravel, “Bolero”; Billy Ray Cyrus, “Achy Breaky Heart”
☛ 10/3/17: Livin’ La Vida Multilingüe:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/03/livin-la-vida-multilingue/
Ricky Martin, Livin’ La Vida Loca
☛ 10/5/17: The news for musical chameleons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/05/the-news-for-musical-chameleons/
play on “Karma Chameleon”
☛ 10/8/17: He had an American name:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/08/he-had-an-american-name/
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “American Girl”
☛ 10/14/17: Angel Eagle’s knights:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/14/angel-eagles-knights/
Moody Blues, “Nights in White Satin”
☛ 10/16/17: Revisiting 8: Rod Canyon:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/16/revisiting-8-rod-canyon/
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon album, three songs: “Big Yellow Taxi”, “Woodstock”, “The Circle Game”
☛ 10/19/17: Ruthie on meanings:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/19/ruthie-on-meanings/
“Satin Doll”, “Nights in White Satin”
☛ 10/22/17: Que Seurat, Seurat:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/22/arnoldzwicky/
Doris Day, “Que Sera, Sera”
☛ 10/26/17: Three more pumpkin-spicy bits:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/26/three-more-pumpkin-spicy-bits/
Spice Girls
☛ 10/29/17: March of the rainbow mixers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/29/march-of-the-rainbow-mixers/
Slim Galliard’s song “Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti)”, aka “Cement Mixer, Putty Putty”
☛ 11/2/17: This machine kills fascists:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/02/this-machine-kills-fascists/
Woody Guthrie guitar slogan
☛ 11/2/17: Singing at the Theatre de Lys:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/02/singing-at-the-theatre-de-lys/
songs from The Three Penny Opera
☛ 11/3/17: The Pink Fellowship:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/03/the-pink-fellowship/
Moody Blues, “Nights in White Satin”
☛ 11/12/17: This week’s news for pickles
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/12/this-weeks-news-for-pickles/
yodel(l)ing, a pickle penny whistle, a dill piccolo, a guitar pickle, nickelodeon, “Music! Music! Music!” and Teresa Brewer
☛ 11/17/17: Singing in parts:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/17/singing-in-parts/
4-part harmony; barbershop and gospel quartets; Ink Spots,”I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”
☛ 11/20/17: Music the trigger of emotional memory:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/20/music-the-trigger-of-emotional-memory/
T. Rex, “Bang the Gong (Get It On)”; The Who, finale of Tommy; Leon Russell, medley from The Concert for Bangladesh
☛ 11/21/17: Pengaddendum: Xmas 2014:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/21/pengaddendum-xmas-2014/
music for tv commercials: John Lennon, “Real Love”, performed by Tom Odell; Beatles’ “Golden Slumbers”, performed by the rock group Elbow
☛ 11/22/17: Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/22/cecilia-youre-breaking-my-heart/
St. Cecilia; Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia
☛ 11/27/17: The two Salome Zwickys of Zürich:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/27/the-two-salome-zwickys-of-zurich/
soprano Salome Z, violist, organist, etc. Conrad Z, cellist Peter Z, pianists Benjamin and Stefan Z; performances at the parish church in Arth SZ
☛ 11/27/17: The post-Thanksgiving news from 52 years ago:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/27/the-post-thanksgiving-news-from-52-years-ago/
Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant”; Woody Guthrie, James McMurtry
☛ 11/28/17: Revisiting: Good Night, Salome:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/28/revisiting-good-night-salome/
“Good Night, Irene” and the Weavers; R. Strauss opera Salome
☛ 12/1/17: Maple Donuts, coffee shops, and unapologetic identities:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/01/maple-donuts-coffee-shops-and-unapologetic-identities/
“Star-Spangled Banner”, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
☛ 12/4/17: A dark week in early December:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/04/a-dark-week-in-early-december/
Frank Zappa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Lennon
☛ 12/8/17: Frank and John in 1971:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/08/frank-and-john-in-1971/
Frank Zappa and John Lennon (and Yoko Ono) jamming in 1971
☛ 12/9/17: Revisiting 15: Salome, Conrad, and more Zs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/09/revisiting-15-salome-conrad-and-more-zs/
Salome Z, Conrad Z, Stefan Z (piano), Peter Z (cello), Benjamin Z (piano), Advent concert in San Miguel de Salinas, Alicante
☛ 12/13/17: Revisiting 17: Bills Ballhaus in Bilbao:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/13/revisiting-17-bills-ballhaus-in-bilbao/
“Bilbao-Song” (Brecht & Weill) from Happy End; performances by Lotte Lenya, Christopher Lloyd, Ute Lemper, Yves Montand, Andy Williams
☛ 12/15/17: Xmas follies 2017: the music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/15/xmas-follies-2017-the-music/
“Santa Lost a Ho” by the Christmas Jug Band
☛ 12/19/17: Is that all there is? Just platypi and clichés?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/19/is-that-all-there-is-just-platypi-and-cliches/
“Is That All There Is?” as sung by Peggy Lee
☛ 12/23/17: Amazing Grace of the Rising Sun:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/23/amazing-grace-of-the-rising-sun/
“Amazing Grace”, “The House of the Rising Sun”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Northfield” (Sacred Harp #155), “Drop Kick Me, Jesus”; Common Meter; The Blind Boys of Alabama, Johnny Hallyday, Bobby Bare
☛ 1/4/18: tooken by the senses taker:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/04/tooken-by-the-senses-taker/
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” by The Who and by Twisted Sister
☛ 1/11/18: Electric underwear:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/11/electric-underwear/
take-off on “Electric Avenue”
☛ 1/14/18: Theft and retrieval:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/14/theft-and-retrieval/
Bach’s Goldberg Variations; Glenn Gould recordings
☛ 2/6/18: When is Doris Day?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/06/when-is-doris-day/
Doris Day’s singing career; “Que Sera, Sera”
☛ 2/13/18: Up in every way:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/13/up-in-every-way/
rap song “All the Way Up”; “That Good Old Mountain Dew”
☛ 2/15/18: This week’s musical food toy pun:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/15/this-weeks-musical-food-toy-pun/
REO Speedwagon and “Can’t Fight This Feeling”
☛ 2/20/18: Vronsky & Babin in the morning:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/20/vronsky-babin-in-the-morning/
Vronsky & Babin; Marks & Barrett; Gottschalk and Le Bananier; Paganini variations by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Lutosławski; the variation form; Argerich & Freire
☛ 2/22/18: There otter be a law:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/22/there-otter-be-a-law/
Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”
☛ 2/23/18: Lexical adventures in the Sacred Harp:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/23/lexical-adventures-in-the-sacred-harp/
German university song Krambambuli; baritone Erich Kunz
☛ 2/24/18: News for penguins: yakking it up, chasing bubbles:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/24/news-for-penguins-yakking-it-up-chasing-bubbles/
song “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”
☛ 3/7/18: Aria 51:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/07/aria-51/
aria from Lucia di Lammermoor
☛ 3/8/18: Michael Siemon:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/08/michael-siemon/
folk music and early music
☛ 3/13/18: Zane Grills:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/13/zane-grills/
Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”
☛ 3/15/18: Name association chains:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/15/name-association-chains/
Amanda Palmer
☛ 3/15/17: It’s hard, ain’t it hard:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/15/its-hard-aint-it-hard/
Woody Guthrie’s “Hard, Ain’t It Hard”
☛ 3/20/18: Perfectionist in pink sequin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/20/perfectionist-in-pink-sequin/
Moody Blues, “Nights in White Satin”; Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
☛ 3/25/18: Two (more) Sunday cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/25/two-more-sunday-cartoons/
Villa-Lobos, The Three Maries
☛ 3/26/18: Todrick Hall:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/26/todrick-hall/
singer, performance artist, etc. Hall; one-man quartet singing
☛ 4/8/18: Jessica Dragonette in the morning:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/08/jessica-dragonette-in-the-morning/
radio singer JD from the 30s and 40s; pops orchestras
☛ 4/12/18: The sounds of spring:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/12/the-sounds-of-spring/
musical New Yorker cover
☛ 4/14/18: Zombie animations in development:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/14/zombie-animations-in-development/
Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”
☛ 4/18/18: limbo dancers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/18/limbo-dancers/
Chubby Checker’s “Limbo Rock”
☛ 4/20/18: The rainbow beard:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/20/the-rainbow-beard/
Prince tribute show
☛ 4/21/18: Personal anniversaries in 2018:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/21/personal-anniversaries-in-2018/
Tom Lehrer songs
☛ 4/24/18: POP POP:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/24/pop-pop/
Rickie Lee Jones album Pop Pop
☛ 4/28/18: Drove my Chevrolet:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/28/drove-my-chevrolet/
Don McClean’s “American Pie”
☛ 5/1/18: Song for the day: rabbit rabbit rabbit:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/01/song-for-the-day-rabbit-rabbit-rabbit/
tempi (allegro agitato, andante desideroso); “Banana Boat Song”
☛ 5/5/18: Lusty days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/05/lusty-days/
“Lusty Month of May” from Camelot; Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May”
☛ 5/6/18: Said the rapper to the geek:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/06/said-the-rapper-to-the-geek/
rapper MC Hammer; Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”
☛ 5/11/18: The patio boys: Cuppy, Ti-Boi, Cairo Callen:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/11/the-patio-boys-cuppy-ti-boi-and-cairo-callen/
Michael Callen and the Flirtations
☛ 5/12/18: Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/12/beat-me-daddy-eight-to-the-bar/
song of that name; the Andrews Sisters
☛ 5/13/18: Gay butterflies:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/13/gay-butterflies/
Mozart, “Non più andrai”, Così fan tutte, Figaro; Bryn Terfel; Beatles, “Blackbird”
☛ 5/14/18: Psychiatrist Meme Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/14/psychiatrist-meme-day/
Oscar Mayer Wiener song; performance by Julien Neel
☛ 5/15/18: Paperback Booksmith:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/15/paperback-booksmith/
Beatles, “Paperback Writer”
☛ 5/21/18: bunny ears:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/21/bunny-ears/
Klezmatics and their album Jews With Horns, gay rock bands with defiant names
☛ 5/22/18: The cumless cake:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/22/the-cumless-cake/
Cupcakke, album Cum Cake
☛ 5/22/18: (I just) can’t stop (it):
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/22/i-just-cant-stop-it/
Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Can’t Stop”; The English Beat album Just Can’t Stop It
☛ 5/27/18: Non sequiturs meet associative thinking:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/27/non-sequiturs-meet-associative-thinking/
“Nightmare Song” from Iolanthe
☛ 5/28/18: Fenwich, come here, I need you:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/28/fenwich-come-here-i-need-you/
“gabba gabba hey” chant from the Ramones
☛ 5/29/18: Things that a Dingburger needs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/29/the-things-that-a-dingburger-needs/
“My Favorite Things”
☛ 6/1/18: Typewriter poets:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/01/typewriter-poets/
composer Philip Glass
☛ 6/3/18: The rose and the flames:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/03/the-rose-and-the-flames/
rock band Flaming Lips; the Rolling Stones; the Christian music organization Flaming Tongues
☛ 6/8/18: I love Moscow with chocolate syrup on top:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/08/i-love-moscow-with-chocolate-syrup-on-top/
1950s jingle “I Love Bosco”
☛ 6/13/18: 24 Hours, 24 Kisses, and 24 Magazine Covers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/13/24-hours-24-kisses-and-24-magazine-covers/
Tony Bennett singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”
☛ 6/17/18: An old mishearing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/17/an-old-mishearing/
song “Thank You For Being a Friend”
☛ 6/24/18: The musician, the mayor, his instrument, and their vermin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/24/the-musician-the-mayor-his-instrument-and-their-vermin/
wind instruments, woodwinds, brasses, and other categories of instruments; pipes
☛ 6/27/18: Swiss spin-off: Wallisellen:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/27/swiss-spin-off-wallisellen/
“Aazelle, Bölle schelle” performed by rock band
☛ 6/29/18: Paul Octavious:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/29/paul-octavious/
#5 Russian duo t.a.T.u.
☛ 7/7/18: Following instructions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/07/following-instructions/
Bruce Springsteen’s “Cover Me”
☛ 7/14/18: Punallusive protest:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/14/punallusive-protest/
Pink Floyd’s “Just Another Brick in the Wall”
☛ 7/17/18: Charlotte:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/17/charlotte/
Handel, J.C. Bach, Mozart in relation to Charlotte Mecklinburg-Strelitz
☛ 7/24/18: Hybrid referent, portmanteau name:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/24/hybrid-referent-portmanteau-name/
the flumpet and the fluba
☛ 7/25/18: That bastard mongrel half-breed, the tromboon:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/25/that-bastard-mongrel-half-breed-the-tromboon/
Peter Schickele / P.D.Q. Bach; invented musical instruments, esp. the tromboon; the opera pastiche The Abduction of Figaro
☛ 7/26/18: Hi-g pun for Xmas in July:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/26/hi-g-pun-for-xmas-in-july/
Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas”
☛ 7/28/18: The ants are my friends?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/28/the-ants-are-my-friends-2/
songs by the Carpenters
☛ 7/30/18: Mud, shit, and chocolate:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/30/mud-shit-and-chocolate/
“Mississippi Mud”, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”
☛ 8/7/18: Two texties, in two tonalities:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/07/two-texties-in-two-tonalities/
“MacArthur Park”
☛ 8/11/18: P-alliterative and tetrametric lines:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/11/p-alliterative-and-tetrametric-lines/
“Papageno Papagena”; “Papa Don’t Preach”; “PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)”
☛ 8/13/18: In Syntax Country:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/13/in-syntax-country/
Alfred E. Newman movie music
☛ 8/16/18: Annals of Aussie fast-food excess:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/16/annals-of-aussie-fast-food-excess/
the Gershwins’ “They All Laughed”
☛ 8/20/18: Anaphora into proper names:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/20/anaphora-into-proper-names/
Jimmy Buffett, “Margaritaville”; James Taylor, “Mexico”
☛ 8/25/18: But is it a cartoon?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/25/but-is-it-a-cartoon/
Bobby Troup’s “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”; Nelson Riddle theme song for the tv series
☛ 8/27/18: The Three Marcos, The Three Marcusites:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/27/the-three-marcos-the-three-marcusites/
traditional murder ballads and more recent offshoots
☛ 8/28/18: Annals of appalling food, dessert division:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/28/annals-of-appalling-food-dessert-division/
William Bolcomb’s “Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise”
☛ 9/1/18: Cartoon understanding: more Leigh Rubin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/01/cartoon-understanding-more-leigh-rubin/
America’s “A Horse With No Name”
☛ 9/2/18: Uneasily cute:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/02/uneasily-cute/
Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark”
☛ 9/3/18: Union strong!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/03/union-strong/
Tom Lehrer’s “We Are the Folk Song Army”
☛ 9/4/18: Brush away the blue-tailed skink
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/04/brush-away-the-blue-tailed-skink/
“Jimmy Crack Corn” / “Blue-Tail Fly”
☛ 9/10/18: Negation Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/10/negation-day/
the musical No, No, Nanette
☛ 9/24/18: Sleep on, harvest moon:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/24/sleep-on-harvest-moon/
“Shine On, Harvest Moon”
☛ 9/27/18: Mike Lynch:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/09/27/mike-lynch/
Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”
☛ 10/7/18: Ancient of days:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/07/ancient-of-days/
hymn “Come Thou Almighty King” (and “Ancient of Days”)
☛ 10/8/18: Fly formulaicity:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/08/fly-formulaicity/
song “Ole Buttermilk Sky”
☛ 10/15/18: Fables of the trees:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/15/fables-of-the-trees/
rock band Rush and “The Trees”
☛ 10/31/18: Famous wolf on the Yellow Brick Road:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/31/famous-wolf-on-the-yellow-brick-road/
“We’re Off to See the Wizard” from The Wizard of Oz
☛ 11/10/18: Cartoon understanding in parallel worlds:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/10/cartoon-understanding-in-parallel-worlds/
Roy Orbison’s music
☛ 11/11/18: On the doo-wop gender train from the past:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/11/on-the-doo-wop-gender-train-from-the-past/
Crew-Cuts, “Sh-Boom”; Kitty Kallen, “Little Things Mean a Lot”; Rosemary Clooney, “Hey There”; doo-wop music
☛ 11/15/18: Shake, shake, shake that death rattle:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/15/shake-shake-shake-that-death-rattle/
rattles as musical instruments: Mexican maracas
☛ 11/17/18: Teddy Bears’ Picnic Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/17/teddy-bears-picnic-day/
“The Teddy Bears’ Picnic”; three recordings
☛ 11/18/18: Randy Blue purifies the air:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/18/randy-blue-purifies-the-air/
Beyoncé’s “Blow”
☛ 11/20/18: Wisc Swiss music:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/20/wisc-swiss-music/
Helvetia Records in Monroe WI; alp(en)horns; Rossini, Brahms, Ricola commercial; Goethe’s “Heidenroeslein” set as folk song
☛ 11/29/18: He came from the sea … And can love only me:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/29/he-came-from-the-sea-and-can-only-love-me/
song “Come Wander with Me” from a Twilight Zone episode
☛ 12/4/18: A Picardy morning:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/04/a-picardy-morning/
songs “Roses in Picardy” and “Danny Boy”
in comment by Robert Coren: the Picardy third
in comment by Bob Richmond: the hymn tune PICARDY
☛ 12/7/18: O rosemary, my rosemary:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/07/o-rosemary-my-rosemary/
tune of “O Tannenbaum” / “O Christmas Tree”
☛ 12/12/18: Song of the season:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/12/song-of-the-season/
“Deck the hall(s) with boughs of holly” and the Pogo parody
☛ 12/17/18: Penguins and packages:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/17/penguins-and-packages/
Nick Jonas
☛ 12/22/18: For the season: from fish to moose, penguin intervention:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/22/for-the-season-from-fish-to-moose-penguin-intervention/
#1 Boynton burlesque of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
☛ 12/25/18: Worst year ever:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/25/worst-year-ever/
“Jesus Fuck!” by (the) Jesus Mary and Chain
☛ 12/25/18: The 12 days of Christmas:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/25/the-12-days-of-christmas/
the Christmas carol
☛ 12/25/18: Santa Paronomasia:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/25/santa-paronomasia/
album A Santa Cause
☛ 12/25/18: Beat Noel:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/25/beat-noel/
Zippy burlesque of the carol “Silent Night”
☛ 12/27/18: On the 8th day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/27/on-the-8th-day/
hymn for the Feast of Circumcision: James Relly’s “Christ’s birth and circumcision too”
☛ 1/19/19: The poetry corner:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/19/the-poetry-corner/
Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”
☛ 1/25/19: Blue roses:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/25/blue-roses/
Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”
☛ 1/29/19: A camelid from darkest Peru:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/29/a-camelid-from-darkest-peru/
the band Flaming Llamas
☛ 1/30/19: Hugo Simberg:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/30/hugo-simberg/
Nightwish, “Amaranth”
☛ 2/4/19: Mandolin Orange:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/04/mandolin-orange/
bands Mandolin Orange, Mapache; Dylan’s “Boots of Spanish Leather”; MO’s “Wildfire”; American roots music; the mandolin; the Fillmore
☛ 2/14/19: Revisiting 25: Alligator Goodbyes, now in song:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/14/revisiting-25-alligator-goodbyes-now-in-song/
“See You Later, Alligator” by Bobby Charles and by Bill Haley and the Comets; versions for kids
☛ 2/17/19: Eat it! The oral humiliation you deserve:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/17/eat-it-the-oral-humiliation-you-deserve/
Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” (and Yankovic parody of it)
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