A month that has seen among its less dire aspects the remembrance of the first Moon landing...and a fair amount of summer music, and even two bloggers, George Kelley and Jeff Gemmill, taking up Nolan Glasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste...
Patti Abbott: Billy Elliot The Musical, Stratford 2019:
"Billy Elliot was amazing. An eleven year old boy does every performance (six months, 3-4 times a week) and he was sensational as was the entire production."
And Gigi, the Original Soundtrack:
Brian Arnold: Batman score by Prince Rogers Nelson
Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos
Paul D. Brazill: Elizabeth Everts; Amy Winehouse: "Tears Dry on Their Own"
James T. Cameron: Don Carn and the West Coast Organ Band: Free For All and "Little B's Poem"; Hammond Heroes: '60s R&B Organ Grooves; Long John Baldry with the Beatles, et al.: "I Got My Mojo Workin'":
Alice Chang: Nobuo Uematsu: Final Fantasy X score
Sean Coleman: Joe Robinson in concert; Jimmy Page: Outrider; Wings: Back to the Egg
Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band: Live in Philadelphia, 24 September 1999and 20 Sep 99; Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert, New York City, June 13, 1999; Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis: Beautiful Lie; Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars
Michael A. Gonzales: Benny Carter (soundtrack): "Harlem Wednesday":
Dana Gould: Los Angeles (and West Coast) punk rock, and the Beach Boys and their lovely parents
Keiko Hassler: The Philadelphia Orchestra & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" (from Samson; G. F. Handel)
Jerry House: Harry Belafonte; Will Holt and Martha Schlamme: A Kurt Weill Cabaret; L'Orchesta Cinematique: "If I Had a Heart"; Music from the Past; Hymn Time
Jackie Kashian: Lydia Popovich on Dolly Parton; Jeffrey Baldinger on the Beatles; Ebony Jones on Beyonce Knowles
George Kelley: The Beach Boys: 20 Good Vibrations; Brian Eno: "An Ending"; Anthony Tommasini: The Indispensible Composers; Pavarotti; 25 Greatest All Time Summer Songs: The Ultimate Collection; Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars
Tom Kraemer: Joni Mitchell: "Refuge of the Roads":
Kate Laity: Belle and Sebastian: "Funny Little Frog"; The Left Banke: "Walk Away, Renee"'; Johnny Cash: "The Green, Green Grass of Home"
April Landrum: Moonchild: "Too Much to Ask":
and Teena Marie: "Where's California?"
Steve and Jonathan Lewis and Michael Shonk: Music I'm Listening To
Barry Malzberg: Bathtubs over Broadway
Todd Mason: Newish Sounds in Third Stream and Related Music: Saturday Music Club
Aimee Mann & Ted Leo: Ian MacKaye; Jean Grae
Joe Megalos: Sasami: Live on KEXP:
Laura Nakatsuka: Mark Bailey: "Blessed is the Man"; and Cantors of the Holy Cross Chapel at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology: "Lord of the Powers":
Andrew Orley: João Gilberto: "Holanda" ("Wave"):
Natasha Padilla: Death: Individual Thought Patternsand Scream Bloody Gore; Afiliando Los Cuchillos
Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday
Charlie Ricci: Magnificent Desolation--Music for the Moon; Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked; James Hunter: People Gonna Talk; Natalie Cole: Unforgettable...with Love; Alfred E. Neuman: "It's a Gas"; Music in 2019
Nancy Ryan: New Originals, in concert, 2016
Andrew Sherman: Pink Floyd: "Moonhead":
Donna Wilson: Jawbox: "Footbinder":
Lyrics and Legends, pr0duced by WHYY, Philadelphia in 1963 with the University of Pennsylvania and the American Folklore Society for the National Educational Television (NET) network.
Some more songs for the Mooning:
Samuel Hoffman: Music Out of the Moon
Dinah Washington: "Destination Moon"
Gil Scott-Heron: "Whitey on the Moon"
George Russell Orchestra featuring Bill Evans: "Waltz from Outer Space"
Brubeck, Desmond, Morello and Wright: "Back to Earth"