Evening Song. Perfect for those nights that are a little bit of Big Band an’ a whole lot of Bebop, here’s Coleman Hawkins and His Band - Serenade To A Sleeping Beauty (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1940) youtu.be/mq-81sgIDug?...

Just a groovy tune! The Mike Cotton Sound - Harlem Shuffle (7” 45 rpm, 1966). youtu.be/eCXOvwYRg6c?...

Just a great underrated track! Split Enz - Dirty Creature (#3 Australia, Time And Tide, 1982). Official Video: youtu.be/NzrE3AhY6KQ?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 9 - 1913 Al Jolson - You Made Me Love You (10” 78 rpm shellac). youtu.be/Tpe_cqo0z9Q?...

Morning Song. Perfect for a day when the tea kettle whistle could use an extra decibel or three, here’s The Grass Roots - Wake Up, Wake Up (#18 Canada, Let’s Live For Today, 1967). An underrated gem of a single! youtu.be/p5UVMxdq7gI?...

The fashions! The vehicles!! The Art Deco buildings!!! An interesting 1935 travelogue of Los Angeles, in glorious Technicolor to boot! youtu.be/N4NyRWCPrz4?...

Random 70s Pop Hits. White Plains - I’ve Got You On My Mind (#17 UK, White Plains, 1970). Nifty vintage TV performance clip of the band & a buncha kids dancing on the stage that are all now in their 60s and somehow older than me! youtu.be/pmB34zfTWG8?...

Evening Song. With a track that wouldn’t have been out of place on any of The Monkees’ first few albums, here’s the super-talented P.F. Sloan - Star Gazin’ (Measure Of-Pleasure, 1968). youtu.be/LsSmz269hMU?...

Random Early Blues Records. Going back a whopping 100 years, here's the ever-lovely Ethel Waters with quite the cautionary tale - Throw Dirt In Your Face (10" 78 rpm shellac, 1926). Keep yer hands to yerself, ladies! youtu.be/i1WiJl_xfe8?...

Miss De Leath has left the building. Vaughn De Leath - Are You Lonesome To-Night? (10" 78 rpm, 1927). Thang yew berry mush! :) youtu.be/U91Aojqk6m4?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 8 - 1912 Seemingly sneaking into the future to ridicule today's billionaires, here's the National Promenade Band - Money Musk Medley (Edison Blue Amberol cylinder). $$$!!! youtu.be/5IMC7R0asSU?...

Random Me Fact: I’ve never listened to any Led Zeppelin album start to finish - just never got around to it - am I missing out on anything??

Evening Song. Perfect for those nights when yer sweetie is the best pillow fort ever, here’s The Modern Lovers - I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (The Modern Lovers, 1976). Hard to believe this album is 50 years old! youtu.be/YBrWkb8D3rI?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 7 - 1911 Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan - Alexander’s Ragtime Band (10” 78 rpm shellac). Written by Irving Berlin; one of his earliest hits! youtu.be/x9VGvaDRxNQ?...

Just a great track! A band led by Jazz legend Shorty Rogers for recording more Rock/R&B tunes, here’s Boots Brown and His Blockbusters - Cerveza (7” 45 rpm, 1958). A surprise hit single! youtu.be/awgh3PqkV0k?...

Just a great swingin’ track! Written way back in 1930, here’s the ever-lovely Jo Stafford - Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (Songs By Jo Stafford, 1945). youtu.be/UC1LvnLSN9M?...

A Monkees Curio! An album recorded over a weekend at a then-crazy cost of $50,000 because he preferred to treat some favourite studio session players to catering & overtime wages than pay back taxes, here’s Michael Nesmith - Tapioca Tundra, the instrumental version! 😁 youtu.be/h48UQ8qL3BU?...

Most 80's song you can think of? youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U?...

Not a fan of Journey or Foreigner? Double yer non-fun! 😁

Morning Song. Perfect for those days when yer brain is all a haze an’ yer body ain’t gettin’ up no ways, here’s the faboo Bix Beiderbecke - In A Mist (10” 78 rpm, 1927). It’s all in the fuzzy wuzzy mind, y’know! youtu.be/J2_Ai8dgBko?...

Johnny Moped - Wild Breed (Cycledelic, 1978). Wear your helmet, Johnny!! #LookAndSee #MusicChallenge #MusicSky This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 422) 🎶 youtu.be/FiFwyfGNJ8k?...

Evening Song. Perfect for that last dance before getting swept away into the restful night by your new sweetie, here’s The Beat - End Of The Party (Special Beat Service, 1982). youtu.be/L46eyxpQaIE?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 6 - 1910 With some good silly fun, here’s the American Quartet - Farmyard Medley (10” 78 rpm shellac). And the cow goes “Moooo!!” 🐮 youtu.be/h4NXwr6WZb4?...

Just a great tune! Written by Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli back in 1937 and featuring Grappelli on violin, here’s David Grisman - Minor Swing (Hot Dawg, 1978). youtu.be/5dOcJUMKgtA?...

Morning Song. Perfect for that one wee creaky early hour before the sun starts to fade into the cracks of yer weary bones, here’s the Grateful Dead - Till The Morning Comes (American Beauty, 1970). 🌹🌞 youtu.be/lsANkFK9sH8?...

an organic, I continue to grow, decay simultaneously, like a ridiculous science experiment in a fridge with the door left open and my Best Before date smudged beyond recognition #vss365

Just a great song! Released on June 6 1967, here’s Moby Grape - 8:05. Gentle as breeze on the tracks as the train slowly rolls through town on its way out west. 🚂 youtu.be/ioKodbNTljg?...

Random Early Rock & Roll Records. With his debut single as The Big Bopper, here’s J.P. Richardson - The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor (7” 45 rpm, 1958). The B-Side was a nifty little tune entitled Chantilly Lace! youtu.be/ieW-VsXt9qs?...

shoot out the lights leave nothing for the dark except the smell of tungsten on her breath and glass jagged as shadows grasping for naked consequences #vss365

“You wants the drums?? We gots the drums!!” 😁🥁 Paul Simon - The Obvious Child (The Rhythm Of The Saints, 1990). youtu.be/9HKNAhAxMAk?... #LookAndSee 421 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧 #LookAndSee (Day 421) 🎶

Just a wonderful song. ☺️ Terry Collier - What Color Is Love (1972). Chill to the core. youtu.be/iNvcFyvH7A4?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 5 - 1909 Ada Jones & Billy Murray - I’m Looking For A Sweetheart (10” 78 rpm shellac). 😍 youtu.be/BvkHx0tmGWw?...

The pollinators are very happy with the floral status of the lilac bush this year!

Random Early Folk Records. A band that included at times Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger with some members later going on to form The Weavers, here's The Almanac Singers - Reuben James (10" 78 rpm, 1943). Definitely not the Kenny Rogers song! 🍗😁 youtu.be/bBMo7Sw42pU?...

Great moody NOLA (rhythm &) blues. Fats Matthews - Goin’ Down youtu.be/SQS1vpheLBk?... #musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning

Random Big Band Records. A sweet swingin' tune with some nifty guitar licks courtesy of Al Hendrickson, here's Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five - Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? (10" 78 rpm shellac, 1941). youtu.be/5bpKqNwo7Ao?...

Morning Song. Perfect for those mornings when the ol' body ain't cooperating with getting' up, here's the ever-lovely Rosemary Clooney - You Make Me Feel So Young (super fun 1956 TV performance). youtu.be/jb1TKRcahPk?...

“Because dreams are made of this” 🎶

Just a great shady toon, er, tune! Like an outtake or sequel of sorts of life in Pepperland, here’s The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon. youtu.be/0neKYZYj6HA?...

Just a great track! A #1 hit in Canada back in ‘66, here’s Peter And Gordon - Woman. Nifty vintage TV performance clip: youtu.be/N4oHM5faTDo?...

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 4 - 1908 Edward Meeker - Take Me Out To The Ball Game (10” 78 rpm shellac). Widely regarded as the song’s first recording! youtu.be/qXD19gWK4fU?...

A guy that shoulda been way more famous! Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely (#70 US, Peter Sarstedt, 1969). His only Top 100 North American single. ☹️ Super swell 1969 Top Of The Pops performance clip: youtu.be/L8XQZYIiNgo?...

Enjoy!! youtu.be/aGSKrC7dGcY?...

Just a great track! Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection (#14 UK, Protection, 1995). youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo?...

Today on my Canada Post route I was making a to-the-door delivery and the client asked me if I'd be interested in buying a 22 cal. repeat action shotgun - not something I was expecting today! 😁

I can remember seeing this video back in high school - the animation of the reels of tapes has always stuck with me. youtu.be/WUOb5v--vTY?...

There’s an apple tree that hangs over a roadside mailbox on my postal route & my vehicle routinely hits the branches when pulling up to the box; this week the tree is in full bloom so when I drive up it creates a lovely snowfall of small white petals!

#MusicSky #NewMusicChallenge #EarlyRecordingsInJune #EarlyRecordings Day 3 - 1907 Pryor’s Orchestra - The Birds And The Brook (10” 78 rpm single-sided shellac). 🐥 youtu.be/zlHrMdwXbFA?...

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. From my copy of the Bookends album; bought used from a small record shop in Niagara Falls & amazingly still had the original poster in it!