Last weekend we went for a movie screening of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, shown as part of New York International Children’s Film Festival. Lifelong Beatles…
One of those songs that I cannot get out of my head for days once someone plants it there. Maybe, if I pass it on…
My Russian-speaking audience will enjoy this impromptu performance by Becky of the well-known New Year’s song, which she literally learned in an hour or so…
I think I’d do really well as a blogger if all I did was to borrow content from Exler. So here it is, two appropriations…
I am getting into a car to go pick up my teenage daughter and a couple of her friends from a trip to the mall.…
I have been wounding down this recurring feature on my blog, for lack of material. Unless I get a sudden flashback to some remarkable piece,…
Sometimes, the most insignificant of memories lodge themselves in one’s brain… I must have been four or five when I overheard my Mom and her…
My tastes as far as Russian music is concerned more or less calcified at the point of my emigration. Whatever I liked then, I like…
I thought this was a really nice compilation of musical hits from 1940’s to 1990’s, so I figured I’d post a link here. It’s a…
The other day, my teenager and I got into one of nowadays frequent verbal exchanges that end with her effectively telling me to mind my…
This song is one of “signature” pieces of my DJ days in high school. As I noted elsewhere, I’ve been an unwilling dancer for my…
When my Uncle was emigrating a couple of years ahead of us, he left me a handful of cassette tapes for my new shiny tape…
Ok, still no time – or fodder – for regular blogging, so how about going back to an old recurring feature… I mentioned somewhere that…
Another one of those huge Euro-hits of the late 80’s that were so popular in our discotheques. And another one of one-song performers for me……
Half a year or so into my American immigrant life, I earned enough money through a couple of small jobs to splurge on my very…
I haven’t heard this song in ages and suddenly recognized the tune in a McDonald’s commercial, of all places. The Proclaimers‘ cover of the Roger…
Continuing with musical genres other than pop or rock (the last installment was classical waltz, remember?), another frank admission: I am very partial to stage…
I like classical music. Johann Strauss is one of my favorite composers. This entry was meant to be filed under “Musical Tiramisu” series – my…
The intro to this song always wakes up some deeply buried associations with my childhood – it was used as a theme for a popular…
No specific memories here, just one of my old favorites. Wikipedia suggests that in 1978 this song rose to the US Top 10, so it…