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When Swing was King

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Artie Shaw died a couple of years ago, at a ripe old age, as sharp, cantankerous and opinionated as ever.  For no reason other than my eclectic buddy Dennis sent me a CD with a couple of Artie Shaw tunes from 1939, let’s listen to both of those tunes.  One of them swings, the other does not, but they’re equally good.  If you don’t know who that is Artie was sitting with, please get a clue!

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Go, You Chicken Fat!

The title of this post is a reference to a past item.  Here is an example of what I use to embed the videos that I make.  I started out with a much longer command, with lots of tags and options specified, but it did nothing more than this does, so I trimmed out all of the fat!

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New York Radio — 4

Part 4 of the video documentary on the history of New York Top 40 music radio concentrates on WMCA trying, and failing, to fight back against the 50,000-watt signal pattern of WABC.

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Home Player Advantage

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Click the thumbnail picture to see how the video in the previous post appears in my local media player when I click the “Player problem” link.  I’d love to get playlists to appear in the embedded videos as they do in the standalone player, but so far no luck.

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