Pumpkin Pie
BillHeise | November 24, 2011
For Thanksgiving.
Mohammed Rafi
BillHeise | November 13, 2011
My friend Gina posted this on FB with the comment that if she ever became a Bollywood star, she would dance like this, to which I replied that it’s a wonder that her head didn’t fall off. The video is from the 1966 Bollywood film Gumnaam. It is sung by Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi and [...]
Sublime ‘Santeria’
BillHeise | November 7, 2011
I found this post on YouTube a couple of weeks ago, and I have been listening to it ever since. It’s by Sublime, and is called ‘Santeria.’ Enjoy! That, of course, was the clean version. You can find unexpurgated versions of the song if you look, but I like the Western theme of this video.
Halloween with Mika
BillHeise | October 31, 2011
It’s Halloween, so I present you with Mika‘s “Lollipop’: I don’t want to get to technical about the meaning of this song, except to say that it may not be about sucking too hard on lollipops (in the same way that Serge Gainsbourg’s “Les Sucettes” was not about sucking too hard on anise popsicles). He [...]
Class and Quality in the Bathroom Window
BillHeise | October 25, 2011
I’ve been working on my first scholarly book on Spenser’s Book of Holinesse in his six book (and still uncompleted) Faerie Queene (I know; how cool am I?). I am going to publish this serious academic work before I publish my already completed satire on Art in the Age of Talk Radio, because in my [...]
Why Don’t You Do Right?
BillHeise | October 10, 2011
As usual, I don’t have much time to write today. I was so impressed with Ruth’s suggestion for The Be Good Tanyas that I asked her for more suggestions. She came back with a group called the Carolina Chocolate Drops. It’s a banjo band, so I was hooked immediately.They don’t have a lot of songs [...]
The Be Good Tanyas
BillHeise | September 29, 2011
I have to say that one of the reasons I like my friend Ruth, with whom I disagree on politics (let’s face it; I disagree with almost everyone on politics), she has excellent taste in music. A month ago, she introduced me to a woman name Laura Love. I bought her album, and I think [...]
Latin Hungarians
BillHeise | September 26, 2011
I’ve never heard of Tatrai Tibor and Szucs Antal Gabor, and you probably haven’t either, but they are Hungarian musicians who play Latin music. Why do they play Latin music? Who knows? At the time this recording was made, they were probably saying ‘Why not? It’s a recently free country.’ It’s called ‘Latin Queen,’ and [...]
The Wonders
BillHeise | September 18, 2011
There’s something about actors. It seems they all want to be musicians. Some, like Kevin Bacon and Zooey Deschanel form their own bands in search of personal fulfillment. Others, like Oliver Stone, make movies about what it must be like to be a rock star. One of the best of these movies comes from Tom [...]
Tarkan
BillHeise | September 7, 2011
I have mentioned Tarkan before on my blog in an early post on Arab Pop. He’s the Elvis Presley (or if you’re too young, think of him as the Justin Timberlake) of Turkey whose hairstyle caused a craze in that country: His appearance – tight trousers, loose, unbuttoned shirts or tight T-shirts – and his [...]
