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Weekend Audition: Your ABC鈥檚, But Basically Belafonte

Released in 1956, Calypso was the album that made Belafonte's career and spent 31 weeks at the top of the Billboard album charts.
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Released in 1956, Calypso was the album that made Belafonte's career and spent 31 weeks at the top of the Billboard album charts.

ADAMS.  KUNC airs the songs of Ryan Adams, including those from his newest album, Ashes and Fire.  Not to be confused, of course, with a Sinatra classic, here鈥檚 his song, 鈥淣ew York, New York,鈥� from his album, Gold. It is dedicated to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The date of this video casts an eerie feeling: September 7, 2011. 

BELAFONTE.  Harry Belafonte has been performing 鈥� acting or singing 鈥� since the 1940s.  In The New York Times, Garrison Keillor recently NPR also on Morning Edition. Belafonte鈥檚 album, Calypso, was the first LP to top a million copies sold!  So, I can鈥檛 leave you songless 鈥� here he is having fun in 1978 with his friends, The Muppets:

CLOTHESLINE REVIVAL.  You鈥檝e perhaps enjoyed on KUNC the inventive soundscapes of Clothesline Revival (a k a Conrad Praetzel). Here鈥檚 fascinating vintage 1930's footage of the Old South with 1940 vocals by 鈥淯ncle" Bradley Eberhard and underlying instrumentals by Clothesline Revival, a blend of eras and esthetics.

  

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