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Cylinders served as much more than simple entertainment. This one aimed to capture, and perhaps ease, a nation’s sorrow.
October 26, 2023A mother’s lament that perfectly encapsulated American anti-war sentiment.
October 23, 2023Legend has it this song came to Williams while with fiancé Billie Jean Horton. Just driving around, talking about standard fiancé stuff…like, his ex-wife.
October 20, 2023It’s hard to imagine a jazzy Hit Parade favorite having once been a poem…and a super-creepy poem at that.
October 19, 2023Can you name an Army with outposts in over 100 countries, yet 0 weapons?
October 16, 2023Considered one of the most influential saxophonists in history, Lester “Prez” Young succeeded Coleman Hawkins at the height of the swing era.
October 11, 2023Sholom Secunda was a songwriter, not a fisherman. But he could tell you all about the “one that got away.”
October 6, 2023