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Sing, Sing, Sing
This Sunday is Father’s Day in the US. Last week, 20 years ago, my Dad died. I thought a fitting tribute to both of these occasions would be to post here a short story which was, in many ways, a story...
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The “Sing, Sing, Sing” Triptych
A couple of months ago here, I posted a long short story I wrote some years back, called “Sing, Sing, Sing.” Whatever else that post might have accomplished, it’s managed to get a certain amount of...
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Savage Beasts
A first for Running After My Hat: a guest blogger! Kate Lord Brown is already familiar to some of you as the curator of the blog What Kate Did Next. (She also instigated the Burning Lines experiment...
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What’s in a Song/Midweek Music Break: “Blue Skies”
Few people remember the short-lived 1926 musical Betsy anymore, although its music and lyrics came from powerhouse songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. There’s a reason few people remember...
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Midweek Music Break: Benny Goodman Orchestra, “One O’Clock Jump”
Count Basie wrote this iconic Big Band number in 1937, and played it as his theme song for half a century. Almost every other band of the time recorded its own version; the one presented here made its...
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Midweek Music Break: Saint Motel, “Benny Goodman”
The four-piece Los Angeles band Saint Motel just released their first album, Voyeur. I really have no idea how to characterize their music, except via some vague phrase like “pop rock”; Wikipedia...
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