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| Will Friedwald's "Clip Joint: A Video Music Mixtape"  Will Friedwald's "Clip Joint" is a unique music video presentation, designed for the comparatively intimate space of a bar or a nightclub. Curated by Will Friedwald, columnist for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and author of eight books on music and popular culture, "Clip Joint" is a two to three hour presentation that covers the entire range and spectrum of musical performances as documented on film and video, both classic and contemporary: from jazz and Broadway to rock and pop to country & western, blues, opera, classical, comedy and novelty songs, world music, and the Great American Songbook.AN EVENING OF CLASSIC AMERICANA Frank Sinatra singing "The House I Live In" - Bing Crosby singing "Old Glory" - Elvis singing "American Trilogy" plus Bob Dylan - Tom Waits - The Golden Gate Quartet - Cookie Monster - Fred Astaire - Busby Berkeley - Spike Jones - Patti Page - The Four Vagabonds - The Three Haircuts - Emily Bergl - Eddie Cantor - Hank Williams - Frankie Laine - Shecky Greene - Kevin Meaney - Bugs Bunny & his Hillbilly Hares - Billie Holiday - "Marilyn Monroe" - Allan Sherman - Liberace & Cassius Clay - Jack Kerouac - Pete Seeger - Celia Cruz - Trini Lopez - Slim Gailliard - Chuck Berry - The Beach Boys - Ray Charles - Johnny Cash - Lady Rizo - The HiLos – Merle Travis - Merle Haggard - Buck Owens & his Buckaroos - The Beatles - Marty Robbins – Steve Martin – Dennis Day – Leslie Uggams busting out all over - Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" & other Patriotic Songs + Old Lefty Folk Songs - all this and the immortal "Ballad For Americans!" (and, as always, "cocktails for two!") Tuesday June 24, 7 – 10 PM. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |