One from the archives this week. This one was an actual hit by virtual coffeehouse standards.
After more than ten years of preforming together, the virtual coffeehouse sees jk and Brooke's first ever duet: Irving Berlin's 1950 "You're Just n Love." Cringe along to the avuncular "rub down with the velvet glove;"
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Watching the Tour de France, and the "King of the Mountains" is awarded a Polka Dot jersey by two attractive young French women in Polka Dot dresses.
Made me think of this great Jimmy Van Huesen-Johnny Burke song:
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Can't have a coffeehouse with no Dead tunes, it's in the rules. This is one of my favorites.
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.
I always liked this Bob Dylan tune. And we needed a little more blues around here...
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The standard of standards: Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Girl from Ipanema."
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Cousin Syd sends a guest video of his friends at the historic Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville.
Tom Manning is singing his original composition, Rusty Metal Box. Playing guitar across from him is Martin Young.
What a great song. I heard a terrible elevator-music version in a Chinese restaurant and the tune stuck in my head. (You should have heard their version of "Whiter Shade of Pale.")
The coffeehouse muse ran down the tune for me. It was written by John D. Loudermilk.
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Cousin Syd sent in some superb guest videos from the historic Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville.
Here are his friends Tom Manning, Age McCann and Susan Marshall. The song is called "Pourin'"
Longtime fave. Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields ©1930
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