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For Bristol (...and Caroline) --



Neighborhood #3 (Power Out), by Arcade Fire

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::melt::

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In honor of the 4th of July; here's a variety of entertainers performing patriotic songs.

Whitney Houston - The National Anthem


Jessica Simpson - God Bless America


Ray Charles - America the Beautiful


Elvis Presley - American Trilogy

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AC/DC... Old School.

(Happy 15th Birthday to the Fresh Prince of Porter Ranch. You rock, Baby Boy!)

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Today a very special edition of Bedtime Music (a little late) featuring my dad - Jim Higby - with his latest tune, Roll Them Bones. It's a true story (you have to watch the video to learn what the story is about) and we present it here today in honor of my dad's birthday.

Happy Birthday Dad!

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Carole King with Jazzman

Bedtime Music Father's Day Edition

The theme from The Courtship of Eddie's Father by Harry Nilsson.

Dedicated to my father with love and respect. Happy Father's Day Dad and thanks for being one of the number one fans of Mayor Sam's blog!

Happy Father's Day to the rest of you!

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The Be Sharps from The Simpsons with Baby On Board

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Katie Armiger with 17 in Abilene

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Jim Nabors - Back Home in Indiana at the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

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Zuma Dogg's rendition of Journey's Don't Stop Believing

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Ray J - Sexy Can I - featuring Yung Berg (EXPLICIT VERSION)

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Chris Botti - When I Fall In Love

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Carrie Underwood - Last Name

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Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

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Mariah Carey with Against All Odds

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You'll Be In My Heart by Phil Collins (from the Tarzan soundtrack)

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Elton John - I'm Still Standin' a very 80s music video.

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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Live At Wembley Stadium 1986)

One of the most incredibly constructed musical pieces of all time Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is truly a genius work of art. The piece contains several different types of parts including an extremely intense choral, operatic middle that can not be reproduced live.

According to Wikipedia, the choir effect was created by having members Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor sing their vocal parts continually for ten to twelve hours a day, resulting in 180 separate overdubs. According to Roger Taylor, the voices of May, Mercury and himself combined created a wide vocal range: "Brian could get down quite low, Freddie had an incredibly powerful voice through the middle, and I was good at the high stuff." This was useful as the band wanted to create "a wall of sound, that starts down and goes all the way up"

In order to perform the piece live - and is seen in this video - the opening ballad would be played on stage, and after Brian May's guitar solo, the lights would go down, the band would leave the stage, and the operatic section would be played from tape. A blast of pyrotechnics after Roger Taylor's high note on the final "for me" would announce the band's return for the hard rock section and closing ballad. Queen played the song in this form all through the Magic Tour of 1986. This worked well for the band, as it allowed them to play the entire operatic section from tape (though Mercury often sang the first line) before taking the stage.

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Canvas with an a cappella version of the theme from The Simpsons