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This 1949 song is famous and has been recorded by countless famous people. But Johnny Cash’s version, posted here, is probably the best version. [Video].

Good rock concert. Yes, the lead singer of the Ramones was a Jew, but the main songwriter (Dee Dee Ramone, real name Douglas Colvin) was a gentile. So it all evens out, doesn’t it? [Video, duration is 26 minutes]

As Lovey Howell from Gilligan’s Island: “How does one become a Snoop Dogg, anyway? Does one become a dog first and then a snoop second, or can one become a snoop first before becoming a dog later? Really, it’s all terribly confusing…” Her husband, Thurston Howell III: “You’re overthinking it, Lovey. Just be a good […]

King Crimson, “Epitaph” — sung by ELP’s Greg Lake — (1969) [Video].

(Above: Woody Guthrie with his slogan, circa 1943) Here’s what’s printed on this guy’s piano (on both sides!): “This machine kills fascists.” Is that a subtle reference to the so-called “Orange-Haired Fascist” who isn’t a fascist at all but is really just a democrat? Anyway, here’s a news flash, piano guy: that’s an old slogan […]

(Old cowboy: “Ya know, life on the range just ain’t what it used to be. Times change, and you gotta change with ’em — at least, that’s what some people say…but I don’t really believe that…”). “Homo on the Range” (sung to the tune of “Home on the Range”) Oh, give me a homo where […]

Classical Music, Part 1: No Noteworthy Female Composers Why are there no female composers of note? You’d think, after all these years, that there would be a few. One expert said there are no female composers of note because “so few women wrote music.” True, if you’re talking about 1880. If you’re talking about 1990-onward, […]

(Sung to the tune of the 1967 hippie anthem “San Francisco”) San Franqueersco If you are going to San Franqueersco Be sure to have many condoms in your jeans If you are going to San Franqueersco You’re gonna meet crazy people there For those who come in San Franqueersco Summertime will have some gonorrhea there […]

(Sung to the tune of “God Bless America”) God bless America, land that I (*yawn*), stand beside her, and ignore her, through the constant flood of the beaners; From the Jew-tools, to the Marxists, to the faggots, pumping butt! God bless America, though I know he won’t, God bless America, though I know he won’t; […]

“My Way”, a song sung by Frank Sinatra, with (great) lyrics by Paul Anka: “For what is man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels And not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows And did it my […]