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Mitch Miller supposedly incarnated the worst of 1950s popular music, nearly destroying Sinatra with novelty numbers and generally inflicting cliché upon cliché that would be blown away in the 1960s.…
Julie London was a singer / actress blessed with a beautifully understated voice that combined clarity with a husky warmth. She was possibly rather typecast into singing “bearskin rug music”,…
Here is the great Judy Collins singing a wonderfully atmospheric a capella rendition of the Christ Child Lullaby: Have as happy, safe, and reflective Christmas as possible. As the years…
At Art and Theology, Victoria Emily Jones has a bumper collection of music, short films, books and art for the season. She features an online advent calendar from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the…
Of course there are distractions, says the Lord: When there are others, they are the distraction, and when you are by yourself, you are the distraction! You can try to…
Earlier today I posted a scene from “The Victors” based on the execution of Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier shot for desertion in World War II. A detail in the…
Knockroe Passage Tomb near Windgap in County Kilkenny was only rediscovered during the 1980s. Like Newgrange, the dawn light on the Winter solstice aligns with the structure, but unlike Newgrange so…
The Victors is a 1963 film depicting American GIs over the course of World War II. Portrayals of World War II now tend to be reverent and serious, ever since…
Séamus Sweeney 