Love Johnny Cash and hadn’t heard that song before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzwBHP3nnNM&playnext=1&list=PLA2F9D8BF99328B63
Awesome animation and an awesome song. Sad but.

I used to broadcast news and commentary on 4zzz, a radio station in Brisbane. Occasionally I would accompany my commentary with a song. The station asked me for an Easter song. I wrote and sang the following to the tune of the old US pop standard.

The Imitation of Christ

Six feet two, eyes of blue
Jesus Christ, he was a Jew
Has anybody seen my lord?

Big hooked nose, There he goes
Preaching so that everyone knows
Has anybody seen my lord?

Speared by a Roman
In the abdomen
Blood gushing out

Rose from the dead
So it is said
People believe without a doubt

Jesus died, still a Jew
He's a Jew so why aren't you?
Has anybody seen my lord?

You can see me perform it at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBR23d-UDE

Deeeeear oh dear o dear. That’s funny David! Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

Music! That’s what I use Youtube for above all else.

It is just wonderful.

I thought I’d heard every Elvis track but I found one that I don’t recall having heard before, and I reckon it has simply got to be the best song he ever recorded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-sAPQZwEQQ

Dear Ludwig,

What do you think of this line-up at a high school prom in Texas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylal5gfj_kY

Dear davidf,

Lol, very good. You just needed an ukulele accompaniment to top it lot off. Apologies to the Californian Ramblers of course. And have you spent time on the football terraces of England?

Dear Jewely,

Good art both sticks in one's mind and informs one's circumstance. You original link has done that for me. I see the fat 'producer' as representing our leaders and ourselves, the photographer as the war correspondent, the film machine as the media delivering every so often news of another Australian claimed in this war, the single tear as ANZAC day, quickly forgotten, and then the kaleidoscope continuing. Powerful stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Speaking of the media one of Zomgitscriss's uploads that had me really cheering was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6sW9Mt2axc
She went where our media often seems to fearful to tread. In the face of numerous death threats she came right back at 'em. I could be wrong but there is something here that gives me hope for the future. Ah the fearlessness of youth. And at around 80,000 views per posting that is triple my city's Murdock paper's circulation or nearly a thousand times the average weekly church congregation.

For those who might not have heard of Natile Tran http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel she is Australia's most popular YouTube personality. With 364,830,646 Total Upload views and 49,062,487 Channel views plus nearly a million subscribers her reach is mindboggling.

Sure Youtube does represent a treasure trove for those with years of memories, a vault far more easily accessed than the trunk in the attic, but what I get excited about is how generation x and y are using it in fresh ways. The present media seems so slow in responding and so do our political parties.

One thing I am coming to respect is the fact that the Youtube community has a great capacity for crap but also good nose for bulls hit. Love to see what the next six years will bring.

David that was wonderful, really was.

Csteele I am glad you liked that clip, I’ve gone back and watched it a few times. I like how you saw it.

I’ve been watching comedians on youtube lately, great stuff out there.

Now when will our televisions become ‘hometube’ so we can just go through and pick what we want to watch? I heard Apple might be releasing something like it. TV will disappear overnight I reckon.

Dear csteele,

Thank you for referring me to the California Ramblers. I looked them up and played the music on the following:
http://www.archive.org/details/1920s-californiaRamblers-01-10 Then I started roaming the net. Roamin’ in the gloamin’ I fell on my abdomen.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rejected what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo I reject rock and roll with its harsh voices, electronic instruments and general lack of fun. I miss the witty lyrics of Cole Porter and hope to outlive rock and roll. I prefer pre-Beatle/Elvis pop music. Bob Dylan should blow his nose. Fortunately there is youtube and the net.

The late, great Russ Columbo sang “Good Night, Sweetheart” on
http://www.pcdon.com/BingCrosby-RussColumbo.html I think he would have been better than Crosby if he hadn’t died at 27.

I have a CD of Eddie Cantor singing “Keep Young and Beautiful.” The film clip on youtube
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285-qOZjt2g&feature=related) shows a politically incorrect scene with Eddie in blackface garbed in a quasi-Roman or Greek costume singing to a bevy of white beauties attended by a group of beautiful black slaves. Eddie winds up chased by both groups of ladies and drowning. Dated but hilarious.

On http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glnz45NZ_wk&feature=related Cantor out of blackface sings “Yes Yes!” in a number choreographed by Busby Berkeley with Busby’s great overhead shots of the chorus forming geometric patterns.

Now a novelty number. The Hoosier Hot Shots do "Indies to the Andes In His Undies" on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U8iJ0fEns Hoosier is the nickname of Indiana, the Hoosier state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmlAgcfQ44 has the 1931, Who's Your Little Who-Zis?, Arden-Ohman Orchestra. Hoosier little whozis?

The Hoosier Hot Shots also do “Darktown Strutter's Ball (1936)” on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiEfMVrDXQ&NR=1 The ancient and wonderful Alberta Hunter / also does “Darktown Strutters' Ball” on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP-0geORbvM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Hoagy Carmichael, another Hoosier does “The Darktown Strutter's Ball” onhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4lrdawmUg8&feature=related
"The Darktown Strutters Ball" was also rendered by Miff Mole and his Molers on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSZ1YsDdjnc&feature=related I have a record of Miff Mole and His Mound City Blues Blowers.

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