Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the dance craze that swept the nation, the story behind the Twist and the records that made it great.
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 1
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 2
Music
It’s World Series time. At least one listen to Ed Meeker’s version of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame,” to truly get in the baseball mood, is a must. This classic recording of a hundred year old song extolling the virtues of America’s pastime is a must listen. Ed Meeker was an Engineer at Edison Records when he was asked to record this version. Who would have ever thought that this early 1900′s recording would end up as the definitive version. I found this along with many other 78 recordings ripped to Mp3 in a treasure trove of music @ Publicdomain4u.com.
The “Music Ecosystem” is the most interesting happening in online music this year. It’s a combination of cloud computing and music discovery. Like MP3tunes.com you get a cloud-based music locker for free, so you can access your music from wherever you are with the device of your choice. In keeping with the “ecosystem” concept, there are thousands of quality mp3s, free “with artist permission” for download. These songs have been filtered by the MP3 bloggers at www.MP34U.fm. You can listen to and download any of the music found at www.MP34U.fm. Upload any of these MP3s along with your music to the free 11 gig cloud music locker so you can access your music anywhere, anytime. The most amazing component of this music fun is it’s ALL FREE. This is the ultimate in the music cloud experience. So if you want a music cloud, and you don’t want to pay Amazon, Apple, or Google, check out ElephantBackup.com.
Found an excellent free music resource, the MP3musicarchive.com. This site is a link index of filtered Mp3s from year 2009 to the present. There are hundreds of downloads from the MP3 blogosphere. The site claims all the Mp3s are legal with artist permission. This is an excellent way to find new music that might otherwise be missed. If you are a lean forward music fan, this site is for you.
Did you realize, that the music in a YouTube video can very easily be converted to the MP3 format? Yes it’s true. All the music for the videos in YouTube are digital. The music contained in the video file can be turned into a downloadable MP3. Beware, the Internet is crowded with a lot of sites that promise they can do this conversion, but they are only advertising traps, that don’t do what they promise. At www.youtube-mp3.org, you enter the url of the YouTube video, wait a few minutes, and download the MP3. Yes, it’s really that simple.
