41 years ago, #aha released the first video for "Take On Me", a standard fake band performance video that probably cost as little as possible. If you've ever wondered if the song would have been a hit without the video, I think this answers it. They released the song several times, only having major success once the animated video was made. Also interesting to hear the differences in this version of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAqW9uJi2-g #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

41 years ago, #aha released the first video for "Take On Me", a standard fake band performance video that probably cost as little as possible. If you've ever wondered if the song would have been a hit without the video, I think this answers it. They released the song several times, only having major success once the animated video was made. Also interesting to hear the differences in this version of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAqW9uJi2-g #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

coming across her (excellent) name in a benefit concert from 1935 in an article in the Brooklyn Eagle reminded me about Kitty Okryenetz (1925-2006), a small-time Yiddish singer & entertainer whose 1953 album I was charmed by years ago. (free account required to stream the album.)
https://rsa.fau.edu/album/36566

#Yiddish #MusicHistory #FolkMusic #Brooklyn

"On [this] day in 1964, Dr. Robert Moog introduced the world to a completely new type of instrument that would go on to change the course of music history and influence decades of future instrument design."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TJyPAyTiQ (Video from 2014, marking Moog's 50th anniversary.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer

#moog #music #history #MusicHistory #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

coming across her (excellent) name in a benefit concert from 1935 in an article in the Brooklyn Eagle reminded me about Kitty Okryenetz (1925-2006), a small-time Yiddish singer & entertainer whose 1953 album I was charmed by years ago. (free account required to stream the album.)
https://rsa.fau.edu/album/36566

#Yiddish #MusicHistory #FolkMusic #Brooklyn

"On [this] day in 1964, Dr. Robert Moog introduced the world to a completely new type of instrument that would go on to change the course of music history and influence decades of future instrument design."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TJyPAyTiQ (Video from 2014, marking Moog's 50th anniversary.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer

#moog #music #history #MusicHistory #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

I decided to turn the script & slideshow of my presentation last year at Klezcadia into a blog post, even though it's not about my usual American #klezmer stuff.

actually, this is one of those situations where researching a musical group really made me fall out of love with them😲 from having the general idea that it was a dynamic klezmer-art-music fusion group to learning that it was a kinda dubious smoke and mirrors campaign with a whole lotta racism.🤨
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/09/27/the-zimro-ensemble-in-colonial-asia-1919/

#MusicHistory

Moscovitz went on a tear of copyrighting Romanian klezmer dances in 1925 (this list corresponds to the scores in my blog post above). I had been confused why he was copyrighting them if they were never recorded, but now it makes sense that it was a music publication thing, or at least aspirationally.

#MusicHistory #klezmer #RomanianMusic

would love to get a good scan to put out there, but in the meantime here is the Romanian dances pub. listed in Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, February 11 1928 issue, along with another Waltz by Moscovitz.

#MusicHistory #klezmer #RomanianMusic

I decided to turn the script & slideshow of my presentation last year at Klezcadia into a blog post, even though it's not about my usual American #klezmer stuff.

actually, this is one of those situations where researching a musical group really made me fall out of love with them😲 from having the general idea that it was a dynamic klezmer-art-music fusion group to learning that it was a kinda dubious smoke and mirrors campaign with a whole lotta racism.🤨
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/09/27/the-zimro-ensemble-in-colonial-asia-1919/

#MusicHistory

this kind of thing is really what I live for & I hope to make discoveries like this one day. to think that thousands of klezmer musicians immigrated to the US, lived and died over the course of the 20th century. there must be more out there whose old music scores are with descendants who don't understand their significance.
#klezmer #MusicHistory #MusicArchives

While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.

#MusicHistory#NYhistory

While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.

#MusicHistory#NYhistory

The last person to play this rare boxwood flute was likely its owner, James Glencairn Burns, son of Robert Burns. Claire Mann is currently the only musician with permission to play it, & the flute – & Claire – will go on tour as part of a wider fundraising campaign called Saving The Home of Auld Lang Syne which will be launched later this year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62wly2qydno

#Scottish #literature #music #RobertBurns #flute #19thcentury #musichistory

The last person to play this rare boxwood flute was likely its owner, James Glencairn Burns, son of Robert Burns. Claire Mann is currently the only musician with permission to play it, & the flute – & Claire – will go on tour as part of a wider fundraising campaign called Saving The Home of Auld Lang Syne which will be launched later this year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62wly2qydno

#Scottish #literature #music #RobertBurns #flute #19thcentury #musichistory

Happy #808day!

https://www.rolandcloud.com/news/it-s-808-day

"The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer [...] was one of the first drum machines to allow users to program rhythms instead of using preset patterns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808

#music #history#MusicHistory#DrumMachine #808 #EightOhEight

Happy #808day!

https://www.rolandcloud.com/news/it-s-808-day

"The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer [...] was one of the first drum machines to allow users to program rhythms instead of using preset patterns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808

#music #history#MusicHistory#DrumMachine #808 #EightOhEight

 Accept it that soon
 You’ll be drenched to the bone
 If your time to you is worth savin’
 Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
 For the times they are a-changin’
--
Song: “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1963-10-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times-they-are-changin/
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#Music#Rock#Folk #Dylan#BobDylan#MusicHistory#Lyrics#Poetry

 Accept it that soon
 You’ll be drenched to the bone
 If your time to you is worth savin’
 Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
 For the times they are a-changin’
--
Song: “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1963-10-26
--
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times-they-are-changin/
--
#Music#Rock#Folk #Dylan#BobDylan#MusicHistory#Lyrics#Poetry

Weirdly, Leon Russell's debut LP is not available on Apple Music anymore

#music #musicHistory#LeonRussell#Apple