A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From 2009, here's Imogen Heap's "Half Life." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1sZ...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A crisp recording of Daniel Barenboim playing one of Chopin's most underappreciated nocturnes. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpP8...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In honor of Hungary's news, here's the Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó (1936–1982), with the first track from his 1968 album 'Dreams.' If you've never heard this before, you're in for a treat—it's soul, it's jazz, it's otherworldly. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Ann Peebles wrote this 1974 song with Don Bryant (her husband) and Bernie Miller (a talented songwriter who today is a pastor at a church he founded). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=snur...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars"—from the album 'Eyes Open,' now turning 20 years old—rocketed to popularity when it was played in a couple of TV dramas in May 2006. Here's an acoustic cover by Boyce Avenue, a YouTube band of three brothers. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Stevie Nicks wrote "Dreams" sometime in early 1976—which is to say, it's about fifty years old now. (Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' album was recorded that year and released in February 1977.) See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJO...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A few years before Debussy came out with his opera about the star-crossed lovers Pelléas and Mélisande, Gabriel Fauré composed incidental music to be performed with productions of the original dramatic play. This is the sad song for Mélisande's death. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since April 7 is Billie Holiday's birthday, here's her 1952 recording of "You Go to My Head." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgn...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A very short and obscure one—a little sonata in A minor composed by Johann Krieger. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=31AE...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's rocker Steve Winwood's solo, outdoors, COVID-era recording of "Now the Green Blade Riseth" (twentieth-century words set to a carol a few centuries older). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU0...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Fisk Jubilee Singers—the legendary choir of Nashville's Fisk University—made this recording of the great black spiritual "Were You There" back in the 1950s. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLVd...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé's 1960 setting of "Ubi caritas"—often heard on Maundy Thursday—here in a 2019 performance by Early Music Vancouver. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxT_...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This year marks the centennial of George Gershwin's Three Preludes for piano; he first performed them in late 1926. The second of the three, in C♯ minor—which Gershwin called "a sort of blues lullaby"—was recorded here by Evgeny Kissin in 2021. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Laurindo Almeida and the Bossa Nova All-Stars with their instrumental cover of the classic "Desafinado." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLV...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: March 31 is the 99th birthday of Bill Daniels, who played Dr. Mark Craig on 'St. Elsewhere' and Mr. Feeny on 'Boy Meets World,' voiced the car KITT on 'Knight Rider'—and originated the role of John Adams in '1776' on Broadway, with songs like this. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This lovely musical setting for the "Crux Fidelis" is traditionally attributed to King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), although there's good reason to doubt that. It's often sung during Holy Week. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXGK...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I can't hear "I Say a Little Prayer for You" without thinking of the scene in 'My Best Friend's Wedding' where a whole restaurant spontaneously sings it—an unsettling moment of magical realism in that supremely awkward romcom. But I do like this cover! See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Haley Reinhart's cover of the Elvis hit "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLU...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A newly released song from German gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan and his trio. (He's actually been on a concert tour of the United States this month with two different bandmates.) See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oXF...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: We're coming up on the third anniversary of the death of Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Here's his sparse, gentle, dissonant, wistful, mysterious song "Bibo No Aozora" ("Beautiful Blue Sky"). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wku3...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A sweet little 2022 tune by Australian singer-songwriter Gretta Ray, here's "Vienna." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIws...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A famous tenor aria, "Una furtiva lagrima" ("A Furtive Tear"), from Donizetti's opera 'L'elisir d'amore' ('The Elixir of Love')—here sung by Luciano Pavarotti. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue2Y...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This song—the last track on a 1996 album put out by the choirs of two Maori colleges in New Zealand—is used in the movie 'Project Hail Mary.' See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUh...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The first streaming release of Cleveland musician Elijah Bisbee's song "Burn Me Again." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sa8...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's 1967 cover of Kern and Hammerstein's "All the Things You Are." Scientists report that it's physically impossible to listen to this track without starting to move some part of your body. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOzg...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sinéad O'Connor singing "Danny Boy" a cappella on live TV in 1993. Happy St. Patrick's Day. See you around.
youtu.be/PweUGhCZNiM?...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Jerry Lewis would have turned 100 today. Each year, when he hosted his telethon fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, he'd end it by singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" from 'Carousel.' Here's a Nina Simone instrumental cover of that song. See you around.
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Dove Ellis, a young Irish musician, put out this great little track in December on his first studio album. If you like Michael Stipe or Rufus Wainwright, this has a sort of similar vibe. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBoz...
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Anna Petrova playing the Largo movement from one of Leopold Koželuch's sonatas for keyboard. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zp...
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A previous, and really quite wonderful, Bobby McFerrin #BlueskyLullaby:
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