This department is generally in the business of songs rather than records - songs that endure over the decades and turn up in a thousand re-arrangements on zillions of records. It's different in our age, when new songs are generally conceived as a full production, a recording, which when finished and available for download is the only extant record (so to speak) of said song. When did it change? Well, that was a gradual process - when sheet-music sales were overtaken by gramophone sales, when live music on radio was superseded by disc-jockeys jockeying discs. But an early marker of the transition was the inauguration of electrical recording in the 1920s...
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Peter Wyngarde was a bona fide star only for a few years. But his animal sideburns, extravagant moustache, and jaunty cravats nestling in thickets of chest hair cast long and hirsute shadows: He was the inspiration for Austin Powers...
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An hour of Mark and musical guests from Down Under
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As the concluding episode of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat approaches its memorable climax, Akakiy Akakievitch is not taking well the loss of his coat...
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Overcoat
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - Gogol's The Overcoat
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Welcome to the eleventh in our series Tales for Our Time, and the second half of our double-bill of frosty fiction from opposite ends of the northern hemisphere
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with Mark and his guests Larry Adler, Tal Bachman, Cheryl Bentyne, Dorothée Berryman, Robert Davi, Everything But The Girl, Monique Fauteux, Patsy Gallant, Jessica Martin, Liza Minnelli with Kander & Ebb, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and Loudon Wainwright III
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