Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Downloadable music at SPL

While the music and audio choices are not something I would listen to on a regular basis, I can see the use for this if I were looking for something obscure and esoteric that fell into the categories offered.

In African American Songs I chose the genre of Blues, hoping to find B.B. King there. No such luck. So I browsed through some of the artists, and finally settled on a recording called Just one more time by Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie. Okay, the only reason I chose it was BECAUSE their names were Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie. Can't go wrong with a name like that. The only problem was the sound quality of the recording, but since it was recorded around 1930 that's what you get.

In Classical Music Library I chose the genre of Stage & Screen, and the subgenre of TV Music. There I listened to instrumental recordings of the theme songs to Bonanza and Rawhide.

In Smithsonian Global Sound, I chose the genre of Children's, and was able to listen to Woody Guthrie's 1913 Massacre. 'Cause when I think of children's music, I think of massacre!

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