Music
Sesame Street: Philip Glass' Geometry of Circles - 1979
Geometry (Ancient Greek: γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metri "measurement") "Earth-measuring" is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. Geometry is one of the oldest sciences.
Philip Glass (b. 1937) is a composer of contemporary classical music. In 1979, he wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called "Geometry of Circles."
Sesame Street is an American children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969, and is the longest running children's program on television.
ShareThisSesame Street: Psychedelic Countdown - 1970's
You never knew how trippy a countdown could be until you've witnessed this short from Sesame Street in the early 1970's.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
ShareThisFeatured Film (full movie): Take Me Back to Oklahoma - 1940
Wanted by the law...marked by the lawless...betrayed by his best friend...but you can't stop a Texan while there's a song on his lips...and lead slugs in his six guns!
Tex (Tex Ritter) and his friend Slim (Slim Andrews) go undercover to help Jane Winters (Terry Walker) keep her Stageline running as Mr. Storm and his gang slowly pick it apart in order to take over her business. Jane has already had all of her Stage Coaches destroyed except one. Tex gets hired as a Stage Coach Driver and when he sees that he needs help he calls in his friends, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, a country music band, who also do a concert for charity. The Ticket booth gets robbed and Tex is framed for the robbery. Its up to Tex to clear himself of the crime and bring the real criminals to justice.
ShareThisBob Wills: Blue Prelude - 1950's
Joe "Frank" Ferguson on lead vocal, he switched off playing bass and singing with Joe Andrews, no idle time on the Bob Wills bandstand you know/Outstanding Bobby Koefer, Skeeter Elkin, Cotton Whittington
Rock and Roll? Why, man, that's the same kind of music we've been playin' since 1928!...We didn't call it rock and roll back when we introduced it as our style back in 1928, and we don't call it rock and roll the way we play it now. But it's just basic rhythm and has gone by a lot of different names in my time. It's the same, whether you just follow a drum beat like in Africa or surround it with a lot of instruments. The rhythm's what's important.
- BOB WILLS
Bob Wills was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.
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