Little Walter - My Babe

Just so good. Little Walter was better known as a harmonica player than a singer, but proves he's no slouch with his pipes in this hit from 1955.

Tito Puente - El Cumbanchero

From 1965, so he doesn't have the white hair that was such a part of his persona in later years.

Paul McCartney - All Things Must Pass (Concert For George)

Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy

Funny to watch this, since it looks like a stage performance but it's clearly lip-synced to the original studio recording. FWIW, Mann is using stacked keyboards before Ray Manzarek did by a year or two, since this is from 1964. Looks like it's a Hohner Pianet on top of the Vox Continental.

Linda Greenhouse on a "Citizens United" Challenge...Maybe

Interesting notes from Greenhouse, a longtime US Supreme Court watcher.

Is there really a chance that the Supreme Court might reconsider Citizens United?

A week ago, I wouldn’t have thought so, and I still think it’s an extreme long shot. But a provocative statement last Friday by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer makes this crazy idea worth pondering – which is undoubtedly what the two justices intended.

T. S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday

I've posted this in the past on Ash Wednesday, but didn't last year. Time to do it again. Here's T.S. Eliot reading his poem Ash Wednesday, courtesy of blogger Tom Watson.

Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans

Happy Fat Tuesday.