Dionne Warwick - Message to Michael

One of her many Bacharach/David songs, from the era when the three of them created hits regularly.

Charlie Rich - I Feel Like Going Home

Sometimes this is how you feel. Complete with vinyl scratches.

The Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life

Classic soft-rock, very early Bee Gees-ish.

The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away

So the classic rock style isn't dead yet. Live at Glastonbury 2014.

nada: oblique or straightforward? you decide!

Nothing today, sorry.

Jack Bruce - Theme For an Imaginary Western

RIP to one of the most influential bassists of the rock era. This is from his first solo album, Songs for a Tailor. The lyrics are by Peter Brown, who also wrote the lyrics for Bruce's songs in Cream.

Liliana Felipe - A Nadie

ST 37 - A Huge, Rare Cheese

Big Bill Broonzy - The Glory of Love

The Grateful Dead - Playing In the Band

A song in 10/4.

Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

A lesser-known soul classic.

Krugman on Amazon

I knew that Amazon was engaging in some pretty predatory behavior, but I'm still surprised at some of this. Krugman explains.

So far Amazon has not tried to exploit consumers. In fact, it has systematically kept prices low, to reinforce its dominance. What it has done, instead, is use its market power to put a squeeze on publishers, in effect driving down the prices it pays for books — hence the fight with Hachette....And on that front its power is really immense — in fact, even greater than the market share numbers indicate. Book sales depend crucially on buzz and word of mouth (which is why authors are often sent on grueling book tours); you buy a book because you’ve heard about it, because other people are reading it, because it’s a topic of conversation, because it’s made the best-seller list. And what Amazon possesses is the power to kill the buzz. It’s definitely possible, with some extra effort, to buy a book you’ve heard about even if Amazon doesn’t carry it — but if Amazon doesn’t carry that book, you’re much less likely to hear about it in the first place.

So can we trust Amazon not to abuse that power? The Hachette dispute has settled that question: no, we can’t.

The Mar-Keys - Last Night

Classic R&B instrumental.

Manhattan Transfer - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

RIP Tim Hauser.

Obama Action Figure

In Japan this actually exists. I support our president, but this is...unusual. H/t digby.

The Beatles - Nothin' Shakin'

George takes a lead vocal on an R&B classic.

The Chi-lites - Have You Seen Her

Classic 70s soul.

Shel Silverstein - Daddy, What If

The unique Shel Silverstein.

Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows

As long as we're doing Marvin Hamlisch, here's his first commercial success as a songwriter.

Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

Why not?

Peter and Gordon - I Go to Pieces

At the height of their popularity in the late 1950s the Everly Brothers left a deep impression on a lot of English teenagers, which meant that a few years later there was music like this.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded

Sometimes the world isn't such a bad place. Reuters has more.

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner by far.

Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

The new all-star version is nice, but...this is the real thing.

Beck - Lost Cause

What a song.

Lonnie Johnson - Another Night To Cry

It looks like Sonny Boy Williamson II handling the MC duties.

Silvio Rodríguez - El Necio

Someone new to me.

Silvio Rodriguez - Sueño Con Serpientes

Jean Redpath - Five Scottish Songs

It takes a very, very good voice to sing this well unaccompanied. Pete Seeger and Roscoe Holcomb look on.

The songs are:
"The Beggar Laddie"
"Skye Fisher's Song"
"I Lost My Love"(seems to be actually a medley)
"Miss McLeod's Reel"
"Auld Lang Syne"

Krugman on Pimco and the Reign of Error

Here 'tis.

In 2008-9, a number of economists — yes, myself included — tried to explain the special circumstances of a depressed economy, in which deficits wouldn’t cause soaring rates and the Federal Reserve’s policy of “printing money” (not really what it was doing, but never mind) wouldn’t cause inflation. It wasn’t just theory, either; we had the experience of the 1930s and Japan since the 1990s to draw on. But many, perhaps most, influential people in the alleged real world refused to believe us.

The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home

This is apparently a clip from the time the song was recorded, the psychedelic year of 1967. Brian Jones plays the mellotron.

South Texas Soul: The San Antonio Sound - Augie Meyers

A clip from a documentary.