I have updated my Ballad of Apollo 13 page with a YouTube audio performance by Julia Ecklar.
UPDATE on the 12th, from the Funny Old World department: Ballad is one of my more popular posts. Not in a HOTD class, but it consistently gets a few hits every month. Yesterday…nothing.
Here’s a site with a chart from RIAA, corrected and evaluated by Michael DeGusta.
Back in the 4th installment of “They Hate Us For Our Freedoms”, I suggested that the RIAA knew exactly what they were doing — fighting a scorched-earth rear-guard action against hopeless odds. I think these charts make that clear.
The common theory explaining the drop in music CD sales — held by all who are not in thrall to RIAA (more…)
Forty years ago today.
Last year I posted the lyrics to William Warren’s song (best known in the Julia Ecklar rendition) about it. Here’s the link. It is, of course, based on the Gordon Lightfoot song Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
