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A 78s Playlist (The Nine Best 78s on Music Makes Me)2010-08-18versions; folk; popular song; Scottish; spoken word; 78s; jazz; classical; novelty; mp3s
A 78s Podcast - Volume II2010-11-2178s; mp3s
A Brass Band Swinging - Lansdowne Jazz Series (rec. engineer Joe Meek) (1959)2011-08-07jazz; novelty; mp3s
A Concert-in-a Turn - The Honris (Narrated by Peter Honri) (1974)2011-10-10popular song; vinyl; classical; novelty; 45s; mp3s
A Guid New Year - More 78s from Scotland2009-12-26folk; Scottish; 78s; novelty
A Highlight from Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation2011-03-26Web Links
A Junior Anthology of English Verse - 1959 (1)2009-07-15Scottish; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
A Junior Anthology of English Verse - 1959 (2)2009-07-18vinyl; poetry; mp3s
A Junior Anthology of English Verse - 1959 (3)2009-07-21vinyl; poetry; mp3s
A Letter to the Times: 'Coon Songs' and Hooliganism Considered (I)2009-11-29Irving Berlin; Web Links; mp3s
A Night with the Voodoo Family - Don Tracy2011-02-05Web Links; vinyl; novelty; mp3s
A Portrait of William Shakespeare - John Gielgud and George Rylands (1969)2010-03-28spoken word; poetry; mp3s
A Sideswipe at the Beat Generation - I2010-11-08vinyl; jazz; mp3s
A Stravinsky Moment: Paul Patterson's Time Piece2009-09-19vinyl; classical; mp3s
A Tuba Jazz - Ray Draper (with John Coltrane)2009-04-19vinyl; jazz; mp3s
A Week of Eleanor Rigby - Friday's Child...2009-11-06versions; novelty; mp3s
A Week of Eleanor Rigby - Monday's Child...2009-11-02versions; rock; novelty; mp3s; Beatles
A Week of Eleanor Rigby - Thursday's Child...2009-11-05versions; rock; novelty; mp3s; Beatles
A Week of Eleanor Rigby - Tuesday's Child...2009-11-03versions; novelty; mp3s
A Week of Eleanor Rigby - Wednesday's Child...2009-11-04versions; rock; novelty; mp3s
A recording of the original Bow Bells2009-04-1378s; novelty; mp3s
Al Bowlly and his Orchestra - That's Me Without You (1934)2009-08-01popular song; mp3s
Al Bowlly: Backing Singer2009-12-05popular song; 78s; mp3s
Alec in Wilderworld: Alec Wilder & American Popular Song2009-08-04popular song; Web Links; mp3s
All-Star Festival - Anne Shelton, Patti Page (1960s)2010-07-25popular song; vinyl; mp3s
Ambrose - A Tribute to Cole Porter2011-04-27popular song; 78s; vinyl; mp3s
An Encounter with Talbot O’Farrell: The Suspension of Disbelief2011-08-29
An Evening With Alistair Cooke (1955)2011-09-15versions; Irving Berlin; popular song; spoken word; vinyl; novelty; mp3s
Animal Concert in a Cemetery2009-04-13folk; vinyl; novelty; mp3s
Anything to Declare? - Moral Re-Armament Productions - 1968 -2009-05-04folk; rock; vinyl; mp3s
Arthur Wilkinson's Beatle Cracker Suite (1965)2009-04-08versions; popular song; classical; 45s; mp3s; Beatles
Bach and Arthur Sullivan at 78rpm2009-10-0578s; classical; mp3s
Bagpipe 78s2009-09-01Scottish; 78s; classical; novelty; mp3s
Beniamino Gigli - Two Neapolitan Songs2009-06-02vinyl; classical; mp3s
Best of Friends - Cleo Laine and John Williams2010-07-15vinyl; mp3s
Bop! Goes the Weasel - Tommy Reilly (1952)2009-04-13versions; 78s; novelty; mp3s
Bureaucracy Takes on Discrimination #12009-06-28Web Links
Burns Night (2011) - The Hills of Glenswilly2011-01-25Scottish; 78s; mp3s
Camp 1960s Britpop2009-05-13popular song; vinyl; mp3s
Christmas Wouldn't Be Christmas Without George 'King' Cole2009-12-02rock; vinyl; novelty; mp3s
Contents2009-03-05
Countdown to Burns Night - I - Comin' Thru the Rye2010-01-22Scottish; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
Countdown to Burns Night - II - The Learig2010-01-23Scottish; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
Countdown to Burns Night - III - Tam O'Shanter2010-01-24Scottish; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
Countdown to Burns Night - IV - To A Mousie2010-01-25Scottish; 78s; vinyl; novelty; poetry; mp3s
Decontextualised Graphs #32010-02-27Web Links
Decontextualised Graphs, #12009-08-14Web Links
Decontextualised Graphs, #22009-10-24Web Links
Dido and Aeneas - Kirsten Flagstad & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf2010-03-2178s; vinyl; classical; mp3s
Different Views of Music Makes Me2011-04-25Web Links
Eddie Gray's Juggling Act2010-09-26Web Links
English with a Dialect - English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents (1971)2011-02-19Scottish; spoken word; vinyl; mp3s
Evocations of The Dance - Part I2009-11-20popular song; 78s; jazz; mp3s
Evocations of The Dance - Part II - A Eudora Welty Playlist2011-06-17versions; popular song; spoken word; 78s; jazz; mp3s
F.I.R.E. (The 95th Anniversary of Italy's Decision to Join the Triple Entente)2010-05-2378s; novelty; mp3s
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) - The BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Adrian Boult2011-05-2178s; classical; mp3s
Farnham Festival, 19632009-05-11versions; vinyl; classical; mp3s
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce) - Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack (1959)2011-10-28spoken word; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
Followers2009-06-12Web Links
Four Last Songs (1937-1958) - I2011-01-07Irving Berlin; popular song; 78s; vinyl; mp3s
Four Last Songs (1959-1980) - II - Four More Last Songs2011-04-04Irving Berlin; popular song; jazz; mp3s
Four pieces by unknown French pianist2009-04-1578s; classical; mp3s
From ComputerActive magazine, 20092009-04-18Web Links
Graffiti seen in Malton2009-05-15Web Links
Ha ha! Olivier Reads from Job2010-06-25spoken word; vinyl; mp3s
Harpsichord Moods - Gilbert O'Sullivan 19732011-03-06versions; popular song; vinyl; novelty; mp3s
Hey John: 11 Beatles-Related Web Goodies2011-06-14Web Links; mp3s; Beatles
How to Use a Mobile Phone2010-06-01Web Links
I Love One-Star Reviews: Amazon Review of Ibsen Collection2010-11-25Web Links
Impact - The Exciting World of Stereo Sound (1968)2010-12-09versions; rock; vinyl; classical
Irving Berlin - Vol II: “Daddy Played With All His Fingers”2011-01-17Irving Berlin; popular song; Web Links; mp3s
Irving Berlin, Vol. I - Young Irving Berlin & The Brits2010-01-17Irving Berlin; 78s; vinyl; mp3s
Joe Meek's Hilarious Homily to Dave and Dee2010-10-06versions; Web Links; mp3s
John Gielgud: Shakespeare’s The Ages of Man2009-05-01spoken word; vinyl; poetry; mp3s
John McCormack2009-04-1478s; classical; mp3s
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation2009-10-14Web Links
Let’s Put The Beatles Back Together Again: Book Review2011-11-15Web Links; Beatles
Like this2010-07-07Web Links
Links Page2010-03-30Web Links
Links of the Month - August 20112011-08-31Web Links
Links of the Month - June 20112011-06-30Web Links; mp3s
Links of the Month - May 20112011-05-29Web Links; mp3s
Links of the Month - November 20112011-12-0578s; Web Links; classical; mp3s
Links of the Month - October 20112011-11-05versions; 78s; Web Links; mp3s
Links of the Month - September 20112011-10-03Web Links
Links of the Month: July 20112011-07-31Web Links
MMM's Most Popular Posts Update!2010-11-14Web Links; mp3s
MMM’s Most Popular Posts2009-03-19Irving Berlin; popular song; Scottish; 78s; vinyl; classical; Arabic; 45s; mp3s
McCartney Amoeba & The Likes of Woody Harrelson2010-02-05Web Links
McJazz - Sandy Brown's Jazz Band (1957)2009-07-27vinyl; jazz; mp3s
Missa Luba (1967)2009-04-27versions; folk; vinyl; mp3s
Monkhouse Meets Frankau: Freddie's Got A Lot To Learn2010-12-24Web Links; novelty; mp3s
More Classical 78s - Piano and 'Cello curiosities2009-12-1578s; classical
More Gigli2009-10-01vinyl; classical; mp3s
More Ronald Frankau - The M&W Show2011-04-24spoken word; mp3s
Moroccan 45s (A Holiday in Morocco - Part I)2009-05-27folk; vinyl; Arabic; 45s; mp3s
Moroccan Music (A Holiday in Morocco - Part II)2009-06-09folk; vinyl; Arabic; mp3s
Music Makes Me CD Now Available - 782011-02-2078s; Web Links
Mussorgsky Song Cycle - Vladimir Rosing2010-02-2078s; classical; mp3s
My Other Site is a Different Sort of Thing Altogether2010-01-03Web Links; mp3s
Nabokov and Trilling on YouTube2010-01-16Web Links
Name Band - 1959 - Bob Florence & His Orchestra2011-05-10vinyl; jazz; mp3s
Nat Cole - Wild is Love (1960)2011-08-14popular song; spoken word; vinyl; jazz; novelty; mp3s
New Val Rosing Collection - Try A Little Tenderness2010-08-29versions; popular song; 78s; Web Links; mp3s
Nine Web Recommendations - Literary, Arty, Druggy, and Bloggy2011-03-16Web Links
Norman Candler & His Strings - Play John Lennon2009-04-04versions; mp3s
Novelty 78s for August - I - The Posthumous Prankster2009-08-2378s; novelty; mp3s
Novelty 78s for August - II - The Laugher2009-08-2578s; novelty; mp3s
Novelty 78s for August - III - The Sexists2009-08-2778s; novelty; mp3s
Novelty 78s for August - IV - The Plucky Underdog2009-08-2978s; novelty; mp3s
O captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done - RIP Beefheart2010-12-17Web Links; mp3s
Oompah Music from 19622009-05-22versions; vinyl; mp3s
Panda Tattoos - A Book Review2009-06-04Web Links
Panorama of French Chanson 1928-19572010-06-1878s; vinyl; mp3s
Peggy Lee Sings The Man I Love (Arr. Riddle, Cond. Sinatra)2011-07-16versions; popular song; vinyl; jazz; mp3s
Persian Rug - Unusual Patterns in Jazz 1928-19342010-02-0378s; mp3s
Philip Larkin2009-10-18poetry; mp3s
Pink Floyd's Disco Days - Rosebud (Discoballs)2010-05-29versions; popular song; mp3s
Poor Folk: The Old Sow and Ilkla Moor Baht 'At – Traditionals on 782011-08-21folk; 78s; mp3s
Quincy Jones's Michael Jackson Anecdotes2009-06-30spoken word; mp3s
Ranking Joe's Tribute to John Lennon2009-07-04mp3s
Readings from Thomas Hardy2009-12-21poetry; mp3s
Recordings and Found Sounds of Marrakesh (Moroccan Holiday Part III)2009-06-16folk; found sounds; Arabic; mp3s
Results of Our Poll - Do You Download or Stream mp3s?2011-07-25
Rock Gently2009-04-14versions; rock; vinyl; classical; mp3s
Ronald Frankau Film Clips2009-10-03Web Links; novelty
Ronald Frankau's 'He's a perfect little gentleman - the swine!'2009-07-10popular song; pdfs; novelty; mp3s
Sex in Derwent Chapel2009-06-13Web Links; parish sluts
Shakespeare And All That Jazz - Cleo Laine (arr. John Dankworth) (1964)2010-10-23vinyl; jazz; poetry; mp3s
Shedloads v. Shitloads2011-04-17Web Links
Sheharrazam's Youtube channel2010-03-25versions; Web Links; Beatles
Short Story Generator2010-05-01Web Links
Simon Turner2010-04-25popular song; rock; mp3s
Six Classical 78s: Delius, Debussy and the Gypsies2009-04-0978s; classical; mp3s
Smile 1966-19712009-06-09Web Links; mp3s
Some British singers from the 1930s2009-04-06versions; popular song; 78s; jazz; mp3s
Some Engrish2009-04-29Web Links
Songs About Ethereal Women - Feeling Hornby2009-09-24popular song; mp3s; Beatles
Spam You Come to Love - Know How?2009-05-02Web Links
Spam You Come to Love: Touching Duck Eggs Around the Mother2009-05-08Web Links
Stickball (Stereo version)2009-04-04novelty; mp3s
Strange Fruit - Aubrey Pankey2009-04-04versions; jazz; mp3s
Talbot O'Farrell - Yorkshireman or Irishman?2010-12-01popular song; Web Links; mp3s
Talk About America - Alistair Cooke2009-05-15spoken word; vinyl; mp3s
Ted Heath's Au clair de lune2009-04-24versions; vinyl; jazz; classical; mp3s
The Alternate 'White Album'2010-06-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Abbey Road2010-08-09versions; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Beatles for Sale2009-12-09versions; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Hard Day's Night2009-11-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Help!2010-01-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Magical Mystery Tour2010-05-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Past Masters I & II2010-09-15versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Please Please Me2009-09-09versions; popular song; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Revolver2010-03-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Rubber Soul2010-02-08versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band2010-04-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate With the Beatles2009-10-09versions; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Alternate Yellow Submarine2010-07-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Astonishing Sound of the CORDOVOX - Mike Timoney (1971)2011-08-25versions; vinyl; classical; mp3s
The Best of The Alternate Beatles2010-10-09versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Billy Eckstine Transition – Can Crooners Change?2011-09-25spoken word; vinyl; jazz; mp3s
The Complete Alternate Beatles - Let It Be2010-09-08versions; popular song; rock; mp3s; Beatles
The Eleven Best Music Makes Me Posts of 20092009-12-19Web Links; Arabic; mp3s
The Festive Five (2010) - Allen Ginsburg's Dreams2010-12-13versions; novelty; mp3s
The Festive Five (2011) - A Garden Full of Sensi2011-12-13versions; novelty; mp3s
The Fool on the Hill: The Beatles Songbook Vol. 12011-05-14popular song; rock; novelty; mp3s; Beatles
The Four Seasons in Jazz (1965)2009-05-20versions; vinyl; jazz; mp3s
The Great Talbot O'Farrell2009-04-04popular song; 78s; mp3s
The Influence of S.J. Perelman2010-10-21Web Links
The Left Bank Bearcats in Hi-Fi2011-07-09vinyl; jazz; mp3s
The Magic Wood2011-07-23spoken word; 78s; novelty
The Not-Very-Dark Side of Christian Rock - McKenzie-Prokop Band (1981)2009-05-03rock; vinyl; mp3s
The Obscenity of Jelly Roll Morton2010-09-2578s; jazz; mp3s
The Original Broadway Production of Guys and Dolls2010-02-27popular song; vinyl; mp3s
The Saltire Music Group - An Evening with Robert Burns2009-04-04folk; Scottish; vinyl; mp3s
The Sentimental Side of Music Hall - Orphans and Mining Disasters2010-01-07popular song; spoken word; 78s; mp3s
The Suffolk Accent: A Guide to Phonetics2011-02-18spoken word; Web Links
The Voice of Irving Berlin2009-10-07Irving Berlin; popular song; mp3s
The Wonderful World of Man (1975)2009-05-10folk; spoken word; vinyl; mp3s
The Worst of the Web: Lennon Lives2010-12-08versions; Web Links; mp3s
The Yarmouth Song - Ronnie Ronalde (1956)2009-04-22novelty; 45s; mp3s
The Zoo Story - Edward Albee2010-04-15spoken word; mp3s
Three Updates: Vowels, Plots and Moroccans2011-02-27Web Links
Try A Little More Tenderness2010-09-09versions; Web Links
Two Curious Covers2009-05-08versions; vinyl; mp3s
Two Great Albums by Lee Wiley...2011-06-0778s; vinyl; mp3s
Two Hiking 78s2009-06-19popular song; 78s; novelty; mp3s
Two Illustrations from 'Everyday Information'2010-02-15Web Links
Two Slices of Funky Vinyl2009-09-08rock; vinyl; mp3s
Two Soulful Jazz Albums I've Bought Recently2010-12-05popular song; Web Links; jazz; mp3s
Underdogs: The 5 Least Popular Posts on Music Makes Me2011-02-1478s; Web Links; vinyl; mp3s
Visit our new contents page2009-08-05
Wanda Landowska - A Treasury of Harpsichord Music (RCA Victor)2011-09-0578s; classical; mp3s
When I Was Young - An Ipswich Hip-Hop Tale2009-06-06hip-hop; found sounds; mp3s
Why Harrison Preferred Minors: Notes Towards An Analysis Of The Beatles’ Use Of Descending Chord Progressions2011-04-14popular song; Web Links; Beatles
Wild Hills O'Wannie - The Small Pipes of Northumbria2010-05-15folk; vinyl; mp3s
With Bells On: Novelty Marches and Pieces for Brass2011-07-0578s; novelty; mp3s
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