Underdogs: The 5 Least Popular Posts on Music Makes Me

Self-publicising crap is a real bugbear of mine. Pages like this and this, shamelessly trumpeting their own content, are such a bore. There’s no way I’m doing a ‘Best-Of-2010’-style post anymore. That’s so 2009.

So, in a break from tradition, I’m presenting the least popular pages on the site. Inexplicably, the following five posts are the least visited on the site! (Of course, you can rectify this travesty by visiting them now!)

	Four pieces on 78 by unknown French pianist I wish I knew about these records, with their handwritten labels, made on the French Pyral label, but apart from the fact that these are well-known practice pieces, I still have had no suggestions.
	Wild Hills O’Wannie - The Small Pipes of Northumbria Showcasing the beautiful timbre of the Northumbrian pipes, quite different in tone to their cousin, the bagpipe.
	Simon Turner OK, I bought it for the hilarious liner notes (reproduced here for your amusement), but the tunes aren’t too bad, either.
	Alec Wilder & American Popular Song A rambunctious, scholarly, tendentious and often funny account of the phenomenon of the American Songbook. It’s a marvellous introduction and a deeply insightful companion to the works of Gershwin, Porter, Mercer, Kern and Berlin. Featuring a couple of beautiful songs written by Wilder.
	Ronald Frankau’s WWII propaganda Features a PDF of Frankau’s propaganda-poem He’s A Perfect Little Gentleman – The Swine! and a couple of smutty songs.