Almanac Music: Songs with Whistling in Them

August 4, 2023 by 52 Comments

This week’s theme in KD’s ongoing series on popular songs is songs that contain whistling. As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to put forward their own selections and comments.

Almanac Music: Otis Redding – The King of Soul

July 26, 2022 by Leave a Comment

What a tragedy to lose such a gifted artist approaching the prime of his career as happened when Otis Redding died in a plane crash in 1967. Col was reminded of this great artist, ‘the King of Soul’, when he came across a clip of a performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.