. Photo above by me, Feb. 2008. Pay no attention to the part numbers - it's all here. song by Christy Moore which Holly had posted a while back. A nice way to sign off on Christmas day.
. As the narrator mentions in the intro...these are the good old days. And they are...for someone out there.
(currently filed in the "where are they now?" bin) comes a "Christmas At CBGB". Happy holidays everyone from all of us here at the New York Nobody Sings. Thanks for being an early adopter of this blog. We hope you keep coming back!
most definitely recorded some of the more enjoyable and timeless Christmas music over many years. Here he takes us up to Harlem on Christmas night...
. Artwork above courtesy of Tom Lambert.
Ruth Roberts - RIP. Ruth was the author of the Mets theme song, "Meet The Mets." You'd be hard pressed to find a New Yorker who doesn't know this song.
hit the charts on Red Bird Records in 1965 with a surf record about that hot bed of surfing, New York City. Or, more specifically, missing their home state of California after moving to New York.
, never fails to take me back to the days when the parks downtown weren't always the nicest places to hang out. Or should I say, my reasons for visiting weren't always very legal. This especially goes for Tompkins Square, and Washington Square, but you could throw Union Square in there as well. 
Here's one last entry for 2009, the story of Garden Party by Rick(y) Nelson. Released in 1972, it proved to be his last hit song. It was inspired by a bad experience he had making an appearance at an oldies concert at Madison Square Garden with the likes of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The video below tells the story better than I can, although the accompanying version of the song is a cover by someone with a rather poor vocal performance.
Here's a nice one by a guy who I've only just started checking out, Babs Gonzales...he's sort of what you might get if you crossed Slim Gaillard with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with a heavy dose of hep cat beatnik be-bop slang. Here's Manhattan Fable from his Tales of Manhattan LP.'s classic Romesville this month. Both have been out of print for who knows how long. Personally, I can't get enough of this stuff.
are a band I was never much interested in. I give them their due...they were there, and we even have some mutual friends, but nothing about them ever interested me much. That said, I must admit that they do have a way with a tune, not to mention a good sense of humor...if I was paying attention earlier in my life I probably would have loved them. No matter, "New York, New York" captures a certain je ne said quoi about life in the big city.
