The Billboard US top five from 1949:

Vaughn Monroe Orchestra - Ghost Riders In The Sky

Frankie Laine - That Lucky Old Sun

Vic Damone - You're Breaking My Heart

Perry Como - Some Enchanted Evening

Jimmy Wakely / Margaret Whiting - Slipping Around

Wow. This sounds like a whole different world, for me. The crooning! The schmaltz! The giant orchestras! Yikes!

I know "Ghost Riders..." and "Some Enchanted Evening". I think I've heard a different version of "Slipping Around", somewhere.

Let's watch Yo La Tengo do a song about actors:

And let's watch them do a Cat Stevens song:

And let's watch them do my second-favorite YLT song:

Three Wolf Moon

The Mecklenburg Declaration

Tiny Art Director

Why the fuck does anybody give a wet shit about what Dick Cheney has to say ?

He holds no office, has no power. He's caused more problems than he ever solved. Perhaps we should learn to ignore him ?