I was thinking of a better way to express my enjoyment of the many performers, bands, and music-related videos on this page...

...and I've come up with this:


Now: in semi-alphabetical order...

Out of Ottawa:

Blues:

Bessie Smith: "St.Louis Blues", "You Gotta Give Me Some" 1928 (adult!), "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" (YT)
Lucille Bogan: "Shave 'em Dry" - 1935 (YT) - warning: adult content!

Somewhere between Blues & Jazz & Ragtime:

Jazz:

Louis Armstrong: "Up A Lazy River" [1958]
            "A Kiss To Build A Dream On", "Wonderful World", "Mack The Knife", "I'm Putting All My Eggs In 1 Basket" (w/Ella!)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: "Theme De Yoyo" (YT)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet: "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!" (YT)
Chet Baker: "My Funny Valentine", "Let's Get Lost", "Almost Blue" (YT)
Art Blakey (and the Jazz Messengers): "Moanin'", "Blues March", "Are You Real?" - paris 1959 (YT)
Betty Carter: "Amazon", "Tight" (YT)
Charlie Christian: "Swing to Bop" - 1941, "Stompin' At The Savoy" - 1941, Hall of Fame 2007 report on Oklahoma News (YT)
Alice Coltrane: "Blue Nile" - 1970, "Journey In Satchindananda", "Stopover Bombay" (YT)
Jimmy McGriff: "All About My Girl" (YT)
If you can play like Jimmy, you should already be in a band with me!
John Coltrane: "My Favorite Things" - 1961, "Giant Steps", "Naima" - 1965, "Afro Blue" - 1963 (YT)
Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five" - 1961, "Take the 'A' Train"
Miles Davis: "Blue in Green", "Freddie Freeloader", "So What?", "Concierto de Aranjuez" [my fave] (YT)
Lou Donaldson: "Hot Dog", "Brother Soul" 1968, "Alligator Bogaloo", "Caracas"
Duke Ellington: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING" 1943, "Jam in C" 1942, "The Mooche", "Perdido" 1964, "Mood Indigo" (YT)
Fats Waller: "Your Feet's Too Big", "This Joint's Jumpin'", "Honeysuckle Rose" (YT)
Stan Getz: "Misty", w/Astrud Gilberto: "Corcovado", "The Girl From Ipanema" 1964 (YT)
Dexter Gordon: "Blue Bossa", "Loose Walk", "I'm A Fool To Want You" (YT)
Grant Green: "Lazy Afternoon", "It Ain't Necessarily So" 1962, "Let The Music Take Your Mind" [funky], "Django" 1961 (YT)
Sonny Clark: "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "Somethin' Special", "Black Velvet", w/Quintet: "Blue Minor" (YT)
Ahmad Jamal: "Darn That Dream" 1959, "Ahmad's Blues", "A Beautiful Friendship" (YT)
Carmen McRae: "Trouble is a Man", "I Wish I Were In Love Again" (YT)
Thelonious Monk: "Round Midnight", "Epistrophy"
Wes Montgomery: "Born To Be Blue", "Round Midnight", "Impressions" 1965 (YT)
Gerry Mulligan: "Walking Shoes" 1956, "The Shadow of Your Smile", "Moonlight in Vermont" 1959 (YT)
Oscar Peterson: Playing Solo Here.
Django Reinhardt: "Daphne", "J'attendrai Swing 1939", "Minor Swing" and a clip from 1945
Pharoah Sanders: "Thembi", "Izipho Zam (My Gifts)"
St. Germain: "Sure Thing", "So Flute"
McCoy Tyner: "Fly With The Wind", A Man Named McCoy Tyner documentary clip
Theo Schumann Combo: "Karawane" - 1964 (YT)
Olli Ahvenlahti: "Grandma's Rocking Chair"

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Jazz Vocalists:

Ella Fitzgerald: "One Note Samba" - 1969, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", "Paper Moon", (YT)
Ella Mae Morse: "Forty Cups of Coffee", "Mister Five by Five" - 1942 (YT)
Billie Holiday:
Betty Hutton: "Blue Birds in My Bellfree"
Eartha Kitt:
Nina Simone:
Effie Smith & The Squires: "Water, Water", "Embraceable You"
Mabel Smith: "Wailin' Daddy"
Sarah Vaughan: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "The Sassy One", "Lullaby in Birdland"
Dinah Washington:

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Gospel, Bluegrass, and Folk like that:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe:
Soul Stirrers (with Sam Cooke):
Spirit of Memphis Quartet:
The Staple Singers:
AA Gray & Seven Foot Dilly: "The Old Ark's A'Moving"
Seven Food Dilly & His Dill Pickles: From a 'tryout' in Georgia, "Kenesaw Mountain Rag" - 1930
Snooks Eaglin: "Down By The Riverside", "St.James Infirmary"

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Country:

Carl Smith: "Hey Joe", "Don't Just Stand There", "Go Boy Go"
Johnny Cash: "Folsom Prison Blues"(1959), "Ring of Fire", "San Quentin", [*]
June Carter Cash: "He Don't Love Me Anymore", "I'm Alright Now", "Tennessee Mambo"
Cowboy Copas: "Alabam", "Just A Tiny Little Bit", "Three Strikes and You're Out"
Crokett's Kentucky Mountaineers: "Bonapart's Retreat" (1929)
Curtis Gordon: "Caffine and Nicotine", "Rompin' and Stompin'", "Rocky Road of Love"
Flatt and Scruggs: "Randy Lynn Rag", on the Beverly Hillbillies TV show
Charlie Poole:
Marty Robbins:
Hank Williams Sr.:
Sammy Masters: "Pink Cadillac", "Some Like It Hot"
Bill Monroe:
The Carter Family:
Grandpa Jones:
Hank Snow:
Kitty Wells:
Lefty Frizzell:
Pee Wee King:
Roy Acuff:
Darby & Tarlton:
Fiddlin' John Carson:
Georgia Yellow Hammers:
Riley Puckett:
Vernon Dalhart:

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Soulful Oldies & DooWop:

Ben E. King:
Clarence Carter:
Sam Cooke:
Huey 'Piano' Smith:
Little Richard:
Franky Lymon & the Teenagers: "I'm Not A Juvinille Delinquent", "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?", "ABCs of Love", etc. (YT)
Nat King Cole:
Oscar Mack: "Dream Girl" (AMZ)
Johnny Ray:
The Cadillacs:
The Capris:
The Chordettes:
The Crests:
The Clovers:
The Coasters: "Searchin'" (YT)
The Dell Vikings:
The Drifters:
The Falcons: "You're So Fine" (YT)
The Five Discs:
The Four Tops:
The Ink Spots:
The Livers:
The Mello Kings:
The Platters:
The Quotations:
The Redcaps:
The Wisdoms:
Jackie Wilson:
Billy Stewart: "Summertime" (YT)
Martha & the Vandellas: "Heat Wave" (YT)
Billy "The Kid" Emerson: "Every Woman I Know", "The Whip", "Red Hot", "The Woodchuck" (YT)

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Really Oldies:

The Andrews Sisters:
Marlene Dietrich:
Noel Coward:

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Folk:

Eric Anderson:
Joan Baez:
Elizabeth Cotten:
Karen Dalton:
Nick Drake:
Woodie Guthrie:
Judy Henske: "Love Henry",
Pete Seeger:
Jesse Winchester:
Burl Ives:
The McGarrigle Sisters:

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Rap & HipHop:

A Tribe Called Quest:
Tupac:
Beastie Boys:
Beatnuts:
Black Sheep:
Blackalicious:
Boogie Down Productions: "My Philosophy" (Rap Traxx 2)
Busta Rhymes:
Camp Lo:
Capone N Noreaga:
CB4:
Cool Moe Dee: "How Ya Like Me Now" (Rap Traxx 2)
Neneh Cherry: "Buffalo Stance" (Rap Traxx 2)
Craig Mack:
Digable Planets:
Doctor Dre & Ed Lover: "Tootin' on the Hooters"
K-OS:
LL Cool J:
Mickey Avalon: like a cross between Eminem and Howard Stern... somehow.
Mos Def:
Naughty By Nature: "O.P.P.", "Hip Hop Hooray"
N.W.A.:
Outcast:
Pocket Dwellers:
Public Enemy: "Fight the Power"
Lady of Rage: "Afro Puffs" (feat. Snoop Dogg), "Big Bad Lady"
Rahzell:
Redman:
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock: "It Takes Two"
Run DMC: "Mary Mary"
Salt N Pepper: "Shake Your Thang" (Rap Traxx 2)
Slick Rick: "Children's Story" (Rap Traxx 2)
Will Smith: "Nightmare on My Street" (Rap Traxx 2)
Snoop Dogg:
Sweatshop Union:
The Lost Boyz:
The Notorious B.I.G.:
The Roots:
The Streets:
Tone Loc: "Funky Cold Medina" (Rap Traxx 2)
Warren G:
WuTang Clan:
Wyclef Jean:
Young MC: "Bust A Move"


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Reggae & Dancehall:

The Anglers:
Bob Marley:
Desmond Dekker:
The Specials:
Lord Beginner:
The Charmer: "Back to Back, Belly to Belly", "Is She Is or Is She Ain't"

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Soul:

James Brown:
Ray Charles:
Aretha Franklin:
Bobbie Gentry:
Jean Knight:
Junior Parker:
Percy Sledge:
Candi Staton:
The Five Stairsteps:
The Soul Investigators:
Stevie Wonder:
Clyde McPhatter:
Gladys Knight & the Pips:
Otis Redding:

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Great Movie Soundtracks:

Amélie:
American Graffiti:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Desperado:
Forest Gump:
Ghost World:
Great Expectations:
Grosse Point Blank:
High Fidelity:
I Am Sam:
O! Brother Where Art Thou?:
Pulp Fiction:
Reality Bites:
Reservoir Dogs:
Romeo+Juliet:
Snatch:
Swing Kids:
The Big Chill:
The Commitments:
The Royal Tenenbaums:

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Surf:

The Riptides:
Dick Dale:
Jan & Dean:
The Chantays:
The Surfaris:

...?
Billy Vaughn: "La Paloma", "Pearly Shells"

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Rockabilly/Voodoobilly/Psychobilly & 'Early' Rock n' Roll:

Calypso:

Walter 'Gavitt' Ferguson:
Lord Invader:
Sir Lancelot: "Sweet Like A Honey Bee"

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Cuban:

Buena Vista Social Club:
El Manisero:
Sierra Maestra:

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Brazilian:

Seu Jorge:
Cibelle:

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French:

Jaques Brel:
Jean Ferrat:
Serge Gainsbourg:
Yves Montand:
Pascale Borel:
Edith Piaf: "Lovers For A Day" - My favourite Piaf song (the glass breaking at the end is canned magic)
Charles Trenet:
Brigitte Bardot:
Charles Aznavour: "I Drink" (maybe I like the accent more than the language... lol)
Evelyne Courtois:

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Scottish, Irish, Celtic:

Enya:
Irish Rovers:
Loreena McKennitt:
The Chieftains:
The Dubliners:
The Clancy Brothers:

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Psychedelic:

13th Floor Elevators:
MGMT:
Bruce Haack:

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Pop, etc.

A-Camp: "I Can Buy You", "Algebra", "Walking the Cow" (D. Johnston cover!)
Lilly Allen: "Smile", "The Fear", "Not Fair"
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire: "Depression Pasillo"
Ani DiFranco: "Falling Is Like This"
The Animals & Eric Burdon: "House of the Rising Sun", "When I Was Young". "San Fransican Nights"
The Barenaked Ladies:
The Be Good Tanyas: "Broken Telephone", "Human Thing", "Ootischenia", "Up Against The Wall"
The Beatles: "Paperback Writer"
Beck:
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones:
Brant Bjork:
The Pixies & Frank Black and the Catholics:
The Band:
Cake:
The Cardigans:
Cat Power:
CCR:
Manu Chau:
Chilliwack:
The Clash:
George Clinton & Parliment:
Joe Cocker:
Leonard Cohen:
Coldplay:
Elvis Costello:
The Chocolate Watchband:
Bob Dylan:
Dr. John:
The Doors:
Dave Matthews Band + DM & Tim Reynolds:
Detroit Cobras:
The Dead Weather:
Eagles of Death Metal:
Feist:
The Flaming Lips:
Ben Folds + BF Five:
Foo Fighters:
Free:
Frijid Pink:
The Fugs:
Marvin Gaye:
G Love & the Special Sauce:
Grand Funk Railroad:
Grateful Dead:
David Gray:
Green Day:
The Guess Who:
Gypsy Kings:
The GO:
The Great Society:
Sarah Harmer:
Ben Harper:
Heart:
Levon Helm:
Jimi Hendrix:
Holly Golightly:
Buddy Holly:
Humble Pie:
James Hunter:
Etta James:
Jamiroquai:
Jethro Tull:
Elton John: Amoreena
Jack Johnson:
Daniel Johnston:
Norah Jones:
Janis Joplin:
Keb' Mo'
Carole King
The Kingston Trio:
Diana Krall:
The Kills:
Ray LaMontagne:
Led Zeppelin:
Emma Lee:
Luluc:
Mary Gauthier: "I Drink"
M.I.A.
Taj Mahal:
Harry Manx:
Curtis Mayfield:
Angela McCluskey:
Danny Michel:
Joni Mitchell:
Mojo Nixon:
Moldy Peaches:
Van Morrison:
Motorhead:
Joanna Newsome:
Nirvana:
North Mississippi Allstars:
Nostalgia 77: "Seven Nation Army" (feat. Alice Russell) [White Stripes cover]
Laura Nyro:
Roy Orbison:
Pearl Jam:
Madeline Payroux:
Phish:
The Pogues:
Portishead:
Elvis Presley:
Primus:
The Police + Sting:
Kyuss + Queens of the Stone Age:
Finley Quaye:
Rage Against the Machine:
Red Hot Chili Peppers:
Sam Roberts Band:
Rolling Stones:
The Rothschilds:
The Ramones:
Richie Havens:
Sade:
The Sadies:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins:
Shakira:
William Shatner:
The Shins:
The Shocking Blue:
Simon & Garfunkel + Paul Simon:
Sir Douglas Quintet:
Lynard Skynard:
Sloan:
Small Faces:
Elliot Smith:
The Specials:
Spencer Davis Group:
Squeeze:
Squirrel Nut Zippers:
Steppenwolf:
Steve Miller Band:
Cat Stevens + Yusef Islam:
The Stranglers:
Sublime:
Tanya Tucker:
Tegan & Sara:
Terry Reid:
Tennessee Ernie Ford:
They Might Be Giants:
Tinariwen:
Tragically Hip:
Urge Overkill: "Positive Bleeding"
The Velvet Underground & Nico:
Martha Wainwright:
Rufus Wainwright:
Tom Waits:
Weezer:
White Stripes:
Neil Young:
Frank Zappa:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
ZZ Top:

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Glenn Gould: "Goldberg Variations" 1981 (YT)

"OUTSIDER" MUSIC:

 
Captain Beefheart: "Frownland", "Ashtray Heart", "Ice Cream For Crow", On Letterman
Daniel Johnston: "True Love Will Find You In The End"(&promo), "I Had Lost My Mind", "Brainwashed" (lyrics & awesome site!)
Jandek: "You Standing There"
Roky Erickson: "You Don't Love Me Yet",
                         "Two-Headed Dog", "Don't Slander Me", "Cold Night For Alligators", "Goodbye Sweet Dreams"
Wild Man Fischer: "Merry Go Round", "Monkeys vs. Donkeys" [Jimmy Kimmel], "The Bouillabaisse"