Comparative Video 101

It would be hard to find a song writer of the 1960s with better folkie bona fides than Malvina Reynolds (1900 - 1978), who penned three cla...

Talk about getting not nearly enough respect for a career of splendid achievement. Carl Sandburg (left, with Jean Ritchie), regarded during...

When I was a boy in the Midwest and a compulsive reader, I developed the greatest fascination for times and places that were part of my ...

Today's intended weekend video was a bit of a downer of a song ( or rather the story behind it), so I decided spontaneously to go two f...

My little Comparative Videos enterprise is constantly full of surprises, like my last posting's excellent version of "Maria" ...

Every time I think I'm coming to the end of this series and can envision only four or five more songs to profile, something comes up an...