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The National Film Board of Canada honored Oscar Peterson with a short film, “Begone Dull Care”, in 1949. It was directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Using drawn-on-film animation, McLaren and Lambart paint and scratch directly onto film stock to create a visual representation of Oscar Peterson’s jazz music. Check it out here!
October 25, 2026Barbecue is the best thing to happen to picnics since sliced bread…though if you want to get technical about it, you’d reverse the two.
October 14, 2026It’s been said that farmers felt the stock market crash of 1929 less than most. For them, the Depression had already started years before.
September 5, 2026Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight made him a hero, garnered him presidential praise, and changed commercial flight forever.
August 30, 2026When you wanted a rare or even obscure 78, Records Revisited on West 33rd in New York was your place. Unless, that is, it was the last copy.
May 29, 2026 How Rudy Vallee’s 32nd birthday forever changed…the telegram?
May 16, 2026