Category Archives: Video

Clancy Hayes Campaign Song for Nixon/Lodge

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Elizabeth Thomsen

You never know what you’ll find when you go searching around on YouTube. I have written here before about searching for the song Peoria. I was hoping to find a performance of the song by Bob Scobey’s Frisco Band that … Continue reading →

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YouTube’s Music Discovery Project

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Elizabeth Thomsen

YouTube’s Music Discovery Project is a great new tool that produces playlists of music videos. Enter a name, and you get back a playlist of videos by that artist, a list of related artists, and a “mix tape” of videos … Continue reading →

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Caught Mapping

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Caught Mapping — I’ve always loved maps, so I was happy to run across this short educational film from 1940 on the Internet Archive. It’s about how road maps were kept updated. Information was gathered by pairs of men driving … Continue reading →

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Chicago, Chicago…

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Elizabeth Thomsen

Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town Chicago, Chicago, I’ll show you around Bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues in Chicago Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday could not shut down I’m off to Chicago for the American Library Association … Continue reading →

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