It's time for the weekly Link Dump!
Let's dance!
Why the hell do ghosts wear clothes?
Watch out for the Cave of Death!
3,500 years of UFOs.
Have a bad cough? Get the garlic and bacon ready!
If today's post just isn't enough for you, here's a theatrical link dump!
Just a reminder that Mozart could make today's most vulgar lyricists blush.
The internet's most mysterious song.
Diaries and sketchbooks as records of women's lives.
A mysterious ancient sword.
18th century female dentists.
So, you think Francis Drake landed in California? Well, maybe not.
The woes of 19th century jurors.
The real-life adventures of the inspiration for a famous novel.
A look at the Thomas Cook company, which is now as dead as...Thomas Cook.
The outlaws of Inglewood Forest.
Ancient Egypt and Cinderella.
Theater censors in the 1930s.
Paris' 19th century Grief Factory.
When wearing mourning clothes can be overdone.
That time Jonathan Swift wrote advertising copy for wool.
The alchemy of gin.
When criminologists cook the books.
A particularly messy execution.
A mysterious attack in the Forest of Dean.
A medieval man's very bad historical "first."
Musical cheese.
This week's pro tip: If a Greek revenant knocks on your door, don't answer.
The crimes of the Blonde Rattlesnake.
Venus might once have been habitable.
Autumn comes to Spitalfields.
This week in Russian Weird: Russian Navy: 0 Walrus: 1.
Probably the world's most literary mastectomy.
A ghost and a lot of Thomases.
The crazy cat man of Forsyth Street.
The life of a medieval matriarch.
Fair warning: this is a story involving a sixty-foot snake.
WWI's haunted trenches.
How Celia Holloway came to be murdered by her husband.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a young man's extremely weird end. In the meantime, Van Morrison closes out the first WLD of autumn 2019:
That 'mystery song' takes me back to my youth! It really is something from the early '80s, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteHere's another mystery, though not quite as big. In the 1980s, I think, I heard, on the radio, a very nice song by Ian Tyson called "Moondancer". I have been trying to get a recording of it, in any form, for some time, but it doesn't exist - as sung by Tyson. He wrote it, and it is sung by numerous artists in tributes to the long-time Canadian singer/songwriter, but there is no form recording the song by Tyson himself. It must have been on a promotional disc for the radio, but you would think there would be a recording of it on YouTube or somewhere, but no, none.
Odd, I thought every song ever recorded was on YouTube! I did a quick online search, and it was apparently released as a 45 single in 1980, but it must have been a very limited edition, as I can't find it for sale anywhere.
DeleteVery limited indeed. That's why I think it must have been a promotional disc. But why? As I recall, it was popular at the time, so why not take it into wide release. At least now, thanks to you, I know there must be copies out there somewhere...
DeleteYou could try Ebay. You can do a "saved search," which will let you know via email if it ever turns up there. As well-known as Tyson is--a fairly legendary figure in folk music, really--it's surprising there's no sign of this song online.
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