Blue Truck, Red State: Gershwin

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Sunday Drive: I Got Rhythm

The amazing Peter Nero performs the Gershwin standard at lightning speed on the Ed Sullivan Show in November of 1965.

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Sunday Drive: Someone to Watch Over Me

Michael Feinstein explains and sings the Gershwin standard:

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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Sunday Drive: Summertime

Ella. Louis. Gershwin. It doesn't get any better than this.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Sunday Drive: They Can't Take That Away from Me

As performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on the album Ella and Louis, 1956:

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Standard Time: I've Got a Crush on You

Ella weaves her sinuous sound around the Gershwin classic in this high-quality audio recording.

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu