Tonight's video is the Rolling Stones' "Harlem Shuffle," because why not? This one came out when I was still in high school, and everyone though the Stones were too old (ha ha!) to make music anymore and this album proved they were over the hill. I'd always assumed Ralph Bakshi directed this, because look at that weird-as-hell animation and tell me Bakshi's fingerprints aren't all over it! But the joke's on me--according to Wikipedia (and Wikipedia has never led anyone astray) Bakshi only directed the live action sequences, while John Kricfalusi, best-know for creating Ren & Stimpy a few years later, did the animation. Wild, huh? Anyway, the Stones rebounded from the ho-hum reception of Dirty Work and put out several killer albums in the coming years. So yay for old rockers!
Sir David Willcocks died last week at the age of 95. Willcocks was the most influential director of choral music in Great Britain, if not the world. The man knew his stuff, and loved what he did. Tellingly, he wasn't a musical snob, and brought his considerable talent to bear on an array of genres. Perhaps his most widely-recognized work wasn't even released under his own name, but it proved to be a massive hit for the Rolling Stones--"You Can't Always Get What You Want."
