Letting our Elton John flags fly, down in the Rumpus Room. Professor Ellis and Toby Weiss are joined by Tory Starbuck. Turns out Tory and Toby are both North St. Louis County ex-pats who were major Elton John grade school obsessives in the 1970s. Hence “Harmony.”

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Ringing out 2016, welcoming 2017. Down in the Rumpus Room with Professor Ellis and Toby Weiss, with a new take on the exquisite ABBA tune, “Happy New Year.”

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I’d once done the proper version of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” with the venerable Rough Shop. While rehearsing it to be trotted out again this year, it became far too obvious to change Grinch to Trump. So we did. John Ellis on guitar Toby Weiss singing Down in the Rumpus Room in South St. Louis, […]

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With the passing of David Bowie in January 2016, this Christmas promised to be especially sad when the perennial duet between he and Bing Crosby aired. While working on a cover of the Bing & Bowie tune, we realized that David Bowie’s portion was particularly meaningful right now. And the song – divorced from the “Little […]

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Oh, the joy of having a video diary of the Bomb Pop Boy journey! Thank you to Bill Streeter of Hydraulic Pictures for all the filming and production work on the final product. And to Ann Hirschfeld for illustrating the memories of that hot night on a summer long ago…

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