Cartoons Sunday!

Plus music from Sam Cooke, the Stones on tour and Kacey Musgraves on 'SNL.'

Since it’s Sunday, let’s open with Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers in his gospel mid-1950s, with “He’s My Guide” before he went “secular.” His gospel recordings are among the greatest, and most influential, music of the century. Then Kacey Musgraves on SNL last night. Then today’s collection of political commentary. Don’t forget to subscribe, it’s still free.

Sunday, Over the Rainbow

And from The New Yorker’s Barry Blitt….

Song Picks of the Day

Since I’m finally reading the Keith Richards’ memoir, here’s his classic rendering of “Happy” and then live from the current tour, “Jumpin Jack Flash.”

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, has been featured at a dozen festivals this year and is winning awards. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.