"The Riverkeeper" is a song written and recorded by Seattle musician Patrick Daugherty, available for free download as an mp3 file. It's about the efforts of one man to restore a tributary of the much-polluted Duwamish River in Seattle. John Beal returned from Vietnam with severe health problems and was given only a few months to live. In despair he tried to do something to make the world a better place, starting with trashed Hamm Creek. Eventually the creek got better and so did John.

Lp2Cd.com will take your old LPs and make CDs out of them. They also take cassettes, reel-to-reel, 8-tracks, 78s, even 16" transcription records and wire recordings! I've got some old recordings that could definitely use this service.

But I have to say their web site is as ugly a one as I have seen. Hire a designer, guys!

This one cracks me up - a RealAudio of Smile, Darn Ya, Smile as performed by Ben Selvin and his orchestra in 1931. That's the real Sunshine Boys on the vocals, long before the George Burns movie, and who is doing the laughing? Perhaps Selvin himself, but we'll never know. It must have been fun hiring sidemen for Columbia during the Depression: Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Benny Goodman on clarinet.

Song a Week offers newly written and recorded songs about current events. They have free streaming and MP3 downloads of songs by Lorne Clarke and Tom Flannery.

Stoshi celebrates her birthday - now if birthdays would only happen every day!