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October 3, 2006 · 2 Comments

YouTube is becoming ubiquitous, a version of kudzu winding its way around the entire Internet, growing at an alarming rate. If you haven’t ventured into this free, video-sharing site, maybe it’s better that you don’t start a habit that is not easy to break.

The site is also making news for the fact that it, like any new Web venture, is straddling the line between greatness and recklessness. If an event can be captured on video, search for it with confidence that you’ll be rewarded. Guitar licks; stupid human tricks; gab fests; sports; and, yes, even material that you may not want to have on your company computer.

On the other hand, the content piled up so quickly that the site’s haphazard management system is always in danger of drowning. When Zinedine Zidane melted down during the World Cup, and used his head as a sledge hammer against an opponent’s chest, dozens, maybe hundreds, of videos sprouted on the site, each with the exact same content, though with different labels.

There is also this nagging problem about copyright. The site cannot police each new post, and adminstrators possibly didn’t foresee that users, given such a wide berth, could upload video that belongs – intellectually speaking – to someone else.

And maybe we should celebrate the loopholes that allow for such great content to be shared. So, for now, pretend that copyright issues will be settled eventually, and enjoy the following list of immortals, all available free. The list comes by way of Terry Teachout, who posts at Arts Journal.com http://www.artsjournal.com/.
It’s a fond tribute to celluloid heroes who never really die. My suggession: enjoy them quickly, for they may not be around for long.
VIDEO
Satchmo (1932)
Satchmo (1933a)
Satchmo (1933b)
Satchmo (1959)
Red Allen*
Ammons/Johnson*
Astaire/Levant*
Chet Atkins*
Chet Baker*
Ballet Mecanique
Count Basie (’40s)
Basie Octet (1950)
Basie/Zoot Sims*
The Beatles
Sidney Bechet
Sir Thomas Beecham*
Robert Benchley
Jack Benny (1)*
Jack Benny (2)*
Chuck Berry*
Jussi Bjoerling
Art Blakey*
Booker T. and MGs
Boswell Sisters (1)
Boswell Sisters (2)*
Bream (Bach)*
Bream (Villa-Lobos)
Bream/Pears
Brubeck Quartet
Buffalo Springfield*
The Byrds*
Alexander Calder
Callas Tosca (1)
Callas Tosca (2)
Cab Calloway
Enrico Caruso
Pablo Casals
Johnny Cash*
Willa Cather
Ray Charles*
Un Chien Andalou
Van Cliburn*
Patsy Cline*
King Cole Trio (1)
King Cole Trio (2)*
King Cole Trio (3)*
Cole/Hawkins/OP
John Coltrane*
Spade Cooley*
Cronkite/JFK*
Bing Crosby*
Crosby/Rhythm Boys
Crosby/Satchmo*
Gyorgy Cziffra
Davis/Coltrane
Davis/Gil Evans*
Davis/Shorter*
de los Angeles*
Dorsey/Rich*
Theodore Dreiser
Peter Drucker*
Jimmy Durante*
Bob Dylan
Edward Elgar
Ellington (’30s)
Ellington (’40s)*
Ellington (’50s)*
Mischa Elman
Bill Evans (1)*
Bill Evans (2)*
Everly Bros.*
Donald Fagen
Emanuel Feuermann
Fischer-Dieskau (1)*
Fischer-Dieskau (2)*
Ella Fitzgerald*
Kirsten Flagstad
Furtwängler (1)
Furtwängler (2)*
Judy Garland*
Erroll Garner*
Nicolai Gedda*
Frank Gilbreth
Dizzy Gillespie*
Tito Gobbi (Falstaff)
Tito Gobbi (Iago)
Benny Goodman
Goodman Orch/Qt
Goodman/Lee
Glenn Gould (1)
Glenn Gould (2)*
Gould/Bernstein
Bobby Hackett*
Hackett/Russell*
Haggart/Bauduc*
Emmylou Harris
Childe Hassam
Hawkins/Carter*
Heifetz (Mozart)
Heifetz (Paganini)
Heifetz (Prokofiev)*
Heifetz (Rachmaninoff)
Heifetz (Wieniawski)
Jimi Hendrix (1)*
Jimi Hendrix (2)*
Woody Herman
Holiday/Basie
Holiday/Satchmo
Holiday/Young
Buddy Holly*
Homer & Jethro*
Horowitz (Bizet)*
Horowitz (Chopin)
Horowitz (Scriabin)
Jammin’ the Blues
Jobim/Regina
George Jones
Jo Jones*
Spike Jones
Stan Kenton*
The Kinks*
Otto Klemperer*
Knappertsbusch*
Koussevitzky*
Gene Krupa
Krupa/O’Day*
Peggy Lee*
Jerry Lee Lewis*
Meade Lux Lewis*
A Little Night Music
Christa Ludwig*
Manhatta
Manone/Venuti*
Martinelli*
Yehudi Menuhin
Michelangeli (1)*
Michelangeli (2)*
Pat Metheny
Glenn Miller
Mills Bros. (1)*
Mills Bros. (2)*
Nathan Milstein
Charles Mingus
MJQ
Thelonious Monk (1)
Thelonious Monk (2)*
Thelonious Monk (3)*
Bill Monroe*
Mravinsky*
V.S. Naipaul*
Nicholas Bros. (1)
Nicholas Bros. (2)*
Nicholas Bros. (3)*
Red Nichols*
Arthur Nikisch*
Red Norvo/BG*
One Froggy Evening
ODJB*
Charlie Parker*
Parker/Gillespie*
Parker/Hawkins*
Anna Pavlova
Oscar Peterson*
Pablo Picasso
Webb Pierce
Poème électronique*
Jackson Pollock
Rosa Ponselle
Powers of Ten
Elvis Presley (1)
Elvis Presley (2)*
Ray Price
Ayn Rand*
Django Reinhardt*
Buddy Rich
Richter (1)
Richter (2)*
Jimmie Rodgers*
Rolling Stones*
Rollins/Jim Hall (1)*
Rollins/Jim Hall (2)*
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Rose Hobart*
Arthur Rubinstein
Sam & Dave
Schwarzkopf*
Tito Schipa
Segovia (Albéniz)
Segovia (Bach)
Segovia (Falla)
Segovia (Villa-Lobos)
Artie Shaw (1939)
Artie Shaw (1940)
Sinatra (1944)
Sinatra (1965)
Sinatra (1966)
Sinatra/Jobim
Bessie Smith
Sunday in the Park
Steely Dan*
Stokowski*
Richard Strauss*
Joseph Szigeti*
Art Tatum (1)
Art Tatum (2)*
Tatum/Dorseys*
Richard Tauber
Jack Teagarden (1)*
Jack Teagarden (2)*
Teagarden/Satchmo*
Lawrence Tibbett
Mel Tormé
Toscanini (1)
Toscanini (2)*
Merle Travis*
Big Joe Turner*
Mark Twain
Venuti/Lang
Fats Waller
Bruno Walter*
Doc Watson*
Jack Webb*
Weingartner*
Welles Macbeth
Weather Report
The Who (1)*
The Who (2)*
Hank Williams*
Bob Wills (1)*
Bob Wills (2)*
Jonathan Winters*
Frank Lloyd Wright*
Lester Young*
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