Suggested Listening & Viewing December 12, 2025

Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).

First the songs: 

This week our musical collection offers a focus on classic pop/rock music, released before 1970. 

Blue Moon of Kentucky by Elvis Presley  

 

Found on the Album: A Date With Elvis (1959) 

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Maybellene by Chuck Berry 

 

Found on the Album: Berry Is On Top (1959) 

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That’ll Be The Day by Buddy Holly  

 

Found on the Album: The Chirping Crickets (1957)

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You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me by Dusty Springfield  

 

Found on the Album: Dusty Springfield (1966) 

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My Baby Just Cares for Me by Etta James 

 

Found on the Album: Little Girl Blue (1957) 

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Girl of Constant Sorrow by Joan Baez 

 

Found on the Album: Joan Baez (1960) 

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Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison 

 

Found on the Album: The Ultimate Roy Orbison (2016) 

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Everybody Needs Somebody To Love by The Rolling Stones  

 

Found on the Album: Rolling Stones Now! (1965) 

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And I Love Her by The Beatles  

 

Found on the Album: A Hard Day’s Night (1964) 

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General Stream 

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) (Netflix) 

 

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Kanopy Stream 

Plunderer The Arts & Times of a Nazi War Thief (2025) (PBS) 

Trailer  

 

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Have a great weekend!

Linda Reimer, SSCL

Information on the four library catalogs 

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/ 

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go! 

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog. 

And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.  

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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/ 

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month. 

Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders. 

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players. 

Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.  

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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en 

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.  

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders! 

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV). 

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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org 

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System. 

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