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 off the music!
On this, the third Friday of the month, we’re turning our listening spotlight on a collection of classic jazz and blues songs – enjoy!
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Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (1941)
Found on the Album: The Essential Glenn Miller (1996)
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Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong
Found on the Album: Wonderful World: The Best Of Louis Armstrong (2024)
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Boogie Chillen’ by John Lee Hooker
Found on the Album: The Legendary Modern Recordings (1992)
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Call It Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker
Found on the Album: T-Bone Blues (2005)
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Caldonia by Louis Jordan
Found on the Album: The Best of Louis Jordan (2012)
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I Can’t Be Satisfied by Muddy Waters
Found on the Album: The Best of Muddy Waters (1957)
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Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) by Billie Holiday
Found on the Album: Lover Man (1957)
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Open the Door, Richard! by Count Basie
Found on the Album: Count Basie & His Orchestra 1937…1947 (1947)
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That’s All Right by Arthur Crudup
Found on the Album: That’s All Right (1992)
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Three O’Clock Blues by Lowell Fulson
Found on the Album: My First Recordings (1997)
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And onto the Streaming Videos:
A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
Mainstream Stream
The Night Agent, Season 3 (2026) (Netflix)
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Kanopy Stream
House of Ka (2026)
Trailer
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Have a great weekend!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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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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