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 third weekend of the month, we’re turning our listening spotlight on classic jazz and blues songs – enjoy!
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Blue Again by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
Found on the Album: Portrait of the Artist: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934 (1994)
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Good Morning Heartache by Dinah Washington
Found on the Album: I Concentrate On You (1960)
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Good Rockin’ Tonight by Roy Brown
Found on the Album: Greatest Hits (2009)
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Kansas City Man Blues by Maimie Smith
Found on the Album: Crazy Blues: The Best of Mamie Smith (2004)
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Moanin’ At Midnight by Howlin’ Wolf
Found on the Album: Moanin In The Moonlight (1958)
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Moten Swing by Bennie Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra
Found the Album: The Best of Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1999)
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Nice Work If You Can Get It by The Benny Goodman Trio
Found on the Album: Benny Goodman On The Air 1937 – 1938 (1991)
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Oh, Lady, Be Good! by Count Basie featuring Jones-Smith Incorporated
Found on the Album: The Essential Count Basie (2014)
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Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
Found on the Various Artists Album: The Chess Story (2006)
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Tweedle Dee by Laverne Baker
Found on the Album: LaVern Baker (1957)
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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.
Recommended Mainstream Stream of the Week
Exit 8 (2025) (Amazon Prime, Apple TV)
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Recommended Kanopy Stream of the Week
American Experience: The Chinese Exclusion Act (2018)
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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