LAST DAY FOR DAYBREAK DIVERSIONS, UPPER VALLEY!
You haven't lived until you've heard Susi Dorée's cover of "Locomotion" in German. It was the rage in Germany in 1963. Meanwhile, in Mali a couple years later, they were listening to "Rendez-Vous Chez Fatima." And in Trinidad in 1961, it was Lord Invader's "Human Race." If Radio Garden takes you all over the world right now, Radiooooo takes you all over the world back in musical time (as well as now). Launched in 2013, it gets submissions from tens of thousands of contributors around the globe, then lets you choose the place and the decade, 1900s-2020s. Oh, and don't sweat the o's: They own all the domains from radiooo.com to radioooooooooooooooooooo.com.Starlings go meta. Ordinarily, James Crombie is a sports photographer in Ireland. But back in 2021, he traveled regularly to Lough Ennell, near the center of the country. Huge flocks of starlings were nesting there, then taking flight every four or five days. One day, as the starlings were airborne in a shifting, hypnotic murmuration, Crombie shot 500 frames or so—and caught the one remarkable millisecond when the birds together took the shape of a giant bird. Here's the crucial 24 seconds on video. Once baby foxes become toddlers... They get pretty darn rambunctious and curious. Viktor Čech, a wildlife photographer in the mountains of northern Slovakia, noticed a burrow with some kits outside it. So he set up a motion-sensing GoPro and left it. It didn't get ignored for long.The Friday Vordle. With a word from the news.And to take us out of Diversions, we'll go way back. Sister Rosetta Tharpe may have gotten her start as a 6-year-old performing with a traveling evangelist troupe in churches around the South, but by her 20s she was fusing gospel, blues, jazz, and what eventually became rock 'n' roll, joining the Cotton Club Revue and, for the rest of her career, breaking new ground in popular music. She was famous—her 1951 wedding drew a paying crowd of 20,000 to a baseball stadium—but as young white men began to ascend to the fore of the rock 'n' roll scene in the '50s, she decided to head to Europe. There's so much to choose from (check out "Didn't It Rain" from 1964, singing to a crowd across railway tracks in Manchester, England), but today we're going with "This Little Light of Mine," at the first Festival du Jazz d'Antibes, in Juan-les-Pins, France, in 1960.Vordlers, you'll get the usual weekend reminder email tomorrow. And thank you to all of you for being part of this little experiment. See you Monday for CoffeeBreak!
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