Blind Skeleton's Three Tune Tuesday

1925 was the year that "electric recording", or "orthophonic" records, were designed, greatly enhancing the sound of recorded music. This week Yulia and Boneapart discuss what made electric recording such a game changer and provide examples of just how much of an improvement over previous "acoustic" recording it made.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we’re looking forward —not with naïve optimism, but with determination. Through a 1914 recording of Danse macabre , the unsettling call of Your King and Country Want You , and the resolute stance of We’ll Never Let the Old Flag Fall , we explore how resolve survives the rise of authoritarianism—and how easily it can be misused. These songs come from a moment when...

Peace opens the 2026 season of Three Tune Tuesday by tracing how the idea of peace sounds when it’s assumed, hoped for, and finally begged for. We begin with a carefree 1913 duet recorded on this very day in history—light, romantic, and blissfully unaware of the catastrophe to come—before moving into two post–World War I songs that reflect a world trying to steady itself after profound loss. From...

New Year’s has a funny way of sneaking up on us. This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we slip into the quiet spaces between resolutions and reminiscence with three early recordings that circle home, goodbyes, and the people we carry forward with us. From ivy-clad nostalgia, to a polite-but-suggestive farewell at the window, to a solemn solo take on Auld Lang Syne , this 45-minute episode skips the no...

This week Boneapart and Yulia discuss Yule, it's origins, and it's place in society. Oh, and they play songs to celebrate it, too.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we explore Hanukkah , the Jewish Festival of Lights, through early 20th-century recordings preserved by the Library of Congress. Rather than modern holiday songs, this episode listens to the prayers and sacred music that would have surrounded Hanukkah a hundred years ago — voices of continuity, resilience, and quiet faith. Along the way, we talk history, pronuncia...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday, Boneapart has a birthday with a lighthearted nod to the passage of time before shifting into a thoughtful, Kwanzaa-season exploration of two remarkable early spiritual recordings. After the celebratory 1911 Birthday Serenade , the episode moves into Marian Anderson’s 1923 performance of Deep River , a piece whose themes of faith, unity, and shared purpose resonate...

It's Thanksgiving in December! Come join Yulia and Boneapart as they spend this episode talking turkey!

In this week’s episode of Three Tune Tuesday , we dive into the realm of myth—where gods, spirits, and mortals blur together in music that’s anything but ordinary. Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld turns divine tragedy into biting satire, poking fun at power and pretension through a Parisian can-can. Schubert’s Erlkönig pulls us into the dark woods of folklore, where whispers in the wind may b...

This week we're honouring our Veterans from many countries, with songs celebrating the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday we go a little cosmic with “The Universe,” tracing a quiet arc from wonder to reach to trust. We open with “Underneath the Stars” (1915), a secular nocturne that lingers on night air and distant light—humankind gazing up and asking big questions. Then we lift off with “Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine” (1910/11), the giddy early-aviation fantasy where romance a...

This week we celebrate Halloween with a guest! Cousin Gustav Femur joins Boneapart for a celebration of all things spooky.

Dedicated to the #nokings movement. Bravery.

In this week’s Three Tune Tuesday , we explore the thin line between patriotism and protest — those moments when loyalty to one’s country means daring to question it. Long before protest songs filled coffeehouses and picket lines, defiance lived in the guise of anthems and ballads. From The Battle Cry of Freedom ’s rally for liberty, to The Minstrel Boy ’s quiet defiance through art, to My Country...

This week, Blind Skeleton lifts a glass to the full moon—and to love that’s weathered a few of them. On this Supermoon evening, we trace how the moonlight wove itself into the music of the early 1900s: from the dreamy hush of Neil Moret’s “Moonlight Serenade” to the warm harmonies of “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” , and finally to the joyous barn-dance energy of Arthur Pryor’s “Shine On, Harve...

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

This week’s Three Tune Tuesday takes its cue from a day that began at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, detoured through a kilted stroll, and ended with an Oktoberfest stein. Our theme follows that same arc: we open with a Renaissance court dance, the Gagliarda , brought to life by Toscanini and La Scala; we leap to Scotland with Jules Levy’s sparkling cornet solo on The Blue Bells of Scotland ,...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we step into the witness box for “Justice in the Court of Song.” From Vernon Dalhart’s mournful The Prisoner’s Song to Billy Murray’s cheeky Prohibition jab How Are You Goin’ to Wet Your Whistle? , and Fred Hillebrand’s sly social satire Ain’t We Got Fun , these records remind us that music has always doubled as testimony, protest, and cross-examination. Join Bone...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , Boneapart shares three of his all-time favorite records: the exotic fox trot “Egyptland” by the Six Brown Brothers, the barnyard mayhem of “Livery Stable Blues” by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, and the thunderous “Anvil Chorus” from Verdi’s Il Trovatore , performed by the New York Light Opera Company. Somehow, Suzanne and Boneapart spin a full hour of stories,...

To mark Labour Day, we trace a line from quiet graft to collective thunder: Stanley Kirkby’s “The Farmer’s Boy” (1912, Beka-Grand-Record) opens with rural work ethic and upward hope; Alan Turner’s “The Village Blacksmith” (Victor) hammers out craft pride and debtless independence; and Chaliapin’s “Dubinushka” (HMV DA 621, 1924) lifts a hauling chant into a rallying cry. In our unscripted meander w...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we’re taking a trip across borders with an “International Relations” theme — but not the kind fought with guns and flags. Instead, we follow how early 20th-century popular music imagined, borrowed, and sometimes outright distorted the sounds of “foreign” places. From the faux-exotic fox-trot of Hindustan (1918), to the heartfelt Latin American cry of Ay, Ay, Ay (1...

This week’s  Three Tune Tuesday  isn’t about concert halls or high culture. It’s about the tunes we first met through Bugs Bunny in drag, Elmer Fudd in a horned helmet, and Daffy Duck pounding a piano. Music we learned from cartoons.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we’re marching to a different beat — and it’s definitely not Sousa’s. We’ve lined up three bold, cheeky, and slightly irreverent marches that trade rigid patriotism for a wink and a grin. From the circus-crazed chaos of Entry of the Gladiators , to the clapping, stomping revelry of Radetzky March , and finally the sly, end-of-the-parade strut of The Gladiator’s Fa...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we dive into the world of Sousa marches — not just as music, but as cultural artifacts. From the bold nationalism of The Stars and Stripes Forever to the disciplined dignity of Semper Fidelis , and finally to the unexpectedly comedic afterlife of The Liberty Bell , we explore what marches were meant to do, who they were meant to move, and how their meanings have s...

This week on Three Tune Tuesday , we tip our hats (and rattle some cages) with a theme that’s long overdue: Disobedient Women . From flappers and vaudeville queens to blues legends who lived out loud, we spin three songs that chart a quiet revolution—women stepping out, speaking up, and refusing to be small. You’ll hear about Rebecca, who came back from Mecca with a scandalous new spirit; Eva Tang...