The Poet as Scientist: Sing Sing Sing on Jeff Pressler's Magic Ballroom

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Sing Sing Sing on Jeff Pressler's Magic Ballroom

Every year Jeff Pressler presents in his wonderful 91 year old radio program "The Magic Ballroom", the full 12 minute version of Benny Goodman's arrangement of "Sing Sing Sing", performed at Carnegie Hall in 1938, much of which was improvised on the the stage itself. I think Jeff Pressler actually understates how great this is. It is magnificent, it is poetry, it is rhapsodic, it is brilliant, it is miraculous. Benny Goodman has created something on a par with the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This is Benny Goodman's true and perfect "Ode to Joy", and I think he knew it, too! #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyht_FPMidI

The Poet as Scientist