Blogosphere: December 2023 Archives

In writing the previous entry, I came across an old draft, from October 2006, with embed code for four YouTube videos featuring western swing: Noel Boggs playing "Alabama Bound" as a steel guitar solo, Bobby Koefer with Truitt Cunningham and the San Antonio Rose Band performing his extremely animated version of "Hawaiian War Dance", Tommy Duncan, and then a clip from a TV special featuring Merle Haggard with members of the Texas Playboys. The video embedding incantation looked like this:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBA-PdrCAEc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBA-PdrCAEc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

You may note that this relied upon a Shockwave Flash browser plug-in, a technology that was sent to the gallows a few years ago for its wayward ways. I put this here as a reminder to myself that there are likely many old YouTube links back in the BatesLine archives that I need to update.

Some of the videos were deleted long ago, but I took a guess, and I've put them all after the jump.