Dr. Mike Daley tells the story of Bob Dylan's life and career over six lectures, featuring music and video clips.

Dr. Mike Daley Presents: The 1960s in Sixty Songs, a ten lecture series

About this Event In this NEW ten lecture series, Dr. Mike Daley tells the story of 1960s popular music through a selection of sixty songs that cover Motown, girl groups, the Brill Building, the British Invasion, soul music, the Canadian scene, country music, psychedelic rock, folk-rock, and more. In each video, Mike covers a year from 1960 to 1969 through six songs that tell the story of musical trends, world events and popular culture in that year. As always, Mike’s well-researched commentary is illustrated with video clips, recorded music and live musical demonstrations. When you purchase, you will be prompted to download a PDF document containing links to the streaming videos. These links will never expire, but you need to download the PDF within two weeks of purchase, or the download link expires. If this happens, just email me at mikedaley@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.

Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young has had a long and legendary career. His classic songs include "Heart of Gold", "Helpless", and "Rockin' in the Free World." In this series, Dr. Mike Daley covers Young's life and music in detail from his beginnings in Winnipeg with the Squires, his Yorkville sojourn with the Mynah Birds, his breakthrough with Buffalo Springfield, superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and his long-standing collaboration with Crazy Horse.  Neil continues to release new albums and become more active in a variety of causes, from antiwar protest to environmentalism to a broadside against digital music streaming. This wide-ranging video lecture series incorporates numerous music and video examples of the work of a Canadian icon.

Lecture 1: Early years. In this first lecture, we cover Neil Young's beginnings in Ontario and Manitoba. Shortly after moving back to Toronto, Neil joins the Mynah Birds, a Yorkville-based band, and then heads to California.

Lecture 2: Buffalo Springfield and early solo years. In Los Angeles, Neil helped to form Buffalo Springfield, a short-lived but influential band. After recording a first solo album, he recruited the band that would accompany him on and off to the present, Crazy Horse.

Lecture 3: CSNY and After The Gold Rush. Neil joined the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and achieved wide acclaim. This helped to make his solo album After The Goldrush a hit and established Neil as a major talent.

Lecture 4: Harvest and "the ditch". Making a move into country-rock, Neil recorded Harvest in 1972. "Heart Of Gold" became a massive hit single. In reaction, Neil headed for "the ditch" as he termed it, releasing three shambolic and uncommercial albums known by fans as "the ditch trilogy."

Lecture 5: Reunions and Rust Never Sleeps. In the mid-1970s, Neil reformed Crazy Horse and reunited with CSNY for a major tour. He concluded the decade with two popular albums, Rust Never Sleeps and Comes A Time.

Lecture 6: Experimentation. Neil flitted between a number of disparate styles of music in the 1980s, bewildering his fans. Trans was an electronic pop album, Everybody's Rockin' was rockabilly, and This Note's For You was rhythm and blues.

Lecture 7: Godfather of Grunge. With his 1989 hit "Rockin' In The Free World," Neil had a comeback of sorts, and would come to be seen in the 1990s as a senior figure of "grunge," a style of rock music reminiscent of Young's work with Crazy Horse. He would also reprise his Harvest sound with the hit album Harvest Moon in this decade.

Lecture 8: Recent Years. In the new millennium, Neil Young has continued to release new albums and has become more active in a variety of causes, from antiwar protest to environmentalism to a battle against low-quality digital music streaming.

When you purchase, you will be prompted to download a PDF document containing links to the streaming videos. These links will never expire, but you need to download the PDF within two weeks of purchase, or the download link expires. If this happens, just email me at mikedaley@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.

Our Favourite Singers is a six-episode video series featuring Dr. Mike Daley (The 1970s in Seventy Songs, The Beatles and Their World, The Classic Albums Vol. 1) and musician Jill Daley. Mike and Jill presented How Music Works last fall and now with Our Favourite Singers, you'll learn about great vocalists from the worlds of rock, opera, soul music and more, and what makes them special. Each lecture is prerecorded.

How it works:

When you purchase the series, you will be prompted to download a PDF document with links on it. The videos are hosted on Vimeo.com and all you need do is click the link - there is no need to join Vimeo. You can view the video at any time as many times as you like, pausing and restarting as needed. The videos are viewable on a computer, tablet or phone, just like a YouTube video.

When you purchase the series through Eventbrite, please give the email address that you use regularly. If you have any questions or problems, please email Mike at mikedaley@gmail.com.

Lecture 1: 1 hour 34 minutes Featured: Fritz Wunderlich, Sam Cooke Also: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding

Lecture 2: 1 hour 13 minutes Featured: Andy Williams, Amy Winehouse Also: Edith Piaf, George Michael, Connie Francis, Sam Smith

Lecture 3: 1 hour 7 minutes Featured: Elly Ameling, John Lennon Also: Marian Anderson, Barrett Strong

Lecture 4: 1 hour 41 minutes Featured: Whitney Houston, Freddie Mercury Also: Dolly Parton, Jennifer Hudson, Anthony Callea

Lecture 5: 1 hour 41 minutes Featured: Angela Gheorghiu, Howlin' Wolf, Mattie May Thomas, A.W. Nix

Lecture 6: 1 hour 52 minutes Featured: Luciano Pavarotti, Father Seraphim, Frank Sinatra Also: Anna Moffo, Ella Fitzgerald

Why does the music of the Beatles sound different from the Rolling Stones? How do musicians improvise? What makes Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony so memorable?

In this new six video lecture series, musician, musicologist and lecturer Dr. Mike Daley (The Beatles and Their World, The 1960s in Sixty Songs) will be joined by Jill Daley, full-time pianist at Canada's National Ballet School and musician-in-residence at Church of the Redeemer for a series of dialogues and demonstrations to answer these questions and more. Mike and Jill will explain the inner workings of rhythm, melody, harmony, texture and timbre, composition and improvisation with the aid of live musical examples on guitar, piano, violin and voice from the world of rock, jazz, classical, folk and more.

When you purchase, you will be prompted to download a PDF document containing links to the streaming videos. These links will never expire, but you need to download the PDF within two weeks of purchase, or the download link expires. If this happens, just email me at mikedaley@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.

Dr. Mike Daley presents The Folk Revival as an online six lecture series. When you purchase the series, you will be able to download a document containing a link leading to a Vimeo folder containing all six lectures. You may watch the lectures at any time, in any order, as many times as you like.

The Folk Music Revival is a short history of the urban folk revival, especially during the 1950s and 1960s. The folk revival was rooted in 19th and early 20th century folk song collecting, field recordings by Alan Lomax and others, and songs of solidarity and protest during the 1930s labour movement. Beginning with the commercial breakthrough of the Weavers in 1950, we will examine the postwar urban folk revival in the US and Canada. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ian and Sylvia, Peter, Paul and Mary and other icons of the revival will be given special attention. After examining the fusions of folk and rock in the 1960s, we'll conclude with a discussion of the folk legacy in the singer-songwriter milieu and contemporary folk music traditions. Each lecture is enriched with video clips, rare images and music clips.

When you purchase, you will be prompted to download a PDF document containing links to the streaming videos. These links will never expire, but you need to download the PDF within two weeks of purchase, or the download link expires. If this happens, just email me at mikedaley@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.

Dr. Mike Daley presents The Beatles And Their World as an online eight lecture series. When you purchase the series, you will be able to download a document containing a link leading to a Vimeo folder containing all eight lectures. You may watch the lectures at any time, in any order, as many times as you like.

This lecture series tracks the musical development of the Beatles, starting from the earliest days in Liverpool, moving through the excitement of Beatlemania, the rush of psychedelia, and the maturity of their studio years. While the focus will be on the music, we will also consider how recording techniques, the music business, the music of other artists, and the larger culture of the 1960s affected John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they created their classic works. Each lecture is enriched with video clips, rare images and music clips.

When you purchase, you will be prompted to download a PDF document containing links to the streaming videos. These links will never expire, but you need to download the PDF within two weeks of purchase, or the download link expires. If this happens, just email me at mikedaley@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.