The red-lored whistler (Pachycephala rufogularis) is one of nine species of whistler occurring in Australia and a member of the family Pachycephalidae. It resides in the low mallee, spinifex, cypress pine and broombush woodland in the desert of central New South Wales, north-western Victoria and adjacent south-eastern South Australia, preferring low mallee woodlands or shrublands with open canopy, above a moderately dense but patchy scrub layer. The male bird has an orange or buff face and throat, a grey breastband extending around the neck and over the head, and rufous underparts with pale yellow or olive edging to primaries. The female is similar but with a paler throat and underparts. While it is often seen perched in trees and shrubs, the red-lored whistler feeds, for the most part, on the ground. Little is known about the movement of this species, although it is thought to be sedentary, with some movement possibly after breeding. It builds a substantial, cup-shaped nest made mostly of coarse bark and mallee leaves, neatly woven around the rim in low shrubs and lays two or three eggs. The species's limited range has seen it listed nationally as a vulnerable species. This red-lored whistler was photographed in the Nombinnie Nature Reserve in New South Wales.Photograph credit: John HarrisonRecently featured: Machado de AssisFomitopsis quercinaApennine ColossusArchiveMore featured pictures

November 21: Armed Forces Day in BangladeshAlan Freed1894 First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.1964 The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.1974 Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.2009 An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.Voltaire (b.1694)Hetty Green (b.1834)Milka Planinc (b.1924)Catherine Bauer Wurster (d.1964)More anniversaries: November 20November 21November 22ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

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Song-sharking companies sometimes began by offering free consultations for everyday poetsas in this 1921 advertisement in Film Fun magazine. Film Fun MagazineAs popular music grew into a mass industry in the early 20th century, a murky assortment of companies popped up and began a practice that came to be known as song-sharking. Advertisements enjoined ordinary Americans to send in their original poems and lyrics, which the company would set to music for a rather large feea few hundred dollars, depending on the year.Early song-sharking companies in the 1910s merely set customers lyrics to sheet music and mailed the sheaves to the customer as a collectors item. In later decades, sharking companies enlisted whole teams of session musicians to give peoples submissions the full-blown studio treatment and put them on records. And while many Americans were no doubt satisfied with the novelty of hearing someone on the gramophone singing their lyrics, many song-sharking advertisements dangled a further enticement: the seductive proposition that fame and success in the music business might be just a cashiers check and a postage stamp away.The advertisements, typically nestled inside popular magazines and supermarket tabloids, tended to address readers with the smarmy cadence of a door-to-door salesman, hinting at the possibility of a big payday. Mail your song-poem on love, peace, victory or any other subject to us today, announces an emblematic example from a 1922 issue of Illustrated World. We revise song-poems, compose music for them and guarantee to secure publication on a royalty basis by a New York music publisher. A 1962 ad. Some poems were quite whimsical:Yellow submarines / Corn on the cob and tangerines / I like yellow things.Radio / TV magazineOf course, most of these song-poems had no life beyond the LPs that companies mailed to paying customers. Of an estimated 200,000 songs that companies produced from the lyrics of would-be folk lyricists between 1900 and the early 2000s, when the practice petered out, not one ever became a hit. Still, the enterprise struck at a deeply rooted American desire to win fame and fortune instantly, based on ones own exquisite originality.As poetry, the lyrics could run the gamut from generic and derivative to just plain weird. But buoyed by the musicianship of studio professionals, and sharpened by the formal conventions of popular songwriting, the effect could be earnest, whimsical, even charming, and plenty of paying customers seem to have been quite happy with the results. In the 1990s, song-poems thus acquired a cult following among Americana collectors and now enjoy a second life thanks to various compilations, perhaps most notably the 2003 CD The American Song-Poem Anthologya testament to their status as an unfiltered, radically democratic form of outsider art.I love pop music, Phil Milstein, who produced that album, remarked in an NPR interview shortly after its release. But Im aware that for great pop songwriters theres always some mediation between life experience and the craft of the finished work. With song-poem music there is no such mediation. Its a much purer expression of human thought.Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $19.99This article is a selection from the December 2024 issue of Smithsonian magazineGet the latest Travel & Culture stories in your inbox.Filed Under: Business, Music, Musical History, Musicians, Songs