One of the reasons I'm devoting my YouTube channel to playing great, old music -- the standards if you will -- is because many of these songs will disappear from the musical lexicon of pop culture unless somebody revives them.

Or unless they make their way in some form or fashion into cyberspace.

So, I decided to play Jet (Jet, My Love), an old Nat King Cole tune from 1951, written by a fellow named Harry Revel. Revel made a name for himself for writing music that many people believed sounded like "space-age music," and so he made a name for himself as the unwitting godfather of space-age pop. And by space-age pop, I mean the soundtracks that would pervade an era of shows like Star Trek and Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. That kind of thing.

Now, I didn't know this before I played it, but after learning the tune and playing it, I could understand what people meant when they tabbed Revel as the father of space-age pop. It sounds like something that would be a theme to Star Trek.

Anyhoo, here it is. I still haven't solved my lighting issues, but the sound is better -- or at least I think.