more than a couple of months at the studio and the projects they
worked on didn't amount to anything. I've spoken to a lot of
animators who were there at the time, and none of them ever saw
Dali on the lot.
When I was taking photography courses there was a cartooning/animation teacher who had worked with Disney and Tex Avery too. He was with Disney when Dali was engaged to develope a cartoon. Apparently Dali was everywhere but at the drawing board (Dali was probably out walking his ocelots) and this got to be a problem at Disney studios. Finally, they tracked Dali down and said to him "we've done everything imaginable to get you here and you haven't done a thing. What's up?" Dali hemmed and hawed and finally said 'Well,it's the paper you've given me." "What's wrong with the paper? It's the same as everyone else is using" "Yes, but it's all those little holes down the side of the paper...those holes make the paper so beautiful I couldn't possibly ruin it by drawing on it!" That, apparently, was the last of Dali at Disney.
My father worked in the gemstone business in Los Angeles in the mid Fifties and had Dali come into the store with a huge ruby which he wanted fixed up with a series of lights that would pulsate like a beating heart. It would've ruined the stone and my father said "are you kidding?"
Subject: (exotica) Dougee Dimensional's Friday Night Out
Date: 04 Apr 2000 17:04:27 +0100
Hello fellow Gentle Children,
Dougee Dimensional here, back from the far east.
If any of you groovers are in London this Friday the 7th of April, it would be faboo to see you as I am spinning a bit of an 80's set at illustrious bar "The Player" which is located at 8 Broadwick Street, London W1 (Next door to Agent Provocateur, you know, Kinky underwear?)
The evening is free and very relaxed in atmosphere so bring your cocktail money and check it out.
I should be on from 9 to midnight or something and the bar closes at 1am.
Yours in gentility,
Dougee Dimensional
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> Picked this one up with Frankie Burke and Project
Comstock.
Hey Ben, what you neglected to mention re. Frankie is that he is
selling 26(!) different tapes of himself!!
See: http://www.frankieburke.com/tapes.htm
Here's the contents of #17:
Hawaiin Wedding Song, Blue Hawaii, Tiny Bubles, Pearly Shells, My Little Grass Shack, Down By De Sea, Hawaiian War Chant, South Pacific medly...Bali Hai, Nothing Like A Dame, Honey Bun, Some Enchanted Evening, Beyond The Sea, Now Is The Hour
and #26 is a tribute to Elvis!
So, Ben, come clean on Frankie, should we be sending him a few
bucks, or should we steer clear?
Lou
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You've probably accessed the American Pie lyrics page already and discovered their version of this lyric.
Generally speaking, a levy is an earthen bank used to enclose bodies of water or to divert them. They'r essentially small lakes or largish creeks. I think they'r msotly in the southern part of the US, but I could be wrong.
Levys or levees pop up frequently in song lyrics, especially jazz lyrics from the 20s and 30s. The local levee seems to have been the place to party.
I've been away from my computer this weekend and I'm reading thru the digests that accumulated in my absence. Quite a lot seems to have gone on!
This may be stating the obvious, but since I work in an antique store I thought I'd toss in my observations on what men and women tend to buy. ~~ For the most part, men are interested in 'gadgets' old radios, old phonographs, the slot machine, the old Coca Cola machine. Women tend to go for the decorative and utilitarian items like the Fire King Jadite kitchenware, restored furniture and kitchen cabinetry and the vintage linens. If a woman buys an radio it usually because she likes the way it looks. Whether it is a 1939 Philco tombstone or a 1945 Silvertone is probably not the main consideration. The vintage linen department is an exclusively female department! I've had where women have been pouring thru that area for hours...I've even forgotten they were still in the store! The vintage ktichenware is bought predominantly by women, some items for personal collections and some for actual use. The furniture is a mutual decision but for the most part the man usually ends up saying something like 'if you like it and it fits in, buy it.' Only a few times have I seen a man get really interested the furniture. So, there you have my perspective from behind the sales counter.
One thing about collections and obsessiveness being an almost exclusively male domain...you should talk to a woman who collecting something like Fire King Jadite or, worst yet, pink Depression glass. They need just that _one_ particular piece...but haven't we all been there?
> The vintage linen department is an exclusively female department! I've had where women have been pouring thru that area for hours...I've even forgotten they were still in the store!
Did these women wear huge incredible robes and did you often have the feeling that you had not noticed these robes when the women had come to the store?
Mo
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At the age of 15, while performing at an amateur night show, Ernie K-Doe was heard by the manager of the legendary Flamingos. His first recording was the also legendary Chess Record Company with "I Only Have Eyes for You".
Ernie K-Doe had a strong desire to perform, and did with such enthusiasm that he made audiences scream for more. He says he enjoys singing because it gives him a feeling of happiness and joy. This goes back to the days when he felt that way with the spriritual choirs.
Early in his career, he practiced with Joe Tex at the Dew Drop Inn, which is the reason they have similar styles in dancing with the microphone, falling down, and rolling off the stage. He says he never has to move when performing, because he never could keep still, although he never had any dancing lessons. He considers the stage to be a ring and remarks, "If you don't get out there and move they would kill you." Having traveled all over the world, he recalls his best times at the Club Lingerie in Hollywood and the Apollo Theater in New York City. Ernie K-Doe has sung at the Apollo Theater in New York eight times, the Howard Theater in Washington, DC three times, the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia six times, the Regal Theater in Chicago twelve times and Carnegie Hall in New York one time.
K-Doe has recorded such hits as "A Certain Girl", "T'ain't It the Truth", "Come On Home", "Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta", "Later for Tomorrow", just to name a few. His biggest recording was "Mother-in-Law", which sold millions. K-Doe says it will last to the end of the Earth, "because someone is always going to get married."
When "Mother-in-Law" was out on the charts, K-Doe was considered one of the Big Five, which included James Brown, Lil Willie John, Joe Tex and Jackie Wilson. Of the Big Five, only K-Doe and James Brown are still "doin' it".
Ernie K-Doe says he is going to bring New Orleans back and in the process, himself. For the last few years, K-Doe has been on the path to sobriety after living in an alcoholic haze for years. The singer, who rose to fame in 1961, when his "Mother-in-Law" was the No. 1 song in the nation, is back on the job, sober and enthusiastic.
And he wants to restore New Orleans to the glory of its heydayùwhen it was feeding ground for such greats as Fats Domino, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones, Little Richard, Barbara George and many others.
To do it, K-Doe opened Ernie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge at 1500 N. Claiborne Avenue and he performs with an alternating cast of musicians. To his mind, the club is a place where musicians can help one another just like in the old days.
By the way, Ernie K-Doe was right about the song "Mother-in-Law". It will last to the ends of the Earth, or at least for a while. Ernie got married in January of 1996 to Antoinette Fox, and her mother was watching over the ceremony! So look out, K-Doe, and look out, world! K-Doe is still doing what he does best: Entertain!
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While I was visitng Portland last weekend I picked up a brill cd called 'Bombay the Hard Way, Guns, Cars & Sitars.' It was one of those cds that you take one look at the cover and know it'll be well worth the money...and this doesn't have a bad track on it. It's like Ravi Shankar sits in with Isaac Hayes (or vice versa).
~~after reading this sad news this morning I checked out eBay for Gorey related items. As you can imagine, the prices were going sky high...autographed Gorey posters, postcards and books now at the $500.00 range! Unsigned items are anywhere from $20. to $75 on average.
I was looking at a video catalgue yesterday and saw a listing for the ultimate hard boiled/existentialist films, Le Samourai with Alain Dellon...it's $89.00 so I think I'll hold off on that for a while.
But...I was thinking that a film with such a high reputation must have a dynamite sound track to go with it. Does anyone know if there was ever a ST issued for this film, preferably on cd but LP if it only exists in that form.
Speaking of books... well, someone was not too long ago -- or someone else will before too long... there's a new Richard Meltzer comp out: "A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer" (Da Capo Press). Collects material beginning in the 60s -- looks like he selected it himself... new introductions to all of the pieces. Haven't had a chance to do more than a bit of skimming, but looks good to me. (For me at least) he *nails* the specialness of punk in just 2 pages in one of the introductions. If you liked "Gulcher" or "Aesthetics Of Rock" you should like this (if you hated them, you probably won't like this).
I doubt there is much that is exotica-related, but there is a 40ish-page ramble through his record collection, written in 1998.
One mention of Les Baxter: "(cousin of the late -- and great -- Les Baxter)"
[pg. 390, you find the context]
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Subject: (exotica) Marlene Van Der Planck/ more vinyl transfer
Date: 28 Apr 2000 11:56:44 -0400 (EDT)
Interesting to hear Marlene Van Derplanck getting a mention. I found a promising LP by her a couple of months ago in a nyc street market.
It was on an obscure New York label which I had not heard of before, but the musicians included the usual suspects - al caiola, phil bodner etc.
Anyway, I picked it up mainly in the hope of hearing a vocal version of the 'mission impossible' theme.
Unfortunately there were no lyrics, but it was a great, unusual scat version. She also sings Jobim's 'Wave' and Schifrin's 'down here on the ground', although the rest of the album is quieter...
btw, thanks to whoever recommended the 'Vibert/Cole - stop the panic' album a few months back - I picked it up and have really enjoyed the fusion of steel guitar and beats.
I have a basic question about transferring vinyl into digital format.
I just got a PC set up at home, but it has a very basic sound card, which I'm currently blaming for the poor quality of my vinyl to cd experiments. Is there any point in me continuing to attempt recording vinyl with such a basic card? Or are there some settings I should be playing with first (other than basic recording level)? Any off-list advice would be appreciated.
cheers, Jonny
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Unbelievably, in the mid seventies my husband was road manager for Jimmie Bryant...we booked him all through the southwest to south east.
He was quite the player...unfortunately we don't have any records left. Lordy, that man could play...but he sure could drink too. Got to spend time with his whole family.
Colleen
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