The Tube Bar tapes came up a while back. While I already have the CD,
today I found the above site where you can hear all 25 minutes of Red in
realaudio or mpeg format. (If someone posted this already I'll subject
myself to a Battle of the Blands - Up With People vs The Mike Curb
Congregation). Listen to Red straight through and let the momentum carry
you along. A lengthy story at the site about the origin of the tapes
mentions a shady-sounding scamp named Ashley Warren.
Speaking of Scamp, I swear that was a cut from "Music for TV Dinners-the
50's" playing behind a Wall Street Journal commercial on CNBC during
Friday's market swoon. For some reason I can't recall if there was any
music used in Anna Kournikova's TV commercial for Charles Schwab.
Al Coholic
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:23:01 EDT
From: Otisfodder@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #522
All this talk of Up With People lately! Well, this week's show of "friendly persuasion" has Up With People doing "A New Dimension". Quite groovy. yea yea yeaaahhhhhh!
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) û Van Arsdale France, the sunny optimist who created the training program that taught Disneyland employees how to sell happiness with a smile, died Thursday of pneumonia at 87.
Walt Disney told France to come up with lessons that would help employees avoid a carnival image. The result was France's employee training manual, which became legendary in the retail industry because of its instructions to treat customers as guests who were buying the product of happiness.
France was so cheerful, fellow employees at the self-described Happiest Place on Earth called him Disneyland's Jiminy Cricket. France went into semi-retirement in the 1980s. He continued to work as a consultant until his death.
Josef Locke
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) û Singer Josef Locke, whose romantic tenor voice and colorful life inspired the 1992 film "Hear My Song," died Friday after a long illness. He was 82.
He was born Joseph McLaughlin in the Creggan district of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, son of a cattle dealer.
After serving with the British army in North Africa in World War II, he made a flourishing career as a singer in Britain in the 1940s and '50s.
A stocky man with a plump face, he was not an obvious candidate for matinee idol. But he had great charm and a voice that could melt a heart of stone with such songs as "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen," "Tobermory Bay" and "Hear My Song."
Locke fled to the Irish Republic in 1958 just ahead of British authorities threatening prosecution for tax evasion.
After he fled, rumors started that he was still in England, performing under the name of "Mr X." Police eventually arrested "Mr. X" for tax evasion, slapped him in jail û and then discovered he was not Locke at all, but an impersonator.
The admired film "Hear My Song," in which actor Ned Beatty played Locke, was based on the "Mr. X" confusion and introduced the tenor to a new generation.
Jim Zolman
DULCE, N.M. (AP) û Jim Zolman, rodeo professional, died of complications following knee surgery on Monday. He was 45.
The lanky, 6-foot-4 cowboy had wrestled steers from New York's Madison Square Garden to San Francisco's Cow Palace and had competed on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit for 27 years.
When he wasn't wrestling steers, Zolman was counseling people with substance abuse problems on the Jicarilla Apache reservation, which is headquartered in Dulce, just south of the Colorado state line.
Irving Siders
NEW YORK (AP) û Irving Siders, a producer who took Broadway shows on the road across the nation, died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 81.
For 20 years, Siders organized national tours of Broadway productions, from serious drama like Athol Fugard's "Master Harold ... and the Boys," to rollicking musicals like "Ain't Misbehavin'." In 1987 he brought a tour back to New York, staging a revival of Michael Bennett's "Dreamgirls," which received a Tony nomination for best revival.
Over the course of his career, Siders worked with many of the major stars and star makers of the American theater.
At 16, Siders first took to the road when he left Boston to work as a band boy for pianist Fats Waller. Working the city-a-day job introduced him to the gritty and seductive world of jazz, clubs and show people.
After World War II, Siders developed a career as a talent manager and booking agent for performers including Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Band. He later joined the jazz label Verve as a manager, and worked briefly as entertainment director for Playboy Clubs.
NEW YORK (AP) û Jean Shepherd, the prolific radio raconteur whose easy storytelling style earned comparisons to fellow Midwesterner Mark Twain, died Saturday. He was 78.
Shepherd, once described by media critic Marshall McLuhan as "the first radio novelist," died in a hospital near his home in Sanibel Island, Fla.
Shepherd spent 21 years on WOR-AM in New York City, attracting a large, loyal following along the Eastern seaboard. He worked without a script, conjuring tales based on his Indiana upbringing, creating characters like his alter-ego, Ralph Parker, and his neighbors, the Bumpuses.
In a move that likely inspired the climactic scene in the movie "Network," Shepherd would tell his listeners to crank up the volume on their radios and scream along with him. "Drop the tools, we've got you covered!" was one of Shepherd's favorite shout-along phrases.
Shepherd, while best known for his radio work, excelled as a multimedia performer. His films included the 1983 classic "A Christmas Story," a sardonic look at the holiday that he wrote and narrated. He had hoped to call it "Satan's Revenge."
His writing appeared in a vast assortment of publications, from The New York Times to National Lampoon. He wrote several books, including 1966's "In God We Trust" and the 1971 story collection, "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters."
Shepherd did a pair of syndicated PBS TV programs, "Jean Shepherd's America" and "Shepherd's Pie," and often sold out Carnegie Hall for his live shows.
Glen Payne
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) û Gospel singer Glen Payne, the lead vocalist of the Cathedrals, died Friday. He was 72.
Payne was diagnosed with liver cancer six weeks ago.
"He passed away peacefully without any pain, with his family near him. He spent yesterday singing 'Victory in Jesus,'" Debbie Bennett, a producer and family friend said in a note to fans posted on the group's Web site.
During Payne's nearly 60 years in gospel music, his group won numerous awards and was nominated for 11 Grammys.
His work was honored by inductions into the Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame, the Texas Music Hall of Fame, the Southern Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame and the Radio Music Hall of Fame.
From 1951 to 1957, Payne sang in the Stamps-Ozark Quartet before leaving to join the Weatherfords.
In 1963, Payne formed a trio to perform at evangelist Rex Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio. George Younce joined the trio and it changed its name to the Cathedral Quartet.
Payne and Younce became constants in the group that would feature 17 other members over the next 35 years on its way to becoming one of the preeminent southern gospel groups.
The Associated Press
Sunday, Oct. 17, 1999; 8:12 p.m. EDT
ROME ûû Artist Leo Lionni, who devoted his versatile talents to everything from philosophical children's books to high-profile ad campaigns, died Oct. 11. He was 89.
Lionni was born in the Netherlands on May 5, 1910, and immigrated to the United States 10 years later, showing an early enthusiasm for drawing.
In 1925, he moved to Genoa, Italy, where his abstract paintings won him an invitation to exhibit with the then-cutting-edge Futurists. He worked on his first graphic design projects in Milan.
Mussolini's Fascist racial laws turned Lionni away from Italy and toward the United States in 1933, when he wove his artistic and business talents into a successful career in advertising.
As art director of N.W. Ayer in Philadelphia, Lionni designed ad campaigns for clients including Ford and General Electric, employing respected contemporary artists such as Fernand Leger and Willem De Kooning as illustrators.
In the 1950s, he became art director for Fortune magazine and edited catalogs for New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum.
In 1959, Lionni published his first children's book, "Little Blue and Little Yellow." The idea û the book's protagonists are a blue dot and a yellow dot whose adventures blend them together into Little Green û sprung from a story he once improvised for his grandchildren.
Lionni went on to write and illustrate another 30 children's books, which have been published in 11 languages.
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) û Ella Mae Morse, whose classic 1942 recording "Cow Cow Boogie" became Capitol Records' first million-selling single, died Saturday. She was 75.
She had been suffering respiratory problems following a long illness, according to her publicist.
The Texas-born Morse combined boogie woogie, blues, jazz, swing and country influences in the 1940s and 50s, helping to create a pioneering "pop" sound that would later grown into rock 'n' roll. Elvis Presley even praised her for teaching him how to sing.
Describe as a black-trained, white "hepchick," her songs earned her 10 gold records. One song was the "The House of Blue Lights," which is regarded as one of the most influential songs in the evolution of rock 'n' roll, said Alan Eichler, her publicist.
Morse stopped recording in 1957, but continued performing until 1987.
October 18, 1999
Lee Lozano, 68, Conceptual Artist Who Boycotted Women for Years
Star Wars fans take heed: If you don't want to know which beloved series stalwart dies in the new, George Lucas-approved novel, don't read any further.
Yes, while facing yet another terror from the Dark Side in Vector Prime, R.A. Salvatore's just-released first installment of The New Jedi Order series, one of the original band of Star Wars heroes runs out of luck.
And unfortunately, it's not Jar Jar.
The un-Forceful one is everybody's favorite Wookiee, Chewbacca.
About two-thirds of the way through Vector Prime, the ferocious but cuddly crusader bites it, sacrificing his big hairy self to save his pals, especially Han Solo.
Evidently, publisher Del Rey and Lucasfilm wanted to "crank up the heat" with this new book, which is set after Return of the Jedi and some 25 years after the first Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope).
"It seemed that after all the characters had been through, there was
nothing left to scare anyone or get [readers] worried. You knew they were going to be fine," Del Rey editorial director Shelly Shapiro tells USA Today.
Lucasfilm's Howard Roffman adds that the demise of a main character would be "a clear signal of the gravity of the situation."
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Mark Hanna (1959-1999) who piloted the L39 Plane during the pre-credit sequence for the James Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies', was killed in a aircraft crash on the 26th September.
The accident took place at Sabadell near Barcelona where the aircraft
was due to participate in a large flying display. It occurred on approach to landing and there was a major fire.
Mark was flying an Hispano Buchon, a Spanish-built version of the Second World War German Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter. The aircraft had appeared at air shows throughout the UK and Europe.
Major films in which he acted as both aerial advisor and chief pilot
included Empire of the Sun, Air America, Tomorrow Never Dies, Memphis
Belle, Piece of Cake and Saving Private Ryan.
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:50:01 -0400
From: Will Straw <cxws@musica.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
You win, Nat.
It's true that, for almost everyone of my generation, and especially if
you were Canadian, Up With People were at best wimpy
Peace-Corps-like-well-meaning-
mood-terrorists and that, at worse, and most of the time, we imagined them
as Jesus-freak-Nixonian-blissed-out-Amway-dealers-in-waiting. But
now I see them as the last inheritors of the Popular Front, of the heroic
traditions of Paul Robeson and the Almanac Singers.
Will
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Will Straw, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:05:09 -0500
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
At 2:16 AM 10/18/99, Nat Kone wrote:
>A bunch of papers fell out of one of my U.W.P. records....And there was a
>surprising amount of merchandise available.
>An "Up with People" Recipe Collection, 8
My my, is this an international cookbook? Any recipes named, Nat? After
all, the passing masquerade/parade must eat to stay upright and marching.
Mimi
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:07:03 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
In a message dated 10/18/99 2:13:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bruno@yhammer.com writes:
<< Okay, go out on the street now and enjoy the parade. Or the masquerade
anyway. >>
should we all hold hands and sing "We Are the World" too?
tb
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