Band members speak about black metal scene
January 15, 2009
Norwegian Black Metal [DOC. Norwegian Television - 2003]
Norwegian Black Metal [DOC.]
Band members speak about black metal scene
Featuring:DarkthroneSatyriconMayhemEmperorDimmu Borgir
Norwegian television 2003
Lindsay Lohan out of rehab
Hello, I'm Rebecca Field with a UPI entertainment update on this Monday, July 16, 2007.
Actress Lindsay Lohan is reportedly out of rehab. People magazine says she completed her 45 days at the treatment facility in southern California. Her rep says Lohan has decided to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet so there are no questions about her sobriety while she's out at parties and clubs. Her rep added that she's doing great.
"Harry Potter" is casting a spell on U.S. box offices. The fifth installment of the wizard tales, "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix" was number one this weekend. It bought in more than 77 million in ticket sales. The film has made more than 140 million total in the U.S. since its release last Wednesday. "Transformers" fell to the second spot and the animated film "Ratatouille" is in third.
Actress Rebecca Romijn and actor Jerry O'Connell have tied the knot. Romijn's rep tells People magazine the couple married Saturday. It was reportedly a small intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles. The two met in Las Vegas in 2004 when Romijn was working on a documentary there. They were engaged the year after. This is the actress' second marriage and O'Connell's first.
Millions of people are listening to Prince's new album for free. The singer partnered with a British newspaper to pass out his new release "Planet Earth" to about 3 million of the paper's subscribers. The marketing technique reportedly angered music stores and his own label, but Prince refused to apologize. The singer apparently wanted to reach more fans in the UK. His last album only sold 80,000 copies there.
Showtime Network and Steven Spielberg are apparently teaming up for a new comedy series. Plans are in the works for a show called "The United States of Tara"...to be produced by Spielberg's Dreamworks TV. It's apparently about a woman with a multiple personality disorder. There's no word on the cast yet but Showtime's president says they're getting close to making decisions. Production for the pilot is set to start in the fall.
That's all for now. Go to upi.com for all the day's news and updates. Thanks for watching.
Amy Winehouse + Elvis: Rehab [ pictures]
A hibachi Amy Whorehouse's great and uncomfortably pictures video: able song, Elvis's pictures (some of them probably Photostatted by someone) and me singing over a backtrack that I found here at YouTube as a karaoke.
It is a tribute to both the KING (who wasn't an alcohol aficionado, by the way) and Ms AW, one of the greatest talents of these years, in my opinion.
These are the lyrics (I've adapted them just a little bit for my singing):
They tried to make me go to rehab
Uh, I said no,no,no
Yes, I've been black, but when I come back
You'll know,know,know
I ain't got the time
And if my woman thinks I'm fine
Just try to make me go to rehab
Ah, I won't go,go,go
I'd rather be at home with Ray
I ain't got seventy days
'Cause there's nothing
There's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Elvis or Hathaway
I didn't get a bloody class
But I know we don't come in a shot glass
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said no,no,no
Yes, I've been black, but when I come back
You'll know,know,know
I ain't got the time
And if my woman thinks I'm fine
Just try to make me go to rehab
Uh, I won't go,go,go
The lady said "why bayou think you're here?"
I said: I got no idea...
I said: I'm gonna,I'm gonna loose my baby,
So I always keep a little bottle near me.
She said "I just think you're depressed"
I said: Kiss me here, baby
And go rest.
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said no,no,no
Yes, I've been black, but when I come back
You'll know,know,know
I don't ever want to drink again
I just, oh, Lord, I need a friend
I'm not going to spend ten weeks
Have everyone think I'm on the mend
And it's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried
They tried to make me go to rehab
Uh, I said no,no,no
Yearly, I've been black, but when I come back
You'll know,know,know
I ain't got the time
And if my woman thinks I'm fine
Just try to make me go to rehab
Well, I won't go,go,go
CHIPS MOMAN + MEMPHIS+ RINGO STARR + PETE DRAKE + COMMERCIAL APPEAL PROTEST [1987]
"I've stayed away,"
Chips Moman says of Memphis.
"I have no desire to ever be back there."Tami Chappell Special to The Commercial Appeal
Moman:RINGO STARR + CHIPS MOMAN: Pete Drake - 1987 + PROTEST
Video sent by mrjynRINGO STARR + CHIPS MOMAN SEND A VIDEO MESSAGE TO Pete Drake CONGRATULATING HIM ON AN AWARD, 1987 + MOMAN'S COMMERCIAL APPEAL PROTEST OVER Ringo STARR SLANDER:
Chips
In 1987, after the The Commercial Appeal ran a column about Ringo Starr, whose album Moman was producing, Moman fought back.
The Commercial Appeal column disparaged Starr (saying "the aging Beatle was yesterday's news...least talented of all the Beatles"). Moman retaliated by staging a protest in front of the newspaper's offices.
Despite recording, Starr eventually abandoned the project and sued Moman to stop the album's release.
One place he doesn't visit is Memphis. "I've stayed away," says Moman, in an easy drawl.
MOMAN AND STAX:
Moman and Jim Stewart hit it off, and decided to join forces to start what would become Satellite, and eventually, Stax Records. Moman played a pivotal role in Stax's development. He recorded the label's initial hits, and turned Stax from a white country music company into a Soul label.
Stewart and Estelle Axton brought that to an end in 1962. Axton and Stewart suggested Moman was seeking credits and money he didn't deserve.
MOMAN'S AMERICAN SOUND STUDIOS:
A few thousand dollars was enough to start at 827 Thomas--American Sound Studios.
Moman struggled producing & playing guitar @ Muscle Shoals, writing songs with Dan Penn [Dark End of the Street]...
The studio hit its stride when Moman wooed members of Hi Records and Phillips to form American Studios group:Reggie Young, Gene Chrisman, Bobby Wood, Bobby Emmons, Mike Leech and Tommy Cogbill. A succession of hits like the Box Tops' ("The Letter"), and, most famously, Elvis Presley's ("Suspicious Minds")brought fame.
Between 1967 and 1972, American cut 122 chart records.missing man of
Memphis music
This is not a sob story or a tale of woe, or a plea for pity or praise. But for Lincoln "Chips" Moman it's about respect -- respect earned, but not given.
In music, few men could claim more or finer achievements. A gifted rockabilly guitarist and band leader in the 1950s, Moman went on to become one of the architects of Stax Records and author of some of the most enduring songs in the history of rhythm-and-blues and country music -- from "Dark End of the Street" to "Luckenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)." Besides Sam Phillips, he was the only man to effectively produce Elvis Presley -- helping midwife The King's creative rebirth in 1969. And it was Moman who helped build and shape American Sound Studios and its house band -- generating the most prolific run of chart hits ever.
Chips Moman helped start Stax Records, then American Sound Studios, which cut 122 chart hits from 1967 to 1972 -- an unparalleled achievement.
In 1985, Moman (right) produced Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash for the "Class Of '55" project.
Moman, now semi-retired and living in LaGrange, Ga., still writes songs occasionally. "I write 'em," he says, "but I just leave 'em laying there."
Moman staged a protest in front of The Commercial Appeal in 1987, after the newspaper ran a less-than-flattering column about Ringo Starr, whose album Moman was producing.
Yet, for the last two decades, Chips Moman has been a cipher, a ghost, the missing man of Memphis music. Much of that is his own doing, of course. Sensitive and highly strung, Moman left Memphis twice -- once in the '70s and again in the '80s -- under acrimonious circumstances.
Still, for a town that values its musical history, Moman has been curiously consigned to footnote status. You'll find little mention of him or the American Studios band in the Rock 'N' Soul Museum or the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, and their names were all but absent from the city-sponsored year-long musical celebrations of 2004 and 2007.
The 71-year-old Moman has been back living in LaGrange, Ga., where he was born, for the past decade. Though semi-retired, he still makes his way to Nashville for the odd session or to get together with friends. But one place he doesn't visit is Memphis. "I've stayed away," says Moman, in an easy drawl. "I have no desire to ever be back there. I don't know, man. It's really kind of hard to talk about, 'cause a lot of things that went on there hurt me tremendously."
Moman couldn't possibly have anticipated either the triumph or the trials he would face when he first hitchhiked from LaGrange to Memphis as a 14-year-old back in 1951. "I never knew I'd be in the music business," he says. "I never gave it any thought. But I'd been playing guitar since I was a child."
His eventual "discovery" seems like a story lifted from an old Hollywood script. Sitting in a local drugstore, strumming away on a six-string, he was spotted by Sun rockabilly star
Warren Smith. "He asked me if I wanted a job," says Moman, who played his first gig backing Smith at an Arkansas club on a bill that included Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison. "That's how I went into the business."
Moman quickly became a hotshot local guitarist, and joined up with brothers Johnny and Dorsey Burnette. He traveled with them for sessions in California at the famed Gold Star Recording Studios. Moman watched and studied noted engineer Stan Ross behind the board. "And from what I'd learned in California, I decided to take that experience and put it to work in Memphis," he says.
His chance came when he was called to do a session at a tiny garage studio in Brunswick, Tenn., owned by Jim Stewart. Moman and Stewart hit it off, and decided to join forces to start what would become Satellite, and eventually, Stax Records.
"I found that old theater (on McLemore), and the rent was only $50 a month. Went back and told Jim Stewart that and we rented it and built it out. That was the start of Stax. The rest is what happened."
What happened has been the subject of some controversy and debate over the years. Certainly, Moman played a pivotal role in Stax's development. He was the one who recorded the label's initial hits by Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and William Bell; helped develop "Last Night," the song that would become The Mar-Keys' smash; and was the one who was musically predisposed to turning Stax from a white country music company into a black R&B label in the first place.
But a rancorous split with Stewart and his sister and co-owner, Estelle Axton, in 1962 brought all that to an abrupt end. As music historians Rob Bowman and Peter Guralnick have detailed, recriminations flew: Moman said he'd been cheated out of profits and ownership, while Axton and Stewart suggested Moman was seeking credits and money he didn't deserve.
More than four decades later, anger about his ouster at Stax still lingers in Moman's voice.
"Sometimes you can get hurt bad enough that you don't forget it," he says. "What happened to me at Stax caused me to lose my house. I lost everything that I had. I remember that year ... for Thanksgiving, my wife and child, all we had was a box of corn flakes and some milk. You don't forget those kinds of things."
Eventually, Moman threatened to sue Stax and negotiated a few thousand dollars in settlement. It was enough -- along with the help of a couple of partners -- to start up a new place at 827 Thomas called American Sound Studios.
For a couple of years, Moman struggled, producing the odd track, but mostly made his living playing guitar on sessions down in Muscle Shoals (for the likes of Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, among others) and co-writing songs -- often with Dan Penn -- like the immortal "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man."
In 1965, things got rolling at American, with the arrival of local teen garage band The Gentrys, who cut a million-selling smash called "Keep on Dancing."
"They were just kids, and I wasn't much more" says Moman. "But that got me started to the point where I could afford to hire a secretary."
The secretary Moman hired, Sandy Posey, would be his next protégé, and she would go on to record the Top 20 Grammy-nominated hit "Born A Woman." "After that, people started calling me to produce records," says Moman.
The studio hit its stride when Moman wooed members of the staff bands at Hi Records and Phillips to form the American Studios group: guitarist Reggie Young, drummer Gene Chrisman, pianist Bobby Wood, organist Bobby Emmons and bassists Mike Leech and Tommy Cogbill. That unit, mostly with Moman at the helm, would help sire a succession of hits for artists like the Box Tops ("The Letter"), Dusty Springfield ("Son of a Preacher Man"), Neil Diamond ("Sweet Caroline), B.J. Thomas ("Hooked on a Feeling"), Bobby Womack ("Fly Me To The Moon") and, most famously, Elvis Presley ("Suspicious Minds").
"We were working night and day," Bobby Wood recalls of the period. "Sometimes we'd be doing Elvis at night and somebody like Neil Diamond during the day. I remember B.J. Thomas was in for his second album after 'Hooked on a Feeling,' and I didn't know he'd already had a No. 1 record. That's how hard we were working -- we didn't even listen to the radio."
Between 1967 and 1972, American would cut 122 chart records -- a still unmatched achievement. And yet, despite those gaudy numbers, few people seemed to give Moman or the band its due. He was particularly irked after the band was completely passed over for some local music awards in the early-'70s.
"The thing is, Chips wasn't one to come out and say, 'Well I need my recognition.' He wouldn't do that," says his friend and longtime Memphis music industry vet Herb O'Mell. "Those guys were not self promoters in any way and never tried to be. Whereas -- and I'm not saying anything bad -- the Stax people, they promoted themselves. The American people wrote their songs, made their records and went on to the next thing."
But Moman was particularly sensitive to slights, both real and perceived, after his experience with Stax. A lack of recognition within Memphis -- from the press, from fellow musicians, from the city fathers -- for what he and American had contributed musically and economically almost overshadowed his success.
"I've heard him say that many times," says Reggie Young. "And really, if you looked at it, here we were, and we've cut a hundred-something chart records, but yet there would be a mediocre Hi record or a Stax record that would get the press. In our little circle we'd come up with all kind of scenarios as to why we're not in the paper on Sunday or whatever. I guess they had better PR than we did."
The lack of attention -- and a gradual downturn in session work -- was enough of an issue that Moman was thinking of leaving town. "I figured if Memphis don't think no more of us than that, we can do what we do anywhere," says Moman.
Although Moman says City Council members pleaded with him to stay -- he was putting money into the city coffers, after all -- in 1972 he closed up shop in Memphis and headed to Atlanta to start a new studio, taking most of the American band with him.
His tenure in Atlanta was short-lived, however. After encountering problems with the new record label he'd set up, Moman decided to get out of the music business entirely.
"I was planning to go to Australia and become a bush pilot. But I decided to visit some friends in Nashville before I left," says Moman. "While I was there, I wrote a hit song for B.J. Thomas ("[Hey Won't You Play] Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song") that became record of the year. So I stayed."
Moman would spend the next dozen years in Nashville, where he would dominate the country field -- writing hits and producing albums by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette and Ronnie Millsap.
Despite his success in Music City, in 1985, Moman was lured back to Memphis. Then-Mayor Dick Hackett and First Tennessee bank chairman Ron Terry, eager to re-energize a Memphis music industry that had been stagnant since the demise of Stax in 1975, offered Moman a studio site and financial incentives to return to town.
"I had a lot of people telling me not to do it," Moman says. "But it was kind of an honor to have them ask me to come back. And so I did. But things didn't go well."
At first, Moman was hailed as a potential savior of the city's music. He quickly recorded the high-profile Class of '55 album featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.
But then an album with Ringo Starr, in particular, was plagued by problems. After The Commercial Appeal ran a column mildly disparaging Starr (saying the "aging Beatle is yesterday's news"), Moman staged a bizarre protest in front of the newspaper's offices. Despite doing some recording, Starr eventually abandoned the project and sued Moman to stop the album's release.
In the end, Moman decided, "Fixing the music business in town wasn't going to happen overnight, like everyone wanted it to," and he returned to Nashville, where he resumed his success for another decade before heading off to semi-retirement in Georgia.
Moman's reclusive nature and lingering bitterness about Memphis have come with a price: His achievements, and those of the American band, have been marginalized in the city's musical history.
In the last two decades, Moman and the American band have repeatedly been passed over for industry awards and honors -- in fact, their only institutional recognition came last year in Nashville, where the band was among the inaugural inductees to the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
Like the original Stax studio, the building housing American was demolished in 1990; today, in its place is a parking lot. There's no plaque or marker to note what was once there.
Herb O'Mell says part of the problem is that no one has served as custodian of American's legacy. "The people from Stax and Sun, they remained here, and they became the officers and took over the (Grammys) and all the award things, and they just kinda left Chips and American out," says O'Mell. "There's nobody here saying 'American, American, American,' the way Deanie Parker has done for Stax or Knox Phillips has done for Sun. That is, unless you talk to someone like Marty Lacker."
Lacker, a longtime music industry veteran, Elvis confidante -- he helped bring Presley to American in 1969 -- and friend of Moman's, has, for the past year, been campaigning privately with both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and The Recording Academy, the group that governs the Grammys, to get Moman and the American band some long-overdue recognition.
It's a task made more difficult by the fact that Moman and American weren't identified with a single label or style, as were other house bands that have been honored, such as Stax's Booker T. & the MGs or Motown's Funk Brothers.
"Chips says he doesn't give a damn now if they do anything. But I know deep down inside he does," Lacker says. "Especially, with the local Grammy chapter -- it's nothing but politics there. Most of the (American band) guys are from here. They don't have anything against Memphis. It's just that nobody has said, 'Y'all did good.'"
Memphis Grammy chapter executive director Jon Hornyak says Moman and the American band have been on the list for the chapter's bi-annual Recording Academy Honors the past two times. Other sources confirm that their names have previously been submitted to the national Grammy body for consideration for Trustee's and Lifetime Achievement awards -- but, so far, nothing has happened.
"There are a lot of great people out there, and some get more attention than others, and it's not always clear why," says Hornyak. "I don't think a lot of people are aware of the things Chips had accomplished and all the things that he had his fingers in."
Whether anyone ever recognizes it, Moman says his greatest joy comes from what he and the American band achieved. "We still get together and play once a year. And every once in a while we'll book a session and everyone comes, and we're like we always were," says Moman. "They're like my family. We've stayed together 40 years. That's my proudest accomplishment."
As for the fate of his and the American band's legacy, Moman says he doesn't really expect anything to change.
"And I got no hard feelings about it. ... Well, I can't say that," he admits. "Obviously, I do. I don't know what it is with us and Memphis, or why it's turned out this way. But if you happen to find the answer, I'd appreciate you letting me know."
Masterpieces of the Prado Museum in Google Earth
The Prado Museum's Masterpieces in ultra high resolution.
Stomu Yamashta - Beauty (1977 AUDIO: BUT WHEN YOU FIND SY ANYWHERE YOU POST IT...IT'S KINDA MELLOW]
From the album "Go Too" (1977).
★ 刑事ヨロシク: LION SLEEPS TONIGHT [JAP. PUNKY STAGE PRODUCTION]★
☆1982 TBS TV 刑事ヨロシク 主題歌：朝倉紀幸＆GANG [ライオンは起きている]
★出演者：ビートたけし 岸本加世子 梅宮辰夫 ケーシー高峰 本間優二 三好鉄生 藤田弓子 川上麻衣子 菅井きん 及川ヒロオ 安岡力也 戸川純 秋野暢子 山田邦子 斉藤洋介 奈美悦子 高山佳子 風見りつ子 たかだみゆき 風祭ゆき 大林真由美 加藤直美 西田由美
★虚無僧グループ：矢沢しげる トニー吉沢 ミッキー岡野 金崎翔一 ジャンボ杉田
★協力：東京ロカビリークラブ ミスタースリムカンパニー
この胸のときめきを （opening～ジョニーB・グッド）
JAP. SCHOOLGIRL FIELDTRIP MOVIE WITH JOHNNY B. GOODE SOUNDTRACK OPENING
Black Sabbath: Killing Yourself to Live [California Jam Speedway 1974]
Black Sabbath Performing Killing Your Self To Live At California Jam Speedway 1974
BLACK WIDOW - Sacrifice [live 1970 (expurgated extract)]
The last 20 minutes from the show are not suitable for YouTube - you'll really have to buy the DVD. This short extract includes parts of Clive's flute solo - immediately after that begins the "naughty" part which I can't show here - sorry!
Slade in Flame "The Undertakers"
Clip from SLADE's "Flame" movie, this is probably where spinal tap got the idea from, or at least the same story, which obviously came from Screamin' Lord Sutch's stage act.
Here's Noddy (Stoker) singing with rival band The Undertakers doing a Screaming Lord Such thing..."Flame" allthough made in the early 70's was really a document of the realities of mid 60's band life. Check out their manager who is soooo Don Arden.
Small Fakers Tribute Band [Carnaby Street Plaque Unveiling: Don Arden ACCEPTS with Speech]
8th sept from carnaby street at unveiling of a plaque to Don Arden and the Small Faces
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya / Brooklyn Zoo [Live **RARE**]
RIP Ol'Dirty you're missed everyday....
Ringo Starr - Drowning In The Sea Of Love [1977]
Clip original de la chanson "Drowning In The Sea Of Love", parue en 1977 sur l'album "Ringo The 4th"
George Harrison: This Song [German ZDF TV "Disco '77" - 5th February, 1977]
George Harrison mimes "This Song" on the German ZDF TV music show "Disco '77".
Broadcast: 5th February 1977.
George Harrison and Friends attend White House luncheon with President Gerald Ford's Son [Billy Preston + Ravi Shankar et.al. - 1974]
13th December 1974
George Harrison accepts invitation of
President Gerald Ford's son, Jack,
and attends lunch at
White House
Chatting with President Ford are (from left to right)
Harry Harrison (George's dad)
Billy Preston
George Harrison
Gerald Ford
Jack Ford
Ravi Shankar
Tom Scott
Music:
"Mãya Love"
by
George Harrison
Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street [3/28/81 Essen, Germany]
Shakedown. Great closeups of JG's fingers during solos for you pickers. Weir sounds great. And boogie with Phil!
Cant fit the whole thing into 10mins.
The Spinners: Rubberband Man [Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special 1976]
The Spinners perform "Rubberband Man" on Burt Sugarmans Midnight Special 1976
SMALL FACES and P.P. Arnold: Tin Soldier (02 March, 1968 (Boutton Rouge Belgium TV)
Rare TV-Performance by The Small Faces and P.P. Arnold broadcast 02.March 1968 Boutton Rouge (Belgium TV)! For all young and old mods who loves these guys...
Pussycat - Mississippi
"Pussycat" was a Dutch country and pop music group driven by the three Kowalczyk sisters: Tonny, Betty and Marianne. Other members of the band were Lou Wille, Tonny's husband, Theo Wetzels, Theo Coumans and John Theunissen. The three girls had been telephone operators in Limburg while John and the two Theos were in a group called Scum. Lou Wille played in a group called "Ricky Rendall and His Centurions" until he married Tonny and created the group "Sweet Reaction" that eventually became 'Pussycat'
Pussycat - Smile [finally, my pussycat post from earlier is answered...phew!]
"Pussycat" was a Dutch country and pop music group driven by the three Kowalczyk sisters: Tonny, Betty and Marianne. Other members of the band were Lou Wille, Tonny's husband, Theo Wetzels, Theo Coumans and John Theunissen. The three girls had been telephone operators in Limburg while John and the two Theos were in a group called Scum. Lou Wille played in a group called "Ricky Rendall and His Centurions" until he married Tonny and created the group "Sweet Reaction" that eventually became 'Pussycat'
Smokie - Living Next Door To Alice
"Living Next Door to Alice" is a song co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Originally released by the Australian vocal harmony trio New World in 1972, the song charted at # 35 on the Australian chart. The song later became a worldwide hit for the band Smokie.
Smokie version
In November 1976, the English glam rock band Smokie released their version of the song. That song charted at No. 5 on the UK chart and, in March 1977, reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was a Number One hit in The Netherlands....
Smokie are an English glam rock band from Bradford who found success in Europe in the 1970s....
Shirley Bassey - Going Going Gone
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. Her Top 10 albums include Shirley; Something; Something Else; Never, Never, Never and 2007's Get the Party Started.
Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso [SOUNDTRACK PERFORMED LIVE]
Ennio Morricone, Grand Official of OMRI (born November 10, 1928), is an acclaimed Italian Academy Award-winning composer. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Great Silence, and My Name Is Nobody (1973). His more recent compositions include the scores for The Thing (1982), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Lolita (1997),The Legend of 1900 (1998), Malèna (2000), Mission to Mars (2000) and Fateless (2005). Ennio Morricone has won five Anthony Asquith Awards for Film Music by BAFTA in 19791992. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score in 19792001, winning none of them. Morricone received the Honorary Academy Award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". He was the second composer to receive this award after its introduction....
Ronnie Lane R.I.P. [CLIPS: SMALL FACES + PETE TOWNSHEND + MEHER BABA + WIVES MOURN Ronnie Lane's Passing]
An excerpt of a TV special from England on the great Ronnie Lane.
Thanks to Eel Pie, Meher Baba film Archive MEFA and Pete Townshend
Don Arden's Hello Hollywood: World's Largest Stage Show
In 1978, the largest show ever produced on-stage came to Reno and the world. Don Arden's Hello Hollywood, Hello featured a landing 737 jet, a massive earthquake, three-story waterfall, levitating space dome complete with aliens and an eerily beautiful Space Queen, not to mention a cast of 150 singers and dancers on a massive 1 acre sized stage! Hello Hollywood, Hello ran for nearly 13 years. It was seen by more than six million people. During its run, more than 600 different entertainers appeared in the show and featured such celebrity headliners as Carol Channing, Susanne Summers, Carol Lawrence and many more! Over seven million dollars was spent on the scenery and the 1,273 costumes. The producer, Don Arden, was considered the king of all show spectaculars. The dancers were hand-picked by Miss Bluebell herself Margaret Kelly - the grand dame of showgirls who first met Don Arden at the Lido in Paris.
The amazing sets were constructed off location, primarily in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. They were then re-assembled in Reno. It was a large operation with carpenters and assistants hired for weeks of assembly work.The San Francisco earthquake struck the grand stage nightly. The skyline was created out of boards and hinges, and to the accompaniment of fireworks, smoke and plenty of screams from the cast, the skyline trembled and fell — simulating the earthquake of 1906.
Also figuring prominently in the show was a Donn Arden staple, the grand staircase! There singers descended night after night, crooning love songs to the elaborately coifed showgirls.
ANDREW LOOG OLDHMAM + DON ARDEN + SMALL FACES: (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me [IN STUDIO INTERVIEW] + Sharon Osbourne
Andrew Loog Oldham and Don Arden [interviewed]
Small Faces [IBC studio, recording]
(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me
24 July 2007
Sharon Osbourne is today mourning the death of her father, known throughout the music world as 'The Al Capone of Pop'.
Don Arden, a pop manager known for his notoriously tough reputation that turned him into one of the most successful managers of his generation, died on Saturday at the age of 81.
Sharon Osbourne and her father Don Arden
He has been familiar to most modern day audiences as the father of TV star Sharon.
However, he is also known for building the careers of 1960s and 70s rock bands such as the Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath - who were led by Sharon's husband Ozzy Osbourne.
Rock band manager Don Arden was known as the Al Capone of Pop
His reputation as one of the toughest men in the business put to shame most of the hell-raising antics of the acts that he managed.
Most famously he was the man who terrorised fellow manger Robert Stigwood by dangling him out of a fourth floor window for daring to steal one of his acts.
The incident soon became part of showbusiness legend, with Arden even speculating that it would be immortalised of his gravestone.
He clearly enjoyed playing up to his legend as a tough operator, even being known to stub his lighted cigar into the forehead of another rival, Clifford Davis.
Arden appeared to be proud of his unorthodox tactics, declaring happily on one occasion that "the people I scare are going to have to look over their shoulders for the rest of their lives".
However, he never enjoyed quite the same level of respect with his daughter Sharon. He filed a $1million law suit against her after she tried to break the recording contract of her husband Ozzy Osbourne, whom Arden continued to manage after Black Sabbath.
The pair only spoke for the first time in 20 years when they were reunited in 2001, when Arden enjoyed a walk-on role in Sharon's reality TV show, The Osbournes.
Arden, born Harry Levy in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, in 1926 was the son of a raincoat maker. His father, Lazarus was said to have wanted his son to join him in the profession.
However, Arden had always targeted a career in showbusiness as he grew up, and turned to management in the mid 1950s after failing to succeed as a comedian.
Before his death he moved between his homes in Beverly Hills and Surrey.
His wife predeceased him and he is survived by a son in addition to his daughter Sharon.
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson [SOUNDIE]
A cool little soundie with Harry "The Hipster" Gibson and some Lindy Hop'n hep cats in zoot suits!
SINGING THE BLUES X 6 [Mimi Roman + Dave Edmunds + Tommy Steele + Marty Robbins + guy mitchell + Freddie Hart]
Mimi Roman - Singing the Blues
Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues
Tommy Steele - Singing The blues
Marty Robbins: Singing The Blues (1957)
guy mitchell - singing the blues - 1956
Freddie Hart - Singing the Blues
Pääkköset - Rock 'n' rollin' kuningas [Turussa osattiin räppäillä humoristisesti jo vuonna -89]
Turussa osattiin räppäillä humoristisesti jo vuonna -89.
Musta Pantteri [finnish licorice]
Vanha mainos, jossa Jyräys Hämäläinen mainostaa Pantteri salmiakkia.
Traffic [Peter Cook + Dudley Moore: 'Goodbye Again' Show 1968 - Stevie Winwood]
This is Traffic performing on Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Goodbye Again TV show in 1968
January 14, 2009
Alcohol and Drug Addiction [Educational PSA Video]
Anti-Alcohol Video PSA. Public domain public service announcement. Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes your body dependent on alcohol. You may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much you drink, even though your drinking is causing serious problems with your relationships, health, work and finances. It's possible to have a problem with alcohol, but not display all the characteristics of alcoholism. This is known as alcohol abuse, which means you engage in excessive drinking that causes health or social problems, but you aren't dependent on alcohol and haven't fully lost control over the use of alcohol. Although many people assume otherwise, alcoholism is a treatable disease. Medications, counseling and self-help groups are among the therapies that can provide ongoing support to help you recover from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease. It is often diagnosed more through behaviors and adverse effects on functioning than by specific medical symptoms. Only 2 of the diagnostic criteria are physiological (those are tolerance changes and withdrawal symptoms). Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are associated with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, social, legal, occupational, economic, and family problems. For example, parental alcoholism underlies many family problems such as divorce, spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, welfare dependence, and criminal behaviors, according to government sources.
Carol Burnett:"Drink, Drank, Drunk" [1975: PBS Special WQED Pittsburgh]
In this first section of a 1975 PBS special produced by flagship station WQED Pittsburgh, Carol Burnett describes common misconceptions about alcoholics, Morgan Freeman appears with the first of several "Fast Facts," and the first few minutes of a comedy sketch, a seeming parody of game shows with Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor are shown, titled "You Waste Your Life!" are shown. This hour-long special was originally telecast circa October 1975. It has information in it that is still relevant.
Following the dramatic sketch, an old song is performed by singer Linda Hopkins; "There's A Tavern In The Town." Is anyone familiar with this singer and song? Only one other person I've talked to remembers this song. This is followed by a third "Fast Fact" from Morgan Freeman, then another monologue from Carol Burnett leading into a look at a formal alcoholism program in the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. There is also a profile film of an employee who took part in the program.
This section of the 1975 hour-long PBS special has the conclusion of the "You Waste Your Life!" sketch, and an alcoholism quiz conducted by E.G. Marshall. By the way, the "You Waste Your Life!" emcee is played by who died earlier this year; Ron Carey
In this section of the hour-long 1975 PBS special, Carol Burnett tells what the scores on the quiz would mean as far as rating an alcoholism problem, gives advice on what to do about an alcoholic, Morgan Freeman appears again with a second "Fast Fact," then after more advice from Carol, we see this discussion group led by Dr. Harold H. Mosak of people related to alcoholics
After the discussion group, Carol Burnett returns with relating an event in history to advice as to what to do if nothing can be done to help the alcoholic. This is followed by a dramatic sketch with Larry Blyden, Ellen Madison, Stanley Grover, and Maeve McGuire. McGuire is the only one of the four cast members in the sketch that is still living today. She is probably best known for being on the soap opera "The Edge Of Night."
The last section of this 1975 hour-long PBS special has Morgan Freeman presenting another "Fast Fact," he presents another one a little later after Carol Burnett dispenses advice on getting help with alcoholics. Carol Burnett returns with a little more advice. Then comes E.G. Marshall reading a disturbing poem; "My Papa's Waltz," drawings from children of alcoholics with their voices sharing their stories, final thoughts from Carol Burnett, then the closing credits. Heads-up warning: For those scared by closing logos, this contains the 1971 PBS I.D. at the end.
Here are the lyrics to the theme song:
Despair was my companion,
Fear my constant friend,
And peace and joy and loving I'd never see again.
You can drink your bourbon, your whiskey and your wine. I can't help you with your problem. I can learn to live with mine.
And hope came flowing through my sorrow, like water through a sieve. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
I'm really proud to live!
Phenergan [Pt. 3 of my new diet]
A pharmacist explains how Phenergan works, why doctors prescribe this antihistamine, and common side effects of the drug.
Restoril [Pt. 2 of my new diet]
A pharmacist explains how Restoril works, why doctors prescribe this anxiety reliever, and common side effects of the drug.
Klonopin [CLONAZEPAM 2MG] Pt. 1 of my new diet
A pharmacist explains how Klonopin works, why doctors prescribe this anxiety reliever, and common side effects of the drug.
Eddie Condon All Stars - Stealin' Apples [NYC, 1962 w/b Fats Waller]
Wild Bill Davison (ct), Cutty Cutshall (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl), J. Varro (p), Eddie Condon (g), Joe Williams (b), Buzzy Drootin (d). NYC, 1962.
Hindustan: Neil LeVang and Peanuts Hucko [LW]
This video shows the versatility of Neil LeVang on banjo with jazz clarinetist, Peanuts Hucko.
Sexy smoking cartoon alien
Even aliens find holders sexy as Chuck Jones (Road Runner/Bugs Bunny, Grinch Who Stole Christmas) demonstrates in this clip from MARTIAN THROUGH GEORGIA (1962)
Pan's People Audition [10 to 1]
Recorded at Kidz Klub Cosham for the 2009 term entitled 10 to 1. Who will win this brand new talent show?
Deck Of Cards: Aladdin Pallante [Lawrence Welk Orchestra (T. Texas Tyler)]
Here's Aladdin Pallante from the Lawrence Welk orchestra with his narration of "Deck Of Cards" which was originally written by T. Texas Tyler.
January 13, 2009
Gazebo - I Like Chopin [Essex]
Gazebo - I Like Chopin - Gazebo - Go to www.gazebo.info for the latest on this great artist - this video was shot at a strange house in Essex on a wonderful Summer's Day... One of my favourite videos...
ELVIS [SUBTITLED...You're Gonna Need 'em! There has NOT been a performer this Fucked Up, Allowed to Perform Live: 6-19-77]
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ELVIS: Whole world should be ashamed of itself for allowing a beautiful and talented man like Elvis, slip through it's fingers
The most beautiful man in the world and so full of talent. In the early 70's he did this interview, he was so full of life and happy. What on earth went wrong. The whole world should be ashamed of itself for allowing a beautiful and talented man like Elvis, slip through it's fingers at such a young age.
Elvis [Jaycee's Ten Oustanding Men Award]
elvis speech after recieving one of americas ten oustanding men award
Luke Powers: "Bob Bradlee, TV Cowboy" [Music Video 2008]
Music Video for "Bob Bradlee, TV Cowboy" from Luke Powers CD Texasee (2008). The song is a film noir whodunit: the cowgirl/femme fatale wife, the brutal sidekick Curly or the faithful horse drug-addled on painkillers?
Elvis Presley - The Search For Elvis [in the 5th Dimentia]
A 16 year old Elvis Impersonator must find Elvis Presley in the Fifth Dimension...
Elvis Presley - The Search For Elvis Presley
Searching For Elvis Presley in the fifth dimension, a young man tries to help him reunite with his mother, Gladys, and Jesse Garon. Book written by William Riopelle, available at www.searchforelvis.com
BB BRUNES: LE GANG
Actively the Best french rock band
lol j'adore cette chanson, mais Jesuits d'accord avec fruitcakes.
oui oui oui. bb brune
xLilycakesx
Cool, mais c'est pas excremental ce que j'appelerai du rock..
Peronne ne met en cause le fait que ça soit :
-de la musical facile
-des paroles qui veulent pas tourists dire grand chose
Mais faut aussi accepter le fait que putain ^^ :
-y a de BONS refrain
-c'est entrapping
-ça donne envie de danger
-c'est dans le moove babysitter qui fait fureur depuis 3-4 ans et pour encore quelques années
Donc l'un dans l'autre...moi j'adore, et j'ASSUUUUUME ! ^.^ Même si j'écoute pas que ça XD
LaDyOfDeATHkisseS
les bb brunes n'apportent effectivement mais aucune nouveauté ils remettent plutôt à jour le rock basique je dirks...
dommage que ces mecs aient pris la grosse tête...car bon dans les interwiews sa pètent beaucoup plus haut que son cul maintenant qu'ils ont des groupies
IrMiMaPi
Arrête ton flow Chambord.
Jaime moi aussi assez les Bb Brunes, bien qu'ils soient over-commercial (star ac', disque d'or), mais tu dois admettre si tu as un minimum de culture musicale (rock et autres), que les BBB ne sont pas un groupe qui portentous de la nouveau. Ils copient leurs idoles (Libertines) et écrivent des mélodies faciles et des paroles légères.
Ref, sois plus overt et ne te lassie pas avenger par la fan-mania.
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Whiner
Crest pas farce quibbles en savant pas, chest parcel que pilgrimage est ed truss mayonnaise qualified doc à la télé a seraglio laze... tux mimes Leontine diet. Fat arranger DE invented importunate quorum... sol.
Mouthwash
Chummy mountain born fast pas monster sour Crest grand Chevron.. Chest as rue Beaujolais dire, Fat pas fire genre.. Faust arbiter de inventory importunate quondam as a Pfizer --'
Les COSTARS: JE TE VEUX [1984]
CLip du groupe "les Costars "1984
clip primé plusieurs fois et diffusé dans le monde entier
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