Wild Man Fischer
Outsider Musician
Dies
66
Fischer made several albums, toured sporadically and performed on television, including, 1968, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”
His best-known song was “Merry-Go- Round.”
His best-known song was “Merry-Go- Round.”
Come on, let’s merry-go, MERRY-go, merry-go-round.
The faint Caribbean lilt Fischer provided with instrumental accompaniment. The lyrics strike listeners as joke:
#WildManFischer on "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In" 1968 https://t.co/0MlCjD7eHlhttps://t.co/Ss8qP1kZPS https://t.co/POUYRziFHY— mrjyn (@mrjyn) 16 septembre 2019
Boop-boop-boop. [Fischer making calliope-noise.]
Merry-go, MERRY-go, merry-go-round.
Boop-boop-boop ...
The joke — postmodern and self-referential — is on the listener:
The song circles around the head like a carousel never stilled.
Wild Man Fischer
a mentally ill street musician became a darling of the music industry in the 1960s, and enjoyed four decades of strange intermittency, titillating celebrity, before he died in LA, Thursday, aged 66, of heart failure, said Josh Rubin, Fischer's doc filmmaker,“dErailRoaDed” 2005.
The film’s title, one of Mr. Fischer’s is a word coined to describe radical dislocation.
Mr. Fischer’s whose first name is Larry, lived with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder since a teenager, resided in assisted-living for mental patients in Van Nuys.
Mr. Fischer was the grandfather of Outsider music.
He was an outsider by Outsider standards.
His voice, raspy and loud, was little tune to melodies; lyric repetitiveness, simpli city, nursery rhymes, typically a Capella,punctuated by hooting, wailing, shouting vocal effects, like.
Mr. Fischer was a naïve genius who embodied primal truths, a madman who practiced musicality ranting, the subject of debate.
He attracted — retains — cult following over time, in the music business. Among them, Frank Zappa, who produced Mr. Fischer’s first album; child actor-musician Bill Mummy; Dr. Demented; and Rosemary Clone, with whom Mr. Fischer duet-ted.
His voice, raspy and loud, was little tune to melodies; lyric repetitiveness, simpli city, nursery rhymes, typically a Capella,punctuated by hooting, wailing, shouting vocal effects, like.
Lawrence Wayne Fischer was born in Los Angeles, Nov. 6, 1944
From his youth on, whenever he was in a manic upswing — a state of intense creative energy he would call the “pep” — songs cascaded out of him.
At 16, after he threatened his mother with a knife, she had him committed to a mental institution. He was committed again a few years later.After being released for the second time in his late teens, he lived mainly on the streets. Dreaming of becoming a famous singer, he performed in local talent shows.
He gained a small following and by the mid-1960s was opening for the soul singer Solomon Burke. He later opened for Alice Cooper, the Byrds and others.
Most of the time, though, Mr. Fischer stood on the Sunset Strip, where for a dime, or even a nickel, he would sing for passers-by. Mr. Zappa discovered him there and in 1968 released “An Evening With Wild Man Fischer” on his label Bizarre Records.
Mr. Fischer eventually fell out with Mr. Zappa, as he did with nearly everyone in his orbit. He languished until the mid-1970s, when he was almost single-handedly responsible for the birth of Rhino Records.
Rhino had been a record store in Los Angeles; Mr. Fischer, a habitué, recorded a promotional single, “Go to Rhino Records,” in 1975. Demand for it proved so great that it catapulted the store’s owners into the record-producing business.
For Rhino, Mr. Fischer recorded three albums: “Wildmania,” “Pronounced Normal” and “Nothing Scary.” The last two were produced by the comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes, in real life Robert Haimer and Mr. Mumy.
Mr. Fischer’s other songs include “My Name Is Larry,” “I’m Selling Peanuts for the Dodgers” and “I Wish I Was a Comic Book.” (That aspiration, at least, was realized: he was featured in several comic books over the years.)
With Ms. Clooney, he recorded the single “It’s a Hard Business.”
Mr. Fischer is survived by a brother, David, of Agoura Hills, Calif., and a sister, Joyce Sherman, of West Hills, Calif.
In 2004, after a severe episode of paranoia, Mr. Fischer was placed in the assisted-living facility and put on medication. Mr. Rubin, the filmmaker, whom Mr. Fischer had telephoned, often in high excitement, 20 or 30 times a day for several years, visited him there many times.
“After he went to the facility, the phone calls just stopped,” Mr. Rubin said in an interview on Friday. “The ‘pep’ was gone.”
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I am really sorry for the rush hour.
I'm awake thinking and I hope you have a good time with me today and I'll send you money to go home tomorrow night.
After work tomorrow night, you know you need me, you can see what you have to say about it ha-ha.
I am very happy.
Je suis vraiment heureux pour toi et je sais à quel point tu m'aimes.
Vous pouvez dire que je vous aime et que vous savez vous y prendre.
Je ne pense pas que je suis tellement excité au milieu de ma journée.
Je vais être heureux. Vous pouvez dire que je n’étais pas vraiment bon à ça, mais j’étais vraiment fou, et je ne sais pas à quel point je le voudrais.
Vous êtes une bonne personne pour être avec.
Vous savez ce que vous ressentez quand vous êtes ici.
Enfin, parce que nous avons tous les deux un problème, nous savons tous les deux ce que vous pensez et vous ne voulez pas le faire partout.
alors, donc, je dois aller au monde.
et je t'aime tellement, mon amour.
Je t'aime si gentil, bébé. Jésus, je t'aime tellement.
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tu es si gentil, petit bébé amour.
Vous trop.
Je suis heureux que vous ayez reçu mon message aujourd'hui à propos de votre rendez-vous et laissez-moi vous appeler demain.
Qu'est-ce que tu veux? Voulez-vous dire quelque chose?
Voulez-vous savoir quelque chose?
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C'est ce que vous faites pour me faire bien paraître.
savez-vous comment me faire bien paraître? Bien?
M'as-tu déjà dit quelque chose à propos de demain soir, ou demain matin, ou demain soir, avant ou après demain matin?
I'm really happy for you and I know how much you love me.
You can say that I love you and that you know how to do it.
I do not think I'm so excited in the middle of my day.
I'm gonna be happy. You can say I was not really good at that, but I was really crazy, and I do not know how much I would like it.
You are a good person to be with.
You know how you feel when you are here.
Finally, because we both have a problem, we both know what you think and you do not want to do it everywhere.
so, then, I have to go to the world.
and I love you so much, my love.
I love you so nice, baby. Jesus, I love you so much.
so you love me and you love me so much that you love me, you love me so much. You love me too much love. Too baby, my love.
you are so nice, little baby love.
You too.
I'm glad you received my message today about your appointment and let me call you tomorrow.
What do you want? Do you want to say something?
Do you want to know something?
You are so nice, baby cornsilk. Jesus, your carpenter is going to sleep there, and you are going to be here.
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That's what you do to make me look good.
do you know how to make me look good? Well?
Have you ever told me anything about tomorrow night, or tomorrow morning, or tomorrow night, before or after tomorrow morning?
Je t'aime trop et je suis content de ce que tu veux.
Je vais parler de ce que je vais faire de préférence.
Je vais vous envoyer l'image de tout ce que nous pouvons parler demain soir avant dormir.
Je pense. je vais.
Je retourner. Je médecin. Je suis demain.
Je suis peut-être. Je suis devrais.
Je suis aller voir avant. Je suis avant . Vous pouvez me dire que vous voulez faire. Je suis vous.
Je suis voulez que vous ayez raison.
Je suis, vous savez.
comment allez vous.
Je suis faire aimez trop, demi-bébé.
Vous êtes tellement mieux d'autres le passé.
I love you too much and I'm happy with what you want.
I will talk about what I will do preferably.
I will send you the picture of everything we can talk about tomorrow night before sleeping.
I think. I go.
I return. I'm a doctor. I am tomorrow.
I may be. I should be.
I went to see.
I am before.
You can tell me what you want to do.
I am you.
I want you to be right.
I am, you know.
I am doing too much love, half-baby.
