While waiting for our flight to Vegas to arrive, Stoya decided to trust Spock BUCKTON with her belongings while she went off to take a shit or something. Bad move, Stoya. Bad frickin' move!
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Cyd Charisse et Ricardo Montalban - Tango + Sweet Charity - Trailer
Sweet Charity - Trailer
Video sent by enricogay"Sweet Charity" (vo "Sweet Charity") - 1969
Réalisé par Bob Fosse
Avec Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Sammy Davis Jr, Ben Vereen
RINGO STARR CHIPS MOMAN SEND Pete Drake Video Message PLUS Moman Pickets Memphis Commercial Appeal Over Ringo Defamation [1987]
RINGO STARR CHIPS MOMAN send Pete Drake video message PLUS Moman Pickets Commercial Appeal Over Ringo Defamation [1987]
this little gem was found unmarked by a wonderful Memphis videographer, and lo and behold, through persistent viewing through reams of b-roll, i discovered this never-before-seen personal video message from Ringo Starr and Chips Moman to Pete Drake, wishing him the best for an unnamed award circa 1987. [Ringo and Chips were in Memphis preparing to record Ringo's Memphis album, which would soon be aborted and end in legal problems.]
the 'Pete' Ringo refers to, regarding finding country tapes in his car, is indeed, Pete Drake, who was the Nashville record producer responsible for convincing Ringo to cut a country record in Nashville with Nashville players, all on the basis of his coincidental discovery of Ringo's country music collection, discovered while picking him up at the airport. [their record became Beaucoup of Blues, winning more than a few top 10s, as well as critical accolades.]
"HIS NAME IS PETE Drake. He got the brilliant idea one time to make his steel guitar talk and he actually does it, right now, with a beautiful song, Forever."
You may also recall from a few previous posts, Pete Drake's own otherworldly contributions as top session man and inventor of the talking steel guitar [eg. Forever], played with his talkbox, connected to his pedal steel guitar.
Born in Augusta, Georgia in 1932, the son of a Pentecostal preacher, Pete Drake worked as a record producer and sought-after session musician in the ’60s in country music mecca Nashville, Tennessee (it's his pedal steel guitar you can hear on Charlie Rich’s Behind Closed Doors and Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay).
However, he is also one of the little-known heroes in the history and development of the voice synthesizer most commonly known as the Vocoder, as outlined in Dave Tompkins' beautiful and meticulous 2011 history of said voice-altering tool, How To Wreck A Nice Beach.
Drake was not the first to modulate a steel guitar sound with the human voice. That honour goes to Alvino Rey and his wife Luise in 1939, who used a carbon microphone placed against the throat (a prototype version of the Sonovox).
But Drake successfully modified and updated the technique, hooking an eight-inch paper-cone speaker-driver and funnel to his guitar amp, the guitar sound travelling to Drake's mouth via a clear plastic tube on the end of the funnel.
Drake first used the device on Roger Miller's 1963 hit, Lock, Stock And Teardrops before recording three albums worth of "talking steel guitar" records between 1964 and 1965.
George Harrison was a fan. Drake's talking pedal steel appears on All Things Must Pass and the Nashville producer's skills were subsequently employed on Ringo’s 1970 C&W tribute, Beaucoups Of Blues.
Oh, and in in case you were wondering who was responsible for Pete Frampton picking up the voice box for his mega-million selling double live album, Frampton Comes Alive, well that would be Pete Drake. But don't hold that against him. The man was an innovator.
Just listen to him here in the studio with George, Ringo and Phil Spector during the ATMP sessions and tell me that you're not hearing the sonic birth of Roger Troutman's Golden Throat Talk Box.
the remainder of the clips document the shitstorm that a Memphis commercial appeal writer caused when she denigrated Starr in one of her columns just as the famous Beatle was arriving to give the dying Memphis music scene a shot in the arm, causing Chips in disgust [Memphis musician and studio genius from the '60s and '70s] to picket in front of the CA's office.
tpa
Video sent by mrjyn
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.
thanks to the original poster for this unusual and obscure document, and i'll try and backtrack to let you know who it was, as there are many more very rare Memphis video artifacts contained on his channel.
Twin Peaks [TV Show Opening Theme 1990 David Lynch]
The story begins with the murder of Laura Palmer, a teen aged girl who lived in the quiet town of Twin Peaks, near the US - Canadian borders. Everyone seems surprised and devastated by the girl's murder, and the town's sherif welcomes the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who comes to investigate the case. As Cooper begins his search for Laura's killer, the town's secrets are gradually exposed. This is definitely not an average quiet town, it seems as everyone has something big to hide. At nights, agent Cooper sees strange visions of Laura and other mysterious people, visions that tell him that something big is happening here, something far more evil than a single murder case. David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Dana Ashbrook, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Piper Laurie, Joan Chen, Sheryl Lee
Fantasy Island [TV Show Opening Theme: Season One 1978]
Fantasy Island TV Show Opening Theme Season One Ricardo Montalban ... Mr. Roarke (37 episodes, 1978-1984)
Hervé Villechaize ... Tattoo
Ricardo Montalbán - Chihuahua Choo Choo [R.I.P.]
Ricardo Montalbán singing his classic Chihuahua Choo Choo.
This Emmy Award winning actor is famous for his roles as Mr. Roarke on TV's Fantasy Island and as Khan on the original 1960s Star Trek television program. He also was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 from the Screen Actors Guild.
He is honoured with a star on the Los Angeles' Hollywood Walk of Fame and The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre on Vine Street is named in his honour.
Singing can definitely be added to his credits as well.
Merrell Fankhauser + Bill Dodd + Dick Lee: Ballad of Fapardokly
Merrell Fankhauser, Bill Dodd, Dick Lee, Ballad of Fapardokly
If ever a reissue could make Merrell Fankhauser a household name, this is it! This scarce classic is nothing less than a moody, mysterious, eclectic junket to all charted depots of the inner psyche, along with several stops completely off the map. Wonderful and intriguing.
Merrell, Bill, and Dick get together after forty years for this interview and new song "Ballad of Fapardokly" for a new album.
AA: Je m'appelle 'X' et je suis alcoolique: BY BILL WILSON [8 VIDEES]
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and NEVER occurs in the average temperate drinker. pxxvi The Doctor's Opinion, Big Book
Delivered at the first international conference of Alcoholics Anonymous at Cleveland, Ohio in 1950
---- My good friends in AA and of AA.I feel I would be very remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to welcome you here to Cleveland not only to this meeting but those that have already transpired. I hope very much that the presence of so many people and the words that you have heard will prove an inspiration to you - not only to you, but may you be able to impart that inspiration to the boys and girls back home who were not fortunate enough to be able to come.In other words, we hope that your visit here has been both enjoyable and profitable. I get a big thrill out of looking over a vast sea of faces like this with a feeling that possibly some small thing that I did a number of years ago, played an infinitely small part in making this meeting possible. I also get quite a thrill when I think that we all had the same problem. We all did the same things. We all get the same results in proportion to our zeal and enthusiasm and stick-to-primitiveness. If you will pardon the injection of a personal note at this time, let me say that I have been in bed five of the last seven months and my strength hasn't returned as I would like, so my remarks of necessity will be very brief.But there are two or three things that flashed into my mind on which it would be fitting to lay a little emphasis; one is the simplicity of our Program. Let's not louse it all up with Freudian complexes and things that are interesting to the scientific mind, but have very little to do with our actual AA work.Our 12 Steps, when simmered down to the last, resolve themselves into the words love and service.We understand what love is and we understand what service is. So let's bear those two things in mind. Let us also remember to guard that erring member - the tongue, and if we must use it, let's use it with kindness and consideration and tolerance.And one more thing; none of us would be here today if somebody hadn't taken time to explain things to us, to give us a little pat on the back, to take us to a meeting or two, to have done numerous little kind and thoughtful acts in our behalf. So let us never get the degree of smug complacency so that we're not willing to extend or attempt to, that help which has been so beneficial to us, to our less fortunate brothers. Bill Wilson - Singleness of Purpose 1957 ---
What Is A.A.?Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem.It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere.There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.
Singleness of Purpose and Problems Other Than AlcoholSome professionals refer to alcoholism and drug addiction as “substance abuse” or “chemical dependency.” Nonalcoholics are, therefore, sometimes introduced to A.A. and encouraged to attend A.A. meetings. Anyone may attend open A.A. meetings, but only those with a drinking problem may attend closed meetings. A renowned psychiatrist, who served as a nonalcoholic trustee of the A.A. General Service Board, made the following statement: “Singleness of purpose is essential to the effective treatment of alcoholism. The reason for such exaggerated focus is to overcome denial. The denial associated with alcoholism is cunning, baffling, and powerful and affects the patient, helper, and the community. Unless alcoholism is kept relentlessly in the foreground, other issues will usurp everybody’s attention.” What Does A.A. Do?1. A.A. members share their experience with anyone seeking help with a drinking problem; they give person-to-person service or "sponsorship" to the alcoholic coming to A.A. from any source. 2. The A.A. program, set forth in our Twelve Steps, offers the alcoholic a way to develop a satisfying life without alcohol
Henrietta Seiberling is the lady who introduced Bill Wilson to Dr. Bob Smith. May, 1972 In the spring of 1971, the newspapers reported the passing of Bill Wilson of New York City, who was one of the two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. The other co-founder, Dr Robert Smith of Akron, Ohio, had passed on some years earlier. Shortly after Bill's death, the Akron Alcoholics groups asked my mother Henrietta Seiberling, to speak at the annual "Founders Day" meeting in Akron, which is attended by members of Alcoholics Anonymous from all over the world.She lives in New York and did not feel up to traveling, so they asked me to speak in her place. I agreed to speak but felt that it would mean most to them to hear some of her own words, so I called her on the telephone and asked her to tell me about the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous so that I could make sure my remarks were accurate. I made a tape recording of the conversation and played part of it at the 1971 Founders Day meeting, which was held in the gymnasium at the University of Akron with a couple of thousand people present. The first meeting of Bob and Bill, described in the attached transcript, took place in the summer of 1935 in Henrietta's house in Akron, which was the Gatehouse of Stan Hywet Hall, then my family's estate, now the property of Stan Hywet Hall Foundation. Henrietta was not an alcoholic. She was a Vasser college graduate and a housewife with three teenage children. She, like Bob and Bill, would be deeply disturbed by any inference that she or they possessed any extraordinary virtues or talents. On the contrary, they would all emphasize the power of ordinary people to change their lives and the lives of others through the kind of spiritual discipline so successfully exemplified in Alcoholics Anonymous. I am happy to make this transcript available to persons who are sincerely interested in learning more about Alcoholics Anonymous and its message. It is a way of sharing some of the insight's which made and still make Alcoholics Anonymous a vital force in people's lives. I ask only that the transcript be held in the spirit in which it is offered and not used for publicity or in an effort to magnify any individual. John F. SeiberlingThis is the only known video of the co-founders together most likely taken in the 1940's.TRUST GOD, CLEAN HOUSE, HELP OTHERS
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as w e understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairsJe m'appelle X et je suis alcoolique
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