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June 18, 2007

first in a series of nashvegas meets hollywood and taps the keg of national craunchousness






Take This Job and Shove It.

CHORUS

Take this job and shove it
I ain't workin' here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was workin' for
You better not to try to stand in my way
As I walk out the door
Just take this job and shove it
"Cause I ain't workin' here no more.

I've been workin' in this fact'ry
For nigh on fifteen years
Seen some of my best friends' women
Drownin' in a pool of tears
Seen alot of my kinfolk die
Had a lot of bills to pay
Lord, I'd give the shirt right off of my back
If I had the guts to say...

REPEAT CHORUS

The foreman is a regular low-down dog
The line boss is a fool
Got himself a brand new flattop haircut
Lord, he really thinks that's cool
One of these days, I'm gonna blow my top
And that sucker's going to pay
Lord, I can't wait to see their faces
When I get the nerve to say...

REPEAT CHORUS

Take This Job and Shove It Movie Poster

The comedy for everyone who's had it up to here.

Hells Angels Forever
Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, Bo Diddley and others also make appearances.

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Harper Valley P.T.A. DVD ~ Barbara Eden


Convoy

Convoy DVD ~ Ernest Borgnine


Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace DVD ~ Loni Anderson


Hooper

Hooper DVD ~ Burt Reynolds


White Lightning
David Allan Coe

David Allan CoeBorn: 6-Sep-1939
Birthplace: Akron, OH

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Take This Job and Shove It

Son: Tyler
Son: Carson
Daughter: Carla
Daughter: Tanya Montana (b. 1986)
Father: (d. Aug-1986)
Wife: Jody
Daughter: Tanya
Daughter: Shyanne
Brother: Jack

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Car Theft
Obscenity possession of obscene materials
Robbery

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Take This Job and Shove It (24-Apr-1981)
Buckstone County Prison (1978)

Official Website:
http://www.officialdavidallancoe.com/

Johnny Paycheck

Johnny PaycheckAKA Donald Eugene Lytle

Born: 31-May-1938
Birthplace: Greenfield, OH
Died: 18-Feb-2003
Location of death: Nashville, TN [1]
Cause of death: Emphysema
Remains: Buried, Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville, TN

Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Take This Job and Shove It

Military service: US Navy (1950s)


Wife: Sharon (m. 1960s, until his death, three children)

Assault 1950s, served a military prison sentence
Assault Served prison (1989-91) in Ohio
Passing Bad Checks 1972
Rape 1982 (charges reduced)
Assault 1985 (Hillsboro, OH)
Bankruptcy 1990 (filed)
Risk Factors: Diabetes, Alcoholism, Asthma

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Hell's Angels Forever (1983) Himself
Take This Job and Shove It (24-Apr-1981)

Official Website:
http://www.johnnypaycheckmusic.com/

Hall Of Fame Honors
Johnny's offspring makes plea
He is not a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame today, but in the next year I want to raise the fans and artists voices to a level that the country music industry can hear. I think my father influenced country music to a degree that he should be honored for. By entering your information below you will be added to a petition that will help to get my father into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He can not be entered in for another year but after that time I hope to see his name on the distinguishable list of country music hall of famers. Please help out and let the country music industry hear your voice.

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(from the official jp website)


NEVER FORGET 2/18/2004 - One year ago tonight is the night that dad passed away.
Keep his memory alive.




June 17, 2007

seven degrees of craunchy bacon: sock it to me


Socked it to ...

Suddenly she was in it. The lyrics, the music, literally made Jeanniethe Harper Valley girl. Caught up in it, she snorted and sneered theanger of the world. That was it. What the world heard was what was donethe second time around in the studio - the dobro licks and all, nothingelse added or deleted.






dia de los padres















June 16, 2007

PHINEAS NEWBORN JR.: Baby Grandiloquent

NewbornImage by CharlesFred via Flickr



oleo



lush life



Theme For Basie



Left Hand Blues


Created by television pioneer and life-long jazz devotee Steve Allen, Jazz Scene USA was nationally syndicated television program in the beginning of the sixties that showcased some of the best practitioners of that very American musical form. All appearances are featured in a relaxed, casual atmosphere created by hipster host, singer Oscar Brown Jr. Uncompromising in its use of imaginative camera angles, the visual style is on a par with the music. These shows are time capsules to cherish fron america's golden days of televised jazz.

In these videos circa 1962 we see the amazing pianist Phineas Newborn interpreting his own "Theme For Basie", Billy Strayhorn's lush ballad "Lush Life", "Blues For Left Hand" , "The New Blues" and Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" accompanied by Al McGibbon on bass and Kenny Dennis on drums.




Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old.

Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old.

The cause of death has not been released.Irvin Salky, Mr. Newborn's agent and friend, said X-rays six weeks ago showed a growth on one of his lungs.

Although Mr. Newborn was not a celebrity, he was highly regarded by jazz aficionados, especially in the 1950's and 60's. ''In his prime, he was one of the three greatest jazz pianists of all time, right up there with Bud Powell and Art Tatum,'' said Leonard Feather, a jazz critic for Downbeat magazine and The Los Angeles Times.

His albums included ''A World of Piano,'' ''The Newborn Touch,'' ''The Great Piano of Phineas'' and ''Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn.''His father, Phineas Newborn Sr., led a big band that played on Memphis's celbrated Beale Street in the 30's and 40's. Mr. Newborn grew up playing saxophone, trumpet and vibraphone in the band, which included his brother Calvin, who played guitar.

Besides his brother, he is survived by his mother, daughters, a son and two grandchildren.


A racial attack took him out of the playing circuit in 1974. He was admitted to the Veteran’s Hospital with a cracked jawbone, broken nose and several broken fingers. The day Phineas was discharged from the hospital he went to Ardent recording studios and recorded a Grammy nominated album, ‘Solo Piano’. The tracks included a version of ‘Out of The World’ which contained stunning left-hand virtuosity. Stanley Booth says that ‘hearing that performance while looking at the X-ray photos of Phineas’s broken hands is enough to make you think that Little Red (Phineas Newborn), like Jerry Lee Lewis is a little more than human.’Rhythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music






By ROBERT PALMER
Published: July 11, 1986

Phineas Newborn Jr., Sweet Basil, 88 Seventh Avenue South, below West Fourth Street (242-1785). Born into a musical Memphis family and a pianist with his father's big band and on early B. B. King recordings while still in his teens, Phineas Newborn Jr. was in every sense a prodigy. By the time he made his classic Atlantic, RCA and Contemporary jazz albums, in the 1950's and early 60's, that prodigious abundance of technique was getting him compared with the virtuosic Art Tatum, and dismissed by some as all fingers, no heart. That was never true, and certainly isn't now. In his maturity, Mr. Newborn is one of the masters of jazz piano, with an immediately identifiable tone and touch, great harmonic originality, and, as a kind of signature, octave runs that seem to fairly whip along the keyboard. Shows are around 10 and 11:30 P.M. and 1 A.M. through Sunday, with a $10 music charge and $6 minimum.


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PHINEAS NEWBORN, Jr.
August 17, 1975
Memphis, Tennessee
3-min. excerpt
1/2 » Open Reel Video original, B&W


Imagine yourself a prodigy, a jazz virtuoso of the 1950s. You have played with everybody from Duke Ellington to Charlie Mingus. Then POW… you are lost for twenty years. Your achievements and talents put into chemical and canvas straitjackets. Living with your mother. Treated like a miscreant. Then you begin to rise to the top again. This is one of the man’s first public performances before a public eager and waiting so long for his return.
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