Martha Stewart's Living's, Susan Spungen's Sister's, Nancy Spungen's, NY Public Access's Clips (SID VICIOUS + STIV BATORS) + Recipe White Bean Toast

Susan Spungen

Susan Spungen was the founding food editor and editorial director for food at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia from its launch in 1991 until 2003. She wrote a bimonthly column called "Easy Entertaining" for the magazine until June 2004, and helped launch MSO's first all-food title,Everyday Food. She is coauthor of the best-selling Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook. She lives in New York City.

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sid & nancy live on air w/stiv bators... sid & nancy live on air w/stiv bators & cynthia of the b-girls (more)

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SID VICIOUS (final): Efrom Allen Show (NY CABLE '78 )
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White Bean and Tomato Toasts

Add some flavor to your summer nights with these Latin-inspired dishes from

Susan Spungen

Check out the recipes

Serves 8

INGREDIENTS

• 1 crusty baguette (18-to-20-inch)

• 1 tomato, cut in half crosswise

• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling

• 2 garlic cloves, 1 chopped and 1 whole

• 1 can (15.5 oz) white beans, drained and rinsed

• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

• Freshly ground pepper

• 1 Tbsp white or red wine vinegar

"Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar" Trailer + Pete Drake's 'Forever' (from SFTASG 1966)

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar

(1966)

Directed
Victor Duncan

Original Music
Audrey Williams

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ARTISTS & SONGS

mp3 conversion of video audio feed

“Little” Jimmy Dickens

A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed

John Henry Carl and Pearl Butler

Don’t Let Me Cross Over

Just Thought I’d Let You Know Curly Fox

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers Lefty Frizzell

If You’ve Got the Money (I’ve Got the Time)

Saginaw, Michigan Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

Mule Skinner Blues

Blue Moon of Kentucky Dottie West

When Two Worlds Collide George Hamilton IV

Abilene

Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston Pete Drake

Forever Sonny James

Young Love

You’re the Only World I Know

Tom Dooley

I’ll Keep Holding On (Just to Your Love) Minnie Pearl

Careless Love Billy Walker

Charlie’s Shoes

Born to Lose Connie Smith*

Once a Day Homer & Jethro

Jambalaya

The Battle of Kookamonga Johnny Wright

Move It On Over

Down South in New Orleans Kitty Wells

Amigo’s Guitar

It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Buddy Spicher

Black Mountain Rag Del Reeves

Girl on the Billboard

Heartbreak Hotel

The Matador

I Walk the Line Faron Young

Walk Tall

Hello Walls Webb Pierce

I Ain’t Never

Slowly Sonny James & full cast

When the Saints Go Marching In

Will an audience expecting The Barber of Seville settle for the Queen of Country Music? That’s what they get in Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, the 1965 country music jamboree filmed in Nashville.

When a snooty Nashville social climber’s opera charity benefit is cancelled at the last second, she reluctantly allows her husband, country music fanatic Arnold Stang, to hastily put together a lineup of 30 country-western stars,

Jubal A. Bristol (played by comedian Arnold Stang)

Country music fan Arnold Stang (assembles the talent to replace a no-show Italian opera company booked to perform at a benefit concert by his wife (Pamela Hayes), hates country music and plans to put on a big opera benefit for her snooty friends. At the last minute, the opera company can't make it, so she turns to Arnold to put together a country music show in its place, and of course she gets converted to country music.

The incredible musical line-up ranges from Lefty Frizzell, Sonny James and Bill Monroe, to Dottie West, Connie Smith and Kitty Wells, to jokesters Minnie Pearl and Homer and Jethro.

Singer and songwriter (and future Hank Williams Jr. manager) Merle Kilgore emcees the show-within-a-show,

emceed by Merle Kilgore*, best known to those under 40 for his relationship with Hank Williams Jr.'s business empire. Kilgore's speaking voice is so rich and musical, I just wish the producers had had him sing. He made many great records in the 50s.

It all adds up to perhaps the most entertaining and star-studded country music movie ever made!

There are plenty of highlights, including Homer & Jethro (who do their hit “Battle of Kookamonga” and an hilarious spoof on “Jambalaya”), Johnny Wright (“Move it on Over”),

Many of the artists do TWO songs, not just one:

Little Jimmy Dickens, Carl and Pearl Butler (I hope their amazing clothes are in a museum somewhere--their music is especially good, so it's a shame they are not that well-known anymore),

Lefty Frizzell, Bill Monroe, Dottie West, George Hamilton IV,

Pete Drake, who performs “Forever” with a "talking steel guitar" (a weird device that includes a long tube he has to stick in his mouth),

Sonny James, Minnie Pearl (who does comedy AND sings a version of "Careless Love" that I won't soon forget!), Billy Walker (fantastic!), Connie Smith, Homer and Jethro, Johnny Wright (of Johnnie and Jack fame), Kitty Wells (Mrs. Johnny Wright, of course), fiddler Buddy Spiker, Del Reeves (whose second song after Girl on the Billboard is a parody of Heartbreak Hotel sung in a Walter Brennan accent!), Faron Young, and Webb Pierce, with a final singalong on "When The Saints Go Marching In" led by Sonny James.

Lefty Frizzell (who plays guitar right-handed; what up wi’ THAT? Anyway, he does “If You’ve Got the Money, Honey” and “Saginaw, Michigan”), Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys (“Mule Skinner Blues” and “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, and I see why Elvis loved this guy), George Hamilton IV (“Abeline”), Sonny James (“Young Love”), Minnie Pearl (a comedy routine, and “Careless Love”), Kitty Wells (“It Wasn’t God that made Honky Tonk Angels”), and Del Reeves, who does song parodies of Walter Brennan and Johnny Cash. Other performers include Little Jimmy Dickens (who was indeed very short), Carl & Pearl Butler (she’s scary; she looks like the sadistic warden in a “women in prison” movie), Dottie West, faron Young, Billy Walker, Connie Smith, Buddy Spiker, Webb Pierce, and… well, I think that’s everybody.

Except that it features the one and only reunion of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall in their Bowery Boys characters:

Gorcey and Hall play the stagehands at the theater and get a lot of comic scenes in before the concert starts, and then they do comic relief backstage after every few acts.a decade after their last Bowery Boys film together. Although they’re called “Leo” and “Huntz”, they do their old routines, with Huntz getting hit with Leo’s hat a lot. Huntz gets a lot more to do; Gorcey seems obviously inebriated. They’re funny, though, and it’s a treat to see them together one last time.

"I had already recorded...some straight steel things...but I went ahead and cut a song called "Forever" on the talking thing. It came out, and for about two months didn't do a thing; then, all of a sudden, it cut loose and sold a million. So then I was known as the 'Talking Steel Guitar Man...'"

Back in the mid '90s, I was living in Olympia Washington. I would make frequent trips down to Centralize and Chevaliers to hit the thrift shops and to visit Richardo's Art Yard. On one of these trips, I found a record called 50 Country and Western Hits. It was one of those half-massed Stardust compilations of Nashville also-ranch. I picked it up for my girlfriend at the time. Until I scrutinized the album cover. There were the standards in all of their early sixties grand-sol-pry wannabe stylings; White Stetsons, polo ties, toothy smiles. Until bleached a photo of this balding, pallid, liver-lipped nobody called Pete Drake. On this album he has one of those vacant thousand mile stares and a paisley shirt. In all honesty, I never looked at the album cover until I heard his song. A Southampton-burlesque tribute to the late Port Wagoner's Satisfied Mind. Always wanting to assume that art is born from adversity, and trying to make sense of the soul wrenching truth meets Steven Hawking vocals, and not knowing Drake's background, I contrived my own history of Pete Drake. In my mind, he was a young tracheal (esp?) victim, who fell in love with the true country legends, but because of his ailment (pasty, liver-lipped, voice-box-removed) couldn't sing. So he picked the closest instrument to a human voice box (steel guitar) and rigged the open hole in his neck to a microphone wired in to the pickups on said steel guitar so he could sing.

That is a pretty amazing thing to want to believe in, no?

I began collecting as much of his steel guitar work as possible. I have a lot. I love it more than Charlie Rich singing "Life Has It's Little Ups and Downs". And, that, my friends, is a lot. I am also a huge believer in mix CD's (nee Mixture).Pete Drake, who performs “Forever” with a talking guitar (a weird device that includes a long tube he has to stick in his mouth), So, long, Mr. Drake, not disabled, played steel in The Sons of The Pioneers back in the '50s. He became a session musician for Nashville. He worked an early morning job as a milkman (his nickname was The Milkman) splitting in on literally every session requiring steel guitar that came out of Nashville from 1959 to roughly 1974. Most of you not prone to overalls and bare feet (I pity you) can sample more of Drakes work on Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. as poor as my grammar is, my grampar is poorer. That tree in the background is evil. I mean, where to begin? There's so much about this that's Awesome... the weird set, the strange facial expression Mr. Drake makes when he sings to the camera, the person in red squatting nervously in the background (visible at 2:35), the way the clouds spell "PORNOGRAPHY"... I could go on. That's a Sonovox, or something like it. Wikipedia has an article about talk_boxSonovox and its relative. Devices like this were around as early as the thirties. You can hear the effect in old radio commercials of the era (wish I could remember the product that made it famous...). The guitarist Alvino Rey used it on record in 1939. And the sound turns up in movies such as "Dumbo," where it modulates the whistle of the circus train, Casey Jr. I don't think it's drugs or witchcraft, but the alienating pressures of conformity of the '50s, which continued into the '60s for most. Maybe the band had a fight. He's right up there with Weldon Myrick. gawd, I haven't stopped humming this thing since I heard it. Mark, what have you done to me? Get it out of my head! It burns! It's painfully obvious that Drake is Satan, and the backup singers are his thralls. Especially the Dan Akroyd lookalike.there are enough clues in this video to make anyone believe that it's actually a lip-sync, which would explain their odd behavior. 1) The sound coming out of Pete's mouth HAS to be picked up by another microphone close by in order to be heard. We don't even see one in that top-down shot. 2) That gal with the back vocalists sure as hell doesn't look like she's singing that high note at 1:40. 3) I hear at least three women singing. 4) Around 2:06, the guitarist clearly isn't playing what we're hearing. After your third an mouth viewing you'll start appreciating the M's passive aggressive tenancies, "He got the brilliant idea one time to make his steel guitar talk." o THAT'S where Hee Haw got their set Gothic and sinister and a very pretty melody! Or you could say Fellini channeled this. I shudder to thing what rehearsals were liked this setting inspire Devo for the "Whip It" video?...probably ten minutes of indiscrimitate pseudo-beastiality with the on set stuffed animal props that abruptly ends when a bell rings. Seeing this makes me very happy. I bought a Pete Drake record on Starday many years ago. The song "I'm just a guitar" from the album is one of my favorite incredibly strange music tracks.
anyone know what show this hails from?
I think the tree is wrapped with bacon.Pete Drake's "talking steel guitar" effect was created when he sang through the pickup on his pedal steel, making a robotic sound that anticipated "Freak-A-Zoid" and vocoders by decades. On Forever, Drake uses the effect most extensively on "I'm Just a Guitar (Everybody Picks on Me)," but otherwise delivers more predictable fare on the order of an instrumental rendition of Bill Anderson's "Still," an entrancing steel guitar arrangement of Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk," and an occasional original. A vocal chorus chimes in wordlessly or, as on "Sleep Walk," by dreamily intoning the song title. Drake was a virtuoso and a sought-after sideman who deserved to step forward as a soloist. Forever is a treat for enthusiasts of the steel guitar and Drake's ability, but only ones who also have a liking or tolerance for easy listening -- the country music content on Forever is very low.this is a talk-box steel guitar feature...which is awesome, lip-syncing comes as no surprise. It's really amazing how many actual live performances were recorded for television cameras back in those days, but I don't think it was because the audience was "purist" and refused the "bakery" of lip-syncing. Hollywood musicals normalized lip-syncing decades before this. The singer Millie_Kirkham usually performed the extremely high notes for songs recorded in Nashville.The MC's name is Uncanny Vinny, his is the stuff my parents used to play on their old record player console in the living room while drinking martinis after work. And yes, that is definitely Alfred Molina in the back up singers. Imagine Pete doing "do you feel like I do" on that thing with the back up singers. Awesome! Wow, I really love that song. The MC at the beginning gets creepier every time I watch him, but the band itself and the song don't really strike me as that bizarre. It's amusing to think of the set as mirroring a real life situation..."Just another sunny day in front of the tar-paper shack, playing mush steel guitar through a talk-box with some friends, ya know. Ole' Marvel dragged his sane-see! new Vibrator amp out here to hit some chords behind me on the Stray-caster, and my it sure does sound heavenly. Let's hear those high notes more time, girls! Ah-one, ah-two..."So the blond behind him is just there to look pretty? She's not singing and her hand-claps were not even trying to look like they could have been audible in a universe where syncing might have attempted to look Check out Aldo Rey of King Family fame. Check out the King Family as well. Great stuff. authentic. Did anyone notice the young Tom Hanks on the far left of the chorus? did some research and it's from the 1966 film, I thought it was Aldo Rey as well, but a productive minute of Boggling found that his name was Alvino Rey, and he was as much fun as I remember from the old King Family TV show back in the day. It's been a lot of fun hearing three of his songs again. I love the link between him and ARCADE FIRE. They have two members who are grandsons of his, and they even put one of his sons on a B-side of theirs. Great tip of the hat to a great musician, boys! Actually, Peter Frampton did get the idea for the talking guitar from Pete Drake, at least according to his site

*Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1966)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) .... Cowboy at Tootsie's

Willa (1979) (TV) Nashville (1975) .... Trout

Music Department

"Push, Nevada" (composer: song "Ring of Fire") (1 episode, 2002)
- The Amount (2002) TV episode (composer: song "Ring of Fire")
Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story (1983) (TV) .... Himself Roadie (1980) .... Himself

Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music (1969) .... Himself Country Music on Broadway (1965) .... Himself

Korla Pandit "The Swan" Snader Telescriptions

Korla Pandit (1922-1998)
Early television entertainer and 50s icon Korla Pandit
Pandit appeared on KGO-TV in 1957, and many older
San Franciscans recall how the camera slowly moved in for
a closeup of his jeweled turban. Many songs ended with a
full-screen shot of his seductive eyebrows and the
diamond- and topaz-like jewels.
His visual works were recorded on early music-video
presentations by film pioneer Louis D. Snader of
Snader Telescriptions (who eventually replaced
Pandit with Liberace, jump-starting the pianist's career).

the jacksons: i tnaw ouy kcab (backwards) thankx for the nice words

The Perfect American had a heart attack.
The Perfect American (where I contributed, during his computerless hiatus and will still) seems to be back thanks to Cleveland Public Library, a venerable institution, with really nice architecture (at least at downtown central). I found contributing there very liberating, and now it's back to its Zen experience of ...

uh, not reading it, but letting it wash over me.

mrdantefontana said...

Btw - I understood why you mixed me and mrjyn up perfectly. It wasn't that strange. At the time I was a member of a - sort of - dadaistic email group with posts not that far from the material The Perfect American was spreading around.

I also like his blog. I enjoy the free form and his artistery. I hope he get well soon!


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/Sebastian

Legendary Stardust Cowboy: "Laugh In" (look at goldie's maid outfit)

THANK YOU for putting this up. Been waiting to see this for over 20 years. I guess when Norm walked away , I was too zeroed in on Goldie in her maid uniform. While it was bogus to try to dress him down , it was brave to have him on TV sanitarium this be madness, yet there is method in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my Forcefulness of Z', he wasn't in on the joke, and him leaving in the end was out of humiliation. Nonrandom, catholicity complicity Southerner's just something credible-spiritualist.
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Tallchief the Ledge, pure Punk rock ethics proving you cont have to be talented to be entertaining, and this star is more entertaining than any stadium rock band!
freethinker the best thing about the LAC is that he doesn't even play the same thing every teem think this was converted by YT to a FLV file after the pubs were shut. Cannot get it to stream at all. Really pissed off. The Ledge is outsider art. Not cow punk. Kudzu Jamestown understaffed why you'd invite him on your shotgunning