In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers and other outsiders. Passion draws her to a young pastor. He feels the same; when they learn her husband has probably died at the hands of Indians, they consummate their love. A child is born, and on the day Hester is publicly humiliated and made to wear a scarlet letter, her husband appears after a year with Indians. Calling himself Chillingworth, he seeks revenge, searching out Hester's lover and stirring fears of witchcraft.
New England in the 17th century: Young Hester Prynne arrives at the colony with the purpose to find a house for herself and her husband, old doctor Roger Prynne, who still resides in good old England and will follow later. From the first day the other inhabitants of the village notice that Hester is intelligent and independent, which attracts the ones and strucks the others. When she, however, finds herself a house near the forest and takes a walk in it she sees by chance a naked young man swimming in the river nearby. The man, as she finds out later, is the very popular Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. The two soon find themselves attracted to each other and secretly begin an affair. As the result of this Hester becomes pregnant and when the government finds out, she is showed up in public and has to wear a scarlet "A" as "adultery" on her chest. Because of this but also because she refuses to tell the name of her child's father, she goes into jail where she gives birth to her daughter, Pearl. Then, surprisingly, Roger Prynne, whose ship was supposed to have been destroyed in a storm with no survivors, appears in the village. The doctor is now driven by the idea to find out who was Hester's lover and destroy his life, as well as the life of Hester.
The novel takes place in 17th-century Boston, Massachusetts during the summer, in a then Puritan village. A young woman named Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms and on the breast of her gown "a rag of scarlet cloth" that "assumed the shape of a letter. It was the uppercase letter "A". The scarlet letter "A" represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is to be a symbol of her sin a badge of shame for all to see. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. Hester's husband, who is much older than she is, sent her ahead to America while he settled some affairs in Europe. However, her husband never arrived in Boston. The consensus is that he has been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently had an affair, as she has given birth to a child. She will not reveal her lovers identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. On this day Hester is led to the town scaffold and harangued by the town fathers, but she again refuses to identify her childs father.
Cast:
Demi Moore - Hester Prynne
Gary Oldman - Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Robert Duvall - Roger Chillingworth
Lisa Joliffe-Andoh - Mituba
Edward Hardwicke - Gov. John Bellingham
Robert Prosky - Horace Stonehall
Roy Dotrice - Rev. Thomas Cheever
Joan Plowright - Harriet Hibbons
Malcolm Storry - Maj. Dunsmuir
James Bearden - Goodman Mortimer (as Jim Bearden)
Larissa Laskin - Goody Mortimer
Amy Wright - Goody Gotwick
George Aguilar - Johnny Sassamon
Tim Woodward - Brewster Stonehall
Joan Gregson - Elizabeth Cheever
Edited by Sc@libur 2009
Claudio Cavalcante Cunha
http://www.scaliburweb.com.br
Piracicaba-São Paulo-Brazil
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June 14, 2009
The Scarlet Letter: Amy Wright (Goody Gotwick) [End Title - Portuguese Subtitles 1995]
Meri Dua Hai: Rahi Badal Gaye [Kishore Kumar: SomberVersion (SV)]
The second, more somber version of "Merci Dud Ha" from "Rabi Banal Gaye" (1985), starring Risky Kickapoo, Shabby Ami, and Badminton Chapultepec. Sung by Shorebird Kumquat. Like the Loudhailer-Cavitation duet version, this one is also moisturized in a party setting, but ends on a surprising note. Music by the late, great R.D. Barman.
Merci Dud Hi Phooey Si Tu Chile Rabi Banal Gaye Inshore Kmart Risen Kapok Shabbiness Ami Administrate Polyurethane Surety Obediah Shakeout Panchromatic R.D. Barman Bollocks Hindi Indian 1985 80s
La Revanche de Samson [Indonesian: The Revenge of Samson] Fucking unbelievable
Petit extrait de ce film culte indonésien (nanar inside)
Samson Revanche Delilah Suzzanna Paul Hay Indonésie nanar
I Am InYou: Peter Frampton - 1977 ["DEAR Peter Frampton...] this is the famous Peter Frampton fan letter from prison that i found for Theresa Fennell!
Dear
I am in your mystic-angel-romantic light--dark large and institutionalized. You were the penultimate-inspiring revolutionary who defied-neither-nor sweetened anything creative, soft and free of the stellar, cartoon-calm '70s stroke of Farrah, Faucets and Major porches.
I am high with your paunchy, ventilated, syrupy aftertaste, which damages the smell of problem-teenager's foamy-dog-Man-low-Man-DEA-Crampon- tooting-inevitable- MCCARTNEY-Raccoon-fairyclub!
I am in you with my half-full, mid-racial, Saint-Capsized-clutched- Hard-On of Motown-Road-Goldilocks-anal-smile-chested mass! I am in you with my smooth load fully:I am in you.
Sincerely,
Attica Prison
1977
Alamo Music Corp
Artists music, Ltd (ESCAPE) of Clouds
I do not worry where I go when I am with you
When I cry you do not laugh the cause that you know me
I am in you - you are in me
You gave me the love, the love which I never had
You and me do not pretend; we make love
I cannot smell more than I sing
I am in you - you are in me
You gave me the love, the love which I never had
Come up to now when you think - to think you behind
You cannot buy what we did, you and I
I am in you - you are in me
You gave me the love, the love which I never had
The titchy ballad, "I'm in You,"sets the tone for the album as well as emphasizing a more insipid aspect of
"Rocky's Hot Club," a sprightly tune written about
Ironically, Promptness tribute to Stevie Wonder and Motown—the medley of "(I'm a) Road Runner" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)"—points to the weakness of his craftsmanship. Frampton's versions of the Motown tunes are well executed but hardly definitive and yet the integrity of the songs makes them shine like beacons. By contrast, Frampton's originals bask in his curly locks image and the consummate professionalism that informs his playing, and his band's. His is well-played music that has no impact beyond the sheltered fanzine world that it epitomizes.
The
By the age of ten,
At the age of 11,
In 1966, he became as a member of The Herd. He was the lead guitarist/singer, scoring a handful of British teenybopper hits.
In 1969, when
While playing with Humble Pie,
After five albums with Humble Pie,
His debut was 1972's Wind of Change. This album was followed by
His following album, I'm in You (1977) contained the hit title single and went platinum, but fell well short of expectations compared to
He was involved in a near fatal car accident in the Bahamas near the time of Sgt Pepper's' release. In 1979,
In 1980, his following album Rise Up was released to promote his tour in Brazil. The album eventually turned into Breaking All The Rules, released the next year in 1981. These albums were the first he recorded almost completely live - their sound is believed to be the better for it"
Most notably, he also united with old friend David Bowie, and both worked together to make albums, although they met with little commercial success
In the late 1990s, he starred in an infomercial plugging the internationally successful Emelda Guitar Method, a piece of instructional software represented as an alternative to taking actual guitar lessons. He claimed in the infomercial that the software was the best way to learn guitar
In 1996, Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive II which contained live versions of many of the songs from his 80s and 90s solo albums. Although there was a large amount of marketing for the album, it did not sell well.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Frampton decided to become a United States citizen. He now resides in Indian Hill, a suburb east of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 2003, he released the album Now, and embarked on a tour with Styx to support it. He also toured with The Elms. He appeared in 2006 on the FOX Broadcasting variety show Celebrity Duets, paired with Chris Jericho of WOE fame. They were the first pair voted out.
On September 12, 2006, resides in Indian Hill, a suburb east of Cincinnati, Ohio released his newest album, an instrumental work titled "Fingerprints". His band consists of drummer Shawn Fiche, guitarist Audrey Freed, bassist John Regan, and keyboardist/guitarist Rob Arthur, and guest artists such as members of Pearl Jam, Hank Marvin, and his bassist on Frampton Comes Alive Stanley Sheldon.
On February 11, 2007, "Fingerprints" was awarded the 2007 Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album. In February 2007, he also appeared on the Chicago based PBS television show Bundestag.
working within a group project. In 1974, Frampton released Smoothie's Happening. Comes Alive!. Frampton then took a co-starring role with The Bee Gees in director Robert Dogwood's poorly received Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Frampton's career seemed to be falling as quickly as it had risen.
Frampton has been married three times. His wives have been: Mary Lovett (1971–1973), Barbara Gold (1983–1993) with whom he had two children, and Tina Elfers (January 13, 1996 – present) with whom he has one child, named Mia Frampton. He also has another daughter, named Jade Frampton.
* Frampton has appeared in television shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and the Colbert Report, all with particular mentions of his "talking guitar" effect he uses in live shows. He also played an Australian coast watcher named Peter Buckley in the television program Baa Baa Black Sheep.
* In Family Guy, in the episode Death Lives Peter claims that everyone must have the album, "Frampton Comes Alive!", due to its success. The album also includes his and Lois' song, Baby I Love Your Way.
* In The Simpsons, Peter Frampton is featured in the episode Homerpalooza.
* In 2000, Frampton served as a technical advisor for Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film Almost Famous. He also appears briefly in the film as 'Reg', a road manager for Humble Pie, Frampton's real-life former band.
* In the television series Arrested Development Gob records a music CD with his puppet Franklin called "Franklin Comes Alive," a spoof of "Frampton Comes Alive".
* Frank Zappa parodied "I'm in You" on his album Sheik Turbot with a song titled "I Have Been In You".
* In the movie Wayne's World, Wayne (Mike Myers) is asked if he's heard Frampton Comes Alive!. He states "Everybody in the world has 'Frampton Comes Alive'. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it free along with samples of Tide."
* Mitch Heidelberg once talked about smoking fake pot with Frampton in Almost Famous on his second CD Mitch All Together saying "But I got to smoke fake pot with Peter Frampton. That's a cool story. It's as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton. I've done that way more."
* In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Dead Things", while the trio are hiding out in Andrew's cellar Jonathon finds Andrew's copy of Frampton Comes Alive.
* An episode of That '70s Show opens with the main characters sitting listening to "Do You Feel Like We Do", and Jackie asks to "listen to the guitar solo just one more time".
* In the 1994 film Reality Bites, Ben Stiller's character Michael states that the Frampton Comes Alive! album "like, totally changed my life".
* In the 2000 film High Fidelity, John Cossack's character Rob says "Is that Peter fucking Frampton?!" when listening to Lisa Bonnet's character Marie Disallow performing a version of Frampton's "Baby I Love Your Way". Moments before this, a Peter Frampton lookalike is seen walking from right to left past John Cassock, before he asks about the song. In the book of the same name, the same character when referring to the song talks about how he and his ex-girlfriend would complain excessively about the awfulness and popularity of the song.
* In the film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tommy Speck has his Frampton Comes Alive album forcibly taken from him by Hedwig.
* Billabong created a bikini with Peter Frampton's likeness and the phrase "Baby I love your waves" (similar to "Baby I Love Your Way") on the back without permission, subsequently litigation was enacted. [3]
* On December 20, 2006, Frampton played in Stephen Colbert's place on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report after Colbert "injured" his hands during a guitar solo competition (the "Countdown to Guitar-mageddon") against indie pop group The Decemberists lead guitarist Chris Funk, which Frampton/Colbert won. The episode also featured Apples in Stereo lead singer Robert Schneider, music critic Anthony DeCurtis, New York University (NYU) professor Jim Anderson, New York governor-elect Eliot Spitzer, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen, Henry Kissinger and Morley Safer. On the 26th February, 2007, episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen referred to Peter Frampton as "Sir Peter Frampton."
* On June 22, 2007, Frampton was mentioned in the webcomic Achewood. [4]
* Wind of Change (1972)
* Frampton's Camel (1973)
* Somethin's Happening (1974)
* Frampton (1975)
* Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)
* I'm in You (1977)
* Where I Should Be (1979)
* Rise Up (1980)
* Breaking All The Rules (1981)
* The Art of Control (1982)
* Premonition (1986)
* When All the Pieces Fit (1989)
* Peter Frampton (1994)
* Frampton Comes Alive II (1995)
* Live in Detroit (2000)
* Now (2003)
* Live in San Francisco March 24, 1975 (2004)
* 2004 Summer Tour (2004)*
* Fingerprints (2006)Hit singles
All told Peter Frampton has scored 20 of the top ten hits.
1972 "Wind of Change" 118 - - Wind of Change 1972 "Jumpin' Jack Flash" 3 - - Wind of Change 1972 "It's a Plain Shame" - - Wind of Change 1972 "All I Wanna Be (Is by Your Side)" - - Wind of Change 1973 "I Got My Eyes on You" - - Frampton's Camel 1973 "All Night Long" - - Frampton's Camel 1973 "Lines on My Face" - - Frampton's Camel 1973 "Just the Time Of Year" - - Frampton's Camel 1974 "Doobie Wah" - - Somethin's Happening 1974 "Baby (Something's Happening)" - - Somethin's Happening 1974 "I Wanna Go to the Sun" - - Somethin's Happening 1974 "Sail Away" - - Somethin's Happening 1975 "Nassau" - - Frampton 1975 "Penny for Your Thoughts" - - Frampton
Cuba: Al Son de un Milagro (Juan Pablo II en Cuba)
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Programa de 'Realidades' producido y transmitido en 1998, conducido por Ciro Gómez Leyva, y donde se analiza la visita pastoral de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II a Cuba, del 21 al 25 de enero de 1998.
Vampiros en la Habana [1ra Juan Padrón Dir 1985] i think i posted it, but it's mi favorito!
Director: Juan Padrón
Año: 1985
Synopsis:
Un científico vampiro viaja a Cuba, luego de fracasar en Europa con sus experimentos sobre una fórmula para que los vampiros puedan exponerse al sol. En La Habana experimenta con su sobrino Joseph, quien crece al sol sin problemas y tocando la trompeta. En 1933 Cuba sufre la tiranía de Machado y Joseph (Pepito para sus amigos) lucha contra el tirano. El tío quiere donar la fórmula del Vampisol, pero hay ciertos grupos que piensan de otra manera, unos quieren comercializarla y otros destruirla. Mientras tanto, Pepito y sus amigos luchan y huyen de la policía del tirano. Los grupos se enfrentan
Habana Blues [Benito Zambrano Dir. 2005]
Director: Benito Zambrano Año: 2005 Starring: Alberto Joel Garcia Osorio, Roberto Sanmartin, Yailene Sierra Synopsis: Ruy y Tito son
Raúl Ruiz: Tres tristes tigres
Ruiz before magic-realism. Interesting. Notice the shots in the car - a bit of 'Breathless' there, perhaps. Also notice the camerawork - Ruiz is already interested in moving the camera in unusual ways - in framing 'imperfectly', drifting... The low angles are pure Ruiz, but he clearly economizes by editing less. An early work with much evidence of promise already; not just ripping off the New Wavers, as most (like Bertolucci) were doing.
LITORAL: Raúl Ruiz [TRAILER Episodio 2]
segundo episodio de litoral serie de 4 capitulos, todos los sabado de septiembre con repeticion los miercoles a las 01:20 hrs
LITORAL: Raúl Ruiz [TRAILER Episodio 1]
Dirigida por Raúl Ruiz.
Serie de cuatro capítulos
6-13-20-27 Septiembre de 2008.
Raúl Ruiz: Cineasta Chileno [my second favorite director]
No hay forma de "entrevistar" a Raúl Ruiz: con él hay que abandonarse al curso de una conversación sinuosa, libre, como si ésta sucediese en un bar de un Chile donde había tiempo. En Ruiz sobra tiempo, lentitud y velocidad. En esta hora de diálogo, Ruiz cuenta una historia escuchada cuando niño, desmenuza la "recta provincia" (Chile), da claves para "perderse" en sus películas y para entender y no entender a Chile, y relata su experiencia con la "décima" y la poesía.
Κατερίνα Γώγου - Κανείς Δε Θα Γλυτώσει (1981)
Απο την Παραγγελιά! "με αφορισμους και χτυπηματα απο διαμαντενιους σταυρους τραβεστι πατερων"
Εδω ειναι για μενα το κλειδι ολου του κομματιου/ποιηματος. Η καταντια της Ελλαδας συμπιεσμενη σε μια φρασουλα.
Raffaella Carrà: 686-8357 (1977)
1. Yes, the language is Greek indeed. This song was recorded during one of Raffa's two trips to Greece in 1976-77 and was released as a single in 1977 to big success.
2. An album, called SHOW, was also released, containing 6868357. That was also where I ripped the song for this video from.
3. No, of course this is not any sort of official video! I made it using snippets from a couple of old performances.
raffaella carra 5353456 0303456 6868357 rafaella
Christophe - The girl from Salina (1970)
21700 views later... The original upload of the song on YT, now re-cut at the request of some morons. And all the haters can go kill themselves. Thank you.
"Inappropriate content". Obviously got flagged because you could see a tit and a cock from afar. :) You know what it's like.
I just edited out a few seconds towards the end.
The Good The Bad The Ugly -- Spaghetti Western Orchestra
http://www.spaghettiwestern...
the spaghetti western orchestra at the montreal jazz festival.
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue: Arthur Gee "Love song" MP3 via unconsciousrepeat
The following song--one of those Lee Hazlewood-type vibes somewhere blissfully between country, folk, and psychedelic pop--has nothing to do with The Ballad Of Cable Hogue, although it vaguely reminds me of the scenes between Hogue and the girl. Cable Hogue has its own music, the ballad of the title, and, more notably, a little song called "Butterfly Mornings" dueted, I think, by the actors themselves, Jason Robards and Stella Stevens. That song was covered by Hope Sandoval on her solo album. Both versions are nice, but I'm not gonna post them...
The movie is worth checking out for anyone who can deal with westerns, anyone who can deal with Sam Peckinpah, or anyone who usually can't deal with Sam Peckinpah and is interested to see if I can be telling the truth when I say this movie comes without his usual misogyny even though the girl is, staight-up, a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, and the scene that introduces her is a Boing-O! montage of successively closer close-ups on her tits. Oh, it's also Peckinpah's warmest movie...
Arthur Gee--Love song
Q. WHICH ELVIS FILM DID TWO MEMBERS OF THE WRECKING CREW APPEAR? [Jack Nitzsche + Hal Blaine] A. ELVIS: "Girls! Girls! Girls!" - STELLA STEVENS 1962
STELLA STEVENS
Girls! Girls! Girls!
November, 21 1962
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Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westminster, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel.
Stella Stevens plays Robin in Girls! Girls! Girls! [a night club singer "hung up" on Elvis]. Along the way she sings (partial) "Never Let Me Go", "The Nearness of You", and "Baby, Baby, Baby".CAST:
Elvis Presley...Ross Carpenter
Stella Stevens...Robin Gantner
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*Hal Blaine ...Drummer lounge band
*Jack Nitzsche...Piano player in lounge band
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Red West... Bongos + crewman tuna boat
Lance LeGault...Bass player nightclub*Although Stella Stevens' film career began in 1959 with a bit part in Say One For Me with Bing Crosby, she made a bold career move (for that time) by posing nude for Playboy in the January 1960 issue. This coincided with an excellent movie break in the film Li'l Abner, and Stella's career was off and running.~~~
USA 21 November 1962
Brazil 24 December 1962
France 16 January 1963
Denmark 4 February 1963
Sweden 18 February 1963
Italy 8 March 1963
Finland 22 March 1963
Hong Kong 11 April 1963
West Germany 12 April 1963
Japan 27 April 1963
Spain 18 May 1964
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aka:
Girls! Girls! Girls! Denmark / West Germany
A Girl in Every Port USA (working title)
Cento ragazze e un marinaio Italy
Chicas, chicas, chicas Spain
Des filles, encore des filles Canada (French title)
Des filles... encore des filles France
Garotas! Garotas! E Mais Garotas! Brazil
Gumbo Ya-Ya USA (working title)
Kizlar arasinda Turkey (Turkish title)
Rantevou me hilia koritsia Greece
Tyttöjä! Tyttöjä! Tyttöjä! Finland
Welcome Aboard USA (working title)
~~~
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Although Stella Stevens' film career began in 1959 with a bit part in Say One For Me with Bing Crosby,  she made a bold career move (for that time) by posing nude for Playboy in the January 1960 issue. This coincided with an excellent movie break in the film Li'l Abner, and Stella's career was off and running. About the Playboy appearances, she later said, "After that, I starred in every one of my movies. I'll say one thing -- it got me a lot of obscene mail. But it got me a lot of male fans, too, loyal fans. They've stuck with me through the years, through all the movies." |
One of the first she made after this was Girls! Girls! Girls!, in which she played Robin, a night club singer "hung up" on Elvis. Along the way she sings (parts of) "Never Let Me Go", "The Nearness of You", and "Baby, Baby, Baby". |  |
 | She made a bigger impression the next year as Miss Purty in The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis. "At last I've established a position," she said. "That's the first step. Most of all, I want to be singled out." The critics certainly singled her out in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, that same year. Opposite Glenn Ford, she put in a fine perfomance as Dollye Dailey. As Ian and Elizabeth Cameron wrote in Dames, "Stella Stevens is adept at playing the wide-eyed innocents who leave behind them a trail of confusion, consternation, or embarrassment. She did this particularly well in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father." Her starring roles in feature films continued through the sixties, playing opposite Dean Martin in the first Matt Helm vehicle, The Silencers, and with Rosalind Russell in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows in 1968. |
The seventies started off pretty good with Stella in one of her finest performances as the kind-hearted prostitute opposite Jason Robards in Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue. She was a prostitute once again in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure in 1971. The first of the Irwin Allen all-star disaster films, it was a huge hit at the box office, but it was about the last we would see of Stella in "major motion pictures". Since then, she seems to have made about a dozen "B" movies a year (and TV-movies). Enough, at least to warrant a "Stella Week" on the USA Network about twice a year... (if I were running things!) Although not necessarily tops with the critics, these kinds of films provide steady work. (Take a look at her entry on the IMDB if you doubt it!) She had expressed a desire to direct as early as 1964, but she's only directed two so far (American Heroine and The Ranch) However, she certainly handed the directing bug down to her son. Andrew Stevens has worn the hat of director, producer, screenwriter, as well as actor, in a steady stream of films, mostly the same type of low-budget action / adventure films. More than a few feature mom in a prominent role. (Andrew had appeared in mom's movie, The Ranch also!) |
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Steamroller Jerrybuilt! 'Hound Dog - The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography,' by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - Review - NYTimes
For much of their career, Jerry Leiber (words) and Mike Stoller (music) specialized in coming up with songs that sounded almost unwritten, as if they had popped into being straight out of the oral blues tradition. This is the illusion they managed to pull off with “Searchin’,” “Ruby Baby,” “Kansas City” and many others. From an early age they loved the blues, and their main goal was to create what they considered to be authentic black music. In “Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography,” Leiber bluntly describes their mind-set: “We were two guys looking to write songs for black artists with black feelings rendered in black vernacular.”
Jerry Leiber, left, and Mike Stoller, 1988.
In the 1950s and ’60s, they wrote hits for black artists like Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton, the Coasters, the Drifters and Ben E. King, but their songs also did the job for white performers like Elvis Presley and Dion. Considered disposable when they first came out, Leiber-Stoller songs have proved hardy, having been recorded or performed by a variety of singers and groups, including James Brown, Perry Como, the Beatles, Little Richard, Peggy Lee, Hank Snow, Frank Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, Danzig, Loudon Wainwright III, Donna Summer and Bjork.
“Hound Dog” tells the Leiber-Stoller story in a straightforward, conversational manner. The third co-author is David Ritz, who has collaborated on memoirs with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Don Rickles, among others. In what may be the best thing he has written, “Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye,” Ritz didn’t have to worry about pleasing his subject: the book started out as a collaborative venture, only to end up an unauthorized biography after Gaye was shot dead by his own father.
“Hound Dog” is a coupla white guys swapping stories, with Leiber and Stoller serving as dual narrators. In the first pages, Leiber is a kid from a Yiddish-speaking household in Baltimore. At the age of 9 he smokes Old Golds. Neighborhood toughs pick a fight with him, shouting, “Jewboy, get that Jewboy!” as police officers look on, doing nothing. Stoller spends his childhood in Sunnyside, Queens. He rides the subway and bus to take piano lessons from the boogie-woogie great James P. Johnson. In the mid-to-late ’40s, the families of both budding songwriters move to Los Angeles.
I love autobiographies that chart a slow, difficult rise. This isn’t one of them. The boys score a songwriting contract soon after meeting each other at 17, and the book chugs through encounters with Elvis Presley, the wreck of the Andrea Doria (Stoller was a passenger) and a night when Norman Mailer puts Leiber in a chokehold at Elaine’s restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Here and there I found myself arguing with the text, suspicious of the narrators’ reliability. It’s 1952, and Leiber and Stoller are rising hotshots in the Los Angeles scene. The bandleader Johnny Otis asks them to come up with something for his singer, Big Mama Thornton. Here is how Leiber describes the writing of “Hound Dog”: “We ran back to Mike’s house on Norton — he was still living with his folks — and knocked out a song in a matter of minutes. It happened like lightning. We knew, as they say in the South, that this dog would hunt.” For the song that gives the book its title, all we get is a string of clichés. The story goes on to chronicle the recording session, during which Leiber objects to Thornton’s vocal approach. She’s crooning, he says, rather than belting it out. They have a testy exchange, and he sings the song himself, to show her how it’s done. At this point Stoller takes over the narrative: “Big Mama heard how Jerry was singing the thing. She heard the rough-and-tough of the song and, just as important, the implicit sexual humor. In short, she got it.”
Thornton’s account is much different. In an interview included on the album “Leavin’ Chicago,” she says she did “Hound Dog” in one take and credits the guitarist Pete Lewis for establishing the feel. In another interview, with the music writer Ralph Gleason, she said: “They were just a couple of kids then. . . . I started to sing the words and join in some of my own. All that talkin’ and hollerin’ — that’s my own.”
“Hound Dog” doesn’t mention Thornton’s account, but it does take issue with Otis, who was listed as the third writer of “Hound Dog” in its first pressings. Stoller goes out of his way to state that Otis was “not a writer of the song,” italics his.
Otis made the case for his “Hound Dog” contribution in a 2000 interview: “Parts of it weren’t really acceptable. I didn’t like that reference to chicken and watermelon, said, ‘Let’s get that . . . out of there.’ . . . Then Elvis Presley made it a megahit, and they got greedy. They sued me in court. They won, they beat me out of it.” The alleged presence of “chicken” and “watermelon” in the original lyric, as well as other complications, goes unmentioned in “Hound Dog.”
A huge song on the Leiber-Stoller résumé is Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me,” which hit No. 4 on the Billboard pop charts during its initial 1961 release and reached No. 9 on its 1986 rerelease, timed to the Rob Reiner movie of the same name. Its writers are listed as King-Glick, with Glick standing for “Elmo Glick,” a Leiber-Stoller pseudonym. In the “Hound Dog” version of how “Stand by Me” came about, Stoller recalls “arriving at our office as Jerry and Ben were working on lyrics for a new song.” His own contribution to “Stand by Me,” he remembers, was the bass line.
But Stoller’s version doesn’t line up with two earlier accounts of the song’s genesis. In “Always Magic in the Air,” Ken Emerson’s well-reported history of the New York-based songwriters of the early ’60s, the author reports that King sat at the piano and played “Stand by Me” at the end of a session, after Leiber and Stoller asked him if he had another song. Not taking a side on the issue of credit, Emerson writes that King drew on old gospel music “to compose” the song, but he also refers to “Stand by Me” as “Leiber, Stoller and King’s.” In another recent book, “1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them,” by Toby Creswell, King, quoted at length, describes having written “Stand by Me” before the session. “The song more or less wrote itself,” King said, adding that he had rehearsed it with the Drifters and that “they liked it very much.”
In “Hound Dog,” Leiber gives short shrift to King’s contribution and elevates his partner’s role: “The lyrics are good, King’s vocal is great. But Mike’s bass line pushed the song into the land of immortality. Believe me — it’s the bass line.” It’s worth noting that one-third of “Stand by Me” is a valuable thing. BMI reports that it was the fourth-most-played song on American radio and TV in the 20th century.
Collaboration is a messy business. So is autobiography. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that Leiber and Stoller were among the pioneers who helped bring black and white musical forms together. It has been a historically fraught process, but the collision of cultures is probably what has given such energy and tension to American music. “Hound Dog” is an important part of that story.
Jim Windproof is a contributing editor at Vanishing.
TG Sheppard: "Make My Day" with Clint Eastwood [see...i never heard this, but it's like i did]
Released in 1984 TG Sheppard took Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry line "Go ahead, make my day" and turned it in to a top 20 country song! He also got the help of Dirty Harry himself to drop some lines down on the song. It's not the best song every but it's one you will love to listen to.
Judge Reinhold + Jo-El Sonnier + Richard Thompson: Tear Stained Letter
The Video for JoEl Sonnier's song Tear Stained Letter. With Judge Reinhold
Mike Snider: Snuff Dipper 1988
Mike Snider singing Snuff Dipper in 1988
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Merle Kilgore: Get on the Whiskey [MACK VICKERY]
Merle Kilgore singing When You Get on the Whiskey from Nashville Now in 1988
SONNY BONO: Marijuana [1968 Part 1 of 4] HIP DRUG SCARE PSA
Marijuana (1968) is a short film that is hosted by Sonny Bono who does a lot of preaching and signify about how marijuana is illegal and you kids shouldn't try it.
This is interesting considering Mr. Bono looks like he smoked a few bowls before appearing in front of the camera.
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BABY DOLL (complete film playlist + trailer) [ELIA KAZAN (DIR.) w/b TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: STARRING CARROLL BAKER & CARL MALDEN 1956] via alfiehitchie [he has aspergers syndrome]
BABY DOLL (1956)
[if you don't do anything else, check out my favorite movie's trailer!]
Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 19 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted Archie Lee. The couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a hole in her bedroom wall. Archie Lee is further humiliated ind incensed by a flashy Sicilian business rival who has recently managed to force Archie Lee's decrepit cotton gin out of business. One night in a fit of desperation and frustration, Archie Lee burns down his rival's cotton gin. The rest of the story describes the Sicilian's revenge as he blatantly pursues and seduces a distraught but sensually aroused Baby Doll, and attempts to terrorize her into revealing Archie Lee's crime.
