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<img src="cid:3D94FC64-FFB6-4711-BA22-8958388C9053@local"><img src="cid:8ED86BB1-C79B-4230-9D5C-6AFE5AB7B264@local"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">A hardy hi-yo Silvertone to all you crazy chucks and chicks out there!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Welcome to GP #4-–a brand spankin’ new stash of “old” film clips scientifically designed to get your mojo workin' and your eyes, ears and rear in gear.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I've been working the past several weeks cruisin' youtube for buried treasures and have rounded up another nice little panful of nuggets for all you YouthTubers and Grouch Potatoes to sift through. Don’t try this at home – I can do it faster & more efficiently since I’ve been collecting music on film almost as long as I been stackin' up the wax. I already know what exists, and only a small fraction is up there with the cyberspace cadets.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You wouldn't believe how much youseless, tubeless trash I've waded through, but buried deep in the swill are some swell gems: clips from old movies, TV, newsreels, and documentaries containing incredible music of all styles and eras.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The concept of this little missive is that I'll post one email every two or three weeks, containing links to 5-10 brilliant old musical clips. Anyone can join the list and start getting these posts, and anyone can leave the list by unsubscribing. No one can see your email address and it won’t be sold into slavery or shared with anyone outside of the AMHF and yours truly.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I’ve scribbled some semblance of program notes for your education and Edison-ification, which start right after the links.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you got any kind of “kind” speakers, now’s the time to plug ‘em in and turn ‘em up, or forever hold your peas.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">1 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benny Goodman Orchestra with Johnny “Scat” Davis “Hooray for Hollywood”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1937<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGWOi66-4U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGWOi66-4U</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benny Goodman Orchestra<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Sing, Sing, Sing”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1937<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Annie Ross<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) with Count Basie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Twisted”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1959<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDLnFrbi78">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDLnFrbi78</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>George Jones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“You Gotta Be My Baby”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>with Joe Maphis, lead guitar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1956<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDwf79a2y5M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDwf79a2y5M</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Stringbean with Flatt & Scruggs<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span> “Run, Rabbit, Run”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>early 1960s<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Little Tich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1900<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Wilbur “Willie” Hall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The greatest trick fiddling of all time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1930<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XA16CzV_Y0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XA16CzV_Y0</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 c.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Wilbur Hall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on the Spike Jones TV Show 27 years later<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1957<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LA4TN9jqM&">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LA4TN9jqM&</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ray Charles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Hit the Road, Jack”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1961<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Georgia Sea Island Singers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Adam in the Garden”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>mid-1960s</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy5MoWPyS0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy5MoWPyS0</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Rev. Louis Overstreet & Congregation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Working on a Building”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1963</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfOjQRRL5g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfOjQRRL5g</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker with Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Buddy Rich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Part 1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1950<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lester Young, Bill Harris, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Flip Phillips, Ella Fitzgerald with Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Buddy Rich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Part 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1950</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV_wB9c8zw&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV_wB9c8zw&NR=1</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">OK, that's the gold; here come the notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You should be at least this tall to go on this ride or at least get guidance from somebody else’s parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If you are easily offended by any kind of off -beatnik humor and attempted satire, you can bail on the notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now fasten your seat belts and ready or not, off we go into the wild blue...</span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Too many notes (and not nearly enough rests) by Glenn Allen Howard, Founder and Curator of the American Musical Heritage Foundation–a 501 (c) 3 non-profit phonograph record library.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is THE Benny Goodman Orchestra with Harry James, Gene Krupa and the original cast of cats that put swing over big time on a Greatly Depressed and totally down and out and unsuspecting American Q. Public. Starting in 1935, Jazz, in the form of Swing, became the popular music of the Benighted States of America and was an irresistible influence on almost every man, woman and child in the whole wide. America and democracy became sin-nonymous with the pure pleasure that this brand new brand of hot jazz brought to the head, hands, heart and especially the feets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The Swing Era was the last time that the best musicians in the world (the jazz musicians) were playing <i>dance</i><span style="font-style: normal"> music. Any stud or studette looking to pick up on what makes folks move and groove should bend their little headbone in the general direction of the jazz that went down just before the Bop came to Be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The post-maudlin academics tend to rush past the first and most fun decades of jazz history to get down with Bird and Diz so they have something their classical training can dissect and discuss amongst their fallow intellectuals. How can they possibly analyze the likes of Louis Armstrong or Count Basie? Explaining the rhythm, the blues and the groove is much harder than bitching all the live long day about distended 13<sup>th</sup> chords with flat fivers and like dat dere.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Jazz is much more about listening to the actual records than reading all about it in a textbook or seeing it notated, castrated and put down and out in musical staph notation that’s only a pale shadow of what it really is. You gotta put it on the table-turner and crank it all the way up to really get it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And ferchristsakes don’t forget the repeats– the one semester jazz history courses they grudgingly teach in the little red schoolhouses don’t allow any time for repeats so even the straight A-sters graduate with nuttin’ but a lotta nada. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">“Hooray for Hollywood” is about as iconic a number as ever laid down about the glory days of Tinseltown in the thirties that would peak in just a couple in 1939, when too many movies should have scored with Oscar if the World were Fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The lyrics are hilarious, and AMHF award-winning singer Johnny “Scat” Davis, (for this little ditty and “Congratulate Me”), nails the vocal down with some solid swing singing from Francis Langford, Harry James and Gene Krupa. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">As the coda approaches, you can take a little tour of several of the swingingest 1937 Hollywood hangouts. In the late 30s this little pre-smog paradise was probably the coolest place on Planet Earth, with more artists and musicians per square inch than anywhere else in the great gasser of a galaxy they had goin’ on. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benny Goodman Orchestra w/Johnny “Scat” Davis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Hooray for Hollywood”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1937<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGWOi66-4U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGWOi66-4U</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here’s where drummin’ really gets goin’, with Gene Krupa skinin’ the snare and thumpin’ the toms on Louis Prima’s all-time pretty and primo people-pleaser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Carnegie gig is still a year down the pike, but the band is not only gettin’ off, but gettin’ off often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The skinny on the trumpeter is that it’s Harry James before he changed into a corny commercial caterwauler and just prior to when he made the big grab for Betty Grable, the blonde bombshell who had her gams covered by Lloyd’s of London (derriere) for a cool million frogskins. She was the most popular pinup during the rave up called the Big One # Two which was also known as the “pre-British” or “German Invasion.” Fortunately for the various volks, the hits didn’t keep comin’ for Herr Hitler and he forever remains a “one shit wonder.”<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This little clip is pure endorphins on a stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benny Goodman Orchestra<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Sing, Sing, Sing”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1937<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k">http://www.youtube.and com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With “Twisted” Annie Ross whipped out one of the first and easily the “best” song in the bop / jazz style called <i>vocalese</i><span style="font-style:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She wrote a lyric that laid down a syllable onto every note of Wardell Gray’s tenor solo of the same title. Later, in 1959, she did an even more righteous version with Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks for Columbia–“required” listening at the AMHF. Get it on vinyl if you can. <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Here’s a Howard’s “hip tip” for a multiple wig-flip to take you further still:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">To really check out <i>vocalese</i><span style="font-style:normal">, pick up on the Wardell Gray Prestige take on “Twisted” (which is easy to find from Fantasy Records, but not on youtube) and compare the original sax solo with Annie’s vocals on Prestige and the LHR romp on Columbia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Then, repeat the instrumental vs. the vocal versions with everything else Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ever waxed–especially the 1958 tour de force “Sing a Song of Basie” with the Count’s originals, starting with the Columbia versions of “Avenue C” and “Little Pony.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Hold on tight to the lyric sheet, ‘cause it’s quite a ride, but <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">you’ll wake up an easy eighth of–an–ounce lighter and twice as tall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Like Geets Romo useta say, “like it will be good for you, man.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Annie Ross<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) with Count Basie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Twisted”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1959<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDLnFrbi78">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDLnFrbi78</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">3. Here’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Possum. Even then, little Georgie was (and always will be) the baddest ass honky tonk singer in the whole history of actual, genuine, for real, plain old three-chord country western music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Back in the days when his flattop could have been used as a carpenter kitty’s square to check for all the right angles, his vocal cords came up with all the right moves from the get-go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He still had a lifetime of excess and “no shows” in front of him, but here at the beginning of the run, everything he sang turned to gold, if not the occasional actual gold record. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The lead guitarist is Joe Maphis with his trademark double–neck Mosrite guitar and mandolin combination plate, and George’s gitbox looks like it’s covered in real cowhide. I can’t see the brand, though. Note the Nudie-cutie fruit suits with the lunatic fringe–garish enough to make even ol’ Webb Pierce blush like a red–faced Russkie spy caught with his hand in the top-secret cookie jar. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Tex Ritter’s comment that “he’s little but he’s loud,” had always been used to describe the even more diminutive Little Jimmy Dickens. This clip is <i>real</i><span style="font-style:normal"> country western music, the kind that most city folks didn’t dig. It don’t mean a thang, if it ain’t got that twang.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>George Jones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“You Gotta Be My Baby”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>with Joe Maphis, lead guitar 1955<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDwf79a2y5M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDwf79a2y5M</a> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fifth–string banjoist Dave Akeman continued the Uncle Dave Macon/Grandpa Jones tradition of minstrelry, vaudeville and old time banjo frailing and made several albums for Starday Records that are still treasured by both the Ivy little League urban–turban bluegrass heads as well as the real honest-to-goodness old-time straight-outta-Camptown Grand Old Opry audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">His sublime sartorial sense of absolute slouch and slacks anticipated the pants-at-half- mast fashion that came in with the hippety-hop culture in the late 1980s, but they didn’t look quite as stupid on Stringbean ‘cause his shirt tail covered up his butt crack.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">And how about a big hand for those eyebrows!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Stringbean with Flatt & Scruggs<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span> “Run, Rabbit, Run”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>early 1960s<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOy3WdT3mY</a> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The next 3 little clips show how an earlier vaudeville act influenced a true classic of the genre as Little Tich’s “big shoe” dance evolved into part of the greatest trick fiddling of all time, captured on film in 1930 and again, more than two decades later on early TV. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Little Tich was a 4’ 6” English Music Hall star who was miraculously captured on streaming silver nitrate in 1900 dancing with his 28 inch “big shoes.” Even more miraculously, it was never found by the evil un-guardians of culture whose job it has always been to throw these kinds of treasures away. Most vaudeville acts were never captured on moving pictures or the few made were lost and the great acts have vanished into the ethers forever. The stage is temporary, but the films, like phonograph records, are good forever, but only if they are preserved.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Little Tich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1900<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Willie Hall, a trombonerista for the classic Paul Whiteman Orchestra, must have caught Little Tich or the 1900 film clip, or far more likely, someone on the American vaudeville circuits that had stolen the little Tichster’s act. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Adding the big shoes to the trick fiddling made for a combination that is as good or better than any other surviving vaudeville footage. The bicycle “pump and circumstance” finale of “Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends” should have brought him great rewards, if not a full pardon, but instead, in the end, he got the “chair.” <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">I saw him play the bicycle pump on Johnny Carson in the late 1960s or early 1970s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That footage, along with most of the show’s archives, have been lost to history because back in the 1970s, an NBC corporate executive ordered the cumbersome 2 inch reel to reel tapes of the Tonight Show to be taken for a ride out into the Atlantic Ocean and given a one-way ticket to Davey Jones’ locker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Everybody who was anybody was on those tapes, and this moron decided to dump them into the deep like an inconveniently truthful mob-informer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Those tapes would be worth millions today, but noooooooooooo!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Wilbur “Willie” Hall The greatest trick fiddler of all time + virtuoso bicycle pump and circumstance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1930<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XA16CzV_Y0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XA16CzV_Y0</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5 c.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I can’t begin to wrap my wig around how many times ol’ Wilbur must have trotted out his trick fiddling act in the 27 years between the 1930 film and this live performance on Spike Jones’ TV show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Like most great vaudevilles performances, the act changed gradually, if at all, but over the eons this one evolved into an almost completely different dance. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">5c.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Wilbur Hall on the Spike Jones TV show<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1957 <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LA4TN9jqM&">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LA4TN9jqM&</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So here’s one even the squarest of hexagon-heads knows, but it is, after all, a great live rendition of Percy Mayfield’s most righteous royalty–raker, filmed just as Ray was moving into the top of his game and into the depths of his heroin jones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Still, it’s the man hisself getting’ dissed with finesse and distinction by four of the greatest back up singers that ever backed up <i>anything</i><span style="font-style:normal">. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">According to legend, the singers were called the Raelettes because they “let Ray.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I don’t know, I was only told. <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ray Charles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Hit the Road, Jack”<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1961<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One of the liveliest, loveliest and loftiest Big Al Lomax finds was Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The islands were physically and culturally isolated from the mainland and inhabited entirely by descendents of slaves who retained the old school spirituals, ring shouts, slave music and folk culture well into the second half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, just in time for the folklore kitties to nail it down solid into wax, tape and a little bit of flicks. </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This short clip by Bess Lomax Hawes gives a hint of what kind of groove they could grok ‘n’ roll on with just voices, clapping, stomping, a tambourine and an old man hitting a wooden staff against the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">They made a few records from the 1950s through the 1970s and you should run out and get them pronto–before they go out–of–print–o. </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Georgia Sea Island Singers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Adam in the Garden”</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy5MoWPyS0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRy5MoWPyS0</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">8. I first caught the Rev. Overstreet from an early 1960s LP put out by St. Christopher Strachwitz on his uber-tubular Arhoolie label.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You can still get it from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I had to have my wig repeatedly re-attached after spyin’ this ragin’ congregation and their smokin’, reachin’, preachin’ guitarist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This was filmed about a half-a-second before the Civil Rights Movement really kicked into overdrive and started staring down the Old Segregated South. ‘Cause of all this, it is far more precious and valuable than scoring Boardwalk, Park Place and the three green pastures on that side of the board. This is that “old, weird America” and truly captured something forever that few white folks of the day were ever in a position to eyeball on their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Rev. Louis Overstreet & Congregation “Working on a Building” 1963</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfOjQRRL5g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfOjQRRL5g</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:33.0pt">Here’s a Howard’s “hip tip” for a weally wighteous wig-flip to make you “move<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on up a little higher” in the general direction of squirrelly gates:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">If you like your gospel guitar down home and dirty, bend your eardrums for a count of 155 tick tocks towards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Two Wings” by the Rev. Utah Smith. There’s no known film clips, but the audio alone will get your tail feather to testify and shake your socks all the way down. All ya gotta do is point and click so you got no excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here ‘tis:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1qEPQCyBM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1qEPQCyBM</a></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Dave Alvin and Jerry Garcia will both be proud of you for takin’ the time to check out one of their gospel faves. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Long before Garth Hudson of The Band hipped me to the infamous “Buddy Rich Tapes,” I got in on a B.R. Big Band post-show yakfest backstage during which some cat asked him if he had ever played with Charlie Parker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With his legendary lack of humility, he boasted that not only had he played with Bird, but that a session was filmed! I socked that nugget in my noggin and started to peel my eyes on a daily basis in case I ever ran across that mother movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Eventually, the 1952 short film of Bird & Diz burnin’ up “Hot House” surfaced with the Hollywood Squaresville columnist Earl Wilson presenting a Downbeat Award to a couple of jazz cats he’d obviously never heard of. The drummer was not Buddy Rich, and after hearing the “B.R. Tapes” I wondered if Buddy was full of something browner than his own outgoing, going, gone personality. Years flew by and there was nary a word about this lost clip of the Bird, until just recently.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Buddy may well have been full of it, but he was right on the money about the film of hisself scrapin’ the skins with Charlie Parker and there were a couple of other jazz cats he forgot to mention that are definitely worth mentioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bird is just beaming and beautiful even when he stops blowing and is pegged diggin’ Buddy’s solo in silent repose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Can you believe that no one bothered to film him more than once after this, let alone every day all day long?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jazz was still declasse in those days, when all the real phonies showed up right on schedule to show off their furs and ice at the Symphony every Saturday Night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Bird Lives! At least as long as his records and films survive.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9 a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker with Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Buddy Rich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Part 1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1950<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9 b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Prez and his Porkpie are present and accounted for and absolutely cool school every step of the way on this little romp. Even Flip flips out farther than he usually flies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ella is in fine form, scattin’ for all the cats in the band and especially for her favorite fella, her handsome hubby, Ray Brown.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Lester Young, Bill Harris, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Flip Phillips, Ella Fitzgerald with Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Buddy Rich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Part 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1950</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV_wB9c8zw&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV_wB9c8zw&NR=1</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Well kiddies, the clock on the Clubhouse wall hit the sack hours ago, so as the sun rises slowly on the Easter Bunny, this is Glenn Allen Howard, signin’ off, noddin’ out and keelin’ over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">I’ll sendya another that’ll really sendya–eventually, if not sooner. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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