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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><img src="cid:B8AA4D29-5516-4D3F-8B01-F7D704171638@local"> <o:p><img src="cid:79DF6E9F-4BD1-43F2-BB73-1B27BFFAB5C3@local"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">A giant gin and Kryp-tonic toast to all you mild-mannered Supermen and all the lovely lowest Lanes running around all over the Metropolis out there on this emailcious daily planet!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">Welcome to GP #5 - s'more e-motional picturals of "old" film clips scientifically designed by an old school Hollywood "mad scientist" from a low-budget fifties-era central casting that even Ed Wood could afford) to widen your eyes, unfold your earlobes, loosen your wig and set your sitter on a steady course to flip, flop and fly in the general direction of the nearest 4 and 20 dogstars baked in a pi in the sky. I mean like the 3.14159 rounded off kind, which is like way out and well past the source of all those saucers in Plan Ninesville, which has like a million figure zip code. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">I've been "working on the wailwoad" the past several months, layin' tracks through youtube lookin' for golden spikes and buried stashes and have rounded up another nice little eighth of nuggets so all you YouthTubers and Grouch Potatoes can pack it in for the evening and dust your respective brooms. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">Don't try this at home - I can find this stuff faster & more efficiently since I've been collecting music on film nearly as long as I been rackin' up all these records. I already know what is "out there" (in more ways than one), and I've dug that only about an eighth of what I know exists has been caught in the net yet. The other 7/8's are still nyetsville for now, but spaces are being filled and lotsa cool cybercats are getting loaded and uploading all the time, some small fraction of which is actually worth your time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">You wouldn't believe how much useless, tubeless trash I've waded through, but I know where the bodies are buried with treasures that trump Tut's little stash of solid gold: clips from old movies, TV, newsreels, and documentaries containing incredible music of all styles and eras.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">The concept of this little missive is that I'll post one email every three or four 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">I've scribbled some semblance of an ocean of liner notes for your education and Edison-ification, which start right after the links. This way you can read all about it after you see the clip which is the best way I've found to learn about the music. Reading books that are about records you don't have access to is definitely lame in a frame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">As always, if you got any kind of "kind" speakers, now's the time to plug 'em in and crank 'em all the way up, so your cribmates and all the neighbor cats and mice can get hip by the process of osmousis. Even dollar store headphones are better than the speakers in your computer, this stuff sounds great plugged into a real stereo.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Don't Bogart these clips, my friend, pass them (and the pipe, if appropriate) over to all your buds.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Johnny Otis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Willie and the Hand Jive" Cameo by Lionel Hampton<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(circa 1959)<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrQTh_Cq7U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrQTh_Cq7U</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spencer Davis Group (with 16 year old Stevie Winwood!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Keep on Running<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>1966<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-WnT6d-GY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-WnT6d-GY</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Raymond Scott Quintette<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Powerhouse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>1955<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">4. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sammy Davis Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"I've Got You Under My Skin" with drums and percussion accompaniment only!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Michael Silva, drums. Johnny Mendoza, conga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1966</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epib6STqmMs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epib6STqmMs</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">5a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dean Martin with the Red Norvo Quintet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Ain't That a Kick in the Head<o:p>"</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKSm0tAvhs"><span style="">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKSm0tAvhs</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">5b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Check out the 45 rpm version's bitchin' brass, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk"></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lambert, Hendricks & Ross<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Spirit Feel" 1959<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmUgDUx7o0&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmUgDUx7o0&NR=1</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miriam Makeba<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Qongqothwane" aka<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"The Click Song<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>1966<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miriam Makeba "Pata Pata" late 60s<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> (very loud, turn it down!)</span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart + Whitey's Lindy Hoppers <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Slim & Slam jam & dancers<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTg5V2oA_hY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTg5V2oA_hY</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Just the dancing<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tom Lehrer Channel <o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=6funswede&annotation_id=annotation_480227&feature=iv#play/uploads/0/QKWI41G8h_A"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none">http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=6funswede&annotation_id=annotation_480227&feature=iv#play/uploads/0/QKWI41G8h_A</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">====== <o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Johnny Otis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Willie and the Hand Jive" Cameo by Lionel Hampton<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(circa 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=qOrQTh_Cq7U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrQTh_Cq7U</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Since the Ur-liest days of rock 'n' roll-also known as the era of the blackface minstrels (1841-1939 or 2000 if you count Spike Lee's "Bamboozled)," there have always been white folks that wanted to get down with black music and culture. Sometimes it was by "blacking up" with burnt cork a la Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor and later by hangin' out in Harlem and livin' like de black folks do a la Mezz Mezzrow, the early Jewish jazz clarinet-kitty that was also the "go to" cat to score the most righteous weed in the greater uptown area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You should really really read "Really the Blues," his book, if you want to learn about hip culture.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">One of the all time best examples ever to come blazin' a path through the R & B world was Johnny Otis, a Greek-American Vallejo-born daddy-o who wanted to be black - and pretty much succeeded in passing. He laid down some <i>bad</i><span style="font-style:normal"> R & B from the get go ("Harlem Nocturne") about the same time as the Enola Gay made its bombsight-seeing tour of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In WWII ration-speak, "Was this trip really necessary?<o:p>"</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Otis soon settled in Watts, opened a Club, and in short order managed to discover Little Esther, the Robins (who later became the Coasters), Big Jay McNeeley, Etta James, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, and Jackie Wilson - as well as producing Big Mama Willie Mae Thorton's original version of "Hound Dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>Elvis heard Freddie Bell and the Bellboys' pop-novelty cover version in Vegas and decided to record it himself. I've always assumed that Elvis would have heard her original and maybe the Jack Turner country version on RCA, being a country and an R & B cat.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">In 1994, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inducted Otis as a NON-PERFORMER, "for his work as a songwriter and producer for Elvis Presley." This consisted mainly of "cleaning up" the lyrics for a more mainstream "Pat Booneish-boorish" 1956 pop audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What a bogus thing to celebrate, even if Elvis still made the "Clean American" lyrics sound somewhat suggestive. The original words probably would have garnered zero airplay and this since the producer (s) thought it would help RCA get the big sales they wanted for the $35K they had to kick down to Sam Phillips for Presley's contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For Johnny's trouble, a court decision removed him from his co-writing credit and of course, the rainbarrels of royalties that he should have received for Elvis' biggest record of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Maybe they just assumed Johnny was black, so it was standard operating procedure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">One story goes that he was producing this Elvis track but had to give it up because Lieber & Stoller needed him to play the drums, which left only them to take over the production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Another story is that it was Elvis who produced it himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Elvis has writing credits on songs, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AS IF!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>RCA says it was produced by Steve Sholes and I believe it was Sholes, since he was a company man who had less R & B taste and no rock 'n' roll credibility whatsoever. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was the first time the pop-gospel quartet The Jordanaires were used (singing simple block chords) which just happened to tone Elvis down a few notches, and functioned like the blatant sweetening and pandering for the mainstream pop audience that it was already the beginning of the end.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Since most of Johnny's work did NOT make the pop (white) "top 40," only "Willie and the Hand Jive," which went to Billboard #9 in 1958, would have made him "eligible" as a performer for Cleveland's R n R Hall of Fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(One has to have made the Pop-Tart 40 at least 25 years before the nomination date).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">My take on Elvis was that he had a brilliant start at Sun records, then lost one of his balls when he signed with RCA and then lost the other one when the evil non-Colonel "Alias Tom Parker" pushed his unwilling boy into the Army when some of the old payola would have fixed it all as easy as pie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Presley broke my widdle grade school heart when he came out of the Army singing with the likes of Sinatra and doing pop tunes instead of rock 'n' roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I knew even as a dumb kid that "It's Now or Never" was a rewrite of Caruso's "O Sole Mio" and wasn't no kind of rock 'n' roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He could have been a singing James Dean - you can see the potential in three of his first four films, "Jailhouse Rock," "Loving You" and "King Creole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">I don't buy that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll, either. I give that to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent Elvis was easily the best teen idol, and I'll give you that he made some great pop-rock records and was a serious contender till they cut his hair off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I even like some of the early 60s schlock like "I Can't Help Fallin' in Love With You." But nothin' is going to convince me that was rock 'n' roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Johnny Otis gets an AMHF Award for his records in general, his songs, and all his discoveries and a FULL PARDON for toning down the original lyrics of "Hound Dog" to please the old geezers at RCA. Presley might have lasted a little longer if the original raw lyrics had been used and it probably would have been even a bigger hit since the kids were already searching for something sexier than the major labels were willing to serve up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With absolutely no airplay, "Sixty Minute Man" and "Work with Me Annie," "Annie Had a Baby," "Sexy Ways" and "Roll With Me, Henry" sold a million each to most of the same white kids that were going to be buying Elvis' post-"Heartbreak Hotel" records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They probably would have tripled their sales at least if they'd let him sing it down and dirty. Elvis singing it to a Bassett Hound on TV was more beginning of the end<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"He coulda been a contender!<o:p>"</o:p></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>Spencer Davis Group (with 16 year old Stevie Winwood!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Keep on Running<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>1966<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-WnT6d-GY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-WnT6d-GY</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This is easily my favorite cut by this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>British '60s band. Chris Blackwell brought in Jamaican songwriter Jackie Edwards to provide material for these guys and it was completely reworked by Stevie from a ska song into a rocker, adding a "Satisfaction"-like fuzztone lick to make it their first single, which was a hit in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, back at the LBJ Ranch, in 1966 the Great Society's radio stations were still pretty much segregated by race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The white stations didn't play it because it sounded too black, and the black stations stopped playing it as soon as they took a gander at a picture of the band. This rocks even harder than "Gimme Some Lovin'" or "I'm a Man" or for that matter, anything else they ever did. At the AMHF, we believe that records have an Absolute Value regardless of whether or not the sheep were buying enough copies to make it a top hit on the cash register. The lesson here is "fuck the charts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>What didn't sell is <i>at least</i><span style="font-style:normal"> as good as what did. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This little clip starts off with some pretty cool footage of teenagers running from the English Bobby-Sockers! Whaddariot!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Does anybody know what was happening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What are the Texas Angels doing over there? And who clobbered the kid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Email me if you know.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Little Stevie Winwood rocks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What were you doin' at 16?<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">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Raymond Scott Quintette<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Powerhouse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>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=YfDqR4fqIWE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">I've always called this little combo tune "Art Deco Jazz" because 'tis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Instead of the Satchmo-inspired swing groove that had taken over the world by 1937, this groove is strictly for the robotniks, a few serious squares and the terminally whitebreaded. Still, it has a great mechanical groove and one that Devo would pick up on when new wave was still new, which was a long, long time ago. The Black and Silver Brunswick was one of the first 78s I turned up as a young collector and centuries later I still play the original Master first issue when I need to have my hat spun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Fortunately, Raymond Scott took a break from his day job - the terminally tedious "Your Hit Parade" to lay down one of the kindest kinoscopes ever krafted - his own Quintette playing his most filling masterpiece of a platter pie, "Powerhouse.<o:p>"</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">A big hit on radio and TV since the late '30s, "Your Hit Parade" pretty much established the top ten as a concept to sell the public and it was just about to become irrelevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The formula was to have a staff of professional singers covering the hits of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At one time, Sinatra was on board, and that helped, but by 1955, rock 'n' roll was starting to rear its ugly head. The singing of snotty little cookies like Snooky Lanson was not going to make it when covering the likes of Little Richard and Chuck Berry in a way that could be convincing to anyone to the left of Pat Boone's right pinkie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The lines had been drawn, and now it was the <i>record</i><span style="font-style:normal"> that was the hit, not the song. Breaking with the whole history of popular music, the performance of a song was about to be king. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Note the minimalist psychedelic black and white "light show" which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>follows the horns, an easy decade and a decimal before the Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms about to run rampant with this art form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It's not like there weren't people dosing in 1955. Huxley was about to publish "The Doors of Perception," it was legal and ramping its way up to really, really rabidly rampant in psychiatric circles especially in and around Southern California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Maybe this suggests usage by the highly stressed, high-pressure, always on a deadline world of the TV industry. They were pretty much all under analysis by then. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Everyone knows this tune from old Warner Brothers cartoons where it was used over and over again, especially by Carl Stalling, who most certainly did NOT write it. It is likely you have never heard the whole piece, let alone watched it being played by the composer's cool and crazy little combination.<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">Here's a Two-Pac and a half of a couple of Rat Packers: <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sammy Davis Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"I've Got You Under My Skin" with drums and percussion accompaniment only!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Michael Silva, drums. Johnny Mendoza, conga<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1966</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style=""><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epib6STqmMs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epib6STqmMs</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style=""><span style="">By 1970 I was actively collecting Sinatra, but Sammy was at his cheesiest with his current hits of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Candyman," "I've Got to Be Me," and his embarrassing sucking up to Tricky Dick who had somehow become Head Prez of the wholedamn U.S. of A. One day I found a stack of his 50s Decca LPs and I asked myself "Didn't Sammy Davis Jr. used to be black?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>I quickly scored all of his old records since nobody else wanted them and found that there was definitely some fine eatin' in with the chaff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Nothin' could be finer than his recording of the Colester's most Porterble standard, "I've Got You Under My Skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>The film clip is a bit different but just as good.</p><div style=""> <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">5a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dean Martin with the Red Norvo Quintet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Ain't That a Kick in the Head"</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style=""><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKSm0tAvhs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKSm0tAvhs</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">5b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Check out the 45 rpm version's bitchin' brass, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk">h</a></span><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk">ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">In 1970, Dino was even cheesier than Sammy (on acid) thanks to his hugely popular TV show for geriatrics - while the gap between them and the Baby Boomers' youth culture were peaking as well (on acid).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I did like some of his 50s stuff especially "Memories Are Made of This," so I started piling up his old wax, too, especially the earlier Capitol recordings. One promo 45 blew me away completely- "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," which not only failed to chart but was even left off the LP "This Time I'm Swingin'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>What moron made this one an "outtake"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The record sunk like a stone and the original 45 is pretty rare.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">It did appear on film with no less than the Red Norvo Quintet who had recently backed Sinatra in his tour of Australia. This was the one where he succeeded in offending Rudyard Kipling's family and most of Australia over his swingin' version of "On the Road to Mandalay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>That version was recorded and eventually bootlegged in the late 70s with all five Nervous Norvo's who set Frankie up for his jazziest performance to date. It is now considered a classic <span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span>- even by the Aussies who have since taken it to heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">In the early '90s some retro-swing lounge lizards picked up on it, but the original never saw much action. It's the best thing he ever did, and it never nudged not even for a half-a- banana-nanasecond, even a nice #99 on any kind of a chart. This was the just the kind of major label music that wasn't being purposely excluded. Go figger. This happens a lot. Get used to it.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Neither this writer nor the AMHF advocates kicking anybody in the head or putting holes in boats. If there's anyone out there whose politics either has or hasn't been corrected- the song isn't really about violence towards skulls or ships.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lambert, Hendricks & Ross<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Spirit Feel" 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=DqmUgDUx7o0&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmUgDUx7o0&NR=1</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Here's some scat singing on a <i>stick</i><span style="font-style:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dave, Jon and Annie are for now and always the hottest vocal group in jazz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They took the jazz vocal from where it was when they found it and commenced to put it up numerous notches higher than anybody had ever thought possible. They take this little R.C. caffeinated-cola tune like they'd been slamin' cappicinos all afternoon and well into the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Towards the end of this number, Jon and Dave start trading fours and don't pack it in till both of them have piled up a solid stack of scat. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">For those of you who are keeping score, the basic groove is all kept swinging by Basie's nifty little combo.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miriam Makeba<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Qongqothwane" aka<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"The Click Song<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>1966<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">7b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miriam Makeba "Pata Pata" late 60s <span style="mso-tab-count:1">(very loud, turn it down!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">This uberly-uppity African Goddess and her charming little Xhosa song had a lot to do with bringing down Apartheid in South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When someone asked her what that noise was, she replied that it wasn't a noise, it was her language. After teaming up with Harry Belafonte she became an artist in exile when she was denied entry back into the South Africa for her mother's funeral in 1960. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">At the height of her popularity in 1963, she testified about Apartheid before the U.N. and South Africa revoked her citizenship and banned her and her music. This was one of the dumbest things those Rhodesian Island Rednecks could have ever done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The rest of the world saw things differently, and she ended up being an honorary citizen of 10 countries with a satchel full of passports with which she toured the world singing and turning world opinions against the unjustifiable Johannesburgermeisters until in short order, the score heading towards the bottom of the ninth was just about the whole damn world against one. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">"Pata Pata" was actually a hit in 1967, much to the chagrin of white rulers and yardstickers of South Africa who were getting increasingly isolated from the rest of the world by her music and her message. Never let anybody tell you that music doesn't make a difference! She turned out to be more trouble for the Apartheid party-animals than a barrel of Boer-constrictors and an equivalent amount of ex-English-extinguishers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She succeeded in shaming them down. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">A year later, when she started her four year marriage to Trinidaddy-O Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, the media frenzy that took place in the land of the fleeced led to the cancellation of her U.S. tours and recording contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She performed mostly in Africa, Europe and South America for years until Nelson Mandela personally invited her back to her native South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In 1986 she won the Dag Hammerskold Peace Prize from the U.N. and continued to pile up stacks of such honors for the rest of her life.<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">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart + Whitey's Lindy Hoppers <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Slim & Slam jam & dancers<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTg5V2oA_hY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTg5V2oA_hY</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Just the dancing<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart just about hijacked American popular culture in 1938 with their first record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Slim spoke fluent vout-o-rooney, a hip language he made up hisself, and the original lyrics were "Flat Foot Floozie with a Floy, Floy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">" </span>- Harlem slanguage for a worn out hooker just crawlin' with the clap.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Soon the whole of whitebread America was innocently singing what they took to be a simple childlike nonsense song and Slim had staged one of the most precious pranks of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Benny Goodman and the Mills Brothers did it, Wingy Manone & Waller did it, even educated fleabags like white bandleader Lew Stone did it, and in no time it saturated the airwaves. </p><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Gaillard wrote hilariously hip shit, sang it in his own slang and could blow for da dough on the guitar and piano-often playing the ivories with his palms facing up!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Slam Stewart was one of the greatest and most original doghouse bass-ballers in all since before the invention of the big fellows' cello. Instead of plucking it with his fingers, he bowed the bass and sort of hummed the exact same line an octave up, creating an original style of his own. Later, a bass gator named Major Holley bowed and hummed on the exact same note as the bassline. <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The long version has Slim and Slam and their combo wailin' down the wall before the Lindy's even start to begin to hop. It's the music that inspires the fancy dancin' that's goin' down here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Can you imagine them trying to get off to some of what passes for jazz these days? You should always watch the whole clip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I included the "just the dance" link so you can show the visuals to your squarer friends who don't like music and/or have short attention spans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is one of the greatest dance clips ever, but it wouldn't have happened without the music being there in front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">White's Lindy Hoppers included Frank Manning, who lived long enough to teach the kids in the 90s swing revival how it's done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Don't try this at home unless you need to, and if you do, be damn sure to use the same music track 'cause using Kenny G. ain't gonna cut it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The music makes up MORE than half the dance performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It supplies the muse, the lift, the drive and the groove that needs to be there in front for any dance to work at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">Note that the dancers, unlike Fred Astaire and his peerless parade of arm-candy kittens, are wearing lowly service job uniforms and split the second they see the white folks done pegged 'em in the act of shirkin' workin'. Should we allow our cultural masters and overlords to continue to lock up films like this for fear of offending someone who doesn't get the reality that these films are <i>way old!</i><span style="font-style:normal"> They are also historically and politically informative because they are frozen in time, in that moment in 1941 before things really got chaotic. It is what it is. Besides thwarting the hysterical historical revisionists, these old film clips have moments of serious brilliance that transcend all that pee see stuff and must be seen by every kitty in every kinda scene that's swingin' on the whole surface of the entire planet, Janet. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">These costumes are effectively the same deal as seen in a lot of music and film that went down in that Old Weird America before the second in the series of who knows how many World Wars. I think we were at about WW II.IX<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(and counting) the last time I was paying attention, which was a long, long time ago in the far off land of Ooh Bop Sha Bam.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">We should not turn away from the black faces or even the <i>blackface</i><span style="font-style:normal"> that often accompanies some of the most righteous music and dance clips ever created anytime or anywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For extra credit and a large load of entirely too much fun, I have one more link up my sleeve for you - but first a word from our sponsor:<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Recently while trying to herd a trio of cowboys backstage at the Kate Wolf Memorial Folk Festival, I discovered that a well-known cowboy singer(who will remain anonymous, but is world-class doghouse thumper, comedian's comedian, varmint dancer, side-kicker, surfer dude and spokes-model for Slenderella's Gymnasiums) had NEVER HEARD OF TOM LEHRER!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was so taken aback by this revelation that I dropped both jaws! <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Then I wondered if there might be some of you cyberspace-cases who are unaware that you are likewise culturally impaired and in danger of suffering from a dangerous TL Deficiency Disorder!<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The world is neatly divided in to two camps, those whose faces reveal a blank stare at the mention of Tom's name and those who explode into "wings of song, as it were," and start singing some (or all) of Mr. Lehrer's incredibly non-obsequious oeuvre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">So, as a public service, I have included a link to not nearly enough of the greatest satirical songwriter of all time. I'd like to thank Swedish TV for having the sense to film this little show and for having even greater sense not to erase the tapes like they did so often in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">For those of you who have already completely memorized all of his songs, there are enough variations in the lyrics and the intros to float your boat <i>and</i><span style="font-style:normal"> you get to SEE him perform some of his classics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Tom Lehrer really IS, after all, the mathematician that others all quote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">A tip of the old felt Fedora to Laura Littlefield for sending a better link than I already had.</p><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Tom Lehrer Channel <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=6funswede&annotation_id=annotation_480227&feature=iv#play/uploads/0/QKWI41G8h_A"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=6funswede&annotation_id=annotation_480227&feature=iv#play/uploads/0/QKWI41G8h_A</span></a></span><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none">HEY KIDS! Stayed tuned for another basket of goodies as soon as I can find the short cut to my Grandma's house which may involve some kind of high-tech time machine like maybe an electric sundial.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <div class="MsoNormal">So now it's nighty, night from your all night VeeJay (which was also the name of a rather wonderful Chicago record label) while I'm now nudgin' may way towards the land of nod and Little Nemo,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">A big Schoenful of Danke's to our team at the AMHF: John Perry Barlow, Katherine Armer, Joel Bernstein, Leigh M. Hill, Simmy Makhijani, Alison Kennedy & John Gilmore. </div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">Glenn Allen Howard</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">Founder, Curator</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">American Musical Heritage Foundation</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">(831) 335-4356 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">PO Box 66224</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">Santa Cruz County CA 95067</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">(360) 691-2105 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">PO Box 163</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'">Arlington, WA 98223</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter'"><a href="mailto:glennallenhoward@yahoo.com">glennallenhoward@yahoo.com</a></font></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>