A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to Denro for pointing out this item. It explains what the object is on the back of the Beatles “Now and Then” single, and its surprising connection to the song.
Phone rings. It’s Paul, reminding me of this third song that was on the cassette tape with Real Love and Free As A Bird. He said, ‘The song, it’s called Now And Then.’ I’m standing there with the phone… looking at the clock that said, ‘Now And Then’, and I was sort of dumbfounded.
I hadn’t heard of or seen Barbara Loden until today, when catching Wild River on the Movies! channel. My fault for having never watched Splendor in the Grass. I’m ambivalent about Elia Kazan, who directed both of those movies. He named names in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Kazan, old enough to be Loden’s father, must have had a thing for her, because they were married in 1967.
Loden’s self-made independent movie Wanda, about the rough life of a working class woman, has been hailed since its premiere in 1970. It’s available on the Criterion Channel, but I haven’t watched it yet. You can watch it here until when or if it’s yanked off of YouTube.
This was forwarded to me by mih. Heather Cox Richardson is a Harvard-educated History professor at Boston College.
In 2016, 70% of Republicans said they trusted national news media; by 2021 that number was 35%.
Here’s a fun way to waste an hour. I watched it last night on the Universal Monsters channel, that can now be found in the Links section. June Lockhart, who is 98 years old, in She-Wolf of London, from 1946.
Bob Dylan went electric in 1965, turning the Newport Folk Festival into the Newport Rock Festival. Playing the organ on “Like a Rolling Stone” was Al Kooper, the same guy who played it in the studio.
Kooper is now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Much to my surprise, for some 30 years he’s been living in Somerville, MA.
Al Kooper got Columbia Records subsidiary Date Records to release “Odessey and Oracle” by the Zombies in America, with “Time of the Season” becoming a surprise Top Ten hit in 1969. The band had already broken up by then, due to the lackluster response to the album in England.
“Odessey and Oracle” is now regarded as one of the finest albums of all time, and the Zombies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Without Al Kooper’s influence, it’s uncertain what the album’s fate would have been.
When my life was turned upside down by my father’s stroke, leading me to finalize my retirement, I listened to “Odessey and Oracle” every day. I did that, often more than once daily, through his death and my recovery from melanoma surgery.
Ortofon of Denmark celebrates the coronation of King Frederik X as only it can, with this series of tutorials on tonearm installation and alignment.
