I have Astrid Kirchherr – a retrospective, a new book that’s a companion to Astrid’s exhibit at the Victoria Gallery and Museum in Liverpool, that runs through the end of January. I am very pleased to see that the book includes a photo with my dear friend, Prudence Bury.
I’m hoping Santa will bring me the new Best of Apple Records compilation. It includes ‘Sweet Music’, a track from ‘Brother’, Lon and Derrek Van Eaton’s album on Apple that certainly deserves a CD release. The credits for ‘Brother’ include many familiar names — George Harrison, Klaus Voormann, Ringo Starr, Jim Gordon (drums), Phil McDonald (engineer), and Clive Arrowsmith (photos).
Tonight, Lon Van Eaton will be appearing in his home state of New Jersey, at The Record Collector.
It’s nice to see that Apple Records has added a web page about Lon and Derrek.
Lon & Derek Van Eaton
Lon and Derrek van Eaton were one of the last acts signed to Apple Records and the first to record at the newly built Apple Studios. The brothers had previously been in a band called Jacobs Creek, who issued one self-titled US album on Columbia Records in 1969.
After that band split up, Lon and Derrek made a demo of ‘Sweet Music’, which they sent to Apple in New York. John Lennon heard it and was impressed. George liked it too, and it was George who called the van Eatons to ask if they would like to record for Apple.
A couple of quibbles. They’re inconsistent about the spelling of “Derek” vs. “Derrek,” and ‘Sweet Music’ is cited as the demo that was sent to Apple’s New York office. Apple’s original promotion for Lon and Derrek says they submitted a home recording, and based on the liner notes for ‘Brother’, the song would have been ‘Warm Woman’. Here’s that recording.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/DEC/WarmWoman.mp3|titles=Warm Woman|artists=Lon and Derrek Van Eaton]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the mysterious appearance of the body of a dead teen on a dead end street in a town near Boston. The only explanation that fit the facts was that Delvonte Tisdale fell from an airplane. I had said, “I’m surprised that the theory is still being called an “unlikely and remote possibility,” because it’s the only thing that makes sense,” and now, finally, it seems this explanation is going to be made official.
Last year I posted an unauthorized YouTube copy of Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, the first of the classic 60’s animated Christmas specials. That copy has been pulled, but this year Hulu has it.
I wanted to watch Magoo on regular TV, and thanks to my friend tastewar, who had an Amazon video-on-demand $5 promotional credit to spare, I got it for free. However, mere minutes later, the same program was available for purchase for only three dollars.
I know there’s a lot of dynamic pricing based on cookie scanning, but I’ve never seen it happen so abruptly. I wonder if I’d not purchased it on first viewing, and gone back to the listing a second time to buy it, would I have seen the lower price, leaving me with a couple of extra bucks to rent something else?
Garry Trudeau was on the The Colbert Report Monday night, talking about the 40th anniversary of Doonesbury. Which makes me remember the 40th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, when I was in my first year of employment at the same place I am now, still working for the same people.
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Trudeau says he hasn’t recycled any strips, and I guess that’s correct, but he has repeated many strips, of course. For most of the strip’s run the finished art has been rendered by Don Carlton.
http://www.thebesttimes.org/people/cover_stories/1210_don_carlton.shtml
