The recordings that Frank Sinatra made with arranger Nelson Riddle are classics, but did you know that Riddle also once worked with the Doors? Riddle was the musical director for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and he backed up the Doors for a live performance of the song Touch Me.
Category: Music
John and Cyn
I grabbed this great picture from Women of The Beatles.
Don’tcha know that you count me out
Click here to see one reason why Wolfram Alpha isn’t of much use for this site.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.S.R.
Samjay pointed out something on Boston public TV tonight — How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin. The show apparently first aired on PBS nearly a year ago, but it got by me. Click here to watch it.
Fresh Air for John Lennon
Friday’s installment of the radio series Fresh Air had a tribute to John Lennon. The most interesting part is a 1985 interview with Cynthia. Click here to listen. There’s also a segment about the hassle that Nixon put Lennon through. This past week, after all these years, the FBI seized Lennon’s fingerprints before they could be auctioned.
Bono brings back Spidey Rockomics?
Denro, who should be on his way back from a comic book convention in New York, sent me a promo for a new Broadway musical that has both of us asking, “what is this?” Just when you would be expecting to see Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, or Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we get Spider-Man??
With a score by Bono, and direction by Julie Taymor, the production certainly has credentials, but the fanboy in me can’t help but wonder if they drew some inspiration from Spider-Man’s 1972 Rockomic…!
