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.
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John and Cyn
I grabbed this great picture from Women of The Beatles.
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.
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…!
70 if…
John Lennon, May 10, 1960, age 19
Another ‘Applet’
Elaine Staats has forwarded a link to a new item about Lon Van Eaton. You’ll find it here. And on the Amazon link for the upcoming Best of Apple Records CD, that includes Lon and Derrek Van Eaton’s Sweet Music, there’s this promo video.
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Here are Lon and Derrek from after they had moved from Apple to A&M.