tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91024263025080763642024-03-07T15:37:32.924-08:00RvrCtyLbryTDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-32809582580853831202009-11-23T09:28:00.000-08:002009-11-23T09:47:19.877-08:00Harpo 'n his axe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhyJI_L93tv-7qZhHdOUQQAkjhQLP6iGpjkSXpLuLG4NYmTkxHceFYfMzKUM9sRe7l3KRC_4cq6hxxbYQm9oI6Lg3TAIP7a9gzuCAUBdo6CEv-9mky_362CAuPYVLG3_FIsLnQp9jJtKM/s1600/679_1001780925.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhyJI_L93tv-7qZhHdOUQQAkjhQLP6iGpjkSXpLuLG4NYmTkxHceFYfMzKUM9sRe7l3KRC_4cq6hxxbYQm9oI6Lg3TAIP7a9gzuCAUBdo6CEv-9mky_362CAuPYVLG3_FIsLnQp9jJtKM/s200/679_1001780925.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407354459519594562" /></a><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZOlrZNIod0TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-51089307186869639132009-11-18T09:53:00.000-08:002009-11-18T10:26:26.596-08:00Johnny Mercer So nice...blogged him 2ce<img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-65.jpg" alt="" /> <div id="container"> <div id="containerBorder"> <div id="header"> <div id="headL"> <div id="mastHead"> <a href="http://www.boston.com/" class="imageLink"><img src="http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/bcom_small.gif" /></a> <div id="searchForm"> <center><span style="color:#ffffff;">-</span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-8088248141022782"; //728x90, created 12/4/07 google_ad_slot = "6393509389"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/expansion_embed.js"></script><script src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/test_domain.js"></script><script>google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);</script><ins style="border: medium none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: inline-table; height: 90px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"><ins style="border: medium none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: block; height: 90px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" hspace="0" id="google_ads_frame1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_frame" src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-8088248141022782&output=html&h=90&slotname=6393509389&w=728&lmt=1257502857&flash=10.0.22&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernmusic.net%2Fmercer.htm&dt=1258568082900&correlator=1258568082902&frm=0&ga_vid=847403667.1258568083&ga_sid=1258568083&ga_hid=987489330&ga_fc=0&u_tz=-360&u_his=3&u_java=1&u_h=864&u_w=1152&u_ah=824&u_aw=1152&u_cd=32&u_nplug=24&u_nmime=117&biw=1152&bih=681&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fsource%3Dig%26hl%3Den%26channel%3D2PSP%26rlz%3D%26%3D%26q%3Djohnny%2Bmercer%26aq%3D4%26oq%3DJohnny%2BM&fu=0&ifi=1&dtd=257&xpc=9NjMa2Z51Q&p=http%3A//www.southernmusic.net" style="left: 0pt; position: absolute; top: 0pt;" vspace="0" scrolling="no" width="728" frameborder="0" height="90"></iframe></ins></ins>
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<br /><b><span style="font-size:+1;">(1909 - 1976)</span></b></center> </blockquote> <center>(born November 18, 1909, Savannah, Georgia;
<br />died June 25, 1976, Bel-Air, California)</center> <blockquote><b><span style="font-size:+2;">A</span></b>ny list of America's ten greatest songwriters would include the name of Johnny Mercer of Savannah, Georgia. <p>Most authorities rank him as the greatest lyricist the nation has produced. A recitation of the song titles of his hits beginning with "Lazybones" with Hoagy Carmichael in 1933 and running through "Good Companions" with Andre Previn in 1974, constitutes by itself a graphic history spanning the four momentous decades from the Great Depression to the Space Age. </p><p>Born to wealth on November 18, 1909, John Herndon Mercer attended a fashionable Virginia prep school and was forced to drop out of college by the bankruptcy of his father's real estate business precipitated by the economic crash of the late 20s. </p></blockquote> <center><img src="http://www.southernmusic.net/capitolrecordslogosmall.gif" width="245" height="126" /></center> <blockquote>He vowed to himself at the time that he one day would pay off his father's debts, a promise on which he was able to make good in the early 50s when he sold his interest in Capitol Records, which he founded in the early 40s, and sent a Savannah bank his personal check for $300,000 to reimburse all the creditors or their heirs with interest. <p>He got his first big break in 1932 when he won the Pontiac Youth of America Contest to appear on Paul Whiteman's Kraft radio program. Whiteman liked him so much he that he kept him on for a year to write, emcee, and sing with his orchestra. </p><p>Mercer's major triumphs were scored in the field of movies. radio, and recording. He wrote the hit, "I'm an Old Cowhand" for the movie in which he starred with Buddy Rogers in 1935, which led to a contract with Warner Brothers, and a stint in Hollywood with such greats as Ritchard Whiting, Harry Warren, Ziggy Elman, Jerome Kern and Gordon Jenkins. </p><p>With Harold Arlen and Hoagy Carmichael he produced an unequaled succession of Oscar winning songs and other hits including "Hooray for Hollywood" and "Moon River." </p></blockquote> <center><b><span style="font-size:-1;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThey-Heard-Georgia-Singing-Miller%2Fdp%2F0865545049%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1189897414%26sr%3D8-2&tag=wt031-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Zell Miller<i> - They Heard Georgia Singing</i></a></span></b> <p><b><span style="font-size:+1;"><a href="http://www.johnnymercer.com/">Johnny Mercer Resource Page</a></span></b></p></center> <blockquote> <center> <hr width="100%"></center> </blockquote> <center><b><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica;">Johnny Mercer - The Bard from Savannah</span></b>
<br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:-2;">Exhibit at Georgia State University</span></span></center> <blockquote>A permanent Johnny Mercer exhibit is located on the second floor of The University Library South on the Georgia State University campus. <p>The exhibit is open to the public during regular library hours; it is closed on university holidays and operates on reduced hours during university semester breaks. Admission is free.</p></blockquote> <center> <p>
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Speaks Latin,/That satin doll.’’ The concision of phrasing, the easy languor of the language, the winking wit: How could Johnny Mercer, the man who wrote these lyrics to Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll,’’ not be the great American songwriter?</teasetext> <byline>Mark Feeney</byline> <date>June 28, 2009</date> --></div> <div id="articleHeader"> <div id="headTools"> <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/"><img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/from_provider_globe.gif" alt="The Boston Globe" title="The Boston Globe" class="providerlogo" width="105" align="right" border="0" height="20" /> <input name="logotype" value="Globe Story" type="hidden"></a> <h1>Singing a song of Johnny Mercer</h1> <div id="articleBodyTop"> <div id="articleBodyImageH"> <span id="articleImageH"></span> <img src="http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/06/25/1245981924_2257/539w.jpg" title="Debbie Reynolds was the presenter in 1962 when Johnny Mercer (right) and Henry Mancini won Oscars for “Moon River’’ from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’’" alt="Debbie Reynolds was the presenter in 1962 when Johnny Mercer (right) and Henry Mancini won Oscars for “Moon River’’ from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’’" width="539" border="0" height="402" />Debbie Reynolds was the presenter in 1962 when Johnny Mercer (right) and Henry Mancini won Oscars for “Moon River’’ from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.’’ (Associated Press/File) </div></div> <div class="utility"> <span id="byline"> By <a href="http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Mark+Feeney&camp=localsearch:on:byline:art">Mark Feeney</a> </span> <span id="dateline"> Globe Staff <span class="listPipe">/</span> June 28, 2009 </span> <div id="tools"> <ul><li id="shareEmail"><a class="etaf" href="javascript:openWindow('http://tools.boston.com/pass-it-on?story_url=http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/06/28/johnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter','mailit','scrollbars,resizable,width=770,height=450');">Email</a><span class="listPipe etafPipe">|</span></li><li id="sharePrint"><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/06/28/johnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter?mode=PF">Print</a><span class="listPipe">|</span></li><li id="shareReprints"><a href="http://www.globereprints.com/" target="reprints">Reprints</a><span class="listPipe">|</span></li><li id="toolsYahooB"><script showbranding="0" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge.js" badgetype="text">bostoncom751:http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/06/28/johnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter/</script><span class="yahooBuzzBadge-form" id="yahooBuzzBadge-form"><a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=bostoncom751&guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fae%2Fmovies%2Farticles%2F2009%2F06%2F28%2Fjohnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter%2F"><span style="cursor: pointer; position: relative; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background: transparent url(http://l.yimg.com/ds/orion/1.0.12/img/badge-logo.png) no-repeat scroll left top; cursor: pointer; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0pt; left: 0pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></span>Yahoo! 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Speaks Latin,/That satin doll.’’</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><div style="display: block;" id="articleEmbed"><div class="embed" id="relatedContent"><div class="relatedBox" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"><table id="commentInviteBox" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2" style="width: auto;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/06/28/johnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter/?comments=all" id="commentCount"><img style="padding-right: 4px;" src="http://cache.boston.com/jobs/i/comments.jpg" /></a></td><td class="commentInvite">Discuss</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/06/28/johnny_mercer_is_the_overlooked_great_american_songwriter/?comments=all" id="commentCount">COMMENTS (<span id="cCount">6</span>)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div> </div></div><p>The concision of phrasing, the easy languor of the language, the winking wit: How could Johnny Mercer, the man who wrote these lyrics to Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll,’’ not be the great American songwriter?</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Well, because the competition’s so stiff. Giving the title to Mercer - or Cole Porter, or Irving Berlin, or Jerome Kern (the list goes on) - is like saying huckleberry is the great American pie or Georgia the great American state.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Mercer is, however, the great overlooked American songwriter. Although he had a hand in some 1,500 songs, wrote seven Broadway shows, and contributed to dozens of movies, his name is nowhere as familiar as his lyrics to such songs as “Come Rain or Come Shine,’’ “Blues in the Night,’’ “Moon River,’’ “Skylark,’’ the list also goes on.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>The biggest contributor to Mercer’s fame since his death, in 1976, hasn’t been musical but literary. He receives several mentions in John Berendt’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’’ as the most famous son of Savannah, Ga.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Mercer’s relative unfamiliarity is likely to change. This year marks the centenary of his birth, Nov. 18, 1909, and the celebration has already begun. Tribute concerts have been held in New York, Glasgow, Miami, and Savannah, with others scheduled for Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>PBS will devote an “American Masters’’ broadcast to him this fall. “The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer’’ arrives in bookstores in October. Turner Classic Movies plans to program an entire broadcast day in November of films featuring Mercer songs. (A four-time Academy Award winner, he received 19 Oscar nominations.)</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>There are several reasons for Mercer’s comparatively low profile. Almost all of his best-known songs were collaborations. His collaborators included some of the biggest names in Tin Pan Alley history: Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen. But Mercer never had a longstanding partner, as did George Gershwin with his brother Ira or Richard Rodgers with Lorenz Hart, then Oscar Hammerstein II.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Mercer is hard to categorize generally. Although mainly a lyricist, he also composed music. “Something’s Gotta Give’’ and “Dream’’ are probably his two best-known compositions. He was a successful singer. Four of his records reached No. 1 on the charts. He helped start one of the most important labels of the postwar era, Capitol Records. And even though his career spanned almost half a century, much of it came as the pages of the Great American Songbook were closing. Mercer was enough of an expert on closing time - he wrote the lyrics to “One for My Baby’’ and “Days of Wine and Roses,’’ after all - to know that’s rarely when the party’s going strongest.</p></div> </div> <div id="page2"><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>The word “mercer’’ means one who deals in textile fabrics. That Johnny Mercer should have a tradesman’s name is fitting. He took an unashamedly craftsmanlike approach to his art. Mercer claimed to have written “Days of Wine and Roses’’ in five minutes and “Autumn Leaves,’’ for which he rendered a French lyric into English, while taking a taxi to the airport. (Conversely, “Skylark’’ required an entire year. “Sometimes you get lucky,’’ Mercer liked to say, “but not often.’’)</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>“Autumn Leaves’’ is an example of his willingness to retrofit lyrics to preexisting music. Sometimes the music was foreign, like Paul Lincke’s “Glow-Worm.’’ Or it could be a movie theme, like David Raksin’s “Laura.’’ Mercer especially excelled at coming up with words for jazz numbers: “And the Angels Sing,’’ “Midnight Sun,’’ “Early Autumn,’’ and, of course, “Satin Doll.’’ He had a singular affinity for jazz.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Mercer wasn’t immune to the occasional purple patch in his writing. Consider “Early Autumn’’: “There’s a dance pavilion in the rain/All shuttered down,/A winding country lane all russet brown,/A frosty windowpane shows me a town grown lonely.’’ But such fustian was less a matter of artistry, perhaps, than personality. It sprang from a deep streak of melancholy in Mercer’s character. Certainly, there’s none of the stentorian solemnity of a Hammerstein.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>What’s most striking about Mercer’s work, in fact, is how gorgeously idiomatic it is, full of slang, catch phrases, even nonsense syllables like “yippe-ay-o-kay-ay,’’ from “I’m a Lone Cowhand,’’ or “whooee-duh-whooee,’’ from “Blues in the Night.’’ Some of Mercer’s most celebrated lyrics are so vernacular the songs are practically novelty numbers: “Jeepers Creepers,’’ “Hooray for Hollywood,’’ “Lazybones.’’</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Porter and Hart can suffer for the excellence of their lyrics in at least one respect. You can sense sometimes self-congratulation wafting off a particularly bravura rhyme. There’s none of that with Mercer. He never flourishes his virtuosity. The brilliant triple rhyme of “right time,’’ “nighttime,’’ and “despite time,’’ in “Out of This World,’’ works so effortlessly it’s more felt than noticed. Mercer’s being so naturally, resolutely idiomatic inoculates him from attacks of self-regard.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>In their indispensable anthology “Reading Lyrics,’’ Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball write that Mercer’s songs “seem easy, relaxed, inevitable.’’ Ease and relaxation are not to be confused with ignorance and slackness. Mercer liked to affect a certain bumpkinishness - the Southern drawl, the cute verbal coinages - but it was an affectation. He’s very much like Carmichael that way, another singing songwriter of laidback manner who hailed from the hinterlands. People who leave the country for the big city usually do so either seeking sophistication or already in possession of it. Mercer is a case in point. According to Irving Berlin, “Johnny gives everybody credit for knowing what he’s talking about.’’ The talk could be startlingly cultivated.</p></div> </div> <div id="page3"><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>“When an irresistible force such as you/Meets an old immovable object like me,’’ from “Something’s Gotta Give,’’ does nothing less than put Newtonian physics to music. “Accentuate,’’ “eliminate,’’ and “affirmative’’ are not words one expects to find in a product of Tin Pan Alley, let alone from a writer as idiomatic as Mercer, but there they are, in “Accentuate the Positive.’’ Mercer immediately follows them, as if wanting to cover his intellectual tracks, with the splendidly colloquial “Don’t mess with Mr. In-between.’’</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>He does something similar, only in reverse, in “Too Marvelous for Words.’’ The lines “You’re much too much,/And just too very very!’’ find Mercer so inarticulate he can’t even supply words for the adjectives to modify. Then he turns the situation on its verbal head, completing the rhyme with “To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary!’’ The wonder of it isn’t Mercer’s getting away with using “Webster’s Dictionary’’ in a love song; it’s how matter-of-fact those six syllables scan. No other songwriter would ever think to use “Webster’s Dictionary’’ because no other songwriter might have pulled it off.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>“We all come from Gilbert,’’ Mercer liked to say, meaning W.S. Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. That’s true, of course. But just as Gilbert came to Ira Gershwin via the Lower East Side and Cole Porter via Peru, Ind., and Yale, he came to Mercer via the South.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>The importance of his Southern roots can hardly be overstated. No other master of the Great American Songbook demonstrated such a capacity to tap into the music of the South: the softened consonants and casual speech, the irresistible rhythms and blues inflections, of blacks and poor whites. Out of the same culturally mulatto stew came Elvis Presley, born 25 years and a month after Mercer. (The cross-fertilization worked both ways. Rodgers and Hart’s “Blue Moon’’ is on “The Sun Sessions,’’ and Dean Martin was one of Presley’s favorite singers.)</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Mercer’s Southerness is even more audible in his singing than his songwriting. Although he tended to disparage his vocal abilities, Mercer had a very winning way with a song. When he sang, he sounded smooth, unhurried, joshing. It was a style that took the crooning of Bing Crosby (whom he succeeded in Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra) a crucial step further in the artistic relaxation of racial boundaries. Where Crosby nodded in the direction of black vocal style, Mercer ambled right on over. In fact, his friend the critic Gene Lees has said the award Mercer most cherished came in 1944 when an African-American boys’ club in Chicago voted him “outstanding young Negro singer of the year.’’ It was an honest mistake. All they’d had to go on, in an age without television, was Mercer’s vocal style.</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Maybe the best way to understand Mercer and honor the singularity of his achievement is as the great transitional American songwriter. More than any of his peers, Mercer brought the South into the Great American Songbook and, however unconsciously, began to transcend race. Yet those very things that helped enrich Tin Pan Alley in its waning years, also helped end it. It was the South and racial transcendence that did so much to propel rhythm ’n’ blues and rock ’n’ roll, soon to become the primary popular music not just of America but the entire world - “From Natchez to Mobile,/From Memphis to St. Jo,/Wherever the four winds blow,’’ to quote “Blues in the Night.’’</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>As it happens, Mercer loathed rock ’n’ roll. It must have pained him that the two biggest acts on Capitol Records in the ’60s were the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Mercer and his partners had sold the company by then. It was the worst of both worlds. He didn’t profit by the association while still, presumably, feeling its taint. In his own fashion, he had helped pave the way. 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Out For That BIG, FIERY, Rock</span>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-87819977517641437112009-10-28T09:41:00.000-07:002009-10-28T09:53:05.347-07:00Billy and Charlie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdISQpr9xNCvcaPuTkR09GoRmjhVTB9TIBsJSSpR7aPJ-tqPEoNKY3vPPtSrpQJTHTHIGqTtUSnDc4pSF-FNzWt4eHYkICUoDMbRFHeGpVPF_4VV-lciQIqedwIvVRu8uE0elbvIkn23i/s1600-h/bgindex.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 78px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdISQpr9xNCvcaPuTkR09GoRmjhVTB9TIBsJSSpR7aPJ-tqPEoNKY3vPPtSrpQJTHTHIGqTtUSnDc4pSF-FNzWt4eHYkICUoDMbRFHeGpVPF_4VV-lciQIqedwIvVRu8uE0elbvIkn23i/s200/bgindex.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397694671711013106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try 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/><br /><br /><br />yeah, it's their B'day!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-64.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-63.jpg" alt="" />TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-87961401236445226762009-10-27T11:55:00.000-07:002009-10-27T11:58:59.288-07:00Lest we forget<p> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/menu.html">Home</a> > <a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/menu.html">Literature</a> > <a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/menu.html">Eugene Field</a> > <a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/menu.html">Poems</a> > <a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/menu.html">Poems of Childhood</a> ></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial Black,Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:NAVY;">Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Dutch Lullaby)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;color:NAVY;"><b>by <a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/menu.html">Eugene Field</a> (1850-1895)</b></span> </p><p> <span style="font-family:Georgia,Book Antiqua,Times New Roman;"> Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night<br /> Sailed off in a wooden shoe---<br />Sailed on a river of crystal light,<br /> Into a sea of dew.<br />"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"<br /> The old moon asked the three.<br />"We have come to fish for the herring fish<br /> That live in this beautiful sea;<br /> Nets of silver and gold have we!"<br /> Said Wynken,<br /> Blynken,<br /> And Nod. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:Georgia,Book Antiqua,Times New Roman;">The old moon laughed and sang a song,<br /> As they rocked in the wooden shoe,<br />And the wind that sped them all night long<br /> Ruffled the waves of dew.<br />The little stars were the herring fish<br /> That lived in that beautiful sea---<br />"Now cast your nets wherever you wish---<br /> Never afeard are we";<br /> So cried the stars to the fishermen three:<br /> Wynken,<br /> Blynken,<br /> And Nod. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:Georgia,Book Antiqua,Times New Roman;">All night long their nets they threw<br /> To the stars in the twinkling foam---<br />Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,<br /> Bringing the fishermen home;<br />'T was all so pretty a sail it seemed<br /> As if it could not be,<br />And some folks thought 't was a dream they 'd dreamed<br /> Of sailing that beautiful sea---<br /> But I shall name you the fishermen three:<br /> Wynken,<br /> Blynken,<br /> And Nod. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family:Georgia,Book Antiqua,Times New Roman;">Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,<br /> And Nod is a little head,<br />And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies<br /> Is a wee one's trundle-bed.<br />So shut your eyes while mother sings<br /> Of wonderful sights that be,<br />And you shall see the beautiful things<br /> As you rock in the misty sea,<br /> Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:<br /> Wynken,<br /> Blynken,<br /> And Nod.</span> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;"><a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/menu.html">Back to Eugene Field poems: Poems of Childhood...</a></span> </p><p> </p><hr /> <p align="center"> <span style="font-size:85%;">Page last updated: 4 February 1999<br /><a href="http://www3.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/copyright.html">©1998-1999, Richard J. Yanco </a></span><img src="http://usa.nedstat.net/cgi-bin/nedstat.gif?name=efield" width="1" border="0" height="1" /> </p>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-80998637114178451082009-10-22T09:51:00.000-07:002009-10-22T09:55:01.124-07:00"Hey Moe! Hey Moe"<div align="center"> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/curlytitle.gif" width="400" height="60" /></p> <table bordercolorlight="#33CC66" bordercolordark="#006600" width="20" bgcolor="#000000" border="3" bordercolor="#cccccc" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td><a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Bios.htm"><img src="http://www.stoogeworld.com/Arrowoff.jpg" name="arrowoff" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('arrowoff','','/Arrowblu.jpg',1)" width="66" border="0" height="71" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><b><i><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;">BACK</span></i></b></span></p> <table bordercolorlight="#33CC66" bordercolordark="#006600" width="80%" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="3335"> <tbody><tr> <td height="3398"> <div align="center"> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Curlyport.jpg" width="300" height="386" /></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffffff;"><i>October 22, 1903 - January 18, 1952</i></span></b></span></p> </div> <blockquote> <div align="left"> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly Howard, the one with the shaven head which Moe referred to as "looking like a dirty tennis ball," was the most popular member of the Three Stooges and the most inventive of the three. His hilarious improvisations and classic catch-phrases of "N'yuk- n'yuk-n'yuk!" and "Wooo-wooo-wooo!" have established him as a great American cult hero. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">H</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">is real name was Jerome Lester Horwitz, born to Jennie and Solomon Horwitz on October 22, 1903, in Bath Beach, a summer resort in a section of Brooklyn, He was the fifth and youngest of the Horwitz sons and weighed eight and a half pounds at birth. He was delivered by Dr. Duffy, the brother of Moe Howard's six-grade school teacher. Curly- Jerome, to complicate matters, was nicknamed "Babe" by his brother Moe. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly was a quiet child and gave his parents very little trouble. Moe and Shemp made up for him in spades. Moe recalls one mischievous incident when Curly was an infant: "We took his brand-new baby carriage, removed the wheels, made a pair of axles from two-by- fours and built our own version of a `soap box racer. We put Curly in it and dragged him all over town. It was a lucky thing we didn't kill him. When our parents found out we had the devil to pay. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">W</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">hen Curly was about four, Moe and Shemp started to instill in their brother the idea of becoming a comedian. Quite frequently they would stage small theater productions in the basement of their friends' homes; the cast would usually consist of Shemp, Moe and Curly. There was a charge of two cents for admission, but the ventures could not have been very lucrative, as the boys had to split the take three ways. It is believed that during these performances Curly got his first taste of comedy. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">M</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">oe also recalled that Curly was only a fair student in school. A boyhood friend, Lester Friedman, remembers that he was a fine athlete, making a name for himself on the elementary school basketball team. Though Curly never graduated from school, he kept himself busy doing odd jobs, following Moe and Shemp wherever they went. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">A</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">s a young man, Curly loved to dance and listen to music, and he became an accomplished ballroom dancer. He would go regularly to the Triangle Ballroom in Brooklyn, where on several occasions he met George Raft, who in the early days of his career was a fine ballroom dancer. Curly also tried his hand at the ukulele, singing along as he strummed. As Moe once said, "He was not a good student but he was in demand socially, what with his beautiful singing voice." Moe continued to influence his kid brother's theatrical education, taking him along with him to vaudeville shows and the melodrama theaters, but Curly's first love was musicals and comedy. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">D</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">uring this period, sometime in his late teens, Curly found another love and married a young girl whose name remains a mystery to this day. His mother, Jennie Horwitz, the matriarch of the family, was against the idea of Curly's marrying at such a young age and, before six months had gone by, had the marriage annulled. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">n 1928, Curly landed a job as a comedy musical conductor for the Orville Knapp Band, which, to that date, was his only stage experience. Moe recalls that his brother's performances usually overshadowed those of the band. "He was billed as the guest conductor and would come out and lead the band in a breakaway tuxedo. The sections of the suit would fall away, piece by piece, while he stood there swinging his baton." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">Y</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">oung Curly's interest in show business continued to grow as he watched his brothers, Shemp and Moe, perform as stooges in Ted Healy's act. Joe Besser, who worked with them in The Passing Show of 1932, recalls that Curly liked to hang around backstage. "He was there all the time and would get sandwiches for all of us in the show, including Ted Healy and his Stooges. He never participated in any of the routines but liked to watch us perform." During this period Curly remained in the shadow of his brothers, and watched as their careers began to skyrocket them to stardom along with Healy. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">t was in 1932, during J.J. Shubert's Passing Show, that Healy had an argument with Shubert and walked off the show; taking Larry and Moe along with him. Shemp, disenchanted with Healy's drunken bouts and practical jokes, decided to remain in the Shubert show. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">L</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ater that afternoon, Moe suggested to Healy that his kid brother; Babe (Curly), was available and would make an excellent replacement for Shemp, since he was familiar with the act. Ted agreed, asking Curly to join the act, but under the condition that he shave his head. At the time, Curly sported long, wavy brown hair and a mustache. In an interview; Curly recalled the incident: "I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache. When I went to see Ted Healy about a job as one of the Stooges, he said, `What can you do?' I said, `I don't know.' He said, `I know what you can do. You can shave off your hair to start with.' Then later on I had to shave off my poor mustache. I had to shave it off right down to the skin." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly's wacky style of comedy started to emerge, first on stage and then on screen when Healy and his Stooges starred in numerous features and comedy shorts for MCM. Later; in 1934, Curly played an integral part in the team's rise to fame as the Three Stooges at Columbia Pictures, where he starred as a Stooge in 97 two-reel comedies. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">B</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ut success virtually destroyed Curly. He started to drink heavily, feeling that his shaven head robbed him of his sex appeal. Larry Fine once remarked that Curly wore a hat in public to confirm an image of masculinity, since he felt like a little kid with his hair shaved off Curly was also unable to save a cent. When he received his check he'd rush out to spend it on life's pleasures: wine, women, a new house, an automobile or a new dog-Curly was mad about dogs. Since Curly was certainly no businessman, Moe usually handled all of his affairs, helped him manage his money and even made out his income tax returns. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly's homes were San Fernando Valley show-places and most of them were either purchased from or sold to a select group of Hollywood personalities. One house Curly purchased was on Cahuenga Boulevard and Sarah Street in North Hollywood and was purchased from child star Sabu. Later Curly sold the property to a promising young actress of the forties, Joan Leslie. Curly also bought a lot next door to Moe Howard's palatial home in Toluca Lake, expecting to build on it, but he never did. It was eventually sold to film director Raoul Walsh. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">A</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">s to Curly's personality, he was basically an introvert, barely speaking on the set between takes, the complete antithesis of his insanely hilarious screen character. Charles Lamont, who directed Curly in two Stooges comedies, related in an interview that "Curly was pretty dull. This may not be a very nice thing to say but I don't think he had all of his marbles. He was always on Cloud Nine whenever you talked to him." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">larice Seiden, the sister of Moe Howard's wife, Helen, saw Curly off screen whenever there was a party at his home. She remembers him as being far from "a quiet person." Seiden said: "Although he wasn't on (stage) all the time, I wouldn't call him a quiet person. ... he was a lot of fun. He was quiet at times but when he had a few drinks-and he drank quite a bit-he was more gregarious." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly's niece, Dolly Sallin, agreed with Mrs. Seiden that Curly liked people but shared Lamont's viewpoint that he could be quiet at times. "I can remember his wanting to be with people. He wasn't a recluse and I wouldn't call him dull. He wasn't an intellect nor did he go in for discussions. But when I think of someone as dull, I'd think of them as being under par intelligence-wise, and Curly wasn't that." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">F</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">riends remember that Curly refrained from any crazy antics in private life but reserved them for his performances in the comedies. However, when he got together with his brothers, Moe and Shemp, it was a totally different story. As Irma Grenner Leveton, a friend of Moe and Helen Howard, recalls: "Yes, Curly did clown around, but only if Moe, Shemp and Larry were with him. Or if his immediate group of friends or family were there. But the minute there were strangers, he retreated." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">B</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ut Curly's main weakness was women; to paraphrase an old adage, "Curly couldn't live with women, or live without them." Mrs. Leveton remembers that women were his favorite pastime for a number of reasons. As she said: "He just liked a good time and that was it. And women. he loved women. I don't have to tell you... not always the nicest women. You know why, because he was so shy. Curly didn't know how to speak to a woman, so he would wind, up conversing with anyone that approached him. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">D</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">olly Sallin viewed his love for women in a similar manner: "I can remember his wanting to be around people, and that included the current woman in his life. That was the most important thing-if she was good, bad, or whatever. If he decided she was interesting, that was that! As long as there was a woman around the house, he would stay home instead of running around. He seemed restless to me." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">D</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">irector-producer Norman Maurer first met Curly in 1945 and remembers that he "was a pushover for women. If a pretty girl went up to him and gave him a spiel, Curly would marry her. Then she would take his money and run off. It was the same when a real estate agent would come up and say, `I have a house for you,' Curly would sell his current home and buy another one. It seemed as though every two weeks he would have a new girl, a new car, a new house and a new dog." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">B</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ut as much as Curly loved women, they were his downfall. He married three times after his first marriage was annulled. On June 7, 1937, he married Elaine Ackerman. In 1938 Elaine gave birth to Curly's first child, a daughter, Marilyn. Due to the addition to their family, Curly and Elaine moved to a home on the 400 block of Highland Avenue in Hollywood, near where Moe lived at the time. But slowly the marriage began to crumble and Elaine filed suit for divorce on July 11, 1940, after only three years of marriage. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">D</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">uring the next five years, Curly ate, drank and made merry. He gained a tremendous amount of weight and his blood pressure soared. On January 23, 1945, he entered the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara where he was diagnosed as having extreme hypertension, a retinal hemorrhage and obesity. He remained at the hospital for tests and treatment and was discharged on February 9, 1945. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">E</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ight months later, while making a personal appearance in New York, Curly met Marion Buxbaum, a petite blonde woman with a ten-year-old son from a previous marriage. Curly instantly fell in love with her and they were married in New York on October 17, 1945. It was felt that Marion used Curly to her advantage. He spent a fortune on her-everything from fur coats to expensive jewelry. Curly even bought her a new home on Ledge Street in Toluca Lake. As Marie Howard, Jack Howard's wife, recalled: "She was just after his money. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">t didn't take long for Curly to find out that Marion wasn't for him. After a miserable three months of arguments and accusations, Marion and Curly separated on January 14, 1946, and Curly sued for divorce. The divorce was quite scandalous and notices were carried in all the local papers. Dolly Sallin recalled: "It was horrible. She tried to get everything she could from him and even accused Curly of never bathing, which was totally untrue. Curly was fat but he was always immaculate. That marriage nearly ruined him." Marion was awarded the decree on July 22, 1946, less than nine months after they were married. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">rma Leveton remembers that Moe talked Curly into the marriage with Marion since he, Moe, did not like the kind of wild life his brother was leading. Moe wanted Curly to settle down and take care of his health. As Leveton remarked: "Moe fixed them u* Marion and Curly. He wanted Curly to get married and pushed him into it. He wanted Curly to quit the life be was leading, as he was getting sick. Curly had very high blood pressure and that marriage to Marion didn't help. It was very aggravating for Curly and a very unhappy time for all concerned." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">W</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ith his third marriage a disaster, the question surfaced as to why Curly's marriages had failed? Irma Leveton believed that it was a combination of Curly's immaturity and a succession of mismatched marriages. As she remarked: "He couldn't contribute anything to a marriage. Most likely his wives married him because he was a (film) personality. But he had nothing to back it up. There was no substance of any kind. He always seemed to be in a trance... kinda dopey. Once in awhile he would come out with something very funny. And I can't even imagine him saying, `I Love you, to any woman. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">B</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">ut Dolly Sallin brought to light another point of view. She said: "I don't think Curly ever grew up. He couldn't make it in a one-to-one relationship. He was sweet and loving but not really mature. He was very restless. He seemed to need women to soothe his restless quality, not just for sex. I would guess that he was restless and that nothing seemed to help." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">t was soon after his separation from Marion that Curly's health started its rapid decline. On May 6 (not May 19), 1946, he suffered a stroke during the filming of his 97th Three Stooges comedy, HalftWits' Holiday (1947). Curly had to leave the team to recuperate from his illness. His condition began to improve and a year later, still not fully recovered from his stroke, Curly met a thrice-married widow of thirty-two who really seemed to care for him-Valerie Newman, whom he married on July 31, 1947. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">V</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">alerie was Curly's fourth wife, a very caring woman who nursed him through those last, awful years. Although his health worsened after the marriage, Valerie gave birth to a daughter, Curly's second child, Janie. As Irma Leveton recalls: "Valerie was the only decent thing that happened to Curly and the only one that really cared about him. I remember she nursed him 24 hours a day." </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">F</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">inally, in 1949, Curly's health took a severe turn for the worse when he suffered his second in a series of strokes and was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood. Doctors contemplated doing spinal surgery on him since the stroke had left him partially paralyzed. But the final decision was not to operate. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly was confined to a wheelchair and doctors put him on a diet of boiled rice and apples. It was hoped that this would bring down his weight and his high blood pressure. As a result of his illness Curly's weight dropped dramatically. As Norman Maurer recalls: "I'll never forget him at this point in his life. His hand would constantly fall off the arm of the wheelchair; either from weakness or the paralysis, and he couldn't get it back on without help." When Curly's condition failed to improve, Valerie admitted him into the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills on August 29, 1950. He was released after several months of treatment and medical tests on November 15, 1950. Curly would return periodically to the hospital, up until 1952. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly returned home confined to his bed, where Valerie nursed him. When his health worsened, in February 1951, she made a request for a male nurse to help her. In that same month, Curly was placed in a nursing home, the Colonial House, located in Los Angeles. In March, he suffered another stroke and Moe had to move him, out, due to the fact that the nursing home did not meet state fire codes. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">I</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">n April of 1951 Curly was moved to North Hollywood Hospital and Sanitarium. In December; the hospital supervisor advised the family that Curly was becoming a problem to the nursing staff due to mental deterioration and that they could no longer care for him. It was suggested that he be placed in a mental hospital, but Moe would not hear of it. On January 7, 1952, Moe was called from the filming of a Stooges comedy, He Cooked His Goose (1952), to help move Curly again, this time to the Baldy View Sanitarium in San Gabriel. He died 11 days later on January 18, 1952. He was forty-eight years old. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">C</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">urly Howard is gone and one can only wonder what it would have been like if he had lived and worked with the Stooges through the 1960's. Imagine Curly starring in full- length features in color and black-and-white. Stooges cartoons could have been voiced with the original Curly "N'yuk-n'yuking" and "Wooo-woooing." Television audiences could have realized the true genius of Curly Howard on talk and variety shows. When the Stooges' popularity suddenly burgeoned in 1959, Curly could have been around to take the bows with Moe and Larry. </span></b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;color:#66cc00;">H</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">opefully, if there is a Stooges' heaven Curly will be there watching, seeing his talent, his art of comedy and his contributions as a Stooge continue to be enjoyed by millions throughout the world. </span> </b> </span> </p> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div align="left"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#66cc00;"><b><span style="color:#0066ff;"><i><span style="color:#ffffff;">READ THE OTHER BIOS</span></i></span></b></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;color:#ffffff;"><a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Healy.htm">Ted Healy</a></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;color:#66cc00;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"> |</span><b><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span></b><span style="color:#ffffff;"><a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Moe.htm">Moe Howard</a> | <a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Larry.htm">Larry Fine</a> | <a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Shemp.htm">Shemp Howard</a> | <a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Joe.htm">Joe Besser</a> | <a href="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Curly-Joe.htm">Curly-Joe DeRita</a></span></span></p> </div> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <p> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p> </p><table bordercolorlight="#33CC66" bordercolordark="#006600" width="24%" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="31"> <tbody><tr> <td height="49"><img src="http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Main%20Page/images/Title-Image.gif" width="429" height="62" /> <div align="center"> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p align="center"> </p>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-9550688066248209182009-10-21T09:00:00.000-07:002009-10-21T10:44:46.330-07:00'Tis DIZ' B'day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhBrMG-HU0mcxpxF6FH306IqXzAKM7EMwDAFDHCK3XbYGLRpS3AoOV2f1OyOWa3ByEyOuHBZf8XWv0fYl9J8AcswaMsxMRjsbHlMyyZuHbZXOXCW7jf8Lj2icIwQOi1MFofOBZfxmsqnz/s1600-h/framed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhBrMG-HU0mcxpxF6FH306IqXzAKM7EMwDAFDHCK3XbYGLRpS3AoOV2f1OyOWa3ByEyOuHBZf8XWv0fYl9J8AcswaMsxMRjsbHlMyyZuHbZXOXCW7jf8Lj2icIwQOi1MFofOBZfxmsqnz/s200/framed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395110606522499314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3><br /><br /><p><b>John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie</b> (pronounced /gɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> trumpeter, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandleader" title="Bandleader">bandleader</a>, singer, and composer.</p> <p>Together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, he was a major figure in the development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_jazz" title="Modern jazz" class="mw-redirect">modern jazz</a>. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Navarro" title="Fats Navarro">Fats Navarro</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sandoval" title="Arturo Sandoval">Arturo Sandoval</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morgan" title="Lee Morgan">Lee Morgan</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Faddis" title="John Faddis" class="mw-redirect">John Faddis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jmh_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-jmh-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Cuban_jazz" title="Afro-Cuban jazz" class="mw-redirect">Afro-Cuban jazz</a>, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton" title="Jelly Roll Morton">Jelly Roll Morton</a> referred to as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Tinge" title="Spanish Tinge">Spanish Tinge</a>". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisation" title="Improvisation">improviser</a>, building on the virtuoso style of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Eldridge" title="Roy Eldridge">Roy Eldridge</a><sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup> but adding layers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmonic</a> complexity previously unknown in jazz. Dizzy's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beret" title="Beret">beret</a> and horn-rimmed spectacles, his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing" title="Scat singing">scat singing</a>, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.</p> <table id="toc" class="toc"> <tbody><tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle">[<a href="javascript:toggleToc()" class="internal" id="togglelink">hide</a>]</span></div> <ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Early_life_and_career"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life and career</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#The_rise_of_bebop"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">The rise of bebop</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Afro-Cuban_music"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Afro-Cuban music</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Later_years_and_death"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Later years and death</span></a></li></ul> </li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Origins_of_iconic_.22bent.22_trumpet"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Origins of iconic "bent" trumpet</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Discography"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Discography</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Filmography"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Filmography</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#Books"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Books</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> </script> <h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span></h2> <h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</span></h3> <p>He was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheraw,_South_Carolina" title="Cheraw, South Carolina">Cheraw, South Carolina</a>, the youngest of nine children. Dizzy's father, James, was a local bandleader, so instruments were made available to Dizzy. John Birks Gillespie's mother went by the name Lottie Gillespie. He started to play the piano at the age of four. His father had already died when Gillespie was only ten years old. Gillespie taught himself how to play the trombone as well as the trumpet all at the age of twelve. He would play his friend's trumpet, and from the night that he heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, play on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> Dizzy Gillespie received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina. However, he turned it down in order to start his music career.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Dizzy's first professional job was with the Frank Fairfax orchestra in 1935, after which he joined the respective orchestras of Edgar Hayes and subsequently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Hill" title="Teddy Hill">Teddy Hill</a>, essentially replacing his main influence <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Eldridge" title="Roy Eldridge">Roy Eldridge</a> as first trumpet in 1937. Teddy Hill’s Band was where Dizzy Gillespie made his first recording “King Porter Stomp”. At this time, Dizzy met a young woman named Lorraine from the Apollo Theatre, whom he married in 1940. They remained married until his death in 1993. Dizzy stayed with Teddy Hill’s Band for a year, and then he left and free-lanced around with numerous other bands.<sup id="cite_ref-jmh_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-jmh-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> In 1939, Gillespie joined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway">Cab Calloway</a>'s orchestra, with which he recorded one of his earliest compositions, the instrumental "Pickin' the Cabbage", in 1940 (originally released on the Vocalion label, #5467 - a 78rpm backed with a co-composition with Calloway's drummer at the time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Cole" title="Cozy Cole">Cozy Cole</a>, entitled "Paradiddle"). Gillespie left Calloway in late 1941 over a notorious incident with a knife. Calloway did not like how Gillespie played his music, nor did he like the humor that Gillespie gave to the audience. Calloway even went so far as to call Gillespie’s music “Chinese Music”. During a performance one night, Calloway was playing a solo and one of his band members hit him in the back with a spitball. Calloway was very angry, and because he did not like Gillespie, accused him first. Gillespie said that he did not throw the spitball, and both musicians started arguing. The argument got so bad that Gillespie actually pulled out his weapon. Also during his time in Calloway's band, Dizzy Gillespie started writing big band music for bandleaders like Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey.<sup id="cite_ref-jmh_0-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-jmh-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> He then freelanced with a few bands - most notably being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>'s orchestra, composed of members of the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Webb" title="Chick Webb">Chick Webb</a>'s band, in 1942.</p> <p>In 1943, Gillespie joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hines" title="Earl Hines">Earl Hines</a> orchestra. The legendary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big band</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine" title="Billy Eckstine">Billy Eckstine</a> gave his unusual harmonies a better setting, and it was as a member of Eckstine's band that he was reunited with Parker, after earlier being members of Hines's more conventional band. In 1945, Gillespie left Eckstine's band because he wanted to play with a smaller combo of musicians. A small combo comprised of no more than five musicians. The instruments were typically the trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass, and the drums.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="The_rise_of_bebop">The rise of bebop</span></h3> <p>Bebop was known as the first modern jazz style. However, it was unpopular in the beginning and was not viewed as positively as swing music was. Bebop was seen as an outgrowth of swing, not a revolution. Swing introducted a diversity of new musicians in the bebop era like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonius_Monk" title="Thelonius Monk" class="mw-redirect">Thelonius Monk</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell" title="Bud Powell">Bud Powell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Clarke" title="Kenny Clarke">Kenny Clarke</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford" title="Oscar Pettiford">Oscar Pettiford</a>, and Gillespie. Through these musicians, a new vocabulary of musical phrases was created.<sup id="cite_ref-kato_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-kato-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> With <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, Gillespie jammed at famous jazz clubs like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minton%27s_Playhouse" title="Minton's Playhouse">Minton's Playhouse</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe%27s_Uptown_House" title="Monroe's Uptown House" class="mw-redirect">Monroe's Uptown House</a>, where the first seeds of bebop were planted. Charlie Parker's system also held methods of adding chords to existing chord progressions and implying additional chords within the improvised lines.<sup id="cite_ref-kato_4-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-kato-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Gillespie compositions like "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_High" title="Groovin' High">Groovin' High</a>", "Woody n' You", "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Peanuts" title="Salt Peanuts">Salt Peanuts</a>", and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Tunisia" title="A Night in Tunisia">A Night in Tunisia</a>" (A Night in Tunisia was composed by Monk and given to Dizzy as a gift.) sounded radically different, harmonically and rhythmically, from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28genre%29" title="Swing (genre)" class="mw-redirect">Swing</a> music popular at the time. Written in 1942, while Gillespie was playing with Earl Hines' band, the song is noted for have a feature that is common in today's music, a non-walking bass line.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup> The song also displays Afro-Cuban rhythms.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> One of their first (and greatest) small-group performances together was only issued in 2005: a concert in New York's Town Hall on June 22, 1945. Gillespie taught many of the young musicians on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street" title="52nd Street" class="mw-redirect">52nd Street</a>, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach" title="Max Roach">Max Roach</a>, about the new style of jazz. After a lengthy gig at Billy Berg's club in Los Angeles, which left most of the audience ambivalent or hostile towards the new music, the band broke up. Unlike Parker, who was content to play in small groups and be an occasional featured soloist in big bands, Gillespie aimed to lead a big band himself; his first, unsuccessful, attempt to do this was in 1945.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup></p> <p>After his work with Parker, Gillespie led other small combos (including ones with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Jackson" title="Milt Jackson">Milt Jackson</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin" title="Lalo Schifrin">Lalo Schifrin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Brown" title="Ray Brown" class="mw-redirect">Ray Brown</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Clarke" title="Kenny Clarke">Kenny Clarke</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moody" title="James Moody">James Moody</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.J._Johnson" title="J.J. Johnson" class="mw-redirect">J.J. Johnson</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Lateef" title="Yusef Lateef">Yusef Lateef</a>) and finally put together his first successful big band. Dizzy Gillespie and his band tried to popularize bop and make Dizzy Gillespie a symbol of the new music.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup> He also appeared frequently as a soloist with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz" title="Norman Granz">Norman Granz</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic" title="Jazz at the Philharmonic">Jazz at the Philharmonic</a>. He also headlined the 1946 independently-produced musical revue film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivin%27_in_Be-Bop" title="Jivin' in Be-Bop">Jivin' in Be-Bop</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In 1948 Dizzy was involved in a traffic accident when the bicycle he was riding was bumped by an automobile. He was slightly injured, and found that he could no longer hit the B-flat above high C. He won the case, but the jury awarded him only $1000, in view of his high earnings up to that point.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-8"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In 1956 he organized a band to go on a State Department tour of the Middle East and earned the nickname "the Ambassador of Jazz".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-10"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup> During this time, he also continued to lead a big band that performed throughout the United States and featured musicians including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Wee_Moore" title="Pee Wee Moore">Pee Wee Moore</a> and others. This band recorded a live album at the 1957 Newport jazz festival that featured <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams" title="Mary Lou Williams">Mary Lou Williams</a> as a guest artist on piano.</p> <h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Afro-Cuban_music">Afro-Cuban music</span></h3> <p>In the late 1940s, Gillespie was also involved in the movement called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Cuban_music" title="Afro-Cuban music" class="mw-redirect">Afro-Cuban music</a>, bringing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_music" title="Latin American music">Latin</a> and African elements to greater prominence in jazz and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a>, particularly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>. Afro-Cuban jazz is based on traditional Cuban rhythms. Dizzy Gillespie was introduced to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chano_Pozo" title="Chano Pozo">Chano Pozo</a> in 1947 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauza" title="Mario Bauza">Mario Bauza</a>, a Latin jazz trumpet player. Chano Pozo became Gillespie's conga drummer for his band. Dizzy Gilespie also worked with Mario Bauza in New York jazz clubs on 52nd street and several famous dance clubs such as Palladium and the Apollo Theater in Harlem. They played together in the Chick Webb band and Cab Calloway's band, where Gillespie and Bauza became life-long friends. Dizzy helped develop and mature the Afro-Cuban jazz style.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_11-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-ReferenceA-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Afro-Cuban jazz was considered bebop-oriented, and some musicians classified it as a modern style or swing. Afro-Cuban jazz was successful because it never decreased in popularity and it always attracted people to dance to its unique rhythms.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_11-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-ReferenceA-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup> Gillespie's most famous contributions to Afro-Cuban music are the compositions "Manteca" and "Tin Tin Deo" (both co-written with Chano Pozo); he was responsible for commissioning <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Russell_%28composer%29" title="George Russell (composer)">George Russell's</a> "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", which featured the great but ill-fated Cuban conga player, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chano_Pozo" title="Chano Pozo">Chano Pozo</a>. In 1977, Gillespie discovered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sandoval" title="Arturo Sandoval">Arturo Sandoval</a> while researching music during a tour of Cuba.</p> <h3><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Later_years_and_death">Later years and death</span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 252px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dizzy_Gillespie_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festiva,l_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts..jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dizzy_Gillespie_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festiva%2Cl_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts..jpg/250px-Dizzy_Gillespie_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festiva%2Cl_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts..jpg" class="thumbimage" width="250" height="197" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dizzy_Gillespie_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festiva,l_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts..jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a></div> Dizzy Gillespie at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambassa" title="Nambassa">Nambassa</a> festival 1981.<br />Credit: Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry <a href="http://www.nambassa.com/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.nambassa.com</a></div> </div> </div> <p>Unlike his contemporary Miles Davis, Gillespie essentially remained true to the bebop style for the rest of his career.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup></p> <p>In 1960, he was inducted into the <i>Down Beat</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Beat" title="Down Beat">Jazz Hall of Fame</a>.</p> <p>In 1964 the artist put himself forward as a presidential candidate. He promised that if he were elected, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> would be renamed "The Blues House," and a cabinet composed of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, (Secretary of State); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>, (Director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" class="mw-redirect">CIA</a>); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach" title="Max Roach">Max Roach</a>, (Secretary of Defense); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>, (Secretary of Peace); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Librarian of Congress</a>); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, (Secretary of Agriculture); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams" title="Mary Lou Williams">Mary Lou Williams</a>, (Ambassador to the Vatican); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a>, (Travelling Ambassador) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a>, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-12"><span>[</span>13<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-13"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></sup> He said his running mate would be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Diller" title="Phyllis Diller">Phyllis Diller</a>.</p> <p>Gillespie published his autobiography, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_or_Not_to_Bop" title="To Be or Not to Bop">To Be or Not to Bop</a></i>, in 1979.</p> <p>Gillespie was a vocal fixture in many of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hubley" title="John Hubley">John Hubley</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Hubley" title="Faith Hubley">Faith Hubley</a>'s animated films, such as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_%281962_film%29" title="The Hole (1962 film)">The Hole</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hat_%281963_film%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hat (1963 film) (page does not exist)">The Hat</a></i>, and <i>Voyage to Next</i>.</p> <p>In the 1980s, Dizzy Gillespie led the United Nation Orchestra. For three years <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Purim" title="Flora Purim">Flora Purim</a> toured with the Orchestra and she credits Gillespie with evolving her understanding of jazz after being in the field for over two decades.<sup id="cite_ref-Jazzreview_14-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-Jazzreview-14"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S%C3%A1nchez_%28musician%29" title="David Sánchez (musician)">David Sánchez</a> also toured with the group and was also greatly influenced by Gillespie. Both artists later were nominated for Grammy awards. Gillespie also had a guest appearance on <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosby_Show" title="The Cosby Show">The Cosby Show</a></i> as well as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a></i> and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show" title="The Muppet Show">The Muppet Show</a></i>.</p> <p>In 1982, Dizzy Gillespie had a cameo on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a>'s hit "Do I Do". Gillespie's tone gradually faded in the last years in life, and his performances often focused more on his proteges such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sandoval" title="Arturo Sandoval">Arturo Sandoval</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Faddis" title="Jon Faddis">Jon Faddis</a>; his good-humoured comedic routines became more and more a part of his live act.</p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 252px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dizzy_StewartBW.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Dizzy_StewartBW.jpg/250px-Dizzy_StewartBW.jpg" class="thumbimage" width="250" height="201" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dizzy_StewartBW.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a></div> Dizzy Gillespie with drummer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_%28musician%29" title="Bill Stewart (musician)">Bill Stewart</a> at 1984 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Jazz_Workshop" title="Stanford Jazz Workshop">Stanford Jazz Workshop</a></div> </div> </div> <p>In 1988, Gillespie had worked with Canadian flautist and saxophonist Moe Koffman on their prestigious album <i>Oo Pop a Da.</i> He did fast scat vocals on the title track and a couple of the other tracks were played only on trumpet.</p> <p>In 1989 Gillespie gave 300 performances in 27 countries, appeared in 100 U.S. cities in 31 states and the District of Columbia, headlined three television specials, performed with two symphonies, and recorded four albums.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup> He was also crowned a traditional chief in Nigeria, received the <i>Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres</i> -- France's most prestigious cultural award—was named <i>regent professor</i> by the University of California, and received his fourteenth <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honorary doctoral degree</a>, this one from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music" title="Berklee College of Music">Berklee College of Music</a>. In addition, he was awarded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a> the same year. The next year, at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" class="mw-redirect">Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts</a> ceremonies celebrating the centennial of American jazz, Gillespie received the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Kennedy Center Honors</a> Award and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors,_and_Publishers" title="American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers" class="mw-redirect">American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers</a> <i>Duke Ellington Award</i> for 50 years of achievement as a composer, performer, and bandleader.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup> In 1993 he received the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Music_Prize" title="Polar Music Prize">Polar Music Prize</a> in Sweden.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from August 2009" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup></p> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergio_Caputo_io_e_Dizzy.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Sergio_Caputo_io_e_Dizzy.jpg/200px-Sergio_Caputo_io_e_Dizzy.jpg" class="thumbimage" width="200" height="228" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergio_Caputo_io_e_Dizzy.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a></div> Dizzy Gillespie with the Italian singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Caputo" title="Sergio Caputo">Sergio Caputo</a>.</div> </div> </div> <p>November 26, 1992 at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> in New York, following the Second <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_World_Congress" title="Bahá'í World Congress">Bahá'í World Congress</a> was Dizzy's 75th birthday concert and his offering to the celebration of the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh. Gillespie was to appear at Carnegie Hall for the 33rd time. The line-up included: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Faddis" title="Jon Faddis">Jon Faddis</a>, Marvin "Doc" Holladay, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moody_%28Saxophonist%29" title="James Moody (Saxophonist)" class="mw-redirect">James Moody</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paquito_D%27Rivera" title="Paquito D'Rivera">Paquito D'Rivera</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Longo" title="Mike Longo">the Mike Longo Trio</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Brown" title="Ben Brown">Ben Brown</a> on bass and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Roker" title="Mickey Roker">Mickey Roker</a> on drums. But Gillespie didn't make it because he was in bed suffering from cancer of the pancreas. "But the musicians played their real hearts out for him, no doubt suspecting that he would not play again. Each musician gave tribute to their friend, this great soul and innovator in the world of jazz."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Gillespie also starred in a film called <i>The Winter in Lisbon</i> released in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-18"><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup> He has a star on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> at 7057 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Boulevard" title="Hollywood Boulevard">Hollywood Boulevard</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles,_California" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles, California">Hollywood</a> section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" title="Los Angeles, California" class="mw-redirect">City of Los Angeles</a>. He is honored by the December 31, 2006 - A Jazz New Year's Eve: Freddy Cole & the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-19"><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>A longtime resident of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona,_Queens" title="Corona, Queens">Corona, Queens</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup>, he died of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> January 6, 1993, aged 75, and was buried in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Cemetery" title="Flushing Cemetery">Flushing Cemetery</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens,_New_York" title="Queens, New York" class="mw-redirect">Queens, New York</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Longo" title="Mike Longo">Mike Longo</a> delivered a eulogy at his funeral. He was also with Gillespie on the night he died, along with Jon Faddis and a select few others.</p> <p>At the time of his death, Dizzy Gillespie was survived by his widow, Lorraine Willis Gillespie; a daughter, jazz singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_Bryson" title="Jeanie Bryson">Jeanie Bryson</a>; and a grandson, Radji Birks Bryson-Barrett. Gillespie had two funerals. One was a Bahá'í funeral at his request, at which his closest friends and colleagues attended. The second was at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._John_the_Divine" title="Cathedral of St. John the Divine" class="mw-redirect">Cathedral of St. John the Divine</a> in New York open to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Dizzy Gillespie, a Bahá'í since 1970, was one of the most famous adherents of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith" title="Bahá'í Faith">Bahá'í Faith</a> which helped him make sense of his position in a succession of trumpeters as well as turning his life from knife-carrying roughneck to global citizen, and from alcohol to <i>soul force</i>, in the words of author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Hentoff" title="Nat Hentoff">Nat Hentoff</a>, who knew Gillespie for forty years.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-22"><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-23"><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-24"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup> He is often called the <i>Bahá'í Jazz Ambassador</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-25"><span>[</span>26<span>]</span></a></sup> He is honored with weekly jazz sessions at the New York Bahá'í Center.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-26"><span>[</span>27<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Origins_of_iconic_.22bent.22_trumpet">Origins of iconic "bent" trumpet</span></h2> <p>Gillespie's image is almost inseparable from his trademark trumpet whose bell was bent at a 45 degree angle rather than a traditional straight trumpet. In honor of this trademark, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian" title="Smithsonian" class="mw-redirect">Smithsonian's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_American_History" title="National Museum of American History">National Museum of American History</a> has collected Gillespie's B-flat trumpet.<sup id="cite_ref-NMAH_27-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-NMAH-27"><span>[</span>28<span>]</span></a></sup> According to Gillespie's autobiography, this was originally the result of accidental damage caused during a job on January 6, 1953, but the constriction caused by the bending altered the tone of the instrument, and Gillespie liked the effect. Gillespie's biographer Alyn Shipton writes that Gillespie likely got the idea when he saw a similar instrument in 1937 in Manchester, England while on tour with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Hill" title="Teddy Hill">Teddy Hill</a> Orchestra. Gillespie came across an English trumpeter who was using such an instrument because his vision was poor and the horn made reading music easier. According to this account (from British journalist Pat Brand) Gillespie was able to try out the horn and the experience led him, much later, to commission a similar horn for himself.</p> <p>Whatever the origins of Gillespie's upswept trumpet, by June, 1954, Gillespie was using a professionally manufactured horn of this design, and it was to become a visual trademark for him for the rest of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie#cite_note-28"><span>[</span>29<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Discography">Discography</span></h2>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-24303968395907925492009-10-15T09:58:00.000-07:002009-10-15T10:00:28.695-07:00"...lead, follow, or get out of the way" ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1BuIEU3fI8YnJ3dx9gY6WYOzy0cPBlaIV6jIotGQynfhQz-qpUe-fO1bGh2H_5W3oXYY9jjfMbsPZxXklHyAfp_1HXOKLdCW17f2Dxl_KwHYL3AjMyos0jQPinFUScqCDbUcQjTH-A_2/s1600-h/leeiacoccabook.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1BuIEU3fI8YnJ3dx9gY6WYOzy0cPBlaIV6jIotGQynfhQz-qpUe-fO1bGh2H_5W3oXYY9jjfMbsPZxXklHyAfp_1HXOKLdCW17f2Dxl_KwHYL3AjMyos0jQPinFUScqCDbUcQjTH-A_2/s200/leeiacoccabook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392872598036074626" border="0" /></a><br />It's his B'dayTDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-74538863885064698802009-10-15T09:35:00.000-07:002009-10-15T10:11:31.921-07:00Arma virumque cano..., "I sing arms and the man..."<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qKRIwiVMVGFBRVjZ7nqOF6UZlofEZSgA9bkwMKG0UtAJaULkSTwI5bg42gwuy2bcVeZNWts9D7wUKnAFwDdwdXYcfJhWiZ2iQkcNPplatzJKeb3wVUdc0C-Da8l_bS8qYNJgsGpbuxgs/s1600-h/200px-Publius_Vergilius_Maro1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qKRIwiVMVGFBRVjZ7nqOF6UZlofEZSgA9bkwMKG0UtAJaULkSTwI5bg42gwuy2bcVeZNWts9D7wUKnAFwDdwdXYcfJhWiZ2iQkcNPplatzJKeb3wVUdc0C-Da8l_bS8qYNJgsGpbuxgs/s200/200px-Publius_Vergilius_Maro1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392871697188051970" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="quote">Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO October 15, 70 BCE<br /></span><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-56.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-57.jpg" alt="" />TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-69839891858962786472009-10-14T09:58:00.000-07:002009-10-14T10:32:19.267-07:00Edward Estin Cummings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBtMm4CqhwAcqp_77E-8gD3XM3EyobRXlvL4OSree8Rqti9J_tpxYGldNviBtY9EuTC3fmTFyM1yUsQ_eyCT56dnRLsdJF_OGimnvpElW21zv7W74JlP1e7t6eYi-4_mRHo7gWqMv244Wt/s1600-h/e__e__cummings.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBtMm4CqhwAcqp_77E-8gD3XM3EyobRXlvL4OSree8Rqti9J_tpxYGldNviBtY9EuTC3fmTFyM1yUsQ_eyCT56dnRLsdJF_OGimnvpElW21zv7W74JlP1e7t6eYi-4_mRHo7gWqMv244Wt/s200/e__e__cummings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392507938339984226" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-52.jpg" alt="" />It's HIS B'DAY<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PCCDesk/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-55.jpg" alt="" /><br /><div style="padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 13px;" align="left"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 93, 87);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16;" >you shall above all things... (22) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">by E. E. Cummings</span></span></div> <div style="padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> you shall above all things be glad and young<br />For if you're young,whatever life you wear<br /><br />it will become you;and if you are glad<br />whatever's living will yourself become.<br />Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:<br />i can entirely her only love<br /><br />whose any mystery makes every man's<br />flesh put space on;and his mind take off time<br /><br />that you should ever think,may god forbid<br />and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:<br />for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave<br />called progress,and negation's dead undoom.<br /><br />I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing<br />than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance </div> <table><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/images/_conv.gif" /></td><td style="padding-left: 6px;" valign="bottom"><a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/email/14293">Email This Poem to a Friend</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(55, 93, 87);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:16;" >the way to hump a cow is not... (14) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">by E. E. Cummings<br /></span></span> <div style="padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> the way to hump a cow is not<br />to get yourself a stool<br />but draw a line around the spot<br />and call it beautifool<br /><br />to multiply because and why<br />dividing thens by nows<br />and adding and(i understand)<br />is hows to hump a cows<br /><br />the way to hump a cow is not<br />to elevate your tool<br />but drop a penny in the slot<br />and bellow like a bool<br /><br />to lay a wreath from ancient greath<br />on insulated brows<br />(while tossing boms at uncle toms<br />is hows to hump a cows<br /><br />the way to hump a cow is not<br />to push and then to pull<br />but practicing the art of swot<br />to preach the golden rull<br /><br />to vote for me(all decent mem<br />and wonens will allows<br />which if they don't to hell with them)<br />is hows to hump a cows </div> <table><tbody><tr><td><br /></td><td style="padding-left: 6px;" valign="bottom"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/images/_conv.gif" /></td><td style="padding-left: 6px;" valign="bottom"><a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/email/14293">Email This Poem to a Friend</a></td></tr></tbody></table>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-50584304821301872532009-10-13T11:39:00.000-07:002009-10-13T11:50:09.805-07:00Order In The Universe? {:>)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3I3mUJZQDV4-Z3MmotigbdYmQgLmNfYmVIwO_2aX0hhneocnRPPMmvPHD_P3AnyDqTbnHSMIVeH7zlOVfOII1-ay34vzrxrOb2NWmO7oYmUO9q1Tb0scj7hGKoz9BwA7ukDjaIo1gRlOa/s1600-h/Lenny_Bruce_at_the_Fillmore.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3I3mUJZQDV4-Z3MmotigbdYmQgLmNfYmVIwO_2aX0hhneocnRPPMmvPHD_P3AnyDqTbnHSMIVeH7zlOVfOII1-ay34vzrxrOb2NWmO7oYmUO9q1Tb0scj7hGKoz9BwA7ukDjaIo1gRlOa/s200/Lenny_Bruce_at_the_Fillmore.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392158493072813586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48J7Kqdc1X5ZKU5lWafTVLQRyriRS4eL5HUqX6FdgiKdNg2h_OobhXrpHjPNmC4RH6IhjARnxDXSmuNQ9_8IC4zOgIZRBmsVEP1vuG-YXR1jVR4X3TcV8EF4NRVRbeW6IsZBoWPZVVXb9/s1600-h/nipsey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 185px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48J7Kqdc1X5ZKU5lWafTVLQRyriRS4eL5HUqX6FdgiKdNg2h_OobhXrpHjPNmC4RH6IhjARnxDXSmuNQ9_8IC4zOgIZRBmsVEP1vuG-YXR1jVR4X3TcV8EF4NRVRbeW6IsZBoWPZVVXb9/s200/nipsey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392158017518430578" border="0" /></a><br /><dl><dd> <dl><dd>If you ever go out with a schoolteacher,</dd><dd>You're in for a sensational night;</dd><dd>She'll make you do it over and over again</dd><dd>Until you do it <i>right</i>.</dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> <dl><dd>The opposite of 'pro' is 'con'</dd><dd>This fact is clearly seen</dd><dd>But if 'progress' means move forward</dd><dd>What does '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a>' mean? Nipsey Russell</dd></dl></dd></dl>IT"S THEIR B'DayTDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102426302508076364.post-70181089375675897442009-10-05T10:41:00.000-07:002009-10-05T11:03:35.592-07:00Larry's B'day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4QzNI70tbqGo7GBnH1CRAVeH-77Waxt7Giqizu1_tkuWIvbcnX56IbX8QqM2qe2NRxlvvjtjS8DozCAkXMgiHycAyuNxHfuyGY6aXvQyvOiE98JSizhB4xM06WrbIcNhlRahu2ayiCSl/s1600-h/Stoogelogo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 103px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL4QzNI70tbqGo7GBnH1CRAVeH-77Waxt7Giqizu1_tkuWIvbcnX56IbX8QqM2qe2NRxlvvjtjS8DozCAkXMgiHycAyuNxHfuyGY6aXvQyvOiE98JSizhB4xM06WrbIcNhlRahu2ayiCSl/s200/Stoogelogo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389177922535275298" border="0" 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Threats, Jeers Saturate Angry Health Care Debate </nyt_headline> </h1> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1408420800&en=6799a17852f78b61&ei=5124';}</script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/19/us/AP-US-Angry-Summer.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('Threats, Jeers Saturate Angry Health Care Debate'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent('NEW YORK (AP) -- The images are striking: One congressman's office defaced by a swastika, other congressmen heckled at public meetings, videos and placards likening Barack Obama to Hitler, private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests.'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('us'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return 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9:24 p.m. ET</b></p> <p>NEW YORK (AP) -- The images are striking: One congressman's office defaced by a swastika, other congressmen heckled at public meetings, videos and placards likening <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/adolf_hitler/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Adolf Hitler.">Hitler</a>, private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests.</p><p>Outside one meeting hosted by Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, authorities detained a man with a sign reading, ''Death To Obama, Death To Michelle And Her Two Stupid Kids.''</p><p>In this season of searing political heat generated by the health care debate, these incidents have raised divisive questions of their own. Are they simply the latest twists in a long tradition of vigorous, public engagement or evidence of some new, alarming brand of political virulence?</p><p>''Hate, if it ever truly threatened to leave the political stage, is most definitely back, larger and nastier than ever,'' <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_missouri/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about University of Missouri">University of Missouri</a> journalism professor Charles Davis wrote this week in his local paper, the Columbia Daily Tribune. He urged the media to put a spotlight on the hate, rather than ignore it.</p><p>To some political veterans, the phenomenon is unprecedented.</p><p>''There is more anger in America today than at any time I can remember,'' said Sen. <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/arlen_specter/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Arlen Specter.">Arlen Specter</a>, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, after one of a series of town hall meetings at which he was jeered.</p><p>Many conservatives agree that the depth of anger is unusual, but insist that it is understandable as well -- with the health care issue overlapping with worries about the economy.</p><p>''People are frustrated -- they don't want to be lied to,'' said Mat Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian legal group. ''Rather than just listening, they want be heard, and they feel Washington isn't listening to them.''</p><p>Another conservative activist, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, said he was dismayed by the recent surfacing of threats against political leaders. But he noted that venomous rhetoric was nothing new in U.S. politics and recalled that former President <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about George W. Bush.">George W. Bush</a> had been called a terrorist and war criminal by some of his critics.</p><p>''You'll find on both ends of the divide -- the political left and political right -- the more extreme elements have completely different ideological viewpoints, but they are identical on imagery,'' Mahoney said. ''They use Nazi, Hitler, terrorist.''</p><p>Beyond the extremists, Mahoney said he was impressed by the backgrounds of the angry citizens appearing at recent town hall meetings. Unlike many left-of-center protesters, he said, ''these are people who normally stay home and don't get involved.''</p><p>One such political newcomer is Rick Smith, a 38-year-old North Carolina store owner who in the past thought protests were pointless. But recently he joined rallies and pickets targeting <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/kay_hagan/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Kay R. Hagan.">Kay Hagan</a>, a first-term Democratic senator.</p><p>''I hope the freshmen have their eyes open to what's going on out here -- to see that they need to represent the people that put them in office,'' Smith said.</p><p>At some of the meetings, politicians and their critics have engaged in substantive dialogue over health care policy and other issues. At other times, the exchanges have been curt.</p><p>''On what planet do you spend most of your time?'' Democratic Rep. <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/barney_frank/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barney Frank">Barney Frank</a> of Massachusetts asked a woman at a meeting Tuesday when she held up a poster depicting Obama with a Hitler-style mustache.</p><p>Andrew Kohut, who oversees public opinion surveys as president of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/pew_research_center/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a>, says the health care debate has fueled intense anti-government sentiment in some quarters.</p><p>''I also think the conservatives are frustrated politically -- they don't feel they have a leader,'' Kohut said. ''They're worried about a government takeover of health care and feeling not so empowered with a strong Democratic Congress. All these things lead to a summer of intense points of view.''</p><p>Kohut expressed doubt that racism was a major factor behind the hostility toward Obama, but others disagree.</p><p>African-American congressman David Scott, whose Smyrna, Ga., office outside Atlanta was defaced with a spray-painted swastika, said he also has received mail in recent days using racial slurs.</p><p>''We have got to make sure that the symbol of the swastika does not win, that the racial hatred that's bubbling up does not win this debate,'' Scott said. ''That's what is bubbling up with all of this. There's so much hatred out there for <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama.">President Obama</a>.''</p><p>For many of Obama's supporters, a new source of apprehension has surfaced in the form of private citizens showing up with guns outside venues where the president was speaking.</p><p>In Arizona, about a dozen people carried guns Monday outside the convention center where Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars. And last week during Obama's health care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., a man stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg, carrying a sign reading, ''It is time to water the tree of liberty.''</p><p>That's part of a longer quote from <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/thomas_jefferson/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Thomas Jefferson.">Thomas Jefferson</a>, who wrote that the tree should be watered periodically ''with the blood of patriots and tyrants.''</p><p>The Secret Service said the armed men were in compliance with state laws, and were neither trying to enter the meeting hall nor get near Obama's motorcade route. Nonetheless, their appearance raised concern in the liberal blogosphere that the trend could lead to violence.</p><p>''It just takes one wacko with a gun to cause a huge problem at one of these events -- if not trying to kill Obama then to kill others,'' wrote Kansas City Star columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah.</p><p>Matthew Spalding, director of the conservative <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/heritage_foundation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about The Heritage Foundation.">Heritage Foundation's</a> Center for American Studies, said Democratic leaders should not dismiss the surge of anger as an extremist-fringe phenomenon.</p><p>''There are components of liberalism that try to paint the whole thing as right-wing paranoia,'' he said. ''That would be a large political mistake. There's a sense that our country is at a great turning point, and there's widespread confusion and concern about where we're going.''</p><nyt_update_bottom> </nyt_update_bottom> </nyt_text> <div class="nextArticleLink clearfix"><span class="timespeople_btn_recommend" style="float: right;"><a class="timespeople_recommend_link" href="javascript:void(0);" style="padding: 0pt 0pt 3px 20px; background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/global/icons/recommend.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1em;">Sign in to Recommend</a></span> <a onclick="s_code_linktrack('Article-MoreArticlesBottom');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html">More Articles in US »</a> </div>TDPIVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15991186883150496375noreply@blogger.com0