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Wakaliwood (Wakaliga, Uganda) promo for Schenectady screening of WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX?: UGANDA'S FIRST ACTION MOVIE! Screening February 4 at 7pm. GE Theatre at Proctors. Schenectady, NY. With visit from Wakaliwood's Alan Hofmanis! Plus auction of original hand-painted "Captain Alex" poster! Also, an opportunity to be filmed dying for use in a future Wakaliwood production!
From FREBERG LTD. PRESENTS: SIDE ONE (#PB-2909)
Track Listing 1. The Little Bigger Can 2. Pop Art and Tomato Paste 3. THE SHOCKED CABINET MEMBER 4. Backstage at Symphony Hall
From FREBERG LTD. PRESENTS: SIDE ONE (#PB-2909)
Track Listing 1. The Little Bigger Can 2. Pop Art and Tomato Paste 3. The Shocked Cabinet Member 4. BACKSTAGE AT SYMPHONY HALL
From FREBERG LTD. PRESENTS: SIDE ONE (#PB-2909)
Track Listing 1. The Little Bigger Can 2. POP ART AND TOMATO PASTE 3. The Shocked Cabinet Member 4. Backstage at Symphony Hall
From FREBERG LTD. PRESENTS: SIDE ONE (#PB-2909)
Track Listing 1. THE LITTLE BIGGER CAN 2. Pop Art and Tomato Paste 3. The Shocked Cabinet Member 4. Backstage at Symphony Hall
From FREBERG LTD. PRESENTS: SIDE TWO (#PB-2909)
Track Listing 5. Little Bigger Can Jingle 6. Sue Allen Jingle 7. Sue Allen Bossa Nova Jingle 8. Stan Freberg Jingle
Recorded March 21, 2013 at Van Dyck Restaurant and Lounge, Schenectady, NY. The band performed two shows. This is from the 1st of the 2 shows. The set list for two shows was identical, except that this improv was replaced in the 2nd show by King Crimson's INDUSTRY.
This improv began sparse and spacy, similar in a way to parts of "Crack in the Sky". I recorded only the later, more "active", part of the improv.
THE BAND Tony Levin - Chapman Stick Pat Mastelotto - Acoustic and Electronic Percussion Markus Reuter - Custom-built Touch Guitar
SET LIST Nude Ascending Staircase Hide The Trees Crack in the Sky Breathless (from Robert Fripp's Exposure lp) Cusp IMPROV Horatio Whale Watch On/Off Open (Part 3) Larks' Tongues is Aspic, Part Two) (King Crimson)
ENCORE The Firebird Suite (Igor Stravinsky)
Also w/Colin McClure, and Robin Musgrove.
Label: MCCB (002) Year: 1979 Country: NETHERLANDS
Recommended Records 5.75 Text from the insert: "Recorded as a demo for DESPERATE STRAIGHTS in 1974 by Peter Blegvad & Anthony Moore. Cover: Peter Blegvad Engraving on disc: EMT Insert etc: Chris Cutler/Anon, illustrates Genesis ix 20-23 This is the 4th in our series of special subscription issues and is one of 600 special copies which comes with a single of previously unreleased material by Peter & all who made this release possible. P.S. Happy New Year!!"
The above text wraps around the noted art representing Genesis 9:20-23, as well as a circle containing text which reads: "Sort Of Slapp Happy + Faust Recommended Records '81 Special Subscribers Edition"
Note: The New King James version of Genesis 9: 20-23 reads: 20. And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21. Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. 22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
TWINKLES was a General Mills cereal mascot. Each box of TWINKLES cereal revealed a different storybook on the back. As I recall, you gently punctured a panel on the back of each package (along a perforated dotted line), and a panel would fold out, revealing a two page storybook. TWINKLES was also a segment on the KING LEONARDO AND HIS SHORT SUBJECTS cartoon show. The cartoon was also in storybook format with George S. Irving narrating and voicing all the parts as still images of the characters were shown. This record is essentially identical to the cartoon, except - of course - there was only one still image.. the image on the cover of the record sleeve.
TWINKLES was a General Mills cereal mascot. Each box of TWINKLES cereal revealed a different storybook on the back. As I recall, you gently punctured a panel on the back of each package (along a perforated dotted line), and a panel would fold out, revealing a two page storybook. TWINKLES was also a segment on the KING LEONARDO AND HIS SHORT SUBJECTS cartoon show. The cartoon was also in storybook format with George S. Irving narrating and voicing all the parts as still images of the characters were shown. This record is essentially identical to the cartoon, except - of course - there was only one still image.. the image on the cover of the record sleeve.
These are the 1st set of commercials Stan Freberg created (in 1958) for CONTADINA TOMATO PASTE.
The 1st (and longest) is PIZZA ANYONE? It features the voices of Daws Butler and Sandra Gould (sadly, I hastily included misleading pics of June Foray in the video, rather than pics of Ms. Gould!). Daws, of course, later came to greater fame as the voice of Yogi Bear, Elroy Jetson, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Snagglepuss, Reddy (from Ruff & Reddy), both Mr. Jinx and Dixie (from Pixie & Dixie), Wally Gator, Peter Potamus, Cap'n Crunch and many, many other characters. In fact, it's his Cap'n Crunch voice that he uses on this track, a voice based on the voice of actor Charles Butterworth, and used for other characters many times previously. As for Sandra Gould, she is perhaps best known as the 2nd "Mrs. Kravitz" on TV's Bewitched.
The remaining tracks - CHINESE COOK, TOAST OF BROADWAY and TASTE SURVEY - feature Butler and Freberg, who also worked famously together years a few years earlier as puppeteers and voices for Beany & Cecil on young Bob Clampett's early puppet TV show, "Time For Beany".
Freberg, of course, would go on to create far cleverer work than this, both for Contadina and others, but - as these tracks do not currently seem to appear elsewhere online - I thought it important that I make them available.
I know nothing about this and have done no research on it at all. I'm merely posting it, because no other version currently appears on youtube.
If anyone has any idea who the performer is, please let me know. This recording appears on the reverse of Lucille Bogan's. There are no markings on the label at all. Image in video shows the only side with any markings... the SHAVE ME DRY side.
Along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, Lucile Bogan is considered one of the three "mothers" of the early Blues. "Shave Me Dry" (aka "Shave 'Em Dry") was her final recording, and one of her most notoriously ribald (another one being "Till The Cows Come Home", which you can listen to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heYxa6yX2os). Bogan recorded two versions of "Shave Me Dry", one of which was a decidedly tamer version recorded under the pseudonym, "Bessie Jackson", and the other being this one, which is how one would have heard her perform it live. As shown at the top of the video, this version was released uncredited on a plain "vanilla" label. It is unknown (by me, anyway) whether or not this release was a bootleg for which Bogan received no compensation, or if she had a hand in this, intentionally giving it an "underground" release as a way of avoiding possible issues with over-reaching local law enforcement, moral societies and/or her official record company at the time (Banner), who would not have likely have been bold enough to release this themselves, nor would they have been very likely to allow her to release the record on a competing label. Then again, I suppose it's possible Bogan and Banner together decided to release this on a plain "vanilla" label so that both would avoid issues with the law and/or other guardians of our morals.
From wiki: Bogan first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens. Later that year she recorded "Pawn Shop Blues" in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York or Chicago]. In 1927 she began recording for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin, where she recorded her first big success, "Sweet Petunia", which was covered by Blind Blake. She also recorded for Brunswick Records, backed by Tampa Red and Cow Cow Davenport.
By 1930 her recordings had begun to concentrate on drinking and sex, with songs such as "Sloppy Drunk Blues" (covered by Leroy Carr and others) and "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" (later recorded by Memphis Minnie). She also recorded the original version of "Black Angel Blues", which (as "Sweet Little Angel") was covered by B.B. King and many others. Trained in the rowdier juke joints of the 1920s, many of Bogan's songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinly-veiled humorous sexual references. The theme of prostitution, in particular, featured prominently in several of her recordings.
In 1933 she returned to New York, and, apparently to conceal her identity, began recording as Bessie Jackson for the Banner (ARC) label. She was usually accompanied on piano by Walter Roland, with whom she recorded over 100 songs between 1933 and 1935, including some of her biggest commercial successes including "Seaboard Blues", "Troubled Mind", and "Superstitious Blues".
Her other songs included "Stew Meat Blues", "Coffee Grindin' Blues", "My Georgia Grind", "Honeycomb Man", "Mr. Screw Worm In Trouble", and "Bo Hog Blues". Her final recordings with Roland and Josh White included two takes of "Shave 'Em Dry", recorded in New York on Tuesday March 5, 1935. The unexpurgated alternate take is notorious for its explicit sexual references, a unique record of the lyrics sung in after-hours adult clubs. Another of her songs, "B.D. Woman's Blues", takes the position of a "bull dyke" ("B.D."), with the line "Comin' a time, B.D. women, they ain't gonna need no men" "They got a head like a sweet angel and they walk just like a natural man." "They can lay their jive just like a natural man."
She appears not to have recorded after 1935.
This is part of a series of children's songs released on KIMBO records. The only other one I've heard is "Little Eskimo".
This only trailer I could find for this movie was one that was shot inside a movie theater. I took some of the audio from that version, but replaced the video with better quality footage... sometimes the same as in the trailer... sometimes not. I also shortened the trailer by half.
I created this for inclusion in a 30 minute collection of trailers screened at It Came From Schenectady's "Is It Something I Said? A Tribute to Soul Cinema".
Official trailer re-edited to give a better sense of what the film is about. There are a few seconds of footage here that I was concerned might cross uTubes line of acceptability, but then saw that the entire scene from which the clips were taken appears elsewhere on youtube, so I figured it must be ok, probably because the "offending" footage is so obviously fake. In any case, I created this trailer for inclusion in a 30 minute collection of trailers for It Came From Schenectady's "Is It Something I Said? A Tribute to Soul Cinema".
To the best of my knowledge, there is no official trailer for ABAR (aka Abar: The First Black Superman). As such, I created this to be screened as part of a 30 minute collection of trailers for It Came From Schnectady's "Is It Something I Said? A Tribute to Soul Cinema". NOTE: Aside from being impervious to bullets, this particular "Superman" shares no powers with the savior of Metropolis. Instead, his primary power is the power to change minds and/or matter via a long, hard stare!
Early routine by comedian Dick Gregory. If you like this, you will also want to check this similarly-themed (but even more outrageous!) film clip out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOEL_rV8N4&feature=channel&list=UL
This was my final film at NYU. It was represented in Europe by Elendil Productions (France). They successfully sold it to Spanish TV and Canal Plus. They were also responsible for it being screened in Paris at a festival for new American filmmakers alongside early films by Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers. None of this helped me to recoup my expenses (over $43K, including college tuition!), but it did get me a free trip to Paris!
My very 1st film. 16mm. Sadly, the footage has faded, making parts of it difficult to see. Then again, maybe that's a good thing.
NYU class assignment: make a 1 minute silent film with a chase scene (and a clear beginning, middle, and an end) using a single 100' reel of B&W film. The name on the bottle is that of the then-president of NYU. The direct-to-film animation was created by Tom Repaski, who also stars as the man who has his urine sample stolen.