ALL ABOUT MUSIC

[leevitalone1]

Remember this?
I had one in 6th grade-my 1st radio gig.

 

[elmer]

I recently came across a collection of recordings by Gayle McCormick who as part of the band Smith had a hit with "Baby It's You" back in 1969. A bit of a one hit wonder, Smith made a few albums and Gayle then went solo for few - nothing much after that. The first time I saw her sing Baby It's You with Smith was on a short lived show that aired on ABC called "The Music Scene" - sort of a weekly Top of the Pops (I was 15 at the time, and thought that McCormick was pretty hot!) - and I dug the song. The Music Scene was an odd show - rotating hosts - most notably David Steinberg and Lily Tomlin. Featuring the hit artists of the day (CSNY, John Mayall, RB Greaves, Janis Joplin - even the Beatles showed up via the Ballad of John & Yoko video) and interspersed with some fairly lame comedy bits. It only lasted for maybe 3 months before getting cancelled. You can find bits and pieces on You Tube.- There is a classic bit where David Steinberg interviews Groucho Marx who was still pretty sharp at the time - definitley worth seeking out. There were 2 DVD collections of the show out a while back but I believe that they are out of print.

Smith performing Baby Its You on The Music Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCg6H5DOLc

Excerpts from The Music Scene including the Groucho Marx interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsbHIfrqtaA

 

[John Svensson]

Thanks for the show info, must check it out. The Smith tune is on Vol. 1 of "Have a Nice Day" <70's comp series> and Yes, agree that Gayle was a minx.

 

[Quad Linda]

Aah, the Music Scene. it was on ABC on monday nights at 8E/7C. It ran against Laugh-In.

I bought all the Have a Nice Day volumes, the Have a Nice Decade box with the carpeted cover (literally) with the smiley patterns. I also bought Have a Nice Christmas, which features Santa Claus & His Old Lady by Cheech & Chong. Have a Nice Day has some wonderful oldies, but is also chock filled with crap. The Have a Nice Decade box is all-killa, no-filla.

 

[EMB]

For the brief time it was on the air, Billboard would put this

♫ symbol next to any artist listed on the Top Lp chart if they appeared, or were heard, on The Music Scene. Made the chart look kind of even more cumbersome than it was (the 1963-67 chart design remains my favorite: sleek, easy to read, all on one page). I saw a few episodes, but while it was a good idea, as Linda noted, it was in a (at the time) doomed time slot; it never had a chance. And it was teen-skewed, probably was doomed even if it hadn't been up against impossible competition. The regional music/teen shows of the '60s, while cruder, I've always enjoyed watching more, since these type of programs included local acts and some songs played you wouldn't have heard on Bandstand.
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ED

 

[Quad Linda]

Music Scene opening credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvXoQNakyA8

Other Music Scene clips:
Smith - Baby It's You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkSSHm0Cll8
Rolling Stones (promo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpZL7pmBow4
Rolling Stones (promo outtakes):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7f0FEHdPY
Janis Joplin - Try:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4SXIj3kl4
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 (w/Lani Hall) - Ye-Me'Le/Wichita Lineman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GQ8YfYyFwM
Spirit - 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXYPpm6QmUk
Archies - Sugar, Sugar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKywSgQ4OHE
Three Dog Night - Easy to be Hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJrYZYHKbtQ
Lou Rawls - Your Good Thing's About to Come to an End: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjaY2PPokg
Gary Puckett - This Girl is a Woman Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDfIF9yQVo
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO5t6Cp3dUA
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven/Johnny B. Goode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne9p3-sQ90I

It also featured the comedy troupe The Committee, which featured Howard Hesseman. Music Scene also featured Lily Tomlin, before she joined Laugh-In.

While we're in 1969, here's the complete PBS Critique of the Doors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtz795e3_Uw
Along with the reviewers discussing the Doors, it also features performances from the (then) new Soft Parade album, plus a couple others: Tell All The People/Alabama Song/Backdoor Man/Wishful Sinful/Build Me A Woman/Interview/The Soft Parade
I watched this when it was first broadcast in June '69 on Chicago channel 11 WTTW. I believe it is the only known live performance of the title song The Soft Parade.

 

[timbre4]

Music Scene ran 45 minutes coupled with another show on ABC - The New People? Mod Squad was a hit but America was not ready for 45 minute TV shows!


From QQ deep space

 

[Quad Linda]

One more Music Scene clip: Davy Jones (solo) backed by Sam & the Goodtimers, who backed the Monkees on the "Jitter Monkees" tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK7DpYngSBY They perform a cover of Nilsson's Together.

 

[Quad Linda]

From ABC news w/Frank Reynolds 10/22 & 10/24/69 Paul is NOT Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO84KeBkV-I

In case you are not aware, the Rutles' Piggy in the Middle has a backwards "I killed Stig": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKezWLZqRik

"I'm laughing in my underwear, and I don't care."

 

[leevitalone1]

Aah, the Music Scene. it was on ABC on monday nights at 8E/7C. It ran against Laugh-In.

I bought all the Have a Nice Day volumes, the Have a Nice Decade box with the carpeted cover (literally) with the smiley patterns. I also bought Have a Nice Christmas, which features Santa Claus & His Old Lady by Cheech & Chong. Have a Nice Day has some wonderful oldies, but is also chock filled with crap. The Have a Nice Decade box is all-killa, no-filla.

You guys got me with this one- I missed it! Never knew about it until today-I was in Germany still in the Army. Missed Woodstock-and 2 years worth of everything else that went on back home. I knew Woodstock happened because of the papers the Army published-but any news we got was through that, It's like 2 years never happened.

 

[blue.monk]

BBC Radio 4 - THE LOST GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL

Below is a link to this new radio documentary. For those unfamiliar with her she released only 2 LPs in the early 70's on Asylum Records. Both are terrific with the second, Heart Food, being an absolute masterpiece IMO. She had a very troubled life and died far too young. This doc features XTC's Andy Partridge who was quite influenced by her musically.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hrd

 

[DuncanS]

BBC Radio 4 - THE LOST GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL

Below is a link to this new radio documentary. For those unfamiliar with her she released only 2 LPs in the early 70's on Asylum Records. Both are terrific with the second, Heart Food, being an absolute masterpiece IMO. She had a very troubled life and died far too young. This doc features XTC's Andy Partridge who was quite influenced by her musically.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hrd

I don't have them, but they were good.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Today in 1970 marks the death of Jimi Hendrix at the tender age of 27. The details of his final day are somewhat vague but ended up with Jimi taking huge amounts of barbiturates and literally choking on his own vomit. He was in the company of his girlfriend Monika Dannemann who claimed that Jimi had asked her to marry him. She ended up the wife of then Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth. In 1996 she was found dead in a car which was ruled suicide, she was 50.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Jimi was killed...and his manager admitted it ..and then he died about 4 years after Jimi did (Karma's a beeyatch!)...
The autopsy revealed wine in his stomach but none in his bloodstream, a very horrible way to go for such a brilliant guy (but , OTOH , his girlfriends said he beat them...so, wife or women beaters are on the lowest part of my list) , which means , the murderers poured the wine down his throat after they killed him...

Still he is still the best guitarist ever...EVER!!!

 

[Doug G.]

There are always conspiracies of murder when a celebrity dies. Same with Morrison and Joplin.

The deaths are almost certainly from "death by misadventure", however. Especially in those days of rampant drug use among rock personalities (not that it's any different now). We just don't want to believe heros will basically kill themselves due to complete irresponsibility.

Glad I could cheer everybodys' day up.

Doug

 

[leevitalone1]

Today in 1970 marks the death of Jimi Hendrix at the tender age of 27. The details of his final day are somewhat vague but ended up with Jimi taking huge amounts of barbiturates and literally choking on his own vomit. He was in the company of his girlfriend Monika Dannemann who claimed that Jimi had asked her to marry him. She ended up the wife of then Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth. In 1996 she was found dead in a car which was ruled suicide, she was 50.

44 years already! whoo boy! I remember the exact day-and who told me 1st.

 

[EMB]

Every crank wants a conspiracy theory to be true, as if such a thing would turn their hero into some kind of martyr, or at the least, give their demise more meaning than the otherwise mundane truth that seems to nag at some people. JFK had to be murdered by some kind of cabal, since the notion that a disgruntled, mean little wife-beater like Oswald--a dour, troubled nobody--could take out the President of the United States, just seems not only ridiculous and unfair, but obscene. So to make ourselves feel better--and so those we lost can take on a mythical patina beyond their worldly achievements--we come up with utter tosh about how they were killed, their talents too unique and special for a long life (wonder what Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard--to name but three old Rock'n'roll old timers--would think of that).

Fortunately we can leave such absurdities behind and focus on what matters now--the music, which is the only trustworthy legacy of a guy like Hendrix.

ED

 

[jefe1]

Conspiracy or nut cases? You be the judge. I collected this information a couple of years ago.


The Man Who Murdered Jimi Hendrix?

By David Comfort

jimi hendrixA memorial on the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death -- Sept. 18, 1970:

I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now, but you still blast me down to the ground.

Before becoming Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Michael Jeffery had been a covert op for British Intelligence. According to one of his original clients, Eric Burdon of the Animals, Jeffery often boasted of his 007 escapades during the Cold War -- staging assassinations in Greece, torturing KGB agents, blowing up Russian/Egyptian bases in the Suez.

The Animals’ singer, Jimi’s future close friend, took these stories as drunken tall tales until, early one morning, the former MI6 agent invited him out to the London harbor where the U.S. Seventh Fleet happened to be trolling for some lost nukes. His manager emerged from the water in scuba gear, holding a black box. Pointing out to the armada, the ex-spy pulled a switch: suddenly the harbor was rocked with underwater explosions.

“Like most people of felonious intent,” Burdon wrote in his memoir, “he was charming, attractive, and sometimes a riot to be around.”

Jeffery had made the transition from demolition and espionage to rock and roll by studying under “The Al Capone of Pop” himself, Don Arden. Also known as “The English Godfather,”Arden, Sharon Osbourne’s father, went on to manage the Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra, and Black Sabbath. He was known for his old-fashioned business methods – bribery, blackmail, assault, kidnapping. Jeffery proved his own mettle against his mentor when he stole the Animals away from him without losing life or limb.

The retired spy parlayed his MI6 and Arden experience to become a rock and roll Dr. No. “His own mob sprang up around him like morning mushrooms,” Burdon wrote. “… His main enforcer was The Turk, a nasty bastard whose tools of choice were an ax and two highly trained German shepherds.” The singer went on to describe how Jeffery burnt down his Club Marimba for the insurance money, then how he absconded with the Animals’ money.

In the fall of 1966, the Animals’ bassist, Chas Chandler, discovered Jimi Hendrix in New York, flew him to London and introduced him to Jeffery. The two co-managed the guitarist and helped him assemble the Experience. Several years later, Chas and Jimi became estranged due to creative differences. “The window of opportunity was there for Jeffery to scoop it all up,” he said. “I knew that something dodgy was gonna happen. But I never dreamt it would lead to his [Jimi’s] death.”

In his own memoir, bassist Noel Redding described Jeffery’s fondness for guns, throwing knives, electronic bugging devices, and roadie spies. As for his financial skills, to discourage frivolous audits, the ex-spy kept all his business records in Russian.

Jeffery toured Jimi and the Experience relentlessly after their apotheosis at Monterey Pop in ’67.




By ‘69, the guitarist was earning $100,000 per gig, but was too exhausted and drugged out to realize that he was virtually broke while Jeffery was a multi-millionaire with off-shore numbered bank accounts.

At last, burnt out on touring, Jimi told his manager he was disbanding the Experience. No sooner did he reveal his intention than he was busted for heroin possession in Toronto. He came to suspect that Jeffery, desperate that he might lose his cash cow, had engineered the bust so he, Jimi, would be forced to keep the Experience alive to foot his legal expenses.

Four months later, just after Woodstock, Hendrix was kidnapped at gunpoint, held hostage for several days, then “rescued” in a dramatic shoot-out at his Woodstock compound. Soon he came to suspect that his manager was behind this intimidation too.

Still refusing to surrender to Jeffery and revive his golden goose, the Experience, Jimi formed the Band of Gypsys. At their premiere Madison Square Garden gig in January of 1970, Jimi collapsed on stage after only a few songs. Buddy Miles insisted he’d seen Jeffery slip him two tabs of bad acid. “He didn’t want Jimi playing in an all black band,” the Gypsys’ drummer declared. “One of the biggest reasons why Jimi is dead is because of that guy.”

Later that summer, Hendrix escaped New York for London, telling his friend and future biographer, Sharon Lawrence, “Lately I’ve been thinking that I’m circled by wolves.”

By this time, terrified of Jeffery, the star was in secret negotiations with Miles Davis’s manager, Alan Douglas. Hearing through one of his informants in Jimi’s entourage of the possible defection, Jeffery accused Douglas of “trying to steal my artist.”

After his Isle of Wright performance, Jimi lay low in London trying to avoid Jeffery who had followed him there. Meanwhile, he finalized a new management deal with Douglas.

On the morning of September 17, Douglas phoned Hendrix’s New York lawyers, informing them that he would be relieving Jeffery of his management duties. Meaning, not only would Jeffery lose his cash cow, his nemesis Douglas would, in taking over the books, discover his embezzlement and mismanagement over the years. Meaning the end of Jeffery’s career, if not imprisonment.

The next morning an ambulance, called by an unidentified party, screamed to the Samarkand Hotel where Hendrix was staying with his girlfriend, Monika Danneman. The paramedics found the door open, the flat abandoned, and a body on the bed covered in vomit.

Dr. John Bannister, the physician on duty at St Mary Abbot's hospital when the ambulance arrived, later testified: “Jimi Hendrix had been dead for some time… Red wine was coming out of his nose and out of his mouth. It was horrific.” He described how he tried to clear the singer’s windpipe with an 18-inch metal sucker, but finally gave up due to the inexhaustible volume of liquid.


“Someone apparently poured red wine down Jimi’s throat to intentionally cause asphyxiation after first causing barbiturate intoxication,” Dr. Bannister concluded. “Without the ability to cough he was easily drowned.”

Waterboarding and Forced Ingestion were commonly used by MI6 and other intelligence agents during the Cold War. It was a preferred interrogation or assassination technique since it left no marks on the body.

Almost no alcohol was found in Hendrix’s blood. Moreover, friends stated that he didn’t drink red wine.

The coroner, Dr. Gavin Thurslon, listed the cause of death as “inhalation of vomit following barbiturate intoxication.” As for the cause of this fatal condition itself, the pathologist left an “open verdict.”

The paramedics, doctors, and hospital staff did not learn that the victim was Jimi Hendrix until later on. To them the body seemed to be just that of another anonymous black man who had ODed.

Within hours of Jimi’s death, all his hotel rooms and crash pads in London as well as New York were turned over: clothes, instruments, writings, drugs -- everything vanished. An investigation was not launched until twenty-three years later when all evidence was long gone.

Noel Redding, who died all but penniless in 2003, wrote that murder was “a distinct possibility.”

In his 2009 title, "Rock Roadie," James Wright wrote that Jeffrey, his employer, confessed to the murder in 1971. “That son of a bitch was going to leave me,” the manager said. “If I lost him, I’d lose everything.”

Instead, he gained a fortune: his management contract was renewed by default, he reaped the immense profits of posthumous record sales, and he collected on a $2 million dollar insurance policy which he had taken out on the star.

Michael Jeffery reportedly perished in a mysterious plane crash over France in 1973. But his remains were never found. Eric Burdon, Noel Redding, and others believe he may have checked luggage but slipped away during the boarding process. Jeffery was due in London court the very next day to defend himself in several huge lawsuits relating to his embezzlement, money laundering, and fraud.


Best random story I've ever seen on The Wrap. Fascinating.



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Jimi Hendrix was most likely killed by a CIA/COINTELPRO political assassination operation. If you follow the money Jeffery kept the money he stole from Jimi in some offshore Bahamian banks that CIA also kept some very sensitive funds in. Read Michael Collins Piper’s book ‘Final Judgment’ to understand the connection between the CIA and mob in those banks and how they were used to channel mob proceeds into CIA black ops bank accounts. CIA had a deal with organized crime that if they helped control communism CIA would look the other way. CIA then took a cut which ended up in those same Bahamian offshore banks that Jeffery kept Hendrix’s stolen money in.

I openly suspect Michael Jeffery was recruited straight out of MI-5 in order to participate in the British branch of this program. He ripped-off the Animals, before he ever heard of Hendrix, through the same banks. I suspect Jeffery was the go-between for this program and was tapping unsuspecting rock acts as a funding source for this CIA black ops program. That explains why Jeffery had no problem taking those acts over from the mob.

Jimi was murdered while he was in the process of sending his lawyers to investigate those Bahamian bank accounts. They were literally CIA’s most sensitive bank accounts and were their main funding source for their worst black operations. CIA used offshore accounts in order to prevent having to explain what they did with the money or where they got it from. Those monies could then be used to fund some very wicked anti-communist operations. CIA was not interested in having lawyers snooping around those banks. Jimi was murdered by classic CIA alcoholic waterboarding in combination with barbiturates shortly after he initiated a tracing of his money. The main Bahamian BCCI Bank was shut down a decade later when it was determined it was mostly a dirty money laundry. Wikipedia BCCI Bank if you don’t believe me.

Jeffery told Tappy Wright “I had to do it, I had no choice”. You bet your ass.

Interesting that two months after confessing to Wright Jeffery was called to Majorca to help fix an electrical problem at his nightclub. On the flight back to Britain his Iberia Airlines DC-9 collided with another commercial aircraft and crashed. All 68 on board were killed. It is my suggestion that after killing Hendrix by covert means giving Jeffery a heart attack or some other covert death would be too obvious. No one, however, would question a mid-air plane collision.

While Jeffery was drawn to Majorca French Air Traffic Controllers went on strike. They were then replaced with military controllers less familiar with the operation. It was during this time that Jeffery’s flight crashed. It is my direct suggestion that intel were the only ones capable of creating the nightclub electrical problem pretext, as well as getting the air traffic controllers to strike, and also steering two jets towards each other. If Jeffery died there would be no one to publicly connect him to those CIA banks or investigate his background once it was established the money was unaccountably gone. Perhaps this is why Jeffery confessed?

Jeffery’s charred and mangled body was identified by a Hendrix road crew member – either Stickells or Barret, I can’t recall. He identified Jeffery through his unique jewelry. And although he never saw the remains themselves they were photographed.

I’d also check out Monika Dannemann’s background because it is very possible she was used as an intel infiltrator. I suspect the super-strong sleeping tablets that ended up in Hendrix’s reach the night he died were swung in there by a subtle CIA black operation. And, ironically, very possibly one Jimi may have inadvertently funded himself.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Looks like Bob Seger has a new album coming out in October HERE the CD is on amazon here

I've never seen any hi rez by Seger...no DVD-A's or SACD's...are there any?

 

[kap'n krunch]

I Love how the mainstream media has indoctrinated the populace into thinking that ANYTHING that goes against whatever MM sez (which is controlled by basically 3 companies now...almost like music) is immediately called a "CONSPIRACY theory"...let's review what this word REALLY means...and somehow , it does not describe "an alternative point of view" ..Orwell would be terrified..along with Aldous Huxley...
"conspiracy:
noun, plural conspiracies.
1.
the act of conspiring.
2.
an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
3.
a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose:
He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government.
4.
Law. an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.
5.
any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result."

CONSPIRING

verb (used without object), conspired, conspiring.
1.
to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal:
They conspired to kill the king.
2.
to act or work together toward the same result or goal.
verb (used with object), conspired, conspiring.
3.
to plot (something wrong, evil, or illegal)."

Do not be afraid to question....it is constructive and smart...