Top: Beat Girl, classic UK bad girl flick, Demons Of The Mind: her film swansong.With Jane Birkin, In Blow-UpGillian Hills was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1944 to English parents, she was raised in Paris where she was discovered [...]
Tony Fruscella
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Tony Fruscella, a name from the sharkskin underground of the 1950's. Born in 1927, he was raised in a nun's orphanage in New Jersey. Little Tony was given a trumpet at age fifteen and supposedly played at Carnegie Hall [...]
Orson Welles- It's All True
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If you've never seen the footage from Orson Welles' lost South American movie,It's All True this footage is a must see. RKO pulled the plug when they found out that Welles was shooting mostly native fishermen and black samba clubs in the favela, a [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #20
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Even I'm at a loss for comment about the Fang's contribution this week. A masked debutante Satanist ball? The hand signals alone seem to point in that direction. Who are these women and what are they doing? Who dressed [...]
Coleman Hawkins and Thelonious Monk: Oct. 1944
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Coleman Hawkins, whose 1939 version of Body and Soul would forever define the sound of the tenor saxophone, not only in jazz but in all music, is one of the most profoundly important musicians of the 20th century. And one [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #19
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It's that ape again! See Gillian's Found Photo #3 (March 9, 2009) for the original appearanceof Zip in the pages of the Houndblog. Zip, according to Red Boy was a character on the Howdy Doody television show, of which I [...]
Little Walter B.C. (before Checker)
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Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs, b. 1930 in Marksville, Louisiana) was a monster. The bulk of his recorded output was for the Chicago based Chess Records' Checker subsidiary and should be one of the building blocks [...]
Small Faces
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Nothing to say this week, been sick and don't really feel like writing, but since I've been reading Simon Spence's Immediate (Black Dog Publishing), an excellent look at Andrew Oldham's UK label, I started looking at these Small Faces clips that I'd [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #18
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Etheyl Mae here is showing off her new guitar, a Christmas present according to the scribble on the back of the photo. Date and place unknown. Someplace snowy for you blind readers.I love this photo, for no particular [...]
JB Lenoir
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JB Lenoir (the JB doesn't stand for anything, the last name pronounced len-Or), was born in Monticello, Mississippi, March 5, 1929. Sometimes his name was spelled Lenore on record labels. He spent some time in New Orleans, [...]
Billy Lee Riley
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Billy Lee Riley ... one of the remaining original Sun Records artists, Is in VERY bad need of help! Billy has had his share of health problems, and is now battling Stage FOUR bone cancer. Although musicares is helping with [...]
Brian Jones
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Brian, on a prospecting mission.John Lennon reads the shocking news. Brian At the Mellotron. Rare sleeve. Final resting place, Cheltenham. Dressed to kill..... Brian and Anita, the perfect couple....After [...]
Pete "Guitar" Lewis
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Pete "Guitar" Lewis, far right with the Johnny Otis Show, early 50'sOur subject today: Pete "Guitar" Lewis, is another man of mystery. A brilliant guitar player whose style could be primitive and aggressive or subtle and [...]
