Category Archives: 50s

On Writing – Patrick Dennis

November 24, 2013 – 11:38 am

“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.” – Patrick Dennis, author of AUNTIE MAME.

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YOURNA Pepper Adams Quintet

August 12, 2013 – 8:56 pm
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Mlle. Cool

August 12, 2013 – 8:53 pm

Lorraine Glover 1955 Donald Byrd’s Wife She is so cool, although there was a question around her identity, because some people argued that the trumpeter’s second wife was named Yourma. www.burnedshoes.com solved the mystery with research and wrote that in April 1958, Donald Byrd recorded the song “Yourna” with the Pepper Adams Quartet. They suggested […]

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No Space For Warhol

March 2, 2013 – 5:56 pm

Throughout the spring and summer of 1956 New York’s Museum of Modern Art featured an exhibition, Recent Drawings USA. Andy Warhol was one of the artists in the group show. According to the informative http://www.warholstars.org Warhol and his companion Charles Lisanby traveled around the world visiting San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Djakarta, Bali, […]

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SEPTEMBER SONG Lotte Lenya

September 29, 2012 – 1:24 pm

SEPTEMBER SONG was written by Kurt Weill to present an aging man’s lament of the passage of youth. Many women have sung it as well, few better than Eartha Kitt and the composer’s wife. It’s the epitome of Schaden-Freude. Check out Lotte Lenya’s version by going to this URl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTBu44Ui2Fg&feature=related

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