Mondays are Idiosyncrasy 'Cos They Ain't 'Nuttin Else

[Globaltruth]

As it turns out, the founding father of rock ‘n’ roll wasn’t a father at all – that distinction belongs to Sister Rosetta. A gospel-trained force of nature that broke barriers, stereotypes, and norms with astonishing regularity, her electrifying music predates the work of like-minded guitar legends including Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, and Elvis. Sister Rosetta Tharpe unequivocally remains the textbook definition of an iconoclast – The Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

It's a 9 minute tribute to Sister Rosetta by Celisse and Amythyst. They do a pretty good job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii06ABCd9ww

[johncorrigan]

They do a pretty good job.

They do indeed, Global...they had a fantastic act to follow.

[Padraig]

A very good case for Sister Rosetta - apart altogether from the evidence of her performances on record. That railway station entrance and show was Glastonbury without the hysteria. Good post G.

[johncorrigan]

A very good case for Sister Rosetta - apart altogether from the evidence of her performances on record. That railway station entrance and show was Glastonbury without the hysteria. Good post G.

I was in Manchester last week, Padraig, staying with an old school pal in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He lives a mile from the very place that that performance took place back in '64 - it's not a railway station anymore - it's a tram stop next to a Morrison's Car Park, but I was delighted to go visit and feel the spirit of the great Sister Rosetta. It's still one of my favourite YouTube clips ever as she performed 'Didn't it Rain' in the Manchester rain to a soaking audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE

[johncorrigan]

This evening, Stuart Maconie on his Radio 6 'Freak Zone' is celebrating eighty years on the planet of Yorkshire's Gavin Bryars. Maconie started out with the Portsmouth Symphonia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-QStM4CS4

Here's the programme website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pzsw

[Globaltruth]

This evening, Stuart Maconie on his Radio 6 'Freak Zone' is celebrating eighty years on the planet of Yorkshire's Gavin Bryars. Maconie started out with the Portsmouth Symphonia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-QStM4CS4

Here's the programme website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pzsw

here's a good interview with him from 2017

https://theculturevulture.co.uk/miscellaneous/interview-gavin-bryars-on-his-east-yorkshire-roots-shakespeares-dark-stuff-and-taking-tea-with-philip-glass-aphex-twin/

[johncorrigan]

here's a good interview with him from 2017

https://theculturevulture.co.uk/misc...ss-aphex-twin/

In Maconie's programme, GT, I particularly enjoyed Juan Muñoz & Bălănescu Quartet doing Gav's 'Dealing from the Bottom'. Really fun, I thought. Hadn't heard it before.

[johncorrigan]

'It may be rubbish, but by jingo, it's English Rubbish' - 'Morse Code Melody' by the Alberts and produced by George Martin said Monday to me as soon as I heard it on the Viv Stanshall Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qGMCeqwW8g

[Globaltruth]

When we lived in London we went to see 2 short films by The Alberts in The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road - we only lived round the corner...a matinee on a Saturday afternoon.
We were the only ones in the cinema.

The projectionist asked us if we wanted our money back but we said we'd rather watch the films. I can't remember the films at all - but my recollection is that they weren't that funny but were blessedly short.

Bruce Lacey was the flute playing gardener in the Beatles film Help. He would hate being best known for that, but those pub quiz questions don't write themselves you know.

On the same album, the Temperance Seven - here they are in 2009 playing Hard Hearted Hannah. Great percussion performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRBQdfyqTI

always worth another T7 track and in this one from 1962 they have considerably more energy and less timber...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxBpii4rjY

[johncorrigan]

When we lived in London we went to see 2 short films by The Alberts in The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road - we only lived round the corner...a matinee on a Saturday afternoon.
We were the only ones in the cinema.

The projectionist asked us if we wanted our money back but we said we'd rather watch the films. I can't remember the films at all - but my recollection is that they weren't that funny but were blessedly short.

Bruce Lacey was the flute playing gardener in the Beatles film Help. He would hate being best known for that, but those pub quiz questions don't write themselves you know.

Global, On the 'Stanshall Radio Flashes' programme from '71 - well worth a listen if you have a couple of hours handy (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bzn4) - Viv says that the Alberts were the bothers Douglas and Tony Gray who used to drive the Daily Mirror delivery vans at night dressed as Hussars, with Professor Bruce Lacey, kinetic sculptor, on vocals.

Top notch Temperance Seven tunes, by the way - that film from '62 seemed incredibly original for a pop promo of the time.

[Padraig]

I wonder who the object of this assessment was.

You've Been A Good Ole Wagon (Bessie Smith, 1925) - YouTube

[Globaltruth]

Global, On the 'Stanshall Radio Flashes' programme from '71 - well worth a listen if you have a couple of hours handy (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bzn4) - Viv says that the Alberts were the bothers Douglas and Tony Gray who used to drive the Daily Mirror delivery vans at night dressed as Hussars, with Professor Bruce Lacey, kinetic sculptor, on vocals.

Top notch Temperance Seven tunes, by the way - that film from '62 seemed incredibly original for a pop promo of the time.

"the bothers" - they certainly were

[Globaltruth]

I wonder who the object of this assessment was.

You've Been A Good Ole Wagon (Bessie Smith, 1925) - YouTube

"You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down", was written by Ben Harney and arranged by Johnny Biller in 1896. Ben Harney did much to popularise ragtime, this track was one of the breakthrough tracks. This version by Bessie Smith has Louis Armstrong on trumpet.

Listen here pretty papa
Leave, get out of my sight
I'm playing quits now
Right from this very night

you've had your days
Don't stand and frown
You've been a good old wagon, daddy, but you done broke down

You'd better go to the blacksmith shop
Get yourself overhauled
There's nothin' about you
To make a good woman bawl

Nobody wants a baby
When a real man can be found
You've been a good old wagon, daddy, but you done broke down


When the sun is shining
It's time to make haste
Now it's raining all the time
And you can't make your old wagon pay

When you were in your prime
You used to love to run around
You've been a good old wagon, daddy, but you done broke down

No need to cry
Or to make a big show
This man has taught me more about lovin'
Than you will ever know

He is the king of lovin'
Just minus of a crown
He's a good old wagon, daddy, and he ain't broke down

As you can see the lyrics above don't match with those few shown below....

Wagon_sheet_music.jpg

None of the above helps answer your question Padraig, and I suspect we'll never know - possibly no real person, just a figment of Ben Harney's imagination.

[Globaltruth]

We don’t have many rock videos but this is definitely one of the greatest rock videos EVER

https://youtu.be/1kFP7dJ6VZc?si=MBRmFdvkh8NB1n86

[johncorrigan]

We don’t have many rock videos but this is definitely one of the greatest rock videos EVER
https://youtu.be/1kFP7dJ6VZc?si=MBRmFdvkh8NB1n86

Dr Ringo should cut the jibber-jabber and get himself to Stonehenge, Global.