"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Happy Feet Friday
From
1944, here's the distinctive sound of Tiny Bradshaw and his band with
my favorite version of “Straighten Up and Fly Right”.
7 comments:
Steve Skubinna
said...
Odd. I was going to comment that I liked the Bing Crosby version, and checked, and - guess what? Doesn't seem as though Bing ever did it!
People probably 'remembered' seeing news that Mandela had died in jail, because they'd got him mixed up with Steven Biko who died from injuries in a SA jail in 1977. Biko used to be as well known as Mandela, but that faded.
Bing recorded Route 66 with the Andrews Sisters. Route 66 and Straighten Up are both Nat Cole hits (Cole only wrote Straighten Up) and are similar when he sings them. Then, the Andrews Sisters actually recorded a powerful version of Straighten Up, but without Bing.
In short Steve - yes there could be something similar going on. Cheers!
Well, Biko was commemorated in song by Peter Gabriel, so there is that. And for what it's worth, neither Bing nor the Andrews Sisters covered that one.
Yes I had that Gabriel album on cassette (live version) plus other stuff, which I played on my clunky Walkman mk1 in the 1980s, living out of a suitcase while I travelled around.
'so I lived from day to day, my friends would say I am a nut' (Solsbury Hill)
At one stage my wife and I lived in a caravan on the foothills of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Warning when we weren't in the Himalayas or sailing down the Ganges. We settled down when the kids came along.
Same thing Tulsi Gabbard is into, started in NY in 1966. I joined the group in the 70s when they were building up a global network. During the 1980s we even infiltrated the Soviet Union via Hungary, but the Russians put our contacts in mental hospitals. It used to be mainly Americans, now mostly non-'Westerners' including thousands of Russians, Ukrainians and Poles. Only place we never cracked was China - they even let us set up a base (to see what we were up to?) then boom! Shut down.
I learned American phrases like 'Don't get on my case'.
Ultra conservative anti-hippies: shaved heads, no 'zombie' etc, no girlfriends but lots of marriages. Supposedly no pop music but we had our hidden stash of cassettes! 'for study pruposes'.
One American leader let us down badly, after that the feminists took over for a while, grrr. His name was Keith Ham, total psycho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtanananda_Swami
We had all kinds, ex-marines and Vietnam vets, actors, Beatles, great grandson of Henry Ford. Met people I would not have met, including my Caribbean wife who's still somewhat into it. I lost interest eventually but keep contact with old friends. In the 1990s we got college degrees and went professional - let our hair grow! :-)
7 comments:
Odd. I was going to comment that I liked the Bing Crosby version, and checked, and - guess what? Doesn't seem as though Bing ever did it!
Another example of the Mandela Effect?
People probably 'remembered' seeing news that Mandela had died in jail, because they'd got him mixed up with Steven Biko who died from injuries in a SA jail in 1977. Biko used to be as well known as Mandela, but that faded.
Bing recorded Route 66 with the Andrews Sisters. Route 66 and Straighten Up are both Nat Cole hits (Cole only wrote Straighten Up) and are similar when he sings them. Then, the Andrews Sisters actually recorded a powerful version of Straighten Up, but without Bing.
In short Steve - yes there could be something similar going on. Cheers!
PS I wonder if the sisters got Bing in to sing Route 66 because the idea of ladies getting 'kicks' on Route 66 just didn't sound right at all!
Well, Biko was commemorated in song by Peter Gabriel, so there is that. And for what it's worth, neither Bing nor the Andrews Sisters covered that one.
Yes I had that Gabriel album on cassette (live version) plus other stuff, which I played on my clunky Walkman mk1 in the 1980s, living out of a suitcase while I travelled around.
'so I lived from day to day,
my friends would say I am a nut' (Solsbury Hill)
At one stage my wife and I lived in a caravan on the foothills of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Warning
when we weren't in the Himalayas or sailing down the Ganges.
We settled down when the kids came along.
Holy cow, Bruce... I half expect you to tell us you were traveling in a fried out combie, on the hippy trail, head full of zombie.
Same thing Tulsi Gabbard is into, started in NY in 1966. I joined the group in the 70s when they were building up a global network. During the 1980s we even infiltrated the Soviet Union via Hungary, but the Russians put our contacts in mental hospitals. It used to be mainly Americans, now mostly non-'Westerners' including thousands of Russians, Ukrainians and Poles. Only place we never cracked was China - they even let us set up a base (to see what we were up to?) then boom! Shut down.
I learned American phrases like 'Don't get on my case'.
Ultra conservative anti-hippies: shaved heads, no 'zombie' etc, no girlfriends but lots of marriages. Supposedly no pop music but we had our hidden stash of cassettes! 'for study pruposes'.
One American leader let us down badly, after that the feminists took over for a while, grrr. His name was Keith Ham, total psycho:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtanananda_Swami
We had all kinds, ex-marines and Vietnam vets, actors, Beatles, great grandson of Henry Ford. Met people I would not have met, including my Caribbean wife who's still somewhat into it. I lost interest eventually but keep contact with old friends. In the 1990s we got college degrees and went professional - let our hair grow! :-)
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