Christiern

I started a New Yorker clippings thread, but it occurred to me that the scope ought to be broadened to include any publication. I spen a few hours on most days doing research for whatever project I'm working on, so I come across a lot of interesting--not always relevant--stuff. I will start this thread with one that I obviously placed in the wrong place yesterday, sorry 'bout that, didn't mean to derail a technical discussion. Chicago Defender: June 28, 1930

June 4, 1927: Same issue: September 25, 1937:

I remember spotting this ad in the July 8, 1965 New York Times and thinking, Damn! Discotheque Sybil is at the Gate! How did Art manage that? ...and who are these other guys?

Wish I could help--hope you get the disc--ignore Netherlands RIAA Police

September 24, 1932: Same issue: Same issue:

June 4, 1927: Same issue: Same issue: Same issue: September 24, 1932:

He didn't make it

There are times that call for flexibility, Bluerein. Obviously, PappyK would buy that disc if he could. I think you need to take another look at your "book."

I agree, Valerie, we need an updated, positive thread title.

The insider coop price for my apartment was $8,700 in 1975--I paid the required $620 down but was persuaded to rescind ("this is a bad time to buy"). I forfeited my down payment, but even worse: the current price for my apartment (yes, I'm still here) is one and a quarter million! Anyway, apropos apartments, we return to the New Yorker magazine and an item from the October 23, 1937 issue:

I agree with Allen--stay away from allmusic, they have many uninformed or sloppy writers and the aforementioned computer completes the revisionist tangle.

June 5, 1937: Same issue: September 25, 1937:

June 5, 1937: (This one's for Conrad) Same issue:

December 22, 1928: Same issue: June 2, 1928 Makes you want to cry!

Look who's talking! Well, some of us don't exactly embrace bigoted, foul-mouthed posters, but you're not some of us, are you "bb"? BTW, I wonder if homophobe ymb knows that Don Pullen was gay.

July 8, 1933: November 3, 1928: December 22, 1928:

I don't know if anybody still does this, but some DJs (myself included, a couple of times) also used background music, something soft to talk over. I recall using one of Ray Bryant's cuts from a solo Prestige album, it set a mood that seemed right for a laid-back all-night show.

If a forgotten, bitter old has-been yearning to be an egomaniacal New York college radio guy who interrupts his fantasy-laden rambling with music to catch his breath, may be allowed to respond... I have had many themes over the year, from Googie René to Miles, but my favorite theme was the one written and recorded for me by Roswell Rudd--it didn't have a title, but it worked. BTW, I first became aware of the theme concept when, as a teenager in Copenhagen, I regularly listened to a show from AFN Frankfurt that had Charlie Barnet's "Skyliner" as its theme.

October 19, 1957: "Pop. tell me again how jazz came up the river." Same issue:

A friend of mine, Ira, who is a jazz writer, called me a few years back when he had just switched from a typewriter to a Mac. He was using Microsoft Word and it kept changing the spelling of his last name to "Hitler." I solved the problem for him.

Apropos the lingering association, Eimskip has abandoned it and uses a new logo.

It (reversed) was also the logo for the Icelandic Steamship Co., on whose ship, SS Godafoss, I crossed the Atlantic twice in WWII. We encountered U-Boat packs, but were not among the sunken (did the Nazis see the flag?). Actually, the Godafoss (a sister ship to the one depicted in the poster) was eventually torpedoed and sunk (in 1944). Funny thing, I remember when the British occupied Iceland, in 1941, they stormed the Eimskip building, which was flying that logo flag. Guess it fooled them. And here's an actual photo of the ship I sailed on...

From the Chicago Defender - March 20, 1920

Watch it, T the K, next thing you know, the O's venomous lunatic fringe will crawl from under their rock and accuse you of being envious of Crouch's good looks and talent!