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Two games tonight, two tomorrow evening. Fred Williams Week 15 preview http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4183322

Happy Birthday Ken! Always enjoy your comments.

I recall the Pirates that, in was it "78 or '79?, at least one World Series game they didn't sell out. I lived in Pittsburgh at the time, and I remember thinking that I could just drive right down and buy a ticket to the World Series! However, it was snowing lightly, so I didn't bother.

Listening to The Kingston Trio tonight, I was reminded that it was Reynolds who spoke the lengthy intro to Tom Dooley, and who sang the lead on MTA.

The Mark Murphy is from about 1966. I've wanted it for decades. I'm curious about the Doldinger. I have one of his from 1968 released on World Pacific called Blues Happening. I like it a lot, and if this has more of that I'd be interested.

Nick Reynolds died yesterday. Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds made up The Kingston Trio. Guard was the leader, but left the group in late '61. He was replaced by John Stewart (who passed away earlier this year), and the group continued to have hits. The group broke up in '67. Shane continued touring with two other guys as The New Kingston Trio. I saw them in '69 I think. About ten years ago I picked up a CD of their recordings, and by coincidence I listened to it yesterday. It was more country than folk. Anyway, in the early 90s Reynolds and Shane got back together with a third guy as The Kingston Trio. I saw them perform in Atlanta around '93 or '94. Very enjoyable, although there was a loud table in the back that talked through much of the performance. RIP. I'll pull out my cds of Tom Dooley, MTA and Worried Man in Reynolds' honor. Here's a link to Kingston Trio YouTube videos: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...,0,218679.story From the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,6426162.story Nick Reynolds, 75, dies; was a founding member of the Kingston Trio Nick Reynolds, a founding member of the popular 1960s folk group The Kingston Trio, died Oct. 1 in San Diego. He was 75. In the 1950s, the group helped drive the folk music revival that paved the way for such artists as Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary. By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 3, 2008 Nick Reynolds, who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk music revival to the top of the pop music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San Diego. He was 75. Reynolds had been hospitalized in recent weeks with acute respiratory disease and a variety of other illnesses, his son, Josh Reynolds, said today. His family chose to take him off life support. Nick Reynolds Kingston Trio video links (YouTube) The group's recording of the tragic 19th century folk ballad "Tom Dooley" went to No. 1 in 1958 and earned Reynolds and his partners Dave Guard and Bob Shane a Grammy Award for best country and western performance at the first Grammy ceremony. In that inaugural year, the Grammys had no categories dedicated to folk music, which was booming on college campuses around the country. The following year, the group's album "The Kingston Trio at Large" picked up a second Grammy for its members. "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta ... from Odetta, I went to Harry Belafonte, the Kingston Trio, little by little uncovering more as I went along," Bob Dylan once said. Reynolds typically handled the middle part of the trio's scintillating three-part harmonies, sometimes adding congas and other percussion accents. Although the group's music generally shied away from the politicized content of such forbears as Woody Guthrie and the Weavers, its commercial breakthrough in the late-'50s represented a clean-cut alternative to the sexualized rock 'n' roll of Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and others that had American teens in its grip. And it helped set the stage for such upcoming folk-rooted protest singers as Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. "It really started with the Weavers, in the early '50s," Reynolds said in a 2006 interview speaking of the group that included Pete Seeger. "We were big fans of theirs, but they got blacklisted in the McCarthy era. Their music was controversial. Suddenly, they couldn't get any airplay; they couldn't get booked into the big hotels, nothin'. "We played their kind of music when we were first performing in colleges. But when we formed the trio ... we had to sit down and make a decision: Are we going to remain apolitical with our music? Or are we going to slit our throats and get blacklisted for doing protest music? We decided we'd like to stay in this business for a while. And we got criticized a lot for that. ... If Bob Dylan or Joan Baez had come out at that time, they'd have been dead in the water. But four or five years later, [their music] became commercially viable." The trio also charted hits with "The Tijuana Jail," "M.T.A." and Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," a protest song that became popular with anti-Vietnam War activists and that the group eventually sang on the White House lawn as President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Ladybird Johnson, looked on. Nicholas Wells Reynolds was born July 27, 1933, in San Diego to Stewart Shirley Reynolds, a Navy captain, and Jane Keck Reynolds. The family, including sisters Barbara and Jane, often engaged in singalongs led by their father, a guitarist with an affinity for old folk songs. It was in these sessions that Reynolds developed his facility with intricate vocal harmonies that became one of the hallmarks of the Kingston Trio's music. "Nobody could nail a harmony part like Nick," Shane once said. "He could hit it immediately, exactly where it needed to be, absolutely note perfect, all on the natch. Pure genius." After graduating from Coronado High School in 1951, he attended the University of Arizona and San Diego State before enrolling at Menlo College near San Francisco. During a particularly dull accounting class, he noticed a student dead asleep and later introduced himself to Bob Shane. Shane and Dave Guard knew each other from the time they'd played music together in Guard's native Hawaii, and when Guard decided to reconfigure his Kingston Quartet, which he started while studying at nearby Stanford, he drafted Shane and Reynolds. Reynolds left the group in 1967 after the British Invasion rendered its style effectively antiquated in the minds of pop music fans, and moved his family to Oregon, where he stayed until the 1980s. In 1991 he joined Shane in a reconstituted version of the Kingston Trio. Guard died of cancer that year, and had left the trio in the 1961 to form his own group. Guard was replaced by singer-songwriter John Stewart, who went on to have a significant solo career. Stewart died in January of a massive stroke. Reynolds continued performing with Shane until he retired a second time in 2003. Shane eventually bought Reynolds' and Guard's shares of the rights to the Kingston Trio name so he could use it exclusively, and the act has continued to tour since Shane's retirement with three latter-day members. In recent years, Reynolds and Stewart had hosted a "Trio fantasy camp" in Arizona, where folk music fans would learn to play and sing many of the trio's hits and other folk standards. Reynolds is survived by his wife, Leslie; sons Joshua Stewart Reynolds and John Pike Reynolds; daughters Annie Clancy Reynolds Moore and Jennifer Kristie Reynolds; and sisters Jane Reynolds Meade and Barbara Reynolds Haines. No services have been set, Josh Reynolds said.

For "GA" it has: While on a camping trip, you become trapped in an outhouse for days. To avoid starvation, you eat some of the waste matter floating in the toilet water. You become violently ill and die shortly thereafter. Strangely enough, I recall posting once here about using an outhouse on a camping trip in Idaho. And as I recall, I said that all things considered it was a more pleasant experience than using a federally mandated low flush john. edit to make the quote legible

Happy Birthday rostasi!

Ron Estay has serious cancer. He has taken a four-month leave of absence from the Riders. He and I are the same age, and we both grew up in southern Louisiana. He told me that he went to South Lafourche High School. I met him at the 1978 Grey Cup when he played for the Eskimos. Please keep him in your prayers. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/new...1a-0be9eb472e23 ***** Dominique Dorsey injured his knee and his ankle. It hasn't been determined how long he will be out - maybe three weeks, maybe the remainder of the year. The Argos have brought in Keith Stokes to take his spot on the roster (not that Stokes could fill Dorsey's shoes). The Argos also cut Bethel Johnson, who was with the Patriots when they won the Super Bowl in 2004 and 2005. http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Football/article/509252

You made my day, Ray!

Thanks, BG. This morning's paper said that today is Dave Holland's 62nd birthday. I still think of him as a young guy!

Here's a Spectator article which claims that the Ticats of the past four years are among the worst pro sports teams ever! I don't think it's true, because the Ticats have had the lead in the fourth quarter in about half their losses this year. Still, four years is a long time to go without improvement in the won-loss record. http://www.thespec.com/Sports/article/442624

Here's his Washington Post obit: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,4377293.story

Back in the 60s I read many times that bossa nova started with the soundtrack to the movie Black Orpheus. Nowadays, the historians give the credit to the earliest Joao Gilberto recordings. Marpessa Dawn, the female lead of Black Orpheus, has died. I have thought about her every time I listen to the soundtrack cd, because it includes her startled shriek when she comes upon Death for the first time. I had no idea that she was born in Pittsburgh! From the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,3709281.story <h2 style="">Marpessa Dawn</h2>Actress in 1959's 'Black Orpheus' Marpessa Dawn, the Pennsylvania-born actress who played the doomed Eurydice in the classic Brazilian movie "Black Orpheus," died Aug. 25 of a heart attack at her home near Paris, the New York Times reported, citing her daughter Dhyana Kulth. Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, "Black Orpheus" told the story of an innocent country girl, played by Dawn, and a trolley car driver and musician, played by Bruno Melo. The couple meet during Rio's carnival, but Eurydice is being stalked by Death. Orpheus later retrieves her body from the morgue and falls to his death from a cliff cradling her in his arms. Directed by Marcel Camus, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1960. Gypsy Marpessa Dawn Menor was born in Pittsburgh in 1934. She was of American and Filipino heritage and moved to England as a teenager, where she had a few small television roles. She later moved to France, where she sang and danced in nightclubs and worked as a governess. She appeared in several movies after "Black Orpheus," but none was as successful.

I have a Christmas song of his. I taped a Christmas radio show some fifteen years ago and he was on it. Play it every December. RIP

Typo fixed!

Bobo Stenson has a new album out called Cantando. This is my first album of his. I have been curious about him for a while now. I picked up his rarum cd cheap about a year ago from the Jazz Heritage Society, but never got around to opening it up. I've had this a couple of weeks now, and it took me a while to warm up to it. I realized today that there is one track that goes off the edge of the cliff, and has been interfering with my enjoyment of the cd. It really is a great album for a lazy Sunday afternoon. The trio is completed by Anders Jormin on bass and Jon Falt on drums. Although the players are not as equal as the Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio, Jormin is much more up front than most trio bassists are. I plan to burn a copy without the one track that I don't like. I'm sure that once that's done I'll be playing it a lot.

Liz Taylor was good looking once? Guy Well, apparently I don't know how to cut and paste using the right click, but there is a good photo of Liz at http://www.drudgereport.com right now.

Thanks Mark!

Yeah! Thanks Jim!

Montreal Alouettes 37....Saskatchewan Roughriders 12 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home The Als clinched second place in the East. One more win and they will clinch first. Pretty good for a team many expected to finish last.

British Columbia Lions 40....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 10 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home The Ticats were never in it. Rookie QB Quinton Porter started and played the whole game for Hamilton. The Lions had 10 sacks, including 3 by Cameron Wade, who will probably go to the NFL next year. Lions third string QB Zac Champion came in late, making his first CFL appearance, and threw a TD pass.

Surprise! I received a copy of the Roadshows vol. 1 cd today in the mail. I love it. Three selections are from the 1980s, and four from the 2000s. Unlike his Milestone studio recordings I have heard, he never sounds like he is busting a gut. He is relaxed on all of the numbers. It sounds like a great deal of thought was given into making the selections. I would say that it is a five star album because all of the tracks are four stars. The cut from the 2007 Carnegie Hall show is saved for last. I feel that it is the weakest track. All of the others, although with different bands, sound like they were recorded on the same day. Sonny is in consistently good form. Thumbs up!

With Ralph's passing, that means that we have lost four greats (all of whom I was fortunate enough to meet) in 2008 - Jake Gaudaur, Bob Ackles, Ron Lancaster and now Ralph Sazio. We also lost Leif Petterson. Fred Williams says here that Ralph took over as head coach of the Ticats in '63. I guess that means that Jim ("We'll waffle 'em.") Trimble was the Ticats' coach for the '62 Grey Cup game. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4182153 I should have known that Dan Ralph could be counted on to provide a worthy obituary for Ralph: http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Football/article/507402 ***** Calgary Stampeders 44....Toronto Argonauts 16 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4182312 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6905796-cp.html http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home The Argos were in it until Dominique Dorsey was injured. After that it was all Stamps.

I agree, it doesn't seem like 17 years. The other guy who has been dead much longer than I realized is Stan Getz.