GA Russell

Welcome back MG! Big news! While you were gone, Organissimo released a new CD! I'll be interested to hear how the missus' investigations turn out.

Their albums were pretty spectacular, well worth the import prices you'll pay for them in the USA. Would have loved to see them live. felser, I saw them live on consecutive nights in the fall of '70 - the first night in a small club, and the second night at the Univ. of Maryland (I think in their gym). The first night they let me tape their show. Unfortunately, I haven't seen that tape in decades. Great shows!

I noticed the other day that suddenly everyone is spelling the first name of the Ticats QB Richie rather than Ritchie. He must have put out the word regarding how it should be spelled. Here is a list of the Riders injuries: The defending Grey Cup champions sit atop the West Division with a 6-1 mark, suffering their first loss of the season last week to Calgary 30-25. But the Riders lost two more players to injury in that game as offensive lineman Belton Johnson suffered a broken fibula (the fourth Saskatchewan player to sustain that injury this year) and cornerback Omarr Morgan also left the game with an unspecified injury and didn't return. What's more amazing, though, is Saskatchewan being 6-1 despite a plethora of injuries. Included among the club's walking wounded are: receivers T.J. Acree (foot), Carl Berman (torn Achilles), Matt Dominguez (knee), Andy Fantuz (broken leg), D.J. Flick (broken leg), Chris Getzlaf (undisclosed) and David McKoy (knee), quarterbacks David Tate (shoulder) and Darian Durant (ribs), defensive end John Chick (knee), running back Neal Hughes (broken leg), defensive backs Leron Mitchell (broken leg), James Johnson (concussion) and Denatay Heard (knee), offensive linemen Glenn January (leg bruise), Jean Francois Morin-Roberge (undisclosed) and Marc Parenteau (knee) and linebacker Kevin Scott (undisclosed). http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Jason Armstead has joined the Bombers. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...423766-sun.html

Happy Birthday kinuta!

Here in the US, Morrisey was best known as the leader of If, which many felt was the best jazz-rock band of the late 60s-early 70s. I had the pleasure of meeting him twice. Very nice guy.

The Argos are considering playing their games at the stadium the Toronto MLS soccer team uses, and are conducting a survey of their season ticket holders to determine the fans' preferences. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** Doug Berry has given the starting QB job back to Kevin Glenn. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...412386-sun.html

Belated Happy Birthday Mark!

Allen, the article I referred to said that he did. If you dispute that, your beef is with the author, not with me.

Thanks Chas!

Chris, I'm sure that you know far more than I about how often this occurs. A few years ago for Christmas my sister gave me a book which was a collection of the best magazine articles about music of the year. One article was about Wimeweh, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. It was about how the African composer lived a life of subsistence poverty while Pete Seeger received millions of dollars in royalties. According to the article, ASCAP or BMI (I don't rememeber which) got it straightened out after the fellow died, and sent his widow a sum which allowed her to buy a new home, but was chump change in comparison to what had already been paid out. I'm pretty sure but not positive that the article was originally published in Rolling Stone.

Shortly after he was cut and retired, Troy Westwood wrote a column saying that Doug Berry did not have the respect of the players in the locker room. Now today he has written a second column saying that Berry must go. http://www.winnipegsun.com/Sports/Columnis...10/6401181.html I don't recall a player in any sport going after a former coach like Westwood has done.

Darling's name was one which I came across fairly often, but I didn't know his history until reading his obit this morning. I have Walk Right In, and I'll have to put it on. I had no idea that it was from 1929. Here's his Washington Post obituary: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,3482738.story Erik Darling, 74; singer-songwriter helped revive American folk music Folk Era/Wind River Records Singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Erik Darling was a virtuoso on the 12-string guitar, and replaced singer Pete Seeger in the Weavers, the celebrated group at the heart of the post-World War II folk resurgence. In 1963, he arranged and recorded the pulsing pop hit “Walk Right In” with the Rooftop Singers. By Martin Weil, Washington Post August 9, 2008 Erik Darling, a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who played a vital role in the revival of American folk music and was identified with the pulsing 1960s pop hit "Walk Right In," died Aug. 3 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 74 and had lymphoma. Starting in the late 1950s as the replacement for Pete Seeger, Darling spent more than four years with the Weavers, the celebrated group at the heart of the post-World War II folk resurgence. In an interview, Seeger called Darling a "tremendously talented musician with a subtle sense of poetry and musicianship. . . . He wasn't loud, he wasn't flashy, but very sensitive." A master of the banjo, a virtuoso on the 12-string guitar and the possessor of a well-received tenor voice, Darling over the years could be heard or seen in films and on television, and on records and CDs, as well as on college campuses and at other concert venues in the United States and abroad. Music reviewer Steve Leggett on allmusic.com called Darling a "behind-the-scenes innovator on the folk scene for decades." Climbing quickly to the top of the 1963 charts, "Walk Right In," as arranged and recorded by Darling and the other two members of the Rooftop Singers, exerted an irresistible up-tempo appeal with lyrics such as "Walk right in, sit right down; Daddy, let your mind roll on." Earlier, the Tarriers, another folk group in which Darling was a member, produced a highly successful version of "The Banana Boat Song," the catchy Jamaican folk number that included the cry "Day-O" and ignited a brief Calypso craze. (The Harry Belafonte version became even better known.) With the Weavers, Darling was more than just a substitute for Seeger, according to one student of the folk scene. Instead, Ron Kolesko wrote in his online "Folk Music Notebook," Darling "introduced new songs and styles to the group and really held his own." Fred Hellerman, one of the original Weavers, said this week: "Pete never swung the way Erik could swing. His banjo could take command and carry everybody along with it." Of Darling's later career, Hellerman said his friend "was constantly full of surprises. Erik would disappear for a while and all of a sudden pop up with songs or an album so completely off the wall and different, and of such high quality." Erik Darling was born Sept. 25, 1933, in Baltimore, where his mother's family lived, but grew up in Canandaigua, N.Y. Much of Darling's musical education was obtained in New York's Washington Square, which during his teenage years was a focus of the burgeoning folk movement that included Seeger, Belafonte, Bob Dylan and Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. In the mid-1950s, Darling formed the Tunetellers, which later became the Tarriers, and included future actor Alan Arkin. The group soon had a top-10 hit in 1956 with the calypso-influenced "Banana Boat Song," which Darling reportedly had heard from folk musician Bob Gibson in Washington Square. Darling left the Weavers in 1962 to form the Rooftop Singers, in which he was credited with leading a 12-string guitar revival when he hit upon the idea of using the instrument that year for his version of "Walk Right In." The song had been written and recorded in 1929 by Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers and had been regarded as an essentially forgotten classic. Darling formed the Rooftop Singers specifically to release "Walk Right In" in updated form. The song became Darling's biggest commercial hit. He was divorced from television actress and director Joan Kugell Darling. He had no immediate survivors.

One of these days I am going to have to learn how you guys post album covers. I recall that two Tijuana Brass album covers were from the same photo shoot. As I recall, they were called South of the Border and What Now My Love. I have also seen two Ronnie Hawkins albums which featured the same photo of him with different artwork.

Here's an article about the Riders' five broken legs, all fibulas. It doesn't mention Matt Dominguez's ACL and the team's other injuries. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/new...5a-7aba9557a6ec

British Columbia Lions 40....Edmonton Eskimos 34 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6393586-cp.html http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4170252 This was played last night with a 10:30 pm eastern start. I had to get up early this morning, so I had to turn it off and go to bed at the end of the third quarter. It was very exciting up to that point. The statistics were way out of whack. At one point the Lions had total negative yards, yet were leading with something like 20 points. Jarious Jackson was lifted in the third for Buck Pierce, so maybe Jackson's hold on the starting position is not secure. ***** I forgot to say that Thursday night the Roughriders lost another guy with a broken leg. I've never seen a team with so many leg injuries. ***** The Western teams have a bye next week. The Eastern teams will have the following week off.

I remember Play Your Hunch well. It was an NBC daily morning show hosted by Merv Griffin. Allen, Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on Who Do You Trust?, which was an ABC daily afternoon show starring Johnny Carson. It was a copy of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, with Carson playing Groucho and McMahon playing George Fenneman.

Montreal Alouettes 39....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 11 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4170188 I heard the second half, and it wasn't interesting.

Calgary Stampeders 30....Sasktchewan Roughriders 25 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4170030 The Riders scored the first four points, and then the Stamps completely dominated the game. After three the score was 30-4. And then the Riders got all of the momentum in the fourth and scored three touchdowns. It looked like the Riders might pull it out, but the Stamps got a couple of very timely first downs in the last two minutes to hang on to win.

Fred Williams Week 7 preview http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4169945 ***** Hamilton Tiger-Cats 45....Toronto Argonauts 21 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6380276-cp.html This was interesting because it was such an upset. The Ticats are a crummy team, and their starting quarterback and running back didn't play because of injuries. The first half was even on the scoreboard. The second half was all Ticats. Ritchie Williams had a very good game. I think the fans are going to storm the Ticats' offices if Charlie Taaffe names Casey Printers the starter for next week. edit for spelling

Dave, Ted Green played for the New England Whalers their first year. My season tickets were my college graduation present.

Ron Lancaster has lung cancer. He'll step away from being the Ticats' radio analyst. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** Matt Dominguez tore his ACL last week. His career is probably over. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday Dave! Did we ever decide that the WHL's best player was a guy for the Winnipeg Jets named something like Lou Jankowski?

Happy Birthday Shawn!

RIP. He was a good five years older than I thought. If he is spending any time in Purgatory, everyone is taking turns asking him to explain the infield fly rule!