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Memorial Day – Remember Always
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Category: History
Saturday Matinee – UFO Intro, Cab Calloway with Al Morgan, & Mitch Woods with Pinetop Perkins
UFO was a 1970 British sci-fi TV series with the premise that the earth is invaded by aliens in the distant future: 1980.
From the 1933 W.C. Fields film International House, Cab Calloway‘s “Reefer Man” is some hot jumpin’ jazz featuring Al Morgan slappin’ bass.
“Mitch Woods‘ Boogie Woogie Blowout” at Yoshi’s, Oakland, CA. Nov 19, 2009. Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011) is featured. Jump to 01:30 for the music. Mr. Perkins (96 years old at the time of this recording) wanders on stage to kick ass just past 03:00. [h/t trebob]
“Too hot to handle and too cold to hold” is a recurring theme of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks.
Cinco de Mayo & Rule No. 5
Saturday Matinee – Zappa & Zappa & Tesh, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Sonny Boy Williamson & Co.
Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa with John Tesh and a lady in a box on Conan O’Brien‘s show. [Found here].
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band circa 1973. The SAHB was popular in the UK, but didn’t catch on in the US (with the exception of the Cleveland Ohio region).
On 4 February 1982, a day short of his 47th birthday, Harvey suffered a massive heart attack while waiting to take a ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium back to England after performing a Belgian gig with his new band, the Electric Cowboys. He suffered a second fatal attack in an ambulance on the way to hospital [Wiki].
Getting Out Of Town – Awesome lineup from 1963:
Sonny Boy Williamson Vocal, Harmonica
Sunnyland Slim: Piano
Hubert Sumlin: Guitar
Willie Dixon: Bass
Clifton James: Drums
That should do it for today’s edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks.
Remember Kent State – 4 May 1970
Remember Always
Who Set It Up and Who Paid The Price
It began when left-wing activists from off-campus arrived by bus on Friday May 1 1970 to host a May Day protest rally.
Kent State, a small university in northeast Ohio, had been chosen.
Related posts with links and commentary:
https://tackyraccoons.com/2011/05/04/may-4-1970-remember-kent-state/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2010/05/04/40-years-ago-today-kent-state-4-may-1970/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2009/05/04/kent-state-day-4-may-1970-2/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2008/05/04/kent-state-day-4-may-1970/
It’s All Mine
[Found here.]
UB-110
German Submarine, UB-110. Photo of Control room looking aft, starboard side (by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) This image shows manhole to periscope wall, valve wheels for flooding and blowing. Hanwheels for periscope gear, air pressure gauges. The UB-110 sunk after attacking a merchant shipping convoy near Hartlepool in July 1918. It was then salvaged and transferred to Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd. Dry Docks (Wallsend), with an order to restore her to fighting state. The order cancelled following Armistice and she was scrapped thereafter [via].
Vintage Vehicles 28-34
Oscar Big Grouch Bird
That image was in the “One Of These Days I’m Going To Post It” file. Might as well post it now since Jane Henson, muppeteer and wife of the late Jim Henson, passed away 2 April 2013.
[Image found here.]
RIP Jane Nebel Henson 1934 – 2013
Jane Nebel Henson 1934-2013
Jane Nebel Henson passed away at the age of 78 on 2 April 2013. Although her late husband is more well known, Jane Henson was an important contributor. Married in 1959, she and Jim Henson reinvented the ancient art of puppetry and created a huge entertainment industry: The Muppets.
[Jane] Nebel and [Jim] Henson met in a puppetry course at the University of Maryland, College Park, where they were both undergraduates. At the time, Nebel was a senior majoring in art education and Henson was a freshman studying to become a commercial artist. Nebel later became Henson’s puppeteering partner on the television show Sam and Friends, and the two eventually married. [via]
Prior to the creation of Sesame Street, the Hensons produced awesome entertainment for advertisers and television shows. Here are some arbitrary pre-Sesame Street selections.
Talented people are often under-appreciated until they’re gone, especially those who leave such a great legacy. RIP Jane.
Tacky Raccoons 