Notes from found photos . . . . . . an occasional series

Ms Dorothy Counts

remember the name

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.

Here she is, age 70, still absolutely elegant and poised. This is what courage and dignity look like . . . . . 

Respect. 

I found this article and pictures here

(Source: cloudyskiesandcatharsis)

David Bowie cuts up . . . . . .
 . . . . . . . why we love him so much

we miss you Mr B

Bob Dylan - Eat The Document Soundtrack

BOB DYLAN

Albums That Never Were

'Eat The Document'

So the idea is that you put together tracks from a variety of sources that rere-construct classic albums that were maybe tentatively mooted for release but never made it. Genius! All done by soniclovenoise over at his blog so go and check it out . . . .my favourite (still!) is the Beefheart item but this is close . . . . . . . .


This weeks is the Dylan mythological Eat The Document worth it just to read the thesis but this is a peach

Bob Dylan - Eat The Document Soundtrack

Bob Dylan – Eat The Document Soundtrack

(soniclovenoize reconstruction)

Side A:

1.  Tell Me, Momma

2.  I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

3.  Ballad of a Thin Man

4.  Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Side B:

5.  Mr. Tambourine Man

6.  Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

7.  One Too Many Mornings

8.  Like a Rolling Stone

B ★ O ★ W ★ I ★ E 

sorry i lost the artist credit so if you know who did this wonderful painting please let me know for crediting

Big O posted this text of the BBC/Wiki on the anniversary of Bowie's passing:

In memory of David Bowie

January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016

Singer David Bowie died on January 10, 2016 at the age of 69 following a battle with cancer. The following note was posted at davidbowie.com: “David Bowie died peacefully [January 10, 2016] surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.” The singer only released his latest album Blackstar on his birthday on January 8, 2016. There had been rumours about Bowie’s health for years. His last live performance was at a New York charity concert in 2006. Bowie’s breakthrough came with 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. His hits include Let’s Dance, Space Oddity, Heroes, Under Pressure, Rebel, Rebel, Life on Mars and Suffragette City. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His androgynous appearance was an iconic element of his image, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. - BBC/wikipedia

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There are some lovely boots knocking about the internet this morning as is only fit and proper but by far my favourite and on the decks right now is the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra doing 'Bowie in Berlin 2016' from over at Big O (Where else?) 

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Bowie in Berlin

Conducted by Hans Ek and Live at the Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden; from December 3, 2016. Very good Swedish radio broadcast stream


Give it a try as it is peerlessly done and I admit I wasn't too sure but upon listening it is truly extraordinary a truly distinctive tribute to the man and artist. 

Check this track listing from Big O

Disc 1

Track 101. Subterranaens/Some Are 7:22 (17.7MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 102. Always Crashing In The Same Car 3:28 (8.3MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Moto Boy (Sång), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 103. Weeping Wall 1:13 (2.9MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 104. Sound And Vision 2:19 (5.6MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent)

Track 105. Be My Wife 2:50 (6.8MB)

Magnus Carlson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 106. Art Decade 1:36 (3.8MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 107. Word On A Wing 5:20 (12.8MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 108. Warszawa 6:54 (16.6MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 109. Ballade Vom Ertrunkenen Madchen 1:59 (4.8MB)

Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 110. Berlin 2:27 (5.9MB)

Moto Boy (Sång), Jonas Östholm (Piano) 

Track 111. Trans-Europe Express 4:21 (10.5MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 112. Heroes 7:16 (17.4MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 113. Heroes Symphony 4:56 (11.8MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

52 mins

Disc 2

Track 201. Blackout 3:31 (8.5MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 202. Sense Of Doubt 0:55 (2.2MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Jonas Östholm (Piano), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 203. Sons Of The Silent Age 3:54 (9.4MB)

Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 204. Fantastic Voyage 2:57 (7.1MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 205. African Nightflight 2:57 (7.1MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 206. Look Back In Anger 3:02 (7.3MB)

Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 207. Ashes To Ashes 4:17 (10.3MB)

Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Magnus Carlson (Sång)

Track 208. The Passenger 4:57 (11.9MB)

Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 209. Under Stars 5:23 (12.9MB)

Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 210. Blackstar 10:08 (24.3MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Magnus Carlson (Sång), Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 211. This Is Not America 2:37 (6.3MB)

Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång), Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

Track 212. Where Are We Now 5:04 (12.2MB)

Magnus Carlson (Sång), Jennie Abrahamson (Sång), Moto Boy (Sång), Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Zero8 (Kör), Jonas Östholm (Piano), Oskar Nilsson (Elbas, Sång), Niklas Lind (Trummor, Sång),Hans Ek (Dirigent) 

50 mins

Also a Tin Tear Drop . . . . . . 

 B ★ O ★ W ★ I ★ E

A lovely crisp and clear Bowie concert from OTTOWA

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BOWIE- Ottowa 1987

check the notes there too

UPDATE:

and Another set . . . . from Big O

Rehearsals for Station To Station World Tour - Vancouver

link

When God Was an Englishman 1974

Cat People - For Amy

R.I.P David Bowie - has it really been a year?

Marilyn Monroe - poetry

I think it is now pretty much common knowledge that Marilyn wrote poetry and this combined with her marriage to Arthur Miller who encouraged her reading and added depth to her writing. The saddest of love stories in many ways though towards the end he treated her badly, it was a love story none the less and it would seem the several miscarriages MM endured during their time together destroyed their love affair and in the end their marriage. This is well documented elsewhere but it always struck me as the cruellest and unkindest way nature has of crushing such loving relationships. I may have over romanticised this but it stands that her undeniable depth of sadness was her inability to have children. May have been the reason why she drank so heavily and ultimately sent her to an early grave. Either way she is maligned and dismissed too easily. she was undoubtedly bright, intelligent, funny and driven to make herself better than she thought she was.

“I will kiss you and hold you close to me and sensational things will then happen. 

All sorts of slides, rollings, pitchings, rambunctiousness of every kind. 

And then I will sigh. 

And when you rest your head on my shoulder, then slowly I will get HUNGRY.

 I will come again to the kitchen, pretending you are not there and discover you again. And as you stand there cooking breakfast, I will kiss your neck and your back 

and the sweet cantaloupes of your rump and the backs of your knees 

and turn you about 

and kiss your breasts 

and the eggs will burn.”

 – Arthur Miller (a letter to M.M.)

“On the screen of pitch blackness 

/ comes the shapes of monsters 

/ my most steadfast companions … 

/and the world is sleeping 

/ ah peace I need you 

– even a peaceful monster.” 

– Marilyn Monroe (A.M. was the ‘peaceful monster’)

believed to be pregnant

beginning to show - photo Sam Shaw

in love and radiant

Life —
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in a paintings — ah life they
have cheated you

leaving hospital

Stones on the walk

every color there is

I stare down at you

like

these the

 a horizon —

the space / the air is between us beckoning

and I am many stories

besides

 up

my feet

are

 frightened

from my as I grasp 
for towards you

young young young

Incandescent 

Andre de Dienes an early art shot 1946 

I guess I have always been
deeply terrified at to really be someone’s
wife
since I know from life
one cannot love another,
ever, really

MM poetry from 'Brainpickings'

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

NOTES from found photos - an occasional series

New York, 1931: actress Alice Granville shows off two bullet holes in her arm at Roosevelt hospital after she was shot by her hitman husband, lieutenant of Dutch Schultz, Pete Donahue, in 1931. The mob moll said Donahue shot her at a nightclub party to prove his affection - photo Joseph Costa

self harm has often a perverse desire to display scars and injuries like medals or proof of the passion that one being has held for another - AS

NOTES from found photos - an occasional series

This fine young lady is Sophie Scholl [1921-1943], best known as one of the main members of Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose), a German anti-Nazi group consisting mainly of students from the University of Munich.  They wrote and distributed a series of leaflets condemning the Nazi regime, and excoriating the German public for their apathy towards the fate of German and Polish Jews.  

On the 18th of February, 1943, Sophie and her brother Hans were caught distributing leaflets at the university; and though Sophie was initially able to convince an experienced Gestapo interrogator of her innocence, she later confessed and assumed full responsibility in an attempt to protect the other members of the group.  During her interrogation, Sophie was recorded as saying, “Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don’t dare express themselves as we did.”

On the 22nd, she, her brother and their friend Christoph Probst were put on trial before a kangaroo court and sentenced to death.

All three were executed on the same day, hours after their trial and four days after their arrest.

from . . . . . 

history crushes:

1,433 plays

From a favourite album [probably no. 1] this is the Monday morning mood . . . . . . . 

Cars Hiss By My Window - by The Doors (from L.A. Woman)

GARBAGE

well just because . . . . .. . . . Shirley Manson mostly

Garbage 

- Live Elysee Monmart 2001 we do like an an angry punk beauty . . . . . . 

Paris, France

November 8 2012 a Re-Boot by special request over at the most excellent Floppy Boot Stomp . . . . . . .. ,

Soundboard @192

Set List:

Push It

Special

I Think I'm Paranoid

Androgyny

Silence Is Golden

Drive You Home

Supervixen

Breaking Up the Girl

Not My Idea

Til the Day I Die

When I Grow Up

Shut Your Mouth

Milk

Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)

Stupid Girl

Vow

Encore:

Thirteen

(Big Star cover)

#1 Crush

Only Happy When It Rains 

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GARBAGE - Paris 2001

and on the 7th

behindthegrooves:

On this day in music history: January 7, 1967 - “Tell It Like It Is” by Aaron Neville hits #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart for 5 weeks, also peaking at #2 on the Hot 100 for 1 week on January 28, 1967. Written by George Davis and Lee Diamond, it is the biggest hit for the New Orleans born vocalist. Recorded in 1965, Davis and Diamond shops the track around to various record labels and are turned down by all of them. Over a year after that, they start their own label, Par-Lo Records and release it themselves. The record is an instant smash and sells over a million copies within two months of its release. However, Neville sees no real monetary reward from sales of the multi-million selling single. The owners of the Par-Lo record label find themselves in dire financial straits when they find it nearly impossible to collect money from various independent distributors, leading them to file for bankruptcy. “Tell It Like It Is” has enduring popularity over the years being covered by numerous artists including Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, Percy Sledge, Nina Simone, Andy Williams, and Heart whose version returns the song to the top 10 in early 1981, peaking at #8 on the Hot 100. Aaron Neville’s version of “Tell It Like It Is” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2015

125 plays

thelovegangster:

David Byrne & St. Vincent- Strange Overtones (David Byrne & Brian Eno cover)

or even . . . . . .

50 plays

hillbillyholly:

Smith’s Ranch Boys - Bodger’s Boogie

It's Bodger's Boogie of course it is! String Band with Singing (sic!?) not here boys strictly Barnyard I say!