Loretta (Live) - Elvis Costello with John Prine, Ray LaMontagne, and Lyle Lovett [covering Townes Van Zandt] + Newport close 2017 : That's The Way The World Goes Round - John Prine

Masters at work . . . . . .from the Songwriters series ‘SPECTACLE: Eltvis Costello with . . . . ‘that Elvis ‘curated’ . . . . 

Note: Rough audio at the beginning, but it gets better when the song starts.

might sign off for the day with this one . . . .stay safe out there everyone

"Loretta" (written by Townes Van Zandt, first on 1978 Flyin' Shoes album by Townes Van Zandt)

from "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." on Channel 4 (UK)/CTV (Canada)/Sundance Channel (US)

Season 2 Episode 5

aired January 13, 2010

LYRICS

Loretta, she's a bar-room girl

Wears them sevens on her sleeve

Dances like a diamond shines

Tells me lies I love to believe

Her age is always 22

Her laughin' eyes a hazel hue

Spends my money like water falls

Loves me like I want her to

Loretta, won't you say to me

Darlin' put your guitar on

Have another shot of booze

Sing a sad and wavering song

The guitar sings a melody

The guitar sings that Loretta's fine

Long and lazy, blonde and free

I can have her any time

I can have her any time

Oh, sweetest at the break of day

Prettiest in the setting sun

She don't cry when I can't stay

At least not 'til she's all alone

Loretta, I won't be gone long

Keep your dancin' slippers on

Keep me on your mind a while

I'm comin' home

I'm comin' home

Loretta, she's a bar-room girl

Wears them sevens on her sleeve

Dances like a diamond shines

Tells me lies I love to believe

Her age is always 22

Her laughin' eyes a hazel hue

Spends my money like water falls

Loves me like I want her to

Loves me like I want her to

Loves me like I want her to

and for extra added value . . . . . his classic "Happy Enchilada Song"

John Prine ~ "That's the Way the World Goes Round" - Live from Newport Folk Festival 2017

Old Grey Whistle Test Special : featuring favourites of mine XTC, John Otway, Talking Heads, R.E.M., John Martyn and Suzanne Vega

So not entirely sure why but  TWILIGHTZONE has posted an entire blast of OGWT special from Pete Roberts . . . . . and nothing wrong with that - over an hour of music check it out 

Pete says : Featuring Freddie King to ZZ Top.. with Little Feat, John Martyn, New York Dolls, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Queen , R.E.M. , Steely Dan, Talking Heads, UFO, Suzanne Vega , Johnny Winter, XTC, John Otway, ZZ Top .

The remainder of my alphabetic post of OGWT . My 'Y' post of Neil Young singing Old Man got blocked .. Apologies from another old man . I replaced it with a performance from John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett ..at request.(sic!) No copyright infringement intended.. All shared from You Tube with very many thanks.. Ps My You Tube channel is not monetized.. and never will be.

Clip from 'A Little Chaos' (2014) - A Wise Rose Scene (Alan Rickman with Kate Winslet)

 Somebody posted this on Tumblr and I thought it worth posting again here . . . .two reasons; it moved me and it features a hero, the much missed Alan Rickman

A Little Chaos (2014) - A Wise Rose Scene (8/10) 

The Oxford Skull : Robert Krauthammer/Andrzej Czajkowski /André Tchaikowsky . . . . Alas poor Yorrick

 The skull in the Royal Shakespeare Company's props department has a name on the paperwork... 

That name is André Tchaikowsky.

It is not the name he was born with. 

He came into the world in Warsaw in 1935 as Robert Andrzej Krauthammer, the son of a Jewish family. He showed musical ability from early childhood, taught piano by his mother from the age of four.  

In 1940 the Nazis arrived, and the family were moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, when he was seven years old, he was smuggled out. The people who got him out gave him a new identity on forged papers. The papers said his name was Andrzej Czajkowski.  

He was sent into hiding with his grandmother. They stayed hidden until 1944, when the Warsaw Uprising swept them up and deposited them in a transit camp, from which they were eventually released. 

Robert Krauthammer did not survive the war. Andrzej Czajkowski did. 

He went on to study piano, first in Lodz, then Paris, then Warsaw. He won prizes. 

He emigrated to England in 1956. He changed the spelling of his name to André Tchaikowsky, the French form, the name by which he would be known for the rest of his life. He became a respected pianist and a passionate composer.  

He was obsessed with Shakespeare. When he died of colon cancer in Oxford in 1982 at the age of 46, he left his body to medical research and his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company, requesting in his will that it be offered for use in theatrical performance. 

He never got to see it happen.  

The RSC received the skull, dried it on a rooftop for two years, and then placed it in a tissue-lined box in the props department, where it stayed for 26 years. Directors took it out for rehearsals and then put it back. It was too much, they said. Too distracting. 

Too real. 

In 2008, director Gregory Doran retrieved it for his production of Hamlet starring David Tennant. For months, eight times a week, Tennant stood on stage at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and held the skull aloft during the gravedigger scene. Audiences had no idea whose skull it was.  

The image became one of the most reproduced photographs of the production. It ended up on a British postage stamp. 

The name on that stamp, on the programmes, on the posters, is André Tchaikowsky.

The skull belongs to a boy who was handed a false identity in a ghetto in 1942 and kept it for the rest of his life and beyond it. Robert Krauthammer wanted to survive. 

André Tchaikowsky wanted to play Yorick. In the end, both of them got what they were after.

#archaeohistories

Mordmardok

Leonard Cohen [with Dominique Issermann ]

Leonard Cohen and [artist] Dominique Issermann during the “First We Take Manhattan” video shooting.

For Kostas 

URBANASPIRINES

(and his regular Josef!)

 

Photographer of the Day | Chris Steele-Perkins - Blackpool, 1982

The British On Holiday

 

The Master of British Photography

Chris Steele-Perkins - Blackpool, 1982

[despite what fans of photojournalist Martin Parr who passed away this past year may say)

Steele-Perkins had a more gentle and affectionate feel for his subjects not unlike someone who prolly introduced me to Chris’ work, contemporary photographer ‘Photieman’ and fellow alum from what was Leicester Polytechnic Fine Art Dept, my old friend artist/photographer Tom Wood

Artist of The Day : Lady Pink [with Jenny Holzer]

 This is Lady Pink, one of the only female graffiti artists active in the ’80s. Jenny Holzer, famous for her feminist postmodern “Truisms,” designed this shirt and Lady Pink wore it around NYC

Lesson of The Day No 1 : how to be a President and meet a Mayor of a great Big City! | Obama and Mamdani High Powered meeting

 Oh so THAT’S how you do it!

Obama and Mamdani sing The Wheels on the Bus with New York preschoolers

Barack Obama met Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare centre where the former Democratic US president and the mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along.

Birthdays : Roy Orbison

 Don’t think I would ever NOT post this one . . . . 

Roy Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas on this day in 1936. Mercy!

Route

So Many Roads . . . updated!

 Blues, Funk, Soul, and Reggae - Re-Posts - An Update

just to say if you haven’t already spotted but Speedy has done loads of work on his back catalogue and you won’t believe the range and quality his ROIOS that he has either re-booted or re-made available and you best check as some may disappear in 30-60 days it is frankly ENORMOUS and there is always something for everyone there . . . check it out!