Podcast appearances and mentions of Alex Graves

"The Diplomat" is one of Netflix's hottest shows as its first season garnered star Keri Russell award nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The second season premiered to critical acclaim once again and has so far received more Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations than the first season. It's clear the Emmy Awards are next as the show looks to gain more than just Russell this year. Among them is director Alex Graves, who directed more than half of the second season. Graves was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his experience directing the second season, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex and I discuss the art of the long take, growing up as a film geek, what he looks for in an operator, West Wing, Game of Thrones, and so much more. Alex's IMDB For more links, pics and videos, check out the page for this episode on The Op. Please check us out on the web and instagram and like us if you enjoyed the episode. Theme Music - Tatyana Richaud Theme Mix - Charles Papert

Esta semana, aunque Juan Luis Álvarez está convencido de que hay mucha gente que ya es suficientemente imposible como para tener que aguantar también a su réplica en un universo paralelo, se hacen muy buenas series sobre este asunto conformando un muy interesante subgénero de las grandes aventuras de la ciencia ficción. Materia Oscura (Apple TV, 1 temporada, 9 episodios) El físico Jason Dessen (Estupendo Joel Edgerton) acaba en una versión alternativa de su vida tras construir que lo permite. Para volver con su vida original, se tiene que embarcar en un tortuoso viaje para intentar salvar a su familia del enemigo más aterrador: una réplica de sí mismo, envidiosa de su vida y de su esposa (La eternamente joven Jennifer Connelly). Renovada por una segunda temporada. Trailer Música / Dark Matter Corte Counterpart (2017-19) (MAX, 2 temporadas, 20 episodios) Cuando un oficinista de una agencia de investigación descubre que ésta oculta el acceso a una dimensión paralela, se ve envuelto en un mundo de intriga, para el que no está preparado. Jçusto lo contrario de su gemelo en este otro universo; espía veterano al que no se le pone nada por delante. Está magnífico el ganador del Oscar por Whiplash, J.K. Simmons, en su atinado trabajo con este doble papel. Trailer Fringe (Serie de TV) (2008-2013) (5 temporadas, 100 episodios( La madre de las series contemporáneas sobre los universos paralelos, los protagonistas son la agente del FBI Olivia Dunham y su jefe, el agente Broyles, que se encargan de esclarecer fenómenos inexplicables. En sus investigaciones, cuentan con la ayuda del doctor Bishop, un científico con algunos problemas mentales , que logró establecer el protocolo para saltar de un universo a otro, cuando la vida de su pequeño hijo estaba en peligro. Serie del creador de Perdidos (J.J. Abrams), el episodio piloto, dirigido por Alex Graves, tuvo una gran acogida y costó la cifra récord de 10 millones de dólares. Trailer

Keri Russell (U.S. Ambassador Kate Wyler) returns to the podcast to chat with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika about Kate's style transformation in this episode and the complexly passionate bond between Kate and Hal throughout the season. Creator and showrunner Debora Cahn and executive producer Janice Williams discuss why Kate Wyler is now fully embracing the Vice President role and break down the explosive season-ending. To round out the season, get a behind-the-scenes look at the life of the current serving US ambassador for the UK, Jane Hartley. She does Kate Wyler's job for real and she's a fan of The Diplomat. She reveals all about the day-to-day work on the job, why she wants to make a difference in this world, and what it's like when a President lands their helicopter on your lawn. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 6: Dreadnought, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Thanks for listening to this podcast alongside season 2. And it's official! The Diplomat will be returning for season 3, only on Netflix. Follow along on Tudum.com for more news about the series. The Diplomat: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix in association with Novel. Credits: Host: Baroness Ayesha Hazarika Netflix Executive Producers: Erica Brady, Rae Votta, David Markowitz and Kathryn Huyghue Novel Credits Producer: Ashley Clivery Editor: Amber Bateman Researcher: Zeyana Yussuf Production Management: Cheree Houston, Sarah Tobin, and Charlotte Wolf Creative Director: Willard Foxton Director of Development: Selina Mater Chief Content Officer: Max O'Brien Episode Mixer: Nicholas Alexander Additional video production: Mark Blackman, Nicholas Chandler, and Roxanne Holman Special thanks to Debora Cahn, the creator and showrunner of The Diplomat, Executive Producers Janice Williams and Alex Graves, Writer Anna Hagan, Associate Producer Elaine Ivy Harris, the team at Winfield House, and the U.S. State Department.

Baroness Ayesha Hazarika speaks with acting royalty Allison Janney about what it was like to join the cast this season as the strong and complex character of Vice President Grace Penn. Creator and showrunner Debora Cahn and executive producer Alex Graves return to the show to discuss the formidable Vice President Penn's introduction. Former Vice President Al Gore's chief scriptwriter and Emmy-winning writer, Eli Attie, then navigates the intricacies of the vice president role. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 5: Our Lady of Immaculate Deception, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Don't miss our final episode this season, dropping on November 14th. Featuring insights from Keri Russell (Kate Wyler), creator Debora Cahn, executive producer Janice Williams, and the current U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Jane Hartley. The Diplomat: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix in association with Novel.

Host Baroness Ayesha Hazarika speaks with Ali Ahn (CIA Chief Eidra Park) and Ato Essandoh (deputy chief of mission Stuart Hayford), who bring their electric chemistry to discuss their characters' emotional turmoils and connections in the show. Creator and showrunner Debora Cahn and executive producer Janice Williams discuss episode 4's magical setting in Scotland and reveal the inspiration behind that explosive final scene. Former CIA official Kari Amelung emphasizes the need for humor whilst working in such a challenging career field and balancing personal relationships with professional responsibilities. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 4: The Ides of March, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Don't miss our next episode, Episode 5: Our Lady of Immaculate Deception, dropping on November 11th. Featuring insights from Allison Janney (Vice President Grace Penn), creator Debora Cahn, executive producer Alex Graves, and Emmy-winning writer Eli Attie. The Diplomat: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix in association with Novel.

Join Baroness Ayesha Hazarika as she chats with creator Debora Cahn and executive producer and episode director Alex Graves about filming at the historic St. Paul's Cathedral and the power of "flooding the zone." Then, the reputable Rufus Sewell, who plays Hal Wyler, reveals the challenges of his complex character and his electric dynamic with Keri Russell, who plays Ambassador Kate Wyler. Former US Embassy Security Officer Karen Lass shares insider tips on ambassador safety and embassy life. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 2: St. Paul's, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Don't miss our next episode, dropping on November 4th. Featuring conversations with David Gyasi (British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison), Rory Kinnear (Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge), creator Debora Cahn, executive producer Janice Williams, and former chief of staff at Downing Street, Jonathan Powell. The Diplomat: The Official Podcast is Produced by Netflix in association with Novel Audio.

Join us as Baroness Ayesha Hazarika chats with creator Debora Cahn about the electrifying inspiration behind the acclaimed political drama, The Diplomat. Then the dynamic Keri Russell spills the secrets of her fiery return as Kate Wyler and the intense journey ahead for her character. Lastly, get an insider's look at the life of a diplomat with former ambassador Beth Jones, who shares gripping tales from her career and how her real-life expertise helped inspire some of the show's authenticity. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 1: When a Stranger Calls, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Don't miss Episode 2, dropping November 1st. Featuring conversations with Hal Wyler himself, Rufus Sewell, executive producers Debora Cahn and Alex Graves, and Regional Security Officer, Karen Lass. The Diplomat: The Official Podcast is Produced by Netflix and Novel.

Join Baroness Ayesha Hazarika as she chats with creator Debora Cahn and executive producer and episode director Alex Graves about filming at the historic St. Paul's Cathedral and the power of "flooding the zone." Then, the delightful Rufus Sewell, who plays Hal Wyler, reveals the challenges of his complex character and his electric dynamic with Keri Russell, who plays Ambassador Kate Wyler. Former US Embassy Security Officer, Karen Lass, shares insider tips on ambassador safety and embassy life. Spoilers Ahead! If you have not seen The Diplomat season 2, episode 2: St. Paul's, then go stream it now on Netflix and come back to us! Follow and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to hear all episodes. The Diplomat is streaming now on Netflix.

Martin Riedmiller of Google DeepMind on controlling nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with RL, the original Deep Q-Network, Neural Fitted Q-Iteration, Collect and Infer, AGI for control systems, and tons more!  Martin Riedmiller is a research scientist and team lead at DeepMind.   Featured References   Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning  Jonas Degrave, Federico Felici, Jonas Buchli, Michael Neunert, Brendan Tracey, Francesco Carpanese, Timo Ewalds, Roland Hafner, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Diego de las Casas, Craig Donner, Leslie Fritz, Cristian Galperti, Andrea Huber, James Keeling, Maria Tsimpoukelli, Jackie Kay, Antoine Merle, Jean-Marc Moret, Seb Noury, Federico Pesamosca, David Pfau, Olivier Sauter, Cristian Sommariva, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pushmeet Kohli, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Demis Hassabis & Martin Riedmiller Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G Bellemare, Alex Graves, Martin Riedmiller, Andreas K Fidjeland, Georg Ostrovski, Stig Petersen, Charles Beattie, Amir Sadik, Ioannis Antonoglou, Helen King, Dharshan Kumaran, Daan Wierstra, Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis  Neural fitted Q iteration–first experiences with a data efficient neural reinforcement learning method Martin Riedmiller  

On this week's Instant Reaction episode of Foundation, by Story Archives, hosts Mario Busto and Zachary Newton break down the premiere of season two, titled ‘In Seldon's Shadow'. In it, we reunite with Hari Seldon, who seems to be trapped in some sort of after-life Labyrinth of his own mind and consciousness. We catch up with Clean the XVII who has his hands full with bedding Demerzel, fending off an assassination attempt, welcoming his new bride-to-be Queen Sareth, and strategizing on what to do with the news that the Foundation has been forming alliances with other planets in the Outer Reach. And on Synnax, we see Gaal Dornick and Salvor Hardin having a mother-daughter reunion as they attempt to reboot the Beggar and get off the planet before they're wiped out by a hurricane. Woah! That was a lot…and season two is just beginning. It seems Apple TV is taking it up a notch with this season of Foundation, even going so far as to push the series in a more Game of Thrones type direction by hiring Alex Graves to direct three of this season's episodes. More political intrigue? Check! More romance? Check! More combat strategy and violence? Check! We invite you to join us each week as we prepare to cover season two of the epic Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Series titled "Foundation". Stay tuned for our Friday Instant Reaction Episodes and our Sunday Night Deep Dives. And until then, please respect and enjoy the peace. *Keep up with all things Story Archives* Official Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://soapbox.house/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: Contact@Soapbox.House⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/696a96e28b6f/newsletter⁠⁠⁠ Support this show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/story-archives⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZWNF4RX3AFVHQ⁠⁠ Follow the hosts on Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mariobusto/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/zacharyrnewton/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Additional show sponsors: - 1992 Films - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.1992films.com⁠⁠⁠ - Zachary R Newton - ⁠⁠⁠https://zacharyrnewton.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/story-archives/support

Welcome back to The Fit CFO Show, I'm your host Amanda Hanquist and together with my husband Shawn we created this podcast as a way to help you reach your business's financial goals. We will break down common financial myths and mistakes in business and share with you the tools and knowledge to take your business to the next level. Our hope is that you will become financially equipped for success in your business and in turn help our mission to make this world a healthier place. If you get valuable information out of this podcast, we ask that you please share it with your audience and leave us a review so that we can continue to grow and help health and fitness businesses succeed! Today on the Show I am bringing you the CEO of Credit 2 Capital, Alex Graves and we are bringing you an info packed episode all about credit, personal credit, credit repair, leveraging credit business credit and beyond, basically everything you need to know about credit for you and your fitness business, right here in one episode. Alex has a ton of information for you, including a surprise gift. If you liked this episode, subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss a beat. We'd love it if you'd share this podcast to your Instagram story, facebook page or any of your other social media platforms so that we can help other health and fitness entrepreneurs out there succeed in business. We so appreciate you listening in and until next time, keep your goals high but each step attainable. Webinar Sign Up: Financial Blueprint Webinar IG: Fit CFO IG: Amanda Hanquist IG: Shawn Hanquist IG: Alex Graves Alex on TikTok School of Credit Mastery Use code: “fitcfo” for 80% off

Welcome back to The Fit CFO Show, I'm your host Amanda Hanquist and together with my husband Shawn we created this podcast as a way to help you reach your business's financial goals. We will break down common financial myths and mistakes in business and share with you the tools and knowledge to take your business to the next level. Our hope is that you will become financially equipped for success in your business and in turn help our mission to make this world a healthier place. If you get valuable information out of this podcast, we ask that you please share it with your audience and leave us a review so that we can continue to grow and help health and fitness businesses succeed!Today on the Show I am bringing you the CEO of Credit 2 Capital, Alex Graves and we are bringing you an info packed episode all about credit, personal credit, credit repair, leveraging credit business credit and beyond, basically everything you need to know about credit for you and your fitness business, right here in one episode. Alex has a ton of information for you, including a surprise gift.If you liked this episode, subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss a beat. We'd love it if you'd share this podcast to your Instagram story, facebook page or any of your other social media platforms so that we can help other health and fitness entrepreneurs out there succeed in business. We so appreciate you listening in and until next time, keep your goals high but each step attainable.Webinar Sign Up: Financial Blueprint WebinarIG: Fit CFOIG: Amanda HanquistIG: Shawn HanquistIG: Alex GravesAlex on TikTokSchool of Credit Mastery Use code: “fitcfo” for 80% off

To help build the Earth Day Rally at the state Capitol, bicyclists are riding from NYC to Albany as part of the effort to demand that New York State pass the Climate Can't Wait package, which is crucial to meet the climate commitments NY made in 2019. - Veekas Ashoka, Alex Graves, Andrew Wells, Alexa Jakob - al members of Sunrise Movement NYC discuss why they are participating. For Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, we hit the halfway point of Season 3, with one of the best episodes of the show and Dom's favorite episode up to this point, Episode 5 of Season 3, entitled "Kissed by Fire." The second episode directed by Alex Graves and the 3rd episode of 11 written by series mainstay Brian Cogman, this is an episode filled from top to bottom with amazing character and action moments. Arya witnesses The Hound face Beric Dondarrion in a trial by fire, and is surprised when he is returned to life after the Hound initially kills him. North of the Wall, Jon's vows are put to the test when Ygritte makes a move on him. Jaime & Brienne are brought to Harrenhal, where Jaime finally reveals why he killed the Mad King. Robb suffers a devastating betrayal and is forced to make a desperate move. We're also introduced to Stannis' wife and daughter, while Daenerys chooses a leader for the Unsullied. It's a fantastic episode filled with some of my favorite moments of the entire show. Be sure to keep tuning in every Sunday for new episodes of #talkinthrones #gameofthrones #gameofthronesrecap #gameofthronesseason3 #redwedding #gameofthronesseason3 #talkinthrones #tyrionlannister #varys #bericdondarrion #northofthewall #astapor #kingslanding #cerseilannister #tywinlannister #margaerytyrell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talkintvpodcastgmailcom/support

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, Professor Pat & Dom "The Movie Nerd" examine the fourth episode of Season 3 of this hit show, entitled "And Now His Watch is Ended." Directed by Alex Graves and written by David Benioff & DB Weiss, this episode is a peculiar beast, because it has some very iconic and amazingly well done sequences, in contrast to the vast majority of the plot being very minimalistic and slow paced. The phrase itself is in reference to whenever a brother of the Night's Watch dies. North of the Wall, the tension finally reaches the breaking point with the starving brothers murdering Craster and Lord Commander Mormont, forcing Sam & Gilly to go on the run. Arya meets Beric Dondarrion, the leader of the Brotherhood without banners, who challenges the Hound to trial by combat. Theon finds himself right back where he started, while Bran continues to dream. Jaime ruminates about what life is like without his greatest assett. Daenerys achieves her first true victory as a conqueror by murdering the slavemasters and gaining the ultimate alliance of the Unsullied. In King's Landing, more meddling is afoot as Varys makes his move against Littlefinger, while Margaery proposes marriage ideas to Sansa. It's an interesting episode, but another memorable one. Be sure to keep tuning in every Sunday for new episodes of #talkinthrones #gameofthrones #gameofthronesseason3 #season3 #andnowhiswatchisended #season3episode4 #season3recap #gameofthronesrecap #georgerrmartin #davidbenioff #dbweiss #gameofthronesseason3recap --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talkintvpodcastgmailcom/support

Foundation Television Review 10 Episodes, ~60 Minutes/each Written by Isaac Asimov, Josh Friedman, David S. Goyer, Sarah Nolen, Olivia Purnell, Lauren Bello, Marcus Gardley, Leigh Dana Jackson, Victoria Morrow, Caitlin Saunders, and Saladin Ahmed. Directed by Alex Graves, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Phang, Andrew Bernstein, and Rupert Sanders.   Synopsis: Based on the award-winning novels by […]

Professor Marc G. Bellemare is a Research Scientist at Google Research (Brain team), An Adjunct Professor at McGill University, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.Featured ReferencesThe Arcade Learning Environment: An Evaluation Platform for General AgentsMarc G. Bellemare, Yavar Naddaf, Joel Veness, Michael BowlingHuman-level control through deep reinforcement learningVolodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves, Martin Riedmiller, Andreas K. Fidjeland, Georg Ostrovski, Stig Petersen, Charles Beattie, Amir Sadik, Ioannis Antonoglou, Helen King, Dharshan Kumaran, Daan Wierstra, Shane Legg & Demis HassabisAutonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learningMarc G. Bellemare, Salvatore Candido, Pablo Samuel Castro, Jun Gong, Marlos C. Machado, Subhodeep Moitra, Sameera S. Ponda & Ziyu WangAdditional References CAIDA Talk: A tour of distributional reinforcement learning November 18, 2020 - Marc G. Bellemare Amii AI Seminar Series:  Autonomous nav of stratospheric balloons using RL, Marlos C. Machado UMD RLSS | Marc Bellemare | A History of Reinforcement Learning: Atari to Stratospheric Balloons TalkRL: Marlos C. Machado, Dr. Machado also spoke to us about various aspects of ALE and Project Loon in depth Hyperbolic discounting and learning over multiple horizons, Fedus et al 2019 Marc G. Bellemare on Twitter

The CEO of Self Conquering, Alex Graves, helps men conquer their weak points. By targeting the one glaring weakness in today’s society — masculinity — Graves has built a company and lifestyle that he loves. It wasn’t always this way, though. When he was a younger man, Graves admits he was a “weak man” who craved masculinity. In this episode, Alex breaks down his business plan and explains how he turned the momentum of his books into a full-time living. He explains to us how he took himself apart and rebuilt his personality into the strong-willed man you see today. And finally, Alex takes us through the process of actually building a book empire starting from scratch. He talks about some important steps for building a business and how to manage your time efficiently. This is an amazing episode for anyone who has ever thought about building a full-time living around their passion. Thanks to Sock Season for sponsoring this episode. Follow Alex on Twitter:

The end is here with The Boys Season 2 Finale "What I Know". It all comes to a head in the final episode as Butcher and his team face off against Homelander and Stormfront. The Boys Season 2 Finale Details Episode written by Rebecca Sonnenfield Directed by Alex Graves "What I Know" Spoiler filled Synopsis With the sound of exploding heads still faintly echoing in everyone's ears, The Boys need to take the fight to Vought and its superheroes! Starlight and Hughie land on their feet as a disgruntled A-Train provides records of Stormfront and her Nazi past that were held by the Church of the Collective. Dishing the dirt on all media types never tasted so sweet. But Becca shows up on Butcher's doorstep and begs for his help following Ryan’s abduction by Homelander and Stormfront. The Boys agree to back Butcher and Ryan’s rescue. Together they finally face off against Homelander and Stormfront. But in the confrontation, as Stormfront strangles Becca, Ryan’s uncontrolled powers inflict heavy damage on Stormfront but are lethal for his mum. With the arrival of Homelander, Billy Butcher (along with some help from Queen Maeve) protects Ryan after promising Becca he would keep him safe. As things return to normal for The Boys and Vought International renounce Stormfront, bring Starlight back into the fold and maintain Homelander in the Seven, two heads pop across the city…Homelander’s jerk atop a skyscraper and the more bloody kind as the brains and skull fragments decorate the office of the head of the church of the collective. Outside the church an ambitious senator looks on! Season 2 Cast Billy Butcher played by Karl UrbanStarlight/Annie January played by Erin MoriartyMother's Milk played by Laz AlonsoHughie Campbell played by Jack QuaidAgent Susan Raynor player By Jennifer EspositoHomelander played by Antony StarrQueen Maeve played by Dominique McElligottFrenchie played by Tomer CaponAshley Barrett played by Colby MinifieThe Deep/Kevin played by Chace CrawfordStormfront played by Aya CashThe Female/Kimiko Miyashiro played by Karen FukuharaEagle the Archer played by Langston KermanGecko played by David ThompsonStan Edgar played by Giancarlo Esposito Our talking points for this episode We are back to our Boys Podcast format as each of the hosts choose their moments for each episode. In "The Boys Moment" we chat about the protagonists of this episode.For "The Seven Moment" we discuss what stood out about the antagonists this time."Other Outstanding Moment" is our place to talk about anything else. We'd love to hear about your favourite moments, any thoughts, theories and Easter Eggs that you see in the episodes that we might have missed. Email us at feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com with either an MP3 recording of your thoughts or an email for each episode. Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on The Boys Podcast Thanks so much for joining us for The Boys Season 2 Finale and the entire season. We've loved all your feedback and thoughts about the show. We'll be back with our wrap up episode about The Boys Season two. Make sure you get your entries in for the Pub Quiz. All of the questions are available here https://tvpodcastindustries.com/boyspubquiz. We're also covering the final two episodes of the excellent Lovecraft Country on our main feed for TV Podcast Industries. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries All images and audio clips are copyright of Amazon Prime TV and their respective copyright owners. No infringement is intended.

The end is here with The Boys Season 2 Finale "What I Know". It all comes to a head in the final episode as Butcher and his team face off against Homelander and Stormfront. The Boys Season 2 Finale Details Episode written by Rebecca Sonnenfield Directed by Alex Graves "What I Know" Spoiler filled Synopsis With the sound of exploding heads still faintly echoing in everyone's ears, The Boys need to take the fight to Vought and its superheroes! Starlight and Hughie land on their feet as a disgruntled A-Train provides records of Stormfront and her Nazi past that were held by the Church of the Collective. Dishing the dirt on all media types never tasted so sweet. But Becca shows up on Butcher's doorstep and begs for his help following Ryan’s abduction by Homelander and Stormfront. The Boys agree to back Butcher and Ryan’s rescue. Together they finally face off against Homelander and Stormfront. But in the confrontation, as Stormfront strangles Becca, Ryan’s uncontrolled powers inflict heavy damage on Stormfront but are lethal for his mum. With the arrival of Homelander, Billy Butcher (along with some help from Queen Maeve) protects Ryan after promising Becca he would keep him safe. As things return to normal for The Boys and Vought International renounce Stormfront, bring Starlight back into the fold and maintain Homelander in the Seven, two heads pop across the city…Homelander’s jerk atop a skyscraper and the more bloody kind as the brains and skull fragments decorate the office of the head of the church of the collective. Outside the church an ambitious senator looks on! Season 2 Cast Billy Butcher played by Karl UrbanStarlight/Annie January played by Erin MoriartyMother's Milk played by Laz AlonsoHughie Campbell played by Jack QuaidAgent Susan Raynor player By Jennifer EspositoHomelander played by Antony StarrQueen Maeve played by Dominique McElligottFrenchie played by Tomer CaponAshley Barrett played by Colby MinifieThe Deep/Kevin played by Chace CrawfordStormfront played by Aya CashThe Female/Kimiko Miyashiro played by Karen FukuharaEagle the Archer played by Langston KermanGecko played by David ThompsonStan Edgar played by Giancarlo Esposito Our talking points for this episode We are back to our Boys Podcast format as each of the hosts choose their moments for each episode. In "The Boys Moment" we chat about the protagonists of this episode.For "The Seven Moment" we discuss what stood out about the antagonists this time."Other Outstanding Moment" is our place to talk about anything else. We'd love to hear about your favourite moments, any thoughts, theories and Easter Eggs that you see in the episodes that we might have missed. Email us at feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com with either an MP3 recording of your thoughts or an email for each episode. Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on The Boys Podcast Thanks so much for joining us for The Boys Season 2 Finale and the entire season. We've loved all your feedback and thoughts about the show. We'll be back with our wrap up episode about The Boys Season two. Make sure you get your entries in for the Pub Quiz. All of the questions are available here https://tvpodcastindustries.com/boyspubquiz. We're also covering the final two episodes of the excellent Lovecraft Country on our main feed for TV Podcast Industries. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries All images and audio clips are copyright of Amazon Prime TV and their respective copyright owners. No infringement is intended.

The end is here with The Boys Season 2 Finale “What I Know”. It all comes to a head in the final episode as Butcher and his team face off against Homelander and Stormfront. The Boys Season 2 Finale Details Episode written by Rebecca Sonnenfield Directed by Alex Graves “What I Know” Spoiler filled Synopsis Read More The post The Boys Season 2 Finale Episode 8 “What I Know” Review appeared first on TV Podcast Industries.

Alex Graves is a freelance media producer based out of NYC, NY. She discusses what it is like in NYC right now during the current pandemic. Her Husband Max joins us and discusses some of the items his Parents who are in the medical field are seeing daily right now.

At long last, West Wing director and executive producer Alex Graves joins us to talk about his time on the show. From "In Excelsis Deo" to "17 People" to our current episodes in Season 7, we discuss some of the big moments in the series that he helped shape. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/015

In this mother of an episode, Alex Graves cranks the style up to 11. We’re introduced to the character of Louise Thornton (played by Janeane Garofalo). We get real-time text answers to our quests from the unstoppable Eli Attie. So get ready cuz, as Steve Miller says, "we go down Carolina!" For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/702

Welcome to episode twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today we’re looking at The Moonglows and “Sincerely”. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  —-more—- Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. For the background on Charlie Fuqua, see episode six, on the Ink Spots. There are no books on the Moonglows, but as always with vocal groups of the fifties, Marv Goldberg has an exhaustively-researched page from which I got most of the information about them. The information on Alan Freed comes from Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll by John A. Jackson. And this compilation contains every recording by every lineup of Moonglows and Moonlighters, apart from the brief 1970s reunion. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [13 seconds of Intro from a recording of Alan Freed: “Hello, everybody, how you all? This is Alan Freed, the old King of the Moondoggers, and a hearty welcome to all our thousands of friends in Northern Ohio, Ontario Canada, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Long about eleven thirty, fifteen minutes from now, we’ll be joining the Moondog Network…”] Chess Records is one of those labels, like Sun or Stax or PWL, which defined a whole genre. And in the case of Chess, the genre it defined was the electric Chicago blues. People like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon all cut some of their most important recordings for the Chess label. I remember when I was just starting to buy records as a child, decades after the events we’re talking about, I knew before I left primary school that Chess, like Sun, was one of the two record labels that consistently put out music that I liked. And yet when it started out, Chess Records was just one of dozens of tiny little indie blues labels, like Modern, or RPM, or King Records, or Duke or Peacock, many of which were even putting out records by the same people who were recording for Chess. So this episode is actually part one of a trilogy, and over the next three episodes, we’re going to talk about how Chess ended up being the one label that defined that music in the eyes of many listeners, and how that music fed into early rock and roll. And today we’re also going to talk about how it ended up being influential in the formation of another of those important record labels. And to talk about that, we’re going to talk about Harvey Fuqua [Foo-kwah]. Yes, Fuqua. Even though we talked about his uncle, Charlie Fuqua [Foo-kway], back in the episode on the Ink Spots, apparently Harvey pronounced his name differently from his uncle. As you might imagine, having an uncle in the most important black vocal group in history gave young Harvey Fuqua quite an impetus, even though the two of them weren’t close. Fuqua started a duo with his friend Bobby Lester after they both got out of the military. Fuqua would play piano, and they would both sing. The two of them had a small amount of success, touring the South, but then shortly after their first tour Fuqua had about the worst thing possible happen to him — there was a fire, and both his children died in it. Understandably, he didn’t want to stay in Louisville Kentucky, where he’d been raising his family, so he and his wife moved to Cleveland. When he got to Cleveland, he met up again with an old friend from his military days, Danny Coggins. The two of them started performing together with a bass singer, Prentiss Barnes, under the name The Crazy Sounds. The style they were performing in was called “vocalese”, and it’s a really odd style of jazz singing that’s… the easiest way to explain it is the opposite of scat singing. In scat, you improvise a new melody with nonsense lyrics [demonstrates] — that’s the standard form of jazz singing, other than just singing the song straight. It’s what Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald or whoever would do. In vocalese, on the other hand, you do the opposite. You come up with proper lyrics, not just nonsense syllables, and you put them to a pre-recorded melody. The twist is that the pre-recorded melody you choose is a melody that’s already been improvised by an instrumentalist. So for example, you could take Coleman Hawkins’ great sax solo on “Body and Soul”: [Excerpt: Coleman Hawkins, “Body and Soul”] Hawkins improvised that melody line, and it was a one-off performance — every other time he played the song he’d play it differently. But Eddie Jefferson, who is credited as the inventor of vocalese, learned Hawkins’ solo, added words, and sang this: [Excerpt: Eddie Jefferson, “Body and Soul”] The Crazy Sounds performed this kind of music as a vocal trio for a while, but their sound was missing something, and eventually Fuqua travelled down to Kentucky and persuaded Bobby Lester to move to Cleveland and join the Crazy Sounds. They became a four-piece, and slowly started writing their own new material in a more R&B style. They performed together a little, and eventually auditioned at a club called the Loop, where they were heard by a blues singer called Al “Fats” Thomas. Thomas apparently recorded for several labels, but this is the only one of his records I can find a copy of anywhere, on the Chess subsidiary Checker, from right around the time we’re talking about in 1952: [Excerpt: Al “Fats” Thomas, “Baby Please No No”] Fats Thomas was very impressed by the Crazy Sounds, and immediately phoned his friend, the DJ Alan Freed. Alan Freed is a difficult character to explain, and his position in rock and roll history is a murky one. He was the first superstar DJ, and he was the person who more than anyone else made the phrase “rock and roll” into a term for a style of music, rather than, as it had been, just a phrase that was used in some of that music. Freed had not started out as a rhythm and blues or rock and roll DJ, and in fact had no great love for the music when he started playing it on his show. He was a lover of classical music — particularly Wagner, whose music he loved so much that he named one of his daughters Sieglinde. But he named his first daughter Alana, which shows his other great love, which was for himself. Freed had been a DJ for several years when he was first introduced to rhythm and blues music, and he’d played a mixture of big band music and light classical, depending on what the audience wanted. But then, in 1951, something changed. Freed met Leo Mintz, the owner of a record shop named Record Rendezvous, in a bar. Mintz discovered that Freed was a DJ and took him to the shop. Freed later mythologised this moment, as he did a lot of his life, by talking about how he was shocked to see white teenagers dancing to music made by black people, and he had a sort of Damascene conversion and immediately decided to devote his show to rhythm and blues. The reality is far more prosaic. Mintz, whose business actually mostly sold to black people at this point, decided that if there was a rhythm and blues radio show then it would boost business to his shop, especially if Mintz paid for the radio show and so bought all the advertising on it. He took Freed to the shop to show him that there was indeed an audience for that kind of music, and Freed was impressed, but said that he didn’t know anything about rhythm and blues music. Mintz said that that didn’t matter. Mintz would pick the records — they’d be the ones that he wanted his customers to buy — and tell Freed what to play. All Freed had to do was to play the ones he was told and everything would work out fine. The music Mintz had played for Freed was, according to Freed later, people like LaVern Baker — who had not yet become at all well known outside Detroit and Chicago at the time — but Mintz set about putting together selections of records that Freed should play. Those records were mostly things with gospel-sounding vocals, a dance beat, or honking saxophones, and Freed found that his audiences responded astonishingly well to it. Freed would often interject during records, and would bang his fists on the table or other objects in time to the beat, including a cowbell that he had on his desk — apparently some of his listeners would be annoyed when they bought the records he played to find out half the sounds they’d heard weren’t on the record at all. Freed took the stage name “Moondog”, after a blind New York street musician and outsider artist of that name. Freed’s theme song for his radio show was “Moondog Symphony”, by Moondog, a one-man-band performance credited to “Moondog (by himself) playing drums, maracas, claves, gourds, hollow legs, Chinese block and cymbals.” [Excerpt: “Moondog Symphony” by Moondog] When Fats Thomas got the Crazy Sounds an audition with Freed, Freed was impressed enough that he offered them a management contract. Being managed by the biggest DJ in the city was obviously a good idea, so they took him up on that, and took his advice about how to make themselves more commercial, including changing their name to emphasise the connection to Freed. They became first the Moonpuppies and then the Moonglows. Freed set up his own record label, Champagne Records, and released the Moonglows’ first single, “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie”: [Excerpt, “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie”, the Moonglows] According to Freed’s biographer John A. Jackson, Freed provided additional percussion on that song, hitting a telephone book in time with the rhythm as he would on his show. I don’t hear any percussion on there other than the drum kit, but maybe you can, if you have better ears than me. This was a song that had been written by the Moonglows themselves, but when the record came out, both sides were credited to Al Lance — which was a pseudonym for Alan Freed. And so the DJ who was pushing their record on the radio was also their manager, and the owner of the record company, and the credited songwriter. Unsurprisingly, then, Freed promoted “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie” heavily on his radio show, but it did nothing anywhere outside of Cleveland and the immediately surrounding area. Danny Coggins quit the group, fed up with their lack of success, and he was replaced by a singer who variously went under the names Alex Graves, Alex Walton, Pete Graves, and Pete Walton. Freed closed down Champagne Records. For a time it looked like the Moonglows’ career was going to have peaked with their one single, as Freed signed another vocal group, the Coronets, and got them signed to Chess Records in Chicago. Chess was a blues label, which had started in 1947 as Aristocrat Records, but in 1948 it was bought out by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess, who had emigrated from Poland as children and Anglicised their names. Their father was in the liquor business during the Prohibition era, which in Chicago meant he was involved with Al Capone, and in their twenties the Chess brothers had started running nightclubs in the black area of Chicago. Chess, at its start, had the artists who had originally recorded for Aristocrat — people like Muddy Waters and Sunnyland Slim, and they also licensed records made by Sam Phillips in Memphis, and because of that put out early recordings by Howlin’ Wolf, before just poaching Wolf for their own label, and Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88”. By 1954, thanks largely to their in-house bass player and songwriter Willie Dixon, Chess had become known as the home of electric Chicago blues, and were putting out classic after classic in that genre. But they were still interested in putting out other styles of black music too, and were happy to sign up doo-wop groups. The Coronets put out a single, “Nadine”, on Chess, which did very well. The credited writer was Alan Freed: [Excerpt: “Nadine”, the Coronets] The Coronets’ follow-up single did less well, though, and Chess dropped them. But Freed had been trying for some time to make a parallel career as a concert promoter, and indeed a few months before he signed the Moonglows to a management contract he had put on what is now considered the first major rock and roll concert — the Moondog Coronation Ball, at the Cleveland Arena. That show had been Freed’s first inkling of just how popular he and the music he was playing were becoming — twenty thousand people tried to get into the show, even though the arena only had a capacity of ten thousand, and the show had to be cancelled after the first song by the first performer, because it was becoming unsafe to continue. But Freed put on further shows at the arena, with better organisation, and in August 1953 he put on “the Big Rhythm and Blues Show”. This featured Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner, and the Moonglows were also put on the bill. As a result of their appearance on the show, they got signed to Chance Records, a small label whose biggest act was the doo-wop group The Flamingos. Freed didn’t own this label of course, but by this time he’d got into the record distribution business, and the distribution company he co-owned was Chance’s distributor in the Cleveland area. The other co-owner was the owner of Chance Records, and Freed’s brother was the distributor’s vice-president and in charge of running it. The Moonglows’ first single on Chance, a Christmas single, did nothing in the charts, but they followed it with a rather unusual choice. “Secret Love” was a hit for Doris Day, from the soundtrack of her film “Calamity Jane”: [Excerpt: Doris Day, “Secret Love”] In the context of the film, which has a certain amount of what we would now call queerbaiting, that song can be read as a song about lesbianism or bisexuality. But that didn’t stop a lot of male artists covering it for other markets. We’ve talked before about how popular songs would be recorded in different genres, and so Day’s pop version was accompanied by Slim Whitman’s country version and by this by the Moonglows: [Excerpt: the Moonglows, “Secret Love”] Unfortunately, a fortnight after the Moonglows released their version, the Orioles, who were a much more successful doo-wop group, released their own record of the song, and the two competed for the same market. However, “Secret Love” did well enough, given a promotional push by Freed, that it became apparent that the Moonglows could have a proper career. It sold over a hundred thousand copies, but then the next few records on Chance failed to sell, and Chance closed down when their biggest act, the Flamingos, moved first to Parrot Records, and then quickly on to Chess. It seemed like everything was against the Moonglows, but they were about to get a big boost, thanks in part to a strike. WINS radio in New York had been taken over at a rock-bottom price by an investment consortium who wanted to turn the money-losing station into a money-maker. It had a powerful transmitter, and if they could boost listenership they would almost certainly be able to sell it on at a massive profit. One of the first things the new owners did was to sack their house band — they weren’t going to pay musicians any more, as live music was too expensive. This caused the American Federation of Musicians to picket the station, which was expected and understandable. But WINS also had the broadcast rights to the New York Yankees games — indeed, the ball games were the only really popular thing that the station had. And so the AFM started to picket Yankee Stadium too. On the week of the starting game for what looked to be the Yankees’ sixth World Series win in a row. That game would normally have had the opening ball thrown by the Mayor of New York, but the Mayor, Robert Wagner, rather admirably refused to cross a picket line. The Bronx borough president substituted for him — and threw the opening ball right into the stomach of a newspaper photographer. WINS now desperately needed something to go right for them, and they realised Freed’s immense drawing power. They signed him for the unprecedented sum of seventy-five thousand dollars a year, and Freed moved from the mid-market town of Cleveland to a huge, powerful, transmitter in New York. He instantly became the most popular DJ in New York, and probably the best-known DJ in the world. And with his great power came record labels wanting to do Freed favours. He was already friends with the Chess brothers, and with the sure knowledge that any record the Moonglows put out would get airplay from Freed, they eagerly signed the Moonglows and put out “Sincerely”: [Excerpt: The Moonglows, “Sincerely”] “Sincerely” featured Bobby Lester on lead vocals, but the song was written by Harvey Fuqua. Or, as the label credited it, Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed. But while those were the two credited writers, the song owes more than a little to another one. Here’s the bridge for “Sincerely”: [Excerpt: The Moonglows, “Sincerely”] And here’s the bridge for “That’s What You’re Doing to Me” by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, written by Billy Ward and sung by Clyde McPhatter: [Excerpt: The Dominoes, “That’s What You’re Doing to Me”] So while I’m critical of Freed for taking credit where it’s not deserved, it should be remembered that Fuqua wasn’t completely clean when it came to this song either. “Sincerely” rose to number one on the R&B charts, thanks in large part to Freed’s promotion. It knocked “Earth Angel” off the top, and was in turn knocked off by “Pledging My Love”, and it did relatively well in the pop charts, although once again it was kept off the top of the pop charts by an insipid white cover version, this time by the McGuire Sisters: [Excerpt: The McGuire Sisters, “Sincerely”] Chess wanted to make as much out of the Moonglows as they could, and so they decided to release records by the group under multiple names and on multiple labels. So while the Moonglows were slowly rising up the charts on Chess, The Moonlighters put out another single, “My Loving Baby”, on Checker: [Excerpt: the Moonlighters, “My Loving Baby”] There were two Moonlighters singles in total, though neither did well enough for them to continue under that name, and on top of that they also provided backing vocals on records by other Chess artists. Most notably, they sang the backing vocals on “Diddley Daddy” by Bo Diddley: [Excerpt Bo Diddley, “Diddley Daddy”] The Moonglows or Moonlighters weren’t the only ones performing under new names though. The real Moondog had, once Freed came to New York, realised that Freed had taken his name, and sued him. Freed had to pay Moondog five thousand seven hundred dollars, and stop calling himself Moondog. He had to switch to using his real name. And along with this, he changed the name of his show to “The Rock and Roll Party”. The term “rock and roll” had been used in various contexts before, of course — the theme for this series in fact comes from almost twenty years before this, but it had not been applied to a form of music on a regular basis. Freed didn’t want to get into the same trouble with the phrase “rock and roll” as he had with the name “Moondog”, and so he formed a company, Seig Music, which was owned by himself, the promoter Lew Platt, WINS radio, and the gangs–. I’m sorry, the legitimate businessman and music publisher Morris Levy. We’ll be hearing more about Levy later. This company trademarked the phrase “rock and roll” (the book I got this information from says they copyrighted the phrase, but I think that’s a confusion between copyright and trademark law on the writer’s part) and started using it for Freed’s now-branded “Rock and Roll Shows”, both on radio and on stage. The only problem was that the phrase caught on too much, thanks to Freed’s incessant use of the phrase on his show — there was no possible way they were going to be able to collect royalties from everyone who was using it, and so that particular money-making scheme faltered. The Moonglows, on the other hand, had a run of minor hits. None were as big as “Sincerely”, but they had five R&B top ten hits and a bunch more in the top twenty. The most notable, and the one people remember, is “Ten Commandments of Love”, from 1958: [excerpt: “Ten Commandments of Love”, Harvey and the Moonglows] But that song wasn’t released as by “the Moonglows”, but by “Harvey and the Moonglows”. There was increasing tension between the different members of the band, and songs started to be released as by Harvey and the Moonglows or by Bobby Lester and the Moonglows, as Chess faced the fact that the group’s two lead singers would go their separate ways. Chess had been contacted by some Detroit-based songwriters, who were setting up a new label, Anna, and wanted Chess to take over the distribution for it. By this point, Harvey Fuqua had divorced his first wife, and was working for Chess in the backroom as well as as an artist, and he was asked by Leonard Chess to go over and work with this new label. He did — and he married one of the people involved, Gwen Gordy. Gwen and her brother ended up setting up a lot of different labels, and Harvey got to run a few of them himself — there was Try-Phi, and Harvey Records. There was a whole family of different record labels owned by the same family, and they soon became quite successful. But at the same time, he was still performing and recording for Chess. We heard one of his singles, a duet with Etta James, in the episode on The Wallflower, but it’s so good we might as well play a bit of it again here: [Excerpt: Harvey Fuqua and Etta James, “Spoonful”] But at the same time both Bobby Lester and Harvey Fuqua were performing with rival groups of Moonglows, who both continued recording for Chess. Harvey’s Moonglows was an entire other vocal group, a group from Washington DC called the Marquees, who’d had one single out, “Wyatt Earp”. That single had been co-written by Bo Diddley, a Chess artist who had tried to get the group signed to Chess. When they’d been turned down, Diddley took them to Okeh instead: [Excerpt: the Marquees, “Wyatt Earp”] Fuqua hired the Marquees and renamed them, and they recorded several tracks as Harvey and the Moonglows, and while none of them were very successful commercially, some of them were musically interesting. This one in particular featured a lead from a great young vocalist who would in 1963 become Harvey Fuqua’s brother-in-law, when he married Gwen’s sister Anna: [Excerpt: Harvey and the Moonglows, “Mama Loocie”] That record didn’t do much, but that singer was to go on to bigger and better things, as was Harvey Fuqua, when one of the Gordy family’s labels became a little bit better known than the rest, with Fuqua working for it as a record producer and head of artist development. But the story of Motown Records, and of that singer, Marvin Gaye, is for another time. Next week, we’re going to continue the Chess story, with a look at another song that Alan Freed got a co-writing credit for. Come back in a week’s time to hear the story of how Chuck Berry came up with Maybellene. [Excerpt: Alan Freed’s final signoff]

Welcome to episode twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today we're looking at The Moonglows and "Sincerely". Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  ----more---- Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. For the background on Charlie Fuqua, see episode six, on the Ink Spots. There are no books on the Moonglows, but as always with vocal groups of the fifties, Marv Goldberg has an exhaustively-researched page from which I got most of the information about them. The information on Alan Freed comes from Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll by John A. Jackson. And this compilation contains every recording by every lineup of Moonglows and Moonlighters, apart from the brief 1970s reunion. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [13 seconds of Intro from a recording of Alan Freed: “Hello, everybody, how you all? This is Alan Freed, the old King of the Moondoggers, and a hearty welcome to all our thousands of friends in Northern Ohio, Ontario Canada, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Long about eleven thirty, fifteen minutes from now, we'll be joining the Moondog Network...”] Chess Records is one of those labels, like Sun or Stax or PWL, which defined a whole genre. And in the case of Chess, the genre it defined was the electric Chicago blues. People like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon all cut some of their most important recordings for the Chess label. I remember when I was just starting to buy records as a child, decades after the events we're talking about, I knew before I left primary school that Chess, like Sun, was one of the two record labels that consistently put out music that I liked. And yet when it started out, Chess Records was just one of dozens of tiny little indie blues labels, like Modern, or RPM, or King Records, or Duke or Peacock, many of which were even putting out records by the same people who were recording for Chess. So this episode is actually part one of a trilogy, and over the next three episodes, we're going to talk about how Chess ended up being the one label that defined that music in the eyes of many listeners, and how that music fed into early rock and roll. And today we're also going to talk about how it ended up being influential in the formation of another of those important record labels. And to talk about that, we're going to talk about Harvey Fuqua [Foo-kwah]. Yes, Fuqua. Even though we talked about his uncle, Charlie Fuqua [Foo-kway], back in the episode on the Ink Spots, apparently Harvey pronounced his name differently from his uncle. As you might imagine, having an uncle in the most important black vocal group in history gave young Harvey Fuqua quite an impetus, even though the two of them weren't close. Fuqua started a duo with his friend Bobby Lester after they both got out of the military. Fuqua would play piano, and they would both sing. The two of them had a small amount of success, touring the South, but then shortly after their first tour Fuqua had about the worst thing possible happen to him -- there was a fire, and both his children died in it. Understandably, he didn't want to stay in Louisville Kentucky, where he'd been raising his family, so he and his wife moved to Cleveland. When he got to Cleveland, he met up again with an old friend from his military days, Danny Coggins. The two of them started performing together with a bass singer, Prentiss Barnes, under the name The Crazy Sounds. The style they were performing in was called "vocalese", and it's a really odd style of jazz singing that's... the easiest way to explain it is the opposite of scat singing. In scat, you improvise a new melody with nonsense lyrics [demonstrates] -- that's the standard form of jazz singing, other than just singing the song straight. It's what Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald or whoever would do. In vocalese, on the other hand, you do the opposite. You come up with proper lyrics, not just nonsense syllables, and you put them to a pre-recorded melody. The twist is that the pre-recorded melody you choose is a melody that's already been improvised by an instrumentalist. So for example, you could take Coleman Hawkins' great sax solo on "Body and Soul": [Excerpt: Coleman Hawkins, "Body and Soul"] Hawkins improvised that melody line, and it was a one-off performance -- every other time he played the song he'd play it differently. But Eddie Jefferson, who is credited as the inventor of vocalese, learned Hawkins' solo, added words, and sang this: [Excerpt: Eddie Jefferson, "Body and Soul"] The Crazy Sounds performed this kind of music as a vocal trio for a while, but their sound was missing something, and eventually Fuqua travelled down to Kentucky and persuaded Bobby Lester to move to Cleveland and join the Crazy Sounds. They became a four-piece, and slowly started writing their own new material in a more R&B style. They performed together a little, and eventually auditioned at a club called the Loop, where they were heard by a blues singer called Al "Fats" Thomas. Thomas apparently recorded for several labels, but this is the only one of his records I can find a copy of anywhere, on the Chess subsidiary Checker, from right around the time we're talking about in 1952: [Excerpt: Al "Fats" Thomas, "Baby Please No No"] Fats Thomas was very impressed by the Crazy Sounds, and immediately phoned his friend, the DJ Alan Freed. Alan Freed is a difficult character to explain, and his position in rock and roll history is a murky one. He was the first superstar DJ, and he was the person who more than anyone else made the phrase "rock and roll" into a term for a style of music, rather than, as it had been, just a phrase that was used in some of that music. Freed had not started out as a rhythm and blues or rock and roll DJ, and in fact had no great love for the music when he started playing it on his show. He was a lover of classical music -- particularly Wagner, whose music he loved so much that he named one of his daughters Sieglinde. But he named his first daughter Alana, which shows his other great love, which was for himself. Freed had been a DJ for several years when he was first introduced to rhythm and blues music, and he'd played a mixture of big band music and light classical, depending on what the audience wanted. But then, in 1951, something changed. Freed met Leo Mintz, the owner of a record shop named Record Rendezvous, in a bar. Mintz discovered that Freed was a DJ and took him to the shop. Freed later mythologised this moment, as he did a lot of his life, by talking about how he was shocked to see white teenagers dancing to music made by black people, and he had a sort of Damascene conversion and immediately decided to devote his show to rhythm and blues. The reality is far more prosaic. Mintz, whose business actually mostly sold to black people at this point, decided that if there was a rhythm and blues radio show then it would boost business to his shop, especially if Mintz paid for the radio show and so bought all the advertising on it. He took Freed to the shop to show him that there was indeed an audience for that kind of music, and Freed was impressed, but said that he didn't know anything about rhythm and blues music. Mintz said that that didn't matter. Mintz would pick the records -- they'd be the ones that he wanted his customers to buy -- and tell Freed what to play. All Freed had to do was to play the ones he was told and everything would work out fine. The music Mintz had played for Freed was, according to Freed later, people like LaVern Baker -- who had not yet become at all well known outside Detroit and Chicago at the time -- but Mintz set about putting together selections of records that Freed should play. Those records were mostly things with gospel-sounding vocals, a dance beat, or honking saxophones, and Freed found that his audiences responded astonishingly well to it. Freed would often interject during records, and would bang his fists on the table or other objects in time to the beat, including a cowbell that he had on his desk -- apparently some of his listeners would be annoyed when they bought the records he played to find out half the sounds they'd heard weren't on the record at all. Freed took the stage name "Moondog", after a blind New York street musician and outsider artist of that name. Freed's theme song for his radio show was "Moondog Symphony", by Moondog, a one-man-band performance credited to "Moondog (by himself) playing drums, maracas, claves, gourds, hollow legs, Chinese block and cymbals." [Excerpt: "Moondog Symphony" by Moondog] When Fats Thomas got the Crazy Sounds an audition with Freed, Freed was impressed enough that he offered them a management contract. Being managed by the biggest DJ in the city was obviously a good idea, so they took him up on that, and took his advice about how to make themselves more commercial, including changing their name to emphasise the connection to Freed. They became first the Moonpuppies and then the Moonglows. Freed set up his own record label, Champagne Records, and released the Moonglows' first single, "I Just Can't Tell No Lie": [Excerpt, "I Just Can't Tell No Lie", the Moonglows] According to Freed's biographer John A. Jackson, Freed provided additional percussion on that song, hitting a telephone book in time with the rhythm as he would on his show. I don't hear any percussion on there other than the drum kit, but maybe you can, if you have better ears than me. This was a song that had been written by the Moonglows themselves, but when the record came out, both sides were credited to Al Lance -- which was a pseudonym for Alan Freed. And so the DJ who was pushing their record on the radio was also their manager, and the owner of the record company, and the credited songwriter. Unsurprisingly, then, Freed promoted "I Just Can't Tell No Lie" heavily on his radio show, but it did nothing anywhere outside of Cleveland and the immediately surrounding area. Danny Coggins quit the group, fed up with their lack of success, and he was replaced by a singer who variously went under the names Alex Graves, Alex Walton, Pete Graves, and Pete Walton. Freed closed down Champagne Records. For a time it looked like the Moonglows' career was going to have peaked with their one single, as Freed signed another vocal group, the Coronets, and got them signed to Chess Records in Chicago. Chess was a blues label, which had started in 1947 as Aristocrat Records, but in 1948 it was bought out by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess, who had emigrated from Poland as children and Anglicised their names. Their father was in the liquor business during the Prohibition era, which in Chicago meant he was involved with Al Capone, and in their twenties the Chess brothers had started running nightclubs in the black area of Chicago. Chess, at its start, had the artists who had originally recorded for Aristocrat -- people like Muddy Waters and Sunnyland Slim, and they also licensed records made by Sam Phillips in Memphis, and because of that put out early recordings by Howlin' Wolf, before just poaching Wolf for their own label, and Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88". By 1954, thanks largely to their in-house bass player and songwriter Willie Dixon, Chess had become known as the home of electric Chicago blues, and were putting out classic after classic in that genre. But they were still interested in putting out other styles of black music too, and were happy to sign up doo-wop groups. The Coronets put out a single, "Nadine", on Chess, which did very well. The credited writer was Alan Freed: [Excerpt: "Nadine", the Coronets] The Coronets' follow-up single did less well, though, and Chess dropped them. But Freed had been trying for some time to make a parallel career as a concert promoter, and indeed a few months before he signed the Moonglows to a management contract he had put on what is now considered the first major rock and roll concert -- the Moondog Coronation Ball, at the Cleveland Arena. That show had been Freed's first inkling of just how popular he and the music he was playing were becoming -- twenty thousand people tried to get into the show, even though the arena only had a capacity of ten thousand, and the show had to be cancelled after the first song by the first performer, because it was becoming unsafe to continue. But Freed put on further shows at the arena, with better organisation, and in August 1953 he put on "the Big Rhythm and Blues Show". This featured Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner, and the Moonglows were also put on the bill. As a result of their appearance on the show, they got signed to Chance Records, a small label whose biggest act was the doo-wop group The Flamingos. Freed didn't own this label of course, but by this time he'd got into the record distribution business, and the distribution company he co-owned was Chance's distributor in the Cleveland area. The other co-owner was the owner of Chance Records, and Freed's brother was the distributor's vice-president and in charge of running it. The Moonglows' first single on Chance, a Christmas single, did nothing in the charts, but they followed it with a rather unusual choice. "Secret Love" was a hit for Doris Day, from the soundtrack of her film "Calamity Jane": [Excerpt: Doris Day, "Secret Love"] In the context of the film, which has a certain amount of what we would now call queerbaiting, that song can be read as a song about lesbianism or bisexuality. But that didn't stop a lot of male artists covering it for other markets. We've talked before about how popular songs would be recorded in different genres, and so Day's pop version was accompanied by Slim Whitman's country version and by this by the Moonglows: [Excerpt: the Moonglows, "Secret Love"] Unfortunately, a fortnight after the Moonglows released their version, the Orioles, who were a much more successful doo-wop group, released their own record of the song, and the two competed for the same market. However, "Secret Love" did well enough, given a promotional push by Freed, that it became apparent that the Moonglows could have a proper career. It sold over a hundred thousand copies, but then the next few records on Chance failed to sell, and Chance closed down when their biggest act, the Flamingos, moved first to Parrot Records, and then quickly on to Chess. It seemed like everything was against the Moonglows, but they were about to get a big boost, thanks in part to a strike. WINS radio in New York had been taken over at a rock-bottom price by an investment consortium who wanted to turn the money-losing station into a money-maker. It had a powerful transmitter, and if they could boost listenership they would almost certainly be able to sell it on at a massive profit. One of the first things the new owners did was to sack their house band -- they weren't going to pay musicians any more, as live music was too expensive. This caused the American Federation of Musicians to picket the station, which was expected and understandable. But WINS also had the broadcast rights to the New York Yankees games -- indeed, the ball games were the only really popular thing that the station had. And so the AFM started to picket Yankee Stadium too. On the week of the starting game for what looked to be the Yankees' sixth World Series win in a row. That game would normally have had the opening ball thrown by the Mayor of New York, but the Mayor, Robert Wagner, rather admirably refused to cross a picket line. The Bronx borough president substituted for him -- and threw the opening ball right into the stomach of a newspaper photographer. WINS now desperately needed something to go right for them, and they realised Freed's immense drawing power. They signed him for the unprecedented sum of seventy-five thousand dollars a year, and Freed moved from the mid-market town of Cleveland to a huge, powerful, transmitter in New York. He instantly became the most popular DJ in New York, and probably the best-known DJ in the world. And with his great power came record labels wanting to do Freed favours. He was already friends with the Chess brothers, and with the sure knowledge that any record the Moonglows put out would get airplay from Freed, they eagerly signed the Moonglows and put out "Sincerely": [Excerpt: The Moonglows, "Sincerely"] "Sincerely" featured Bobby Lester on lead vocals, but the song was written by Harvey Fuqua. Or, as the label credited it, Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed. But while those were the two credited writers, the song owes more than a little to another one. Here's the bridge for "Sincerely": [Excerpt: The Moonglows, "Sincerely"] And here's the bridge for "That's What You're Doing to Me" by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, written by Billy Ward and sung by Clyde McPhatter: [Excerpt: The Dominoes, "That's What You're Doing to Me"] So while I'm critical of Freed for taking credit where it's not deserved, it should be remembered that Fuqua wasn't completely clean when it came to this song either. "Sincerely" rose to number one on the R&B charts, thanks in large part to Freed's promotion. It knocked "Earth Angel" off the top, and was in turn knocked off by "Pledging My Love", and it did relatively well in the pop charts, although once again it was kept off the top of the pop charts by an insipid white cover version, this time by the McGuire Sisters: [Excerpt: The McGuire Sisters, "Sincerely"] Chess wanted to make as much out of the Moonglows as they could, and so they decided to release records by the group under multiple names and on multiple labels. So while the Moonglows were slowly rising up the charts on Chess, The Moonlighters put out another single, "My Loving Baby", on Checker: [Excerpt: the Moonlighters, "My Loving Baby"] There were two Moonlighters singles in total, though neither did well enough for them to continue under that name, and on top of that they also provided backing vocals on records by other Chess artists. Most notably, they sang the backing vocals on "Diddley Daddy" by Bo Diddley: [Excerpt Bo Diddley, "Diddley Daddy"] The Moonglows or Moonlighters weren't the only ones performing under new names though. The real Moondog had, once Freed came to New York, realised that Freed had taken his name, and sued him. Freed had to pay Moondog five thousand seven hundred dollars, and stop calling himself Moondog. He had to switch to using his real name. And along with this, he changed the name of his show to "The Rock and Roll Party". The term "rock and roll" had been used in various contexts before, of course -- the theme for this series in fact comes from almost twenty years before this, but it had not been applied to a form of music on a regular basis. Freed didn't want to get into the same trouble with the phrase "rock and roll" as he had with the name "Moondog", and so he formed a company, Seig Music, which was owned by himself, the promoter Lew Platt, WINS radio, and the gangs–. I'm sorry, the legitimate businessman and music publisher Morris Levy. We'll be hearing more about Levy later. This company trademarked the phrase "rock and roll" (the book I got this information from says they copyrighted the phrase, but I think that's a confusion between copyright and trademark law on the writer's part) and started using it for Freed's now-branded "Rock and Roll Shows", both on radio and on stage. The only problem was that the phrase caught on too much, thanks to Freed's incessant use of the phrase on his show -- there was no possible way they were going to be able to collect royalties from everyone who was using it, and so that particular money-making scheme faltered. The Moonglows, on the other hand, had a run of minor hits. None were as big as "Sincerely", but they had five R&B top ten hits and a bunch more in the top twenty. The most notable, and the one people remember, is "Ten Commandments of Love", from 1958: [excerpt: "Ten Commandments of Love", Harvey and the Moonglows] But that song wasn't released as by "the Moonglows", but by "Harvey and the Moonglows". There was increasing tension between the different members of the band, and songs started to be released as by Harvey and the Moonglows or by Bobby Lester and the Moonglows, as Chess faced the fact that the group's two lead singers would go their separate ways. Chess had been contacted by some Detroit-based songwriters, who were setting up a new label, Anna, and wanted Chess to take over the distribution for it. By this point, Harvey Fuqua had divorced his first wife, and was working for Chess in the backroom as well as as an artist, and he was asked by Leonard Chess to go over and work with this new label. He did -- and he married one of the people involved, Gwen Gordy. Gwen and her brother ended up setting up a lot of different labels, and Harvey got to run a few of them himself -- there was Try-Phi, and Harvey Records. There was a whole family of different record labels owned by the same family, and they soon became quite successful. But at the same time, he was still performing and recording for Chess. We heard one of his singles, a duet with Etta James, in the episode on The Wallflower, but it's so good we might as well play a bit of it again here: [Excerpt: Harvey Fuqua and Etta James, "Spoonful"] But at the same time both Bobby Lester and Harvey Fuqua were performing with rival groups of Moonglows, who both continued recording for Chess. Harvey's Moonglows was an entire other vocal group, a group from Washington DC called the Marquees, who'd had one single out, "Wyatt Earp". That single had been co-written by Bo Diddley, a Chess artist who had tried to get the group signed to Chess. When they'd been turned down, Diddley took them to Okeh instead: [Excerpt: the Marquees, "Wyatt Earp"] Fuqua hired the Marquees and renamed them, and they recorded several tracks as Harvey and the Moonglows, and while none of them were very successful commercially, some of them were musically interesting. This one in particular featured a lead from a great young vocalist who would in 1963 become Harvey Fuqua's brother-in-law, when he married Gwen's sister Anna: [Excerpt: Harvey and the Moonglows, "Mama Loocie"] That record didn't do much, but that singer was to go on to bigger and better things, as was Harvey Fuqua, when one of the Gordy family's labels became a little bit better known than the rest, with Fuqua working for it as a record producer and head of artist development. But the story of Motown Records, and of that singer, Marvin Gaye, is for another time. Next week, we're going to continue the Chess story, with a look at another song that Alan Freed got a co-writing credit for. Come back in a week's time to hear the story of how Chuck Berry came up with Maybellene. [Excerpt: Alan Freed's final signoff]

Welcome to episode twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today we’re looking at The Moonglows and “Sincerely”. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  —-more—- Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. For the background on Charlie Fuqua, see episode six, on the Ink Spots. There are no books on the Moonglows, but as always with vocal groups of the fifties, Marv Goldberg has an exhaustively-researched page from which I got most of the information about them. The information on Alan Freed comes from Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll by John A. Jackson. And this compilation contains every recording by every lineup of Moonglows and Moonlighters, apart from the brief 1970s reunion. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [13 seconds of Intro from a recording of Alan Freed: “Hello, everybody, how you all? This is Alan Freed, the old King of the Moondoggers, and a hearty welcome to all our thousands of friends in Northern Ohio, Ontario Canada, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Long about eleven thirty, fifteen minutes from now, we’ll be joining the Moondog Network…”] Chess Records is one of those labels, like Sun or Stax or PWL, which defined a whole genre. And in the case of Chess, the genre it defined was the electric Chicago blues. People like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon all cut some of their most important recordings for the Chess label. I remember when I was just starting to buy records as a child, decades after the events we’re talking about, I knew before I left primary school that Chess, like Sun, was one of the two record labels that consistently put out music that I liked. And yet when it started out, Chess Records was just one of dozens of tiny little indie blues labels, like Modern, or RPM, or King Records, or Duke or Peacock, many of which were even putting out records by the same people who were recording for Chess. So this episode is actually part one of a trilogy, and over the next three episodes, we’re going to talk about how Chess ended up being the one label that defined that music in the eyes of many listeners, and how that music fed into early rock and roll. And today we’re also going to talk about how it ended up being influential in the formation of another of those important record labels. And to talk about that, we’re going to talk about Harvey Fuqua [Foo-kwah]. Yes, Fuqua. Even though we talked about his uncle, Charlie Fuqua [Foo-kway], back in the episode on the Ink Spots, apparently Harvey pronounced his name differently from his uncle. As you might imagine, having an uncle in the most important black vocal group in history gave young Harvey Fuqua quite an impetus, even though the two of them weren’t close. Fuqua started a duo with his friend Bobby Lester after they both got out of the military. Fuqua would play piano, and they would both sing. The two of them had a small amount of success, touring the South, but then shortly after their first tour Fuqua had about the worst thing possible happen to him — there was a fire, and both his children died in it. Understandably, he didn’t want to stay in Louisville Kentucky, where he’d been raising his family, so he and his wife moved to Cleveland. When he got to Cleveland, he met up again with an old friend from his military days, Danny Coggins. The two of them started performing together with a bass singer, Prentiss Barnes, under the name The Crazy Sounds. The style they were performing in was called “vocalese”, and it’s a really odd style of jazz singing that’s… the easiest way to explain it is the opposite of scat singing. In scat, you improvise a new melody with nonsense lyrics [demonstrates] — that’s the standard form of jazz singing, other than just singing the song straight. It’s what Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald or whoever would do. In vocalese, on the other hand, you do the opposite. You come up with proper lyrics, not just nonsense syllables, and you put them to a pre-recorded melody. The twist is that the pre-recorded melody you choose is a melody that’s already been improvised by an instrumentalist. So for example, you could take Coleman Hawkins’ great sax solo on “Body and Soul”: [Excerpt: Coleman Hawkins, “Body and Soul”] Hawkins improvised that melody line, and it was a one-off performance — every other time he played the song he’d play it differently. But Eddie Jefferson, who is credited as the inventor of vocalese, learned Hawkins’ solo, added words, and sang this: [Excerpt: Eddie Jefferson, “Body and Soul”] The Crazy Sounds performed this kind of music as a vocal trio for a while, but their sound was missing something, and eventually Fuqua travelled down to Kentucky and persuaded Bobby Lester to move to Cleveland and join the Crazy Sounds. They became a four-piece, and slowly started writing their own new material in a more R&B style. They performed together a little, and eventually auditioned at a club called the Loop, where they were heard by a blues singer called Al “Fats” Thomas. Thomas apparently recorded for several labels, but this is the only one of his records I can find a copy of anywhere, on the Chess subsidiary Checker, from right around the time we’re talking about in 1952: [Excerpt: Al “Fats” Thomas, “Baby Please No No”] Fats Thomas was very impressed by the Crazy Sounds, and immediately phoned his friend, the DJ Alan Freed. Alan Freed is a difficult character to explain, and his position in rock and roll history is a murky one. He was the first superstar DJ, and he was the person who more than anyone else made the phrase “rock and roll” into a term for a style of music, rather than, as it had been, just a phrase that was used in some of that music. Freed had not started out as a rhythm and blues or rock and roll DJ, and in fact had no great love for the music when he started playing it on his show. He was a lover of classical music — particularly Wagner, whose music he loved so much that he named one of his daughters Sieglinde. But he named his first daughter Alana, which shows his other great love, which was for himself. Freed had been a DJ for several years when he was first introduced to rhythm and blues music, and he’d played a mixture of big band music and light classical, depending on what the audience wanted. But then, in 1951, something changed. Freed met Leo Mintz, the owner of a record shop named Record Rendezvous, in a bar. Mintz discovered that Freed was a DJ and took him to the shop. Freed later mythologised this moment, as he did a lot of his life, by talking about how he was shocked to see white teenagers dancing to music made by black people, and he had a sort of Damascene conversion and immediately decided to devote his show to rhythm and blues. The reality is far more prosaic. Mintz, whose business actually mostly sold to black people at this point, decided that if there was a rhythm and blues radio show then it would boost business to his shop, especially if Mintz paid for the radio show and so bought all the advertising on it. He took Freed to the shop to show him that there was indeed an audience for that kind of music, and Freed was impressed, but said that he didn’t know anything about rhythm and blues music. Mintz said that that didn’t matter. Mintz would pick the records — they’d be the ones that he wanted his customers to buy — and tell Freed what to play. All Freed had to do was to play the ones he was told and everything would work out fine. The music Mintz had played for Freed was, according to Freed later, people like LaVern Baker — who had not yet become at all well known outside Detroit and Chicago at the time — but Mintz set about putting together selections of records that Freed should play. Those records were mostly things with gospel-sounding vocals, a dance beat, or honking saxophones, and Freed found that his audiences responded astonishingly well to it. Freed would often interject during records, and would bang his fists on the table or other objects in time to the beat, including a cowbell that he had on his desk — apparently some of his listeners would be annoyed when they bought the records he played to find out half the sounds they’d heard weren’t on the record at all. Freed took the stage name “Moondog”, after a blind New York street musician and outsider artist of that name. Freed’s theme song for his radio show was “Moondog Symphony”, by Moondog, a one-man-band performance credited to “Moondog (by himself) playing drums, maracas, claves, gourds, hollow legs, Chinese block and cymbals.” [Excerpt: “Moondog Symphony” by Moondog] When Fats Thomas got the Crazy Sounds an audition with Freed, Freed was impressed enough that he offered them a management contract. Being managed by the biggest DJ in the city was obviously a good idea, so they took him up on that, and took his advice about how to make themselves more commercial, including changing their name to emphasise the connection to Freed. They became first the Moonpuppies and then the Moonglows. Freed set up his own record label, Champagne Records, and released the Moonglows’ first single, “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie”: [Excerpt, “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie”, the Moonglows] According to Freed’s biographer John A. Jackson, Freed provided additional percussion on that song, hitting a telephone book in time with the rhythm as he would on his show. I don’t hear any percussion on there other than the drum kit, but maybe you can, if you have better ears than me. This was a song that had been written by the Moonglows themselves, but when the record came out, both sides were credited to Al Lance — which was a pseudonym for Alan Freed. And so the DJ who was pushing their record on the radio was also their manager, and the owner of the record company, and the credited songwriter. Unsurprisingly, then, Freed promoted “I Just Can’t Tell No Lie” heavily on his radio show, but it did nothing anywhere outside of Cleveland and the immediately surrounding area. Danny Coggins quit the group, fed up with their lack of success, and he was replaced by a singer who variously went under the names Alex Graves, Alex Walton, Pete Graves, and Pete Walton. Freed closed down Champagne Records. For a time it looked like the Moonglows’ career was going to have peaked with their one single, as Freed signed another vocal group, the Coronets, and got them signed to Chess Records in Chicago. Chess was a blues label, which had started in 1947 as Aristocrat Records, but in 1948 it was bought out by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess, who had emigrated from Poland as children and Anglicised their names. Their father was in the liquor business during the Prohibition era, which in Chicago meant he was involved with Al Capone, and in their twenties the Chess brothers had started running nightclubs in the black area of Chicago. Chess, at its start, had the artists who had originally recorded for Aristocrat — people like Muddy Waters and Sunnyland Slim, and they also licensed records made by Sam Phillips in Memphis, and because of that put out early recordings by Howlin’ Wolf, before just poaching Wolf for their own label, and Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88”. By 1954, thanks largely to their in-house bass player and songwriter Willie Dixon, Chess had become known as the home of electric Chicago blues, and were putting out classic after classic in that genre. But they were still interested in putting out other styles of black music too, and were happy to sign up doo-wop groups. The Coronets put out a single, “Nadine”, on Chess, which did very well. The credited writer was Alan Freed: [Excerpt: “Nadine”, the Coronets] The Coronets’ follow-up single did less well, though, and Chess dropped them. But Freed had been trying for some time to make a parallel career as a concert promoter, and indeed a few months before he signed the Moonglows to a management contract he had put on what is now considered the first major rock and roll concert — the Moondog Coronation Ball, at the Cleveland Arena. That show had been Freed’s first inkling of just how popular he and the music he was playing were becoming — twenty thousand people tried to get into the show, even though the arena only had a capacity of ten thousand, and the show had to be cancelled after the first song by the first performer, because it was becoming unsafe to continue. But Freed put on further shows at the arena, with better organisation, and in August 1953 he put on “the Big Rhythm and Blues Show”. This featured Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner, and the Moonglows were also put on the bill. As a result of their appearance on the show, they got signed to Chance Records, a small label whose biggest act was the doo-wop group The Flamingos. Freed didn’t own this label of course, but by this time he’d got into the record distribution business, and the distribution company he co-owned was Chance’s distributor in the Cleveland area. The other co-owner was the owner of Chance Records, and Freed’s brother was the distributor’s vice-president and in charge of running it. The Moonglows’ first single on Chance, a Christmas single, did nothing in the charts, but they followed it with a rather unusual choice. “Secret Love” was a hit for Doris Day, from the soundtrack of her film “Calamity Jane”: [Excerpt: Doris Day, “Secret Love”] In the context of the film, which has a certain amount of what we would now call queerbaiting, that song can be read as a song about lesbianism or bisexuality. But that didn’t stop a lot of male artists covering it for other markets. We’ve talked before about how popular songs would be recorded in different genres, and so Day’s pop version was accompanied by Slim Whitman’s country version and by this by the Moonglows: [Excerpt: the Moonglows, “Secret Love”] Unfortunately, a fortnight after the Moonglows released their version, the Orioles, who were a much more successful doo-wop group, released their own record of the song, and the two competed for the same market. However, “Secret Love” did well enough, given a promotional push by Freed, that it became apparent that the Moonglows could have a proper career. It sold over a hundred thousand copies, but then the next few records on Chance failed to sell, and Chance closed down when their biggest act, the Flamingos, moved first to Parrot Records, and then quickly on to Chess. It seemed like everything was against the Moonglows, but they were about to get a big boost, thanks in part to a strike. WINS radio in New York had been taken over at a rock-bottom price by an investment consortium who wanted to turn the money-losing station into a money-maker. It had a powerful transmitter, and if they could boost listenership they would almost certainly be able to sell it on at a massive profit. One of the first things the new owners did was to sack their house band — they weren’t going to pay musicians any more, as live music was too expensive. This caused the American Federation of Musicians to picket the station, which was expected and understandable. But WINS also had the broadcast rights to the New York Yankees games — indeed, the ball games were the only really popular thing that the station had. And so the AFM started to picket Yankee Stadium too. On the week of the starting game for what looked to be the Yankees’ sixth World Series win in a row. That game would normally have had the opening ball thrown by the Mayor of New York, but the Mayor, Robert Wagner, rather admirably refused to cross a picket line. The Bronx borough president substituted for him — and threw the opening ball right into the stomach of a newspaper photographer. WINS now desperately needed something to go right for them, and they realised Freed’s immense drawing power. They signed him for the unprecedented sum of seventy-five thousand dollars a year, and Freed moved from the mid-market town of Cleveland to a huge, powerful, transmitter in New York. He instantly became the most popular DJ in New York, and probably the best-known DJ in the world. And with his great power came record labels wanting to do Freed favours. He was already friends with the Chess brothers, and with the sure knowledge that any record the Moonglows put out would get airplay from Freed, they eagerly signed the Moonglows and put out “Sincerely”: [Excerpt: The Moonglows, “Sincerely”] “Sincerely” featured Bobby Lester on lead vocals, but the song was written by Harvey Fuqua. Or, as the label credited it, Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed. But while those were the two credited writers, the song owes more than a little to another one. Here’s the bridge for “Sincerely”: [Excerpt: The Moonglows, “Sincerely”] And here’s the bridge for “That’s What You’re Doing to Me” by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, written by Billy Ward and sung by Clyde McPhatter: [Excerpt: The Dominoes, “That’s What You’re Doing to Me”] So while I’m critical of Freed for taking credit where it’s not deserved, it should be remembered that Fuqua wasn’t completely clean when it came to this song either. “Sincerely” rose to number one on the R&B charts, thanks in large part to Freed’s promotion. It knocked “Earth Angel” off the top, and was in turn knocked off by “Pledging My Love”, and it did relatively well in the pop charts, although once again it was kept off the top of the pop charts by an insipid white cover version, this time by the McGuire Sisters: [Excerpt: The McGuire Sisters, “Sincerely”] Chess wanted to make as much out of the Moonglows as they could, and so they decided to release records by the group under multiple names and on multiple labels. So while the Moonglows were slowly rising up the charts on Chess, The Moonlighters put out another single, “My Loving Baby”, on Checker: [Excerpt: the Moonlighters, “My Loving Baby”] There were two Moonlighters singles in total, though neither did well enough for them to continue under that name, and on top of that they also provided backing vocals on records by other Chess artists. Most notably, they sang the backing vocals on “Diddley Daddy” by Bo Diddley: [Excerpt Bo Diddley, “Diddley Daddy”] The Moonglows or Moonlighters weren’t the only ones performing under new names though. The real Moondog had, once Freed came to New York, realised that Freed had taken his name, and sued him. Freed had to pay Moondog five thousand seven hundred dollars, and stop calling himself Moondog. He had to switch to using his real name. And along with this, he changed the name of his show to “The Rock and Roll Party”. The term “rock and roll” had been used in various contexts before, of course — the theme for this series in fact comes from almost twenty years before this, but it had not been applied to a form of music on a regular basis. Freed didn’t want to get into the same trouble with the phrase “rock and roll” as he had with the name “Moondog”, and so he formed a company, Seig Music, which was owned by himself, the promoter Lew Platt, WINS radio, and the gangs–. I’m sorry, the legitimate businessman and music publisher Morris Levy. We’ll be hearing more about Levy later. This company trademarked the phrase “rock and roll” (the book I got this information from says they copyrighted the phrase, but I think that’s a confusion between copyright and trademark law on the writer’s part) and started using it for Freed’s now-branded “Rock and Roll Shows”, both on radio and on stage. The only problem was that the phrase caught on too much, thanks to Freed’s incessant use of the phrase on his show — there was no possible way they were going to be able to collect royalties from everyone who was using it, and so that particular money-making scheme faltered. The Moonglows, on the other hand, had a run of minor hits. None were as big as “Sincerely”, but they had five R&B top ten hits and a bunch more in the top twenty. The most notable, and the one people remember, is “Ten Commandments of Love”, from 1958: [excerpt: “Ten Commandments of Love”, Harvey and the Moonglows] But that song wasn’t released as by “the Moonglows”, but by “Harvey and the Moonglows”. There was increasing tension between the different members of the band, and songs started to be released as by Harvey and the Moonglows or by Bobby Lester and the Moonglows, as Chess faced the fact that the group’s two lead singers would go their separate ways. Chess had been contacted by some Detroit-based songwriters, who were setting up a new label, Anna, and wanted Chess to take over the distribution for it. By this point, Harvey Fuqua had divorced his first wife, and was working for Chess in the backroom as well as as an artist, and he was asked by Leonard Chess to go over and work with this new label. He did — and he married one of the people involved, Gwen Gordy. Gwen and her brother ended up setting up a lot of different labels, and Harvey got to run a few of them himself — there was Try-Phi, and Harvey Records. There was a whole family of different record labels owned by the same family, and they soon became quite successful. But at the same time, he was still performing and recording for Chess. We heard one of his singles, a duet with Etta James, in the episode on The Wallflower, but it’s so good we might as well play a bit of it again here: [Excerpt: Harvey Fuqua and Etta James, “Spoonful”] But at the same time both Bobby Lester and Harvey Fuqua were performing with rival groups of Moonglows, who both continued recording for Chess. Harvey’s Moonglows was an entire other vocal group, a group from Washington DC called the Marquees, who’d had one single out, “Wyatt Earp”. That single had been co-written by Bo Diddley, a Chess artist who had tried to get the group signed to Chess. When they’d been turned down, Diddley took them to Okeh instead: [Excerpt: the Marquees, “Wyatt Earp”] Fuqua hired the Marquees and renamed them, and they recorded several tracks as Harvey and the Moonglows, and while none of them were very successful commercially, some of them were musically interesting. This one in particular featured a lead from a great young vocalist who would in 1963 become Harvey Fuqua’s brother-in-law, when he married Gwen’s sister Anna: [Excerpt: Harvey and the Moonglows, “Mama Loocie”] That record didn’t do much, but that singer was to go on to bigger and better things, as was Harvey Fuqua, when one of the Gordy family’s labels became a little bit better known than the rest, with Fuqua working for it as a record producer and head of artist development. But the story of Motown Records, and of that singer, Marvin Gaye, is for another time. Next week, we’re going to continue the Chess story, with a look at another song that Alan Freed got a co-writing credit for. Come back in a week’s time to hear the story of how Chuck Berry came up with Maybellene. [Excerpt: Alan Freed’s final signoff]

July is either hot or hot with storms. Here are some indoor sport to try.Nika Harvison: American Poolplayers Association - Memphis https://poolplayers.com/ and for North Mississippi residents: http://apamemphis.comChris Baker,: Mississippi Racquetball Association, former president. To find a club near you: http://usra.orgJerry Buford: Jackson Bridge Association http://bridgewebs.com/jackson/ To find a clujb near you:http://www.acbl.org/Events we discussed:Saturday, July 28th Pink Paddle Race Ocean Springs Yacht Club, The Seventh annual Pink Paddle Race is an “anything that paddles” charity race benefiting Pink Heart Funds. Party, live music following. Do the race alone or in tandem. Several categories. 10 a.m.-2 p.mSaturday, July 28th Basics of Fly Fishing Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Marine Education Center, Ocean Springs. The Historic Ocean Springs Saltwater Fly Fishing Club is offering a three-hour seminar. Learn how to gear up for fly fishing, how to choose the perfect fly rod, which flies are the most productive and how to cast rod and fly. 228-818-8095. 8 a.m.-11:30 a.m.Thursday July 26th and 27th Mississippi Braves vs Mobile Saturday July 28th – August 1st M Braves host Birmingham at Trustmark Park, JacksonMississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Weekend: Drawdown of Champions Friday, July 27, 6:30 pm Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum, Jackson The party includes appearances from this year's inductees and a chance to win prizes such as cash, autographed memorabilia, golf outings, home accessories and more.Meet the Inductees Saturday, July 28, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum, Jackson, Visitors can meet this year's Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame inductees, Billy Brewer, Anna Jackson, Mike Jones, Archie Moore, Lafayette Stribling and Joe Walker Jr.Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet Saturday, July 28, 5:30 pm Jackson Convention Complex, Jackson The 56th annual Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony features a ticketed reception at 5:30 p.m. and an honors program at 7 p.m.Pro Wrestling EGO: Fight Night 4 Saturday, July 28 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Hideaway, Jackson The family-friendly pro-wrestling event features fighters such as O'Shay Edwards, Rey Fury, Joshua O'Hagan, Alex Graves, Ursa Major, Sterdust and more. Free deejay set to follow. VIP tickets include ringside seating, an extra match at 5:30 p.m. and a meet-and-greet with wrestlers.​Yoga in the Park Sunday, July 29, 5:00 pm Trustmark Park, Pearl Tara Blumenthal of Tara Yoga leads the one-hour yoga session on the field following the Mississippi Braves' game against the Birmingham Barons. Each ticket includes the yoga class, a field-level seat and Braves swag. For ages 14 and up.https://www.misshsaa.com/2018/07/25/mhsaa-to-add-esports-as-pilot-program-in-2018-19/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's Season 4 finale time this week on The Mummer's Farce and parents just don't understand. Neil Marshall returns to direct another self-contained action block, but can it stack up next to "Blackwater," Kate and Dan's favorite episode from the first 3 seasons? You'll have to listen and find out! Then in episode 410 there's the mixed bag of crying dragons, a slugfest in the mountains, elven hand grenades, and much more.

The Mummer's Farce returns from holiday refreshed and ready for 2018! It's time to start the new year with a pair of rollicking episodes full of character trials from season 4 of Game of Thrones. Kate and Dan discuss Sansa's brief turn to the dark side, Dany's role reversals, and unlikely sympathies for (am I reading this right?) Ramsay Snow.

Kate and Dan celebrate 6 months of The Mummer's Farce this week (thanks for listening!). This time they take on some of the show's most controversial scenes and production blunders. But there's plenty of good stuff here too from Dany's magically amplified swagger to White Walker rituals to the appearance of the one true king of Westeros: Ser Pounce.

It's season 4 premiere time in Game of Thrones land and we have yet another wedding to attend. Join Kate and Dan for another round of analysis as the Lannisters don't answer questions, the Hound requests some chickens, and Oberyn makes an entrance. And even though we might already know the answer to the big whodunit, there's still plenty of Bran scenes to discuss at length. I'm just kidding, Bran touches a tree.

Some high highs and low lows, geographically speaking, this week in Game of Thrones as Kate and Dan find themselves hiding out in a bunch of caves, but also climbing to the top of The Wall. Elsewhere Stannis grinds his teeth, Robb gets soaked, and all of your favorite couples take baths. All that plus the return of the perma-soggy Freys and Melissandre employing her Gen-dar to somehow locate the Brotherhood's secret hideout.

The Game of Thrones players do some comedy work amidst all the punishment and shaming in the first directorial outing from one half of the WB showrunning pair, along with new face, Alex Graves. Join Kate and Dan as they talk about awkward silences, medieval Dropkick Murphys covers, Dany's Michael Bay moment, and just how low Stannis' fires are burning these days.

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Clive Standen of NBC's Taken. From Executive Producer Luc Besson ("Taken," "The Fifth Element") comes a modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Clive Standen, "Vikings") as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the trauma of the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills. In 30 years, this character is destined to become the Bryan Mills that we've come to love from the "Taken" films. The cast includes Jennifer Beals, Gaius Charles, Brooklyn Sudano, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Michael Irby, James Landry Hébert and Jose Pablo Cantillo. Alexander Cary serves as writer and executive producer. Luc Besson, Matthew Gross, Edouard de Vésinne, Thomas Anargyros and director Alex Graves also executive produce.

We get invited back into the chocolate factory, but we're not sure we're gonna RSVP. Do we want another Willy Wonka Movie? New life blood is put into the live-action Mulan and it's the blood of the Westeros. And in both there be dragons and director Alex Graves. All this and more in His Girl Friday Realness. We all talk to our pets right? If they talk back, maybe it's time to get some help, and tune into this week's Neflix and Chill Realness, (Well more like Hulu and Commitment)featuring The Voices. Speaking of murder, we figure out once again how to get away with it in this Primetime Realness premiere episode.

20.10.2016 Episode 17 unseres Podcasts gefüllt mit jeder Menge Infos rund um aktuelle Filme (Inferno, Swiss Army Man), News, Box Office u.v.m. Mit Johannes & Colin Segmente: 00:00 Begrüßung 03:18 News 14:03 Challenge 22:43 Kino der Woche 33:43 Box Office 36:33 Vorschau auf diese Woche 44:51 Box Office Vorhersage 48:21 Bad Movie Synopsis 52:53 Verabschiedung https://facebook.com/PlanetFilmGeek/ https://twitter.com/PlanetFilmGeek https://twitter.com/movieschmidt http://letterboxd.com/movieschmidt Links zu News Stories: Rogue One Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI Fantastic Beasts Quintology: http://collider.com/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-sequels/ Disneys Live Action Don Quixote: http://collider.com/don-quixote-movie-disney/ Alex Graves als Regisseur für Sony Verfilmung von Mulan: http://collider.com/mulan-live-action-movie-alex-graves/ Music by Kevin MacLeod "Volatile Reaction" "Exhilarate" "Motherlode" www.incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

There isn't that much time left in the regular season as teams continue to fight to get into conference tournaments and position themselves for hopefully NCAA tournament bids. Second round of Regional Rankings are also out with plenty of answers... and questions. Plus, some teams are putting on some shows recently including a lot of buzzer beaters! On Thursday night's Hoopsville, Dave McHugh rolled up his sleeves and took a look at what is happening as we head into the last ten days of the regular season. McHugh also go some insight on Wednesday's insane men's basketball game between Lynchburg and No. 21 Roanoke. Plus, a preview of the NESCAC men's and women's tournaments along with talking to ranked teams on both the men's and women's side. You can watch the Hoopsville show On Demand down below along with listening to the podcast when it becomes available. Guests scheduled (in order of appearance): - Alex Graves, Lynchburg senior forward - Howard Herman, Berkshire Eagle, NESCAC tournaments preview - Brian Morehouse, No. 3 Hope women's coach - Bill Broderick, No. 16 Christopher Newport women's coach - Tom Curle, No. 23 Plattsburgh State men's coach - Eric Bridgeland, No. 9 Whitman men's coach

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Okay, we are all getting ready for the new season of one of the most popular shows on television. Season five of Game of Thrones is coming to HBO on April 12, 2015 with a perspective of a number of characters. It has also been rumored that this season will either diverge from the books in The Song of Ice and Fire series or have parts of the tale that haven't been written by author George R. R. Martin yet. Though minor that they may seem to be, series directors Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, and Neil Marshall are not returning for the new season, nor is George R. R. Martin writing one episode as he has in the prior four seasons. The new format includes five directors in which they will direct two each back to back, a first for Game of Thrones. So there are some interesting changes it seems both behind and in front of the camera. With season four having arrived on disc, Dark Discussions decides to recap the prior season in gearing up for the new season. In this first of a two part episode, our focus begins with the story lines of Daenerys Targaryen, Jorah Mormont, and the dragons. Also we focus on Brienne of Tarth, Podrick Payne, Arya Stark and Sandor "The Hound" Clegane and their adventures. Co-host Eric even makes a bold prediction of what he thinks may happen with the dragons. As always we welcome your comments: darkdiscussions@aol.com (written email or attached mp3 files) WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

Título original Game of Thrones (TV Series) Año 2011 Duración 55 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos < br />Dir ector David Benioff (Creator), D.B. Weiss (Creator), Timothy Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor, Neil Marshall, David Benioff, Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, David Nutter, Alik Sakharov, Michael Slovis, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik Guión David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin (Novelas: George R. R. Martin) Música Ramin Djawadi Fotografía Matt Jensen, Marco Pontecorvo, Alik Sakharov Reparto Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Michelle Fairley, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Richard Madden, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten. Episodio 9.- «Baelor» Los familias Stark y Lannister se preparan para combatir entre ellos. Tyrion se alía a los clanes salvajes y los convence de combatir para los Lannister, mientras que Robb y Catelyn negocian para obtener la ayuda de Lord Walder Frey. Con Drogo moribundo debido una herida infectada, Daenerys utiliza la magia de una maegi para salvarle la vida. El maestre Aemon revela a Jon su parentesco con los Targaryen y el precio de la lealtad, ya que éste está preocupado por los eventos que no conciernen al Muro. En un último intento para salvarse y a sus hijas, Ned confiesa falsamente su conspiración y declara a Joffrey como el legítimo heredero al Trono de Hierro. Joffrey lo manda a decapitar sin tener en cuenta su declaración. Episodio 10.- «Fuego y sangre» Tras la ejecución de Ned, los norteños proclaman a Robb como su Rey. Con Jaime capturado por los Stark, Lord Tywin Lannister asigna a su hijo Tyrion como Mano del Rey para mantener a Joffrey y Cersei bajo control. Jon abandona su puesto en el Muro para vengar a su padre, pero sus amigos lo persiguen y lo convencen para quedarse. La Guardia de la Noche parte a una expedición más allá del Muro. El hijo nonato de Daenerys muere y Drogo se encuentra en estado vegetativo debido a la magia de la maegi traidora. Incapaz de soportar la ruina de su marido, Daenerys termina con su vida y prepara una pira funeraria en la que quema a la maegi viva junto con el cuerpo de Drogo y sus tres huevos de dragón. Además, ella misma entra en la pira y cuando esta se apaga Daenerys se eleva, sana y salva, flanqueada por tres dragones recién nacidos.

Título original Game of Thrones (TV Series) Año 2011 Duración 55 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos < br />Dir ector David Benioff (Creator), D.B. Weiss (Creator), Timothy Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor, Neil Marshall, David Benioff, Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, David Nutter, Alik Sakharov, Michael Slovis, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik Guión David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin (Novelas: George R. R. Martin) Música Ramin Djawadi Fotografía Matt Jensen, Marco Pontecorvo, Alik Sakharov Reparto Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Michelle Fairley, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Richard Madden, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten. Episodio. 7 - «Ganas o mueres» Ned se enfrenta a Cersei por la muerte de Jon Arryn. Robert, herido de muerte, nombra a Ned regente hasta que su hijo Joffrey sea mayor de edad. Ned pide ayuda a Meñique para asegurar la cooperación de la Guardia de la Ciudad en caso de que los Lannister no colaboren y revela que Joffrey no es hijo de Robert, sino de Jaime, lo que convierte a Stannis Baratheon, hermano mayor de Robert, en el verdadero heredero. Meñique, no obstante, traiciona a Ned y éste es apresado y sus hombres asesinados. Jon toma los votos de la Guardia de la Noche. Drogo convoca a su ejército para invadir Poniente tras descubrir que Robert conspiraba para envenenar a Daenerys. Episodio. 8 - «Por el lado de la punta» Robb convoca a los banderizos de su padre para ir en su rescate. Sansa suplica a Joffrey para salvar la vida de Ned. Jon y la Guardia de la Noche se preparan para enfrentarse a un antiguo enemigo del otro lado del Muro. El ejército de Drogo marcha al oeste en dirección hacia los Siete Reinos.

Título original Game of Thrones (TV Series) Año 2011 Duración 55 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos < br />Dir ector David Benioff (Creator), D.B. Weiss (Creator), Timothy Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor, Neil Marshall, David Benioff, Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, David Nutter, Alik Sakharov, Michael Slovis, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik Guión David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin (Novelas: George R. R. Martin) Música Ramin Djawadi Fotografía Matt Jensen, Marco Pontecorvo, Alik Sakharov Reparto Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Michelle Fairley, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Richard Madden, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Episodio. 5 - «El lobo y el león» Robert y Ned discuten sobre cómo deben manejar la alianza entre la familia Targaryen y los dothraki. Catelyn lleva a Tyrion hasta el Nido de Águilas, la casa de su hermana Lysa. Tyrion es encerrado en una jaula con un costado abierto y que cuelga sobre un abismo. Las noticias de la captura de Tyrion llegan a Desembarco del Rey y Jaime le exige respuestas a Ned. Episodio. 6 - «Una corona de oro» Viserys amenaza a su hermana Daenerys delante de Drogo cuando éste se niega a pagar la deuda, por lo que muere a manos del dothraki. Tyrion gana su libertad cuando su mercenario Bronn derrota en un duelo al campeón de Catelyn y Lysa. Ned gobierna desde el Trono de Hierro mientras el rey Robert sale de caza, y descubre el secreto que Jon Arryn averiguó antes de morir. Robert resulta entonces fatalmente herido en un "accidente" de caza.

Título original Game of Thrones (TV Series) Año 2011 Duración 55 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Dir ector David Benioff (Creator), D.B. Weiss (Creator), Timothy Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor, Neil Marshall, David Benioff, Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, David Nutter, Alik Sakharov, Michael Slovis, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik Guión David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin (Novelas: George R. R. Martin) Música Ramin Djawadi Fotografía Matt Jensen, Marco Pontecorvo, Alik Sakharov Reparto Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Michelle Fairley, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Richard Madden, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Episodio 3.- Lord Nieve Título original: Lord Snow Director: Brian Kirk Guinistas: David Benioff y D. B. Weiss Fecha de estreno: 1 de mayo de 2011 Ned se une al Consejo Privado del Rey en Desembarco del Rey, la capital de los Siete Reinos, y descubre la mala administración que sufre Poniente. Catelyn decide ir de incógnito al sur para alertar a su esposo de los Lannister. Arya inicia su entrenamiento con la espada. Bran despierta tras su caída y no recuerda nada. Jon se entrena para adaptarse a su nueva vida en el Muro. Daenerys comienza a asumir su rol como khaleesi de Drogo y se enfrenta a Viserys. Episodio 4.- Tullidos, bastardos y cosas rotas Título original: Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things Director: Brian Kirk Guinistas: Bryan Cogman Fecha de estreno: 8 de mayo de 2011 Ned busca pistas para tratar de explicar la muerte de Jon Arryn. Robert celebra un torneo en honor a Ned. Jon toma medidas para proteger a Samwell Tarly, otro recluta de la Guardia de la Noche, de los abusos del resto de sus compañeros. Viserys, frustrado, se enfrenta a su hermana. Sansa sueña con una vida como reina de Joffrey. Catelyn, de camino a Invernalia, acude a los aliados de su padre para apresar a Tyrion al creerle culpable del intento de asesinato de Bran.

Título original Game of Thrones (TV Series) Año 2011 Duración 55 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director David Benioff (Creator), D.B. Weiss (Creator), Timothy Van Patten, Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor, Neil Marshall, David Benioff, Alex Graves, Michelle MacLaren, David Nutter, Alik Sakharov, Michael Slovis, Mark Mylod, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik Guión David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, George R. R. Martin (Novelas: George R. R. Martin) Música Ramin Djawadi Fotografía Matt Jensen, Marco Pontecorvo, Alik Sakharov Reparto Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, Michelle Fairley, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Conleth Hill, Richard Madden, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Episodio 1.- «Se acerca el invierno» El rey Robert Baratheon de Poniente viaja al Norte para ofrecerle a su viejo amigo Ned Stark, Guardián del Norte y Señor de Invernalia, el puesto de Mano del Rey. La esposa de Ned, Catelyn, recibe una carta de su hermana Lysa que implica a miembros de la familia Lannister, la familia de la reina Cersei, en el asesinato de su marido Jon Arryn, la anterior Mano del Rey. Bran, uno de los hijos de Ned y Catelyn, descubre a la reina Cersei y a su hermano Jaime teniendo relaciones sexuales. Mientras tanto, al otro lado del mar Angosto, el príncipe exiliado Viserys Targaryen forja una alianza para recuperar el Trono de Hierro: dará a su hermana Daenerys en matrimonio al salvaje dothraki Khal Drogo a cambio de su ejército. Episodio 2.- «El Camino Real» Tras aceptar su nuevo rol como Mano del Rey, Ned parte hacia Desembarco del Rey con sus hijas Sansa y Arya. Jon Nieve, el hijo bastardo de Ned, se dirige al Muro para unirse a la Guardia de la Noche. Tyrion Lannister, el hermano menor de la Reina, decide no ir con el resto de la familia real al sur y acompaña a Jon en su viaje al Muro. Viserys sigue esperando su momento de ganar el Trono de Hierro y Daenerys centra su atención en aprender cómo gustarle a su nuevo esposo, Drogo.

“The Mountain and the Viper”, Season 4, Episode 8 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, is both the end for some cherished characters as well as a new beginning for others. Ivan and Red are joined by Lydia Popovich to discuss the return of Alex Graves, Joan Rivers’ first gig in Moletown, House Royce, Schrödinger's baby, buff eunuchs bathing, appropriate musical queues, the rise of Reek, Littlefinger’s first two mix tapes, terribly “Robin” puns, the pride of Ser Barristan Selmy, catfishing the Khaleesi, Sansa wearing this season’s “Lenny Kravitz”, Tyrion’s Vargo Hoat impression, the rules of dueling, and father of the year, Tywin Lannister.

This week we sit down to discuss “Breaker of Chains,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed by Alex Graves. The episode does a superb job of acknowledging the big picture, while focusing specifically on moving secondary characters forward emotionally. It also just so happens to feature the most controversial scene in ... The post Game of Thrones Podcast #23: “Breaker of Chains” appeared first on PopOptiq.

Joanna (https://twitter.com/jowrotethis) and Dave (http://www.davechen.net/) discuss the third episode of season 4 of Game of Thrones, “Breaker of Chains.” Thanks to our sponsor for this week, Screeners Podcast. (http://screenerspodcast.com/) Be sure to read Alex Graves’ comments on this episode (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-game-of-thrones-breaker-of-chains-uncle-deadly) , as well George R. R. Martin’s remarks. (http://defamer.gawker.com/george-r-r-martin-distances-himself-from-game-of-thron-1565857941/+laceydonohue) E-mail us and let us know your thoughts on the season at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast.com (http://www.gameofthronespodcast.com/) . If you like the show, feel free to leave us a review on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cast-kings-game-thrones-podcast/id515836681) and like us on Facebook (https://facebook.com/acastofkings) .  Download (https://traffic.libsyn.com/slashfilmcast/CastofKingsS4E03.mp3) here. 

This week we sit down to discuss “The Lion and the Rose,” a game changing episode that sees the death of a major player. Written by George R.R. Martin and directed by Alex Graves,“The Lion and the Rose” leaves us with plenty to debate, and joining us to dive deep into Martin’s universe is Sound ... The post Game of Thrones Podcast #22: “The Lion and the Rose” appeared first on PopOptiq.

Subject: Fringe - Pilot (1x01) Observers: John Pavlich, Annie Burnaman Record Date: August 05, 2011, 09:42 PM Plot Summary: FBI Special Agent, Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) enlists the help of a mentally unstable but brilliant scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and his estranged son, Peter (Joshua Jackson) to investigate a series of strange and dangerous "experiments" that fall under the category of "fringe science". Note: During the recording of this commentary, both Annie and myself were fighting a record-setting heatwave, courtesy of the Texas weather. You may hear the intrusion of fans and central air. Directed by Alex Graves and written by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, Annie and I explore the form and function of Fringe's pilot episode. We discuss the cast, the beginnings of a mythology and the engaging aspects of the dramatic narrative and the progression of the action. Remember to listen for the preemptive countdown before starting the episode on your DVD.