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Note from Film makers : Also, just wanted to mention some of the conspiracy stuff hidden in the film.… since you didn't notice any of it… lol. It was on our mind. Film starts with Tim getting a speeding ticket, when asked where he's coming from he says - Muldrow. In real life Tim got a speeding ticket outside Muldrow which is right by Elohim City. The only reason for him to be in that area is Elohim… and Tim said he had never been there before. Richard Snell's influence and friendship. In real life Richard said his death would be avenged and asked to have the TV turned on the morning of his execution, April 19th. The officer said Snelll was grinning while watching the news of the bombing. How well or even if he knew Tim is conspiracy lore. Snell is buried at Elohim City. Strassmaier telling Tim about Snell's bomb plot in 83'. In real life it goes that Snell and others from the CSA were going to blow up the Federal Building in OKC, but the bomb blew up in their hands. They took it as a sign from God not to do it. Tim and Terry selling guns, Tim says you don't know where we got these from. In real life the story goes that Tim had Terry steal Roger Moore's (who was tied to the CIA) gun collection to sell and make money for the bombing. The story is very fishy, especially Moore's version. Terry asks Tim where he's gonna get that much money from to buy components for the bomb, but Tim never answers. Tim has a lighter with a Freemason logo on it. All the phone calls when Tim is at the phone booth, it is never revealed who he's talking to or what he is saying. When Tim is renting the storage room he gives her the wrong ID with one of his aliases. On other oaccasions he signs papers with different names. Tim and Strassmeir at the strip club. In real life a stripper at Lady Godiva's says she saw Tim, Strassmeir and Michael Brescia at the strip club all together shortly before the bombing. They all said it didn't happen. Strassmeir claims he only met Tim once at a gun show. Brescia says he didn't know Tim at all. Terry flying to the Philippines. In real life Terry went many times, Tim's lawyer suspected him to meet with terrorists to learn bomb building. John Doe 2 is in the background when he rents the truck. The passenger door is heard opening and someone gets in… who is never revealed, John Doe 2.Towards the end, the gameshow he's watching in the motel room while eating Chinese food, has secret messages on the game board: STRASSMEIR, HYPNOSIS, MKULTRA, CIA, FBI, etc.The montage at the end has images of: teeth X-rays (Wendy Painting's theory he was micro chipped in his teeth), MK-Ultra, Aryan Republican Army, Carol Howe, Terrance Yeakey, Kenneth Trentadue, and Jolly West. Also, on a side note you might enjoy… the announcer of the gameshow introduces the current winner as, “Dave McGowan.” Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.
‘I thought, okay, well it worked for Lady Godiva, didn't it? This whole naked stuff? So let me give that a try. I felt like it was the only option.'Just as it worked for Lady Godiva, so it has for Hannah Bourne-Taylor, the campaigner, naturalist and writer who has spent years fighting for change to help Britain's bird population — and particularly the swift.• Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts• Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify• Listen to Country Life podcast on Audible After spending years overseas in places where she was surrounded by birds and nature, Hannah was dismayed on her return to see how little is being done to help preserve wildlife — and particularly with regard to her favourite bird, the swift. And after deciding to do something about it, she launched the campaign which has now taken years of her life — and which, as she tells James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast, has seen her enjoy a blaze of publicity by marching up and down Whitehall without a stitch on, in a desperate, yet wildly successful, publicity stunt.She tells James about the swift, their plight, and how the simple introduction of one or two ‘swift bricks' added to each new build house could have an enormous impact at negligible cost, by providing safe nesting for birds whose former favourite spots have increasingly disappeared due to modern construction techniques.Hannah also talks about her love of nature in general and the struggles she's faced, from battling apathy and indifference to hastily adjusting a stick-on G-string in the House of Lords toilets. She also tells a tale from an earlier time in her life, when a tiny lost fledgling nested in her hair as it recuperated before rejoining its family.It's a fascinating glimpse in to the mind of a woman who is in equal measure strong, brave, eccentric and passionate. Once you've listened, we'd highly recommend Hannah's books for more: her latest, Nature Needs You, about her battle to save the swift, and Fledgling, her story that rewrites ‘the conventional boundaries of the relationships people have with animals'.Episode creditsHost: James FisherGuest: Hannah Bourne-TaylorEditor and producer: Toby KeelMusic: JuliusH via Pixabay Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Eastward" (Ancient) of Eden?; Two creation accounts; How to get back to Tree of Life; Visions of Abraham; Euphrates = fruitfulness; "Help meet"; nun-gimel-dalet; What is woman?; Vessels of Holy Spirit; Gen 15:1; The word of God; "Vision" - biet-mem-chet-zayin-hey; Law of nature; Damascus; Eliezer = "helper"; Abraham's journey; Ur; God's prophecy to Abraham; Sons; Bondage opportunity; Righteousness; Giving purpose and value; Respecting the small things; Altars of stone and clay; "this land" = "erets"; aleph-resh-tzedek; freewill vs force; right to my body?; Charity alone; Turtledoves; Sophistry; Biblical "goat"; Red Heifer; Recognizing meaning; Driving away "fowls"; Moneychangers; Basics of who Abrahm was; Why Abraham?; Great darkness?; aleph-yod-mem-hey (horror); city?; gimel = cause/effect; sitting in darkness; v13: Bondage of Egypt; Satisfaction of righteousness; Virtue; Procreation a burden?; Selfishness; Revelation; Gathering in tens, hundreds and thousands; Giving to strengthen; Amorites = blood lickers; "President"; Where is love?; Are you a vulture? Amorite?; Abraham's altars; gimel-vav-zayin-lamad (turtledove); Welfare by forced giving; Lady Godiva; Gen 15:9 "Heifer"; Num 19:2 "Heifer" pey-resh-hey; Sacrifice; Doing what Christ/Moses/Abraham said to do; v18 - covenant for what land?; Living by faith; Covetous practices; Egypt (bondage) to Euphrates (fruitful); Kingdom of God AT HAND; Living by force; V19 List of names; Kenites - associated with Cane; Rolling back socialism; Weakened societies; Individual repentance; Spoiling; Giving your best; Division; Find fruitfulness.
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“I’m a racing car, passing by, like Lady Godiva”, cantava Freddie Mercury in “Don’t Stop Me Now”. Ma perché la storia di Lady Godiva è così famosa? E, soprattutto, è vera? Beh, guardate il titolo di questo podcast e datevi una risposta. Anche se la vera domanda è un’altra: ma come si pronuncia Leofrico?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
(An Approach to Church Organization - Part 3) Is nature organized?; Church established by revelation; Your gospel challenge; Perseverance; Lacking grace; Church manifesting Christ; Feel-good churches; Picking 7 men; Free government; Self-organization; Tens, Hundreds and Thousands; Calamities; Review; Limited access per mission; Testimony; Recording truth; Love = charity; Grace?; Property taxes; Legal title; Moses' people; Christ's freedom; "Order"; Families at Christ's time; Levites belonged to God; Apostles; Marriage license; To whom do you pray?; Forcing neighbors; Church of Constantine; Who controls your church?; Early Church organization; Corporation; "Great Domestic Relationship"; Honoring your father; Consent in society; Mark of the beast; Church records; Civil marriages; Justin's apology; Lady Godiva?; Covetous practices; General "church"; Sheep searching story; "Pure religion"; Daily ministration; Taking care of the needy; "Church" defined in law; Is your church doing what Christ said?; Tree of Knowledge vs Tree of Life; Navigating by Holy Spirit; Preserving Christ's doctrine; Exercising authority?; Sacrifice; Incorporation; Self-discipline; "Ekklesia"; Separation; Widows and orphans?; Christ's government; Gather with those God puts before you; Corban; Making God's word to none effect; What is a Christian?; Helping others love neighbors; Serving God by serving one another; Repentance; "Unincorporated Associations"; Corporation of Christ; "Thithingmen"; Burnt offerings; Trusts; What is an "Ordained" minister; Multiple words translated into "ordained"; "Elders" = episkipos; Owning things in common; Corporation sole; Underwear of the minister?; Congregation "membership"?; License to minister; Vow of poverty; Stones of the Temple; Recognizing ordination; Rights in God's kingdom; Becoming merchandise; Choosing men over God; Jews accepted Christ; Defining religion; Your need to give - to your minister; Regulating flow; Repent and seek His kingdom and righteousness! (An Approach to Church Organization - Part 4) Bible about religion? Or government?; Rights; "Ye also are gods"; Office of "Apotheos"; Rome v US; Religious governments; Altering history; Becoming merchandise; Bondage of Egypt; Corruption; Deciding good and evil; Inflation; Understanding value; Cash?; Separate Church; Setting souls free; Freedom?; Biting one another; Will God hear you?; Feeding the truth to others; Learning by doing; Church built on revelation; "Ordain"; "tethini", "genomai", "creno", "poeo"; Confusing meaning; Eternal life?; Buying your bondage; Christ sought recognition (witness); Which "Christ"?; The Church's legal existence; Constantine's church; Mt 18:15; Binding and loosing; Pure republics; "Libera res publica"; Church networking; Health, education and welfare; "Sacred Purpose Trust"; Jurisdiction?; Usurping authority; Getting free from your bondage; Historical wrong ways; The key to your salvation; "Che Guevara"; How to love your neighbor; Ordaining ministers; Levites; Golden calf; Substance money; Repentance; Operating by faith, hope and charity; Forcing neighbor; Get involved!
Sesión de ritmos disonantes, sonidos experimentales, melodías autodestructivas e instrumentos que colisionan. Maestros en el manejo del ruido como forma de expresión.Playlist;THE VELVET UNDERGROUND “Lady Godiva’s operation” (1968)CAN “Spoon” (1971)THE STOOGES “TV Eye” (1970)PERE UBU “Heart of darkness” (1975)TELEVISION “Friction” (1977)SUICIDE “Johnny” (1977)THE CRAMPS “TV Set” (1980)GUN CLUB “Jack on fire” (1981)THE FALL “Totally wired” (1980)SWELL MAPS “Red about Seymour” (1977)SONIC YOUTH “Teen age riot” (1988)DAVID BOWIE “I can’t read” (1989)PIXIES “Vamos” (1988)SPACEMEN 3 “Losing touch with my mind” (1986)Escuchar audio
Why was Lady Godiva riding that horse with no clothes on? And what food condiment used to be sold as a medicine? Hear the 250th Anniversary episode of The Off Ramp.
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Connecting the gospel messages; Emperor changing; Caligula?; vs Tiberius; Rome vs U.S.; Church resources; Aid to others; Buying votes; "Offices" in society; Deacon? = "minister unto"; Well story; Geographical network; Working for your benefits; Self-organization; Readiness for calamity; Doing what the bible talks about; Living by faith instead of force; God's offices; Elders?; Choosing your minister; Free assemblies; Ex 33:10; Ex 4:31; "Worship"?; Christ's prayer; Envy and betrayal; Servants of Holy Spirit; The love OF God; Guaranteeing benefits; Why we're in bondage; "Vail"; Cruelty?; Federal Reserve; 7 men?; Serving tables; Lk 19:23; 1 Chron 9:22; Porters of the temple; Ecc 11:1; Casting bread upon the waters; Are your prayers heard?; Ambassadors; Owning all things common; Coming against Christ; Trusts; Natural Law; The rich man; Manifesting Holy Spirit; High Priest?; Dentist of Bergamot; Pride; Claudia/Gladys?; Lady Godiva; Congressional witness; Tens; Mom story; Wickedness; Meditation; Pilate's trial; Oaths and jurisdiction; Why you are in bondage; Follow Christ!
It's episode 92 and we're talking about t*ts and shipwrecks! First up, we dive into North America's Great Lakes and learn about the first known shipwreck in 1679--Le Griffon--and bookend it with the last major shipwreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We also talk about the Great Storm of 1913 and the weather systems that can make the Great Lakes so dangerous! After the break, we saddle up our horses, let our hair down and spark one up for Lady Godiva, who may have gotten her t*ts out for lower taxes! Hurrah! ~~~~* Mentioned in the Episode: Map of the Great Lakes Map of the Edmund Fitzgerald's Route "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot Episode on Robin Hood Episode on the History of England Episode on William the Conqueror ~~~~*The Socials and Patreon! Patreon-- The Best Buds Club! Instagram - @HighTalesofHistory TikTok- @HighTalesofHistoryPod Facebook -High Tales of History or @HighTalesofHistory YouTube - High Tales of History Email—hightailingthroughhistory@gmail.com ~~~~* Source Materials-- Shipwrecks-- https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-happened-to-the-lost-ship-le-griffon-and-was-it-ever-found/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913 https://shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-journey/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cargo-ship-suddenly-sinks-in-lake-superior https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/as-an-underwater-graveyard-the-great-lakes-have-claimed-close-to-10-000 Lady Godiva-- https://www.history.com/news/who-was-lady-godiva https://www.britannica.com/place/Coventry-England https://manorialcounselltd.co.uk/lady-godiva-godly-goodly-real-life-legend/ ~~~~* Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
It's episode 92 and we're talking about t*ts and shipwrecks! First up, we dive into North America's Great Lakes and learn about the first known shipwreck in 1679--Le Griffon--and bookend it with the last major shipwreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We also talk about the Great Storm of 1913 and the weather systems that can make the Great Lakes so dangerous! After the break, we saddle up our horses, let our hair down and spark one up for Lady Godiva, who may have gotten her t*ts out for lower taxes! Hurrah! ~~~~* Mentioned in the Episode: Map of the Great Lakes Map of the Edmund Fitzgerald's Route "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot Episode on Robin Hood Episode on the History of England Episode on William the Conqueror ~~~~*The Socials and Patreon! Patreon-- The Best Buds Club! Instagram - @HighTalesofHistory TikTok- @HighTalesofHistoryPod Facebook -High Tales of History or @HighTalesofHistory YouTube - High Tales of History Email—hightailingthroughhistory@gmail.com ~~~~* Source Materials-- Shipwrecks-- https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-happened-to-the-lost-ship-le-griffon-and-was-it-ever-found/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913 https://shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-journey/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cargo-ship-suddenly-sinks-in-lake-superior https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/as-an-underwater-graveyard-the-great-lakes-have-claimed-close-to-10-000 Lady Godiva-- https://www.history.com/news/who-was-lady-godiva https://www.britannica.com/place/Coventry-England https://manorialcounselltd.co.uk/lady-godiva-godly-goodly-real-life-legend/ ~~~~* Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
This week- Which institution of higher education in the U.S., has the highest number of presidential alumni? Where did the blazer jacket come from? Why did Lady Godiva really ride on a horse in the nude? Listen, laugh, and learn with Nick & Roy. Brought to you in part by Tom's Place in Kensington Market in Toronto, and by Pete's Pizza in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls.
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For our final Local Legends episode for Series 4, Martin gathers round the campfire to talk about the folklore of Sussex with Dr Paul Quinn.Paul grew up in Sussex, going on to complete his doctorate at the University of Sussex, working on anti-Catholicism and the Early Modern Stage. He has a wide array of interests, from Doctor Who and popular science fiction to the history of fairy tales, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the links between Catholic discrimination and magic. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Sussex University's Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies, he moved ultimately to the University of Chichester, where he teaches modules including ‘Fairy Tales: From Early Modern to Postmodern' and ‘Theatres of Pleasure and Theatres of Pain.' Moreover, if you visit the Sussex folktale centre website, you can get a sense of the scale of the work he encounters, as editor of the Centre's journal Gramarye. Past issues include all sorts of fascinating scholarly articles covering English subjects like Lady Godiva and Queen Mab to Classical tales such as those of Daedalus and Demeter to lively discussions of a vast array of European folklore, from Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel to the Snow Queen, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Miller's Daughter.Suffice to say, Paul is an interesting chap, and as someone who has spent most of his life in Sussex he's very well equipped for this conversation – one which compliments our series finale as released on Monday, answering one of the big questions about Sussex folklore thrown up in that recording.To learn more about Paul and his work at The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, visit the centre's website at https://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How NASA intends to DESTROY the International Space Station – you heard that correctly … DESTROY, Weird Wednesday has more bizarre world records, cows stampeding through town, and a disgusting site at Yosemite National Park. Plus, on This Day in History, Lady Godiva bears it all and rides … or did she? Here's how NASA plans to finally destroy the International Space Station | BBC Science Focus Magazine NASA will retire the ISS soon. Here's what comes next. : NPR Watch: Idaho man throws chopsticks at balloons for his 180th world record - UPI.com Watch: Man uses eye socket strength to break two Guinness World Records - UPI.com 45 escaped cows stampede through neighborhood in England - UPI.com Look: Used toilet paper 'all too familiar' a sight at Yosemite National Park - UPI.com Culture Re-View: Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry - allegedly | Euronews Lady Godiva's Ride, Fact & Fiction (britainexpress.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
National Pina Colata day. Entertainment from 1974. Wyoming became 44th state, Lady Godiva rode through town on a norse naked, Hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet. Todays birthdays - Nikola Tesla, Fred Gwynne, Ronnie James Dio, Greg Kihn Neil Tennant, Gary Lavox, Sofia Vegara, Adrian Grenier, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Jessica Simpson. Omar Shariff died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/Two pina coladas - Garth BrooksRock the boat - Hues CorporationHe thinks I still care - Anne MurrayBirthday - The BeatlesBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/Rainbow in the dark - DioThe break-up song - The Greg Kihn bandOpportunities - The Pet Shop BoysFast cars and freedom - Rascall FlattsI wanna love you forever - Jessica SimpsonExit - Its not love - Dokken https://dokken.net/Follow Jeff Stampka on Facebook and cooolmedia.com
Kevin bares all in this revealing chat about appearing on stage wearing nothing but a cummerbund; stripping off their identity and slipping into their alter ego, Georgie Fruit; but not pulling a Lady Godiva when they brought a horse into the act at the Roseland in New York. of Montreal on the interwebs: https://www.ofmontreal.net Get up-close-and-personal with Kevin Barnes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ofMontreal -------------------------------------------------- Go to http://distrokid.com/vip/tmep for 30% OFF your first year subscription to DISTROKID: It's the easiest way for rockers like YOU to get your music into Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alabama summers are hot! When you ride your horse bareback, the horse hair sticks to your legs, making you look like Mr. Tumnus from Narnia. Skinny-dipping seemed like a great idea, at the time, but what happens when they sink under the muddy water of the Cahaba River. How do you ride home then? At least Lady Godiva had long hair to cover herself when she rode through town without a stitch on.Support the Show.
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On this week's episode we're headed back to Warwickshire, and Martin is telling his take on the legend of Lady Godiva!We start off chatting about St Ethelbert, and the rather severe haircut he received from King Offa of Mercia, after which we wander to Warwickshire!In addition to discussing some parts of Warwickshire that are no longer considered part of the county, including Coventry and Birmingham, along with the likes of Warwick Castle and Stratford Upon Avon, we then debate the merits of a couple of possible County Dishes - Warwickshire Stew and the much more traditional, if possibly dangerous, Pickled Pigeon...After some folkloric chat about topics like the mysterious Mickleton Hooter, the highwayman Bendigo Mitchell, and a one-handed Jacobean poltergeist, plus some excerpts from this week's Local Legends interview with author of Warwickshire Folk Tales Cath Edwards, it's onto the main event: Martin's take on the story of Lady Godiva's life and naked ride, "The Hand of God."Speak to you again on Thursday for our new Magic and Medicines bonus episode all about Amulets!The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In Gone Medieval's special series examining some of Anglo-Saxon Britain's most significant kingdoms, we arrive at the kingdom of Mercia, which once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its peak, Mercia controlled what is now Birmingham and London, but it ceased to be a kingdom when Alfred the Great came to power. But its history did not end there. In this episode, Matt Lewis speaks to Annie Whitehead, author of Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom, to discover the important role the Mercians - including such renowned characters as Penda, Offa and Lady Godiva - played in the forging of the English nation.This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code MEDIEVAL - sign up here.You can take part in our listener survey here.
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Con el fallecimiento de Akira Toriyama a los 68 años, perdemos un referente absoluto de nuestra cultura popular, traspasando fronteras, generaciones y culturas. Cómics y series como Dr. Slump y, sobre todo, Dragon Ball, forman parte de un legado común, unido a los muchos videojuegos en los que participó como Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger o Dragon Ball. Son muchos los motivos para juntarnos y decir gracias, y así lo hemos hecho un grupo de entusiastas de la obra de Toriyama en un homenaje colectivo que incluye a escritores, fans, cantantes de sus canciones y a sus propios personajes. Participan en este especial: Escritores sobre Dragon Ball:Javier Iglesias (¡Aparece Dragón!, Ed. Dolmen) Daniel Quesada (Generación Dragon Ball, Ed. Dolmen)Ignacio Pillonetto (La Odisea del Rey Mono, Ed. Héroes de Papel)Jordi Valero (Son Goku Made In Spain, Ed. Dolmen) Personajes:Mercedes Hoyos, directora de doblaje de Dragon Ball y voz de Videl.Pablo Dominguez, voz de Goku.Mariano Peña, voz de MutenRoshi.Ángeles Neira, voz de Krilin.Nonia de Gala, voz de Bulma. Jordi Cubino, cantante del Opening de Bola de Dragón Z José Viruete , especialista en cómics y cultura popular (Campamento Krypton)Concepción Pera (Lady Godiva), escritora.Escuchar audio
Most people have heard the story of Lady Godiva's ride au natural through the town of Coventry and possibly Peeping Tom who was disrespectful enough to watch her and ended up going blind. However, did you know that the whole story is about taxes? Take a listen and find out how much, if any, of the story is based on fact and if there ever was indeed a Lady Godiva in 11th century England.
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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Once upon a time, in the medieval city of Coventry in England, there lived a kind and compassionate woman named Lady Godiva. She was the wife of Lord Leofric, a powerful and wealthy nobleman. Lady Godiva was known for her generosity and love for the people of Coventry, but her husband, Lord Leofric, was a stern ruler who declared heavy taxes on the citizens.The people of Coventry suffered under the burden of these taxes, and their pleas to reduce taxes were ignored by the greedy ruler. Lady Godiva, however, felt sorry for all the struggles of the common people. Lady Godiva argued and argued with her husband from dawn to night, trying to persuade him to reduce taxes for the people of Coventry. Lady Godiva thought of new ways to raise money and even said she would write to the king. Unfortunately, Lord Leofric was stubborn and refused to reduce taxes.In the end, Lady Godiva lost her patience and she made a bold and strange proposal to her husband. She said that she would ride through the streets of Coventry, completely naked, if he would reduce taxes and help end the suffering of the people. Lord Leofric was shocked that she would even suggest this but eventually agreed to her terms. Leofric knew how shy his wife was so he was confident that she would never go through with riding naked through the city. The people of Coventry soon heard about Lady Godiva's promise which spread like wildfire through the city. The citizens were grateful for any hope of relief from their taxes and they waited for the day of her ride. Lady Godiva, determined to fulfill her promise and alleviate the suffering of the people, prepared for the ride.
What can folklore teach us about history? More than you'd think! This week, Jess talks to Icy Sedgwick about fairies, ghosts, gods, psychopomps, tricksters, banshees, and more. Who was the real Lady Godiva? How did colonialism influence the folklore of the Americas? And why are people so obsessed with Robin Hood? We cover all this and more this week on DSH. Icy is the author of Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga. For more on Jess's birthday fundraiser to benefit ARFP, check out our Instagram @dirtysexyhistory or donate directly at arfpnc.com.
Did medieval people have bad teeth and poor hygiene? Did they all die before they were 40? And what was the actual story about Lady Godiva? Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, the Fake History Hunter, takes us on a great tour of medieval Europe, busting myths and taking names! A great show about a completely misunderstood era! Episode 535This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5455565/advertisement
Notas del episodio: https://elrincondeaquiles.com/podcast/maria-blanco-gestos/ Únete a la comunidad en Telegram: https://t.me/elrincondeaquiles Episodio 148 y hoy nos acompaña la profesora y escritora María Blanco. María es doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y profesora de Historia e Instituciones Económicas en la Universidad CEU-San Pablo. Compagina la docencia y la investigación académicas con la difusión del liberalismo en diversos medios de comunicación. Es autora de los libros Las Tribus Liberales (Deusto, 2014) y Afrodita desenmascarada (Deusto, 2016), y coautora de Hacienda somos todos, cariño (Deusto, 2020). Aprovechando que es la primera vez que se pasa por nuestros micros (seguro que repetirá 😉) hemos dividido esta entrevista en tres grandes bloques, pudiendo tocar así varios de los temas que domina. Estos son: economía, feminismo (ambos desde una perspectiva liberal como es la suya) y relato. Los temas que hemos tratado en este episodio han sido los siguientes: • Su definición de liberalismo (en vista de que la de Ignasi acabó siendo distinta de la esperada 😂) • Corrientes principales del liberalismo • Qué fue lo que le atrajo de este modelo económico para llevar tantos años defendiéndolo • Significado de la historia de Lady Godiva y su vínculo con su perfil de X, @godivaciones • ¿En qué se diferencia el feminismo liberal de otras corrientes del feminismo? • ¿Qué ha ocurrido con el feminismo liberal en los últimos años? • Manifiesto "No nacemos víctimas" • Cómo descubrió en Complex Problem Solving y qué encuentra en ello tan atractivo • Deterioro de las instituciones en la actualidad • ¿Hay forma de huir de esta performance continua y construir un mejor espacio político institucional? YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@elrincondeaquiles Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elrincondeaquiles.es Twitter: https://twitter.com/RinconDeAquiles
Notas del episodio: https://elrincondeaquiles.com/podcast/maria-blanco-gestos/ Utiliza el código ELRINCON para obtener un 60% de descuento con Incogni. https://incogni.com/elrincon Únete a la comunidad en Telegram: https://t.me/elrincondeaquiles Episodio 148 y hoy nos acompaña la profesora y escritora María Blanco. María es doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y profesora de Historia e Instituciones Económicas en la Universidad CEU-San Pablo. Compagina la docencia y la investigación académicas con la difusión del liberalismo en diversos medios de comunicación. Es autora de los libros Las Tribus Liberales (Deusto, 2014) y Afrodita desenmascarada (Deusto, 2016), y coautora de Hacienda somos todos, cariño (Deusto, 2020). Aprovechando que es la primera vez que se pasa por nuestros micros (seguro que repetirá
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While waiting for the local chocolate shop to open, Nanny Piggins tells Boris and the children the story of Lady Godiva.Support the show at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/storiesrasprattSupport the showFor information about live shows use this link... https://raspratt.com/live-shows/
Lee Ranaldo, Pascal Comelade y Ramón Prats son los responsables de “Velvt Serenade” (Staubgold Records), una emocional y minimalista ensoñación del cancionero de The Velvet Underground. Suenan The Routes versionando a Buzzcocks, Incredible Tigerman rindiendo tributo a Suicide, el debut de Vanity Mirror o a los británicos Green Seagull (ambos confirmados para el festival león es Acción) o la última exhumación del sello You Are The Cosmos rescatando el único álbum lanzado en 1969 por los londinenses Ora. Playlist; (sintonía) VELVET SERENADE “What goes on” VELVET SERENADE “All tomorrow’s parties” VELVET SERENADE “I’m waiting for the man” PASCAL COMELADE “Brand new Cadillac” (Danses Et Chants De Syldavie, 1994) PASCAL COMELADE “Honky tonk woman” (Danses Et Chants De Syldavie, 1994) THE INCREDIBLE TIGERMAN “Ghost rider” (adelanto de su nuevo disco “Zeitgeist”) THE ROUTES “Fast cars” (Reverberation addict, 2023) SUPERTUBOS “Experiment in terror” (The fourth drive, 2023) Versión y original; HENRY MANCINI “Experiment in terror” (1962) VANITY MIRROR “Dandelion wish” (Puff, 2023) GREEN SEAGULL “I used to dream in black and white” (Scarlet fever, 2018) ORA “Seashore” (Ora, 1969, reed 2023) THE OSTRICHES “Lady Godiva’s operation” (White Light White heat, 2023) Escuchar audio
｜廣告由 KKTV 提供｜KKTV Fun-tastic！追劇樂折扣祭 ｜限時 FUN 送，升級 VIP 只要月付銅板價，立即展開歡樂的追劇生活 ➟ https://link.fstry.me/441hAbW —— 以上為 Firstory DAI 動態廣告 —— 歡迎留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments Godiva 巧克力 Godiva品牌源自1926年比利時的布魯塞爾，從一個小攤販起家。1960年代起從歐洲市場進入美國，直至今日，Godiva 在美國、加拿大、歐洲和亞洲擁有並經營 600 多家商店，並通過 10,000 多家專業零售商銷售。 Godiva這個名字其實源自於一個傳說人物叫做 Lady godiva，他是中世紀英格蘭伯爵的妻子。當時百姓生活並不好過，伯爵不僅沒有苦民所苦，還變本加厲地增加了百姓們的稅收，使得人民生活更加苦不堪言。 眼看人民生活品質越來越差，Lady godiva的惻隱之心開始隱隱作痛，於是她懇求自己的伯爵老公能夠減免稅收，讓百姓好過一點。一開始伯爵不以為然，始終將Lady Godiva的建議視為耳邊風，後來因為受不了她多次請求，伯爵竟然朝著自己的妻子大吼：「夠了，想要減免百姓稅收的話，你只要裸體騎馬，在市區繞行一圈，我就答應你的請求！」 原以為這樣的說法，可以勸退自己的妻子，誰知Lady Godiva當天晚上，就派人傳消息告知百姓，她明天將會答應伯爵的要求，裸體騎馬上街，但為了顧及隱私，請大家緊閉門窗，不要偷開。隔天一早，Lady Godiva跨上馬匹，僅靠她的秀麗長髮遮蓋上半身，獨自一人上街繞行。 大部分的百姓都遵守與她的規定，伯爵為了信守承諾，最終減免了稅收。然而，Godiva繞行時，有一個好色的裁縫師Tom，從門縫偷看著裸體的Godiva，沒想到就在Tom偷窺的同時，他的雙眼竟然失明了，這段故事後來也延伸出了Pepping Tom的用法，意思就是偷窺狂。 It's typically pronounced in English-speaking countries as "goh-DYE-vah." However, in Belgium where it was founded, it's pronounced as "goh-DEE-vah." Godiva Chocolatier is a Belgian manufacturer of chocolates and related products. The company was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by the Draps family, who crafted their chocolates in the back of their small shop. They named the company after Lady Godiva, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. Lady Godiva's story was an inspiration to the brand due to her boldness and generosity, traits they aspired to capture in their chocolates. In the 1960s, Godiva was appointed an official chocolatier to the Royal Court of Belgium. This high honor served as a testament to the high quality and craftsmanship of Godiva's chocolates. Godiva chocolates made their way to the United States in 1966 and opened their first boutique in North America on New York's fashionable Fifth Avenue. They have since expanded to more than 80 countries around the world and are recognized for their premium chocolates and elegant packaging. Versace 凡賽斯 成立於1978年的義大利米蘭，時尚之都。該品牌採取的是華麗的圖案設計以及鮮豔的配色，創辦人叫做Gianni Versace，他接觸到服裝設計，是因為母親本身就是裁縫師，據說Gianni 9歲的時候，就自己設計出一件藍色的晚禮服了，據說有次黛安娜王妃出席活動的服裝，就是以那件晚禮服的基礎，再重新設計出來的。 該品牌的主力商品是服飾類以及皮革類的商品，後來才延伸出了香水、珠寶跟其他首飾。Versace的Logo設計，靈感來自蛇髮美人 – 梅杜莎，因此部分圖騰的設計，也參考了希臘神話的成分。Versace給人的品牌印象是用色大膽、前衛而且也跟梅杜莎一樣有性感的成分，創辦人也希望人們可以像看見梅杜莎一樣，會忍不住想要一直欣賞。 Versace is an Italian word and it's pronounced in Italian as "vair-SAH-chee". However, in English-speaking countries, it is commonly pronounced as "vur-SAH-see" or "vur-SAY-see". Versace is an Italian luxury fashion company and trade name that was established by Gianni Versace in 1978. Versace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and gained an interest in fashion from his mother, who was a dressmaker. Versace's innovative and provocative style quickly gained popularity and made a significant impact on the fashion industry. His designs often referenced art history and were characterized by vibrant colors, bold prints, and sexy cuts. Unfortunately, Gianni Versace was tragically murdered in 1997. Montblanc 萬寶龍 於1906年的德國柏林成立，公司最有名的產品就是鋼筆，鋼筆於20世紀初期開始大量出現，不少人投入生產研發。進入1910年代，萬寶龍的品牌名稱才終於確立，也是從這時候開始，他們的能見度逐漸提升，之所以會選用伯朗峰（Mont blanc）作為品牌名稱的靈感，是為了強調品牌卓越的願景如山一樣高，以及製筆上對性能、創新和精密技術的追求。1930年代，產品更從鋼筆，拓展到皮革配件、錶帶等等 1997年還發展出了手錶系列，等於是拓展了其他男性配件的市場。1998年，萬寶龍被瑞士歷峰集團收購，並與卡地亞、蔻伊等奢侈品牌成為同伴。根據網路上我查到的資料，萬寶龍最貴的一枝鋼筆，泰姬瑪哈陵限量版鋼筆，要之所以那麼貴，不外乎鋼筆上的各種寶石，包含鑽石、藍寶石、紅寶石等等，泰姬瑪哈陵系列總共有三隻，分別叫做月之淚、黑色神話以及權力，致敬的是蓋出泰姬瑪哈陵的蒙兀兒王朝 這三隻基本上都是兩百萬美元起跳的，折合台幣來說，至少都是6、7千萬元，貧窮限制了我的想像。 Montblanc is pronounced "mon-blahn," with a silent "c" at the end. The name is French and means "white mountain," again referencing the Alpine peak. Montblanc is a German company known for its high-quality luxury goods, including writing instruments, watches, jewelry, eyewear, leather goods, and perfumes. The company was founded by stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, banker Alfred Nehemias, and engineer August Eberstein in 1906. The company's first model was the Rouge et Noir in 1909. In 1910, the pen model that gave the company its name, Montblanc, was released. The Montblanc name was chosen to symbolize the high quality and craftsmanship of their products, as it was inspired by the highest peak in the Alps, Mont Blanc, a symbol of the highest standards of quality. Montblanc's most famous product is arguably the Meisterstück (Masterpiece) line of writing instruments, introduced in 1924. These pens have become iconic and are known for their distinctive white six-pointed logo, which represents the snow-capped peak of Mont Blanc. Powered by Firstory Hosting
On today's episode The History Guy tells three stories about the history behind legendary figures. First he tells the story of Bass Reeves, whose incredible life has similarities to the famous fictional lawman The Lone Ranger. Then he takes a look at Lady Godiva, and her famous ride. Finally, he tells the incredible true story behind an American folk hero, Johnny Appleseed. MagellanTV - a brand-new streaming service that features the very best collection of historical documentaries available anywhere. The service includes over 3,000 documentary movies, series, and exclusive playlists across the major genres, with particular depth in Ancient History, Modern History, War and Military. Check out their curated history playlist, designed with you in mind. Claim your free month trial at: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy
Advancing WTAW. We have an app! Time travel. Don't leave your sunnies on the dashboard. Flake cereal. Lady Godiva. The Chronicles of Seinfeld. Elizabeth Holmes arrives in Bryan. See ya later alligator follow up. AI should be a global priority.
Best place to raise kids. Advancing WTAW. We have an app! Time travel. Don't leave your sunnies on the dashboard. Flake cereal. Lady Godiva. The Chronicles of Seinfeld. Elizabeth Holmes arrives in Bryan. See ya later alligator follow up. AI should be a global priority. Bed rotting. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster.
In this episode of The Three Ravens Podcast, Eleanor and Martin visit the land-locked county of Warwickshire.With the episode released on St Richard's Day, they chat about St Richard's life before discussing the history and folklore of Warwickshire - from Shakespeare and the Forest of Arden to the Battle of Edgehill, the Beast of Barford, Lady Godiva and the Rollright Stones. Then it's time for the main event: Eleanor's telling of "The Legend of Guy of Warwick."Learn more about The Three Ravens Podcast at www.threeravenspodcast.com and join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
That's Clothed Male, Nude Female for the uninitiated. You'll often find a man in a suit and a woman restrained, but you'll want to explore all of the other combinations this fantasy can deliver on too. Tune in to hear about Lady Godiva, kinky happenings in the Midlands, and the rarest of circumstances: both videos land in BOTH girls' spank banks. Strip down or suit up and listen! Always Asking for More Be sure to rate Girls on Porn 5-Stars on Apple Podcast and Spotify! And leave your favorite search term OR your porn star name in the review for a chance to have it read on-air. Follow Us on Social Media: Show: @girlsonprn Laura: @ramadei Rachel: @_rrratchel Show Credits: Producer: Amanda C Mixed and Edited by Grace Harper Intern: Erika Silverman Theme by Eli Janney Advertise on Girls On Porn via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Calling all Peek Freaks! Thanks to hours of porn watching, Rachel and Laura can verifiably call themselves experts on this particular topic. On today's episode they discuss Lady Godiva's infamous ride, what "dogging" means across the pond, and all the different flavors of salacious spying: everything from Peeping Toms to Hot Wives to Semi-Public Rooftop Sex. Plus, Rachel's unwavering opinions on nude panty hose. We see you looking... Eyes on Dulce Be sure to rate Girls on Porn 5-Stars on Apple Podcast and Spotify! And leave your favorite search term OR your porn star name in the review for a chance to have it read on-air. Follow Us on Social Media: Show: @girlsonprn Laura: @ramadei Rachel: @_rrratchel Show Credits: Producer: Amanda C Mixed and Edited by Grace Harper Intern: Erika Silverman Theme by Eli Janney Advertise on Girls On Porn via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nicole experienced some toilet troubles that ended up turning into a hilarious 3-day string of events. A comedy of errors from not knowing the correct plunger to using the Taco Bell bathroom and even the neighbor thinking her dog died. This week's Hoe of History is a quick one featuring the legend, Lady Godiva. She's an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman known for her naked horseback ride through Coventry back in the 11th century. Submit your poop stories or Hoe of History requests to homancepodcast@gmail.com. IG: @homance_chronicles FB: The Homance Chronicles Contact us: linktr.ee/homance
We've got a Sam's Club-sized It Went Terribly this week! Here are some Member's Mark alternative titles: Two Juicy Fingers in a Hot Brown Two Two-Tailed Mermaids in a Deep-Diving Treasure Hunt for Meat Two Bird Humans in a Sweet Little Lie Two Different Colored Eyes in a Coroner Two Stirrups, Anvils, and Hammers in a Box of French-Canadian Toast Crunch Two Vertical Gestures in a Follicular Calendar Two Amish Wedding Rings in a Futuristic Past Two Elaborate Mustaches in an Old, Brown Starbucks Logo Two Pork Chop Dinners in a $3000 Refrigerator That'll Monitor Your Baby and Preheat Your Oven Other discussion topics may include: - Who was the missing member of N*SYNC, and just how much better than him was Joey Fatone? - The damaging misinformation regarding this supposed "super sweet corn" - Enjoying Magic the Gathering for the art and Lady Godiva for the chocolate - Just what *will* kids with chicken pox eat? The answer may surprise you. And come in a jingle. - Warning: Spoilers for 1989's The Little Mermaid and 1995's Toy Story enclosed --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goingterribly/message
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The multitalented, incredibly fun and hilarious Dave Allen joins Scott. He is better known to us as The 2nd Troubadour! According to Taylor, he's a “Long-haired freak” with “Van Halen Hair”. A “Hirsute Hippie” known as “Rapunzel” and “Lady Godiva”. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 143 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Summer in the City'”, and at the short but productive career of the Lovin' Spoonful. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" by the Walker Brothers and the strange career of Scott Walker. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, all the songs excerpted in the podcast can be heard in full at Mixcloud. This box set contains all four studio albums by the Lovin' Spoonful, plus the one album by "The Lovin' Spoonful featuring Joe Butler", while this CD contains their two film soundtracks (mostly inessential instrumental filler, apart from "Darling Be Home Soon") Information about harmonicas and harmonicists comes from Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers by Kim Field. There are only three books about the Lovin' Spoonful, but all are worth reading. Do You Believe in Magic? by Simon Wordsworth is a good biography of the band, while his The Magic's in the Music is a scrapbook of press cuttings and reminiscences. Meanwhile Steve Boone's Hotter Than a Match Head: My Life on the Run with the Lovin' Spoonful has rather more discussion of the actual music than is normal in a musician's autobiography. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Let's talk about the harmonica for a while. The harmonica is an instrument that has not shown up a huge amount in the podcast, but which was used in a fair bit of the music we've covered. We've heard it for example on records by Bo Diddley: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "I'm a Man"] and by Bob Dylan: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"] and the Rolling Stones: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Little Red Rooster"] In most folk and blues contexts, the harmonicas used are what is known as a diatonic harmonica, and these are what most people think of when they think of harmonicas at all. Diatonic harmonicas have the notes of a single key in them, and if you want to play a note in another key, you have to do interesting tricks with the shape of your mouth to bend the note. There's another type of harmonica, though, the chromatic harmonica. We've heard that a time or two as well, like on "Love Me Do" by the Beatles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love Me Do"] Chromatic harmonicas have sixteen holes, rather than the diatonic harmonica's ten, and they also have a slide which you can press to raise the note by a semitone, meaning you can play far more notes than on a diatonic harmonica -- but they're also physically harder to play, requiring a different kind of breathing to pull off playing one successfully. They're so different that John Lennon would distinguish between the two instruments -- he'd describe a chromatic harmonica as a harmonica, but a diatonic harmonica he would call a harp, like blues musicians often did: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love These Goon Shows"] While the chromatic harmonica isn't a particularly popular instrument in rock music, it is one that has had some success in other fields. There have been some jazz and light-orchestral musicians who have become famous playing the instrument, like the jazz musician Max Geldray, who played in those Goon Shows the Beatles loved so much: [Excerpt: Max Geldray, "C-Jam Blues"] And in the middle of the twentieth century there were a few musicians who succeeded in making the harmonica into an instrument that was actually respected in serious classical music. By far the most famous of these was Larry Adler, who became almost synonymous with the instrument in the popular consciousness, and who reworked many famous pieces of music for the instrument: [Excerpt: Larry Adler, "Rhapsody in Blue"] But while Adler was the most famous classical harmonicist of his generation, he was not generally considered the best by other musicians. That was, rather, a man named John Sebastian. Sebastian, who chose to take his middle name as a surname partly to Anglicise his name but also, it seems, at least in part as tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach (which incidentally now makes it really, really difficult to search for copies of his masterwork "John Sebastian Plays Bach", as Internet searches uniformly think you're searching just for the composer...) started out like almost all harmonica players as an amateur playing popular music. But he quickly got very, very, good, and by his teens he was already teaching other children, including at a summer camp run by Albert Hoxie, a musician and entrepreneur who was basically single-handedly responsible for the boom in harmonica sales in the 1920s and 1930s, by starting up youth harmonica orchestras -- dozens or even hundreds of kids, all playing harmonica together, in a semi-militaristic youth organisation something like the scouts, but with harmonicas instead of woggles and knots. Hoxie's group and the various organisations copying it led to there being over a hundred and fifty harmonica orchestras in Chicago alone, and in LA in the twenties and thirties a total of more than a hundred thousand children passed through harmonica orchestras inspired by Hoxie. Hoxie's youth orchestras were largely responsible for the popularity of the harmonica as a cheap instrument for young people, and thus for its later popularity in the folk and blues worlds. That was only boosted in the Second World War by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, which we talked about in the early episodes of the podcast -- harmonicas had never been thought of as a serious instrument, and so most professional harmonica players were not members of the AFM, but were considered variety performers and were part of the American Guild of Variety Artists, along with singers, ukulele players, and musical saw players. Of course, the war did also create a problem, because the best harmonicas were made in Germany by the Hohner company, but soon a lot of American companies started making cheap harmonicas to fill the gap in the market. There's a reason the cliche of the GI in a war film playing a harmonica in the trenches exists, and it's largely because of Hoxie. And Hoxie was based in Philadelphia, where John Sebastian lived as a kid, and he mentored the young player, who soon became a semi-professional performer. Sebastian's father was a rich banker, and discouraged him from becoming a full-time musician -- the plan was that after university, Sebastian would become a diplomat. But as part of his preparation for that role, he was sent to spend a couple of years studying at the universities of Rome and Florence, learning about Italian culture. On the boat back, though, he started talking to two other passengers, who turned out to be the legendary Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart, the writers of such classic songs as "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine": [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald, "My Funny Valentine"] Sebastian talked to his new friends, and told them that he was feeling torn between being a musician and being in the foreign service like his father wanted. They both told him that in their experience some people were just born to be artists, and that those people would never actually find happiness doing anything else. He took their advice, and decided he was going to become a full-time harmonica player. He started out playing in nightclubs, initially playing jazz and swing, but only while he built up a repertoire of classical music. He would rehearse with a pianist for three hours every day, and would spend the rest of his time finding classical works, especially baroque ones, and adapting them for the harmonica. As he later said “I discovered sonatas by Telemann, Veracini, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Hasse, Marcello, Purcell, and many others, which were written to be played on violin, flute, oboe, musette, even bagpipes... The composer seemed to be challenging each instrument to create the embellishments and ornaments to suit its particular voice. . . . I set about choosing works from this treasure trove that would best speak through my instrument.” Soon his nightclub repertoire was made up entirely of these classical pieces, and he was making records like John Sebastian Plays Bach: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Flute Sonata in B Minor BWV1030 (J.S. Bach)"] And while Sebastian was largely a lover of baroque music above all other forms, he realised that he would have to persuade new composers to write new pieces for the instrument should he ever hope for it to have any kind of reputation as a concert instrument, so he persuaded contemporary composers to write pieces like George Kleinsinger's "Street Corner Concerto", which Sebastian premiered with the New York Philharmonic: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Street Corner Concerto"] He became the first harmonica player to play an entirely classical repertoire, and regarded as the greatest player of his instrument in the world. The oboe player Jay S Harrison once wrote of seeing him perform "to accomplish with success a program of Mr. Sebastian's scope is nothing short of wizardry. . . . He has vast technical facility, a bulging range of colors, and his intentions are ever musical and sophisticated. In his hands the harmonica is no toy, no simple gadget for the dispensing of homespun tunes. Each single number of the evening was whittled, rounded, polished, and poised. . . . Mr. Sebastian's playing is uncanny." Sebastian came from a rich background, and he managed to earn enough as a classical musician to live the lifestyle of a rich artistic Bohemian. During the forties and fifties he lived in Greenwich Village with his family -- apart from a four-year period living in Rome from 1951 to 55 -- and Eleanor Roosevelt was a neighbour, while Vivian Vance, who played Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy, was the godmother of his eldest son. But while Sebastian's playing was entirely classical, he was interested in a wider variety of music. When he would tour Europe, he would often return having learned European folk songs, and while he was living in Greenwich Village he would often be visited by people like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and other folk singers living in the area. And that early influence rubbed off on Sebastian's son, John Benson Sebastian, although young John gave up trying to learn the harmonica the first time he tried, because he didn't want to be following too closely in his father's footsteps. Sebastian junior did, though, take up the guitar, inspired by the first wave rock and rollers he was listening to on Alan Freed's show, and he would later play the harmonica, though the diatonic harmonica rather than the chromatic. In case you haven't already figured it out, John Benson Sebastian, rather than his father, is a principal focus of this episode, and so to avoid confusion, from this point on, when I refer to "John Sebastian" or "Sebastian" without any qualifiers, I'm referring to the younger man. When I refer to "John Sebastian Sr" I'm talking about the father. But it was John Sebastian Sr's connections, in particular to the Bohemian folk and blues scenes, which gave his more famous son his first connection to that world of his own, when Sebastian Sr appeared in a TV show, in November 1960, put together by Robert Herridge, a TV writer and producer who was most famous for his drama series but who had also put together documentaries on both classical music and jazz, including the classic performance documentary The Sound of Jazz. Herridge's show featured both Sebastian Sr and the country-blues player Lightnin' Hopkins: [Excerpt: Lightnin' Hopkins, "Blues in the Bottle"] Hopkins was one of many country-blues players whose career was having a second wind after his discovery by the folk music scene. He'd been recording for fourteen years, putting out hundreds of records, but had barely performed outside Houston until 1959, when the folkies had picked up on his work, and in October 1960 he had been invited to play Carnegie Hall, performing with Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Young John Sebastian had come along with his dad to see the TV show be recorded, and had an almost Damascene conversion -- he'd already heard Hopkins' recordings, but had never seen anything like his live performances. He was at that time attending a private boarding school, Blair Academy, and his roommate at the school also had his own apartment, where Sebastian would sometimes stay. Soon Lightnin' Hopkins was staying there as well, as somewhere he could live rent-free while he was in New York. Sebastian started following Hopkins around and learning everything he could, being allowed by the older man to carry his guitar and buy him gin, though the two never became close. But eventually, Hopkins would occasionally allow Sebastian to play with him when he played at people's houses, which he did on occasion. Sebastian became someone that Hopkins trusted enough that when he was performing on a bill with someone else whose accompanist wasn't able to make the gig and Sebastian put himself forward, Hopkins agreed that Sebastian would be a suitable accompanist for the evening. The singer he accompanied that evening was a performer named Valentine Pringle, who was a protege of Harry Belafonte, and who had a similar kind of sound to Paul Robeson. Sebastian soon became Pringle's regular accompanist, and played on his first album, I Hear America Singing, which was also the first record on which the great trumpet player Hugh Masakela played. Sadly, Paul Robeson style vocals were so out of fashion by that point that that album has never, as far as I can tell, been issued in a digital format, and hasn't even been uploaded to YouTube. But this excerpt from a later recording by Pringle should give you some idea of the kind of thing he was doing: [Excerpt: Valentine Pringle, "Go 'Way From My Window"] After these experiences, Sebastian started regularly going to shows at Greenwich Village folk clubs, encouraged by his parents -- he had an advantage over his peers because he'd grown up in the area and had artistic parents, and so he was able to have a great deal of freedom that other people in their teens weren't. In particular, he would always look out for any performances by the great country blues performer Mississippi John Hurt. Hurt had made a few recordings for Okeh records in 1928, including an early version of "Stagger Lee", titled "Stack O'Lee": [Excerpt: Mississippi John Hurt, "Stack O'Lee Blues"] But those records had been unsuccessful, and he'd carried on working on a farm. and not performed other than in his tiny home town of Avalon, Mississippi, for decades. But then in 1952, a couple of his tracks had been included on the Harry Smith Anthology, and as a result he'd come to the attention of the folk and blues scholar community. They'd tried tracking him down, but been unable to until in the early sixties one of them had discovered a track on one of Hurt's records, "Avalon Blues", and in 1963, thirty-five years after he'd recorded six flop singles, Mississippi John Hurt became a minor star, playing the Newport Folk Festival and appearing on the Tonight Show. By this time, Sebastian was a fairly well-known figure in Greenwich Village, and he had become quite a virtuoso on the harmonica himself, and would walk around the city wearing a holster-belt containing harmonicas in a variety of different keys. Sebastian became a huge fan of Hurt, and would go and see him perform whenever Hurt was in New York. He soon found himself first jamming backstage with Hurt, and then performing with him on stage for the last two weeks of a residency. He was particularly impressed with what he called Hurt's positive attitude in his music -- something that Sebastian would emulate in his own songwriting. Sebastian was soon invited to join a jug band, called the Even Dozen Jug Band. Jug band music was a style of music that first became popular in the 1920s, and had many of the same musical elements as the music later known as skiffle. It was played on a mixture of standard musical instruments -- usually portable, "folky" ones like guitar and harmonica -- and improvised homemade instruments, like the spoons, the washboard, and comb and paper. The reason they're called jug bands is because they would involve someone blowing into a jug to make a noise that sounded a bit like a horn -- much like the coffee pot groups we talked about way back in episode six. The music was often hokum music, and incorporated elements of what we'd now call blues, vaudeville, and country music, though at the time those genres were nothing like as distinct as they're considered today: [Excerpt: Cincinnati Jug Band, "Newport Blues"] The Even Dozen Jug Band actually ended up having thirteen members, and it had a rather remarkable lineup. The leader was Stefan Grossman, later regarded as one of the greatest fingerpicking guitarists in America, and someone who will be coming up in other contexts in future episodes I'm sure, and they also featured David Grisman, a mandolin player who would later play with the Grateful Dead among many others; Steve Katz, who would go on to be a founder member of Blood, Sweat and Tears and produce records for Lou Reed; Maria D'Amato, who under her married name Maria Muldaur would go on to have a huge hit with "Midnight at the Oasis"; and Joshua Rifkin, who would later go on to become one of the most important scholars of Bach's music of the latter half of the twentieth century, but who is best known for his recordings of Scott Joplin's piano rags, which more or less single-handedly revived Joplin's music from obscurity and created the ragtime revival of the 1970s: [Excerpt: Joshua Rifkin, "Maple Leaf Rag"] Unfortunately, despite the many talents involved, a band as big as that was uneconomical to keep together, and the Even Dozen Jug Band only played four shows together -- though those four shows were, as Muldaur later remembered, "Carnegie Hall twice, the Hootenanny television show and some church". The group did, though, make an album for Elektra records, produced by Paul Rothchild. Indeed, it was Rothchild who was the impetus for the group forming -- he wanted to produce a record of a jug band, and had told Grossman that if he got one together, he'd record it: [Excerpt: The Even Dozen Jug Band, "On the Road Again"] On that album, Sebastian wasn't actually credited as John Sebastian -- because he was playing harmonica on the album, and his father was such a famous harmonica player, he thought it better if he was credited by his middle name, so he was John Benson for this one album. The Even Dozen Jug Band split up after only a few months, with most of the band more interested in returning to university than becoming professional musicians, but Sebastian remained in touch with Rothchild, as they both shared an interest in the drug culture, and Rothchild started using him on sessions for other artists on Elektra, which was rapidly becoming one of the biggest labels for the nascent counterculture. The first record the two worked together on after the Even Dozen Jug Band was sparked by a casual conversation. Vince Martin and Fred Neil saw Sebastian walking down the street wearing his harmonica holster, and were intrigued and asked him if he played. Soon he and his friend Felix Pappalardi were accompanying Martin and Neil on stage, and the two of them were recording as the duo's accompanists: [Excerpt: Vince Martin and Fred Neil, "Tear Down the Walls"] We've mentioned Neil before, but if you don't remember him, he was one of the people around whom the whole Greenwich Village scene formed -- he was the MC and organiser of bills for many of the folk shows of the time, but he's now best known for writing the songs "Everybody's Talkin'", recorded famously by Harry Nilsson, and "The Dolphins", recorded by Tim Buckley. On the Martin and Neil album, Tear Down The Walls, as well as playing harmonica, Sebastian acted essentially as uncredited co-producer with Rothchild, but Martin and Neil soon stopped recording for Elektra. But in the meantime, Sebastian had met the most important musical collaborator he would ever have, and this is the start of something that will become a minor trend in the next few years, of important musical collaborations happening because of people being introduced by Cass Elliot. Cass Elliot had been a singer in a folk group called the Big 3 -- not the same group as the Merseybeat group -- with Tim Rose, and the man who would be her first husband, Jim Hendricks (not the more famous guitarist of a similar name): [Excerpt: Cass Elliot and the Big 3, "The Banjo Song"] The Big 3 had split up when Elliot and Hendricks had got married, and the two married members had been looking around for other musicians to perform with, when coincidentally another group they knew also split up. The Halifax Three were a Canadian group who had originally started out as The Colonials, with a lineup of Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne. Byrne didn't turn up for a gig, and a homeless guitar player, Zal Yanovsky, who would hang around the club the group were playing at, stepped in. Doherty and LaCroix, much to Yanovsky's objections, insisted he bathe and have a haircut, but soon the newly-renamed Halifax Three were playing Carnegie Hall and recording for Epic Records: [Excerpt: The Halifax Three, "When I First Came to This Island"] But then a plane they were in crash-landed, and the group took that as a sign that they should split up. So they did, and Doherty and Yanovsky continued as a duo, until they hooked up with Hendricks and Elliot and formed a new group, the Mugwumps. A name which may be familiar if you recognise one of the hits of a group that Doherty and Elliot were in later: [Excerpt: The Mamas and the Papas, "Creeque Alley"] But we're skipping ahead a bit there. Cass Elliot was one of those few people in the music industry about whom it is impossible to find anyone with a bad word to say, and she was friendly with basically everyone, and particularly good at matching people up with each other. And on February the 7th 1964, she invited John Sebastian over to watch the Beatles' first performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Like everyone in America, he was captivated by the performance: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand (live on the Ed Sullivan Show)"] But Yanovsky was also there, and the two played guitar together for a bit, before retreating to opposite sides of the room. And then Elliot spent several hours as a go-between, going to each man and telling him how much the other loved and admired his playing and wanted to play more with him. Sebastian joined the Mugwumps for a while, becoming one of the two main instrumentalists with Yanovsky, as the group pivoted from performing folk music to performing Beatles-inspired rock. But the group's management team, Bob Cavallo and Roy Silver, who weren't particularly musical people, and whose main client was the comedian Bill Cosby, got annoyed at Sebastian, because he and Yanovsky were getting on *too* well musically -- they were trading blues licks on stage, rather than sticking to the rather pedestrian arrangements that the group was meant to be performing -- and so Silver fired Sebastian fired from the group. When the Mugwumps recorded their one album, Sebastian had to sit in the control room while his former bandmates recorded with session musicians, who he thought were nowhere near up to his standard: [Excerpt: The Mugwumps, "Searchin'"] By the time that album was released, the Mugwumps had already split up. Sebastian had continued working as a session musician for Elektra, including playing on the album The Blues Project, which featured white Greenwich Village folk musicians like Eric Von Schmidt, Dave Van Ronk, and Spider John Koerner playing their versions of old blues records, including this track by Geoff Muldaur, which features Sebastian on harmonica and "Bob Landy" on piano -- a fairly blatant pseudonym: [Excerpt: Geoff Muldaur, "Downtown Blues"] Sebastian also played rhythm guitar and harmonica on the demos that became a big part of Tim Hardin's first album -- and his fourth, when the record company released the remaining demos. Sebastian doesn't appear to be on the orchestrated ballads that made Hardin's name -- songs like "Reason to Believe" and "Misty Roses" -- but he is on much of the more blues-oriented material, which while it's not anything like as powerful as Hardin's greatest songs, made up a large part of his repertoire: [Excerpt: Tim Hardin, "Ain't Gonna Do Without"] Erik Jacobsen, the producer of Hardin's records, was impressed enough by Sebastian that he got Sebastian to record lead vocals, for a studio group consisting of Sebastian, Felix Pappalardi, Jerry Yester and Henry Diltz of the Modern Folk Quartet, and a bass singer whose name nobody could later remember. The group, under the name "Pooh and the Heffalumps", recorded two Beach Boys knockoffs, "Lady Godiva" and "Rooty Toot", the latter written by Sebastian, though he would later be embarrassed by it and claim it was by his cousin: [Excerpt: Pooh and the Heffalumps, "Rooty Toot"] After that, Jacobsen became convinced that Sebastian should form a group to exploit his potential as a lead singer and songwriter. By this point, the Mugwumps had split up, and their management team had also split, with Silver taking Bill Cosby and Cavallo taking the Mugwumps, and so Sebastian was able to work with Yanovsky, and the putative group could be managed by Cavallo. But Sebastian and Yanovsky needed a rhythm section. And Erik Jacobsen knew a band that might know some people. Jacobsen was a fan of a Beatles soundalike group called the Sellouts, who were playing Greenwich Village and who were co-managed by Herb Cohen, the manager of the Modern Folk Quartet (who, as we heard a couple of episodes ago, would soon go on to be the manager of the Mothers of Invention). The Sellouts were ultra-professional by the standards of rock groups of the time -- they even had a tape echo machine that they used on stage to give them a unique sound -- and they had cut a couple of tracks with Jacobsen producing, though I've not been able to track down copies of them. Their leader Skip Boone, had started out playing guitar in a band called the Blue Suedes, and had played in 1958 on a record by their lead singer Arthur Osborne: [Excerpt: Arthur Osborne, "Hey Ruby"] Skip Boone's brother Steve in his autobiography says that that was produced by Chet Atkins for RCA, but it was actually released on Brunswick records. In the early sixties, Skip Boone joined a band called the Kingsmen -- not the same one as the band that recorded "Louie Louie" -- playing lead guitar with his brother Steve on rhythm, a singer called Sonny Bottari, a saxophone player named King Charles, bass player Clay Sonier, and drummer Joe Butler. Sometimes Butler would get up front and sing, and then another drummer, Jan Buchner, would sit in in his place. Soon Steve Boone would replace Bonier as the bass player, but the Kingsmen had no success, and split up. From the ashes of the Kingsmen had formed the Sellouts, Skip Boone, Jerry Angus, Marshall O'Connell, and Joe Butler, who had switched from playing "Peppermint Twist" to playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in February 1964. Meanwhile Steve Boone went on a trip to Europe before starting at university in New York, where he hooked up again with Butler, and it was Butler who introduced him to Sebastian and Yanovsky. Sebastian and Yanovsky had been going to see the Sellouts at the behest of Jacobsen, and they'd been asking if they knew anyone else who could play that kind of material. Skip Boone had mentioned his little brother, and as soon as they met him, even before they first played together, they knew from his appearance that he would be the right bass player for them. So now they had at least the basis for a band. They hadn't played together, but Erik Jacobsen was an experienced record producer and Cavallo an experienced manager. They just needed to do some rehearsals and get a drummer, and a record contract was more or less guaranteed. Boone suggested Jan Buchner, the backup drummer from the Kingsmen, and he joined them for rehearsals. It was during these early rehearsals that Boone got to play on his first real record, other than some unreleased demos the Kingsmen had made. John Sebastian got a call from that "Bob Landy" we mentioned earlier, asking if he'd play bass on a session. Boone tagged along, because he was a fan, and when Sebastian couldn't get the parts down for some songs, he suggested that Boone, as an actual bass player, take over: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"] But the new group needed a name, of course. It was John Sebastian who came up with the name they eventually chose, The Lovin' Spoonful, though Boone was a bit hesitant about it at first, worrying that it might be a reference to heroin -- Boone was from a very conservative, military, background, and knew little of drug culture and didn't at that time make much of a distinction between cannabis and heroin, though he'd started using the former -- but Sebastian was insistent. The phrase actually referred to coffee -- the name came from "Coffee Blues" by Sebastian's old idol Mississippi John Hurt – or at least Hurt always *said* it was about coffee, though in live performance he apparently made it clear that it was about cunnilingus: [Excerpt: Mississippi John Hurt, "Coffee Blues"] Their first show, at the Night Owl Club, was recorded, and there was even an attempt to release it as a CD in the 1990s, but it was left unreleased and as far as I can tell wasn't even leaked. There have been several explanations for this, but perhaps the most accurate one is just the comment from the manager of the club, who came up to the group after their two sets and told them “Hey, I don't know how to break this to you, but you guys suck.” There were apparently three different problems. They were underrehearsed -- which could be fixed with rehearsal -- they were playing too loud and hurting the patrons' ears -- which could be fixed by turning down the amps -- and their drummer didn't look right, was six years older than the rest of the group, and was playing in an out-of-date fifties style that wasn't suitable for the music they were playing. That was solved by sacking Buchner. By this point Joe Butler had left the Sellouts, and while Herb Cohen was interested in managing him as a singer, he was willing to join this new group at least for the moment. By now the group were all more-or-less permanent residents at the Albert Hotel, which was more or less a doss-house where underemployed musicians would stay, and which had its own rehearsal rooms. As well as the Spoonful, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty lived there, as did the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Joe Butler quickly fit into the group, and soon they were recording what became their first single, produced by Jacobsen, an original of Sebastian's called "Do You Believe in Magic?", with Sebastian on autoharp and vocals, Yanovsky on lead guitar and backing vocals, Boone on bass, Butler on drums, and Jerry Yester adding piano and backing vocals: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe in Magic?"] For a long time, the group couldn't get a deal -- the record companies all liked the song, but said that unless the group were English they couldn't sell them at the moment. Then Phil Spector walked into the Night Owl Cafe, where the new lineup of the group had become popular, and tried to sign them up. But they turned him down -- they wanted Erik Jacobsen to produce them; they were a team. Spector's interest caused other labels to be interested, and the group very nearly signed to Elektra. But again, signing to Elektra would have meant being produced by Rothchild, and also Elektra were an album label who didn't at that time have any hit single acts, and the group knew they had hit single potential. They did record a few tracks for Elektra to stick on a blues compilation, but they knew that Elektra wouldn't be their real home. Eventually the group signed with Charley Koppelman and Don Rubin, who had started out as songwriters themselves, working for Don Kirshner. When Kirshner's organisation had been sold to Columbia, Koppelman and Rubin had gone along and ended up working for Columbia as executives. They'd then worked for Morris Levy at Roulette Records, before forming their own publishing and record company. Rather than put out records themselves, they had a deal to license records to Kama Sutra Records, who in turn had a distribution deal with MGM Records. Koppelman and Rubin were willing to take the group and their manager and producer as a package deal, and they released the group's demo of "Do You Believe In Magic?" unchanged as their first single: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe in Magic?"] The single reached the top ten, and the group were soon in the studio cutting their first album, also titled Do You Believe In Magic? The album was a mix of songs that were part of the standard Greenwich Village folkie repertoire -- songs like Mississippi John Hurt's "Blues in the Bottle" and Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" -- and a couple more originals. The group's second single was the first song that Steve Boone had co-written. It was inspired by a date he'd gone on with the photographer Nurit Wilde, who sadly for him didn't go on a second date, and who would later be the mother of Mike Nesmith's son Jason, but who he was very impressed by. He thought of her when he came up with the line "you didn't have to be so nice, I would have liked you anyway", and he and Sebastian finished up a song that became another top ten hit for the group: [Excerpt: (The Good Time Music of) The Lovin' Spoonful, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"] Shortly after that song was recorded, but before it was released, the group were called into Columbia TV with an intriguing proposition. Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, two young TV producers, were looking at producing a TV show inspired by A Hard Day's Night, and were looking for a band to perform in it. Would the Lovin' Spoonful be up for it? They were interested at first, but Boone and Sebastian weren't sure they wanted to be actors, and also it would involve the group changing its name. They'd already made a name for themselves as the Lovin' Spoonful, did they really want to be the Monkees instead? They passed on the idea. Instead, they went on a tour of the deep South as the support act to the Supremes, a pairing that they didn't feel made much sense, but which did at least allow them to watch the Supremes and the Funk Brothers every night. Sebastian was inspired by the straight four-on-the-floor beat of the Holland-Dozier-Holland repertoire, and came up with his own variation on it, though as this was the Lovin' Spoonful the end result didn't sound very Motown at all: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream"] It was only after the track was recorded that Yanovsky pointed out to Sebastian that he'd unconsciously copied part of the melody of the old standard "Got a Date With an Angel": [Excerpt: Al Bowlly, "Got a Date With an Angel"] "Daydream" became the group's third top ten hit in a row, but it caused some problems for the group. The first was Kama Sutra's advertising campaign for the record, which had the words "Lovin' Spoonful Daydream", with the initials emphasised. While the group were drug users, they weren't particularly interested in being promoted for that rather than their music, and had strong words with the label. The other problem came with the Beach Boys. The group were supporting the Beach Boys on a tour in spring of 1966, when "Daydream" came out and became a hit, and they got on with all the band members except Mike Love, who they definitely did not get on with. Almost fifty years later, in his autobiography, Steve Boone would have nothing bad to say about the Wilson brothers, but calls Love "an obnoxious, boorish braggart", a "marginally talented hack" and worse, so it's safe to say that Love wasn't his favourite person in the world. Unfortunately, when "Daydream" hit the top ten, one of the promoters of the tour decided to bill the Lovin' Spoonful above the Beach Boys, and this upset Love, who understandably thought that his group, who were much better known and had much more hits, should be the headliners. If this had been any of the other Beach Boys, there would have been no problem, but because it was Love, who the Lovin' Spoonful despised, they decided that they were going to fight for top billing, and the managers had to get involved. Eventually it was agreed that the two groups would alternate the top spot on the bill for the rest of the tour. "Daydream" eventually reached number two on the charts (and number one on Cashbox) and also became the group's first hit in the UK, reaching number two here as well, and leading to the group playing a short UK tour. During that tour, they had a similar argument over billing with Mick Jagger as they'd had with Mike Love, this time over who was headlining on an appearance on Top of the Pops, and the group came to the same assessment of Jagger as they had of Love. The performance went OK, though, despite them being so stoned on hash given them by the wealthy socialite Tara Browne that Sebastian had to be woken up seconds before he started playing. They also played the Marquee Club -- Boone notes in his autobiography that he wasn't impressed by the club when he went to see it the day before their date there, because some nobody named David Bowie was playing there. But in the audience that day were George Harrison, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, and Brian Jones, most of whom partied with the group afterwards. The Lovin' Spoonful made a big impression on Lennon in particular, who put "Daydream" and "Do You Believe in Magic" in his jukebox at home, and who soon took to wearing glasses in the same round, wiry, style as the ones that Sebastian wore. They also influenced Paul McCartney, who wasn't at that gig, but who soon wrote this, inspired by "Daydream": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Good Day Sunshine"] Unfortunately, this was more or less the high point of the group's career. Shortly after that brief UK tour, Zal Yanovsky and Steve Boone went to a party where they were given some cannabis -- and they were almost immediately stopped by the police, subjected to an illegal search of their vehicle, and arrested. They would probably have been able to get away with this -- after all, it was an illegal search, even though of course the police didn't admit to that -- were it not for the fact that Yanovsky was a Canadian citizen, and he could be deported and barred from ever re-entering the US just for being arrested. This was the first major drug bust of a rock and roll group, and there was no precedent for the group, their managers, their label or their lawyers to deal with this. And so they agreed to something they would regret for the rest of their lives. In return for being let off, Boone and Yanovsky agreed to take an undercover police officer to a party and introduce him to some of their friends as someone they knew in the record business, so he would be able to arrest one of the bigger dealers. This was, of course, something they knew was a despicable thing to do, throwing friends under the bus to save themselves, but they were young men and under a lot of pressure, and they hoped that it wouldn't actually lead to any arrests. And for almost a year, there were no serious consequences, although both Boone and Yanovsky were shaken up by the event, and Yanovsky's behaviour, which had always been erratic, became much, much worse. But for the moment, the group remained very successful. After "Daydream", an album track from their first album, "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" had been released as a stopgap single, and that went to number two as well. And right before the arrest, the group had been working on what would be an even bigger hit. The initial idea for "Summer in the City" actually came from John Sebastian's fourteen-year-old brother Mark, who'd written a bossa nova song called "It's a Different World". The song was, by all accounts, the kind of thing that a fourteen-year-old boy writes, but part of it had potential, and John Sebastian took that part -- giving his brother full credit -- and turned it into the chorus of a new song: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] To this, Sebastian added a new verse, inspired by a riff the session player Artie Schroeck had been playing while the group recorded their songs for the Woody Allen film What's Up Tiger Lily, creating a tenser, darker, verse to go with his younger brother's chorus: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] In the studio, Steve Boone came up with the instrumental arrangement, which started with drums, organ, electric piano, and guitar, and then proceeded to bass, autoharp, guitar, and percussion overdubs. The drum sound on the record was particularly powerful thanks to the engineer Roy Halee, who worked on most of Simon & Garfunkel's records. Halee put a mic at the top of a stairwell, a giant loudspeaker at the bottom, and used the stairwell as an echo chamber for the drum part. He would later use a similar technique on Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer". The track still needed another section though, and Boone suggested an instrumental part, which led to him getting an equal songwriting credit with the Sebastian brothers. His instrumental piano break was inspired by Gershwin, and the group topped it off with overdubbed city noises: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] The track went to number one, becoming the group's only number one record, and it was the last track on what is by far their best album, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. That album produced two more top ten hits for the group, "Nashville Cats", a tribute to Nashville session players (though John Sebastian seems to have thought that Sun Records was a Nashville, rather than a Memphis, label), and the rather lovely "Rain on the Roof": [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Rain on the Roof"] But that song caused friction with the group, because it was written about Sebastian's relationship with his wife who the other members of the band despised. They also felt that the songs he was writing about their relationship were giving the group a wimpy image, and wanted to make more rockers like "Summer in the City" -- some of them had been receiving homophobic abuse for making such soft-sounding music. The group were also starting to resent Sebastian for other reasons. In a recent contract renegotiation, a "key member" clause had been put into the group's record contract, which stated that Sebastian, as far as the label was concerned, was the only important member of the group. While that didn't affect decision-making in the group, it did let the group know that if the other members did anything to upset Sebastian, he was able to take his ball away with him, and even just that potential affected the way the group thought about each other. All these factors came into play with a song called "Darling Be Home Soon", which was a soft ballad that Sebastian had written about his wife, and which was written for another film soundtrack -- this time for a film by a new director named Francis Ford Coppola. When the other band members came in to play on the soundtrack, including that track, they found that rather than being allowed to improvise and come up with their own parts as they had previously, they had to play pre-written parts to fit with the orchestration. Yanovsky in particular was annoyed by the simple part he had to play, and when the group appeared on the Ed Sullivan show to promote the record, he mugged, danced erratically, and mimed along mocking the lyrics as Sebastian sang. The song -- one of Sebastian's very best -- made a perfectly respectable number fifteen, but it was the group's first record not to make the top ten: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Darling Be Home Soon"] And then to make matters worse, the news got out that someone had been arrested as a result of Boone and Yanovsky's efforts to get themselves out of trouble the year before. This was greeted with horror by the counterculture, and soon mimeographed newsletters and articles in the underground papers were calling the group part of the establishment, and calling for a general boycott of the group -- if you bought their records, attended their concerts, or had sex with any of the band members, you were a traitor. Yanovsky and Boone had both been in a bad way mentally since the bust, but Yanovsky was far worse, and was making trouble for the other members in all sorts of ways. The group decided to fire Yanovsky, and brought in Jerry Yester to replace him, giving him a severance package that ironically meant that he ended up seeing more money from the group's records than the rest of them, as their records were later bought up by a variety of shell companies that passed through the hands of Morris Levy among others, and so from the late sixties through the early nineties the group never got any royalties. For a while, this seemed to benefit everyone. Yanovsky had money, and his friendship with the group members was repaired. He released a solo single, arranged by Jack Nitzsche, which just missed the top one hundred: [Excerpt: Zal Yanovsky, "Just as Long as You're Here"] That song was written by the Bonner and Gordon songwriting team who were also writing hits for the Turtles at this time, and who were signed to Koppelman and Rubin's company. The extent to which Yanovsky's friendship with his ex-bandmates was repaired by his firing was shown by the fact that Jerry Yester, his replacement in the group, co-produced his one solo album, Alive and Well in Argentina, an odd mixture of comedy tracks, psychedelia, and tributes to the country music he loved. His instrumental version of Floyd Cramer's "Last Date" is fairly listenable -- Cramer's piano playing was a big influence on Yanovsky's guitar -- but his version of George Jones' "From Brown to Blue" makes it very clear that Zal Yanovsky was no George Jones: [Excerpt: Zal Yanovsky, "From Brown to Blue"] Yanovsky then quit music, and went into the restaurant business. The Lovin' Spoonful, meanwhile, made one further album, but the damage had been done. Everything Playing is actually a solid album, though not as good as the album before, and it produced three top forty hits, but the highest-charting was "Six O'Clock", which only made number eighteen, and the album itself made a pitiful one hundred and eighteen on the charts. The song on the album that in retrospect has had the most impact was the rather lovely "Younger Generation", which Sebastian later sang at Woodstock: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Younger Generation (Live at Woodstock)"] But at Woodstock he performed that alone, because by then he'd quit the group. Boone, Butler, and Yester decided to continue, with Butler singing lead, and recorded a single, "Never Going Back", produced by Yester's old bandmate from the Modern Folk Quartet Chip Douglas, who had since become a successful producer for the Monkees and the Turtles, and written by John Stewart of the Kingston Trio, who had written "Daydream Believer" for the Monkees, but the record only made number seventy-eight on the charts: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful featuring Joe Butler, "Never Going Back"] That was followed by an album by "The Lovin' Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler", Revelation: Revolution 69, a solo album by Butler in all but name -- Boone claims not to have played on it, and Butler is the only one featured on the cover, which shows a naked Butler being chased by a naked woman with a lion in front of them covering the naughty bits. The biggest hit other than "Never Going Back" from the album was "Me About You", a Bonner and Gordon song which only made number ninety-one: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler, "Me About You"] John Sebastian went on to have a moderately successful solo career -- as well as his appearance at Woodstock, he released several solo albums, guested on harmonica on records by the Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and others, and had a solo number one hit in 1976 with "Welcome Back", the theme song from the TV show Welcome Back, Kotter: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Welcome Back"] Sebastian continues to perform, though he's had throat problems for several decades that mean he can't sing many of the songs he's best known for. The original members of the Lovin' Spoonful reunited for two performances -- an appearance in Paul Simon's film One Trick Pony in 1980, and a rather disastrous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Zal Yanovsky died of a heart attack in 2002. The remaining band members remained friendly, and Boone, Butler, and Yester reunited as the Lovin' Spoonful in 1991, initially with Yester's brother Jim, who had played in The Association, latterly with other members. One of those other members in the 1990s was Yester's daughter Lena, who became Boone's fourth wife (and is as far as I can discover still married to him). Yester, Boone, and Butler continued touring together as the Lovin' Spoonful until 2017, when Jerry Yester was arrested on thirty counts of child pornography possession, and was immediately sacked from the group. The other two carried on, and the three surviving original members reunited on stage for a performance at one of the Wild Honey Orchestra's benefit concerts in LA in 2020, though that was just a one-off performance, not a full-blown reunion. It was also the last Lovin' Spoonful performance to date, as that was in February 2020, but Steve Boone has performed with John Sebastian's most recent project, John Sebastian's Jug Band Village, a tribute to the Greenwich Village folk scene the group originally formed in, and the two played together most recently in December 2021. The three surviving original members of the group all seem to be content with their legacy, doing work they enjoy, and basically friendly, which is more than can be said for most of their contemporaries, and which is perhaps appropriate for a band whose main songwriter had been inspired, more than anything else, to make music with a positive attitude.
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