Podcasts about Mack the Knife

Arrancamos con otra centena: programa 301 en el Día Mundial del Jazz. Ahí les dejamos el orden de apartados y las canciones que han sonado ADIVINA LA PELÍCULA Shostakovich, Dmitry – Jazz Suite No2 – 6. Waltz 2. SAN TORAL. Louis Armstrong. MACK THE KNIFE. Connie Francis. BÉSAME MUCHO. CELEBRACIONES Emilia Aliaga. EL RATONCITO MICKEY […] The post Los Tres Tenores 30/04/2025 first appeared on Ripollet Ràdio.

SEMANAL ESTÁNDAR.- “Mack The Knife”( Wayne Newton-Louis Armstrong-Sonny Rollins-Wayne Shorter-Ella Fitzgerald).-JAZZ RECUERDO ANIVERSARIO.- Miles Davis.-“Bocetos de España”.-JAZZ ACTUALIDAD.-Francisco Javier Torres: SEMANA SANTA SIGLO XXI

(00:00-10:14) Sports Illustrated ranking the tournament teams 1-68. Doug's on fire with his guessing. Mizzou in at number 20, Illinois 28, SIU-E 65. The Angels are banning cell phones in the clubhouse. (10:22-37:13) Uncle Rich not picking up his phone just yet. There he is, a little Mack The Knife as Rich Gould joins us. Rich did a little late afternoon karaoke. Or was it a massage parlor? Rich had a little car accident. Apparently the guy didn't like his book. Rich's tornado experience. The NY Times called him. Not much going well in Rich's life. Worried about the Mizzou game. Rich's March Madness picks. Tank and Truck.(37:23-49:37) You can plan a show all week, but you never really know where it's gonna go. Where does the opening weekend of March Madness rank in sports viewing experiences? Victor Scott with another homer but sounds like he's Memphis bound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(00:00-10:14) Sports Illustrated ranking the tournament teams 1-68. Doug's on fire with his guessing. Mizzou in at number 20, Illinois 28, SIU-E 65. The Angels are banning cell phones in the clubhouse. (10:22-37:13) Uncle Rich not picking up his phone just yet. There he is, a little Mack The Knife as Rich Gould joins us. Rich did a little late afternoon karaoke. Or was it a massage parlor? Rich had a little car accident. Apparently the guy didn't like his book. Rich's tornado experience. The NY Times called him. Not much going well in Rich's life. Worried about the Mizzou game. Rich's March Madness picks. Tank and Truck. (37:23-49:37) You can plan a show all week, but you never really know where it's gonna go. Where does the opening weekend of March Madness rank in sports viewing experiences? Victor Scott with another homer but sounds like he's Memphis bound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lorsqu'elle entre sur la scène de la Deutschlandhalle de Berlin le 13 février 1960, Ella Fitzgerald sait qu'elle est attendue et que le moment est symbolique. Ce soir là, elle chantera à guichets fermés, à deux pas de Berlin Est et servira bien malgré elle d'ambassadrice de l'Amérique. Un concert devenu légendaire grâce à son interprétation géniale de Mack The Knife, au cours de laquelle Ella Fitzgerald, oubliant les paroles, se livre à un grand moment d'improvisation. Ou quand l'histoire du jazz rencontre la grande histoire !Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

"Me gustaría tanto que te acordaras de los dias felices en que fuimos amigos, cuando la vida era más bella y el sol más brillante...” escribió Jacques Prévert. "Les Feuilles Mortes” la más universal canción de otoño con música de Jozsef Kozma, judío fugitivo del III Reich, pero la canción de los dias que se acortan y el eterno retorno ,"September Song” de Kurt Weill, coautor junto a Bertolt Brecht de "Mack The Knife", más judíos víctimas del "nazional socialismo". La letra de la tercera de las universales otoñales "Chanson d´Automne”, santo y seña del desembarco de Normandia, Verlaine, musicada por Trenet, pero hay más bajo la piel de los amores idos. Gladiolos, dalias, crisantemos, siemprevivas pero también hiedras trapadoras, flores de fango, plantaciones enteras de bulos. Ayer como hoy. Puedes hacerte socio del Club Babel y apoyar este podcast: mundobabel.com/club Si te gusta Mundo Babel puedes colaborar a que llegue a más oyentes compartiendo en tus redes sociales y dejar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o un comentario en Ivoox. Para anunciarte en este podcast, ponte en contacto con: mundobabelpodcast@gmail.com.

"Me gustaría tanto que te acordaras de los dias felices en que fuimos amigos, cuando la vida era más bella y el sol más brillante...” escribió Jacques Prévert. "Les Feuilles Mortes” la más universal canción de otoño con música de Jozsef Kozma, judío fugitivo del III Reich, pero la canción de los dias que se acortan y el eterno retorno ,"September Song” de Kurt Weill, coautor junto a Bertolt Brecht de "Mack The Knife", más judíos víctimas del "nazional socialismo". La letra de la tercera de las universales otoñales "Chanson d´Automne”, santo y seña del desembarco de Normandia, Verlaine, musicada por Trenet, pero hay más bajo la piel de los amores idos. Gladiolos, dalias, crisantemos, siemprevivas pero también hiedras trapadoras, flores de fango, plantaciones enteras de bulos. Ayer como hoy. Puedes hacerte socio del Club Babel y apoyar este podcast: mundobabel.com/club Si te gusta Mundo Babel puedes colaborar a que llegue a más oyentes compartiendo en tus redes sociales y dejar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o un comentario en Ivoox. Para anunciarte en este podcast, ponte en contacto con: mundobabelpodcast@gmail.com.

Episode 26 - Mack The Knife (Backing Track):   This week the chat includes Andy's new place and week of training, Daisy's Parkun PB, The Wild One, Brett's week of training, a 'steady' parkrun followed by a sensible deload week, retiring shoes, high stack shoes, possible new shoes, 'Riddle Me This', wear patterns on shoes, Andy's first ever track session, starting the quest for a sub 20 5K again, another spanner in the works for race choices, Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony and 'The Strava Segment'.   Questions of the pod: Warm down or a cool down? How do you race a 5K?   Do you have a question for the pod? If so, comment on the YouTube video, send us a message on Instagram or email it to runningtheredlinepod@gmail.com   As runners, we all challenge ourselves in ways we never thought possible. Pushing the boundaries of what we're capable of to smash through targets and set ourselves new bigger and better ones.   This awesome hobby we share gives us one thing in common and it brings us together as a community. Whether you're working towards completing your first Parkrun, or you're a veteran of the sport who's run 100 ultra marathons, we all know the feeling of reaching that maxed out effort and our own Red Line.   Welcome to our podcast where your hosts Brett Elesmore and Andy Maguire discuss the struggles, the successes and everything in-between on our running journeys as we all work towards the next time we're Running The Red Line...

After surviving the assassination attempt: Is Trump capable of sticking with his new feeling of gratitude, calm, and unity, or are anger and megalomania built into his DNA? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Kamala Harris – could she replace Biden on the ticket? Should she? Joan Walsh has our report.Plus, from the archives: the song “Mack the Knife” from Berthold Brecht in 1928, to the Off Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera in 1955, to Sonny Rollins in 1956, to Bobby Darrin in 1960: we will listen, and Will Friedwald will explain.

Die "Moritat von Mackie Messer" von Bertold Brecht und Kurt Weill ist nichts anderes als eine gute True Crime-Story. In dieser Folge erkundet Roland die mörderischen Wurzeln des Songs – und vergleicht natürlich die unterschiedlichen Versionen.

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Reciban un cordial saludo. Desde Cali (Colombia), les habla Sergio Luis López, compartiéndoles un nuevo episodio de "Así la escuché yo..." Una de las canciones más representativas del género Salsa y de la carrera artística del cantautor panameño Rubén Blades es sin duda alguna “Pedro Navaja”, la cual se publicó inicialmente en el emblemático álbum “Siembra” de 1978, grabado por la exitosa dupla que Blades conformó junto a Willie Colón. Así la escuché yo… En un acto de total transparencia, el propio Rubén Blades ha contado en diferentes oportunidades que su inspiración para “Pedro Navaja” proviene de otra famosa canción.   La canción en mención se titula "Mack The Knife" (Mack “El Cuchillo”), la cual ha sido grabada en idioma inglés por diversos artistas. A nivel mundial, la popularidad de la canción “Mack The Knife” se debe al célebre trompetista estadounidense Louis Armstrong, quien grabó una versión en 1955 con letra adaptada al inglés por Marc Blitzstein. Cuatro años después (en 1959), el español José Guardiola publicó una versión libre al castellano titulada “Mackie El Navaja”. En 1998, el también español, Miguel Ríos, lanzó otra versión al castellano de “Mackie El Navaja”, aunque con diferente letra, la cual se acerca más a la canción original alemana. Las anteriores versiones están basadas en la canción “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer” (La balada de Mackie El Cuchillo), escrita originalmente en alemán por el reconocido dramaturgo y poeta Bertolt Brecht, con música de su compatriota Kurt Weill, quienes la compusieron para la famosa “Ópera de los tres centavos”, interpretada inicialmente por Harald Paulsen en 1929. Como dato curioso, hay que decir que la “Ópera de los tres centavos” es una adaptación al alemán de la obra “The Beggar's Opera” (Ópera del mendigo) del inglés John Gay. También hay que decir que la canción “Mack The Knife” no hace parte de la ópera original inglesa, sino que fue compuesta por Brecht y Weill especialmente para la alemana “Ópera de los tres centavos”. No podemos terminar sin aplaudir el talento creador del gran Rubén Blades, quien se inspiró en una canción para componer otra en un contexto musical y social totalmente diferente; regalándonos de esta manera, una de las clásicas de la música popular bailable latinoamericana. ¿Y tú, qué opinas de este episodio? Autor: Rubén Blades (panameño) para "Pedro Navaja" Autores: Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill (alemanes) para “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer” - Adaptación al inglés por Marc Blitzstein (estadounidense) para “Mack The Knife” Pedro Navaja - Willie Colón & Rubén Blades (1978) “Siembra” álbum (1978) Canta: Rubén Blades (nombre real Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, panameño) Willie Colón (nombre real William Anthony Colón Román, estadounidense) Género: Salsa Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (1955) single “Mack The Knife/Back O'Town Blues” (1955) Louis Armstrong (nombre real Louis Daniel Armstrong, estadounidense) Género: Fox Mackie El Navaja - José Guardiola (1959) “Pequeña flor/Mis besos te dirán/Mackie El Navaja/Ten piedad” mini-álbum (1959) José Guardiola (español) Mackie El Navaja - Miguel Ríos (1998) “Big Band Ríos - Miguel Ríos en concierto” álbum (1998) Miguel Ríos (español) Die Moritat von Mackie Messer - Harald Paulsen (1929) “Die Dreigroschenoper (Ópera de los tres centavos)” Soundtrack álbum (1929) Textos escritos por Bertolt Brecht (alemán) & musicalizados por Kurt Weill (alemán) ___________________ “Así la escuché yo…” Temporada: 8 Episodio: 1 Sergio Productions Cali – Colombia Sergio Luis López Mora

More discussions of Waits's unreleased recordings brings us to the 1980s, featuring several demos, a bunch of covers, and significant collaborations with other musicians, both big and small. Highlights this week include his contribution to a poetry documentary, a live Ewan MacColl cover, and his evening of collaborations with The Replacements. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Purple Avenue / Empty Pockets, live recording, Expo Theatre, Montreal Canada (3 July 1981) Smuggler's Waltz / Bronx Lullaby, from Poetry In Motion, dir. Ron Mann (1982) Carnivalins, unreleased recording, Frank's Wild Demos (1986?) Vegas Theme, unreleased recording, Frank's Wild Demos (1986?) Downtown Train (alt take), NME's Big Four 7" EP, Tom Waits (1986) Harlem Shuffle, Dirty Work, The Rolling Stones (1986) I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Knew (About Her), live recording, Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles CA, Tom Waits with Elvis Costello and Lou Reed, w. Cecil Null (4 October 1986) Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, live recording, Massey Hall, Toronto Canada, w. James brown (7 October 1987) Mack The Knife, live recording, Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin Germany, w. Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill (8 December 1987) Big Rock Candy Mountain, from the film Ironweed, dir. Hector Babenco (1987) Once More Before I Go, from the film Candy Mountain, dir. Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer (1988) Date To Church, single b-side, The Replacements / Tom Waits (1989) Lowdown Monkey Blues, Dead Man's Pop, The Replacements / Tom Waits (1989/2019) If Only You Were Lonely, Dead Man's Pop, The Replacements / Tom Waits (1989/2019) I Can Help, studio outtake / Dead Man's Pop, The Replacements / Tom Waits, w. Billy Swan (1989/2019) We Know The Night - Rehearsal Version, Dead Man's Pop, The Replacements / Tom Waits (1989/2019) Take It As It Comes, live recording, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, w. The Doors (31 December 1988) Pennies From Heaven, live recording, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, w. Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke (31 December 1988) Dirty Old Town, live recording, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, w. Ewan MacColl (31 December 1988) Hound Dog, live recording, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, w. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (31 December 1988) Dirty Old Town, Rum Sodomy and The Lash, The Pogues (1985) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.Los Angeles-based literary manager Jarrod Murray returns to the show to discuss Robert Redford's 'Quiz Show', a true story of the massive 1950s scandal that revealed to the American public for the first time that the burgeoning television industry and the levers of power that control media were capable of profound deceit. We discuss the film's many iterations, possible directors, and might-have-been performances as well as the incredibly deep bench of performers the film ultimately wound up with (including great character actors like David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Griffin Dunne, and even a wonderful turn from director Martin Scorsese). Then we discuss the real story behind the film, and the ways director Robert Redford and screenwriter Paul Attanasio grapple with the quiz show scandal's multifaceted ramifications in the era after the post-war boom. Finally, we discuss the film's legacy, or lack thereof, and why this film may not have found its deserved purchase with viewers in the 90s and why there's still room for it to be reclaimed in 2023. Follow Jarrod Murray on Twitter.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish 

PROGRAMA Nº 236. DESPEDIDA DE LA 8ª TEMPORADA. ADIVINA LA PELÍCULA. Ray Conniff. MACK THE KNIFE. SAN TORAL. CrazyyJaZz – CAREFREE. Waldo de los Ríos – Nabucco. VA PENSIERO, Coro de esclavos. Verdi CELEBRACIONES. James Last. GRANADA. Chancla – SINGAS EFEMÉRIDES. Waldo de los Ríos – Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 ODA A LA ALEGRÍA. Mantovani. LA PALOMA. […] The post Los Tres Tenores 28/06/2023 first appeared on Ripollet Ràdio.

Erik Kramshøj spiller fortolkninger af sange fra Bertolt Brecht og Kurt Weils teateropsætning af Drei Groschen Oper - eller - Three Penny Opera med de ikoniske skikkelser Mack The Knife og Pirate Jenny.  

Erik Kramshøj spiller fortolkninger af sange fra Bertolt Brecht og Kurt Weils teateropsætning af Drei Groschen Oper - eller - Three Penny Opera med de ikoniske skikkelser Mack The Knife og Pirate Jenny.  

Erik Kramshøj spiller fortolkninger af sange fra Bertolt Brecht og Kurt Weils teateropsætning af Drei Groschen Oper - eller - Three Penny Opera med de ikoniske skikkelser Mack The Knife og Pirate Jenny.  

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We're back to German epic theatre everyone! Aaron comes back on to bring Jon back to old, dirty England where everyone is a criminal and very unreliable, but it's wildly entertaining. Plus Raul Julia!Sacred Lore of Witchcraft Instagram: @sacredloreofwhitchcraftNitecap Test Kitchen Instagram: @nitecap_testovenPodcast Socials -Email: butasongpod@gmail.comFacebook: @butasongpodInstagram: @butasongpodTikTok: @butasongpodTwitter: @butasongpodNext episode: The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (SCT #6)!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Could 80,000 Hours' messaging be discouraging for people not working on x-risk / longtermism?, published by Mack the Knife on February 9, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Disclaimer: I understand the concept and concerns around x-risk and longtermism very well. Nevertheless, I personally have no interest in working in these areas, as I find others more important and suitable for myself. Edit: I want to make it clear that I understand why 80,000 Hours ranks career paths and that I certainly think they should advocate the cause areas they deem most important. After all, that's core EA. My critique is not about the "what", but about the "how" of their messaging - which, I fear, might discourage people motivated by so called "less important" cause areas to stop engaging or engage less with EA, thereby doing less good than they could. In a recent newsletter on "Is the world getting better or worse?", 80,000 Hours presents several problem areas that still exist in the world today - especially factory farming and, of course, x-risk. Although a career in animal welfare is admittedly mentioned, the conclusion is: "We think that the problem you work on in your career is the biggest driver of your impact. And we think that these existential risks are the biggest problems we currently face.” Bam. The biggest. And we're done. As is so often the case. At least according to my impression: 80,000 Hours pushes x-risk and longtermism, and other cause areas many EAs (and other people) are working hard and effectively on are actively cornered, not mentioned at all or described as "sometimes recommended" or as "less pressing than our highest priority areas" - the latter example being nothing less than climate change. Of course, I've become biased by now and notice such examples much more. For me, however, it's not so much the problem that x-risk and longtermism are put on a pedestal - but rather the failure to simultaneously present other career paths (that do a great deal of good and are, in my experience, typically the reason people become involved in EA in the first place) as equally worth pursuing. Instead, the famous list "What are the most pressing world problems?" puts factory farming and global health way at the bottom of the page as "Problems many of our readers prioritise". Readers prioritise these areas, but not 80,000 Hours because they're irrelevant - is that how I'm supposed to understand this? I'm somewhat sceptical about "ranking" something so complex and personal as career paths anyway, but can understand why 80,000 Hours is doing it. However, isn't it also possible to always be outright and unambiguously appreciative of the tremendous amount of good these "other" areas achieve for people, animals and planet? In summary, I have noticed over the last few months how these messages continue to upset me, and also demoralise and demotivate me. Because each of these messages makes me feel bad about the supposedly 'suboptimal' path I've chosen in the past - and like any future efforts (and also donations) in the areas that are close to my heart would not be valuable and I should just leave them altogether. This is further insensified by x-risk / longtermism's (at least perceived) growing singularisation within the entire EA community and large-scale messaging (WWOTF etc.). And so I wanted to ask: What do you think? Are you like me with this? Or do you feel that your (volunteer) work is fully valued in the general presentation of 80,000 Hours (and EA in general), even though you're not focused on x-risk and longtermism? Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined by guest Guest Guy Serle and Jeff Gamet. Dave tried out the new Apple Music Sing which is really a  karaoke machine on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Dave has the 3rd Gen Apple TV 4K and give his review and how to ID other models. HomeKit update broke and Apple has since blocked it. You still cannot combine 2 Apple IDs. Goodbye DarkSky. Davinci Resolve is now on iPad plus more.  The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com 
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In a highly requested show, the gang presents segments on Top 10 UFO Myths, the Mystery of the Green Fireballs and what dreams might mean for you and your sex life. Also, adult-themed outtakes, blooper ads and JJ tries to sing “Mack The Knife.” Special Guests: Jill Hanson & Lois Lane.

In a highly requested show, the gang presents segments on Top 10 UFO Myths, the Mystery of the Green Fireballs and what dreams might mean for you and your sex life.  Also, adult-themed outtakes, blooper ads and JJ tries to sing “Mack The Knife.” Special Guests: Jill Hanson & Lois Lane.   Mack Maloney Online: Website - https://www.mackmaloney.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WingmanMack/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MilitaryXFiles Twitter - https://twitter.com/WingmanMack Amazon – https://amzn.to/2IlFRkq  

We celebrate 250 episodes with a listener request that blew up on us a little. A classic song with deeper roots and more variations than anyone saw coming. Mack the Knife, originally sung by Kurt Gerron, covered by Gerald Price, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, The Doors, and The Psychedelic Furs. Outro music is Put Your Head on My Shoulder, by Paul Anka.

Episode 152 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “For What It's Worth”, and the short but eventful career of Buffalo Springfield. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell. 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, there's a Mixcloud mix containing all the songs excerpted in the episode. This four-CD box set is the definitive collection of Buffalo Springfield's work, while if you want the mono version of the second album, the stereo version of the first, and the final album as released, but no demos or outtakes, you want this more recent box set. For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield by Richey Furay and John Einarson is obviously Furay's version of the story, but all the more interesting for that. For information on Steve Stills' early life I used Stephen Stills: Change Partners by David Roberts.  Information on both Stills and Young comes from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young by David Browne.  Jimmy McDonough's Shakey is the definitive biography of Neil Young, while Young's Waging Heavy Peace is his autobiography. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript A quick note before we begin -- this episode deals with various disabilities. In particular, there are descriptions of epileptic seizures that come from non-medically-trained witnesses, many of whom took ableist attitudes towards the seizures. I don't know enough about epilepsy to know how accurate their descriptions and perceptions are, and I apologise if that means that by repeating some of their statements, I am inadvertently passing on myths about the condition. When I talk about this, I am talking about the after-the-fact recollections of musicians, none of them medically trained and many of them in altered states of consciousness, about events that had happened decades earlier. Please do not take anything said in a podcast about music history as being the last word on the causes or effects of epileptic seizures, rather than how those musicians remember them. Anyway, on with the show. One of the things you notice if you write about protest songs is that a lot of the time, the songs that people talk about as being important or impactful have aged very poorly. Even great songwriters like Bob Dylan or John Lennon, when writing material about the political events of the time, would write material they would later acknowledge was far from their best. Too often a song will be about a truly important event, and be powered by a real sense of outrage at injustice, but it will be overly specific, and then as soon as the immediate issue is no longer topical, the song is at best a curio. For example, the sentencing of the poet and rock band manager John Sinclair to ten years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover police officer was hugely controversial in the early seventies, but by the time John Lennon's song about it was released, Sinclair had been freed by the Supreme Court, and very, very few people would use the song as an example of why Lennon's songwriting still has lasting value: [Excerpt: John Lennon, "John Sinclair"] But there are exceptions, and those tend to be songs where rather than talking about specific headlines, the song is about the emotion that current events have caused. Ninety years on from its first success, for example, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" still has resonance, because there are still people who are put out of work through no fault of their own, and even those of us who are lucky enough to be financially comfortable have the fear that all too soon it may end, and we may end up like Al begging on the streets: [Excerpt: Rudy Vallee, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"] And because of that emotional connection, sometimes the very best protest songs can take on new lives and new meanings, and connect with the way people feel about totally unrelated subjects. Take Buffalo Springfield's one hit. The actual subject of the song couldn't be any more trivial in the grand scheme of things -- a change in zoning regulations around the Sunset Strip that meant people under twenty-one couldn't go to the clubs after 10PM, and the subsequent reaction to that -- but because rather than talking about the specific incident, Steve Stills instead talked about the emotions that it called up, and just noted the fleeting images that he was left with, the song became adopted as an anthem by soldiers in Vietnam. Sometimes what a song says is nowhere near as important as how it says it. [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth"] Steve Stills seems almost to have been destined to be a musician, although the instrument he started on, the drums, was not the one for which he would become best known. According to Stills, though, he always had an aptitude for rhythm, to the extent that he learned to tapdance almost as soon as he had learned to walk. He started on drums aged eight or nine, after somebody gave him a set of drumsticks. After his parents got sick of him damaging the furniture by playing on every available surface, an actual drum kit followed, and that became his principal instrument, even after he learned to play the guitar at military school, as his roommate owned one. As a teenager, Stills developed an idiosyncratic taste in music, helped by the record collection of his friend Michael Garcia. He didn't particularly like most of the pop music of the time, but he was a big fan of pre-war country music, Motown, girl-group music -- he especially liked the Shirelles -- and Chess blues. He was also especially enamoured of the music of Jimmy Reed, a passion he would later share with his future bandmate Neil Young: [Excerpt: Jimmy Reed, "Baby, What You Want Me To Do?"] In his early teens, he became the drummer for a band called the Radars, and while he was drumming he studied their lead guitarist, Chuck Schwin.  He said later "There was a whole little bunch of us who were into kind of a combination of all the blues guys and others including Chet Atkins, Dick Dale, and Hank Marvin: a very weird cross-section of far-out guitar players." Stills taught himself to play like those guitarists, and in particular he taught himself how to emulate Atkins' Travis-picking style, and became remarkably proficient at it. There exists a recording of him, aged sixteen, singing one of his own songs and playing finger-picked guitar, and while the song is not exactly the strongest thing I've ever heard lyrically, it's clearly the work of someone who is already a confident performer: [Excerpt: Stephen Stills, "Travellin'"] But the main reason he switched to becoming a guitarist wasn't because of his admiration for Chet Atkins or Hank Marvin, but because he started driving and discovered that if you have to load a drum kit into your car and then drive it to rehearsals and gigs you either end up bashing up your car or bashing up the drum kit. As this is not a problem with guitars, Stills decided that he'd move on from the Radars, and join a band named the Continentals as their rhythm guitarist, playing with lead guitarist Don Felder. Stills was only in the Continentals for a few months though, before being replaced by another guitarist, Bernie Leadon, and in general Stills' whole early life is one of being uprooted and moved around. His father had jobs in several different countries, and while for the majority of his time Stills was in the southern US, he also ended up spending time in Costa Rica -- and staying there as a teenager even as the rest of his family moved to El Salvador. Eventually, aged eighteen, he moved to New Orleans, where he formed a folk duo with a friend, Chris Sarns. The two had very different tastes in folk music -- Stills preferred Dylan-style singer-songwriters, while Sarns liked the clean sound of the Kingston Trio -- but they played together for several months before moving to Greenwich Village, where they performed together and separately. They were latecomers to the scene, which had already mostly ended, and many of the folk stars had already gone on to do bigger things. But Stills still saw plenty of great performers there -- Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk in the jazz clubs, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, and Richard Pryor in the comedy ones, and Simon and Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Fred Neil and Tim Hardin in the folk ones -- Stills said that other than Chet Atkins, Havens, Neil, and Hardin were the people most responsible for his guitar style. Stills was also, at this time, obsessed with Judy Collins' third album -- the album which had featured Roger McGuinn on banjo and arrangements, and which would soon provide several songs for the Byrds to cover: [Excerpt: Judy Collins, "Turn, Turn, Turn"] Judy Collins would soon become a very important figure in Stills' life, but for now she was just the singer on his favourite record. While the Greenwich Village folk scene was no longer quite what it had been a year or two earlier, it was still a great place for a young talented musician to perform. As well as working with Chris Sarns, Stills also formed a trio with his friend John Hopkins and a banjo player called Peter Tork who everyone said looked just like Stills. Tork soon headed out west to seek his fortune, and then Stills got headhunted to join the Au Go Go Singers. This was a group that was being set up in the same style as the New Christy Minstrels -- a nine-piece vocal and instrumental group that would do clean-sounding versions of currently-popular folk songs. The group were signed to Roulette Records, and recorded one album, They Call Us Au-Go-Go Singers, produced by Hugo and Luigi, the production duo we've previously seen working with everyone from the Tokens to the Isley Brothers. Much of the album is exactly the same kind of thing that a million New Christy Minstrels soundalikes were putting out -- and Stills, with his raspy voice, was clearly intended to be the Barry McGuire of this group -- but there was one exception -- a song called "High Flyin' Bird", on which Stills was able to show off the sound that would later make him famous, and which became so associated with him that even though it was written by Billy Edd Wheeler, the writer of "Jackson", even the biography of Stills I used in researching this episode credits "High Flyin' Bird" as being a Stills original: [Excerpt: The Au-Go-Go Singers, "High Flyin' Bird"] One of the other members of the Au-Go-Go Singers, Richie Furay, also got to sing a lead vocal on the album, on the Tom Paxton song "Where I'm Bound": [Excerpt: The Au-Go-Go Singers, "Where I'm Bound"] The Au-Go-Go Singers got a handful of dates around the folk scene, and Stills and Furay became friendly with another singer playing the same circuit, Gram Parsons. Parsons was one of the few people they knew who could see the value in current country music, and convinced both Stills and Furay to start paying more attention to what was coming out of Nashville and Bakersfield. But soon the Au-Go-Go Singers split up. Several venues where they might otherwise have been booked were apparently scared to book an act that was associated with Morris Levy, and also the market for big folk ensembles dried up more or less overnight when the Beatles hit the music scene. But several of the group -- including Stills but not Furay -- decided they were going to continue anyway, and formed a group called The Company, and they went on a tour of Canada. And one of the venues they played was the Fourth Dimension coffee house in Fort William, Ontario, and there their support act was a rock band called The Squires: [Excerpt: The Squires, "(I'm a Man And) I Can't Cry"] The lead guitarist of the Squires, Neil Young, had a lot in common with Stills, and they bonded instantly. Both men had parents who had split up when they were in their teens, and had a successful but rather absent father and an overbearing mother. And both had shown an interest in music even as babies. According to Young's mother, when he was still in nappies, he would pull himself up by the bars  of his playpen and try to dance every time he heard "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie": [Excerpt: Pinetop Smith, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"] Young, though, had had one crucial experience which Stills had not had. At the age of six, he'd come down with polio, and become partially paralysed. He'd spent months in hospital before he regained his ability to walk, and the experience had also affected him in other ways. While he was recovering, he would draw pictures of trains -- other than music, his big interest, almost an obsession, was with electric train sets, and that obsession would remain with him throughout his life -- but for the first time he was drawing with his right hand rather than his left. He later said "The left-hand side got a little screwed. Feels different from the right. If I close my eyes, my left side, I really don't know where it is—but over the years I've discovered that almost one hundred percent for sure it's gonna be very close to my right side … probably to the left. That's why I started appearing to be ambidextrous, I think. Because polio affected my left side, and I think I was left-handed when I was born. What I have done is use the weak side as the dominant one because the strong side was injured." Both Young's father Scott Young -- a very famous Canadian writer and sports broadcaster, who was by all accounts as well known in Canada during his lifetime as his son -- and Scott's brother played ukulele, and they taught Neil how to play, and his first attempt at forming a group had been to get his friend Comrie Smith to get a pair of bongos and play along with him to Preston Epps' "Bongo Rock": [Excerpt: Preston Epps, "Bongo Rock"] Neil Young had liked all the usual rock and roll stars of the fifties  -- though in his personal rankings, Elvis came a distant third behind Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis -- but his tastes ran more to the more darkly emotional. He loved "Maybe" by the Chantels, saying "Raw soul—you cannot miss it. That's the real thing. She was believin' every word she was singin'." [Excerpt: The Chantels, "Maybe"] What he liked more than anything was music that had a mainstream surface but seemed slightly off-kilter. He was a major fan of Roy Orbison, saying, "it's almost impossible to comprehend the depth of that soul. It's so deep and dark it just keeps on goin' down—but it's not black. It's blue, deep blue. He's just got it. The drama. There's something sad but proud about Roy's music", and he would say similar things about Del Shannon, saying "He struck me as the ultimate dark figure—behind some Bobby Rydell exterior, y'know? “Hats Off to Larry,” “Runaway,” “Swiss Maid”—very, very inventive. The stuff was weird. Totally unaffected." More surprisingly, perhaps, he was a particular fan of Bobby Darin, who he admired so much because Darin could change styles at the drop of a hat, going from novelty rock and roll like "Splish Splash" to crooning "Mack The Knife" to singing Tim Hardin songs like "If I Were a Carpenter", without any of them seeming any less authentic. As he put it later "He just changed. He's completely different. And he's really into it. Doesn't sound like he's not there. “Dream Lover,” “Mack the Knife,” “If I Were a Carpenter,” “Queen of the Hop,” “Splish Splash”—tell me about those records, Mr. Darin. Did you write those all the same day, or what happened? He just changed so much. Just kinda went from one place to another. So it's hard to tell who Bobby Darin really was." And one record which Young was hugely influenced by was Floyd Cramer's country instrumental, "Last Date": [Excerpt: Floyd Cramer, "Last Date"] Now, that was a very important record in country music, and if you want to know more about it I strongly recommend listening to the episode of Cocaine and Rhinestones on the Nashville A-Team, which has a long section on the track, but the crucial thing to know about that track is that it's one of the earliest examples of what is known as slip-note playing, where the piano player, before hitting the correct note, briefly hits the note a tone below it, creating a brief discord. Young absolutely loved that sound, and wanted to make a sound like that on the guitar. And then, when he and his mother moved to Winnipeg after his parents' divorce, he found someone who was doing just that. It was the guitarist in a group variously known as Chad Allan and the Reflections and Chad Allan and the Expressions. That group had relatives in the UK who would send them records, and so where most Canadian bands would do covers of American hits, Chad Allan and the Reflections would do covers of British hits, like their version of Geoff Goddard's "Tribute to Buddy Holly", a song that had originally been produced by Joe Meek: [Excerpt: Chad Allan and the Reflections, "Tribute to Buddy Holly"] That would later pay off for them in a big way, when they recorded a version of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' "Shakin' All Over", for which their record label tried to create an air of mystery by releasing it with no artist name, just "Guess Who?" on the label. It became a hit, the name stuck, and they became The Guess Who: [Excerpt: The Guess Who, "Shakin' All Over"] But at this point they, and their guitarist Randy Bachman, were just another group playing around Winnipeg. Bachman, though, was hugely impressive to Neil Young for a few reasons. The first was that he really did have a playing style that was a lot like the piano style of Floyd Cramer -- Young would later say "it was Randy Bachman who did it first. Randy was the first one I ever heard do things on the guitar that reminded me of Floyd. He'd do these pulls—“darrr darrrr,” this two-note thing goin' together—harmony, with one note pulling and the other note stayin' the same." Bachman also had built the first echo unit that Young heard a guitarist play in person. He'd discovered that by playing with the recording heads on a tape recorder owned by his mother, he could replicate the tape echo that Sam Phillips had used at Sun Studios -- and once he'd attached that to his amplifier, he realised how much the resulting sound sounded like his favourite guitarist, Hank Marvin of the Shadows, another favourite of Neil Young's: [Excerpt: The Shadows, "Man of Mystery"] Young soon started looking to Bachman as something of a mentor figure, and he would learn a lot of guitar techniques second hand from Bachman -- every time a famous musician came to the area, Bachman would go along and stand right at the front and watch the guitarist, and make note of the positions their fingers were in. Then Bachman would replicate those guitar parts with the Reflections, and Neil Young would stand in front of him and make notes of where *his* fingers were. Young joined a band on the local circuit called the Esquires, but soon either quit or was fired, depending on which version of the story you choose to believe. He then formed his own rival band, the Squires, with no "e", much to the disgust of his ex-bandmates. In July 1963, five months after they formed, the  Squires released their first record, "Aurora" backed with "The Sultan", on a tiny local label. Both tracks were very obviously influenced by the Shadows: [Excerpt: The Squires, "Aurora"] The Squires were a mostly-instrumental band for the first year or so they were together, and then the Beatles hit North America, and suddenly people didn't want to hear surf instrumentals and Shadows covers any more, they only wanted to hear songs that sounded a bit like the Beatles. The Squires started to work up the appropriate repertoire -- two songs that have been mentioned as in their set at this point are the Beatles album track "It Won't Be Long", and "Money" which the Beatles had also covered -- but they didn't have a singer, being an instrumental group. They could get in a singer, of course, but that would mean splitting the money with another person. So instead, the guitarist, who had never had any intention of becoming a singer, was more or less volunteered for the role. Over the next eighteen months or so the group's repertoire moved from being largely instrumental to largely vocal, and the group also seem to have shuttled around a bit between two different cities -- Winnipeg and Fort William, staying in one for a while and then moving back to the other. They travelled between the two in Young's car, a Buick Roadmaster hearse. In Winnipeg, Young first met up with a singer named Joni Anderson, who was soon to get married to Chuck Mitchell and would become better known by her married name. The two struck up a friendship, though by all accounts never a particularly close one -- they were too similar in too many ways; as Mitchell later said “Neil and I have a lot in common: Canadian; Scorpios; polio in the same epidemic, struck the same parts of our body; and we both have a black sense of humor". They were both also idiosyncratic artists who never fit very well into boxes. In Fort William the Squires made a few more records, this time vocal tracks like "I'll Love You Forever": [Excerpt: The Squires, "I'll Love You Forever"] It was also in Fort William that Young first encountered two acts that would make a huge impression on him. One was a group called The Thorns, consisting of Tim Rose, Jake Holmes, and Rich Husson. The Thorns showed Young that there was interesting stuff being done on the fringes of the folk music scene. He later said "One of my favourites was “Oh Susannah”—they did this arrangement that was bizarre. It was in a minor key, which completely changed everything—and it was rock and roll. So that idea spawned arrangements of all these other songs for me. I did minor versions of them all. We got into it. That was a certain Squires stage that never got recorded. Wish there were tapes of those shows. We used to do all this stuff, a whole kinda music—folk-rock. We took famous old folk songs like “Clementine,” “She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain,” “Tom Dooley,” and we did them all in minor keys based on the Tim Rose arrangement of “Oh Susannah.” There are no recordings of the Thorns in existence that I know of, but presumably that arrangement that Young is talking about is the version that Rose also later did with the Big 3, which we've heard in a few other episodes: [Excerpt: The Big 3, "The Banjo Song"] The other big influence was, of course, Steve Stills, and the two men quickly found themselves influencing each other deeply. Stills realised that he could bring more rock and roll to his folk-music sound, saying that what amazed him was the way the Squires could go from "Cottonfields" (the Lead Belly song) to "Farmer John", the R&B song by Don and Dewey that was becoming a garage-rock staple. Young in turn was inspired to start thinking about maybe going more in the direction of folk music. The Squires even renamed themselves the High-Flying Birds, after the song that Stills had recorded with the Au Go Go Singers. After The Company's tour of Canada, Stills moved back to New York for a while. He now wanted to move in a folk-rock direction, and for a while he tried to persuade his friend John Sebastian to let him play bass in his new band, but when the Lovin' Spoonful decided against having him in the band, he decided to move West to San Francisco, where he'd heard there was a new music scene forming. He enjoyed a lot of the bands he saw there, and in particular he was impressed by the singer of a band called the Great Society: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Somebody to Love"] He was much less impressed with the rest of her band, and seriously considered going up to her and asking if she wanted to work with some *real* musicians instead of the unimpressive ones she was working with, but didn't get his nerve up. We will, though, be hearing more about Grace Slick in future episodes. Instead, Stills decided to move south to LA, where many of the people he'd known in Greenwich Village were now based. Soon after he got there, he hooked up with two other musicians, a guitarist named Steve Young and a singer, guitarist, and pianist named Van Dyke Parks. Parks had a record contract at MGM -- he'd been signed by Tom Wilson, the same man who had turned Dylan electric, signed Simon and Garfunkel, and produced the first albums by the Mothers of Invention. With Wilson, Parks put out a couple of singles in 1966, "Come to the Sunshine": [Excerpt: The Van Dyke Parks, "Come to the Sunshine"] And "Number Nine", a reworking of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: [Excerpt: The Van Dyke Parks, "Number Nine"]Parks, Stills, and Steve Young became The Van Dyke Parks Band, though they didn't play together for very long, with their most successful performance being as the support act for the Lovin' Spoonful for a show in Arizona. But they did have a lasting resonance -- when Van Dyke Parks finally got the chance to record his first solo album, he opened it with Steve Young singing the old folk song "Black Jack Davy", filtered to sound like an old tape: [Excerpt: Steve Young, "Black Jack Davy"] And then it goes into a song written for Parks by Randy Newman, but consisting of Newman's ideas about Parks' life and what he knew about him, including that he had been third guitar in the Van Dyke Parks Band: [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Vine Street"] Parks and Stills also wrote a few songs together, with one of their collaborations, "Hello, I've Returned", later being demoed by Stills for Buffalo Springfield: [Excerpt: Steve Stills, "Hello, I've Returned"] After the Van Dyke Parks Band fell apart, Parks went on to many things, including a brief stint on keyboards in the Mothers of Invention, and we'll be talking more about him next episode. Stills formed a duo called the Buffalo Fish, with his friend Ron Long. That soon became an occasional trio when Stills met up again with his old Greenwich Village friend Peter Tork, who joined the group on the piano. But then Stills auditioned for the Monkees and was turned down because he had bad teeth -- or at least that's how most people told the story. Stills has later claimed that while he turned up for the Monkees auditions, it wasn't to audition, it was to try to pitch them songs, which seems implausible on the face of it. According to Stills, he was offered the job and turned it down because he'd never wanted it. But whatever happened, Stills suggested they might want his friend Peter, who looked just like him apart from having better teeth, and Peter Tork got the job. But what Stills really wanted to do was to form a proper band. He'd had the itch to do it ever since seeing the Squires, and he decided he should ask Neil Young to join. There was only one problem -- when he phoned Young, the phone was answered by Young's mother, who told Stills that Neil had moved out to become a folk singer, and she didn't know where he was. But then Stills heard from his old friend Richie Furay. Furay was still in Greenwich Village, and had decided to write to Stills. He didn't know where Stills was, other than that he was in California somewhere, so he'd written to Stills' father in El Salvador. The letter had been returned, because the postage had been short by one cent, so Furay had resent it with the correct postage. Stills' father had then forwarded the letter to the place Stills had been staying in San Francisco, which had in turn forwarded it on to Stills in LA. Furay's letter mentioned this new folk singer who had been on the scene for a while and then disappeared again, Neil Young, who had said he knew Stills, and had been writing some great songs, one of which Furay had added to his own set. Stills got in touch with Furay and told him about this great band he was forming in LA, which he wanted Furay to join. Furay was in, and travelled from New York to LA, only to be told that at this point there were no other members of this great band, but they'd definitely find some soon. They got a publishing deal with Columbia/Screen Gems, which gave them enough money to not starve, but what they really needed was to find some other musicians. They did, when driving down Hollywood Boulevard on April the sixth, 1966. There, stuck in traffic going the other way, they saw a hearse... After Steve Stills had left Fort William, so had Neil Young. He hadn't initially intended to -- the High-Flying Birds still had a regular gig, but Young and some of his friends had gone away for a few days on a road trip in his hearse. But unfortunately the transmission on the hearse had died, and Young and his friends had been stranded. Many years later, he would write a eulogy to the hearse, which he and Stills would record together: [Excerpt: The Stills-Young Band, "Long May You Run"] Young and his friends had all hitch-hiked in different directions -- Young had ended up in Toronto, where his dad lived, and had stayed with his dad for a while. The rest of his band had eventually followed him there, but Young found the Toronto music scene not to his taste -- the folk and rock scenes there were very insular and didn't mingle with each other, and the group eventually split up. Young even took on a day job for a while, for the only time in his life, though he soon quit. Young started basically commuting between Toronto and New York, a distance of several hundred miles, going to Greenwich Village for a while before ending up back in Toronto, and ping-ponging between the two. In New York, he met up with Richie Furay, and also had a disastrous audition for Elektra Records as a solo artist. One of the songs he sang in the audition was "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", the song which Furay liked so much he started performing it himself. Young doesn't normally explain his songs, but as this was one of the first he ever wrote, he talked about it in interviews in the early years, before he decided to be less voluble about his art. The song was apparently about the sense of youthful hope being crushed. The instigation for it was Young seeing his girlfriend with another man, but the central image, of Clancy not singing, came from Young's schooldays. The Clancy in question was someone Young liked as one of the other weird kids at school. He was disabled, like Young, though with MS rather than polio, and he would sing to himself in the hallways at school. Sadly, of course, the other kids would mock and bully him for that, and eventually he ended up stopping. Young said about it "After awhile, he got so self-conscious he couldn't do his thing any more. When someone who is as beautiful as that and as different as that is actually killed by his fellow man—you know what I mean—like taken and sorta chopped down—all the other things are nothing compared to this." [Excerpt: Neil Young, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Elektra demo)"] One thing I should say for anyone who listens to the Mixcloud for this episode, that song, which will be appearing in a couple of different versions, has one use of a term for Romani people that some (though not all) consider a slur. It's not in the excerpts I'll be using in this episode, but will be in the full versions on the Mixcloud. Sadly that word turns up time and again in songs of this era... When he wasn't in New York, Young was living in Toronto in a communal apartment owned by a folk singer named Vicki Taylor, where many of the Toronto folk scene would stay. Young started listening a lot to Taylor's Bert Jansch albums, which were his first real exposure to the British folk-baroque style of guitar fingerpicking, as opposed to the American Travis-picking style, and Young would soon start to incorporate that style into his own playing: [Excerpt: Bert Jansch, "Angie"] Another guitar influence on Young at this point was another of the temporary tenants of Taylor's flat, John Kay, who would later go on to be one of the founding members of Steppenwolf. Young credited Kay with having a funky rhythm guitar style that Young incorporated into his own. While he was in Toronto, he started getting occasional gigs in Detroit, which is "only" a couple of hundred miles away, set up by Joni and Chuck Mitchell, both of whom also sometimes stayed at Taylor's. And it was in Detroit that Neil Young became, albeit very briefly, a Motown artist. The Mynah Birds were a band in Toronto that had at one point included various future members of Steppenwolf, and they were unusual for the time in that they were a white band with a Black lead singer, Ricky Matthews. They also had a rich manager, John Craig Eaton, the heir to the Eaton's department store fortune, who basically gave them whatever money they wanted -- they used to go to his office and tell him they needed seven hundred dollars for lunch, and he'd hand it to them. They were looking for a new guitarist when Bruce Palmer, their bass player, bumped into Neil Young carrying an amp and asked if he was interested in joining. He was. The Mynah Birds quickly became one of the best bands in Toronto, and Young and Matthews became close, both as friends and as a performance team. People who saw them live would talk about things like a song called “Hideaway”, written by Young and Matthews, which had a spot in the middle where Young would start playing a harmonica solo, throw the harmonica up in the air mid-solo, Matthews would catch it, and he would then finish the solo. They got signed to Motown, who were at this point looking to branch out into the white guitar-group market, and they were put through the Motown star-making machine. They recorded an entire album, which remains unreleased, but they did release a single, "It's My Time": [Excerpt: The Mynah Birds, "It's My Time"] Or at least, they released a handful of promo copies. The single was pulled from release after Ricky Matthews got arrested. It turned out his birth name wasn't Ricky Matthews, but James Johnson, and that he wasn't from Toronto as he'd told everyone, but from Buffalo, New York. He'd fled to Canada after going AWOL from the Navy, not wanting to be sent to Vietnam, and he was arrested and jailed for desertion. After getting out of jail, he would start performing under yet another name, and as Rick James would have a string of hits in the seventies and eighties: [Excerpt: Rick James, "Super Freak"] Most of the rest of the group continued gigging as The Mynah Birds, but Young and Palmer had other plans. They sold the expensive equipment Eaton had bought the group, and Young bought a new hearse, which he named Mort 2 – Mort had been his first hearse. And according to one of the band's friends in Toronto, the crucial change in their lives came when Neil Young heard a song on a jukebox: [Excerpt: The Mamas and the Papas, "California Dreamin'"] Young apparently heard "California Dreamin'" and immediately said "Let's go to California and become rock stars". Now, Young later said of this anecdote that "That sounds like a Canadian story to me. That sounds too real to be true", and he may well be right. Certainly the actual wording of the story is likely incorrect -- people weren't talking about "rock stars" in 1966. Google's Ngram viewer has the first use of the phrase in print being in 1969, and the phrase didn't come into widespread usage until surprisingly late -- even granting that phrases enter slang before they make it to print, it still seems implausible. But even though the precise wording might not be correct, something along those lines definitely seems to have happened, albeit possibly less dramatically. Young's friend Comrie Smith independently said that Young told him “Well, Comrie, I can hear the Mamas and the Papas singing ‘All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray …' I'm gonna go down to the States and really make it. I'm on my way. Today North Toronto, tomorrow the world!” Young and Palmer loaded up Mort 2 with a bunch of their friends and headed towards California. On the way, they fell out with most of the friends, who parted from them, and Young had an episode which in retrospect may have been his first epileptic seizure. They decided when they got to California that they were going to look for Steve Stills, as they'd heard he was in LA and neither of them knew anyone else in the state. But after several days of going round the Sunset Strip clubs asking if anyone knew Steve Stills, and sleeping in the hearse as they couldn't afford anywhere else, they were getting fed up and about to head off to San Francisco, as they'd heard there was a good music scene there, too. They were going to leave that day, and they were stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard, about to head off, when Stills and Furay came driving in the other direction. Furay happened to turn his head, to brush away a fly, and saw a hearse with Ontario license plates. He and Stills both remembered that Young drove a hearse, and so they assumed it must be him. They started honking at the hearse, then did a U-turn. They got Young's attention, and they all pulled into the parking lot at Ben Frank's, the Sunset Strip restaurant that attracted such a hip crowd the Monkees' producers had asked for "Ben Frank's types" in their audition advert. Young introduced Stills and Furay to Palmer, and now there *was* a group -- three singing, songwriting, guitarists and a bass player. Now all they needed was a drummer. There were two drummers seriously considered for the role. One of them, Billy Mundi, was technically the better player, but Young didn't like playing with him as much -- and Mundi also had a better offer, to join the Mothers of Invention as their second drummer -- before they'd recorded their first album, they'd had two drummers for a few months, but Denny Bruce, their second drummer, had become ill with glandular fever and they'd reverted to having Jimmy Carl Black play solo. Now they were looking for someone else, and Mundi took that role. The other drummer, who Young preferred anyway, was another Canadian, Dewey Martin. Martin was a couple of years older than the rest of the group, and by far the most experienced. He'd moved from Canada to Nashville in his teens, and according to Martin he had been taken under the wing of Hank Garland, the great session guitarist most famous for "Sugarfoot Rag": [Excerpt: Hank Garland, "Sugarfoot Rag"] We heard Garland playing with Elvis and others in some of the episodes around 1960, and by many reckonings he was the best session guitarist in Nashville, but in 1961 he had a car accident that left him comatose, and even though he recovered from the coma and lived another thirty-three years, he never returned to recording. According to Martin, though, Garland would still sometimes play jazz clubs around Nashville after the accident, and one day Martin walked into a club and saw him playing. The drummer he was playing with got up and took a break, taking his sticks with him, so Martin got up on stage and started playing, using two combs instead of sticks. Garland was impressed, and told Martin that Faron Young needed a drummer, and he could get him the gig. At the time Young was one of the biggest stars in country music. That year, 1961, he had three country top ten hits, including a number one with his version of Willie Nelson's "Hello Walls", produced by Ken Nelson: [Excerpt: Faron Young, "Hello Walls"] Martin joined Faron Young's band for a while, and also ended up playing short stints in the touring bands of various other Nashville-based country and rock stars, including Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers, before heading to LA for a while. Then Mel Taylor of the Ventures hooked him up with some musicians in the Pacific Northwest scene, and Martin started playing there under the name Sir Raleigh and the Coupons with various musicians. After a while he travelled back to LA where he got some members of the LA group Sons of Adam to become a permanent lineup of Coupons, and they recorded several singles with Martin singing lead, including the Tommy Boyce and Steve Venet song "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day", later recorded by the Monkees: [Excerpt: Sir Raleigh and the Coupons, "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day"] He then played with the Standells, before joining the Modern Folk Quartet for a short while, as they were transitioning from their folk sound to a folk-rock style. He was only with them for a short while, and it's difficult to get precise details -- almost everyone involved with Buffalo Springfield has conflicting stories about their own careers with timelines that don't make sense, which is understandable given that people were talking about events decades later and memory plays tricks. "Fast" Eddie Hoh had joined the Modern Folk Quartet on drums in late 1965, at which point they became the Modern Folk Quintet, and nothing I've read about that group talks about Hoh ever actually leaving, but apparently Martin joined them in February 1966, which might mean he's on their single "Night-Time Girl", co-written by Al Kooper and produced and arranged by Jack Nitzsche: [Excerpt: The Modern Folk Quintet, "Night-Time Girl"] After that, Martin was taken on by the Dillards, a bluegrass band who are now possibly most famous for having popularised the Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith song "Duellin' Banjos", which they recorded on their first album and played on the Andy Griffith Show a few years before it was used in Deliverance: [Excerpt: The Dillards, "Duellin' Banjos"] The Dillards had decided to go in a country-rock direction -- and Doug Dillard would later join the Byrds and make records with Gene Clark -- but they were hesitant about it, and after a brief period with Martin in the band they decided to go back to their drummerless lineup. To soften the blow, they told him about another band that was looking for a drummer -- their manager, Jim Dickson, who was also the Byrds' manager, knew Stills and his bandmates. Dewey Martin was in the group. The group still needed a name though. They eventually took their name from a brand of steam roller, after seeing one on the streets when some roadwork was being done. Everyone involved disagrees as to who came up with the name. Steve Stills at one point said it was a group decision after Neil Young and the group's manager Frazier Mohawk stole the nameplate off the steamroller, and later Stills said that Richey Furay had suggested the name while they were walking down the street, Dewey Martin said it was his idea, Neil Young said that he, Steve Sills, and Van Dyke Parks had been walking down the street and either Young or Stills had seen the nameplate and suggested the name, and Van Dyke Parks says that *he* saw the nameplate and suggested it to Dewey Martin: [Excerpt: Steve Stills and Van Dyke Parks on the name] For what it's worth, I tend to believe Van Dyke Parks in most instances -- he's an honest man, and he seems to have a better memory of the sixties than many of his friends who led more chemically interesting lives. Whoever came up with it, the name worked -- as Stills later put it "We thought it was pretty apt, because Neil Young is from Manitoba which is buffalo country, and  Richie Furay was from Springfield, Ohio -- and I'm the field!" It almost certainly also helped that the word "buffalo" had been in the name of Stills' previous group, Buffalo Fish. On the eleventh of April, 1966, Buffalo Springfield played their first gig, at the Troubadour, using equipment borrowed from the Dillards. Chris Hillman of the Byrds was in the audience and was impressed. He got the group a support slot on a show the Byrds and the Dillards were doing a few days later in San Bernardino. That show was compered by a Merseyside-born British DJ, John Ravenscroft, who had managed to become moderately successful in US radio by playing up his regional accent so he sounded more like the Beatles. He would soon return to the UK, and start broadcasting under the name John Peel. Hillman also got them a week-long slot at the Whisky A-Go-Go, and a bidding war started between record labels to sign the band. Dunhill offered five thousand dollars, Warners counted with ten thousand, and then Atlantic offered twelve thousand. Atlantic were *just* starting to get interested in signing white guitar groups -- Jerry Wexler never liked that kind of music, always preferring to stick with soul and R&B, but Ahmet Ertegun could see which way things were going. Atlantic had only ever signed two other white acts before -- Neil Young's old favourite Bobby Darin, who had since left the label, and Sonny and Cher. And Sonny and Cher's management and production team, Brian Stone and Charlie Greene, were also very interested in the group, who even before they had made a record had quickly become the hottest band on the circuit, even playing the Hollywood Bowl as the Rolling Stones' support act. Buffalo Springfield already had managers -- Frazier Mohawk and Richard Davis, the lighting man at the Troubadour (who was sometimes also referred to as Dickie Davis, but I'll use his full name so as not to cause unnecessary confusion in British people who remember the sports TV presenter of the same name), who Mohawk had enlisted to help him. But Stone and Greene weren't going to let a thing like that stop them. According to anonymous reports quoted without attribution in David Roberts' biography of Stills -- so take this with as many grains of salt as you want -- Stone and Greene took Mohawk for a ride around LA in a limo, just the three of them, a gun, and a used hotdog napkin. At the end of the ride, the hotdog napkin had Mohawk's scrawled signature, signing the group over to Stone and Greene. Davis stayed on, but was demoted to just doing their lights. The way things ended up, the group signed to Stone and Greene's production company, who then leased their masters to Atlantic's Atco subsidiary. A publishing company was also set up for the group's songs -- owned thirty-seven point five percent by Atlantic, thirty-seven point five percent by Stone and Greene, and the other twenty-five percent split six ways between the group and Davis, who they considered their sixth member. Almost immediately, Charlie Greene started playing Stills and Young off against each other, trying a divide-and-conquer strategy on the group. This was quite easy, as both men saw themselves as natural leaders, though Stills was regarded by everyone as the senior partner -- the back cover of their first album would contain the line "Steve is the leader but we all are". Stills and Young were the two stars of the group as far as the audience were concerned -- though most musicians who heard them play live say that the band's real strength was in its rhythm section, with people comparing Palmer's playing to that of James Jamerson. But Stills and Young would get into guitar battles on stage, one-upping each other, in ways that turned the tension between them in creative directions. Other clashes, though were more petty -- both men had very domineering mothers, who would actually call the group's management to complain about press coverage if their son was given less space than the other one. The group were also not sure about Young's voice -- to the extent that Stills was known to jokingly apologise to the audience before Young took a lead vocal -- and so while the song chosen as the group's first A-side was Young's "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", Furay was chosen to sing it, rather than Young: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"] On the group's first session, though, both Stills and Young realised that their producers didn't really have a clue -- the group had built up arrangements that had a complex interplay of instruments and vocals, but the producers insisted on cutting things very straightforwardly, with a basic backing track and then the vocals. They also thought that the song was too long so the group should play faster. Stills and Young quickly decided that they were going to have to start producing their own material, though Stone and Greene would remain the producers for the first album. There was another bone of contention though, because in the session the initial plan had been for Stills' song "Go and Say Goodbye" to be the A-side with Young's song as the B-side. It was flipped, and nobody seems quite sure why -- it's certainly the case that, whatever the merits of the two tracks as songs, Stills' song was the one that would have been more likely to become a hit. "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" was a flop, but it did get some local airplay. The next single, "Burned", was a Young song as well, and this time did have Young taking the lead, though in a song dominated by harmonies: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Burned"] Over the summer, though, something had happened that would affect everything for the group -- Neil Young had started to have epileptic seizures. At first these were undiagnosed episodes, but soon they became almost routine events, and they would often happen on stage, particularly at moments of great stress or excitement. Several other members of the group became convinced -- entirely wrongly -- that Young was faking these seizures in order to get women to pay attention to him. They thought that what he wanted was for women to comfort him and mop his brow, and that collapsing would get him that. The seizures became so common that Richard Davis, the group's lighting tech, learned to recognise the signs of a seizure before it happened. As soon as it looked like Young was about to collapse the lights would turn on, someone would get ready to carry him off stage, and Richie Furay would know to grab Young's guitar before he fell so that the guitar wouldn't get damaged. Because they weren't properly grounded and Furay had an electric guitar of his own, he'd get a shock every time. Young would later claim that during some of the seizures, he would hallucinate that he was another person, in another world, living another life that seemed to have its own continuity -- people in the other world would recognise him and talk to him as if he'd been away for a while -- and then when he recovered he would have to quickly rebuild his identity, as if temporarily amnesiac, and during those times he would find things like the concept of lying painful. The group's first album came out in December, and they were very, very, unhappy with it. They thought the material was great, but they also thought that the production was terrible. Stone and Greene's insistence that they record the backing tracks first and then overdub vocals, rather than singing live with the instruments, meant that the recordings, according to Stills and Young in particular, didn't capture the sound of the group's live performance, and sounded sterile. Stills and Young thought they'd fixed some of that in the mono mix, which they spent ten days on, but then Stone and Greene did the stereo mix without consulting the band, in less than two days, and the album was released at precisely the time that stereo was starting to overtake mono in the album market. I'm using the mono mixes in this podcast, but for decades the only versions available were the stereo ones, which Stills and Young both loathed. Ahmet Ertegun also apparently thought that the demo versions of the songs -- some of which were eventually released on a box set in 2001 -- were much better than the finished studio recordings. The album was not a success on release, but it did contain the first song any of the group had written to chart. Soon after its release, Van Dyke Parks' friend Lenny Waronker was producing a single by a group who had originally been led by Sly Stone and had been called Sly and the Mojo Men. By this time Stone was no longer involved in the group, and they were making music in a very different style from the music their former leader would later become known for. Parks was brought in to arrange a baroque-pop version of Stills' album track "Sit Down I Think I Love You" for the group, and it became their only top forty hit, reaching number thirty-six: [Excerpt: The Mojo Men, "Sit Down I Think I Love You"] It was shortly after the first Buffalo Springfield album was released, though, that Steve Stills wrote what would turn out to be *his* group's only top forty single. The song had its roots in both LA and San Francisco. The LA roots were more obvious -- the song was written about a specific experience Stills had had. He had been driving to Sunset Strip from Laurel Canyon on November the twelfth 1966, and he had seen a mass of young people and police in riot gear, and he had immediately turned round, partly because he didn't want to get involved in what looked to be a riot, and partly because he'd been inspired -- he had the idea for a lyric, which he pretty much finished in the car even before he got home: [Excerpt: The Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth"] The riots he saw were what became known later as the Riot on Sunset Strip. This was a minor skirmish between the police and young people of LA -- there had been complaints that young people had been spilling out of the nightclubs on Sunset Strip into the street, causing traffic problems, and as a result the city council had introduced various heavy-handed restrictions, including a ten PM curfew for all young people in the area, removing the permits that many clubs had which allowed people under twenty-one to be present, forcing the Whisky A-Go-Go to change its name just to "the Whisk", and forcing a club named Pandora's Box, which was considered the epicentre of the problem, to close altogether. Flyers had been passed around calling for a "funeral" for Pandora's Box -- a peaceful gathering at which people could say goodbye to a favourite nightspot, and a thousand people had turned up. The police also turned up, and in the heavy-handed way common among law enforcement, they managed to provoke a peaceful party and turn it into a riot. This would not normally be an event that would be remembered even a year later, let alone nearly sixty years later, but Sunset Strip was the centre of the American rock music world in the period, and of the broader youth entertainment field. Among those arrested at the riot, for example, were Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda, neither of whom were huge stars at the time, but who were making cheap B-movies with Roger Corman for American International Pictures. Among the cheap exploitation films that American International Pictures made around this time was one based on the riots, though neither Nicholson, Fonda, or Corman were involved. Riot on Sunset Strip was released in cinemas only four months after the riots, and it had a theme song by Dewey Martin's old colleagues The Standells, which is now regarded as a classic of garage rock: [Excerpt: The Standells, "Riot on Sunset Strip"] The riots got referenced in a lot of other songs, as well. The Mothers of Invention's second album, Absolutely Free, contains the song "Plastic People" which includes this section: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Plastic People"] And the Monkees track "Daily Nightly", written by Michael Nesmith, was always claimed by Nesmith to be an impressionistic portrait of the riots, though the psychedelic lyrics sound to me more like they're talking about drug use and street-walking sex workers than anything to do with the riots: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Daily Nightly"] But the song about the riots that would have the most lasting effect on popular culture was the one that Steve Stills wrote that night. Although how much he actually wrote, at least of the music, is somewhat open to question. Earlier that month, Buffalo Springfield had spent some time in San Francisco. They hadn't enjoyed the experience -- as an LA band, they were thought of as a bunch of Hollywood posers by most of the San Francisco scene, with the exception of one band, Moby Grape -- a band who, like them had three guitarist/singer/songwriters, and with whom they got on very well. Indeed, they got on rather better with Moby Grape than they were getting on with each other at this point, because Young and Stills would regularly get into arguments, and every time their argument seemed to be settling down, Dewey Martin would manage to say the wrong thing and get Stills riled up again -- Martin was doing a lot of speed at this point and unable to stop talking, even when it would have been politic to do so. There was even some talk while they were in San Francisco of the bands doing a trade -- Young and Pete Lewis of Moby Grape swapping places -- though that came to nothing. But Stills, according to both Richard Davis and Pete Lewis, had been truly impressed by two Moby Grape songs. One of them was a song called "On the Other Side", which Moby Grape never recorded, but which apparently had a chorus that went "Stop, can't you hear the music ringing in your ear, right before you go, telling you the way is clear," with the group all pausing after the word "Stop". The other was a song called "Murder in my Heart for the Judge": [Excerpt: Moby Grape, "Murder in my Heart for the Judge"] The song Stills wrote had a huge amount of melodic influence from that song, and quite a bit from “On the Other Side”, though he apparently didn't notice until after the record came out, at which point he apologised to Moby Grape. Stills wasn't massively impressed with the song he'd written, and went to Stone and Greene's office to play it for them, saying "I'll play it, for what it's worth". They liked the song and booked a studio to get the song recorded and rush-released, though according to Neil Young neither Stone nor Greene were actually present at the session, and the song was recorded on December the fifth, while some outbursts of rioting were still happening, and released on December the twenty-third. [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth"] The song didn't have a title when they recorded it, or so Stills thought, but when he mentioned this to Greene and Stone afterwards, they said "Of course it does. You said, 'I'm going to play the song, 'For What It's Worth'" So that became the title, although Ahmet Ertegun didn't like the idea of releasing a single with a title that wasn't in the lyric, so the early pressings of the single had "Stop, Hey, What's That Sound?" in brackets after the title. The song became a big hit, and there's a story told by David Crosby that doesn't line up correctly, but which might shed some light on why. According to Crosby, "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" got its first airplay because Crosby had played members of Buffalo Springfield a tape he'd been given of the unreleased Beatles track "A Day in the Life", and they'd told their gangster manager-producers about it. Those manager-producers had then hired a sex worker to have sex with Crosby and steal the tape, which they'd then traded to a radio station in return for airplay. That timeline doesn't work, unless the sex worker involved was also a time traveller,  because "A Day in the Life" wasn't even recorded until January 1967 while "Clancy" came out in August 1966, and there'd been two other singles released between then and January 1967. But it *might* be the case that that's what happened with "For What It's Worth", which was released in the last week of December 1966, and didn't really start to do well on the charts for a couple of months. Right after recording the song, the group went to play a residency in New York, of which Ahmet Ertegun said “When they performed there, man, there was no band I ever heard that had the electricity of that group. That was the most exciting group I've ever seen, bar none. It was just mind-boggling.” During that residency they were joined on stage at various points by Mitch Ryder, Odetta, and Otis Redding. While in New York, the group also recorded "Mr. Soul", a song that Young had originally written as a folk song about his experiences with epilepsy, the nature of the soul, and dealing with fame. However, he'd noticed a similarity to "Satisfaction" and decided to lean into it. The track as finally released was heavily overdubbed by Young a few months later, but after it was released he decided he preferred the original take, which by then only existed as a scratchy acetate, which got released on a box set in 2001: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Mr. Soul (original version)"] Everyone has a different story of how the session for that track went -- at least one version of the story has Otis Redding turning up for the session and saying he wanted to record the song himself, as his follow-up to his version of "Satisfaction", but Young being angry at the idea. According to other versions of the story, Greene and Stills got into a physical fight, with Greene having to be given some of the valium Young was taking for his epilepsy to calm him down. "For What it's Worth" was doing well enough on the charts that the album was recalled, and reissued with "For What It's Worth" replacing Stills' song "Baby Don't Scold", but soon disaster struck the band. Bruce Palmer was arrested on drugs charges, and was deported back to Canada just as the song started to rise through the charts. The group needed a new bass player, fast. For a lipsynch appearance on local TV they got Richard Davis to mime the part, and then they got in Ken Forssi, the bass player from Love, for a couple of gigs. They next brought in Ken Koblun, the bass player from the Squires, but he didn't fit in with the rest of the group. The next replacement was Jim Fielder. Fielder was a friend of the group, and knew the material -- he'd subbed for Palmer a few times in 1966 when Palmer had been locked up after less serious busts. And to give some idea of how small a scene the LA scene was, when Buffalo Springfield asked him to become their bass player, he was playing rhythm guitar for the Mothers of Invention, while Billy Mundi was on drums, and had played on their second, as yet unreleased, album, Absolutely Free: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Call any Vegetable"] And before joining the Mothers, Fielder and Mundi had also played together with Van Dyke Parks, who had served his own short stint as a Mother of Invention already, backing Tim Buckley on Buckley's first album: [Excerpt: Tim Buckley, "Aren't You the Girl?"] And the arrangements on that album were by Jack Nitzsche, who would soon become a very close collaborator with Young. "For What it's Worth" kept rising up the charts. Even though it had been inspired by a very local issue, the lyrics were vague enough that people in other situations could apply it to themselves, and it soon became regarded as an anti-war protest anthem -- something Stills did nothing to discourage, as the band were all opposed to the war. The band were also starting to collaborate with other people. When Stills bought a new house, he couldn't move in to it for a while, and so Peter Tork invited him to stay at his house. The two got on so well that Tork invited Stills to produce the next Monkees album -- only to find that Michael Nesmith had already asked Chip Douglas to do it. The group started work on a new album, provisionally titled "Stampede", but sessions didn't get much further than Stills' song "Bluebird" before trouble arose between Young and Stills. The root of the argument seems to have been around the number of songs each got on the album. With Richie Furay also writing, Young was worried that given the others' attitudes to his songwriting, he might get as few as two songs on the album. And Young and Stills were arguing over which song should be the next single, with Young wanting "Mr. Soul" to be the A-side, while Stills wanted "Bluebird" -- Stills making the reasonable case that they'd released two Neil Young songs as singles and gone nowhere, and then they'd released one of Stills', and it had become a massive hit. "Bluebird" was eventually chosen as the A-side, with "Mr. Soul" as the B-side: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Bluebird"] The "Bluebird" session was another fraught one. Fielder had not yet joined the band, and session player Bobby West subbed on bass. Neil Young had recently started hanging out with Jack Nitzsche, and the two were getting very close and working on music together. Young had impressed Nitzsche not just with his songwriting but with his arrogance -- he'd played Nitzsche his latest song, "Expecting to Fly", and Nitzsche had said halfway through "That's a great song", and Young had shushed him and told him to listen, not interrupt. Nitzsche, who had a monstrous ego himself and was also used to working with people like Phil Spector, the Rolling Stones and Sonny Bono, none of them known for a lack of faith in their own abilities, was impressed. Shortly after that, Stills had asked Nitzsch

In our newest segment, one which reflects on our complete lack of judgement and discernment, we present LIVE SINGING, the segment that features various singers "singing" (yes, that word was intentionally placed within quotation marks!) some of your favorite songs! On today's show, "Paranoid Pete", "Operatic Olivier", "Hicksville Harry", and "Cannabis Carl", came in to sing, "Mack The Knife", by Frank Sinatra. As Al often says, what could POSSIBLY go wrong???

In our newest segment, one which reflects on our complete lack of judgement and discernment, we present LIVE SINGING, the segment that features various singers "singing" (yes, that word was intentionally placed within quotation marks!) some of your favorite songs! On today's show, "Paranoid Pete", "Operatic Olivier", "Hicksville Harry", and "Cannabis Carl", came in to sing, "Mack The Knife", by Frank Sinatra. As Al often says, what could POSSIBLY go wrong???

THE THREEPENNY OPERA COMPOSER: Kurt Weill LYRICIST: Bertolt Brecht BOOK: Bertolt Brecht (Adaptation by Marc Blitzstein) DIRECTOR: Carmen Capalbo PRINCIPLE CAST: Beatrice Arthur (Lucy), Lotte Lenya (Jenny), Scott Merrill (Macheath) OPENING DATE: March 10th, 1954 CLOSING DATE: May 30th, 1954 PERFORMANCES: 96 SYNOPSIS: Polly Peachum marries the infamous robber Mack the Knife, much to the chagrin of her parents. In order to end the marriage, her parents and various citizens of the morally bankrupt town concoct a plan to have Mack The Knife arrested and executed.  A play with music by dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera is significant as a German political satire which has since become popular in the United States. Brecht's theatrical theories have had huge significance on the way theatre is presented globally and Weill's cabaret score influenced later American composers such as Kander and Ebb. Several songs from the show have become popular standards since its premiere. Today, it is best known for kicking off “the off-Broadway” musical, a musical that performs in more intimate spaces and offers more experimental, as opposed to commercial, work. Lauren Mack traces how the musical made its way to the United States, the political and social climate that welcomed it, and how audiences were trained to expand their definition of what defines a theatrical space. Lauren T. Mack (they/them) is a NYC-based actor & writer. Lauren has appeared onstage in NYC at the York Theatre, NY Fringe Festival, IRT, the PIT, and on stages throughout the US & France. Lauren's voiceover work ranges from Ford Motors to audioplay meditations with Fullmetal Workshop. Lauren also produces award-winning indies such as CAT PLANET (2017 TFF: Best Web Series), and recently appeared in VELOUR (2020 Official Selection, QueerX FF). They teach acting, speech, and voice/movement at New York Film Academy, Trinity College, as well as throughout India and France. Proud member of Actor's Equity and a Key with Ring of Keys. LaurenTMack.com SOURCES The Threepenny Opera, Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording. MGM (1954) The Threepenny Opera, starring Lotte Lenya and Rudolf Forster, directed by G.W. Pabst. Tobis Filmkunst (1931) The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, published by Methuen Drama (2015) Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, published by St. Martin's Press (2012) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

STANDARD SEMANAL.- “Mack The Knife”( Wayne Newton-Louis Armstrong-Sonny Rollins-Wayne Shorter-Ella Fitzgerald).-JAZZ RECUERDO ANIVERSARIO.- Miles Davis .-“ Sketches of Spain “.-JAZZ ACTUALIDAD .-Francisco Javier Torres: SEMANA SANTA SIGLO XXI

That Takashi Miike is a genius is a lesson the Fried Squirms learned long ago. There are however still courses for him to teach us. This week they head back to High School for Lesson of the Evil. Support our Patreon! www.patreon.com/FriedSquirms Listen to more Fried Squirms at www.friedsquirms.com Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at squirmcast@gmail.com

Evan Nolan joins Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson for a look at the 1959 gem, Mack the Knife, a peppy song about a murderous hit man.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 293, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ink 1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink. Red. 2: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink. Paper Mate. 3: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent. Indelible. 4: 1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing and re-appearing ink. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". 5: His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots. Herman Rohrshach. Round 2. Category: Teen People 1: These cover girls of the issue turned 18 on June 13, 2004. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. 2: In 1998 Brandy and this teen country diva were among the "Hottest Stars Under 21". LeAnn Rimes. 3: Talk about most embarrassing moments, she said hers was on "Jeopardy!":. Kirsten Dunst. 4: 4 stars of this Fox drama shared a spot (we think the one who plays Seth is funny-looking, but whatever). The O.C.. 5: Following Nelly, Chingy is the latest big star out of this city's rap scene. St. Louis. Round 3. Category: '50s Song Lyrics 1: This Bill Haley hit told us to "Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans". "Shake, Rattle And Roll". 2: This Erroll Garner song begins, "Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree". "Misty". 3: This Carl Perkins hit begins, "Well, it's one for the money, two for the show....". "Blue Suede Shoes". 4: This song's lyrics contain such names as "Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver, Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown". "Mack The Knife". 5: "I believe for ev'ry drop of rain that falls" this "grows". A Flower. Round 4. Category: The President's Dog 1: This bestselling author died in May 1997 at age 12. Millie (President Bush's dog). 2: The press corps called this Scottie "The Informer"; when they saw him they knew FDR was near. Fala. 3: Edgar was the beagle named after this man, who gave him to LBJ. J. Edgar Hoover. 4: His golden retriever Liberty gave birth to 9 pups in the White House, giving him even more to trip over. Gerald Ford. 5: He gave the Kennedys Pushinka, a pup of Strelka, the first Soviet dog in space. Nikita Khrushchev. Round 5. Category: U.s. Government And Politics 1: Members of the House of Representatives serve terms of this many years. 2. 2: He appointed more justices (9) to the Supreme Court than any other president in the 20th century. FDR. 3: You'll find its home page at www.uscg.mil. the Coast Guard. 4: This document served as our basic charter of government from 1781 until the Constitution in 1789. the Articles of Confederation. 5: It's the F in the outdoors-oriented agency known as FWS. Fish. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

En el programa de esta semana contamos la historia de uno de los estándares más famosos de siempre, Mack The Knife. Hablamos de los inicios del personaje en la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, de la aparición de la conocida melodía en una ópera de Bertolt Brecht y Kurt Weeil y de la llegada de la canción a los Estados Unidos. Allí será Louis Armstrong el encargado de popularizarla y convertirla en el tema que hoy todos reconocemos. Te esperamos en este episodio para contarte todos los detalles de esta fenomenal historia.

Mack the Knife at the dentist. Titans of slam poetry collide. Dogs run the world & humans are the pets. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The gang presents a Greatest Hits show. Segments include Top 10 UFO Myths, the Mystery of the Green Fireballs and what dreams might mean for you and your sex life. Also, adult-themed outtakes, blooper ads and JJ tries to sing “Mack The Knife.” Special Guests: Jill Hanson & Lois Lane.

The gang presents a Greatest Hits show. Segments include Top 10 UFO Myths, the Mystery of the Green Fireballs and what dreams might mean for you and your sex life. Also, adult-themed outtakes, blooper ads and JJ tries to sing “Mack The Knife.” Special Guests: Jill Hanson & Lois Lane.

The gang presents a Greatest Hits show. Segments include Top 10 UFO Myths, the Mystery of the Green Fireballs and what dreams might mean for you and your sex life.  Also, adult-themed outtakes, blooper ads and JJ tries to sing “Mack The Knife.” Special Guests: Jill Hanson & Lois Lane.    Mack Maloney Online: Website - https://www.mackmaloney.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WingmanMack/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MilitaryXFiles Twitter - https://twitter.com/WingmanMack Amazon – https://amzn.to/2IlFRkq  

In "Mack the Knife", an actor is tasked with transforming into his inner savage on stage while the city around him endures a series of beastly attacks. Part 2 of 2. 

In "Mack the Knife", an actor is tasked with transforming into his inner savage on stage while the city around him endures a series of beastly attacks. Part 1 of 2.   

One of the great joys during an interview with a singer or musician is when I get to ask them about a recording I love. What follows, as part of what I call my singles podcast because they last less than five minutes is me discussing one such song with one such musician. By the way, if you want to gain access to the full tapes for personal use or professional use contact me via my website joejacksoninterviewer.com. But here we have George Benson talking about the staggering recording Sinatra made of Mack the Knife. 

Georges Leekens, bijgenaamd Mack The Knife, stond na zijn eigen spelerscarrière aan het roer van heel wat clubs en landen. Zo was hij onder meer tweemaal bondscoach van onze Rode Duivels, werd kampioen met Club Brugge en sloot zijn trainerscarrière af in bij het Iraanse Tractor Sazi FC. Reis mee doorheen de rijkgevulde loopbaan van de man die van 90% een begrip maakte.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Dans notre série « Un tube, une histoire », ce sera du cabaret cette semaine avec Mackie Messer, un assassin qui a fait du chemin. De Berlin à Broadway en passant par des cabarets et des caves de jazz, il a créé sa légende sous le nom de Mack The Knife ou encore Mackie-le-Surineur. Sa chanson délicieusement amorale est issue de l'Opéra de Quat'sous créé en 1928 par le tandem allemand Bertold Brecht et Kurt Weill, tous les deux socialement engagés et prêts à retourner le monde.

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Super Producer Cimcie jumps on this episode of The Bridge, as the show starts out with some thoughts on the blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong" that is racking up serious cash around the world. John, Liu Yan and Cimcie talk about the longevity of certain movie franchises and how people are in need of some escapism, and apparently the giant lizard and overgrown gorilla seems to fill the bill at this point. Then, the talk goes to the incredible popularity of karaoke in China and the US, so John drops the needle on "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" that is one of the most requested songs Liu Yan performed as a bar singer in his former life. "Mack The Knife" by Bobby Darin and " I Love Rock 'n' Roll" from Joan Jett, which would be John and Cimcie's choices for performing at KTV (Karaoke Television).

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 22, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Television Milestones 1: One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers Rich Man, Poor Man. 2: One of the first British productions to play in the U.S. was a 1955 series about this 12th century outlaw Robin Hood. 3: American television's first Hispanic superstar was this bandleader Desi Arnaz. 4: When Samantha joined Darrin, it became the first live-action show to regularly put a man and wife in the same bed Bewitched. 5: The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in this European capital in 1928 London. Round 2. Category: Think Small 1: You certainly come up short if you're "knee-high to" this insect or creme de menthe cocktail a grasshopper. 2: Size of Don Ho's "Bubbles" Tiny. 3: Among its meanings are a small quantity; to waste time; and a custard and cake soaked in wine dessert trifle. 4: In the dictionary this word for extremely small follows something extremely big -- infinite infinitesimal. 5: According to the AKC, Yorkshire Terriers, Pomeranians and Pugs belong to this dog group toys. Round 3. Category: Royal Women 1: Marie Antoinette was among the 16 children of this Holy Roman empress and archduchess Maria Theresa. 2: An avid art collector, she founded the Hermitage Museum as a private gallery for her art collection Catherine the Great. 3: Unlike her sister Stephanie, she's a princess of Great Britain as well as of Monaco Princess Caroline. 4: In 1995 she told the BBC, "I'd like to be a queen...in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country" Princess Diana. 5: In 1492, she and her husband signed a decree ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or leave the country Queen Isabella. Round 4. Category: Bruce Springsteen 1: "I didn't know my own face, oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away on the streets of" this city Philadelphia. 2: The title track on this Springsteen album named for a state tells of a mass-murder spree by Charlie Starkweather Nebraska. 3: The 2006 album "We Shall Overcome" is a tribute to this Weavers co-founder and folk legend Pete Seeger. 4: In an unprecedented move in 1975, these 2 rival news magazines both featured cover stories on Bruce Newsweek and Time. 5: "Everybody's got" this body part, a song Bruce first intended to give to The Ramones a hungry heart. Round 5. Category: Rock N' Roll Heaven 1: He recorded "Mack The Knife" under this name he picked out of a phone book Bobby Darin. 2: Singer of this song, he spent 9 years in a coma before dying Jackie Wilson. 3: A drummer, she and brother Richard were best known as vocalists Karen Carpenter. 4: He had 4 Top 40 hits before and 4 after his death at 30 on Sept. 20, 1973 Jim Croce. 5: Needing time to do laundry on tour, this early rock giant chartered a fatal flight Buddy Holly. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Part 1 of the 7th Feb Breaks FM Show - Mack The Knife  1. Gangsta's Parody - Cut & Run 2. No Replica - Freestylers v Million Dan 3. Turn It Loud - General Midi 4. Get A Life - Freestylers, Krafty Kuts remix 5. Devastate - Skool of Thought 6. Strictly The Core - Dirty Habit 7. Rude Girl Skank - Pete Sampler v Virus Williams 8. Absurd - Fluke, Soul of Man remix 9. Runner - Peter Paul 10. Out Of It - Force Mass Motion