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Nick is joined by Daily Mirror man David Yates to discuss the latest from around the racing world today. They lead with the news that the King and Queen have sent a horse to be trained by Willie Mullins, and are joined by their majesties' racing and bloodstock adviser John Warren. With York's Dante Festival beginning today, Nick catches up with CEO William Derby and also talks to David Egan, number one rider for Amo Racing about Dante Stakes hopeful Tuscan Hills plus the exciting two year olds he's riding this week. As declarations filter through for the Yorkshire Cup on Friday, Nick takes the opportunity to catch up with the ever-insightful and entertaining Philippa Cooper about the return of her talented homebred stayer Sweet William. Plus, JA McGrath with the latest from Hong Kong.
Nick is joined by Daily Mirror man David Yates to discuss the latest from around the racing world today. They lead with the news that the King and Queen have sent a horse to be trained by Willie Mullins, and are joined by their majesties' racing and bloodstock adviser John Warren. With York's Dante Festival beginning today, Nick catches up with CEO William Derby and also talks to David Egan, number one rider for Amo Racing about Dante Stakes hopeful Tuscan Hills plus the exciting two year olds he's riding this week. As declarations filter through for the Yorkshire Cup on Friday, Nick takes the opportunity to catch up with the ever-insightful and entertaining Philippa Cooper about the return of her talented homebred stayer Sweet William. Plus, JA McGrath with the latest from Hong Kong.
From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobate ways had also been domesticated by love. And, another harmonic convergence: I had even spent a year in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack Yellen, the Jewish-Polish immigrant who wrote these Jazz-age lyrics, also penned Happy Days are Here Again, and Ain't She Sweet. If he had only created these three songs, his oeuvre would have been impressive. His art was another example, like that of Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, of the affinity young Jewish musicians expressed for black culture. And, like the Semitic moguls of old Hollywood - they became reflectors of America's aspirational self-image.Ry Cooder's Jazz album was not exactly an anomaly - he has always been a musical archeologist, but on this collection he strove for unparalleled authenticity. Check out his jaw dropping rendition of Bix Beiderbecke's In A Mist. Sublime. He's a national treasure, and if the jaunty swing-time on this number doesn't get your feet tapping - check your pulse - you might be dead.
There's a lot of “Sweet William” going on in this video … Tech On Demand host Bill “Sweet William” Calkins is joined once again by Dr. Will “Sweet William” Healy to discuss tips and tricks for finishing amazing dianthus crops at a time of year that can be challenging. From receiving plugs in cold weather and starting dianthus under long days to soil considerations and phosphorous deficiency risks, Will has plenty of advice to share so you and your team can be successful. WATCH THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7RcXvyFTdMo
In this episode of The Quo-Cast, Jamie Dyer lets people know that two classic Andy Bown albums are now available to stream on services such as Spotify and Amazon Music.During the 1970s, Andy Bown released several solo albums including Gone to My Head (1972), Sweet William (1973), Come Back Romance, All Is Forgiven (1977), Good Advice (1978) and Unfinished Business (2011).Come Back Romance, All is Forgiven: https://open.spotify.com/album/0PQW6QzMoCojtVSqmXX53wGone to my Head: https://open.spotify.com/album/1ioYecftq7XERFnJYawZ1LThe Quo-Cast is a podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to the legendary British rock band Status Quo. Featuring interviews with fans, tribute bands, and those associated with the band, it covers all things Quo—from tours and albums to singles, solo material and more. Exclusive content such as unboxing, commentary, insights, haul videos, and reviews are also available.Subscribe for early access to discussions, commentary, and interviews. Connect with us via:
Join us with our guest Bill Duvall, aka Wild Bill, aka Sweet William. Bill tells us stories of growing up in Sunfish, his time in the Air Force, and many other great stories!
Tim Bowling is the award-winning author of the poetry collection In the Capital City of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynn, April 9, 2024). Tim is the author of twenty-four works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including two Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund Awards, five Alberta Book Awards, a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, two Writers' Trust of Canada nominations, two Governor General's Award nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his entire body of work. In the Capital City of Autumn is an absorbing collection of poems that show Bowling's mastery of language and imagery. Now living in Edmonton, Tim spent the first thirty years of his life in the town of Ladner, BC, at the mouth of the Fraser River, where he worked in the salmon fishing industry. His love of the natural world, along with his love of language, and his experiences as a child and as a father of three children (now young adults) all reveal themselves in his unmistakably transcendent poems that trace universal themes of love, loss, and finding home. Bowling has yet again proven himself to be one of the prominent voices in Canadian poetry with this new collection, and cemented himself further as a must-read author. More About In the Capital City of Autumn: Tim Bowling is in top form in his latest collection of poetry, In the Capital City of Autumn. Threading through autumnal themes such as the loss of his mother and the demolition of his childhood home, his children growing and the inevitable passage of time, Bowling writes with rich lyricism and imagery. Sweet William and loosely woven woollen mitts for his mother, the moon as “an egg in the pocket of a running thief” for time, salmon for eternity. In the Capital City of Autumn, the characters of The Great Gatsby come to life, and three a.m. brings wisdom. These are masterful poems, lightened with a touch of whimsy, poems to sink into on a quiet evening. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Tim Bowling is the award-winning author of the poetry collection In the Capital City of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynn, April 9, 2024). Tim is the author of twenty-four works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including two Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund Awards, five Alberta Book Awards, a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, two Writers' Trust of Canada nominations, two Governor General's Award nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his entire body of work. In the Capital City of Autumn is an absorbing collection of poems that show Bowling's mastery of language and imagery. Now living in Edmonton, Tim spent the first thirty years of his life in the town of Ladner, BC, at the mouth of the Fraser River, where he worked in the salmon fishing industry. His love of the natural world, along with his love of language, and his experiences as a child and as a father of three children (now young adults) all reveal themselves in his unmistakably transcendent poems that trace universal themes of love, loss, and finding home. Bowling has yet again proven himself to be one of the prominent voices in Canadian poetry with this new collection, and cemented himself further as a must-read author. More About In the Capital City of Autumn: Tim Bowling is in top form in his latest collection of poetry, In the Capital City of Autumn. Threading through autumnal themes such as the loss of his mother and the demolition of his childhood home, his children growing and the inevitable passage of time, Bowling writes with rich lyricism and imagery. Sweet William and loosely woven woollen mitts for his mother, the moon as “an egg in the pocket of a running thief” for time, salmon for eternity. In the Capital City of Autumn, the characters of The Great Gatsby come to life, and three a.m. brings wisdom. These are masterful poems, lightened with a touch of whimsy, poems to sink into on a quiet evening. About Hollay Ghadery: Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children's book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is the host of the 105.5 FM Bookclub, as well as a co-host on HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. She is also a book publicist, the Regional Chair of the League of Canadian Poets and a co-chair of the League's BIPOC committee, as well as the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. Learn more about Hollay at www.hollayghadery.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry
This episode looks at the ballad Fair Margaret And Sweet William aka Lady Margaret And Sweet William aka Sweet William and Fair Margaret aka Knight William aka Lady Margaret aka Little Margaret aka The Old Armchair Tracklist Tom Munnelly – Talking about Knight William Martin Howley – Knight William AL Lloyd – Fair Margaret And Sweet William The Hare and the Moon – Sweet William and Fair Margaret Justus Begley – Lady Margaret Emma Shelton – Fair Margaret and Sweet William Almeda Riddle – Lady Margaret Sheila Kay Adams – Little Margaret Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Little Margaret Amps for Christ – Sweet William and Lady Margaret https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear “Margaret's Ghost” by Gwen Raverat, 1909
Today's episode features our popular weekly live Q&A session on Instagram called Ask a Flower Farmer. This one was hosted by Lisa Mason Ziegler, a flower farmer with over 25 years of experience, author, online instructor, founder of The Gardener's Workshop, and self-proclaimed "head bottle washer." During this session in early May, she fielded questions on the following topics... Topics: buckwheat cover crop, weed suppression & prevention, harvesting strawflowers, how to store seeds, recommended soil for raised beds, perennials for shade gardens, fertilizing cool flowers in the spring, succession planting, protecting plants from squirrels and rabbits, scouting for pest and disease damage, Sweet William varieties & successions, early and late-season sunflowers Lisa hosts these live Q&As on Instagram every Wednesday at 12:30 pm Eastern time, and we occasionally have guest hosts on as well - we invite you to check it out! Mentions Lisa's Online Community: The Gardener's Workshop Club Our Live Shopping Phone App: Download Link Lisa's Book: The Cut Flower Handbook Online Course: Cool Flowers From Seed To Harvest Products: Stand-Up Hoe, Neptune's Harvest Catch "Ask A Flower Farmer" live on our Instagram! Shop the TGW Online Store for all your seeds and supplies! Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social media!
Confused by all the Sweet William varieties available? Wondering how to choose which ones to plant, if there are benefits to growing multiple varieties, and when to start your seeds? Today, Lisa and Layne are joined by Dave Dowling of Ball Seed to compare and contrast six varieties of Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus / Dianthus x barbatus). They discuss which varieties are true biennials, which can be grown as cool-season hardy annuals, planting times, what makes each variety unique, and more. Listen to the podcast and learn why each of these Sweet William varieties is worth growing! The video version of Lisa and Layne's conversation will be posted to The Gardener's Workshop's YouTube channel, where all “Seed Talk” episodes are organized into a playlist. In addition, auto-generated transcripts are available for viewing on YouTube. If there is a question or topic you would like to hear discussed on a future episode of “Seed Talk”, please fill out the form linked below. We would love to hear your suggestions! Mentions: "Seed Talk" YouTube Playlist Online Course: Flower Farming School Online: Bulbs, Perennials, Woodies & More! Online Course: Cool Flowers from Seed to Harvest Shop: Sweet William Seeds Episode 50 - Sweet William Variety Comparison: Amazon vs. Sweet "Seed Talk" Topic Suggestion Form TGW YouTube Channel TGW iPhone App (iOS App Store) TGW Android App (Google Play) Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The "Seed Talk with Lisa & Layne" podcast is produced by The Gardener's Workshop and co-hosted by Lisa Mason Ziegler and Layne Angelo. Lisa is the founder and owner of The Gardener's Workshop, where Layne works as Seed Manager. Lisa is the award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers and the publisher of Flower Farming School Online, Farmer-Florist School Online, and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with her on social media. Layne is an avid gardener, seed starter, and engineer who loves learning and applying her technical knowledge to all areas of life, including gardening and growing flowers. Thanks for joining us!
Nick Luck is joined at Royal Ascot by ITV presenter Matt Chapman to discuss the latest news. They debate the merits of Auguste Rodin's Prince of Wales's success, ask what is next for Inspiral, consider the fortunes of Kieran Shoemark, and talk to Philippa Cooper, whose homebreds Gregory and Sweet William run in the Gold Cup. Also on the show, Dan Barber with the Timeform perspective, Page Fuller with RaceIQ, Jamie Benson with Worldpool. Our style correspondent and official milliner Lisa Tan catches up with jockey Saffie Osborne and Royal Milliner Jess Collett.
Emission #923 Sweet William, Blueshift Signal et Faith & Disease - La Playlist - Sweet William - (Across The River And Into the) Trees - In Fear of a Swirl – (J) - Behind The Scenes - The Streams of Summer – (J) - At the End of the Night Blueshift Signal - Seven Natural Scenes - Oceans – (J) - Between The Night & the Day - Absolution – (J) - The Secret Garden Faith & Disease - Yellow Dress - Baudelaire – (J) - Cocoon - Space Song – (J) - Violet II - Old Dusk Dakota – (J) - Perhap Persephone Bonne Ecoute... Bibliographie : Gothic Rock, une anthologie en 100 albums 1979 – 2000, Victor Provis, Le Mot et le Reste, 2021
This week Kelsey and Kevin Brown are back and we spin the final Diver Down track on the wheel, "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)"!Wanna be a part of the show? Join our Patreon!You can follow us on Twitter @PodcastWillRock, Facebook at And The Podcast Will Rock and you can check out our website at www.podcastwillrock.com.Proud member of The Deep Dive Podcast Network, www.deepdivepodcastnetwork.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode of The Quo-Cast, Jamie Dyer discusses why Andy Bown's solo material should be released on CD. During the 1970s, Andy Bown released several solo albums including Gone to My Head (1972), Sweet William (1973), Come Back Romance, All Is Forgiven (1977), Good Advice (1978). He later released Unfinished Business (2011).
Do you love the fresh look green flowers bring to a bouquet? Looking for unique shapes, forms, and textures to add interest to your arrangements? Today, Lisa and Layne discuss three gorgeous green cool flower fillers, plus a helpful tip for each one. Listen to the podcast and learn tips and tricks for growing and harvesting Atriplex, Bells of Ireland, and Sweet William! The video version of Lisa and Layne's conversation will be posted to The Gardener's Workshop's YouTube channel, where all “Seed Talk” episodes are organized into a playlist. In addition, auto-generated transcripts are available for viewing on YouTube. If there is a question or topic you would like to hear discussed on a future episode of “Seed Talk”, please fill out the form linked below. We would love to hear your suggestions! Mentions: "Seed Talk" YouTube Playlist Episode 30 - 3 Must-Grow Vegetables with Joe Lamp'l Episode 56 - Germination Troubleshooting - Rudbeckia, Bells of Ireland & Poppies Shop: Seeds "Seed Talk" Topic Suggestion Form TGW YouTube Channel TGW iPhone App (iOS App Store) TGW Android App (Google Play) Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The "Seed Talk with Lisa & Layne" podcast is produced by The Gardener's Workshop and co-hosted by Lisa Mason Ziegler and Layne Angelo. Lisa is the founder and owner of The Gardener's Workshop, where Layne works as Seed Manager. Lisa is the award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers and the publisher of Flower Farming School Online, Farmer-Florist School Online, and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with her on social media. Layne is an avid gardener, seed starter, and engineer who loves learning and applying her technical knowledge to all areas of life, including gardening and growing flowers. Thanks for joining us!
A Canterbury man says he's faced a seven-month battle after receiving a water bill for more than £3,200.It's because of a leak outside his Airbnb property in Whitstable.A leading Kent charity is again calling for safe and legal routes for refugees after a seven-year-old girl died while trying to cross from northern France.The boat she was in capsized with 16 people in board.A Kent campaigner is calling for paid leave for parents who lose a baby in early pregnancy. Keeley Lengthorn suffered three miscarriages in three years, but she wasn't entitled to any time off after her son George was stillborn at 23 weeks.As we mark 200 years of the RNLI, volunteers in Kent say not everyone understands what they do.Lifeboat crews are called out to emergencies at sea - but they're not paid for their work.A couple from West Malling have been left without their pension for a month after an error by Royal Mail.Trevor and Christine Wells paid for their post to be kept in a secure place while they were on holiday, but some if it was accidentally returned to the sender.A florist in Headcorn is celebrating 25 years of business.Sweet William was set up by Julia Archer in 1999.And in football, Gillingham are back in the League Two play-off places after beating Salford City away from home.Goals from Shad Ogie and Tim Dieng gave the Gills a 2-0 lead in torrential rain and hailstones at the Peninsula Stadium.
Sam Hart is joined by Graeme Rodway and Tom Park to preview the action from York and Goodwood this weekend. The panel begin by looking at the five ITV races at York including the Sky Bet Ebor. Sweet William heads the top of the market and is a short price for the race, but the panel agree on a 33-1 shot who could outrun his odds. In the second part of the show, the team take a trip to the South Downs for a couple of races from Goodwood. The Celebration Mile is the highlight on the card and looks a tough race to crack. To end the show, the Postcast team takes a brief look at the action from Windsor on Saturday evening before giving their best bets for the weekend.
Seven live ITV races on the concluding day of the Ebor Festival and the big handicap a season highlight for many punters. Daryl thinks that there is plenty more to come from the favourite Sweet William, while Dan is looking at an old friend in Goodwood for his nap. But the big question is, will Kevin's opinion be Absurde? T&Cs for all promos: promos.betfair.com/sport For all the latest tips & insight on racing head to betting.betfair.com/racing/
This week, Charlotte Greenway looks ahead to the two Group 1s at Deauville this weekend and sponsor, Sumbe's Stud manager Tony Fry discusses their runners in each race whilst we also hear from Jason Hart, Andrea Atzeni and Karl Burke. Then ahead of York's Ebor Festival next, Frankie Dettori looks forward to Mostahdaf in the Juddmonte International where Imad Al Sagar confirms that Nashwa will also line up whilst owner/breeder Philippa Cooper talks Ebor favourite, Sweet William.
Tom in for Nick and joined by Newsboy of the Daily Mirror David Yates. We start with reflection on yesterday's inaugural BHA media briefing where three main topics were covered. Dave picks out his key takeaways and argues that affordability checks could provide a big win for the legislature and provide them with a huge vote of confidence. With York's Ebor meeting on the horizon we hear from trainer Ralph Beckett on his likely team with Bluestocking by no means certain to run in the Yorkshire Oaks. Owner breeder Philippa Cooper joins us to look ahead to Sweet William hopefully getting into the Sky Bet Ebor. And Karl Burke is along to assess his likely York team and also look to Elite Status's run in the Group 1 Prix Morny on Sunday.
Confused by all the sweet william varieties available? Wondering how to choose between 'Amazon' and 'Sweet', and if there are any benefits to growing both? Today, Lisa and Layne compare and contrast the 'Amazon' and 'Sweet' series of sweet william. They cover similarities as well as the differences in flower form, bloom time, height, heat tolerance, productivity, fragrance, and color selection. Listen to the podcast and learn if 'Amazon' or 'Sweet' are the sweet williams for you! The video version of Lisa and Layne's conversation will be posted to The Gardener's Workshop's YouTube channel, where all “Seed Talk” episodes are organized into a playlist. In addition, auto-generated transcripts are available for viewing on YouTube. If there is a question or topic you would like to hear discussed on a future episode of “Seed Talk”, please fill out the form linked below. We would love to hear your suggestions! Mentions: "Seed Talk" YouTube Playlist Shop: Sweet William Seeds "Seed Talk" Topic Suggestion Form TGW YouTube Channel TGW iPhone App (iOS App Store) TGW Android App (Google Play) Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The "Seed Talk with Lisa & Layne" podcast is produced by The Gardener's Workshop and co-hosted by Lisa Mason Ziegler and Layne Angelo. Lisa is the founder and owner of The Gardener's Workshop, where Layne works as Seed Manager. Lisa is the award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers and the publisher of Flower Farming School Online, Farmer-Florist School Online, and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with her on social media. Layne is an avid gardener, seed starter, and engineer who loves learning and applying her technical knowledge to all areas of life, including gardening and growing flowers. Thanks for joining us!
Tom in for Nick and joined by Newsboy of the Daily Mirror David Yates. We start with reflection on yesterday's inaugural BHA media briefing where three main topics were covered. Dave picks out his key takeaways and argues that affordability checks could provide a big win for the legislature and provide them with a huge vote of confidence. With York's Ebor meeting on the horizon we hear from trainer Ralph Beckett on his likely team with Bluestocking by no means certain to run in the Yorkshire Oaks. Owner breeder Philippa Cooper joins us to look ahead to Sweet William hopefully getting into the Sky Bet Ebor. And Karl Burke is along to assess his likely York team and also look to Elite Status's run in the Group 1 Prix Morny on Sunday.
This episode features a takeover of our popular weekly live Q&A session on Instagram, called Ask a Flower Farmer. This one was guest hosted by Dave Dowling of Ball/ColorLink. Dave is also a former flower farmer and the instructor for our online course: Flower Farming School Online: Bulbs, Perennials, Woodies, and More. Dave has such a wealth of knowledge to share! He answers questions about many different flowers, including ranunculus, sunflowers, clarkia, celosia, peonies, amaranth, and tulips. Other topics mentioned: High Tunnel Growing Tips, privacy Screen Trees Cooler Storage of Ranunculus, Sunflowers, Lilies Harvesting of Sweet William, Clarkia, Ranunculus Seedling Care for Celosia, Amaranth Seedling Care under Grow Lights Fertilizing Ranunculus Tulip Growing/Tulip Fire Tree Peonies Icelandic Poppy Germination Peony Disbudding Planting Gladiolus over Daffodils Butterfly Ranunculus Mother's Day Prep & Organization Scouting for Thrips, Aphids, and Tarnish Plant Bugs Mentions Dave's Online Course: Flower Farming School Online: Bulbs, Perennials, Woodies, and More! Ball/Colorlink: Wholesale Plant, Bulb, & Seed Supplier The Gardener's Workshop on Instagram Shop the TGW Online Store for all your seeds and supplies! Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social media!
In the latest Dig It podcast, Peter Brown and Chris Day discuss the latest gardening news stories, events in the gardening calendar and take a look at some of the gardening tasks to be getting on with through the month of June.What's on27th May - 4th June National Children's Gardening Week featuring The World of Peter Rabbit.1st - 5th June: Bord Bia Bloom Ireland's largest gardening event.15 - 18th June: BBC Gardeners' World Live at the Birmingham NEC.23 - 25th June: Blenheim Palace Flower Show.30th June - 2nd July: Jekka's HerbFest at Jekka's Herb Farm, Alveston, Bristol.News of the show gardens and plants at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower ShowCatch up with the BBC RHS coverage (Please note BBC Iplayer is not available outside the UK and requires a TV license).Photo RHS Garden The Nurture Nature Garden designed by Sarah Price, Gold Medal winner.DIG IT Top 5 fertilisers Top slot at 1. Doff Seaweed Extract 2. Westland Fish, Blood, and Bone 3. Vitax Organic Potato Fertiliser 4 Miracle-Gro Chicken Manure 5. Levington's Tomorite.Product mentions: Levington Seed and Compost (Peat-free), Lawn Feed and Weed Fertilisers, Blood, Fish and Bone, Chicken manure and Vitax Q4. New sustainable one-use CasusGrill™ BBQ.Plant mentions: Propagate Carnations and Dahlias. Plant Courgettes, Fuchsias, Lobelia, Pelargoniums, Petunias, Sweet Corn, Runner bean ‘Enorma,' Tomatoes and Pumpkins. Sow seeds of Lettuce, Radish, and Spring Onions. Sow seeds of Canterbury Bells, Foxgloves, Polyanthus, Primroses, and Sweet William.NewsBlue Diamond has acquired Fosseway Garden Centre.Farmers asked to send in slugs for feeding analysis.Restoration of the Bridgemere show gardens with TV's David Domoney.How lining your pot with coffee filter paper may help save your houseplants.Time to vote for your favourite Historic Houses ‘Garden of the Year' at this linkNew chair Rupert Tyler for Garden Museum.The first collection of Royal Mail Special Stamps to feature the King's head will depict illustrations of gorgeous garden flowers to recognise his passion for gardening.Scientists urge tax breaks for sustainable gardeners.The famous East Ruston Old Vicarage Garden is bequeathed to the Perennial Charity so securing its future.Royal Horticultural Society criticised over products that kill bugs and wildflowers.Wildflower brand Seedball is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and is launching a range of bee tines to raise awareness of 3 British species that are in decline.Who will win the first Peter Seabrook Award at Gardeners World Live?Plant Heritage relocate to world-renowned RHS Garden Wisley.Mark's 700-mile journey to buy gas BBQ from Scots garden centre.Our next guest is Nick Hamilton from Barnsdale Gardens.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Fred gives tips on planting and growing Sweet William.
Today is part 2 of my mini "series" with my partners. Three local businesses partner with me in different ways, and I wanted to take some time to chat with the owner of each one to hear their story behind the business. Next up is Anni McDonald, owner of Sweet William Blossom Boutique. Anni shares how she got started, and how it's been maintaining a business in the highs and lows of life. She's honest, real, and doesn't sugar coat things, which is what made this conversation so fun to have. Go check them out, grab a "dirty pop", and join us as we pour it out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ccwa/support
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This week on Into the Greenwood, Rosie and Cathy discuss the Child Ballad The Drowned Lovers, also known as Clyde Water or Mother's Malison. It's a tragic one, so steel yourselves! Into The Greenwood is the segment of the podcast where our hosts Rosie and Cathy take an in-depth look into the themes and variants of a single folktale
You don't find many traditional songs where the woman becomes pregnant out of wedlock and yet it all turns our wonderfully. But then Willy O' Winsbury is not your run of the mill folk song. King's daughter Janet knew what she wanted… and it seems that her father wanted it too. Once he'd established that Willy wasn't too foreign that is. He especially noticed his blond hair and milky white skin… oh dear.As well as picking up on some of these themes, the episode looks at the twists and turns of this song's journey over time and the real events that may (or may not) have prompted it. There's also a review of medieval virginity tests and musings on why a light scorching of the nether regions might actually be a good outcome, all things considered. MusicL'Homme Armé (Anon) Medieval popular songDe moi doleros vos chant (Gillebert de Berneville) 13th Century song Lord Thomas of Winesberrie (Kinloch – Ancient Scottish Ballads – see below) Instrumental: Fair Margaret and Sweet William (ballad from the Percy/Parsons correspondence) 1770s – though the tune may be more recent Johnny Barbary (tune from Bertrand Harris Bronson – see below) Fause Foodrage Willie O'Winsbury ReferencesMainly Norfolk have an excellent overview of the song and its recorded versions: https://mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs/songs/willieowinsbury.html Kinloch, George Richie (1827) Ancient Scottish Ballads: https://archive.org/details/ancientscottishb00kin/page/90/mode/2up Karpeles, Maud (1934) Folk Songs From Newfoundland Fresno State University's Traditional Ballad Index: https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/C100.html Child, Francis James (between 1882-98) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads v2 (Child 100) https://archive.org/details/englishscottishp21chilrich/mode/2up Bronson B H (1976) The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads https://archive.org/details/singingtradition0000bron/page/n5/mode/2up Bronson B H (1959) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/CP25(1)/CP25_1_194_8-10/IMG_0334.htm A legal document relating to the lease of property by Thomas, son of William de Winsbury Cartwright, Jane (2003) Virginity and Chastity Tests in Medieval Welsh Prose in Bernau A, Evans R and Salih S (2003) Medieval Virginities University of Toronto Press.
This week, camp connoisseur Travis Trew delivers a potpourri of exuberant musical tchotchkes from forgotten disco divas, new wave weirdos, faux-naïfs, and actual naïfs: "Last weekend I stumbled into a bar where decommissioned animatronic puppets from It's Small World caroused and drank their troubles away. Late into the night they gyrated wildly on the dancefloor and gorged themselves on banana Runts while these songs played on the jukebox. When I regained consciousness the next morning, a tender new tattoo on my left buttock read, 'I Love Sweet William.' Who is Sweet William? I may never know." Tracklist: mmarzmix.com/117
As we garden into June, so the priorities of tasks change with maintenance, planting and sowing still important along with tasks to keep our gardens moving onwards and upwards, including wildlife ponds, pondwater coverage tips, tomato growing and some essential pruning. After a busy May, Dig It hosts Peter Brown and Chris Day look at some of the topical news stories, happenings at the garden centre and around the UK.What's on this monthWednesday 1st June – 31st August The Bugs Matter Survey.Wednesday 8th June at 4pm FREE Masterclass talk A Guide to Growing Roses.Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th June BBC Gardeners' World Live at the NEC in Birmingham. Sunday 19th June Father's Day.Thursday 23rd - 26th Sunday June: RHS Garden Harlow Carr Flower Show in Harrogate, Yorkshire.Friday 24th - Sunday 26th June: Blenheim Palace Flower show at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.To locate the ancient trees and woodland site visit The Queen's Green CanopyDig It Top Five: Our best-selling packet flower seeds so far this year, starting at the top slot is Sunflower ‘Single Giant', Sweet Pea ‘Incense Mixed' in 2nd place; another Sunflower ‘Titan' in 3rd, Sweet Pea ‘Old Spice' Sweet Pea ‘Galaxy' taking 4th and 5th places respectively.Products and plants mentioned Roses, including ‘Platinum Jubilee' (limited availability at the Garden Centre) and ‘Dame Deborah James' (Harkness Roses) in aid of BowelBabe, launched at Chelsea.All about the Chelsea Gardens and Malvern Garden Buildings Planet Studio wins Gold. The Peter Seabrook garden featured plants from his garden together with a new Sweet Pea named after him.Wolf Garten Tools celebrate 100 years this year! We love their practical multichange tool range, innovative and space saving in our sheds. Dutch and Draw hoes.Sowing flowering biennial flowers for next year including Canterbury bells, Polyanthus, Primroses, Sweet William and Wallflowers. Vegetables to sow include Cabbage, French beans, Radish, Spring Onions, Lettuce, Cabbages and Kales for later in the season.Fibre pots, if you are wanting to ditch the plastic, The Drop-in Pop In instant planters are available at the Garden Centre but they sell out fast!Pygmy and dwarf growing water lilies are preferred where space is limited.Time to relax and enjoy our gardens – Weber BBQ, Pizza ovens, Chiminea and Fire Bowls, solar lighting and chill on some comfy garden furniture.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for providing the music. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events Today is Bird Day! 1556 Death of Luca Ghini ("Gee-nee"), Italian physician and botanist. Luca is remembered for creating the first recorded herbarium and the first botanical garden in Pisa, Italy. Historical accounts indicate he was an outstanding and beloved botany teacher at the university in Bologna. By 1527, Luca was giving lectures on medicinal plants and essentially teaching what is considered the first official university-level classes on botany. Luca was also the first to press flowers to create a plant collection. The English botanist William Withering wrote about flower pressing in the 1770s. Luca used his pressed and dried plants the same way future botanists would - he used them to study when fresh or live specimens were not available. In this way, he could teach his students, and they could use the dried specimens to continue their studies all year long. Luca mentored his students - taking them on field trips and encouraging them to learn all about plants. And if Luca Ghini seems an obscure character in botanical history, it's because he didn't publish anything. He was too busy interacting with his botanist peers and teaching his students - through whom he left a lasting legacy. 1749 Birth of Charlotte Turner Smith, English novelist, and Romantic poet. She revived the English sonnet, was an early Gothic fiction writer and helped establish the genre. She also wrote about sensibility in her political novels. Charlotte's novels, Emmeline (1788) and Desmond (1792), reflect womanly hope and disenfranchisement with eighteenth-century Common Law. Charlotte once wrote, Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes! How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn! For me wilt thou renew the withered rose, And clear my painful path of pointed thorn? And here is an excerpt of Charlotte's poem called Written at the Close of Spring. The garlands fade that Spring so lately wove, Each simple flow'r, which she had nurs'd in dew, Anemones that spangled every grove, The primrose wan, and harebell, mildly blue. No more shall violets linger in the dell, Or purple orchis variegate the plain, Till Spring again shall call forth every bell, And dress with humid hands her wreaths again. Ah, poor Humanity! so frail, so fair, Are the fond visions of thy early day, Another May new buds and flow'rs shall bring; Ah! Why has Happiness—no second Spring? 1858 Birth of Sophie Emma Magdalene Grieve (pen name Mrs. Grieve), English writer and herbalist. Her friends called her Maud. In addition to her writing, Maud founded an Herb School and Farm in England. She was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, President of the British Guild of Herb Growers, and a Fellow of the British Science Guild. Today, Maud is best remembered for her book, A Modern Herbal (1931). Maud's Herbal is still regarded as one of the best herbals ever written. She provided detailed information about each herb she profiled, including "Medicinal Actions and Uses." Here's a sampling of her information. Purple Loosestrife: As an eyewash this invasive herb is superior to Eyebright for preserving the sight and curing sore eyes. Chives: Useful for cutting up and mixing with the food of newly-hatched turkeys. Borage: May be regarded as a garden escape. (A delicate way of saying it is invasive.) Valerian: A powerful nervine, stimulant, carminative, and anti-spasmodic. The drug allays pain and promotes sleep. It is of especial use and benefit to those suffering from nervous overstrain…During the recent War (WWI), when air-raids were a serious strain on the nerves of civilian men and women, valerian…proved wonderfully efficacious, preventing or minimizing serious results. Garlic: There is a Mohammedan legend that when Satan stepped out from the Garden of Eden after the fall of man, Garlick sprang up from the spot where he placed his left foot and Onion from that where his right foot touched. Moneywort: We are told by old writers that this herb was not only used by man, but that if serpents hurt or wounded themselves, they turned to this plant for healing, and so it was sometimes called 'Serpentaria'. Agrimony or Church-Steeple: the small root is sweet-scented, especially in spring. Lemon: It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health. English Summers: ‘It has been said, with some truth, that our English summer is not here until the Elder is fully in flower, and that it ends when the berries are ripe." 1894 Birth of Margaret Leland Goldsmith, American journalist, historical novelist, and translator. In June of 1936, in “The Perils of Gardening” for Scribner's Magazine, she wrote: For years I have avoided magenta with feverish zest. I do not like it. It kills my henna reds. It fights with the cedar brown of my cottage. Yet every year something of that hue intrudes. If it isn't Sweet William reverting to type, it is a red phlox gone decadent. Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Little Library Year by Kate Young This book came out in 2020, the perfect time because it was right at the start of the pandemic. The subtitle is Recipes and Reading to Suit Each Season. Oh, I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting to share this book. It is such a treat. The publisher does a great job of succinctly telling you about Kate's book. The Little Library Year takes you through a full 12 months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. Here are frugal, January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read. As well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read in hand. Beautifully photographed throughout. The Little Library Year is full of delicious seasonal recipes, menus And reading recommendations - (which is one of the reasons why I absolutely squealed when I first found out about Kate's book.) Now you'll be happy to know that the cover is beautiful. It truly is a cover for a gardener because she's got a little desk with a little coffee mug, and then she's got potted herbs stacked on top of books. Then, there's a little blue journal with a pen resting on top. The herbs include Pineapple Sage, Thyme, and of course, Rosemary. It is just perfect. Now Diana Henry's review of this book is right on the cover. She writes Recipes you long to cook. Suggestions for books. You want to read a sense of place and season and takes of life lived thoughtfully and well. This is a very special book written with great generosity She is so right. Now I wanted to share this little excerpt from Kate about how she broke down the seasons for her book. She writes, I have broken the year into six parts. Those long winter nights in January and February, the first signs of spring in March and April, the green months of may and June when spring is in abundance, the height of summer in July and August, the weeks when the leaves start to turn in September and October. And then the final months of the year, as the days grow short. And then she writes, I have written The Little Library Year. as a literary and culinary almanac -a celebration of each and every season and a way to capture the year in books and food. And isn't that fantastic? Well, you really should treat yourself to this book, and then if you fall in love with Kate Young, check out her author page because she has many, many delightful books. She's a great writer - one of my favorites. This book is 336 pages of garden-fresh recipes, life stories, and of course, books, books, books. You can get a copy of The Little Library Year by Kate young and support the shell using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $20, but you'll need to hurry because those used copies at that price will go quickly. You can get a copy of The Little Library Year by Kate Young and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $21. Botanic Spark 1976 Birth of Gail Carriger (Gail "Care-ah-gurr") (the pen name of Tofa Borregaard), American New York Times bestselling author of steampunk fiction and an archaeologist. In her book, Poison or Protect, the first in the Delightfully Deadly series, a sexy assassin, a Scotsman, and two lobsters attend a Victorian house party in a charming story of love and espionage. Gail introduces us to her main character this way: The assassin is Lady Preshea Villentia ("Preh-sha Vill-in-sha"), who has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black. What society doesn't know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea's employer. And Preshea has one final assignment. In the book, Lady Violet says, "We do not suit. You have no genuine interest in botany!” Lady Violet practically yelled her final conclusion. This was the biggest sin of them all. Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.
This week we're introducing two official co-hosts as well as a new portion of the podcasts. First we welcome Kristin Lipska and Vinny Tucceri as they join Anthony in the first edition of Cult Movie Stars based on Danny Peary's book of the same name. For the first issue of Cult Movie Stars we're discussing Jenny Agutter and her films China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) and Sweet William (1980). Follow the Cult Movie Podcast on Twitter and Instagram Follow Kristin on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Vinny on Twitter and Letterboxd Folly Anthony on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd
In this episode, Fern shares the audio from a recent Halloween concert she put together. It includes live performances of four traditional ballads, "Long Lankin," "Lady Gay," "Sweet William's Ghost," and "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight." In between performances, Fern discusses her own relationship to the songs and explores themes of vengeful laborers, intimacy across the veil, and the unquiet dead. To find the lyric sheet to the version of the songs Fern performs, go to ofsongandbone.wordpress.com
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本期我们采访了我们近期正在全国巡演的“度日青年影展”的参展艺术家（中文部分）。“度日青年影展”，旨在展映来自全球各地于疫情期间有限条件下坚持创作的独立影像作品。来听听在疫情期间坚持创作的大家创作时都在想什么吧！北京站即将再次开启，大家请关注公众号：Hanyu 工作室，了解购票信息。本期嘉宾：梨奈，Nikko，张瑞翔，Vincy Wang，秋怡，拉帝（导演persona）本期主播：拉帝后期制作：Tan Yaji本期背景音乐：Yogee New Waves - Fantasic Show 唾奇,Sweet William - Frenchness 唾奇,Sweet William - Kikuzato (Painiment Remix) 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me Joey Pecoraro - Partly Sunny Joey Pecoraro - Tired Boy American Football - Never Meant American Football - Stay Home 立山秋航 - 野クルの時間 (わちゃわちゃ！) 立山秋航 - 夜明けの深呼吸 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～本栖湖～ 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～高ボッチ、イーストウッド～ 立山秋航 - ソロキャン△のすすめ 唾奇,Sweet William - South Side Ghetto 唾奇,Sweet William - The Girl from Yosemite 唾奇,Sweet William,Jinmenusagi - Girl 唾奇,Sweet William,kiki vivi lilly - Good Enough You & The Explosion Band - THEME FROM LUPIN III 2015 Yuji Ohno,Lupintic Five - Love Theme FLOWER FLOWER - 秋 FLOWER FLOWER - 冬 FLOWER FLOWER - 春
本期我们采访了我们近期正在全国巡演的“度日青年影展”的参展艺术家（中文部分）。“度日青年影展”，旨在展映来自全球各地于疫情期间有限条件下坚持创作的独立影像作品。来听听在疫情期间坚持创作的大家创作时都在想什么吧！北京站即将再次开启，大家请关注公众号：Hanyu 工作室，了解购票信息。本期嘉宾：梨奈，Nikko，张瑞翔，Vincy Wang，秋怡，拉帝（导演persona）本期主播：拉帝后期制作：Tan Yaji本期背景音乐：Yogee New Waves - Fantasic Show 唾奇,Sweet William - Frenchness 唾奇,Sweet William - Kikuzato (Painiment Remix) 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me Joey Pecoraro - Partly Sunny Joey Pecoraro - Tired Boy American Football - Never Meant American Football - Stay Home 立山秋航 - 野クルの時間 (わちゃわちゃ！) 立山秋航 - 夜明けの深呼吸 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～本栖湖～ 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～高ボッチ、イーストウッド～ 立山秋航 - ソロキャン△のすすめ 唾奇,Sweet William - South Side Ghetto 唾奇,Sweet William - The Girl from Yosemite 唾奇,Sweet William,Jinmenusagi - Girl 唾奇,Sweet William,kiki vivi lilly - Good Enough You & The Explosion Band - THEME FROM LUPIN III 2015 Yuji Ohno,Lupintic Five - Love Theme FLOWER FLOWER - 秋 FLOWER FLOWER - 冬 FLOWER FLOWER - 春
本期我们采访了我们近期正在全国巡演的“度日青年影展”的参展艺术家（中文部分）。“度日青年影展”，旨在展映来自全球各地于疫情期间有限条件下坚持创作的独立影像作品。来听听在疫情期间坚持创作的大家创作时都在想什么吧！北京站即将再次开启，大家请关注公众号：Hanyu 工作室，了解购票信息。本期嘉宾：梨奈，Nikko，张瑞翔，Vincy Wang，秋怡，拉帝（导演persona）本期主播：拉帝后期制作：Tan Yaji本期背景音乐：Yogee New Waves - Fantasic Show 唾奇,Sweet William - Frenchness 唾奇,Sweet William - Kikuzato (Painiment Remix) 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me Joey Pecoraro - Partly Sunny Joey Pecoraro - Tired Boy American Football - Never Meant American Football - Stay Home 立山秋航 - 野クルの時間 (わちゃわちゃ！) 立山秋航 - 夜明けの深呼吸 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～本栖湖～ 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～高ボッチ、イーストウッド～ 立山秋航 - ソロキャン△のすすめ 唾奇,Sweet William - South Side Ghetto 唾奇,Sweet William - The Girl from Yosemite 唾奇,Sweet William,Jinmenusagi - Girl 唾奇,Sweet William,kiki vivi lilly - Good Enough You & The Explosion Band - THEME FROM LUPIN III 2015 Yuji Ohno,Lupintic Five - Love Theme FLOWER FLOWER - 秋 FLOWER FLOWER - 冬 FLOWER FLOWER - 春
本期我们采访了我们近期正在全国巡演的“度日青年影展”的参展艺术家（中文部分）。“度日青年影展”，旨在展映来自全球各地于疫情期间有限条件下坚持创作的独立影像作品。来听听在疫情期间坚持创作的大家创作时都在想什么吧！北京站即将再次开启，大家请关注公众号：Hanyu 工作室，了解购票信息。本期嘉宾：梨奈，Nikko，张瑞翔，Vincy Wang，秋怡，拉帝（导演persona）本期主播：拉帝后期制作：Tan Yaji本期背景音乐：Yogee New Waves - Fantasic Show 唾奇,Sweet William - Frenchness 唾奇,Sweet William - Kikuzato (Painiment Remix) 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me Joey Pecoraro - Partly Sunny Joey Pecoraro - Tired Boy American Football - Never Meant American Football - Stay Home 立山秋航 - 野クルの時間 (わちゃわちゃ！) 立山秋航 - 夜明けの深呼吸 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～本栖湖～ 立山秋航 - キャンプ場のテーマ～高ボッチ、イーストウッド～ 立山秋航 - ソロキャン△のすすめ 唾奇,Sweet William - South Side Ghetto 唾奇,Sweet William - The Girl from Yosemite 唾奇,Sweet William,Jinmenusagi - Girl 唾奇,Sweet William,kiki vivi lilly - Good Enough You & The Explosion Band - THEME FROM LUPIN III 2015 Yuji Ohno,Lupintic Five - Love Theme FLOWER FLOWER - 秋 FLOWER FLOWER - 冬 FLOWER FLOWER - 春
《本集節目內含行政院最新育兒補助加碼宣導，敬請收聽》 我夢到我訪問蕭詒徽，然後整個搞砸，而且熊一蘋拒絕了我的錄音邀約。這是在我結束訪問後，當天晚上的夢。 蕭詒徽也做夢，不只做夢，整個六月，他把自己每天的夢境攤在Google文件上曬著，軟體特性讓同一時間點開連結的人，得以看見他當場謄打的過程，找尋寫作的蛛絲馬跡。從做夢、記錄到被觀看，文字成為現場表演形式，讓偷窺得以越過柵欄，觀者寫者同時快感。 不過蕭詒徽說他不喜歡被稱為作家，因為寫字不等於作家。對他而言，作家被擺放在一個神聖的位置，且有明確的定義，例如應該要帶著相當明顯的個人性，而他自己尚不夠格。同樣的還有擔任文學獎評審，他過去認為那該是神聖且公正的一件事情，而他也做不到。 只是後來蕭詒徽理解，評審是一場場個人意志與品味的展現，這轉變或許與他開始從事採訪編輯工作有關。他在BIOS Monthly遇見志同道合的夥伴，一次次在會議中釐清並修正對於觀眾的輪廓想像與閱讀期待，並設定好每一次的書寫面向及叩問核心，再帶著個體意志進行訪問與書寫，而後產出一篇篇在大眾眼前的文章與專題。在這個位置上寫作的蕭詒徽，慢慢接受其中必然存在的選擇與詮釋。 無論是音樂人、藝術家、記者或主持人，訪問前，蕭詒徽會如同偵探般，細膩地搜尋每一位受訪者的數位痕跡，從姓名、帳號找到聲線、表情等身體素材，資料厚實後，大概也就自信了。而經驗的累積讓他有了不同的資料使用方式，從過往與對方辯證，到現在替彼此對頻，學著拋下對於訪綱的執著，並階段性檢視修正預設的書寫脈絡，產生一篇篇立體而客製化的人物專訪。 即便是這麼審慎地走每一步，蕭詒徽仍覺得自己是鳩摩智，帶著名為寫作的小無相功，他說行家一眼便能看穿那不是七十二絕技，可是這已經是他全部的所有。沒有師父領進門，他不清楚每一個材質是不是如同自己所觸碰所感受的那般，他能做的，也只有盡力、缺乏安全感地詮釋著。 人常說夢與現實相反，搞砸與否我不敢確定，但肯定的是，這場專訪太多擊中我之處，重量足以分成兩集聆聽。上一集我會跟詒徽聊採訪編輯、下一集我們則會聊寫作這件事情。噢，另外還有一件確定的事情，熊一蘋有錄音，在下集。 -- 蕭詒徽開の歌單（上） ❝ 銀河作為前男友 ❞ Sweet Williamと青葉市子〈からかひ〉 Jiwoo〈Aston〉 Liana Flores〈rise the moon〉 東京事変〈銀河民〉 Puma Blue〈Moon Undah Water〉 in love with a ghost feat. nori〈Flowers〉 Fishdoll〈Black Feather〉 KKBOX: https://pse.is/3jfae8 Spotify: https://pse.is/3j25cl MixerBox: https://pse.is/3jyta4 -- 本集謝謝優質保養品 ACNIT艾希尼 贊助播出，2021年8月31號前，都歡迎加入 ACNIT艾希尼 官方LINE帳號 http://nav.cx/4hlLxyt ，留言輸入「內克」或「snake」，就能索取專屬「告白那一刻」獨家折扣碼，滿1300元現折100元，還送沐浴球！！ 記得告白，才有未來 記得保養，才有美來 Powered by Firstory Hosting
Charlotte has to rush to our make-shift Voyage Around My AGA studio (otherwise known as the kitchen table) following early morning sheep shearing! This week we're rooting through our recipe files to discover where we find our inspiration and how we keep track of all those ripped-out pages. Let's just say that Charlotte's is a little more organised! Steve is championing the humble salad leaf whilst Charlotte celebrates the traditional cottage garden flower, Sweet William. All that, and we have unmissable tips for using bicarbonate of soda. Could life be more thrilling?! Follow us on instagram and facebook and you can email us at voyagearoundmyaga@gmail.com. As always, thanks for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voyagearoundmyaga/message
听众朋友们呼声很高（一点点啦）的四川方言栏目方言方语在时隔一年终于更新了！这次拉帝请来了成都科华北路Cheers常驻顾客：Darcy。让她给我们介绍一下成都最亚的年轻人们聚集的据点：科华北路。本期嘉宾：Darcy本期主播：拉帝本期背景音乐：Air-Le soleil est prs de moi VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - Royal Host (Boxseat) VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - 世界各国の夜 Air-Femme D'Argent, La Air-Moon Fever Air-Playground Love 唾奇,Sweet William - 街から街 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me
听众朋友们呼声很高（一点点啦）的四川方言栏目方言方语在时隔一年终于更新了！这次拉帝请来了成都科华北路Cheers常驻顾客：Darcy。让她给我们介绍一下成都最亚的年轻人们聚集的据点：科华北路。本期嘉宾：Darcy本期主播：拉帝本期背景音乐：Air-Le soleil est prs de moi VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - Royal Host (Boxseat) VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - 世界各国の夜 Air-Femme D'Argent, La Air-Moon Fever Air-Playground Love 唾奇,Sweet William - 街から街 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me
听众朋友们呼声很高（一点点啦）的四川方言栏目方言方语在时隔一年终于更新了！这次拉帝请来了成都科华北路Cheers常驻顾客：Darcy。让她给我们介绍一下成都最亚的年轻人们聚集的据点：科华北路。本期嘉宾：Darcy本期主播：拉帝本期背景音乐：Air-Le soleil est prs de moi VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - Royal Host (Boxseat) VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - 世界各国の夜 Air-Femme D'Argent, La Air-Moon Fever Air-Playground Love 唾奇,Sweet William - 街から街 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me
听众朋友们呼声很高（一点点啦）的四川方言栏目方言方语在时隔一年终于更新了！这次拉帝请来了成都科华北路Cheers常驻顾客：Darcy。让她给我们介绍一下成都最亚的年轻人们聚集的据点：科华北路。本期嘉宾：Darcy本期主播：拉帝本期背景音乐：Air-Le soleil est prs de moi VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - Royal Host (Boxseat) VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - 世界各国の夜 Air-Femme D'Argent, La Air-Moon Fever Air-Playground Love 唾奇,Sweet William - 街から街 唾奇,Sweet William - Let Me
Show notes for June in the GardenAs June arrives, Peter Brown and Chris Day look at the important tasks in the garden including vegetable planning and sowing, allotment hedging ideas, creative planter and basket tips as well as sowing for spring colour. There are two busy weeks of activities through the month, including a special week of gardening aimed specifically at children and featuring Peppa Pig and a themed week on growing for our mental and physical wellbeing. Our special guest is Catherine Watkins from Chiltern Music Therapy talking about their amazing ground-breaking work as they provide music therapy and community music to people of all ages across the UK. Peat in the news Garden rules: Sale of peat-based compost to be BANNED - how will it affect your garden?National Children's Gardening Week 29th May-6th June 2021. We will be offering advice and garden projects to children throughout the week. A limited number of the Peppa Pig Activity Book will be available for a suggested £1 donation will benefit Save The Children charity.Growing for Wellbeing Week takes place between the 7th-13th June 2021. Set up by gardening therapy organisation, Life at No.27, the week is a celebration of the magic that growing your own produce can do for your wellbeing, both physically and mentally.Key plants and products mentionedCompost bins, Garotta Compost Activator, Sulphate of Potash, Vitax Q4, Blood Fish and Bone, Hanging baskets and liners, Copper Tape, and Garden hoeBiennials to sow now to flower next spring Canterbury Bells, Primroses, Pansies, Polyanthus, Sweet William, Violas and Wallflowers.Vegetables to plant now, vegetables to sow for cropping succession and vegetable plot hedge suggestions: Edible Hedging, Hazel - hedging suitable for coppicing and producing hazelsticks, Hazels for nut production - Cosford, Purple Filbert and Pearson's ProlificThrillers, fillers and spillers to keep your gardens looking fantastic:Thrillers: Centre plants including Bush Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Cordylines, Dahlias and standard Fuchsias. Available in store.Fillers: Plants placed around the base of Thrillers including Begonias, Marigolds and Petunias. Available in store.Spillers: Trailing plants including Lobelia, Ivy leaf Pelargoniums, Creeping Jenny, Bacopa and Helichrysum. Available in store.Music by Chiltern Music Therapy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode, we're joined by Ben Montgomery of the Records Revisited Podcast, to discuss our favorite songs from the immortal Tom Petty! Vote now for YOUR favorite playlists, hear the results of past episodes & listen to ALL of the playlists at: http://www.playlistwarspodcast.com SONGS DISCUSSED INCLUDE American Girl, Climb That Hill, Don't Come Around Here No More, Even The Losers, Free Fallin', Handle With Care (w/ Traveling Wilburys), Honey Bee, Into The Great Wide Open, I Won't Back Down, Jammin' Me, Kings Highway, Learning To Fly, Listen To Her Heart, Refugee, Runnin' Down A Dream, Southern Accents, Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (w/ Stevie Nicks), Sweet William, Walls (Circus), Wildflowers, & You Got Lucky. CONNECT WITH PLAYLIST WARS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playlistwars Twitter: http://twitter.com/playlistwars Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playlistwarspodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcW7NibxehYRf8_UZ88Qtbg FOR MORE ON RECORDS REVISITED Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastRecords Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/playlistwars/support
Instead of a new episode this time around, here’s some music representing the artists who have been featured on the program so far, from the most recent back to the first episode. Hang out for a couple hours, enjoy the jams, and if you like a song or artist, dig it: There’s a Low Profile episode about them for you to devour. See y’all in a couple weeks with more new shows as season 4 continues to blow minds across the galaxy. Low Profile with Markly Morrison Looking Back Mixtape 4-22-2021 Negativland “Drink It Up” Alice Stuart “Freedom’s The Sound” Jeffrey Lewis and the Voltage “Except For The Fact That It Isn’t” Briana Marela “Give Me Your Love” Lavender Country “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You” Oval “Ah!” The Music Tapes “Please Hear Mr. Flight Control” Swamp Dogg “Kiss Me Hit Me Touch Me” The Julies “Boy Wonder” Karl Blau “Mockingbird Diet” The Microphones “Between Your Ear and The Other Ear” Jib Kidder “New Crimes” David Grubbs “Gloriette” Donnie and Joe Emerson “Thoughts In My Mind” Holy Modal Rounders “Random Canyon” Ashley Eriksson “When The Earth Was Flat” Eugene Chadbourne “Honey Don’t” CW Stoneking “On a Desert Isle” Washington Phillips “Mother’s Last Word to Her Son” Cornershop “United Provinces of India” Heatwarmer “American Dog” Chumbawamba “This Girl” Nick Krgovich “Country Boy” Amps For Christ “Sweet William” Terry Cashman “Cooperstown” Scott Dunbar “Forty-Four Blues” Bobby Frank Brown “My Dog Is Every Bit as Good as Me” Soul-Junk “Soft Adult Contempt” Susan Cadogan “Love My Life” Cleaners from Venus “A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes” Bob Dorough (on a Miles Davis album) “Nothing Like You” The Gift Machine “Telemetric Mayhem” Old Time Relijun “Dark of the Male, Light of the Female” Gary Wilson “Gary’s in the Park” Margo Guryan “Someone I Know” Larry Norman “Sweet Song of Salvation” Pete Drake “I’m Blue”
Instead of a new episode this time around, here’s some music representing the artists who have been featured on the program so far, from the most recent back to the first episode. Hang out for a couple hours, enjoy the jams, and if you like a song or artist, dig it: There’s a Low Profile episode about them for you to devour. See y’all in a couple weeks with more new shows as season 4 continues to blow minds across the galaxy. Low Profile with Markly Morrison Looking Back Mixtape 4-22-2021 Negativland “Drink It Up” Alice Stuart “Freedom’s The Sound” Jeffrey Lewis and the Voltage “Except For The Fact That It Isn’t” Briana Marela “Give Me Your Love” Lavender Country “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You” Oval “Ah!” The Music Tapes “Please Hear Mr. Flight Control” Swamp Dogg “Kiss Me Hit Me Touch Me” The Julies “Boy Wonder” Karl Blau “Mockingbird Diet” The Microphones “Between Your Ear and The Other Ear” Jib Kidder “New Crimes” David Grubbs “Gloriette” Donnie and Joe Emerson “Thoughts In My Mind” Holy Modal Rounders “Random Canyon” Ashley Eriksson “When The Earth Was Flat” Eugene Chadbourne “Honey Don’t” CW Stoneking “On a Desert Isle” Washington Phillips “Mother’s Last Word to Her Son” Cornershop “United Provinces of India” Heatwarmer “American Dog” Chumbawamba “This Girl” Nick Krgovich “Country Boy” Amps For Christ “Sweet William” Terry Cashman “Cooperstown” Scott Dunbar “Forty-Four Blues” Bobby Frank Brown “My Dog Is Every Bit as Good as Me” Soul-Junk “Soft Adult Contempt” Susan Cadogan “Love My Life” Cleaners from Venus “A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes” Bob Dorough (on a Miles Davis album) “Nothing Like You” The Gift Machine “Telemetric Mayhem” Old Time Relijun “Dark of the Male, Light of the Female” Gary Wilson “Gary’s in the Park” Margo Guryan “Someone I Know” Larry Norman “Sweet Song of Salvation” Pete Drake “I’m Blue”
Sweet William Only Blooms Every Two Years
In December of 2015, Daniel and Jamie got a call that their two-year-old son William had choked during lunch. Despite paramedics and the doctor's best efforts, William never regained any brain activity. It was an answered prayer when the Heards were presented with the option of organ donation. Sweet William's heart made its way to a new home in the body of eighteen-month-old Ava Martin in Chicago. The Heard's story is one of incredible hope as they have seen God's faithfulness through extreme tragedy.
In December of 2015, Daniel and Jamie got a call that their two-year-old son William had choked during lunch. Despite paramedics and the doctor's best efforts, William never regained any brain activity. It was an answered prayer when the Heards were presented with the option of organ donation. Sweet William's heart made its way to a new home in the body of eighteen-month-old Ava Martin in Chicago. The Heard's story is one of incredible hope as they have seen God's faithfulness through extreme tragedy.
In December of 2015, Daniel and Jamie got a call that their two-year-old son William had choked during lunch. Despite paramedics and the doctor's best efforts, William never regained any brain activity. It was an answered prayer when the Heards were presented with the option of organ donation. Sweet William's heart made its way to a new home in the body of eighteen-month-old Ava Martin in Chicago. The Heard's story is one of incredible hope as they have seen God's faithfulness through extreme tragedy.
In December of 2015, Daniel and Jamie got a call that their two-year-old son William had choked during lunch. Despite paramedics and the doctor's best efforts, William never regained any brain activity. It was an answered prayer when the Heards were presented with the option of organ donation. Sweet William's heart made its way to a new home in the body of eighteen-month-old Ava Martin in Chicago. The Heard's story is one of incredible hope as they have seen God's faithfulness through extreme tragedy.
This week's episode looks at "My Boy Lollipop" and the origins of ska music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul. 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/ ----more---- Resources As usual, I have created a Mixcloud playlist containing every song heard in this episode -- a content warning applies for the song "Bloodshot Eyes" by Wynonie Harris. The information about ska in general mostly comes from Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley, with some also from Reggae and Caribbean Music by Dave Thompson. Biographical information on Millie Small is largely from this article in Record Collector, plus a paywalled interview with Goldmine magazine (which I won't link to because of the paywall). Millie's early recordings with Owen Gray and Coxsone Dodd can be found on this compilation, along with a good selection of other recordings Dodd produced, while this compilation gives a good overview of her recordings for Island and Fontana. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Erratum I refer to "Barbara Gaye" when I should say "Barbie Gaye" Transcript Today, we're going to take our first look at a form of music that would go on to have an almost incalculable influence on the music of the seventies, eighties, and later, but which at the time we're looking at was largely regarded as a novelty music, at least in Britain and America. We're going to look at the birth of ska, and at the first ska record to break big outside of Jamaica. We're going to look at "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie: [Excerpt: Millie, "My Boy Lollipop"] Most of the music we've looked at so far in the podcast has been from either America or Britain, and I'm afraid that that's going to remain largely the case -- while there has been great music made in every country in the world, American and British musicians have tended to be so parochial, and have dominated the music industry so much, that relatively little of that music has made itself felt widely enough to have any kind of impact on the wider history of rock music, much to rock's detriment. But every so often something from outside the British Isles or North America manages to penetrate even the closed ears of Anglo-American musicians, and today we're going to look at one of those records. Now, before we start this, this episode is, by necessity, going to be dealing in broad generalisations -- I'm trying to give as much information about Jamaica's musical culture in one episode as I've given about America's in a hundred, so I am going to have to elide a lot of details. Some of those details will come up in future episodes, as we deal with more Jamaican artists, but be aware that I'm missing stuff out. The thing that needs to be understood about the Jamaican music culture of the fifties and early sixties is that it developed in conditions of absolute poverty. Much of the music we looked at in the first year or so of the podcast came from extremely impoverished communities, of course, but even given how utterly, soul-crushingly, poor many people in the Deep South were, or the miserable conditions that people in Liverpool and London lived in while Britain was rebuilding itself after the war, those people were living in rich countries, and so still had access to some things that were not available to the poor people of poorer countries. So in Jamaica in the 1950s, almost nobody had access to any kind of record player or radio themselves. You wouldn't even *know* anyone who had one, unlike in the states where if you were very poor you might not have one yourself, but your better-off cousin might let you come round and listen to the radio at their house. So music was, by necessity, a communal experience. Jamaican music, or at least the music in Kingston, the biggest city in Jamaica, was organised around sound systems -- big public open-air systems run by DJs, playing records for dancing. These had originally started in shops as a way of getting customers in, but soon became so popular that people started doing them on their own. These sound systems played music that was very different from the music played on the radio, which was aimed mostly at people rich enough to own radios, which at that time mostly meant white British people -- in the fifties, Jamaica was still part of the British Empire, and there was an extraordinary gap between the music the white British colonial class liked and the music that the rest of the population liked. The music that the Jamaican population *made* was mostly a genre called mento. Now, this is somewhere where my ignorance of this music compared to other musics comes into play a bit. There seem to have been two genres referred to as mento. One of them, rural mento, was based around instruments like the banjo, and a home-made bass instrument called a "rhumba box", and had a resemblance to a lot of American country music or British skiffle -- this form of mento is often still called "country music" in Jamaica itself: [Excerpt: The Hiltonaires, "Matilda"] There was another variant of mento, urban mento, which dropped the acoustic and home-made instruments and replaced them with the same sort of instruments that R&B or jazz bands used. Everything I read about urban mento says that it's a different genre from calypso music, which generally comes from Trinidad and Tobago rather than Jamaica, but nothing explains what that difference is, other than the location. Mento musicians would also call their music calypso in order to sell it to people like me who don't know the difference, and so you would get mento groups called things like Count Lasher and His Calypsonians, Lord Lebby and the Jamaica Calypsonians, and Count Owen and His Calypsonians, songs called things like "Hoola Hoop Calypso", and mentions of calypso in the lyrics. I am fairly familiar with calypso music -- people like the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Melody, Roaring Lion, and so on -- and I honestly can't hear any difference between calypso proper and mento records like this one, by Lord Power and Trenton Spence: [Excerpt: Lord Power and Trenton Spence, "Strip Tease"] But I'll defer to the experts in these genres and accept that there's a difference I'm not hearing. Mento was primarily a music for live performance, at least at first -- there were very few recording facilities in Jamaica, and to the extent that records were made at all there, they were mostly done in very small runs to sell to tourists, who wanted a souvenir to take home. The music that the first sound systems played would include some mento records, and they would also play a fair number of latin-flavoured records. But the bulk of what they played was music for dancing, imported from America, made by Black American musicians, many of them the same musicians we looked at in the early months of this podcast. Louis Jordan was a big favourite, as was Wynonie Harris -- the biggest hit in the early years of the sound systems was Harris' "Bloodshot Eyes". I'm going to excerpt that here, because it was an important record in the evolution of Jamaican music, but be warned that the song trivialises intimate partner violence in a way that many people might find disturbing. If you might be upset by that, skip forward exactly thirty seconds now: [Excerpt: Wynonie Harris, "Bloodshot Eyes"] The other artists who get repeatedly named in the histories of the early sound systems along with Jordan and Harris are Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Professor Longhair -- a musician we've not talked about in the podcast, but who made New Orleans R&B music in the same style as Domino and Price, and for slow-dancing the Moonglows and Jesse Belvin. They would also play jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Sarah Vaughan were particular favourites. These records weren't widely available in Jamaica -- indeed, *no* records were really widely available . They found their way into Jamaica through merchant seamen, who would often be tasked by sound men with getting hold of new and exciting records, and paid with rum or marijuana. The "sound man" was the term used for the DJs who ran these sound systems, and they were performers as much as they were people who played records -- they would talk and get the crowds going, they would invent dance steps and perform them, and they would also use the few bits of technology they had to alter the sound -- usually by adding bass or echo. Their reputation was built by finding the most obscure records, but ones which the crowds would love. Every sound man worth his salt had a collection of records that nobody else had -- if you were playing the same records that someone else had, you were a loser. As soon as a sound man got hold of a record, he'd scratch out all the identifying copy on the label and replace it with a new title, so that none of his rivals could get hold of their own copies. The rivalry between sound men could be serious -- it started out just as friendly competition, with each man trying to build a bigger and louder system and draw a bigger crowd, but when the former policeman turned gangster Duke Reid started up his Trojan sound system, intimidating rivals with guns soon became par for the course. Reid had actually started out in music as an R&B radio DJ -- one of the few in Jamaica -- presenting a show whose theme song, Tab Smith's "My Mother's Eyes", would become permanently identified with Reid: [Excerpt: Tab Smith, "My Mother's Eyes"] Reid's Trojan was one of the two biggest sound systems in Kingston, the other being Downbeat, run by Coxsone Dodd. Dodd's system became so popular that he ended up having five different sound systems, all playing in different areas of the city every night, with the ones he didn't perform at himself being run by assistants who later became big names in the Jamaican music world themselves, like Prince Buster and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Buster performed a few other functions for Dodd as well -- one important one being that he knew enough about R&B that he could go to Duke Reid's shows, listen to the records he was playing, and figure out what they must be -- he could recognise the different production styles of the different R&B labels well enough that he could use that, plus the lyrics, to work out the probable title and label of a record Reid was playing. Dodd would then get a merchant seaman to bring a copy of that record back from America, get a local record pressing plant to press up a bunch of copies of it, and sell it to the other sound men, thus destroying Reid's edge. Eventually Prince Buster left Dodd and set up his own rival sound system, at which point the rivalry became a three-way one. Dodd knew about technology, and had the most powerful sound system with the best amps. Prince Buster was the best showman, who knew what the people wanted and gave it to them, and Duke Reid was connected and powerful enough that he could use intimidation to keep a grip on power, but he also had good enough musical instincts that his shows were genuinely popular in their own right. People started to see their favourite sound systems in the same way they see sports teams or political parties -- as marks of identity that were worth getting into serious fights over. Supporters of one system would regularly attack supporters of another, and who your favourite sound system was *really mattered*. But there was a problem. While these systems were playing a handful of mento records, they were mostly relying on American records, and this had two problems. The most obvious was that if a record was available publicly, eventually someone else would find it. Coxsone Dodd managed to use one record, "Later For Gator" by Willis "Gatortail" Jackson, at every show for seven years, renaming it "Coxsone Hop": [Excerpt: Willis "Gatortail" Jackson, "Later For Gator"] But eventually word got out that Duke Reid had tracked the song down and would play it at a dance. Dodd went along, and was allowed in unmolested -- Reid wanted Dodd to know he'd been beaten. Now, here I'm going to quote something Prince Buster said, and we hit a problem we're likely to hit again when it comes to Jamaica. Buster spoke Jamaican Patois, a creole language that is mutually intelligible with, but different from, standard English. When quoting him, or any other Patois speaker, I have a choice of three different options, all bad. I could translate his words into standard English, thus misrepresenting him; I could read his words directly in my own accent, which has the problem that it can sound patronising, or like I'm mocking his language, because so much of Patois is to do with the way the words are pronounced; or I could attempt to approximate his own accent -- which would probably come off as incredibly racist. As the least bad option of the three, I'm choosing the middle one here, and reading in my own accent, but I want people to be aware that this is not intended as mockery, and that I have at least given this some thought: "So we wait. Then as the clock struck midnight we hear “Baaap… bap da dap da dap, daaaa da daap!” And we see a bunch of them down from the dancehall coming up with the green bush. I was at the counter with Coxsone, he have a glass in him hand, he drop it and just collapse, sliding down the bar. I had to brace him against the bar, then get Phantom to give me a hand. The psychological impact had knocked him out. Nobody never hit him." There was a second problem with using American records, as well -- American musical tastes were starting to change, and Jamaican ones weren't. Jamaican audiences wanted Louis Jordan, Fats Domino, and Gene & Eunice, but the Americans wanted Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Bobby Darin. For a while, the sound men were able to just keep finding more and more obscure old R&B and jump band records, but there was a finite supply of these, and they couldn't keep doing it forever. The solution eventually became obvious -- they needed Jamaican R&B. And thankfully there was a ready supply. Every week, there was a big talent contest in Kingston, and the winners would get five pounds -- a lot of money in that time and place. Many of the winners would then go to a disc-cutting service, one of those places that would record a single copy of a song for you, and use their prize money to record themselves. They could then sell that record to one of the sound men, who would be sure that nobody else would have a copy of it. At first, the only sound men they could sell to were the less successful ones, who didn't have good connections with American records. A local record was clearly not as good as an American one, and so the big sound systems wouldn't touch it, but it was better than nothing, and some of the small sound systems would find that the local records were a success for them, and eventually the bigger systems would start using the small ones as a test audience -- if a local record went down well at a small system, one of the big operators would get in touch with the sound man of that system and buy the record from him. One of the big examples of this was "Lollipop Girl", a song by Derrick Harriott and Claudie Sang. They recorded that, with just a piano backing, and sold their only copy to a small sound system owner. It went down so well that the small sound man traded his copy with Coxsone Dodd for an American record -- and it went down so well when Dodd played it that Duke Reid bribed one of Dodd's assistants to get hold of Dodd's copy long enough to get a copy made for himself. When Dodd and Reid played a sound clash -- a show where they went head to head to see who could win a crowd over -- and Reid played his own copy of "Lollipop Girl", Dodd pulled a gun on Reid, and it was only the fact that the clash was next door to the police station that kept the two men from killing each other. Reid eventually wore out his copy of "Lollipop Girl", he played it so much, and so he did the only sensible thing -- he went into the record business himself, and took Harriott into the studio, along with a bunch of musicians from the local big bands, and cut a new version of it with a full band backing Harriott. As well as playing this on his sound system, Reid released it as a record: [Excerpt: Derrick Harriott, "Lollipop Girl"] Reid didn't make many more records at this point, but both Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster started up their own labels, and started hiring local singers, plus people from a small pool of players who became the go-to session musicians for any record made in Jamaica at the time, like trombone player Rico Rodriguez and guitarist Ernest Ranglin. During the late 1950s, a new form of music developed from these recordings, which would become known as ska, and there are three records which are generally considered to be milestones in its development. The first was produced by a white businessman, Edward Seaga, who is now more famous for becoming the Prime Minister of Jamaica in the 1980s. At the time, though, Seaga had the idea to incorporate a little bit of a mento rhythm into an R&B record he was producing. In most music, if you have a four-four rhythm, you can divide it into eight on-beats and off-beats, and you normally stress the on-beats, so you stress "ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and". In mento, though, you'd often have a banjo stress the off-beats, so the stresses would be "one AND two AND three AND four AND". Seaga had the guitarist on "Manny Oh" by Higgs and Wilson do this, on a track that was otherwise a straightforward New Orleans style R&B song with a tresillo bassline. The change in stresses is almost imperceptible to modern ears, but it made the record sound uniquely Jamaican to its audience: [Excerpt: Higgs and Wilson, "Manny Oh"] The next record in the sequence was produced by Dodd, and is generally considered the first real ska record. There are a few different stories about where the term "ska" came from, but one of the more believable is that it came from Dodd directing Ernest Ranglin, who was the arranger for the record, to stress the off-beat more, saying "play it ska... ska... ska..." Where "Manny Oh" had been a Jamaican sounding R&B record, "Easy Snappin'" is definitely a blues-influenced ska record: [Excerpt: Theo Beckford, "Easy Snappin'"] But Duke Reid and Coxsone Dodd, at this point, still saw the music they were making as a substitute for American R&B. Prince Buster, on the other hand, by this point was a full-fledged Black nationalist, and wanted to make a purely Jamaican music. Buster was, in particular, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, and he brought in five drummers from the Rasta Nyabinghi tradition, most notably Count Ossie, who became the single most influential drummer in Jamaica, to record on the Folkes brothers single "Oh Carolina", incorporating the rhythms of Rasta sacred music into Jamaican R&B for the first time: [Excerpt: The Folkes Brothers, "Oh Carolina"] 1962 was a turning point in Jamaican music in a variety of ways. Most obviously, it was the year that Jamaica became independent from the British Empire, and was able to take control of its own destiny. But it was also the year that saw the first recordings of a fourteen-year-old girl who would become ska's first international star. Millie Small had started performing at the age of twelve, when she won the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, the single biggest talent contest in Kingston. But it was two years later that she came to the attention of Coxsone Dodd, who was very interested in her because her voice sounded spookily like that of Shirley, from the duo Shirley and Lee. We mentioned Shirley and Lee briefly back in the episode on "Ko Ko Mo", but they were a New Orleans R&B duo who had a string of hits in the early and mid fifties, recorded at Cosimo Matassa's studio, pairing Leonard Lee's baritone voice with Shirley Goodman's soprano. Their early records had been knock-offs of the sound that Little Esther had created with Johnny Otis and his male vocalists -- for example Shirley and Lee's "Sweethearts": [Excerpt: Shirley and Lee, "Sweethearts"] bears a very strong resemblance to "Double-Crossing Blues": [Excerpt: Little Esther, Johnny Otis, and the Robins, "Double-Crossing Blues"] But they'd soon developed a more New Orleans style, with records like "Feel So Good" showing some of the Caribbean influence that many records from the area had: [Excerpt: Shirley and Lee, "Feel So Good"] Shirley and Lee only had minor chart success in the US, but spawned a host of imitators, including Gene and Eunice and Mickey and Sylvia, both of whom we looked at in the early months of the podcast, and Ike and Tina Turner who will be coming up later. Like much New Orleans R&B, Shirley and Lee were hugely popular among the sound system listeners, and Coxsone Dodd thought that Mille's voice sounded enough like Shirley's that it would be worth setting her up as part of his own Shirley and Lee soundalike duo, pairing her with a more established singer, Owen Gray, to record songs like "Sit and Cry", a song which combined the vocal sound of Shirley and Lee with the melody of "The Twist": [Excerpt: Owen and Millie, "Sit and Cry"] After Gray decided to continue performing on his own, Millie was instead teamed with another performer, Roy Panton, and "We'll Meet" by Roy and Millie went to number one in Jamaica: [Excerpt: Roy and Millie, "We'll Meet"] Meanwhile, in the UK, there was a growing interest in music from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica. Until very recently, Britain had been a very white country -- there have always been Black people in the UK, especially in port towns, but there had been very few. As of 1950, there were only about twenty thousand people of colour living in the UK. But starting in 1948, there had been a massive wave of immigration from other parts of what was then still the British Empire, as the government encouraged people to come here to help rebuild the country after the war. By 1961 there were nearly two hundred thousand Black people in Britain, almost all of them from the Caribbean. Those people obviously wanted to hear the music of their own culture, and one man in particular was giving it to them. Chris Blackwell was a remarkably privileged man. His father had been one of the heirs to the Crosse and Blackwell fortune, and young Chris had been educated at Harrow, but when not in school he had spent much of his youth in Jamaica. His mother, Blanche, lived in Jamaica, where she was a muse to many men -- Noel Coward based a character on her, in a play he wrote in 1956 but which was considered so scandalous that it wasn't performed in public until 2012. Blanche attended the premiere of that play, when she was ninety-nine years old. She had an affair with Errol Flynn, and was also Ian Fleming's mistress -- Fleming would go to his Jamaican villa, GoldenEye, every year to write, leaving his wife at home (where she was having her own affairs, with the Labour MPs Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins), and would hook up with Blanche while he was there -- according to several sources, Fleming based the characters of Pussy Galore and Honeychile Ryder on Blanche. After Fleming's death, his wife instructed the villa's manager that it could be rented to literally anyone except Blanche Blackwell, but in the mid-1970s it was bought by Bob Marley, who in turn sold it to Chris Blackwell. Chris Blackwell had developed a fascination with Rasta culture after having crashed his boat while sailing, and being rescued by some Rasta fishermen, and he had decided that his goal was to promote Jamaican culture to the world. He'd started his own labels, Island Records, in 1959, using his parents' money, and had soon produced a Jamaican number one, "Boogie in My Bones", by Laurel Aitken: [Excerpt: Laurel Aitken, "Boogie in My Bones"] But music was still something of a hobby with Blackwell, to the point that he nearly quit it altogether in 1962. He'd been given a job as a gopher on the first James Bond film, Dr. No, thanks to his family connections, and had also had a cameo role in the film. Harry Saltzman, the producer, offered him a job, but Blackwell went to a fortune teller who told him to stick with music, and he did. Soon after that, he moved back to England, where he continued running Island Records, this time as a distributor of Jamaican records. The label would occasionally record some tracks of its own, but it made its money from releasing Jamaican records, which Blackwell would hand-sell to local record shops around immigrant communities in London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Island was not the biggest of the labels releasing Jamaican music in Britain at the time -- there was another label, Blue Beat, which got most of the big records, and which was so popular that in Britain "bluebeat" became a common term for ska, used to describe the whole genre, in the same way as Motown might be. And ska was becoming popular enough that there was also local ska being made, by Jamaican musicians living in Britain, and it was starting to chart. The first ska record to hit the charts in Britain was a cover of a Jimmy Cliff song, "King of Kings", performed by Ezz Reco and the Launchers: [Excerpt: Ezz Reco and the Launchers, "King of Kings"] That made the lower reaches of the top forty, and soon after came "Mockingbird Hill", a ska remake of an old Les Paul and Mary Ford hit, recorded by the Migil Five, a white British R&B group whose main claim to fame was that one of them was Charlie Watts' uncle, and Watts had occasionally filled in on drums for them before joining the Rolling Stones: [Excerpt: Migil Five, "Mockingbird Hill"] That made the top ten. Ska was becoming the in sound in Britain, to the point that in March 1964, the same month that "Mockingbird Hill" was released, the Beatles made a brief detour into ska in the instrumental break to "I Call Your Name": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Call Your Name"] And it was into this atmosphere that Chris Blackwell decided to introduce Millie. Her early records had been selling well enough for him that in 1963 he had decided to call Millie's mother and promise her that if her daughter came over to the UK, he would be able to make her into a star. Rather than release her records on Island, which didn't have any wide distribution, he decided to license them to Fontana, a mid-sized British label. Millie's first British single, "Don't You Know", was released in late 1963, and was standard British pop music of the time, with little to distinguish it, and so unsurprisingly it wasn't a hit: [Excerpt: Millie, "Don't You Know"] But the second single was something different. For that, Blackwell remembered a song that had been popular among the sound systems a few years earlier; an American record by a white singer named Barbara Gaye. Up to this point, Gaye's biggest claim to fame had been that Ellie Greenwich had liked this record enough that she'd briefly performed under the stage name Ellie Gaye, before deciding against that. "My Boy Lollipop" had been written by Robert Spencer of the Cadillacs, the doo-wop group whose biggest hit had been "Speedoo": [Excerpt: The Cadillacs, "Speedoo"] Spencer had written “My Boy Lollipop”, but lost the rights to it in a card game -- and then Morris Levy bought the rights from the winner for a hundred dollars. Levy changed the songwriting credit to feature a mob acquaintance of his, Johnny Roberts, and then passed the song to Gaetano Vastola, another mobster, who had it recorded by Gaye, a teenage girl he managed, with the backing provided by the normal New York R&B session players, like Big Al Sears and Panama Francis: [Excerpt: Barbie Gaye, "My Boy Lollipop"] That hadn't been a hit when it was released in 1956, but it had later been picked up by the Jamaican sound men, partly because of its resemblance to the ska style, and Blackwell had a tape recording of it. Blackwell got Ernest Ranglin, who had also worked on Dr. No, and who had moved over to the UK at the same time as Blackwell, to come up with an arrangement, and Ranglin hired a local band to perform the instrumental backing. That band, Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions, had previously been known as the Moontrekkers, and had worked with Joe Meek, recording "Night of the Vampire": [Excerpt: The Moontrekkers, "Night of the Vampire"] Ranglin replaced the saxophone solo from the original record with a harmonica solo, to fit the current fad for the harmonica in the British charts, and there is some dispute about who played it, but Millie always insisted that it was the Five Dimensions' harmonica player, Rod Stewart, though Stewart denies it: [Excerpt: Millie, "My Boy Lollipop"] "My Boy Lollipop" came out in early 1964 and became a massive hit, reaching number two on the charts both in the UK and the US, and Millie was now a star. She got her own UK TV special, as well as appearing on Around The Beatles, a special starring the Beatles and produced by Jack Good. She was romantically linked to Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon. Her next single, though, "Sweet William", only made number thirty, as the brief first wave of interest in ska among the white public subsided: [Excerpt: Millie, "Sweet William"] Over the next few years, there were many attempts made to get her back in the charts, but the last thing that came near was a remake of "Bloodshot Eyes", without the intimate partner violence references, which made number forty-eight on the UK charts at the end of 1965: [Excerpt: Millie, "Bloodshot Eyes"] She was also teamed with other artists in an attempt to replicate her success as a duet act. She recorded with Jimmy Cliff: [Excerpt: Millie and Jimmy Cliff, "Hey Boy, Hey Girl"] and Jackie Edwards: [Excerpt: Jackie and Millie, "Pledging My Love"] and she was also teamed with a rock group Blackwell had discovered, and who would soon become big stars themselves with versions of songs by Edwards, on a cover version of Ike and Tina Turner's "I'm Blue (the Gong Gong Song)": [Excerpt: The Spencer Davis Group, "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)"] But the Spencer Davis Group didn't revive her fortunes, and she moved on to a succession of smaller labels, with her final recordings coming in the early 1970s, when she recorded the track "Enoch Power", in response to the racism stirred up by the right-wing politician Enoch Powell: [Excerpt: Millie Small, "Enoch Power"] Millie spent much of the next few decades in poverty. There was talk of a comeback in the early eighties, after the British ska revival group Bad Manners had a top ten hit with a gender-flipped remake of "My Boy Lollipop": [Excerpt: Bad Manners, "My Girl Lollipop"] But she never performed again after the early seventies, and other than one brief interview in 2016 she kept her life private. She was given multiple honours by the people of Jamaica, including being made a Commander in the Order of Distinction, but never really got any financial benefit from her enormous chart success, or from being the first Jamaican artist to make an impact on Britain and America. She died last year, aged seventy-two.
This week’s episode looks at “My Boy Lollipop” and the origins of ska music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “If You Wanna Be Happy” by Jimmy Soul. 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/ —-more—- Resources As usual, I have created a Mixcloud playlist containing every song heard in this episode — a content warning applies for the song “Bloodshot Eyes” by Wynonie Harris. The information about ska in general mostly comes from Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley, with some also from Reggae and Caribbean Music by Dave Thompson. Biographical information on Millie Small is largely from this article in Record Collector, plus a paywalled interview with Goldmine magazine (which I won’t link to because of the paywall). Millie’s early recordings with Owen Gray and Coxsone Dodd can be found on this compilation, along with a good selection of other recordings Dodd produced, while this compilation gives a good overview of her recordings for Island and Fontana. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Erratum I refer to “Barbara Gaye” when I should say “Barbie Gaye” Transcript Today, we’re going to take our first look at a form of music that would go on to have an almost incalculable influence on the music of the seventies, eighties, and later, but which at the time we’re looking at was largely regarded as a novelty music, at least in Britain and America. We’re going to look at the birth of ska, and at the first ska record to break big outside of Jamaica. We’re going to look at “My Boy Lollipop” by Millie: [Excerpt: Millie, “My Boy Lollipop”] Most of the music we’ve looked at so far in the podcast has been from either America or Britain, and I’m afraid that that’s going to remain largely the case — while there has been great music made in every country in the world, American and British musicians have tended to be so parochial, and have dominated the music industry so much, that relatively little of that music has made itself felt widely enough to have any kind of impact on the wider history of rock music, much to rock’s detriment. But every so often something from outside the British Isles or North America manages to penetrate even the closed ears of Anglo-American musicians, and today we’re going to look at one of those records. Now, before we start this, this episode is, by necessity, going to be dealing in broad generalisations — I’m trying to give as much information about Jamaica’s musical culture in one episode as I’ve given about America’s in a hundred, so I am going to have to elide a lot of details. Some of those details will come up in future episodes, as we deal with more Jamaican artists, but be aware that I’m missing stuff out. The thing that needs to be understood about the Jamaican music culture of the fifties and early sixties is that it developed in conditions of absolute poverty. Much of the music we looked at in the first year or so of the podcast came from extremely impoverished communities, of course, but even given how utterly, soul-crushingly, poor many people in the Deep South were, or the miserable conditions that people in Liverpool and London lived in while Britain was rebuilding itself after the war, those people were living in rich countries, and so still had access to some things that were not available to the poor people of poorer countries. So in Jamaica in the 1950s, almost nobody had access to any kind of record player or radio themselves. You wouldn’t even *know* anyone who had one, unlike in the states where if you were very poor you might not have one yourself, but your better-off cousin might let you come round and listen to the radio at their house. So music was, by necessity, a communal experience. Jamaican music, or at least the music in Kingston, the biggest city in Jamaica, was organised around sound systems — big public open-air systems run by DJs, playing records for dancing. These had originally started in shops as a way of getting customers in, but soon became so popular that people started doing them on their own. These sound systems played music that was very different from the music played on the radio, which was aimed mostly at people rich enough to own radios, which at that time mostly meant white British people — in the fifties, Jamaica was still part of the British Empire, and there was an extraordinary gap between the music the white British colonial class liked and the music that the rest of the population liked. The music that the Jamaican population *made* was mostly a genre called mento. Now, this is somewhere where my ignorance of this music compared to other musics comes into play a bit. There seem to have been two genres referred to as mento. One of them, rural mento, was based around instruments like the banjo, and a home-made bass instrument called a “rhumba box”, and had a resemblance to a lot of American country music or British skiffle — this form of mento is often still called “country music” in Jamaica itself: [Excerpt: The Hiltonaires, “Matilda”] There was another variant of mento, urban mento, which dropped the acoustic and home-made instruments and replaced them with the same sort of instruments that R&B or jazz bands used. Everything I read about urban mento says that it’s a different genre from calypso music, which generally comes from Trinidad and Tobago rather than Jamaica, but nothing explains what that difference is, other than the location. Mento musicians would also call their music calypso in order to sell it to people like me who don’t know the difference, and so you would get mento groups called things like Count Lasher and His Calypsonians, Lord Lebby and the Jamaica Calypsonians, and Count Owen and His Calypsonians, songs called things like “Hoola Hoop Calypso”, and mentions of calypso in the lyrics. I am fairly familiar with calypso music — people like the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Melody, Roaring Lion, and so on — and I honestly can’t hear any difference between calypso proper and mento records like this one, by Lord Power and Trenton Spence: [Excerpt: Lord Power and Trenton Spence, “Strip Tease”] But I’ll defer to the experts in these genres and accept that there’s a difference I’m not hearing. Mento was primarily a music for live performance, at least at first — there were very few recording facilities in Jamaica, and to the extent that records were made at all there, they were mostly done in very small runs to sell to tourists, who wanted a souvenir to take home. The music that the first sound systems played would include some mento records, and they would also play a fair number of latin-flavoured records. But the bulk of what they played was music for dancing, imported from America, made by Black American musicians, many of them the same musicians we looked at in the early months of this podcast. Louis Jordan was a big favourite, as was Wynonie Harris — the biggest hit in the early years of the sound systems was Harris’ “Bloodshot Eyes”. I’m going to excerpt that here, because it was an important record in the evolution of Jamaican music, but be warned that the song trivialises intimate partner violence in a way that many people might find disturbing. If you might be upset by that, skip forward exactly thirty seconds now: [Excerpt: Wynonie Harris, “Bloodshot Eyes”] The other artists who get repeatedly named in the histories of the early sound systems along with Jordan and Harris are Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Professor Longhair — a musician we’ve not talked about in the podcast, but who made New Orleans R&B music in the same style as Domino and Price, and for slow-dancing the Moonglows and Jesse Belvin. They would also play jazz — Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Sarah Vaughan were particular favourites. These records weren’t widely available in Jamaica — indeed, *no* records were really widely available . They found their way into Jamaica through merchant seamen, who would often be tasked by sound men with getting hold of new and exciting records, and paid with rum or marijuana. The “sound man” was the term used for the DJs who ran these sound systems, and they were performers as much as they were people who played records — they would talk and get the crowds going, they would invent dance steps and perform them, and they would also use the few bits of technology they had to alter the sound — usually by adding bass or echo. Their reputation was built by finding the most obscure records, but ones which the crowds would love. Every sound man worth his salt had a collection of records that nobody else had — if you were playing the same records that someone else had, you were a loser. As soon as a sound man got hold of a record, he’d scratch out all the identifying copy on the label and replace it with a new title, so that none of his rivals could get hold of their own copies. The rivalry between sound men could be serious — it started out just as friendly competition, with each man trying to build a bigger and louder system and draw a bigger crowd, but when the former policeman turned gangster Duke Reid started up his Trojan sound system, intimidating rivals with guns soon became par for the course. Reid had actually started out in music as an R&B radio DJ — one of the few in Jamaica — presenting a show whose theme song, Tab Smith’s “My Mother’s Eyes”, would become permanently identified with Reid: [Excerpt: Tab Smith, “My Mother’s Eyes”] Reid’s Trojan was one of the two biggest sound systems in Kingston, the other being Downbeat, run by Coxsone Dodd. Dodd’s system became so popular that he ended up having five different sound systems, all playing in different areas of the city every night, with the ones he didn’t perform at himself being run by assistants who later became big names in the Jamaican music world themselves, like Prince Buster and Lee “Scratch” Perry. Buster performed a few other functions for Dodd as well — one important one being that he knew enough about R&B that he could go to Duke Reid’s shows, listen to the records he was playing, and figure out what they must be — he could recognise the different production styles of the different R&B labels well enough that he could use that, plus the lyrics, to work out the probable title and label of a record Reid was playing. Dodd would then get a merchant seaman to bring a copy of that record back from America, get a local record pressing plant to press up a bunch of copies of it, and sell it to the other sound men, thus destroying Reid’s edge. Eventually Prince Buster left Dodd and set up his own rival sound system, at which point the rivalry became a three-way one. Dodd knew about technology, and had the most powerful sound system with the best amps. Prince Buster was the best showman, who knew what the people wanted and gave it to them, and Duke Reid was connected and powerful enough that he could use intimidation to keep a grip on power, but he also had good enough musical instincts that his shows were genuinely popular in their own right. People started to see their favourite sound systems in the same way they see sports teams or political parties — as marks of identity that were worth getting into serious fights over. Supporters of one system would regularly attack supporters of another, and who your favourite sound system was *really mattered*. But there was a problem. While these systems were playing a handful of mento records, they were mostly relying on American records, and this had two problems. The most obvious was that if a record was available publicly, eventually someone else would find it. Coxsone Dodd managed to use one record, “Later For Gator” by Willis “Gatortail” Jackson, at every show for seven years, renaming it “Coxsone Hop”: [Excerpt: Willis “Gatortail” Jackson, “Later For Gator”] But eventually word got out that Duke Reid had tracked the song down and would play it at a dance. Dodd went along, and was allowed in unmolested — Reid wanted Dodd to know he’d been beaten. Now, here I’m going to quote something Prince Buster said, and we hit a problem we’re likely to hit again when it comes to Jamaica. Buster spoke Jamaican Patois, a creole language that is mutually intelligible with, but different from, standard English. When quoting him, or any other Patois speaker, I have a choice of three different options, all bad. I could translate his words into standard English, thus misrepresenting him; I could read his words directly in my own accent, which has the problem that it can sound patronising, or like I’m mocking his language, because so much of Patois is to do with the way the words are pronounced; or I could attempt to approximate his own accent — which would probably come off as incredibly racist. As the least bad option of the three, I’m choosing the middle one here, and reading in my own accent, but I want people to be aware that this is not intended as mockery, and that I have at least given this some thought: “So we wait. Then as the clock struck midnight we hear “Baaap… bap da dap da dap, daaaa da daap!” And we see a bunch of them down from the dancehall coming up with the green bush. I was at the counter with Coxsone, he have a glass in him hand, he drop it and just collapse, sliding down the bar. I had to brace him against the bar, then get Phantom to give me a hand. The psychological impact had knocked him out. Nobody never hit him.” There was a second problem with using American records, as well — American musical tastes were starting to change, and Jamaican ones weren’t. Jamaican audiences wanted Louis Jordan, Fats Domino, and Gene & Eunice, but the Americans wanted Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Bobby Darin. For a while, the sound men were able to just keep finding more and more obscure old R&B and jump band records, but there was a finite supply of these, and they couldn’t keep doing it forever. The solution eventually became obvious — they needed Jamaican R&B. And thankfully there was a ready supply. Every week, there was a big talent contest in Kingston, and the winners would get five pounds — a lot of money in that time and place. Many of the winners would then go to a disc-cutting service, one of those places that would record a single copy of a song for you, and use their prize money to record themselves. They could then sell that record to one of the sound men, who would be sure that nobody else would have a copy of it. At first, the only sound men they could sell to were the less successful ones, who didn’t have good connections with American records. A local record was clearly not as good as an American one, and so the big sound systems wouldn’t touch it, but it was better than nothing, and some of the small sound systems would find that the local records were a success for them, and eventually the bigger systems would start using the small ones as a test audience — if a local record went down well at a small system, one of the big operators would get in touch with the sound man of that system and buy the record from him. One of the big examples of this was “Lollipop Girl”, a song by Derrick Harriott and Claudie Sang. They recorded that, with just a piano backing, and sold their only copy to a small sound system owner. It went down so well that the small sound man traded his copy with Coxsone Dodd for an American record — and it went down so well when Dodd played it that Duke Reid bribed one of Dodd’s assistants to get hold of Dodd’s copy long enough to get a copy made for himself. When Dodd and Reid played a sound clash — a show where they went head to head to see who could win a crowd over — and Reid played his own copy of “Lollipop Girl”, Dodd pulled a gun on Reid, and it was only the fact that the clash was next door to the police station that kept the two men from killing each other. Reid eventually wore out his copy of “Lollipop Girl”, he played it so much, and so he did the only sensible thing — he went into the record business himself, and took Harriott into the studio, along with a bunch of musicians from the local big bands, and cut a new version of it with a full band backing Harriott. As well as playing this on his sound system, Reid released it as a record: [Excerpt: Derrick Harriott, “Lollipop Girl”] Reid didn’t make many more records at this point, but both Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster started up their own labels, and started hiring local singers, plus people from a small pool of players who became the go-to session musicians for any record made in Jamaica at the time, like trombone player Rico Rodriguez and guitarist Ernest Ranglin. During the late 1950s, a new form of music developed from these recordings, which would become known as ska, and there are three records which are generally considered to be milestones in its development. The first was produced by a white businessman, Edward Seaga, who is now more famous for becoming the Prime Minister of Jamaica in the 1980s. At the time, though, Seaga had the idea to incorporate a little bit of a mento rhythm into an R&B record he was producing. In most music, if you have a four-four rhythm, you can divide it into eight on-beats and off-beats, and you normally stress the on-beats, so you stress “ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and”. In mento, though, you’d often have a banjo stress the off-beats, so the stresses would be “one AND two AND three AND four AND”. Seaga had the guitarist on “Manny Oh” by Higgs and Wilson do this, on a track that was otherwise a straightforward New Orleans style R&B song with a tresillo bassline. The change in stresses is almost imperceptible to modern ears, but it made the record sound uniquely Jamaican to its audience: [Excerpt: Higgs and Wilson, “Manny Oh”] The next record in the sequence was produced by Dodd, and is generally considered the first real ska record. There are a few different stories about where the term “ska” came from, but one of the more believable is that it came from Dodd directing Ernest Ranglin, who was the arranger for the record, to stress the off-beat more, saying “play it ska… ska… ska…” Where “Manny Oh” had been a Jamaican sounding R&B record, “Easy Snappin'” is definitely a blues-influenced ska record: [Excerpt: Theo Beckford, “Easy Snappin'”] But Duke Reid and Coxsone Dodd, at this point, still saw the music they were making as a substitute for American R&B. Prince Buster, on the other hand, by this point was a full-fledged Black nationalist, and wanted to make a purely Jamaican music. Buster was, in particular, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, and he brought in five drummers from the Rasta Nyabinghi tradition, most notably Count Ossie, who became the single most influential drummer in Jamaica, to record on the Folkes brothers single “Oh Carolina”, incorporating the rhythms of Rasta sacred music into Jamaican R&B for the first time: [Excerpt: The Folkes Brothers, “Oh Carolina”] 1962 was a turning point in Jamaican music in a variety of ways. Most obviously, it was the year that Jamaica became independent from the British Empire, and was able to take control of its own destiny. But it was also the year that saw the first recordings of a fourteen-year-old girl who would become ska’s first international star. Millie Small had started performing at the age of twelve, when she won the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, the single biggest talent contest in Kingston. But it was two years later that she came to the attention of Coxsone Dodd, who was very interested in her because her voice sounded spookily like that of Shirley, from the duo Shirley and Lee. We mentioned Shirley and Lee briefly back in the episode on “Ko Ko Mo”, but they were a New Orleans R&B duo who had a string of hits in the early and mid fifties, recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s studio, pairing Leonard Lee’s baritone voice with Shirley Goodman’s soprano. Their early records had been knock-offs of the sound that Little Esther had created with Johnny Otis and his male vocalists — for example Shirley and Lee’s “Sweethearts”: [Excerpt: Shirley and Lee, “Sweethearts”] bears a very strong resemblance to “Double-Crossing Blues”: [Excerpt: Little Esther, Johnny Otis, and the Robins, “Double-Crossing Blues”] But they’d soon developed a more New Orleans style, with records like “Feel So Good” showing some of the Caribbean influence that many records from the area had: [Excerpt: Shirley and Lee, “Feel So Good”] Shirley and Lee only had minor chart success in the US, but spawned a host of imitators, including Gene and Eunice and Mickey and Sylvia, both of whom we looked at in the early months of the podcast, and Ike and Tina Turner who will be coming up later. Like much New Orleans R&B, Shirley and Lee were hugely popular among the sound system listeners, and Coxsone Dodd thought that Mille’s voice sounded enough like Shirley’s that it would be worth setting her up as part of his own Shirley and Lee soundalike duo, pairing her with a more established singer, Owen Gray, to record songs like “Sit and Cry”, a song which combined the vocal sound of Shirley and Lee with the melody of “The Twist”: [Excerpt: Owen and Millie, “Sit and Cry”] After Gray decided to continue performing on his own, Millie was instead teamed with another performer, Roy Panton, and “We’ll Meet” by Roy and Millie went to number one in Jamaica: [Excerpt: Roy and Millie, “We’ll Meet”] Meanwhile, in the UK, there was a growing interest in music from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica. Until very recently, Britain had been a very white country — there have always been Black people in the UK, especially in port towns, but there had been very few. As of 1950, there were only about twenty thousand people of colour living in the UK. But starting in 1948, there had been a massive wave of immigration from other parts of what was then still the British Empire, as the government encouraged people to come here to help rebuild the country after the war. By 1961 there were nearly two hundred thousand Black people in Britain, almost all of them from the Caribbean. Those people obviously wanted to hear the music of their own culture, and one man in particular was giving it to them. Chris Blackwell was a remarkably privileged man. His father had been one of the heirs to the Crosse and Blackwell fortune, and young Chris had been educated at Harrow, but when not in school he had spent much of his youth in Jamaica. His mother, Blanche, lived in Jamaica, where she was a muse to many men — Noel Coward based a character on her, in a play he wrote in 1956 but which was considered so scandalous that it wasn’t performed in public until 2012. Blanche attended the premiere of that play, when she was ninety-nine years old. She had an affair with Errol Flynn, and was also Ian Fleming’s mistress — Fleming would go to his Jamaican villa, GoldenEye, every year to write, leaving his wife at home (where she was having her own affairs, with the Labour MPs Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins), and would hook up with Blanche while he was there — according to several sources, Fleming based the characters of Pussy Galore and Honeychile Ryder on Blanche. After Fleming’s death, his wife instructed the villa’s manager that it could be rented to literally anyone except Blanche Blackwell, but in the mid-1970s it was bought by Bob Marley, who in turn sold it to Chris Blackwell. Chris Blackwell had developed a fascination with Rasta culture after having crashed his boat while sailing, and being rescued by some Rasta fishermen, and he had decided that his goal was to promote Jamaican culture to the world. He’d started his own labels, Island Records, in 1959, using his parents’ money, and had soon produced a Jamaican number one, “Boogie in My Bones”, by Laurel Aitken: [Excerpt: Laurel Aitken, “Boogie in My Bones”] But music was still something of a hobby with Blackwell, to the point that he nearly quit it altogether in 1962. He’d been given a job as a gopher on the first James Bond film, Dr. No, thanks to his family connections, and had also had a cameo role in the film. Harry Saltzman, the producer, offered him a job, but Blackwell went to a fortune teller who told him to stick with music, and he did. Soon after that, he moved back to England, where he continued running Island Records, this time as a distributor of Jamaican records. The label would occasionally record some tracks of its own, but it made its money from releasing Jamaican records, which Blackwell would hand-sell to local record shops around immigrant communities in London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Island was not the biggest of the labels releasing Jamaican music in Britain at the time — there was another label, Blue Beat, which got most of the big records, and which was so popular that in Britain “bluebeat” became a common term for ska, used to describe the whole genre, in the same way as Motown might be. And ska was becoming popular enough that there was also local ska being made, by Jamaican musicians living in Britain, and it was starting to chart. The first ska record to hit the charts in Britain was a cover of a Jimmy Cliff song, “King of Kings”, performed by Ezz Reco and the Launchers: [Excerpt: Ezz Reco and the Launchers, “King of Kings”] That made the lower reaches of the top forty, and soon after came “Mockingbird Hill”, a ska remake of an old Les Paul and Mary Ford hit, recorded by the Migil Five, a white British R&B group whose main claim to fame was that one of them was Charlie Watts’ uncle, and Watts had occasionally filled in on drums for them before joining the Rolling Stones: [Excerpt: Migil Five, “Mockingbird Hill”] That made the top ten. Ska was becoming the in sound in Britain, to the point that in March 1964, the same month that “Mockingbird Hill” was released, the Beatles made a brief detour into ska in the instrumental break to “I Call Your Name”: [Excerpt: The Beatles, “I Call Your Name”] And it was into this atmosphere that Chris Blackwell decided to introduce Millie. Her early records had been selling well enough for him that in 1963 he had decided to call Millie’s mother and promise her that if her daughter came over to the UK, he would be able to make her into a star. Rather than release her records on Island, which didn’t have any wide distribution, he decided to license them to Fontana, a mid-sized British label. Millie’s first British single, “Don’t You Know”, was released in late 1963, and was standard British pop music of the time, with little to distinguish it, and so unsurprisingly it wasn’t a hit: [Excerpt: Millie, “Don’t You Know”] But the second single was something different. For that, Blackwell remembered a song that had been popular among the sound systems a few years earlier; an American record by a white singer named Barbara Gaye. Up to this point, Gaye’s biggest claim to fame had been that Ellie Greenwich had liked this record enough that she’d briefly performed under the stage name Ellie Gaye, before deciding against that. “My Boy Lollipop” had been written by Robert Spencer of the Cadillacs, the doo-wop group whose biggest hit had been “Speedoo”: [Excerpt: The Cadillacs, “Speedoo”] Spencer had written “My Boy Lollipop”, but lost the rights to it in a card game — and then Morris Levy bought the rights from the winner for a hundred dollars. Levy changed the songwriting credit to feature a mob acquaintance of his, Johnny Roberts, and then passed the song to Gaetano Vastola, another mobster, who had it recorded by Gaye, a teenage girl he managed, with the backing provided by the normal New York R&B session players, like Big Al Sears and Panama Francis: [Excerpt: Barbie Gaye, “My Boy Lollipop”] That hadn’t been a hit when it was released in 1956, but it had later been picked up by the Jamaican sound men, partly because of its resemblance to the ska style, and Blackwell had a tape recording of it. Blackwell got Ernest Ranglin, who had also worked on Dr. No, and who had moved over to the UK at the same time as Blackwell, to come up with an arrangement, and Ranglin hired a local band to perform the instrumental backing. That band, Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions, had previously been known as the Moontrekkers, and had worked with Joe Meek, recording “Night of the Vampire”: [Excerpt: The Moontrekkers, “Night of the Vampire”] Ranglin replaced the saxophone solo from the original record with a harmonica solo, to fit the current fad for the harmonica in the British charts, and there is some dispute about who played it, but Millie always insisted that it was the Five Dimensions’ harmonica player, Rod Stewart, though Stewart denies it: [Excerpt: Millie, “My Boy Lollipop”] “My Boy Lollipop” came out in early 1964 and became a massive hit, reaching number two on the charts both in the UK and the US, and Millie was now a star. She got her own UK TV special, as well as appearing on Around The Beatles, a special starring the Beatles and produced by Jack Good. She was romantically linked to Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon. Her next single, though, “Sweet William”, only made number thirty, as the brief first wave of interest in ska among the white public subsided: [Excerpt: Millie, “Sweet William”] Over the next few years, there were many attempts made to get her back in the charts, but the last thing that came near was a remake of “Bloodshot Eyes”, without the intimate partner violence references, which made number forty-eight on the UK charts at the end of 1965: [Excerpt: Millie, “Bloodshot Eyes”] She was also teamed with other artists in an attempt to replicate her success as a duet act. She recorded with Jimmy Cliff: [Excerpt: Millie and Jimmy Cliff, “Hey Boy, Hey Girl”] and Jackie Edwards: [Excerpt: Jackie and Millie, “Pledging My Love”] and she was also teamed with a rock group Blackwell had discovered, and who would soon become big stars themselves with versions of songs by Edwards, on a cover version of Ike and Tina Turner’s “I’m Blue (the Gong Gong Song)”: [Excerpt: The Spencer Davis Group, “I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song)”] But the Spencer Davis Group didn’t revive her fortunes, and she moved on to a succession of smaller labels, with her final recordings coming in the early 1970s, when she recorded the track “Enoch Power”, in response to the racism stirred up by the right-wing politician Enoch Powell: [Excerpt: Millie Small, “Enoch Power”] Millie spent much of the next few decades in poverty. There was talk of a comeback in the early eighties, after the British ska revival group Bad Manners had a top ten hit with a gender-flipped remake of “My Boy Lollipop”: [Excerpt: Bad Manners, “My Girl Lollipop”] But she never performed again after the early seventies, and other than one brief interview in 2016 she kept her life private. She was given multiple honours by the people of Jamaica, including being made a Commander in the Order of Distinction, but never really got any financial benefit from her enormous chart success, or from being the first Jamaican artist to make an impact on Britain and America. She died last year, aged seventy-two.
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PODCAST: 27 Sep 2020 01 Ocourenta & Cadillac – Teres Aoutes String Band – Courenta Cadillac 02 Three Little Birds – Kate Rusby – Hand Me Down 03 One More Lockdown Day -Robb Johnson and The Irregulars – Pandemic Songs 04 Poolbeg Chimneys / The Ivy Leaf – Patricia Walsh – Simply Whistle 05 Maid On The Mountain – McGoldrick McCusker Doyle – The Reed That Bends In The Storm 06 When I Was A Cowboy – Happy Traum – Buckets Of Song 07 The Recesses – Jenny Sturgeon – The Living Mountain 08 Hion Daila Horo Ri Ho Hion Daila Là – Garefowl – Cliffs 09 Love Of The Common People – Kate Rusby – Hand Me Down 10 Joan Of The Greenwood – Joshua Burnell – Flowers Where The Horses Sleep 11 Wild Sparrow – John Blakey – The Legend Of Icarus O’Toole 12 Honky Tonk Woman – John Blakey – The Legend Of Icarus O’Toole 13 Union Jack House – Virginia Kettle – No Place Like Tomorrow 14 Air And Light – Jenny Sturgeon – The Living Mountain 15 Knocking On Your Door Again - Hank Wangford - Holey Holey 16 Hare Spell – Fay Hield – Wrackline 17 Sweet William’s Ghost – Fay Hield – Wrackline 18 Stringybark Creek – John Campbell Munro – The Kelly Collection 19 The Ballad Of Ned Kelly – Fotheringay – Fotheringay 20 A’ Fàgail Hiort – Garefowl – Cliffs 21 Across The Western Ocean (Single) – Jenna Moynihan 22 Claudia’s Waltz – Patricia Walsh – Simply Whistle 23 Gentleman Jack – O’Hooey & Tidow – Live At St Georges 24 Mrs Macintosh Of Raigmore – Lauren MacColl – Landskein 25 The President Sang Amazing Grace – The Kronos Quartet – Long Time Passing
Show note links: Make sure you’re following me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/imfranexcell/ and tag me into your key takeaways! Email me at fran@franexcell.com with any questions or take aways! For more, head over to: www.franexcell.com/ To sign up for The Positive Pants Planner Waitlist: https://www.franexcell.com/pppwaitlist/ For more information or to apply for The Proactive Pants Mastermind: https://www.franexcell.com/proactivepants Book in a discovery call to see how I can help you: https://calendly.com/franexcell/20min Download your Free Procrastination Buster here: https://franexcell.lpages.co/procrastinationbuster/ Access SubliminialPower HERE (Affiliate link because it’s awesome!) important lessons from my garden It’s funny isn’t it, how we can find so many common links and parallels between so many different areas in life. So many ‘hidden’ or not so hidden ‘messages’ in the things we do that we often miss or ignore. So I thought I would demonstrate this with what i’ve learned in lock down in my garden and have a little fun with you today. I’ve developed quite the set of green fingers during lockdown and there’s a few key things i’ve learned from growing our own ‘stuff’. From seeds starting in the greenhouse we’ve grown two types of peas. Mizuna greens (which is basically rocket!), lettuce, carrots, rosemary, thyme, radishes, Chard, Beetroot, sunflowers, borage, pumpkins, courgettes….and probably a load of stuff i’ve forgotten! So what have I learned in the process that can help you in your business or other areas of your life... You’ve got to clear out the weeds FIRST If you don’t, the things you WANT to grow won’t or can’t! The weeds will just take over. So what ‘weeds’ do you need to take out? Are there some pesky thoughts and beliefs that need weeding out? Some people that are holding you back? What are the ‘weeds’ stopping you growing what you want to right now? Everything blooms in it’s own time, patience, let go of control This is a big one. You don’t plant a seed one day and expect it to be fully grown the next day do you? No! So why do we do this in other areas of our lives? Delayed gratification is actually SO much more satisfying. Good things take time. They take patience. You can’t rush through the process no matter how hard you want to. Consistency is key Oh goodness this is a big one! When you’re trying to grow something from nothing you can’t just do it willy nilly, every so often. Are you going to get more results watering your seeds one day, then leaving it for a week….or watering it every day? There will be hot days where more watering will be required...but water is still needed on the colder days too. Seeds don’t feed themselves and they can’t grow without water. Nurture Which takes me nicely onto nurturing. This is so important, whatever stage you’re at, everything still needs nurturing. Whether this is audiences, leads, relationships, tech, networks you’re building, clients you have. It’s the same. If the plant is a seed, seedling or full grown it still needs nurturing right? It doesn’t get to a certain point and you just stop. The needs may change slightly but they can’t flourish and reach their full potential without your nurture right? Nothing grows on it’s own. Sometimes you can do everything right but it still doesn’t work. It’s the nature of the beast. Sometimes, we’ve done everything the right way but it just doesn’t work out for some reason. Take my Bergamot and Sweet William for example. They got exactly the same treatment as everything else but they just didn’t grow. There was just a sad two rows in my seed trays with nothing there. It didn’t make any sense. BUT, I can choose to feel like I failed, or blame the seeds for not growing...or I can research it a little more, see where I may have gone wrong and try again next year. It may be they needed LESS water or MORE water. Or mabe they would have been better planted straight into the ground. Just a little different treatment to the other plants. Just because something doesn’t work the first time doesn’t mean it’s always going to be the case. If it’s something you want, try again. Work out what may have gone wrong, see if there’s a different way and go again. Nothing grows bigger than the boundaries you give it This was interesting for me and sooooo telling. Once your seedlings get to a certain size you need to put them into a bigger pot. It’s the only way they’ll keep growing. And then again and again until they’re ready to be planted in the big vegetable patch or in the flower beds where they can REALLY find their feet (or roots!) We have some amazing lettuces. All planted at the same time. The ones in the veg patch are humongous and have kept us in Salad for months. There were two that didn’t fit in the patch so we kept them in a big pot. They are about a tenth of the size. They simply haven’t grown. They are very much alive. Very much there. But tiny. So we can’t eat them. They won’t fulfill their purpose! So where are you boxing in your own boundaries or containers meaning you can’t grow? Where are you not thinking big enough or allowing your thoughts to keep you playing small? Certain plants live to choke other beautiful flowers. They can look pretty but they aren’t everything they seem. There’s a viscous side to them. All they want to do is feed off other plants to make themselves feel better. Are you catching my drift with this one? ;-) There will always be the bad seeds who want to see you fail, to bring you down. Don’t let them. See them for what they are. Have empathy for the fact they feel they have no choice. They aren’t aware. But you can be! Team work is so important Tobes and I created our ‘crop’ all together. I planted the majority of the seeds and I watered them every single day. We ‘pricked out’ the seedlings together. Tobyn got the veg patch ready with weeding and tending to the soil. We built the frames for the peas together. I tied up the peas as they were growing so they could grow in the right direction and have the best chance. We netted so we could protect the plants from pests and keep things organic. I water the veg patch every day. Tobes weeds it. I picked the blackcurrants and raspberries and put them in the freezer. It’s been team work all the way. Tobes cooks it! You don’t have to do everything on your own. It’s so much easier with someone on your side. Whether that’s a coach, a mentor, a VA, a business manager, a membership community. You need to be able to bounce things off other people. Stay doing the bits you enjoy and work with someone who compliments your skills. Two heads are better than one and you will have MUCH better results. Persistence is non negotiable There may be certain things you don’t want to do that are necessary for the plants to thrive. Push through it and just get it done rather than keeping it in your noggin…OR get someone else to do it! It was weeks before I saw ANY results with my seeds. That can make you give up, stop nurturing and watering….but what if they were JUST about to burst through the soil? How would you know? I had to trust they were coming. Every day i’d go in with a little hope to see nothing. Wonder why it was taking so long, if I was doing something wrong, how come other people have seedlings already and I don’t...etc etc! There were doubts if I was doing the ‘right’ thing. Was there something else I should do? But I kept going in and doing what needed to be done. Then one day there was one little green shoot, then another, then eventually I had an entire greenhouse full of seedlings. I now have 3 vegetable patches full of food. It’s taken time. Energy. Commitment. Trust. Patience. Experiments. Nurture. Has it been worth it? Hell yes! When I get to go outside, grab a pea pod, open it and eat the peas straight out of it. When we eat our dinner every night and there’s something from the garden in there. It’s worth it. It’s worth it for the sense of pride. It’s worth it for the knowledge that I grew it and we get to benefit from the fruits of our labour. It means more! It may not always be easy, you have to try different things to see what works. But when you literally get to enjoy the fruits of your labour it’s worth every effort. It’s worth the time, the trial, the errors, the failures, the lessons. So stick with it and tend to that beautiful garden of yours ;-) Fx
Today we celebrate the man who named the lipstick tree and was known as Florida's Burbank. We'll also learn about the incredible work of an extraordinary Russian botanist who was tragically sentenced to death on this day in 1941. And we honor the life of the "Father of Hybrid Corn." Today's poetry is all about a favorite summer crop: tomatoes. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a witty and poetic book about Gardening and Life. And then we'll wrap things up with the story of a Marvel character near and dear to gardener's hearts. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news. Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News What is Cottage Garden Style? And How to Achieve It... | The Middle-Sized Garden "And, as for garden plants – well, it has been difficult to source exactly the plants we want. We have had to compromise on color and style. Friends have been saying things like ‘I wouldn’t normally buy scarlet pelargoniums, but they were the only ones I could find.’ In theory, cottage garden style started when low paid farm workers filled their gardens with vegetables, herbs and fruit trees for their own use. What are the rules of cottage garden style? There aren't any. That's the whole point. There's no need to plant in threes and fives, or in drifts or to think about color combinations – unless you want to." The Middle-Sized Garden: if your garden is bigger than a courtyard but smaller than an acre. Sowing Biennial Flower Seeds In June And July | Higgledy Garden "The biennials in the Higgledy Seed Emporium have all be chosen to be admirable in the vase. We also have a strong leaning to the old fashioned. *Honesty (Common name) or Lunaria (so named because it's pale seed pod discs resemble the moon). *Sweet William. Sweet Williams just rock! That's all there is to it. They smell amazing…look amazing and are all-round good eggs. Like all biennials, they are a piece of cake to grow from seed. *Foxgloves. Once again, a white foxglove 'Alba 'is a pretty essential bit of kit for the home florist... Don't be without it. *Hesperis. I love this flower…one of my favorites of all the flowers I have ever grown. Simple…pretty…easy to grow…" Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events 1926 The Green Bay Press-Gazette posted an article titled, "Ice Cream Grown on Vine in the yard of Former Kentuckian." The article was about the fabulous Colonel Henry Wallace Johnston, who, until the age of 50, had operated a hardware store in Lebanon, Kentucky. At midlife, he moved to Homestead, Florida. And, in 1912, Henry created a 20-acre estate he called Palm Lodge Tropical Grove. Henry was a character. He enjoyed dressing the part of a tropical explorer, wearing a tropical outfit complete with a white helmet, and looking as if he had just finished playing Jumanji. Henry became known as the Wizard of Palm Lodge or Florida's Burbank (a nod to California's Luther Burbank), and he added over 8,000 incredible specimens of tropical fruits and flowers - many not found anywhere else in America. Truly, Palm Lodge gained Henry worldwide recognition. And, although Henry never traveled outside the United States, he was a natural marketer, and Palm Lodge's impressive reputation brought the plants to him. Henry's story includes the following spectacular facts: He grew almost all of his plants from seed. He coined the name "lipstick tree". He grew a rare flower that produces a perfume called the "Scent of Lilith." He grew the Dumb Cane tree or dieffenbachia from Cambodia. He would tell folks that if they bit into the leaves, their tongue would be paralyzed for six weeks. He successfully cultivated rubber plants. Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford brought back rubber plants from Madagascar, but only Henry's plants had survived. He grew the Palestine Tree, and he wrapped the fruit in cellophane while on the tree to protect against insects. The fruit was used in religious rituals by rabbis, and Henry would send it to them. He grew the Gingerbread Palm, and the palm's fruit tasted of gingerbread. He furnished almost all of the plants for the State of Florida's tropical exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair. He produced nearly 300 different types of fruits and jellies and packaged all of them at Palm Lodge. He was a master of the aloe vera plant, and he planted a 15-acre aloe field. By 1920, Henry was regularly harvesting the leaves and bringing them to Miami, and each one had to be individually wrapped to stop the spines from making the jelly ooze out. He loved to tell about a plant he called "the ice cream vine," botanically known as the Monstera Deliciosa. The fruit resembles a giant ear of corn minus the husk and tastes like a combination of banana, strawberry, and pineapple. Henry's Palm Lodge of Florida was a showplace, and there was no charge for admission. Homestead Florida's chamber of commerce advertised that 30,000 people, including botanists, visited the Lodge every year. And, one day, after 2,000 or so guests had passed through the gardens, the register revealed that Henry Ford had visited, unnoticed in the crowd. 1941 Today a Soviet court sentenced the extraordinary twentieth-century Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov to death by firing squad. Worried about the world's plant biodiversity, Vavilov became a dedicated plant collector, and he had the foresight to build the world's first seed bank in St. Petersburg. Nikolay's life's mission was something he called a "mission for all humanity" and it was tied directly to his drive to build the seed bank: Vavilov wanted to end world hunger and famine, and he planned to accomplish this ambitious goal through science. And he hoped to breed super plants that would be both nutritious and hardy so that they could be grown even in the most challenging locations on the planet. During his life, Vavilov had enjoyed Lenin's support. Vavilov's big ideas knit perfectly together with Lenin's desire for a socialist utopia. But after Lenin died, Vavilov was on the outs. His family was made up of accomplished scientists, and they were considered part of the bourgeoisie and scorned. The events that lead to Vavilov's sentencing and ultimate death had to do with Vavilov's critique of a fellow scientist. Vavilov had publicly criticized a geneticist named Lysenko, who had Stalin's backing. And so, on this day in 1941, Vavilov was sentenced to die. But Vavilov never faced the firing squad. Instead, he died of starvation two years after receiving his sentence. Today, the Vavilov Institute houses over a quarter of a million specimens and is a living monument to Nikolay Vavilov ― the scientist who wanted food security for all of humanity, yet ironically died of starvation in the basement of a Soviet prison. 1942 Today newspapers announced the retirement of the "father of hybrid corn," George Shull. An Ohio farm kid, George was a noted botanist who taught at Princeton University for 27 years. George's work resulted in a one hundred and fifty million-dollar increase in the value of US corn as a result of his crossing pure line varieties with self-fertilized corn. George's uber-productive hybrid yielded ten to forty percent more than ordinary corn. Like many plant breeders, George never made a penny from his creation. Unearthed Words Today's poetry features a favorite summer plant: the Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum) You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. — Mario Batali, American chef and writer It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. — Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and homegrown tomatoes. — John Denver, American singer and songwriter, Home Grown Tomatoes Now, you see, the poetry I like is... experimental. 'Doesn't have the rhyme' kind of stuff. Like this famous poem by Walter Charles Walter. The poem is called: 'They Were Delicious'. (Mr. Simmons begins reciting the poem while Harold steals Mr. Simmon's lunch and starts to eat it.) I have eaten the tomatoes, that were on the window sill were you saving them for a special occasion I apologize they were delicious so juicy so red — Walter Charles Walter, They Were Delicious From Hey Arnold by Craig Bartlett. Read by Mr. Simmons (This Walter Charles Walter poem is a parody of William Carlos Williams' poem This is Just to Say) Grow That Garden Library The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach This book came out in 2013, and the subtitle is Lessons on Gardening and Life. And one of my favorite cookbook authors, Anna Thomas, said, "As I read this witty, revealing, sometimes poetic confessional I felt I understood for the first time what a garden could be - a work of art, a source of pleasure and solace, an object of beauty, a provider of nourishment. And why Margaret calls the plot she tends 'my monster.' This is the story of a real relationship: Margaret and her garden, a love story." This book is 288 pages of Margaret's stories about gardening - culled from thirty seasons of growing and learning what works and what does not. You can get a copy of The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $3. Today's Botanic Spark 1963 Today the Marvel comic botanist Samuel Smithers became Plantman when lightning struck his plant raygun, giving it the power to control and animate all plant life. After losing his duel with the Human Torch in the botanical garden, Plantman was taken to prison. In his last storyline, Plantman transformed into a giant plant monster and attacked the city of Los Angeles in retaliation for humans polluting the world. In his final moments, Plantman was defeated by Ironman. Here's one of Plantman's more famous lines: "Do not speak to the Plant Man of power! Mine was the genius that gave the semblance of life to unthinking plant tissue! There can be no greater power than that!"
Taylor Trensch has been a familiar face on Broadway since 2012, when he made his Broadway debut in Wicked as Boq. He originated roles in the Broadway debut productions of Matilda The Musical, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time. Some of his more recent roles include Barnaby Tucker in the revival of Hello Dolly!, the title role in Dear Evan Hansen, and starring next to Ed Harris as Dill Harris in To Kill A Mockingbird. Taylor can currently be heard as Sweet William in Bleeding Love, a brand new original musical podcast radio play on The Broadway Podcast Network. Taylor has been spending his time in quarantine in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. He shares that he grew up in the same house his dad grew up in - had the same childhood bedroom, as well as the same seat at the family dinner table. When Taylor was 5 years old he performed in his first community theater show - The Wizard of Oz. He loved the movie as a child and begged his parents to take him to the audition. He says he peed his pants opening night, and “from then on I couldn’t be stopped.” Growing up, Taylor had severe allergies and asthma, which deterred him from spending a lot of time outside. When he discovered theater, the immediacy of a group of people being in a room together, getting laughs and applause, he was hooked. He shares that by the time he was in middle school, he knew he was gay. And by doing community theater, he started to become aware of the gay and queer adults who were also there, and began to see himself in them. Playing Sweet William in Bleeding Love is a bit of a throwback for him, as Taylor took part in the original demo recordings that took place in 2016. But the main difference, due to the current coronavirus pandemic, is that no one in the cast can actually be together. Taylor records his songs, and one off lines from the bathroom in his apartment. He describes what a unique challenge it is, calling it “bizarre to try to make a specific, honest choice” as an actor, with sort of no context or ability to play off his fellow actors. There is inherent energy between cast members when they are performing together, they fuel one another. Taylor shares that part of this experience is creating that energy for yourself. Bleeding Love is a show about being in quarantine, but it was written years prior to our current pandemic. And it seems it was rediscovered at precisely the right time. In this episode, we talk about: His failed attempt to escape NYC during quarantine The personal catharsis he experienced while playing the lead in Dear Evan Hansen The two versions of self he believes are inside every theater artist Grounding himself in his life, while having Ben Platt on speed-dial and being buddies with Ed Harris Performing with his boyfriend in Dear Evan Hansen The end of the recent CATS film His idea of what the theater may look like when quarantine is over Connect with Taylor: IG @knucklesandwich Listen to Bleeding Love Connect with The Theatre Podcast: Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheTheatrePodcast Twitter & Instagram: @theatre_podcast Facebook.com/OfficialTheatrePodcast TheTheatrePodcast.com Alan's personal Instagram: @alanseales Email me at feedback@thetheatrepodcast.com. I want to know what you think. A very special thanks to our patrons who help make this podcast possible! Cheryl Hodges-Selden, Paul Seales, David Seales This episode is released in a time of crisis and mass awakening. Black Lives Matter. Please consider donating to any of the following: George Floyd Memorial Fund Minnesota Freedom Fund Reclaim The Block National Bail Out Black Lives Matter The Bail Project Black Visions Collective Campaign Zero National Bail Fund Network The Innocence Project Run with Maud Justice for Breonna
In a world where it's too dangerous to go outside, a starry-eyed teen cellist risks leaving her apartment to win the love of the rebel punk next door. A twisted musical with a good, pure heart. Starring Annie Golden (Madame Floy), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Lolli), Marc Kudisch (The Super), Sarah Stiles (Bronwyn), Taylor Trensch (Sweet William), Tony Vincent (Puppy) Book by Jason Schafer, Music by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon, Lyrics by Harris Doran Based on a story by Jason Schafer, suggested by Oscar Wilde’s fairytale “The Nightingale and the Rose” Directed and Edited by Harris Doran Audio Drama produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales, in association with Kent Nicholson, Katie Rosin, Steve Saporito Orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin Additional production and orchestration by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon Re-Recording Mixing by Ric Schnupp Sound Editing José Villaman Sound Engineer Alan Seales Song recordings produced by Tim Andreasen with Søren Møller, Creative Producer, of the Fredericia Teater Martin Konge, musical director and keyboards Steffen Schackinger on guitar Florian Navarro on reeds Jakob Rosendahl Povisen on violin Tobias Lautrup on cello Allan Nagel on bass Lars Mollenberg on drums Additional vocals on "Prologue" by Aaron Ramey and Lucia Spina Song recordings Engineered by Brian Montgomery Vocals recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, and the actors’ apartments during self isolation Songs: Prologue (And the Sun Didn't Rise Again)..... Company Twilight..... Bronwyn Bleeding Love..... Puppy Plastic Rose..... Bronwyn Up There..... Sweet William, The Super Scene after Up There..... Bronwyn, Sweet William Up There (reprise)..... The Super The Cello Lesson..... Madame Floy Maybe I Met A Girl ..... Sweet William It's Just A Street..... Bronwyn Lolli Pops!..... Lolli Lolli's Popoff..... Lolli Is This Summer?..... Puppy, Bronwyn Intruders!..... Madame Floy, Sweet William, The Super, Lolli Plastic Rose (reprise).....Bronwyn Bleeding Love (reprise)..... Puppy Finale (One Rose Rose)..... Company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a world where it's too dangerous to go outside, a starry-eyed teen cellist risks leaving her apartment to win the love of the rebel punk next door. A twisted musical with a good, pure heart. Starring Annie Golden (Madame Floy), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Lolli), Marc Kudisch (The Super), Sarah Stiles (Bronwyn), Taylor Trensch (Sweet William), Tony Vincent (Puppy) Book by Jason Schafer, Music by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon, Lyrics by Harris Doran Based on a story by Jason Schafer, suggested by Oscar Wilde’s fairytale “The Nightingale and the Rose” Directed and Edited by Harris Doran Audio Drama produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales, in association with Kent Nicholson, Katie Rosin, Steve Saporito Orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin Additional production and orchestration by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon Re-Recording Mixing by Ric Schnupp Sound Editing José Villaman Sound Engineer Alan Seales Song recordings produced by Tim Andreasen with Søren Møller, Creative Producer, of the Fredericia Teater Martin Konge, musical director and keyboards Steffen Schackinger on guitar Florian Navarro on reeds Jakob Rosendahl Povisen on violin Tobias Lautrup on cello Allan Nagel on bass Lars Mollenberg on drums Song recordings Engineered by Brian Montgomery Vocals recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, and the actors’ apartments during self isolation Songs in Episode 3: Lolli Pops!..... Lolli Lolli's Popoff..... Lolli Is This Summer?..... Puppy, Bronwyn Intruders!..... Madame Floy, Sweet William, The Super, Lolli Plastic Rose (reprise).....Bronwyn Bleeding Love (reprise)..... Puppy Finale (One Rose Rose)..... Company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a world where it's too dangerous to go outside, a starry-eyed teen cellist risks leaving her apartment to win the love of the rebel punk next door. A twisted musical with a good, pure heart. Starring Annie Golden (Madame Floy), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Lolli), Marc Kudisch (The Super), Sarah Stiles (Bronwyn), Taylor Trensch (Sweet William), Tony Vincent (Puppy) Book by Jason Schafer, Music by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon, Lyrics by Harris Doran Based on a story by Jason Schafer, suggested by Oscar Wilde’s fairytale “The Nightingale and the Rose” Directed and Edited by Harris Doran Audio Drama produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales, in association with Kent Nicholson, Katie Rosin, Steve Saporito Orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin Additional production and orchestration by Arthur Lafrentz Bacon Re-Recording Mixing by Ric Schnupp Sound Editing José Villaman Sound Engineer Alan Seales Song recordings produced by Tim Andreasen with Søren Møller, Creative Producer, of the Fredericia Teater Martin Konge, musical director and keyboards Steffen Schackinger on guitar Florian Navarro on reeds Jakob Rosendahl Povisen on violin Tobias Lautrup on cello Allan Nagel on bass Lars Mollenberg on drums Song recordings Engineered by Brian Montgomery Vocals recorded at Avatar Studios, NYC, and the actors’ apartments during self isolation Songs in Episode 2: Up There..... Sweet William, The Super Scene after Up There..... Bronwyn, Sweet William Up There (reprise)..... The Super The Cello Lesson..... Madame Floy Maybe I Met A Girl ..... Sweet William It's Just A Street..... Bronwyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I am a life long devotee of the ‘Traditional folk song'. This poem is dedicated, without irony, ‘For the Ballad singers, with gratitude and affection.' But I don't like Broken Token Songs, even if some of them have the best tunes. In this particular sub set of the folk genre, a girl, we shall call her Sweet Dotty, is usually walking in her garden, or down by a river, when a stranger arrives and propositions her. She says she is waiting for Sweet William to return from the wars, from sea, and she will be faithful to his memory. Having told the girl various lies, the stranger then reveals himself as the missing William. They produce their ‘broken tokens' and live happily ever after. The back story here is that before Sweet William went off to the war, set sail to make his fortune or was press ganged, he and Dotty broke a token, a ring or a coin, in two and each kept a half, so that when the battered and disfigured male returned he could prove who he was. What I don't like about broken token songs is the implication that it's ok for the guy to have gone off and had all sorts of adventures but the girl must remain chaste and true. I know this goes back to the Odyssey and I know it's cultural, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. So I wrote my own version. If you don't see the man in the door's stories and language as utterly inappropriate, and see what that suggests about him, then I can't help you. This poem is published in ‘Rough Spun To Close Weave' by Ginninderra press. Available from all online sellers, details at www.liamguilar.com
Today we celebrate the man who wrote extensively about the history and flora of Germantown and... We'll learn about the 11-roomed garden created to honor the tobacco magnate James Buchanan Duke. We'll hear some beautiful thoughts on nature by an English Victorian author who was born on this day in 1819. We Grow That Garden Library with an adorable old book on topiaries. I'll talk about foraging for a Yule Log, and then we'll wrap things up with a friendly post about November strawberries from 1843. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events. Gravel Bed Garden Design: Tips On Laying A Gravel Garden | @gardenknowhow By: Becca Badgett, Co-author of How to Grow an EMERGENCY Garden I love gravel beds in gardens. I don't see them very often, but when I do, they definitely get my full attention. I especially love it when they are enhanced with a water feature like an urn fountain or a rain chain. Becca suggests incorporating: "Ornamental grasses, herbaceous perennials, and even trees or shrubs may be suitable. Install plants into the soil. Add any hardscape features such as benches, water features, clay pots, or tin planters. Large boulders complement the gravel garden construction." If you're thinking about installing a gravel bed in your 2020 garden, check out this post. The Ultimate List of 30 Best Perennials for Landscaping | Richard Spencer @rs_garden_care Secretsofgardening.com recently updated this comprehensive post. I love how Richard starts this post out: "When choosing plants for your yard for the first time, it can be overwhelming without a lot of experience to try to find the best perennials for landscaping and the ones that give the highest value for your money. As we are visual creatures, we tend to pay at first more attention to external things, and that’s not always the right way to go." This is where advice from a seasoned expert comes in handy, and Richard's list is an excellent place to start. Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or track down links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Brevities #OTD Today is the birthday of the Germantown historian, botanist, and writer Edwin Jellett who was born on this day in 1860. The town of Germantown owes such a debt of gratitude to Edwin Jellett, who devoted himself to capturing the history and the flora of the area now part of Northwest Philadelphia. He was a font of knowledge about the area, and he was beyond generous with his research and time, happy to help anyone with a question or a mystery about Germantown. Edwin had a column in the local paper that appeared for forty weeks during the year 1903. It was charming, and it was pretty extensive, and it covered his minute and astute observations and thoughts his two main passions: history and botany. Every entry concluded with a list of all the plants shared in the post, along with both the Latin and common names. Often, those lists featured upwards of 30 to 40 different species. Recently, the Awbury Arboretum republished Edwin's entries online in honor of its centennial in 2016. Here's what the Chair of the Awbury Arboretum Association, Mark Sellers, wrote about Edwin's final entry, which was published on December 4th, 1903. I think Mark perfectly captures Edwin's love for the area. "To trace his path in this last article is to watch as a magician pulls one improbable thing after another from a hat that appears too small to hold them... Hemlock boughs bend under the weight of the snow and ice, and as Edwin stops to inspect a bird’s nest that was occupied during his last visit, but now only contains snow. It is apparent Edwin knew this was his last column. He reached as far into his memory and his understanding of what was beautiful around him... While Edwin’s observations have significant historical and botanical value to the student of horticulture in Philadelphia, what makes them interesting reading is his joy. Joy at seeing and knowing, joy from watching the seasons change and seeing the landscape and recognizing its significance. “On rocks or on exposed banks, speedwell - never in a hurry - waits, and in thickets, green ropy runners of smilax, and the more refined bittersweet may be seen climbing over banks... On trunks of trees nearby, are alabaster projecting seats fit for elves or fairies... Lichens, liver worts and mosses which escaped us earlier become conspicuous, the greater volume of light admitted to the woods exposing their hidden retreats. On hills and dry banks club mosses... prominently appear, and on damp rocks, where water trickles, marchantia, an exceeding odd plant, will be found carpeting many an exposure, and, like all hepaticaae, bearing unique flowers. Keen as may be the interest in summer stars, far greater is the interest of winter ones, because of the presence of a number of planets, and the enhanced brilliancy of the heavens. So the never-ceasing procession continues, and forever when day departs or seasons die galaxies of stars, constellations of indescribable beauty, and a moon whose splendor we can never fully know, course before us for observation and wonder.” #OTD On this day in 1900, an article ran in The Indianapolis News called Science and Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy the Love of the Other. "Can people dip at all deeply into the real science of botany, and yet enjoy flowers because of their beauty, because of the delight of finding them in lovely spots on lovely summer days, and because of their dear associations? Must the scientific sense blunt the aesthetic one? Often, ... this will be the case. Pistils and stamens, nectaries, and receptacles - these things will not always go well with artless talk about sweet blooms and bright berries, or even with the simple, very English names given by the unlearned to flowers. But on the other hand, there are many lovers of nature and field naturalists ... will still care for the flower because of Its beauty, because It grows in the best places at the best time of year, because It vividly recalls to them the glad, sorrowful days of childhood, or the tender passages - of true love. Flowers, apart from the science of botany, are inextricably woven about human life. When will the artist be tired of painting the children in the meadows with their laps full of cowslips or celandine? Let the botanist classify and name,... but let him be careful not to do anything to bring into contempt the love of flowers,... lest we rightly call him dry-as-dust and blind to beauty. Finally, let him help to keep up the old names as well as the new ones. We must always have our Sweet William, Kingcup (Marsh Marigold), Sweet Cicely, Loosestrife, Heartsease (Wild Pansy), Codlins-and-Creams (Hairy Willowherb), and Feverfew. All [these] names [have] stories and meanings, whose loss would be a loss to the language; their very mention turns our thoughts to the gardens and, the pasture lands of summer gone but coming again." #OTD Today is the birthday of the billionaire tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke who was born on this day in 1912. When Duke was 46, Duke created an exotic public-display garden called Duke Gardens to honor her father, James Buchanan Duke. Drawing inspiration from DuPont's Longwood Gardens, the eleven interconnected gardens followed various themes focusing on a particular country or period. Duke Gardens took visitors into an Italian courtyard, which featured a replica of Antonio Canova's sculpture, The Three Graces. Next came the Colonial Garden of the American South featuring camellias, azaleas, magnolia, and crepe myrtle. Then came the ferns and orchids of the Edwardian Garden, followed by the French and English gardens. There was an exceptional Elizabethan knot garden, an American Desert, a Chinese Garden, A Japanese Garden as well as an Indo-Persian Garden which featured a Persian rose garden. The final gardens were Tropical and Semi-Tropical featuring vines, papyrus, and Bird of Paradise. Clearly, Duke used what she had seen from her travels to design the elements in her displays, and Duke personally designed and installed the garden - sometimes working up to 16 hours a day. She donated the property to the Duke Foundation in 1960. In 2008, sentiments about the gardens changed as some folks felt that the gardens "[perpetuated] the Duke family history of personal passions and conspicuous consumption." The gardens remained open until May 25th, and then they were dismantled. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation said that, "The day of the display garden is past. [The gardens] consume an inordinate share of financial and staff resources, they would require a very expensive modernization, and they no longer reflect the vision of Duke Farm’s future. A video record has been made for archival purposes." With the closure of Duke Gardens, another arm of the Duke family legacy, the Duke Farms Foundation created new indoor and outdoor display gardens as part of Duke Farms, which opened to the public on May 19, 2012. #OTD On this day in 1963, Japan's Emperor Hirohito, an accomplished amateur botanist and zoologist, published his fourth book. The book was a 24-page supplement to "The Plants of Nasu (pronounced "Na-soo"), a book he had published in the previous year. Unearthed Words Today is the 200th birthday of the English Victorian author George Eliot, who was born on this day in 1819. George Eliot was the pen name for a woman named Mary Ann Evans, and her many works like Silas Marner and Middlemarch are packed with images from the garden. To Eliot, plants were the perfect representation of faith - both required care and feeding to grow and flourish. On October 1st, 1841, Eliot wrote a letter to her old governess, Maria Lewis. She wrote: “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." My favorite quotes from Eliot are about her love of roses. She wrote: "I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left." And, Eliot wrote this little poem about roses: "You love the roses—so do I. I wish The sky would rain down roses, as they rain From off the shaken bush. Why will it not? Then all the valleys would be pink and white, And soft to tread on. They would fall as light As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once. Over the sea, Queen, where we soon shall go, Will it rain roses?" This concept of raining roses was something Eliot wrote about several times. This last quote about roses is the one she is most famous for: "It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more... " Today's book recommendation: Herb Topiaries by Sally Gallo This is such a cute and useful little book. It's old; it came out in 1992. Sally covers topiary basics, before going into the plants that are perfect for topiaries: Victorian Rosemary, Lemon Verbena, Scented Geraniums, and Dwarf Sage, just to name a few. And, Sally reminds us that gardening in pots - working with topiaries - offers all the pleasures of gardening on a larger scale. Of course, the epitome of this pastime is training fragrant, potted herbs into traditional topiary shapes. Sally walks us through it all. Sally's book is delightfully illustrated, and she gives us the history, lore, and culture of a dozen favorite herbs ideal for topiaries - which is another thoughtful feature of this book. You can get a used copy and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for about $3. Today's Garden Chore Forage for a Yule Log for your Thanksgiving table. I'm speaking about this little idea on an upcoming local TV segment for the American Heart Association. It's a great way to connect with nature and reduce stress, which can be a contributor to heart disease and stroke because it increases blood pressure. At the same time, you can enjoy a tradition that is centuries old. In the early 1600s, the yule log was a symbolic pillar meant to sweep away mischief and ensure a happy new year. People would go out and forage for a simple pine log. Often, the log was selected up to two to three years before it was used, so that on the big day, the yule log would undoubtedly burn "long and brightly." And it was essential to save a piece of the log to light next year's Yule log - it was considered bad luck not to do so. During the Elizabethan times, people didn't have Christmas trees. Instead, they followed the Scandinavian tradition of a Yule Log. Robert Herrick wrote: Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunset let it burn; Which quench'd, then lay it up again Till Christmas next return. Part must be kept wherewith to tend The Christmas log next year, And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischief there. Once you start reading about it, there are so many charming traditions behind the Yule Log. After you find a specimen that fits your table, you can decorate it - using the yule log as a base for evergreens, florals, natural elements, dried fruit, spices, and fragrant oils. Something Sweet Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart On this day in 1843, the New England Farmer out of Boston shared a little update called Strawberries in November. It highlighted a little friendly competition between two strawberry growers: Mr. Brandegree of New London and Simeon Marble of Boston. Here's what it said: "The New London Advocate noticed the fact that strawberries had been picked from the garden of Mr Brandegree and asked, "Who can beat this ?" [But then] Mr Simeon Marble yesterday presented us a bunch of ripe strawberries, just plucked from the vines in his garden, in this city. They were of two varieties, red and white. The New London folks will please to consider themselves beaten." Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."
Dolphin Boy - The West Highland Line Bangers & Mash - Summer In Dublin Kierah - Jimmy Flynn INST CANCON Fear Of Drinking - Flynn's Tail INST CANCON Punch Brothers - Jumbo Dropkick Murphys - Black Velvet Band Mile Twelve - Call My Soul Jim Moray - Fair Margaret and Sweet William Spiro - Have A Care Of Her Johnny INST Skerryvore - Mile High INST Aoife O'Donovan - Lay My Burden Down Poor Angus - Shores Of The Bay Young Dubliners - Chance Lost Bayou Ramblers - La Valse De Balfa/The Bathtub
Will Lakey is a multi-instrumentalist who creates music in styles ranging from the danceable to the avant-garde. He was a member of the highly regarded band Clothes. He currently performs with Dot.s, the Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra, and Ofir and Loathing as well as solo music under the name Sweet William. “Beauty As a Style,” his…Read More
Do you have pet names for your plants? Amy the Amaryllis. Jerry the geranium. Once I bought some dahlias at a private plant sale. Before I drove away, I rolled down the window to ask for the sellers name; they’ve been my “Doris“ dahlias ever since. Doris and I have stayed in touch over the years, and I have to say; she’s as lovely as the bloom on those dahlias. So whether they are called Howard or Bertie, Harry or Liz; if you’ve named your plants, you are not alone. The gesture of honoring a loved one or the little laugh evoked from a cleverly name to plant all add it to the joy of gardening. There’s nothing wrong with that. Brevities #OTD On this day in 1855 Paul de Longpré (Books By This Author)was born. Known as the "King of Flowers", de Longpré painted exceptional portrayals of roses (his first love), and wildflowers (his second love). If you look at his work, you'll find somewhere in his composition his signature accent – a bumblebee. After exhibitions of his work on the East Coast, reviewers praised, "No one but a poet could paint as he does." "De Longpré has the rare gift of reading down to the heart of his loved flowers." De Longpré was raised in northern Paris. His father left the family early one - a hurt that de Longpré hid from reporters; telling them that his father was dead. De Longpré's family was artistic and he helped his mother financially by painting silk fans with his brother. (The fans were quite fashionable at the time). After marrying the delightful Josephine Estievenard, de Longpré was mentored by Francois Rivoire. Like Rivoire, de Longpré’s mastery of watercolors are said to rival the richness of oil painting. When de Longpré lost his savings in a Paris bank crash, he immigrated with his wife and their children to the United States - ultimately calling Hollywood their home in 1900. At the time, Hollywood was a brand new development just west of Los Angeles - De Longpré built a lavish Mission Revival style villa and it quickly became the most famous estate on the boulevard. He bought an additional three blocks of property from socialite Daeida Wilcox Beveridgein exchange for three of his flora watercolors. On the property, de Longpré planted over 4000 rosebushes the muses for his work – and he turned the main level of his magnificent home into an art gallery. The place became a sensation; a hub for elites, as well as a tourist destination, with over 8,000 visitors a month. De Longpré’s guests were greeted by a very courteous Japanese butler who would hand them a list of the paintings titles and prices. Pauls daily habit was to get up in the morning and pick flowers with his youngest daughter, Pauline, by his side. After creating more than 2,000 paintings, de Longpré died in 1911. Josephine and the girls sold the house and sadly agreed to a final exhibition of de Longpré's work, which included his masterpiece the Cherokee Rose. It was a Josephine's lifelong regret to part with these paintings. Thirteen years later, the architectural wonder of the de Longpré's villa and the lavish gardens were all destroyed to make room for commercial buildings and parking lots. #OTD On this day in 1734, Elsa Beate Bunga was born. She was a pistol. Married to the handsome Swedish Count Sven Bunga, Elsa was a passionate amateur botanist. At her Beataberga mountain estate, she had many large greenhouses. Bunga wrote a book called, "About the Nature of Grapevines", which brought her notoriety and authority. She even corresponded with fellow Swede Carl Linnaeus (who is almost 30 years older than her). Bunga also drew attention because of her way of dressing. Like the women of her time she wore a skirt, but she distinguished herself by dressing as a man from the waist up. When King Gustav III (1771 - 1792), inquired about a peculiarly dressed woman at the Royal Swedish opera, Bunge boldly replied, "Tell his Majesty that I am the daughter of statesman Fabian Reder and married to statesman Sven Bunga". Unearthed Words #OTD Maryland selected the Black-Eyed Susan as the State Flower. This was after much debate. The Baltimore Sun, among many others, was not in favor of the Black-Eyed Susan selection, writing dismissively: "Susan came to Maryland, not on the Ark or the Dove, but a migrant from the Midwest mixed in clover and hayseed." Before the plant received it's popular common name, there was a song by John Gay called Black-Eyed Susan - popular in British maritime novels. The song tells of a love story between Susan and her Sweet William. As the two say their final farewells before his departure on a long sea voyage, Susan had crying and had black circles around her eyes. Today, their stories continue; folklore sharing that Black-Eyed Susans and Sweet William share the same bloom time to celebrate their undying love for each other. Here are a few verses: All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers waving to the wind When black-eyed Susan came on board; Oh! where shall I my true love find? Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true, If my sweet William sails among your crew. William, who high upon the yard, Rock'd with the billows to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard,; He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below; ;- The cord glides swiftly through his glowing hands, ' And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. ' So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest, The noblest captain in the British fleet, Might envy William's lips those kisses sweet. O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain; Let me kiss off that falling tear; We only part to meet again. . Change as ye list, ye winds, my heart shall be The faithful compass that still points to thee. Believe not what the landsmen say, Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind; They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In every port a mistress find. Yes, yes, believe them, when they tell thee so, For thou art present wheresoe'er I go. If to fair India's coast we sail, Thy eyes are seen in di'monds bright; Thy breath is Afric's spicy gale, Thy skin is ivory so white. Thus, ev'ry beauteous object that I view, Wakes in my soul some charm of lovely Sue. Though battle calls me from thy arms, Let not my pretty Susan mourn; Though cannons roar, yet safe from harms. William shall to his dear return. Love turns aside the balls 'that round me fly; Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye. I The boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosoms spread; No longer must she stay aboard They kiss'd she sigh'd; he hung his head Her less'ning boat unwilling rows to land; Adieu! she cries, and wav'd her lily hand. Today's book recommendation Studio Oh! Hardcover Medium Capture Life’s Moments Cactus Journal Studio Oh offers inspired collections of finely crafted and cleverly designed journals and other decorative home accessories. Their new cactus line of products will be a sure hit with gardeners. Today's Garden Chore Plan how you will honor Arbor Day Find the best place to source saplings in your area. Increase your tree diversity by planting a Kentucky Coffee Tree. Something Sweet Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart The story of de Longpré is quite enchanting. There are two images in particular about de Longpré that stuck with me. The first is such a quintessentially French image. De Longpré is riding his bicycle, peddling out to the garden with an easel on his back, a hat on his head, on his way to paint the flowers he loved so much. The second image is a photo of de Longpré in the garden with his little daughter Pauline. In an article in the Overland Monthly, we get a little glimpse into their relationship. "de Longpré’s youngest daughter, is a bright little miss about eight years old. If you ask for her name, she will say it is Pauline; but the only name she has ever called at home is “Joujou”; the French word for toy or plaything. She is idolized by her famous father, and when he walks in the garden she is always by his side." Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."
Marvin tells jokes and stories about his uncle bill and tries to teach Tyler street craps. Then we ramble on until we run out of interest.
This week we dive into the life and times of William of Orange and talk about the episode War and Peace. as always if you have comments or questions you can find me @the_beccaeller, @RETolpod or by using #REToldpod on twitter. If you'd like a show transcript follow this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1anEuxzigiB1arvZ6sAGJS_uCFnRxUjXYleDSeazKqww/edit?usp=sharing If you'd like to go listen to @other_girl's relaunch of Genuinely Obsessed please click here:https://player.fm/series/1919200 if you'd like to see what @msChristineMo is doing on YouTube click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TTG_5-gMnMijzYvOxTPyg
Dolphin Boy - The West Highland Line Bangers & Mash - Summer In Dublin Kierah - Jimmy Flynn INST CANCON Fear Of Drinking - Flynn's Tail INST CANCON Punch Brothers - Jumbo Dropkick Murphys - Black Velvet Band Mile Twelve - Call My Soul Jim Moray - Fair Margaret and Sweet William Spiro - Have A Care Of Her Johnny INST Skerryvore - Mile High INST Aoife O'Donovan - Lay My Burden Down Poor Angus - Shores Of The Bay Young Dubliners - Chance Lost Bayou Ramblers - La Valse De Balfa/The Bathtub
Under the snow in Honey Hollow, Veil and Darvin work diligently to fulfill their duties. Cortland and Mayapple are unaware of the forces working against them, but their fates are not yet sealed. On a lighter note, Arannis is all set to perform at Sweet William's and has even made friends with a local musician. Good for him.
Rura - Oran Nan Mogaisien INST Jim Moray - Fair Margaret and Sweet William The Fretless - Aphonso McKenzie CANCON Glengarry Bhoys - B Minor Reel INST CANCON Flogging Molly - Hope Afro Celt Sound System - Lovers Of Light Carrie Newcomer - The Season Of Mercy Sharon Shannon - Pull Out The Stops INST Hermitage Green - Aisling Salsa Celtica - Rolling Road Ashley MacIsaac - Wedding Funeral CANCON Old Blind Dogs - Harris Dance INST Xose Manuel Budino - Galo Galan
WrestleManiwa episode 3 is here! On this episode, Nick Maniwa chats with Sweet William (Billy Holland) in the second edition of the 1995 PPV rewatch series. It’s all things WWF’s Royal Rumble 95! We talk about the intercontinental title & the world title pretty much being the same match, Jeff Jarrett’s weird babyface promo as… Continue reading WrestleManiwa Ep. 3 w/ Sweet William talking WWF Royal Rumble 1995 6/20/17 →
Epsylon - Je Me Souviens Sketch - After The Storm Cassie & Maggie - Seileach CANCON Irish Moutarde - The Black Mill CANCON Afro Celt Sound System - Anatomic INST Young Dubliners - Abhainn Mor INST *exclusive intervie wtih Peia on the release of Beauty Thunders Peia - Ciamar a ni mi 'n Dannsa Direach Jim Moray - Fair Margaret and Sweet William Tony McManus - The Lament For The Viscount Of Dundee INST Chris Armstrong - The Barachios INST Seiva - Azul
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys - Bernadette Kila - Rachel Corrie INST Cassie & Maggie - Hurricane Jane INST CANCON The Once - You're My Best Friend CANCON Frigg - Tepeq INST Jim Moray - Fair Magraret and Sweet William Ludovico Einaudi - Introcucito Ad Regnum Tarantu INST Basco - Hog Eye Man 9Bach - Yr Olaf Lolly Lawton - Soul Of Everyone CANCON The Mahones - One Last Shot CANCON The Gloaming - Freedom/ Saoirse
Jim Moray - Fair Margaret & Sweet William Kila - Length Of Space INST Harry Manx - Further Shore CANCON Spirit Of The West - Wishing Line CANCON Feufollet - Tired Of our Tears Barleyjuice - Celtic Girl Epsylon - L'exil INST Basco - March Of The Frogs INST Catriona McKay - Lums O'Lund INST 9Bach - Cyfaddefa Cassie & Maggie - The King's Shilling CANCON Riobo - Choupana INST Spiro - Blyth High Light INST
Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the BBC and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Luke with his partner Butch having gone as far as they could progress in little old New Zealand in the early 70’s decided they wanted to explore the world of Pro Wrestling, knowing that the USA was the pinnacle. At that time they were known as “Sweet William and the Brute" - The Kiwi’s. First stops were Australia, Singapore, Thailand and then Canada where they spent 3 years, the last one working for Stampede Wrestling owned by the notorious Stu Hart. They returned home in 1974 to do live tapings for the first New Zealand televised wrestling show “On the Mat”. In 1979 while working in Hawaii, Roddy Piper and Buddy Rose called the northwest promoter Don Owen. Hence the invasion of U.S.A by the team now known as “The Sheepherders” After ruling the northwest for 15 months they moved on to the NWA headquarters in Charlotte N.C where they became the Mid Atlantic tag champs in a matter of weeks. In the 80’s the Sheepherders were the most hardcore and brutal tag team in North America and held numerous titles throughout the US and around the globe. In mid 1988 the boys got a call from WWF (WWE) and off they went to the biggest promotion on the planet. The Sheepherders were now known as the BUSHWHACKERS who were loved by everyone. These eccentric farm boys from “Down Under” mesmerized millions of fans from all walks of life, young, old, rich and poor from all corners of the globe. Among the many TV shows the boys were featured on was Warner Brothers “Family Matters” featuring the character Steve Urkel. After the WWF era The Bushwhackers worked in England and Europe. Butch returned to New Zealand in 2001 and Luke went on to work in wrestling offices as talent coordinator.
Paraic gave a variety of top tips for gardening this week. Now that the fine weather has arrived topics covered included the control of weeds which are very prolific just now and the sowing of Spring flowering plants from seed for next year. Paraic also focused on the planting of Laburnum, Sweet William, Peas & Beans, and he also advised on how to grow chilli plants and how to get the best from flowering and fruit plants.
Short Row Heel, Cabling, Magic Loop This show by sponsored by my Longaberger Home Business and Quince & Co. Show notes at www.knittingpipeline.com The folks at Quince & Co believe that businesses can be good citizens—should be good citizens—without making too much a fuss about it. So, they have created a line of thoughtfully conceived yarns spun from American wool or sourced from earth friendly overseas suppliers. Find them at www.quinceandco.com and while you are there, sign up for their free e-newsletter. Nature Notes We’ve gone from very hot weather to much cooler, which I am enjoying. An Eastern Phoebe, or pair of phoebes, is building a nest on our gutter outside the bedroom window. May Apples and Sweet William are adding to the color of the woodland floor. "Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment."-Ellis Peters Needle Notes Low Note: Proactive Star Toe Socks: Pico Accuardi Dyeworks. Accidental Felting despite not going into dryer. Plain Socks: Used Austermann Step with Aloe and Jojoba. Two knots in skein. Great yardage. A little on the thin side. Listening back to an Episode and I heard myself say that I didn’t like having two pair of socks going at the same time. Why? Erin of MommyNeedsYarn No MoreTears for Autism Speaks. Started project on March 23, Finished April 1, 2012. Learned: 1. I will not collapse if I have more than one pair of socks in progress 2. Magic Loop…getting into the groove. 3. Had a gutter where the loop came out. First stitch on each needle was a purl stitch. Cat Bordhi video with alternative way to purl. At this point my head was beginning to spin but I decided to 4. Cable without a needle. Knittinghelp.com 5. Short Row Heel First do a series of decreasing short rows with wrapped stitches and then a series of increasing short rows with wrapped stitches 6. New way of concealing wraps Cat Bordhi video Piper’s Journey KAL: Will probably unsticky the thread at the end of the month Upcoming Pattern: Hyla Brook Will use 2 skeins of Quince & Co Tern (wool/silk blend) Knitting McHenry by Susan B Anderson, Simple Skyp Socks by Adrienne Ku Watching: The Fat Squirrel Speaksby Amy Beth. Fantastic video cast! Go watch it! Reading: At Home by Bill Bryson Listening: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Bird Decals from Duncraft Thanks for listening!
George Herman Ruth, better known as Babe Ruth, was the greatest sporting hero of his day. Seventy years later it is difficult to comprehend just what a legend The Babe was. Adventures of Babe Ruth are short fictional tales of the life of the great baseball player. They border on being modern day fables, each one with a simple yet important message to put across to the audience. Despite the simple plots and sugar-sweet story lines they are still most enjoyable to listen to and the sound quality is (on the whole) excellent considering their age. This weeks episodes; Sweet William, 5/21/34 and Bobby Lee, 7/02/34
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