It keeps me motivated that people write & ask for more. I sure enjoy musing about y’all out there listening with me.
This year I picked out a large batch of psychedelic music I thought would make appropriate instrumentals for this new volume. Then I did the necessary adjustments to the arrangements to make them perfect for adding new vocals. After releasing a couple & replacing them with even newer pairings, I came upon the full album I was after.
On this volume, you’ll find lots of recent psychedelic rock bands like The Happy Fallen, Earthless, & Jacob Skott, alongside past acts like The Droogs, Robyn Hitchcock, & The Fleshtones. The vocals span a large number of years with artists like Basement Jaxx, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, & Pearl Jam.
A highlight of this volume is a trio of Pink Floyd vs The Beatles tracks sure to satisfy. Personally, I feel they fit in well with the many neo-psych bands. I was shooting for a sound like no mashup album before it, & I really believe I attained that. Not to be a spoiler, but I also maintained the custom of adding an “unlisted” bonus track. This year it’s SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Check out the preview track "Popscape To Love" ( Jefferson Airplane vs Ozric Tentacles ) . It has 1967 Psychedelic Rock vocals vs 2020 Psychedelic Rock instrumental. Amazingly, the Ozric Tentacles track is from like, last month. It makes a fine representative song, that I think will draw you into this album. & all for the low cost of nil! Mirror links for the
entire zip file are here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2020/12/intense-psychedelia-16-mashups.html )
I hope you like this set enough to repeat it often, & possibly even share the link with your contacts & friends. May the new year find you thriving.
• Dick Van Dyke was a fan of Laurel and Hardy, and he was eager to visit Mr. Laurel after he (Mr. Van Dyke) had arrived in California. After a year of unsuccessfully trying to get Mr. Laurel’s telephone number, Mr. Van Dyke finally found it—in a telephone book: “Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica.” Mr. Laurel was truly a nice man: he answered fan mail, and he received visitors in his apartment—Mr. Laurel had his telephone number listed so that his fans could find him.
• Carl Reiner left the series The Dick Van Dyke Show to appear in the feature film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Taking over his duties as producer were Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. One day, the telephone rang and Mr. Persky answered it. A voice asked, “Is this Carl Reiner?” He answered, “No, but I’m doing the best I can.”
• Jack Benny’s comic persona was cheap. One day, Mr. Benny made a long-distance, person-to-person telephone call to his agent, Milt Josefsberg, but the telephone operator told his agent, “Person to person to Mr. Milt Josefsberg from Mr. Jack Benny, only I don’t think it’s really him because he didn’t call collect.”
Television
• According to Alan Young, one of the good guys of show business was Ted Knight, who starred as Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. (Mr. Young, of course, played Wilbur Post on the TV sitcom Mr. Ed, which featured a talking horse.) The two actors crossed paths early in Mr. Knight’s career. Mr. Ed used to be driven to the set of his series in a horse trailer that had “Hello, I’m Mr. Ed!” painted on both sides. Often, Mr. Young would be driving to work at the same time and would form a procession with the horse trailer. Of course, other motorists would recognize Mr. Ed and Mr. Young, and they would honk and wave. One day, one of these motorists was Mr. Knight, then a character actor newly arrived in Hollywood, who was driving with his kids in the car. Mr. Knight and the kids waved to Mr. Young, and Mr. Young waved back. In his autobiography, Mr. Ed and Me, Mr. Young writes about later meeting Mr. Knight, “Ted said he felt that the reassuring sight of their TV friends, Wilbur and Ed, driving merrily along made them feel at home and welcome in their surroundings.”
• The lagoon filmed in the TV series Gilligan’s Island was artificial—and after a while the water got funky. One day, the crew of Gilligan’s Island released a live trout in the water—five minutes later, it floated to the surface, dead. Seeing that, Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, said, “If the trout can’t live in that water, I’m not going in it.” The studio executives didn’t want to pay the money to drain and refill the lagoon, so Mr. Denver offered to go in the lagoon if one of the studio executives went in first. The lagoon was drained and refilled.
• Early in his career, Buck Henry, the co-creator (with Mel Brooks) of the TV series Get Smart, appeared on television talk shows as G. Clifford Prout, who argued with a straight face that naked animals were an affront to decency and that we must either start clothing our animals or face moral decay.
• Bill Cosby stood up for the integrity of his sitcom Cosby. His TV son, Theo, had an anti-apartheid sticker on his bedroom door. NBC wanted to remove it, but Mr. Cosby threatened to quit. NBC backed down.
Theater
• The comedy team John Sigvard (Ole) Olsen and Harold Ogden (Chic) Johnson were famous in the 1930s and 1940s for their no-holds-barred comedy performances. At the beginning of each performance of Olsen and Johnson’s stage show Hellzapoppin’, a man walked through the audience carrying a small plant and yelling, “Mr. Jones!” Periodically throughout the performance the man would appear walking in the aisles and yelling for Mr. Jones, and each time the man appeared, the plant he was holding was bigger. At the end of the show, when the audience walked through the lobby, they saw the man sitting on a branch of a big tree in the lobby, still yelling, “Mr. Jones!”
In what musical does a smooth-talking, yet corrupt, traveling salesman try to convince the citizens of River City, Iowa, that they have trouble, and trouble starts with t, which rhymes with p, and that stands for pool?
"Ya Got Trouble" is a song by Meredith Willson from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man, and its 1962 filmed version. It is one of the most popular and recognizable songs in the musical, and Robert Preston's performance in the film is admired. Willson considered eliminating a long piece of dialogue from his draft of The Music Man about the serious trouble facing River City parents. Willson realized it sounded like a lyric and transformed it into "Ya Got Trouble".
A smooth-talking, yet corrupt, traveling salesman takes up the occupation of a musical-instrument dealer and tries to convince the citizens of River City, Iowa, to fund his idea for a boys' marching band by playing on their fears of youth corruption, represented by a new pocket pool table in the local billiard hall. The song is his slippery slope argument of what could happen should the citizens fail to recognize the danger and not follow his suggestion for a more wholesome activity. The song contains many types of invalid argumentation ("trouble starts with t, which rhymes with p, which stands for pool").
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Dave responded:
The Music Man. Both the theatre play and the film starred Robert Preston in his signature role, for which he won the Tony award for Best Actor in a Musical. Preston mostly kept busy on Broadway, but also had notable roles in films, usually as the second lead. Preston was a lifelong Democrat and ardently hated director Cecil B. Demile who Preston considered both a lousy director and a major league asshole. Preston thought the only man Demile ever admired was probably Adolf Hitler.
Photos: Robert Preston and Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria (1982) | Robert Preston, Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, and Ray Milland in Beau Geste (1939) | Steve McQueen and Robert Preston in Junior Bonner (1972)
Kevin K. in Washington DC, where the leader of the Proud Boys was just arrested before tomorrow’s Pro-Trump White Grievance riots. Sad; bigly sad. wrote:
Sounds like “The Music Man”. And when you have trouble in River City, the only answer is to build a monorail!
Leo in Boise said:
The Music Man
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Robert Preston is "The Music Man"
John I from Hawai`i says,
Music Man
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I’m going with “The Music Man,” because that’s the first thought that popped into my head, so it must be right. *snicker*
Sunny and seasonal after a wet, drippy Monday punctuated with fast-moving, hard-raining squalls. The roads are dry, and so I ride.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "The Music Man."
DJ Useo responded:
"The Music Man". I liked that musical a lot, but after performing it in pit orchestras 24 times I really got to dislike it.
Joe S wrote:
I don't know, (whine) I can't know everything. I'm a history major, not a musical major, for cripe sake. (Although I do like music.) I don't even care.
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Roy the (now retired) hoghead (aka 'hoghed') ( Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~Frank Zappa ) took the day off.
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CBS starts the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right At Night', followed by a RERUN'Young Sheldon', then a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Samantha Bee and Paul Mescal.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Hailee Steinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, and Seventeen.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Don Cheadle, Taylor Kinney, an Michael Kiwanuka.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Ted Danson and Chris Coleman.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/30/20) is Phoebe Robinson.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire', followed by another FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire', then still another FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Regina King, Jake Tapper, and Best Coast.
The CW offers a RERUN'Riverdale', followed by a RERUN'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Dance', followed by a FRESH'Name That Tune'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Nature Gone Wild', then another FRESH'Nature Gone Wild'.
AMC offers the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
[10:00PM] JUDGE DREDD
[12:00AM] HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
[2:00AM] JUDGE DREDD
[4:00AM] THE WATCH - A NEAR VIMES EXPERIENCE; OOK (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of SLC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2', followed by the movie 'Jurmanji: Welcome To The Jungle'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[6:30am] Summer School
[8:45am] Kingpin
[11:30am] Bad News Bears
[2:00pm] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[4:00pm] Up In Smoke
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Up In Smoke
[3:00am] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[5:00am] Community
[5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am - 2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Goonies', followed by the movie 'Mortal Kombat'.
The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
The annual show would shift from its original Jan. 31 broadcast to March 14, according to a joint statement released Tuesday from the Recording Academy and CBS, which broadcasts the ceremony. The statement said the decision was reached “after thoughtful conversations with health experts, our host and artists scheduled to appear.”
The Grammys will be held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the crisis in California, has surpassed 11,000 COVID-19 deaths and has had 40% of the deaths in California. It is the third state to reach the 25,000 death count.
The new Grammys date coincides with the scheduled hosting of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which is typically held at another downtown Los Angeles venue, the Shrine Auditorium. That show honors the best performances in film and television.
“The Daily Show” host and comedian Trevor Noah is set to host the 2021 Grammys, where Beyoncé is leading contender with nine nominations. She scored nominations for song and record of the year with “Black Parade,” which she released on Juneteenth, while “Savage” — her No. 1 collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion — picked up bids for record of the year, best rap song and best rap performance.
Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. It marks the first time the couple, 96 and 93, will have missed the ceremonies since Carter was sworn in as the 39th president in 1977.
A spokeswoman at The Carter Center in Atlanta said the Carters have sent Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris their “best wishes” and “look forward to a successful administration.”
The Carters have spent the coronavirus pandemic mostly at their home in Plains, Georgia, where both were raised and where they returned after leaving the White House in 1981.
Separately, former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura will attend the inauguration in person. Their spokesman, Freddy Ford, said, “President and Mrs. Bush look forward to returning to the Capitol for the swearing in of President Biden and Vice President Harris.”
The announcement from Bush, a Republican, came a day before Congress was scheduled to convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Biden. President Donald Trump's Republican allies in the House and Senate plan to object to the election results, a longshot effort that is all but certain to fail.
It’s official, not just fan lore: the eighth album by Taylor’s Swift, “Folklore,” has gone down as the No. 1 album of 2020, finishing the year with 2.3 million album units. It pulled ahead in the end over Lil Baby’s star-making sophomore effort, “My Turn,” which came in second with 2.1 million in the album-equivalent-unit derby.
The results come via Rolling Stone, which broke down the year’s music consumption data into several different year-end charts, with the differences providing some interesting points of comparison. For instance: Swift also tops the list of the year’s biggest sellers — and Lil Baby is nowhere to be found in that particular top 10. On the other hand, Lil Baby easily landed atop a ranking of the year’s biggest streamers — and Swift is absent from that top 10.
On the overall list of the top 100 albums of 2020 — which represents a combination of streaming and sales data — the Swift and Lil Baby albums were followed in the top 10 by efforts from Pop Smoke, the Weeknd, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, Luke Combs, Harry Styles and, getting its shot at No. 10 for the year, the “Hamilton” cast album.
Country star Combs just missed having two albums in the year-end top 10, as his No. 8 “What You See is What You Get” is closely followed at No. 11 by an older release, “This One’s for You.” Juice WRLD was the other artist to have two albums in the top 20, as his No. 5 “Legends Never Die” was joined by an older record, “Goodbye & Good Riddance,” at No. 17.
Rounding out the overall top 25 were albums by Lil Uzi Vert, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Eminem, Halsey, Jhené Aiko, Drake, Morgan Wallen, Justin Bieber, Lewis Capaldi, Post Malone and Polo G.
After coming under continual fire in the four days since she played the New Year’s Eve party at Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, as the other performers that night have, Terri Nunn of the group Berlin has issued an apology for the controversial gig, saying she didn’t know it would be perceived as taking a political stand, and expressing shock at the lack of COVID protocols at the resort.
“I am truly sorry I performed at Mar-a-Lago and would not have done so if I’d known what I learned while I was there,” Nunn wrote in a social media statement posted under Berlin’s Facebook account. “My goal in performing was not to support a political party. I see now that that’s not the way it appeared and I am apologetic for that as well.”
Nunn contended that she was taken by surprise by the absence of masks and social distancing at the party, at which Taylor Dayne, Vanilla Ice and the touring edition of the Beach Boys also performed.
“The contract stated it was a small Covid-safe event for the members of Mar-a-Lago,” she continued. “Unfortunately it was not Covid-safe anywhere in Florida. I had no idea masks and social distancing were not required. I thought I was current on all Covid news everywhere, but clearly I was not. I was shocked by Florida and Mar-a-Lago’s lack of regard for the pandemic, and if I’d known I would never have gone. Once I fulfilled my contractual obligation, I left the event as quickly as I could. It is a mistake I regret. I took a Covid 19 test yesterday and tested negative.”
Nunn closed her statement by acknowledging that many in the Berlin fan base took her appearance as a betrayal of their values, especially some in the gay community who have become fans as a result of her frequent appearances at Pride festivals.
Supporters of President Donald Trump (R-Loser) have gathered in Washington DC for multiple rallies just one day before Congress is expected to officially certify the presidential election results.
One speaker for a Tuesday rally, which was held in Freedom Plaza, encouraged attendees to all hug each other – a suggestion that went against current coronavirus guidelines.
“Turn to the person next to you and give them a hug, someone you don’t know. Go hug somebody. Go ahead and spread it out, mass spreader,” he said, before chanting “mass-spreader event” multiple times to the crowd.
Attendees, many of whom were not wearing masks, were seen hugging each other while the speaker continued to chant “mass-spreader event”.
The coronavirus pandemic has steadily gotten worse in recent weeks across the United States, and experts warned it the surge could be heightened following holiday travel and gatherings.
Human rights campaigners have welcomed a decision by a Pakistani court outlawing so-called "virginity tests" in rape examinations.
The ruling, which applies in Punjab province, will end the practice of physical checks for an intact hymen and the invasive "two-finger test".
The Lahore High Court judge, Ayesha Malik said the tests were "humiliating" and "had no forensic value".
Campaigners have long demanded an end to virginity tests as part of the medical evaluation in rape cases, saying they have no scientific basis.
Monday's ruling applies in Punjab but may serve as a precedent for petitions in other provincial high courts. A similar petition is currently pending in the Sindh High Court.
A Massachusetts state lawmaker is asking for the public’s help to select an official state dinosaur.
State Rep. Jack Lewis tweeted Monday that he plans on filing the legislation on Jan. 15, adding that the effort is a good way for children to learn about the legislative process.
But first, the Framingham Democrat is asking residents to select from one of two dinosaur species discovered in Massachusetts.
Podokesaurus holyokensis, which means “swift-footed lizard of Holyoke,” was first discovered near Mount Holyoke in 1910 by Mignon Talbot, the first woman to name and describe a dinosaur, according to Lewis. The species was 3 to 6 feet (around 1 to 2 meters) in length, weighed approximately 90 pounds (40 kilograms), and was estimated to run 9 to 12 mph (14 to 19 kph).
Anchisaurus polyzelus, which means “much sought after near lizard” was discovered in 1855 in Springfield. They were more than 6 feet long and about 60 to 75 pounds (27 to 34 kilograms).
A seemingly dull marble slab, used for 10 years as a stepping stone in an English garden, is actually a rare ancient Roman engraving, a new analysis finds.
The discovery surprised its owner, who learned that the 25-inch-long (63 centimeters) slab — a stone she had previously used as a stair while mounting her horse — dated to the second century A.D. and was worth about $20,400 (£15,000).
However, no one knows how the marble masterpiece ended up in England. It was likely carved in Greece or Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), according to a statement from Woolley and Wallis, a U.K auction house that is handling the sale of the slab.
Some of the stone's history is known: It was unearthed from a rock garden in Whiteparish, a village in southern England, about 20 years ago, according to Woolley and Wallis. Then, the woman who owns the stable used the mud-covered stone for a decade as a mounting block until, one day, she noticed a laurel wreath carved on its surface. An archaeologist who assessed the slab revealed that it was a rare find. Its inscription reads, "the people (and) the Young Men (honor) Demetrios (son) of Metrodoros (the son) of Leukios," The Daily Mail reported.
Although the ancient Roman Empire extended into the British Isles, this slab wasn't made locally; it was likely brought to England about 300 years ago, according to Woolley and Wallis.
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