M Is FOR MASHUP - March 30th, 2022
Oldies Fever Strikes Mashups
By DJ Useo
Mashups are made from all kinds of music. Old, new & severely altered. Even I did a Hip Hop vs Folk Rock last week with Lil Durk vs Apocalyptica
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2022/03/lil-durk-vs-apocalyptica.html ) .
As much as I like that mix, it left me craving to create something much more nostalgic.
So, I made some audio extractions of very old mono tunes from the 1950’s. Taking two huge faves I paired them up & released “"Rockin' After Midnight"
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2022/03/patsy-cline-vs-bill-haley-his-comets.html ) ( Patsy Cline vs Bill Haley & His Comets )
After posting my track to my blog, I had time to check the
Sowndhaus stream
( sowndhaus.audio/ ) , & see what everyone else is releasing. I immediately noticed others had been hit by the same nostalgic urge. I’m delighted to pass on links to you for some killer revival mashups using past great artists. Here’s a brief list -
01 - iWillBattle - “Buddy Holly Valance [Kiss Is Strange]” (Holly Valance x Buddy Holly)
( sowndhaus.audio/track/30890/buddy-holly-valance-kiss-is-strange-holly-valance-x-buddy-holly )
02 - DJNoNo - “Manfred 2 Mann - Do Wah DiddyMen Had A Stripper Farm” (Man 2 Man vs Manfred Mann)
( sowndhaus.audio/track/30882/djnono-manfred-2-mann-do-wah-diddymen-had-a-stripper-farm-man-2-man-vs-manfred-mann )
03 - DoM - “Papa Was A Rollin' Machine” ( The Temptations vs Goldfrapp )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/30534/the-temptations-goldfrapp-papa-was-a-rollin-machine )
04 - elmars - “Yellow Submarine (Closer Bootmash)” ( The Beatles vs Saweetie )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/30787/yellow-submarine-closer-bootmash-the-beatles-vs-saweetie )
05 - DRA'man - “Chain Of Sugar” ( Ann Peebles vs Robin Schultz )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/30565/ann-pebbles-vs-robin-schultz-chain-of-sugar )
Of course, there was also a veritable flood of tracks using new artists, but it’s a treat to hear something a little different, isn’t it? I’ll be back with a special article on a Gorillaz project next week. Try & chill in the meanwhile. Who needs the stress?
Catch you later.
- DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Actors and Acting
• As a young actor, John Gielgud discussed his plans with Lilian Baylis, founder of the Old Vic. Anxious to impress, Mr. Gielgud, who had had a successful season at the Old Vic, told Ms. Baylis that he wanted to work there again but that he had many other engagements. Ms. Baylis put the young actor in his place by telling him, “That’s right, dear. You play all the young parts you can—while you’re still able to.”
• Actor Gene Barry, who was named Eugene Klass at birth, played Bat Masterson on television from 1959 to 1961. Once he stopped to buy a tallith (a fringed prayer shawl) for his son’s bar mitzvah. The man who waited on him at the store looked at his check, then asked, “Are you Gene Barry?” He replied that he was, and the man ran to the back of the store and yelled to his wife, “BAT MASTERSON IS JEWISH.”
• Natalie Schafer, who played Mrs. Thurston Howell on Gilligan’s Island, always kept her age a secret. Whenever she went to the doctor’s and the doctor asked her for her age, she always told the doctor to look up what age she had said during her last appointment. However, checking on her last appointment never revealed her age, because she been using that trick all her adult life.
• When she was an old lady, former heartthrob Sarah Bernhardt had an apartment at the top of an apartment building. A former suitor visited her and, huffing and puffing after climbing so many stairs, asked her why she had her apartment so high up. Ms. Bernhardt replied, “Nowadays, it’s the only way I am still able to make men’s hearts beat a little faster.”
• Sir Peregrine Plinge once gave a bad performance as Macbeth, so he told a fellow actor, “Give me £5.” When the actor asked why, Sir Peregrine threatened, “Because if you don’t, I shall tell everybody that you played Macduff to my Macbeth.” (Sir Peregrine even went to the box office and said that the play was so bad he wanted his money back.)
• Actress East Robertson once said in a play, “Oh, God, where will I be when my beauty fades!” A voice from the audience said, “In the gutter, love.” Ms. Robertson was well known for playing bitchy characters, and during another performance on stage, another voice came from the audience, saying, “I bet you are a bitch off as well as on!”
• Bob Denver is widely known as Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island, the TV series about a group of people who set out for a three-hour tour, were shipwrecked, and spent three years on an island. Every time Mr. Denver rents a boat, he knows he’s going to hear the same joke: “Three-hour tour, huh? We’ll never see this boat again, will we?”
Alcohol
• New Zealanders apparently don’t drink martinis—or at least they didn’t. When comic singer Anna Russell was performing in New Zealand, she threw a party, giving instructions to a bartender to make martinis using Fleischmann’s gin. Halfway through the party, however, the martinis began to be dark brown instead of clear. She investigated and discovered that the bartender had run out of Fleischmann’s gin, so he was using Fleischmann’s whiskey instead. (The party was a success nevertheless.) By the way, in San Francisco, Ms. Russell was invited to a party in a restaurant. The liquor was still flowing at 3 p.m., although a law prohibited liquor at that time. When Ms. Russell worried that the restaurant might get busted, the man sitting next to her said there was no chance of that happening. She asked, “Why?” He replied, “Because I’m the sheriff.”
• A bottle of beer can come in handy. When the Globe Theater, where many of William Shakespeare’s plays were first performed, caught on fire, no one was hurt. The trousers of a man caught on fire, but his neighbor put the fire out with a bottle of beer. By the way, Mr. Shakespeare was a commoner without a university education. Many people have little respect for people like that, and so they do not believe that Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him. Over 4,000 books have been written saying that the “real” author was any of over 57 people, including Queen Elizabeth I. (Of course, Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him. Commoners can be intelligent, you know.)
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Artist: Lia Rose
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“ [‘Close to You’] was my little thank you note to Bernie [Sanders].”
Mr. Sanders,
“I want to thank you
“For being willing to do this
“For fighting for all of us
“For believing in us
“For inspiring us
“You've said all along that you can't do this alone
“Well, we have your back
“We have you surrounded
“We need you as much as you need us
“And we need you more than ever right now
“So thank you Bernie Sanders
“With every ounce of my being.”
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“Lia Rose creates music and tours with projects focused on making a positive impact. She writes songs that are intensely honest and at times unmistakably autobiographical.
“In addition to her solo releases, Rose is a founding member of “Experimental/Electronic/Ambient duo Built for the Sea, signed to Tom Morello & Ryan Harvey's record label Firebrand Records whose aims are sharply focused on social justice. Both solo and with bands, Rose's music has been featured widely in TV & Film, including features in trailers & sizzle reels from HBO to NBC, MTV to Netflix.”
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Nails It
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is expressing his own feelings on the matter, penning a blog post arguing that Smith's actions are a “blow to men, women, the entertainment industry and the Black community.”
“With a single petulant blow, he advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community,” Abdul-Jabbar writes of Smith, echoing the opinion expressed on Monday by Today host Craig Melvin that it was "troubling on so many levels" for men of color.
“By hitting Rock, he announced that his wife was incapable of defending herself — against words,” he states. “This patronizing, paternal attitude infantilizes women and reduces them to helpless damsels needing a Big Strong Man to defend their honor least they swoon from the vapors. If he was really doing it for his wife, and not his own need to prove himself, he might have thought about the negative attention this brought on them, much harsher than the benign joke. That would have been truly defending and respecting her.”
“This ‘women need men to defend them’ is the same justification currently being proclaimed by conservatives passing laws to restrict abortion and the LGBTQ+ community,” he continued, adding that Smith’s “self-serving acceptance speech” in which he talked about protecting his family in the same way his character in King Richard, for which he won an Oscar, was tone deaf.
“Those who protect don’t brag about it in front of 15 million people,” he explained. “They just do it and shut up. You don’t do it as a movie promotion claiming how you’re like the character you just won an award portraying. But, of course, the speech was about justifying his violence. Apparently, so many people need Smith’s protection that occasionally it gets too much and someone needs to be smacked.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Adopts Pup
Ben Travolta
The rescue pup featured in the 94th Academy Awards tribute to Betty White now has a home — with John Travolta.
Mac N Cheese the dog was held center stage by Jamie Lee Curtis as she saluted White and her dedication to animal rights and charities during the In Memoriam segment of the Oscars Sunday.
Now, Travolta's 11-year-old son Ben has adopted the beloved pooch.
Travolta, 68, shared the sweet news on Instagram Monday with a photo of Ben holding Mac N Cheese, in which the Pulp Fiction star smiled behind them.
Ben Travolta
Ratings
“The Academy Awards”
Will Smith’s violent slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards appeared to have a negligible impact on the show’s television audience. But the world of social media is a much different story.
Led by its NCAA men’s basketball tourney coverage, CBS won the week with an average of 6.2 million in prime time. Despite boasting the Oscars, ABC was second with 5 million. NBC had 2.28 million, Fox had 2.27 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 960,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.3 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” averaged 6.8 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.9 million.
For the week of March 21-27, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “The Academy Awards,” ABC, 16.62 million.
2. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas vs. Duke, TBS, 10.34 million
3. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: St. Peter’s vs. Purdue, CBS, 10.18 million.
4. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina vs. UCLA, CBS, 8.82 million.
5. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Texas Tech vs. Duke, CBS, 8.23 million.
6. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas vs. Gonzaga, CBS, 8.16 million.
7. “NCAA Pregame” (Saturday), TBS, 8.04 million.
8. “FBI,” CBS, 8.02 million.
9. “NCAA Pregame” (Thursday), CBS, 7.93 million.
10. “Live From the Red Carpet” (7:27 to 8 p.m.), ABC, 7.73 million.
“The Academy Awards”
Company Acquired
Nielsen
Nielsen is being acquired for $16 billion, including debt, about a week after the media measurement company rejected a smaller offer earlier this month.
Viewing data collected by Nielsen plays a big role in determining where billions in advertising dollars are spent each year. The company itself has annual global revenue of about $3.5 billion.
A group of private equity investors led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. along with institutional partners will pay $28 for each outstanding Nielsen share.
Nielsen Holdings Plc, based in New York City, turned down the group’s previous offer, saying it had significantly undervalued the business. That offer was worth $25.40 per share, or about $9 billion before the assumption of debt. After it accepted the revised over, shares of Nielsen jumped 22% at the opening bell. The stock ended regular trading up 20.3% at $26.72 per share.
Nielsen
Century-Long Effort
Emmett Till Antilynching Act
President Biden on Tuesday signed into law legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime — a historic bill that took more than 100 years to arrive on the desk of the U.S. president. He wasted no time signing off on it, putting pen to paper before giving remarks.
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named for the 14-year-old who was brutally killed in 1955 after a white woman accused him of whistling at her, will make it possible to prosecute a person for lynching when that person conspires to commit a hate crime that results in death or serious bodily injury.
The legislation, one of roughly 200 bills that had attempted to outlaw lynching, makes the crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
“Lynching, we know it’s a stain on the history of our nation. Since our founding, and in particular the century following the Civil War, thousands of people in states across our nation were tortured and murdered by vigilantes,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who had co-sponsored anti-lynching legislation when she was a U.S. senator.
Emmett Till Antilynching Act
Class Warrior Shtick
Ginni
Transport a conservative intellectual forward through time from 1982 to 2022 and one of the first things he'd notice is that his present-day counterparts talk an awful lot about class.
Specifically, conservatives today are fond of claiming Democrats are the party of over-educated professionals who constitute the American ruling class, while Republicans are arrayed on the side of the working class — with politics functioning as a form of class warfare between the two groups.
Few conservatives thought that way 40 years ago, though there were precursors to it. Republicans in the era of Reagan liked to place the GOP on the side of "average Americans," whom they portrayed as possessing basic decency and common sense lacking among the liberals who'd been running the show in Washington since the New Deal and been corrupted more recently by the moral decadence the 1960s counterculture.
Ginni Thomas is a lawyer and a conservative Republican who has worked in high-level jobs in Washington for decades — including at the U.S. Department of Labor. She's also founded lobbying groups to push for conservative policies. A passionate supporter of the former President Donald Trump, she became outraged by news of his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election and expressed her anger and anxiety in a series of texts to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
QAnon, which polls show is affirmed by nearly one-fifth of the American population and especially widespread among members of the Republican base, is a quintessential down-market faith. Yet there was Ginni Thomas, a well-educated, very well-connected woman — someone married to a Supreme Court justice and deeply ensconced in the interpersonal and institutional ecosystem of the nation's capital — dashing off texts to the president's chief of staff, who took time out of his jam-packed days to respond respectfully to her missives.
Ginni
Towering Ice Volcanoes
Pluto
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known.
Scientists said on Tuesday that these cryovolcanoes - numbering perhaps 10 or more - stand anywhere from six-tenths of a mile (1 km) to 4-1/2 miles (7 km) tall. Unlike Earth volcanoes that spew gases and molten rock, this dwarf planet's cryovolcanoes extrude large amounts of ice - apparently frozen water rather than some other frozen material - that may have the consistency of toothpaste, they said.
Features on the asteroid belt dwarf planet Ceres, Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan, Jupiter's moon Europa and Neptune's moon Triton also have been pegged as cryovolcanoes. But those all differ from Pluto's, the researchers said, owing to different surface conditions such as temperature and atmospheric pressure, as well as different mixes of icy materials.
The study found not only extensive evidence for cryovolcanism but also that it has been long-lived, not a single episode, said Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator and study co-author.
Pluto
Escaped Flamingo Spotted
No. 492
One of two flamingos that escaped from a Kansas zoo during a storm 17 years ago has been spotted on the coast of Texas, wildlife officials said.
The Coastal Fisheries division of Texas Parks and Wildlife confirmed Tuesday to The Associated Press that the African flamingo — known as No. 492 because of the number on its leg band — was captured on video shot March 10 by an environmental activist near Port Lavaca, Texas, at Rhodes Point in Cox Bay. Officials were able to make out the bird’s leg band on the video.
The bird and another flamingo escaped from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita on a stormy night in June 2005. Employees had not yet clipped the birds’ wings to prevent them from flying, which facilitated their escape.
While the other flamingo was never seen again, No. 492 has been spotted several times in Wisconsin, Louisiana and Texas, sometimes with other wild flamingos. Officials said it had been a year or two since the bird was last seen in Texas.
No. 492
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