M Is FOR MASHUP - August 10th, 2011
Beatles Mashups Combine Past & Present
By DJ Useo
I still remember when a pal of mine started an entire forum for bootleg Beatles mixes. Now, as then, the amount of mixers who provide Beatles mixes is relatively small, but after a few years, there's thousands of posts with all kinds of mashup, remix,& other Beatles-related links & articles. For me, mixing the fab four is a personal expression of my deep love of their music. I truly own all of their cd's & even had most of them on vinyl at one point. (Personally, they sound much warmer, & richer on vinyl than the digital versions.)The solo Beatles records are mighty rewarding, too, with John & Paul's being my favorite. I have said often that hearing an artist mashed usually inspires listening to the source tracks.
Looking back to when I first mashed them I see some tracks released shortly after I took on the dj name of USEO back in 2006, if memory serves. I made a track called 'Mother Nature's Silent Sorrow' (Beatles vs Genesis) which got some nice comments & many, many downloads. I followed it immediately with 'Momma Miss Digable' (Paul McCartney vs Digable Planets) which also did well. It took me a few months to return to the theme with 'Strawberry Fields Flying' (Beatles vs Beatles), just as well-received download-wise, but with a few negative critiques. I was told by confidants at the time that I was doing too good, & that jealousy was rearing it's head. I dismissed that line of reasoning, perhaps prematurely.
When I released my first of 5 INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA mashup albums I included 'Revolution Neutrino Forever' (Beatles vs Klaatu), 'A Day In The Sunshine' (The Beatles vs The Posies) & the best-received 'Inner Light On My Mind' (The Beatles vs Freemasons). So, between my love of the Beatles & my love of mashing, I made up my mind to regularly return to the Beatles well for future tracks. To this day my most-downloaded track is 'Flying Swedish Chef' (Muppets vs Beatles) which was created with the idea of posting a track using artists most people would know. The useo-remixed, & lengthened by looping 'Flying' track was easily accessible to me as a mixer & with the Swedish Chef 'singing' over it, apparently was also accesseble to mashup fans. I lost track of the downloads some time after they reached 4000 (a very good number with most of my other tracks mainly staying under 1000).
Continuing to return to the Beatles well was always problematic for me as I didn't have any Beatles pellas or mentals, as many of the other Beatles mixers seemed to have. Still I did well with cuts like 'Dazed & Confused Turkey' (John Lennon vs Led Zeppelin), 'Everybody Lizzy Now' (The Beatles vs Sissy Penis Factory), & 'One Dumb Thing Is All Too Much' (Devo vs Beatles). At that point, someone forgotten to history sent me a John Lennon instrumental in the hope that I would create a new track. Well, I did & 'I'm Losing A Japanese Queen' (John Lennon vs Tigarah) convinced me that I was doing good.
As time passed I routinely accessed more Beatles mix fodder, including refining my cutting & looping method so I could create instrumentals when none existed. My not-complete tally of my Beatles-related mashes is now over a hundred, so I showed the large list to fellow mashup mixer DJ Petrushka, who with her refined musical taste, whittled the list down to 2 one-hour discs enabling me to release a collection of only the 'most accessible'. If you're familiar with my mashup work, you'll know that as often as I go 'appealing' I also go 'weird', so those aren't on this package. 'For You Moog' (The Beatles vs Coldcut) is an excellent example of a 'weird' track. I went overboard with the looping of both tracks & it went over better with fans of turntabling than regular mashups.
So comes 'MAST PASTERS VOLUME ONE' an all-useo,
all-Beatles mashup collection using a 'spoonerism'
for a name, & mp3's for 45's. If you are into the Beatles alone or mashed, you should find much to savour here. All cuts are release-tested & fan-approved. You can find links for both discs & for individual tracks
here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/08/dj-useo-mast-pasters-volume-one.html )
It doesn't include all the tracks mentioned in this article, so if you want more, they're all still available at
my site.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
No doubt I'll continue to express my love of the Liverpool Lads through future mashups anyway, but I get even more motivated from
feedback. Please send your thoughts on the album
here - useo8@yahoo.com
Mix Of The Week
Stu Eleventhirtyeight's 'Beatles In The Soul Food Pie' long mix is one worthy listen. As Stu sez "The Beatles as you've probably never heard them before heavily feature in this one hour mix of live re-editing, knob moving, and love of good music and beats presented for your good selves in stereophonic sound. Get your ears round this little lot. "Enjoy the fanfare of tunes
here.
( soundcloud.com/eleventhirtyeight/beatles-in-the-soul-food-pie-a-dj-mix-by-stu-eleventhirtyeight )
Mashup Tip : Don't expect to find your tracks by many of the regular search engines. They appear to restrict those results from searches. The bastards!
Latest Useo Thing
Disturbed Boogie' (John Hartford vs Disturbed vs Arthur Brogli vs Vivian Stanshall) uses
John Hartford's 'boogie',(as heard on the Smothers Brothers television show), Disturbed's 'down with the sickness', Vivian Stanshall of The Bonzos' 'Canyons Of Your Mind',& Arthur Brogli's yodeling on 'Lone Peak Yodel'.
Imagine my surprise when people told me they really like it! So I broke with recent useo tradition & posted this werd as hell mashup.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/08/disturbed-boogie.html )
If that isn't enough weirdness for you, feel free to check out 2 others I just made. '
GummiScared' (Gummibär vs Young Nutz)
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/08/gummiscared-gummibar-vs-young-nutz.html ) & '
Dickens, Fenster & Sinatra' (Nancy Sinatra vs The Dickens & Fenster March).
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/08/dickensfenster-sinatra.html ) I was truly stunned to see the Sinatra one was far ahead in downloads! Amazing!
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Rumsfeld will take comfort in mashups during his lengthy upcoming trial.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Exercise Benefits Cancer Survivors, New Report (Medical News Today)
If exercise were a cancer drug, it would be a blockbuster, appears to be the conclusion of a new review on the benefits of physical activity to people surviving and living beyond cancer.
Noam Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault - What's Next?
Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job market, privatizing them, slashing their budgets - do we really want this future?
Paul Krugman's Blog: Aaauuuggghhh! Market Commentary Edition (New York Times)
Once again: S&P declared that US debt is no longer a safe investment; yet investors are piling into US debt, not out of it, driving the 10-year interest rate below 2.4%. This amounts to a massive market rejection of S&P's concerns. (This article can be accessed free through Krugman's Twitter account.)
Second Recession In This 'Double Dip' Will Be Worse Than First (Disinformation)
Catherine Rampell reports on America's dubious prospects for the New York Times: "If the economy falls back into recession, as many economists are now warning, the bloodletting could be a lot more painful than the last time around."
William Saletan: Revenge of the Middle (Slate)
The S&P downgrade is the beginning of the end of the left-right war. And both sides will lose.
Andrew Tobias: S&P ARE IDIOTS
Seriously - why would anyone take the rating agencies seriously, after they consistently gave junk mortgage securities triple-A ratings?
Jim Hightower: Breaking corporate control of politics
Imagine if a couple of national leaders dared to stand up to the corporate powers that have taken control of government. Imagine if one of them came right out and said, "I [am] fed up of living in a country ruled by lies, cynicism, and greed." And imagine if these leaders arranged for the people of the country to be able to throw out all political parties that "represent oligarch interests or vote in the interests of oligarchs."
Amy Wallace: Jerry-atrics! (GQ)
He's the original lord of lowbrow, the king of the pratfall, the last surviving link to the bedrock of American comedy-vaudeville, burlesque, slapstick. Sure, he's ancient, but he's juggling half a dozen new projects and still found time to sit down with Amy Wallace for an eleven-hour interview. Call it the Jerry Lewis Marathon that covered, well, just about everything that's ever been funny.
How to write the perfect album review (Guardian)
As guardian.co.uk launches 3 million new album pages, Alexis Petridis offers tips on how to write the perfect review.
Anne Boyer: "Albums of Our Lives: Willie Nelson's 'Shotgun Willie'" (The Rumpus)
I refused to listen to the B-side. This was, I guess, an extension or reflection of the poverty of those years after leaving my marriage and buying the 10 Willie Nelson records at a small town Goodwill store for 10 cents each - a kind of hoarding of every meager resource, like the unopened cans of beans, moved from kitchen to kitchen, state to state.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Good Deeds (Athens News)
Sassy, a magazine for North American teenage girls, did a few articles on sex and on homosexuality when it first started, with the result that many advertisers that were afraid of controversy abandoned it. One person who supported "Sassy" was gay celebrity make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin. He was working for Cover Girl, and he told the company, "I'm not going to work with you anymore unless you put your ads back in Sassy."
David Bruce: "Seize the Day: 250 Anecdotes and Stories" ($7.50 at Lulu.com; use the coupon SINK to save 20 percent off any order)
Andrew Tobias and Charles Nolan were a happy gay couple for years until Mr. Nolan died. Soon after Mr. Nolan died, Mr. Tobias' mother, who was Jewish, also died. At the memorial service for Mr. Tobias' mother, Mr. Nolan's brother spoke. Mr. Tobias writes about "Charles' brother, a Catholic priest, who, when he got up from the audience to speak to the largely Jewish crowd, said he imagined my mom and dad and stepfather (also Jewish) and Charles (Catholic, but lapsed, and gay)-were now all likely in paradise having a fine and stylish old time together." Mr. Tobias noted to the Catholic priest (with a smile) that according to the Pope, perhaps none of them would gain admission to Heaven. Mr. Tobias writes, "To which he shot back-with a quiet conviction I get a little choked up recalling-'It's not his call.'"
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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3 4 5 6 7 8 CaterpillarsGulf Fritillary Butterfly
Here are today's pictures:
Caterpillar #1 - pupated (7/24/11) (not looking so good)
Caterpillar #2 - pupated (7/26/11)
Caterpillar #3 - pupated (8/01/11)
Caterpillar #4 has disappeared. Don't know if it's pupating somewhere or if a wasp got it.
Caterpillar #5 died while pupating (08/07/11)
Caterpillar #6
Caterpillar #7
Caterpillar #8
Caterpillar #9 - the newest addition
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Archive
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Thanks, Sharon!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
More 'June Gloom' in August. : )
New glasses - was upgraded to tri-focals.
African Relief Campaign
"I'm Gonna Be Your Friend"
A global social media campaign featuring a Bob Marley song was launched by some of the music industry's top stars on Tuesday to help stem the hunger crisis that is increasing in the Horn of Africa.
More than 150 stars from Lady Gaga, U2, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney are among the well-known figures using their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds to urge fans to donate money to help the numerous families starving in the region.
The campaign, called "I'm Gonna Be Your Friend," can be found at www.imgonnabeyourfriend.com. It shows a video of Bob Marley & The Wailers' 1973 song, 'High Tide or Low Tide," accompanied by footage of malnourished children created by award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald.
Donations or downloads of "High Tide or Low Tide," for $1.29 will go to the Save the Children appeal for east Africa and used for food, water and medicine,
Other stars participating include Sting, David Beckham, Eminem, Rihanna, Annie Lennox, Bruno Mars, Madonna, Ricky Martin and Lily Allen.
"I'm Gonna Be Your Friend"
Hopes For TV Boycott
Gloria Steinem
Veteran women's rights campaigner Gloria Steinem said on Friday she hoped TV viewers would boycott "The Playboy Club", calling the 1960s nightclubs tacky and far from the glamorous places depicted in the show.
"Clearly 'The Playboy Club' is not going to be accurate. It was the tackiest place on earth. It was not glamorous at all," Steinem told Reuters in an interview.
Steinem, one of America's leading crusaders for women's rights for 40 years, went undercover to work as a Bunny at the New York City Playboy Club in 1963 and wrote a ground-breaking expose about the onerous conditions for women who worked there.
"When I was working there and writing the expose, one of the things they had to change because of my expose was that they required all the Bunnies, who were just waitresses, to have an internal exam and a test for venereal disease," she said.
Gloria Steinem
Syfy Cancels After All
"Eureka"
"Eureka" will no longer be televised. Well, after five more episodes this summer, a holiday special this December and a 12-episode fifth season airing next year. But that's it!
Strangely, Syfy issued a statement just last week announcing that it had ordered a sixth season of six episodes of the quirky comedy, which is set in the fictional town of Eureka, Oregon, whose many inhabitants are geniuses and scientists. Those episodes would have been tacked on sometime after the current commitment had run its course.
But this new development, first reported Monday night by Entertainment Weekly, puts an end to that scenario. Syfy released this statement to EW:
"After painstaking consideration, we have had to make the difficult business decision to not order a season six of Eureka. But Eureka is not over yet. There is a new holiday episode this December and 12 stellar episodes set to debut next year, marking its fifth season and six memorable years on Syfy. The 2012 episodes are some of the best we've seen, and will bring this great series to a satisfying end.
"Eureka"
To Play Providence
Cowsills
Surviving members of the 1960s pop group The Cowsills are reuniting for a performance in Providence, R.I., following the screening of a new documentary chronicling the band's rise and fall.
The Cowsill family got their musical start in Newport, R.I. Three members of the family are scheduled to sing at Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday after the premiere of the film "Family Band: The Cowsills Story." It is being shown as part of the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
The fresh-faced clan served as the inspiration for the TV show "The Partridge Family." The group's hits included "Rain, The Park and Other Things," which was featured in the movie "Dumb and Dumber," as well as "Hair," featured in the musical by the same name.
Cowsills
Baby News
Kyla Grace Palin
Iraq war veteran Track Palin and bride Britta Hanson welcomed a baby girl over the weekend, according to Us Weekly.
The exciting birth news comes three months after the couple's wedding, which took place in Hatcher Pass, Alaska. Journalist Joe McGinniss, a one-time neighbor of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family, reported Monday that the former vice presidential candidate became a grandma again. According to McGinniss, the child has been named Kyla Grace Palin.
"I don't yet know when Sarah will sell the first pictures to PEOPLE," McGinniss wrote.
Kyla Grace Palin
Hospital News
Gavin DeGraw
Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw is still hospitalized after being attacked by a group of men on a city street.
A statement released Tuesday on his behalf said the 34-year-old entertainer has a concussion, a broken nose, black eyes, cuts and bruises.
Police say DeGraw suffered the injuries after he was beaten up by "unknown male attackers" early Sunday morning in the East Village. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance; an investigation is ongoing.
DeGraw has been forced to cancel a planned concert Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He had a slew of other tour dates and appearances, but there's no information about how those would be affected.
Gavin DeGraw
Demotion Follows Sheen Escort Dustup
DC Police
The commander of a District of Columbia police division who publicly clashed with the chief over the use and frequency of police escorts for celebrities after the Charlie Sheen ride has been demoted.
Hilton Burton said he was transferred out of special operations and demoted to captain in the medical clinic for injured officers. He said he believes his demotion was in response to his June appearance before the D.C. Council, in which he said police escorts were routinely provided for celebrities visiting Washington.
The testimony contradicted statements by Police Chief Cathy Lanier. She had said a police escort from a northern Virginia airport for Sheen in April violated department policy because of its speed and use of sirens, and that escorts weren't generally intended for celebrities.
Lanier told reporters Tuesday the demotion had nothing to with Burton's testimony.
DC Police
Piers Morgan Oinks
Paul McCartney
Piers Morgan has responded to countless allegations that he knew of, condoned or practiced phone hacking while editor of the Daily Mirror, but Monday night on Conan O'Brien he switched roles and became the accuser.
Morgan accused Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Paul McCartney, of hacking her former husband, the same charge Mills has leveled against Morgan.
"Paul McCartney is apparently now claiming someone hacked his phone," Morgan told O'Brien. "I suspect it was Heather Mills because in the divorce, if you study the divorce papers, Paul McCartney accused Heather then of hacking into his phones and passing information to the papers."
The conversation started when O'Brien asked Morgan about the hacking charges, to which Morgan said: "I kind of thought when Heather Mills poked her head up above the parapet, the whole thing got completely ridiculous."
Paul McCartney
Judge Says Trial Needed
Golden Globes
A trial is needed to determine whether the longtime producer of the Golden Globe Awards had the rights to negotiate a deal keeping the glitzy awards show on NBC through 2018, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank issued two rulings in a lawsuit over whether a 1993 agreement granted the show's longtime producer, dick clark productions, the right to negotiate an extension with NBC last year.
The judge refused to side with either dick clark productions or the show's organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Fairbank's rulings, released Tuesday, state there are issues a jury should decide in whether the agreement and the later actions by both sides meant the production company has rights to work on the show for as long as it airs on NBC.
Golden Globes
Sued Over Slur
Great America
Two men are suing a Northern California amusement park after they say employees posted a photograph of them with a caption labeling them with a homophobic slur.
According to the complaint filed Monday, Craig Person and Edmund Yang were photographed holding hands on a roller coaster at California's Great America park in August 2008.
The complaint says their friend later saw the photo displayed on a counter at another ride after someone had added a bubble caption containing the slur.
The plaintiffs' attorney says the San Jose men initially tried to work directly with Great America, but its managers eventually stopped responding.
Great America
Sometimes A Cigar Isn't Just A Cigar
Ahnold
Was it lit or was it cold? The status of a cigar in Arnold Schwarzenegger's mouth at an Austrian airport could decide whether or not he faces legal action.
Smoking at airports is banned in Austria and an anti-smoking lobby said Tuesday it plans to launch a suit against the former California governor for puffing on a stogie after arriving in June at Salzburg Airport.
Salzburg municipal legal expert Josef Goldberger told state broadcaster ORF that Arnie can ignore any requests from authorities in his homeland to respond since the charge is not covered by treaties.
Ahnold
Missed Hearing, Arrested
Christopher "Kid" Reid
One half of the late 1980s hip-hop band Kid 'n Play was arrested on Tuesday for skipping out on a court hearing in connection with a 2010 drunk driving conviction, court officials.
Christopher "Kid" Reid, 47, was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail shortly before noon and held in lieu of $26,000 bail.
He was taken in after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest on August 2 for missing a July 25 hearing, said Patricia Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Reid was under court-supervised probation for a conviction stemming from a July 2010 arrest for driving with almost double the legal alcohol limit, Kelly said.
Christopher "Kid" Reid
Widow Sues Conde-Nast For Defamation
Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini's widow, Marianne Nestor-Cassini, has slapped Conde Nast with a $10 million lawsuit alleging defamation over a September 2010 Vanity Fair piece that examined the intra-familial legal battle over the late designer's estate.
Entitled "Cassini Royale," the article by Maureen Orth, describes Nestor-Cassini as the fashion icon's "secret" wife and depicts her as litigious -- involved in suits as either plaintiff or defendant with everyone from Neil Diamond to Cassini's daughters. She had worked for the Camelot era clothier, but their marriage was unknown to many of Cassini's friends until after his death.
But in a suit filed last week in New York Supreme Court, Nestor-Cassini says the article gets important facts wrong, and alleges that Conde Nast executives, including Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, failed to respond to her calls about concerns with the reporting.
She further claims that her reputation was "maliciously" damaged during the reporting and fact-checking stages of the piece.
Oleg Cassini
Arrt CollectionTo Auction
Tony Curtis
Paintings, sculptures and other collectibles that once belonged to Tony Curtis are hitting the auction block.
Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, says original artwork by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Henry Miller and Curtis himself will be sold at an auction of property from the actor's estate on Sept. 17.
Curtis' own paintings and ceramics are among the items for sale, along with pottery and prints by Picasso, which are expected to fetch more than $3,000 each. Also up for auction is memorabilia from Curtis' many movies, including the sailor jacket he wore during a kissing scene with Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot."
The items will be on view at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., beginning Sept. 6.
Tony Curtis
Tripled From 1950-2006
Suicides In Movies
A movie analysis shows depictions of explicit and graphic suicides tripled from 1950 to 2006.
An analysis by Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center of 855 top box office films also says there's no difference between PG-13- and R-rated films in the most explicit portrayals of suicide.
The study was released Tuesday. It's published in the August issue of Archives of Suicide Research.
Researchers looked at suicidal behavior explicitness in the top 30 U.S. movies for each year. Lead author Patrick Jamieson says the researchers can't establish a definite link but the tripling of U.S. teen suicides since 1960 has coincided with the increase in movie suicide portrayals.
He also says exposure to movie suicides has been found to correlate with thinking there's no effective treatment for mental health problems.
Suicides In Movies
ID'd As Eggs
Orange Goo
Scientists have identified an orange-colored gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets.
But the mystery is not quite solved. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday they don't know for sure what species the eggs are, although they believe they are some kind of crustacean eggs or embryos. They also don't know if the eggs are toxic, and that worries many of the 374 residents of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community located at the tip of an 8-mile barrier reef on Alaska's northwest coast.
There's been at least one report of dead minnows found in the lagoon of the village the night the eggs appeared last week. Residents also are worried about the community's dwindling reserves in village water tanks even though the orange mass has dissipated from the lagoon and Wulik River, said city administrator Janet Mitchell.
Scientists also don't know why the unidentified eggs suddenly emerged on the shores of Kivalina last week. Villagers say they've never seen such a phenomenon before.
Orange Goo
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Aug. 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.92 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 9.96 million.
3. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 9.75 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 9.69 million.
5. "Bachelorette: After the Final Rose," ABC, 9.31 million;
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.86 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.13 million.
8. "Big Brother 13" (Sunday), CBS, 7.84 million.
9. "Big Brother 13" (Thursday), CBS, 7.43 million.
10. "Big Brother 13" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.9 million.
11. "Wipeout" (Thursday), ABC, 6.64 million.
12. "Wipeout" (Tuesday), ABC, 6.60 million.
13. "Flashpoint," CBS, 6.33 million.
14. "Hell's Kitchen" (Tuesday), Fox, 6.32 million.
15. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 6.30 million.
16. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.02 million.
17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.01 million.
18. "CSI: NY," CBS, 5.899 million
19. "The Mentalist," CBS, 5.897 million.
20. "Masterchef," Fox, 5.87 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Fred Imus
A spokesman for Don Imus says that the controversial radio personality's brother, Fred Imus, has died in his Tucson home. He was 69.
Fred Imus co-hosted his own satellite radio show on Sirius XM called "Fred's Trailer Park Bash" and wrote country songs.
Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesman for Don Imus, said Tuesday that Fred Imus was found dead inside his trailer in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday. He says it's believed that he died in his sleep.
Hiltzik says the Imus brothers were "very close" and that Fred Imus often was a guest on his brother's own radio show, ending each call with, "I love you."
Fred Imus, who was twice divorced, is survived by three sons.
Fred Imus
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