M Is FOR MASHUP - December 1st, 2021
A Mashup Tribute To 4 Guys From The 70s
By DJ Useo
Yup, I really like the Beatles
( www.thebeatles.com/ )
music. So much so, that I’ve been a posting member of the
Beatles Remixers Group
( www.tapatalk.com/groups/beatlesremixers/ ) since Terminus J Threnody started it back in 2006.
My love of their tunes extends to all their solo work as well. I even bought
Yoko’s albums( Most of which I like ).
( imaginepeace.com )
Over the years I’ve released a lot of
Beatles mashups
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ ) , & a few
Beatles mashup albums
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ ) . Now, you finally get a collection of many of the ex-Beatles tracks I’ve concocted. Many of them are even good! ( lol ) There’s some new unreleased tracks on here, too, which raise the compelling nature of this release.
“DJ Useo - A Mashup Tribute To 4 Guys From The 70s”
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2021/11/ex-beatles-mashup-album.html )
includes the tracks, the texts, & the covers, resulting in a satisfying bootleg experience. As with many of my past releases, the DJ Useo fan club, “The Useoettes” ( no web site available ), offered advice on what tracks, if any, should not be included. They did decline one track, leaving you with only 34 cuts over 2 “discs’.
So, you get stuff like John Lennon vs Fat Boy Slim, Paul McCartney vs Yello, George Harrison vs Icehouse, & Ringo Starr vs Bob Marley, amongst many more. This album completes my participation in the second annual “Year Of The Mashup Album”. Through advance planning I released one mashup album a month all through 2021. Some albums are planned for 2022, so we’ll see what reveals itself.
Mirror links for “DJ Useo - A Mashup Tribute To 4 Guys From The 70s” are here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2021/11/ex-beatles-mashup-album.html )
Have the day of good
DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Music
• Before becoming a famous comedian, Sid Caesar was a jazz saxophonist. He played with Gene Krupa’s band, along with pianist Teddy Napoleon and Teddy’s sister, Josephine, who was the vocalist. One day, Sid, Teddy, and Josephine were driving to a gig, and a police officer stopped them. Teddy was driving, so the police officer looked at his driver’s license. He was amused by Teddy’s last name, Napoleon, and Sid laughed and said that his name was Caesar. The police officer looked at the only woman in the car and said, “And I suppose you’re Josephine.” Teddy’s sister replied, “Yes, how did you know?”
• After leaving prison, Oscar Wilde went to France, where he stayed at the Hotel Sandwich. Two friends, Robert Ross and Reginald Turner, also stayed with him. Mr. Wilde was widely hated at this time, so he stayed at the hotel under an assumed name, and he wrote a friend that Robert Ross was staying at the hotel under the name of Reginald Turner, and Reginald Turner was staying at the hotel under the name of Robert Ross, because “it is better that they should not use their own names.”
• When Steve Wozniak was married to Candi Clark, they had a son they named “Jesse John Clark.” They decided to use Candi’s last name because “Wozniak” is difficult to spell. As a co-founder of the Apple Computer Company, Mr. Wozniak made millions, so he had money to play with. When he built a house, he designed part of it to look like a limestone cave — complete with fake cave wall paintings, fossils, and dinosaur footprints.
• When Rudolf Bing became general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, his appointment was kept secret for a while. When he went to a photographer to have his portrait taken to accompany the press release that would announce his appointment, he used an assumed name. When the assumed name was called, he failed to stand up — because he had forgotten the name.
• Alan Brady’s original name on the pilot that became the basis of The Dick Van Dyke Show was Alan Sturdy, chosen by creator Carl Reiner because it sounded strong. The name was changed because executive producer Sheldon Leonard and comedian Morey Amsterdam (who played Buddy Sorrell) both thought the name sounded like “Alan’s Dirty.”
• When he was a youth (and later), choreographer George Balanchine had a habitual sniff or facial tic that made him bare his front teeth. Other dance students noticed this, and they gave him a nickname: Rat.
• Count Basie got his name early in his career, when he was often late for rehearsals. Frequently, the bandleader Bennie Moten would look around, see that Mr. Basie was not present, then shout, “Where is that no-’count Basie?”
• A homophobe once said to lesbian comedian Robin Tyler, “They should take all the homosexuals and put them on an island.” Ms. Tyler replied, “They did, and they call it Manhattan.”
Opera
• African-American diva Shirley Verrett learned a lot from performing various roles in opera. She debuted in opera in 1957 playing the title role in The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, and in 1958 she played Irina in Lost in the Stars by Kurt Weill. She once said, “That showed me how I could change characters, being a virgin one night and two nights later a dance hall girl coming down the stairs with a split in my skirt. Everything I had learned in church went right down the drain!”
• During a performance of Lohengrin, tenor Leo Slezak still had not met the woman playing Elsa of Brabant. During the performance, following the script, he said, “Elsa, I love thee,” and raised her from her kneeling position and placed her head against his chest, then whispered, “Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Slezak.” The woman playing Elsa then whispered in reply, “Delighted to know you; my name is Ternina.”
• In Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, the title character commits suicide by jumping off the ramparts of the Castel Sant’ Angelo in Rome into the Tiber River. Mr. Puccini pointed out to the author of the original play, Victorien Sardou, that the river is too far from the castle for this to happen, but Mr. Sardou told him not to worry about such a minor point.
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Michael Egan
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Music: "Backburner Boy"
Album: GARAGE COUNTRY
Artist: Anthony Harrison
Artist Location: Durham, North Carolina
Info: “Just another bastard out of Carolina.”
Anthony Harrison: Vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, slide guitar, bass, tambourine, shaker
Jam Phelps: Drums
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $10 (USD) for 12-track album
Genre: Country.
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France’s Pantheon
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker — the U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist — was inducted into France’s Pantheon on Tuesday, becoming the first Black woman to receive the nation’s highest honor.
Baker’s voice resonated through streets of Paris’ famed Left Bank as recordings from her extraordinary career kicked off an elaborate ceremony at the domed Pantheon monument. Baker joined other French luminaries honored at the site, including philosopher Voltaire, scientist Marie Curie and writer Victor Hugo.
Military officers from the Air Force carried her cenotaph along a red carpet that stretched for four blocks of cobblestoned streets from the Luxembourg Gardens to the Pantheon. Baker’s military medals lay atop the cenotaph, which was draped in the French tricolor flag and contained soil from her birthplace in Missouri, from France, and from her final resting place in Monaco. Her body stayed in Monaco at the request of her family.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to “a war hero, fighter, dancer, singer; a Black woman defending Black people but first of all, a woman defending humankind. American and French. Josephine Baker fought so many battles with lightness, freedom, joy.”
“Josephine Baker, you are entering into the Pantheon because, (despite) born American, there is no greater French (woman) than you,” he said.
Josephine Baker
Live Eeenactment Special
The Facts Of Life
Here are the facts about the upcoming The Facts Of Life live production over at ABC: new cast additions include Jennifer Aniston as Blair, Gabrielle Union as Tootie, Allison Tolman as Natalie, and Kathryn Hahn as Jo.
For the third installment of Live In Front Of A Studio Audience, executive producers Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel are working on re-creations of episodes from the iconic late ‘70s comedy Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff, The Facts Of Life.
Per Variety, the four join previously announced stars John Lithgow, Kevin Hart, Damon Wayans, and Ann Dowd. Jim Burrows (Cheers, Fraiser, Will & Grace) and Andy Fisher (Jimmy Kimmel Live) will serve as co-directors on the live production. Executive producers on the show include Lear, Kimmel, Burrows, Brent Miller, Kerry Washington, Will Ferrell, and Justin Theroux.
The Facts Of Life
Cancel Minneapolis Gig
Foo Fighters
Earlier today, Foo Fighters announced dates for a 2022 North American summer tour. Now, just hours later they’ve abruptly canceled one of those scheduled shows — an August 3rd gig at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis — after the venue refused to agree to the band’s COVID safety measures.
“We apologize for any inconvenience and are working on finding a suitable replacement — one that will prioritize the health and safety of everyone working and attending the show,” reads a statement posted to Foo Fighters’ Twitter.
According to the Star Tribune, Huntington Bank Stadium has not been requiring masks, proof of vaccine, or negative test results at its recent events. Citing the same safety concerns, Elvis Costello recently moved a concert from Huntington Bank Stadium to nearby First Avenue.
Foo Fighters
Sells Catalog to BMG
Mötley Crüe
In the music industry, it’s exceedingly common for artists to yearn for ownership over their original master recordings, but Mötley Crüe have found themselves in the enviable position of doing the opposite: The hair metal legends have inked a new deal to sell their entire recorded music catalog to BMG.
Mötley Crüe are one of the rare acts to actually reclaim the rights to their recorded music, acquiring their masters back from label Elektra in the late Nineties. While no financial details of the BMG deal were disclosed, one can safely assume the band netted way more than the $10 million they reportedly paid to buy back their masters.
Master recordings are arguably the most lucrative and coveted copyright in music. While publishing rights — sales of which have comprised the bulk of the industry’s catalog gold rush — can yield solid revenues, especially from sync licenses, recorded music rights are more directly tied to things like streams, downloads and album sales.
The Mötley Crüe deal — which is BMG’s largest single catalog acquisition since launching in 2008 — covers the band’s nine studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilation sets. During their Eighties heyday, the hair metal icons sold over 100 million albums worldwide and scored major hits with songs like “Kickstart My Heart,” “Shout at the Devil,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” and “Home Sweet Home,” which remain hard rock staples.
Mötley Crüe
Lies Some More
Lying Liar
Former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) released a lie-filled statement on Tuesday demanding that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologize for "abandoning her former country."
"Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should apologize for marrying her brother, committing large-scale immigration and election fraud, wishing death to Israel, and for essentially abandoning her former country, which doesn't even have a government — Exactly what she'd like to see for the United States," Trump said in his statement.
The Minnesota congress member, a Somali American refugee, was born in Somalia in 1982. Omar, along with her father and her siblings, secured asylum in the US in 1995, when she was a child.
In a July 2019 tweet, Trump told Omar and three of her fellow Democratic congresswomen to "go back and fix the broken and crime-infested places from which they came" — even though all four are US citizens and Omar is the only one who was born outside the US.
There is also no record of Omar ever wishing "death to Israel," as Trump claimed in his statement, and there is no evidence of her involvement in any kind of "large-scale" immigration or election fraud.
Lying Liar
'Caterpillar Soup'
Butterfly Wings
To transform into a butterfly, a caterpillar must first dissolve into a goopy soup within its chrysalis. Now, in striking new videos, scientists have revealed how this goo reassembles into the delicate scales on a butterfly's wings.
To watch this process unfold in living caterpillars undergoing metamorphosis, the researchers behind the videos reared painted lady caterpillars (Vanessa cardui) in their laboratory, according to the new study, soon to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Once each caterpillar was suspended in its chrysalis, the team carefully carved a small window into the cuticle — the pupae's hard, outermost covering — to expose the developing forewings within. They then sealed these tiny openings with thin panes of glass held in place with a dental composite. The team used a slightly modified version of this technique to uncover the developing butterflies' hindwings.
Thus exposed, the developing wings could be observed under a microscope as the soup-ified caterpillars continued their metamorphosis, unmarred by the surgical procedure. However, conventional microscopes that use a single, wide beam of light to illuminate their subject could potentially damage the dainty scales. So instead, the team opted to use speckle-correlation reflection phase microscopy, which uses many tiny pinpricks of light to illuminate a subject, according to a statement about the study.
A few days after the start of metamorphosis, the team watched individual cells line up in orderly rows in the butterfly wings; each cell gave rise to a single wing scale by secreting chitin, a type of sugar, the team wrote in the study. As these scales formed, they fell into an alternating pattern of cover scales — which sit on top of the wing — and ground scales — which lie beneath the cover.
Long, thin ridges then appeared on the surface of the scales, running down their lengths in tidy, parallel lines. A painted lady's entire pupal stage typically lasts about 8 to 12 days, and these ridges appeared about 60% of the way through the process, the authors wrote in their report.
Butterfly Wings
30 Flown To Rwanda
White Rhinos
Conservationists flew 30 white rhinos from South Africa to Rwanda last week in what they say is the largest single rhino translocation ever.
The roughly 2,000-mile journey took the rhinos to their new home in Akagera National Park, where advocates hope the animals will be able to establish a new breeding stronghold and evade the rampant poaching that’s put their species in danger.
White rhinos are considered “near threatened” by the World Wildlife Fund, which estimates there are about 18,000 of them in existence in protected areas and private game reserves. Officials say the decline in their population is largely attributable to poaching and the demand for rhino horns.
Each of the 30 rhinos that arrived in Rwanda on Saturday was fitted with a tracking transmitter for constant monitoring. Authorities have also deployed an anti-poaching canine unit and helicopter surveillance to protect the new arrivals.
White Rhinos
Facial Reconstruction
Bronze Age
A "powerful, maybe even frightening" woman buried with a silver diadem in Bronze Age Spain now has a virtually reconstructed face that shows her wearing a serene expression and huge hoop earrings dangling from earplugs.
Earlier this year, researchers announced they had discovered the woman's and a man's remains interred together in a large ceramic pot buried in what was likely an ancient palace. The man had died a few years before the woman; after she died at a later date, someone reopened the pot and placed her body next to his. Now, using the partial skull and jewelry from the burial, a scientific Illustrator has digitally recreated the woman's face, as well as the faces of others buried at the site, known as La Almoloya.
"The biggest challenge about this facial reconstruction was that the upper portion of her skull did not survive the ages," Joana Bruno, the freelance scientific illustrator who created the digital reconstructions and a collaborator with the La Almoloya archaeologists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, told Live Science in an email. "Luckily, the diadem (the silver crown) was found in place, around her head, so that gives us some measure for her head, but it was still a challenge."
The diadem-wearing woman's identity has intrigued scientists since archaeologists unearthed her burial in 2014. Her lavish burial goods — including the diadem, beaded necklaces, silver-crafted rings, bracelets, spiral hairpieces and earplugs with spirals, as well as a silver-rimmed drinking pot and silver-handled awl, a tool used to piece textiles — are of superior quality and are more valuable than goods buried with the man, researchers previously told Live Science. Perhaps these riches indicate that the woman had more power than her burial partner, especially given that she outlived him and was still buried with treasured goods, the researchers said at the time.
Bronze Age
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