DEWEY'S RECORD PARTY!

Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 20th, 2008, 3:26 am

It was recently announced over at the Film Noir forum that
a competition to find the “bestavorite” noir film would begin the end
of this month! The Record Party! hereby offers up this late night
platter parade tribute to Chris’ upcoming marathon…
Noir kingpin Elsiha Cook, Jr in a pair of unforgettable musical
interludes from Siodmak’s / Woolrich’s PHANTOM LADY
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Siodmak again, this time with Burt and Yvonne and a lot of hot
barroom jazz from CRISS CROSS
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DOA gave us this incredible slice of San Francisco pier-side jazz
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Goddessesque Jane Russell warbles “You Kill Me” in MACAO
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Fritz Lang’s BLUE GARDENIA gave Nat King Cole a top 40 hit.
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Ol’ King Cole again with “I’d Rather Have the Blues” over the main credits
(wait til Cloris gets in the car) of Robert Aldrich’s epic KISS ME DEADLY
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Speaking of opening credits, try Elmer Bernstein’s explosive theme to
Alexander Mackendrick’s SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
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Can’t leave SWEET SMELL without a visit from the incredible
Chico Hamilton Quintet
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ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 20th, 2008, 8:10 am

We can't have a salute to the Musical Noir without a snippet from The Samula (that's Fuller, not Davis, Jr.).

SHOCK CORRIDOR
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klondike · Post by **klondike** » April 20th, 2008, 3:39 pm

Salaam, Dewey, thou bejewlled Pasha of the Playlist!
Do ye smell that wisp of singe in the air today? Can't be burning leaves, it's Springtime!

Maybe too many neighborhood bears, all tryin' to worry away that old hibernation hair, all on the same afternoon . .

Huzzah, sez I, away with the doubt & disgruntlement drifting over our fair Oasis . .

I know, how about we get everybody down & w i d e for the evening, with a little Wang Chung Tonight ?

Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 20th, 2008, 7:59 pm

As we say here at the Record Party..."You say 'em, we play 'em!"
WANG CHUNG "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
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Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 21st, 2008, 8:02 am

Let us all please welcome to the Record Party! Miss Constance
Towers along with the Sammy Fuller Singers doing their big new smash
"Mommie Dear" from the hit motion picture, THE NAKED KISS.
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ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 21st, 2008, 11:05 am

Orthodox Holy Week started yesterday. While this is not a Byzantine
hymn we’ll be hearing this week, it is a fine example of Musical
Noir and a duet far surpassing any by Cocker & Warnes,
Medley & Warnes, Travolta & Newton-John, and even
Rogers & Parton – it’s our lovable faves, Mitchum & Gish in…

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms”
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ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 21st, 2008, 1:39 pm

With music written by a teenaged Frank Zappa, here is – in
the most prescient film noir ever made – the King of Kool, the
Shaman of Cinema, the Saint of the Underground, the Madman of the
Method, the Immutable Essence of the Universe, in a film written, produced,
directed by and starring himself – the one and only Timothy Carey!!!!

THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER
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ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 22nd, 2008, 7:10 am

April 22, 1970: Did we really think then that 38 years later we’d still
be celebrating Earth Day? Check out the May 2008 Atlantic
for an article called Waste Not about the company Mrs. ChiO
is General Counsel for. There’s still some hope.

EDGAR WINTER & WHITE TRASH “Save the Planet”
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MIDNIGHT OIL “Beds Are Burning”
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The CHILLS “Pink Frost”
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MARVIN GAYE “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)”
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RANDY NEWMAN “Burn On”
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Metry_Road · Post by **Metry_Road** » April 22nd, 2008, 11:59 am

Hello all

Nice thread. Good selections. I haven’t had time to rummage through all 60 pages of this thread, so if I’m repeating something please forgive me.

As a matter of curiosity, are there any songs, or artists that were beneath your contempt when you were younger (state your reasons), but have grown to like. For me, it was the BeeGees. I couldn't stand them back in the 1970's. But, over the years I've come to appreciate how good they actually were.

I’d like to post a song if I may. An old favorite of mine. Couldn’t find a decent video of McGuinness Flint doing this, but here are a couple of excellent cover versions.

Despite the title, it’s actually a joyful song.

Fury In The Slaughterhouse - When I'm Dead And Gone
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STATUS QUO - WHEN I'M DEAD AND GONE
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Regards[/youtube]

ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 22nd, 2008, 12:39 pm

Beneath contempt? I can't think of any artist, rock or otherwise, that I've disliked that much. Never cared much for middle-of-the-road pop from the '50s-'70s such as John Gary, Jack Jones, Wayne Newton, Jim Nabors, Robert Goulet, Barbra Steisand, etc. (mostly because of the song selection and arrangements, not their pipes), but I've always loved Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra (esp. with Nelson Riddle), Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and -- yes -- Johnny Mathis (for reasons, see the make-out question for the ages in DINER).

Some rock folk from my teens that I could not get into (and still don't): The Doors (Kreiger wrote some nice singles, but Morrison...blech), The Grateful Dead (nice idea...but boring), The Supremes (Diana Ross isn't my kind of singer). Maybe the one I disliked most, but now appreciate a bit more, is Elvis Presley -- the post-"Jailhouse Rock" (1957)/pre-"Guitar Man" (1968) years. I thought he was too soft and the movies dreadful, but there were some goodies in there ("Little Sister", "Viva Las Vegas").

Disliked Disco generally -- until I saw the opening of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Now Disco Inferno is one of my favorite records, and I love Chic.

For most of the '70s, I was a jazz only kinda a guy. Then came The Ramones, thank goodness.

Thanks for asking...and listening.

Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 22nd, 2008, 8:19 pm

Welcome to Dewey’s Record Party, Metry! We hope to be hearing a
lot more from you! I’ve been thinking about those artists I hated once
then decided to love later. DJ ChiO mentioned Jack Jones as a practitioner
of a type of song he didn’t like, and I thought, yeah, that’s it.
Today I love JACK JONES (and others of his normally dubious ilk.)
But for Dewey, in1963 he was, like, out of the question.
“Wives And Lovers”
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I also use to hate all those dopey mid-60s CHRIS MONTEZ 45s
on A&M. Now, I love ‘em! Go Chris, go! “Time After Time”
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Also, for the above-mentioned Earth Day celebrations: here in Northern
California, many of us are locked in a major battle with Governor
Schwarzenegger and the CDFA's insidious plan to douse the state with
UNTESTED TOXIC pesticides this summer! Not a joke; go to
www.stopthespray.org and please sign the petition; you don't have
to live in California to do so. Every name helps!
JONI MITCHELL "Big Yellow Taxi"
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VERDELLE SMITH "Tar And Cement"
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Mr. Arkadin · Post by **Mr. Arkadin** » April 22nd, 2008, 9:23 pm

Mike Battle, the inventor of the Echoplex tape echo machine has passed away.

In memory, here's a few artists using his creation:

Tommy Bolin: Golden Rainbows

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Miles Davis: Bitches Brew

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Queen's Brian May: Brighton Rock

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Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 23rd, 2008, 12:28 am

There’s a light rain beginning to fall over Oakland tonight. Which will
set just the right mood for some late night noir musique...here at the
west coast branch of the Record Party…
Dan Duryea and June Vincent get ready to audition a number for
Peter Lorre in the Cornell Woolrich story BLACK ANGEL
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Mickey Rooney stars as a jazz drummer on the Sunset Strip who’s
having a rough time playing by the rules. In this great scene he’s
joined by Satchmo (who was just happenin’ by) in THE STRIP
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ChiO · Post by **ChiO** » April 23rd, 2008, 9:47 am

Some of that New York Independent Late Film Noir that
we love so much.

SHADOWS directed by John Cassavetes, with some
hipster Beatnik rock’n’roll and a lick from Charles Mingus.
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THE CONNECTION directed by Shirley Clarke
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Dewey1960 · Post by **Dewey1960** » April 23rd, 2008, 7:55 pm

And speaking of JOHN CASSAVETES, the crown prince of
modern noir, here he is in an Italian TV promo spot for his jazz-
laden private eye show from 1959, JOHNNY STACCATO...
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Mr. Cassavetes directed a very fine 1962 film starring Bobby Darin
and Stella Stevens called TOO LATE BLUES. Check out the
fantastic music over the opening credits...
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The Silver Screen Oasis

The Silver Screen Oasis

DEWEY'S RECORD PARTY!