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Bobby Hebb - Sunny

In the summer of 1966 the sun warmed the Earth, in part because Bobby Hebb’s compelling song, Sunny, was released that June by Phillips Records. An uplifting ode to celebration of  life and perseverance; it is one the most recorded and performed popular songs. In a 2000 interview with Jonathan Marx of Nashville Scene Hebb estimated that there was some 500 recorded versions of the song. Recorded in February ’66, it entered the Billboard Top 100 at the end of June and in late August peaked at No. 2 for three weeks. It was ranked No. 27 in the Top 100 for the year. It also hit No.3 on the Billboard R&B chart and was ranked No.17 for the year. In BMI’s Top 100 Songs of the Century it is at No.25. In this particular case century represented the period of time that BMI - Broadcast Music, Inc. had existed since the 1930s. The tally also represented those songwriters and publishers that were licensed through BMI, which has had a significant share of artists in rock and roll, blues, jazz, r&b, gospel, country, folk, latin and classical styles of music as opposed to their main competitor ASCAP which has been more focused on pop artists. The ensuing Sunny album was released in September. It topped out at No.17 on the Billboard R&B during a brief period on that chart, but appears to have not broken through the Billboard Top 200 chart. Another track from the album, A Satisfied Mind b/w Love Love Love, was released later in the fall and reached No.39 on the Hot 100 and No. 40 on R&B in Billboard. A non-album song, Love Me b/w Crazy Baby (which was on the album) was released in late ’66 and only reached No.84 on the Top 100.

About the time I graduated from David Starr Jordan Junior High School, and summer days were upon me, radio jocks started spinning Sunny, a beautifully written and performed song with such wonderful positive message. I wasn’t really considering buying 45s at the time and the song lead me to buying the album when it came out in late summer making it the tenth LP of my small, but growing collection. I enjoyed some of the songs on the album and listened to it quite a bit after I first got it, less so as I started getting more records that kept me busy listening to them. It appears that the album didn’t have big sales so it must be comparatively rare these days, although I don’t get a sense that it is collectively in big demand. Since there was no internet back then, and I didn’t know about trade magazines and such, I had always wondered about what happened to Bobby. I basically heard nothing about him after 1966. It turns out that within five years he was basically out of the recording business, but still did some performing, although on a more local basis in the locations where he lived. His song still brings me sunshine when I hear it.

One of the stranger things I’ve ever come upon is that a single of Bobby Hebb’s Sunny was released by a Japanese label in 1971 backed with Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer. As soon as I saw the track times I knew it was for real. I used to put both songs on cassette tapes and have the song lengths indelibly stuck in my brain. Don’t get me wrong, I love both those songs, but I don’t think I would ever play them back to back, let alone expect them to be on the same 45 record. Just to clarify, Sunny is an R&B/Pop song as opposed to Blue Cheer’s version of Summertime Blues, which is arguably one of, if not, the earliest heavy metal songs on radio or anywhere else.

Robert “Bobby” Von Hebb was born in Nashville, Tennessee, one of eight children. His parents were both blind, and they were musicians. Bobby started performing at the age of three when he was introduced to an audience by his nine-year old brother, who was tap dancing at the time. They were both members  of their gospel group Hebb’s Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra which included his siblings and parents. His brother Harold and he continued performing as a song-and-dance team, mostly in local nightclubs. Meanwhile Bobby learned to play guitar and other instruments. Being in Nashville meant that Hebb was also surrounded by “hillbilly music”, which is what later became known as country music. He was about 16 when, after playing on a local TV show hosted by record producer Owen Bradley, he was given an opportunity to perform with Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys, playing the spoons among other instruments. He was one of the first African-Americans to play at The Grand Old Opry, performing regularly with the Acuff band, having played there before Charlie Pride.

A few years later he went to Chicago, drawn by the jazz scene, but drawn in by the blues. He ended up hanging out with Bo Diddley and is “said to have appeared on a Bo Diddley recording, Diddley Daddy…singing back-up or playing spoons, but there is no aural evidence of the latter”, according to the Richard Williams’ August 2010 Bobby Hebb obituary article in The Guardian.

By the next year he was in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the   seaplane tender USS Pine Island. He learned to play trumpet while in the band, the Pine Island Pirates. After his stint in the Navy he returned to Nashville where he performed in Nashville jazz and R&B nightclubs playing guitar and trumpet. Hebb recorded his first record, Night Train to Memphis. It was a song written by Owen Bradley and performed by Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys. Bobby gave this country song an R&B edge, even a bit of gospel, proving that the hillbilly/country and race/rhythm & blues styles were quite compatible. The song was released on Rich Records by owner/DJ John “R” Richbourg. A few years later Bobby went to New York after he had worked in some sessions with Dr. John and James Booker, where Richbourg got him a gig at Sylvia Robinson’s (nee Vanderpool) Blue Morocco Club. As Hebb put it, “I went for two weeks and stayed for two years.” Sylvia was one half of Mickey & Sylvia and after Mickey relocated to Paris she worked with Hebb for awhile as Bobby & Sylvia.

It was while Bobby Hebb was in New York that he wrote Sunny. It was not long after the death of his brother Harold which occurred outside a Nashville nightclub the day after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. It has been claimed by some that he wrote the song as a response to the murder of his brother, perhaps to both men, but Hebb put it another way in his interview with Jonathan Marx: “Very few people know what I really meant when I said “Sunny.” The other things, yes, but who I was talking to, or what I was talking about when I said “Sunny”—that still remains a mystery because it can be taken in quite a few ways.” After being asked if it was written for his brother he said, “Everyone seems to think that, because of the love, I suppose. But the love is always there. Sunny is your disposition. You either have a sunny disposition or you have a lousy disposition. Either you’re screaming at someone and angry, or you say, ‘No, uh-uh, I’m not angry. Let’s discuss this thing in a nice and pleasant way.’ Well, that pleasant way is a sunny disposition. Instead of confusing, and building chaos, let’s make this day a nice day for everyone. Spread that type of news so that you can become a little more relaxed and not filled with chaos, because chaos can become a killer.” In a sense, it still was in reaction to the tragic death of his brother, even if not consciously. He wrote Sunny in 1964 and, according to Richard Williams’ obituary article, it is explained, “The song came to him one morning when he had just returned to his home in Harlem from an all-night music session and a bout of heavy drinking, the sight of a purple dawn being its immediate inspiration.”

Not long after Hebb started being represented by Buster Newman, who started shopping the song around to publishers, but kept getting turned down. It did finally get picked up and was first recorded by a Japanese singer, Mieko Hirota, and as an instrumental by vibraphonist Dave Pike. Hebb was finally persuaded by eventual producer Jerry Ross to record it in New York studio Bell Sounds and it was included in an eighteen song demo. The recording of it  was completed in the last moments in the session. Among those who were back up singers for the recording are names that eventually made their own marks in the music world: Melba Moore, and Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, soon to known simply as Ashford and Simpson. The album was released three months after the single and included two other Hebb-penned songs.

Sunny was Bobby’s only big hit, but it came at a very special moment. So special that he was offered the opportunity to be on the bill as The Beatles toured America. Some have said that he was the opener, but it was in fact a co-bill. At the time of the tour his song, Sunny, was ranked higher than The Beatles’ songs. Here is what he had to say about it in the interview with Jonathan Marx in 2000, “I went on the Beatles tour—but I did not open up for The Beatles. Barry and the Remains opened the show for The Beatles. Then you had The Ronettes. Then you had The Cyrcle—“Red Rubber Ball.” Then I came on, and The Beatles came on. I was the costar of that show.”

Bobby Hebb also recorded three other singles after Night Train to Memphis, one on the Rich label, and two more on a couple of other labels in the ‘60s. In addition to the three singles that charted in ’66-’67 five more unsuccessful ones were released in the U.S, through 1968, primarily on Phillips. Mercury Records released another single that didn’t chart in 1972. The album Love Games was released in 1970 on Epic Records with all songs written or co-written by Hebb. It failed to chart in any manner. In 1975 the last single Hebb released, on Laurie Records, was a disco-ized version his hit called Sunny ’76 which only reached No.94 on the Billboard R&B chart i 1976. After 35 years of non-recording Hebb issued an album on a German label in 2005.

Bobby Hebb wrote hundreds of songs, and as his recording days faded, in a large part due to alcoholism, he begun working with comedian/composer Sandy Baron on a musical that never made it to Broadway. Two of the  songs, A Natural Man (originally titled Natural Resource) and His Song Shall Be Sung, made their way to Lou Rawls after they had done some re-writes to the former one. A Natural Man was a big hit for Rawls in 1971, while His Song Shall Be Sung was the B-side to Rawls’ ’71 single Believe in Me.

Bobby had gotten married and has one daughter who, as of this writing is around 35 years old. He also had a son in the mid-fifties. After a move to the Boston area, where he played in a few clubs, Hebb’s liqueur issues were coming to a head, literally. Per Charles Goldsmith’s UPI article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 2, 1987, Hebb said he "was drinking a quart a day, Green Chartreuse, 110 proof.” In 1978 he was arrested for shooting his wife in the shoulder, and served two years for assault. Hebb said, “it was “an accident, my wife and I are still friends,” In the ‘80s he was working a maintenance job with the state Public Works Department and, as a recovering alcoholic, was singing in a lounge in North Boston. He had stopped drinking in 1981. Eventually returning to Nashville, Bobby Hebb died while being treated for lung cancer.

Thank you, Bobby, thank you for the gleam that shows its’ grace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Hebb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_(Bobby_Hebb_song)

https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts-culture/article/13004879/one-so-true

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bobby-hebb-mn0000075683/biography

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/05/bobby-hebb-obituary

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-11-02-8702030189-story.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=qYtz7kEHegEC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=bobby+hebb+and+Dr.+John&source

https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/19991214_bmi_announces_top_100_songs_of_the_century

R&B top albums Bobby Hebb Sunny No. 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=hSIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43&dq=billboard+top+records+of+1966+december

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Music,_Inc.

https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Hebb-Sunny-By-Bobby-Hebb/release/14985370

https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Hebb-Blue-Cheer-Sunny-Summertime-Blues/release/12366602

Sunny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-5xGXpNt74

Sunny Live with Ron Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWyxzmNdJc

A Satisfied Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shs74PDun2Q

Night Train to Memphis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URYxTHTNKkM

A Natural Man Live with Ron Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYrc3tjePI

Bobby Hebb Playing Sam Cooke’s You Send Me Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=342QerUE-og

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Top 10 Top 40 Hit Songs from 1970-1974

The rest of the 70s.

1974:

Honorable mentions: You Make Me Feel Brand New -- The Stylistics (#2 -- peak Jun. 15) (#14 -- YE 1974) Rebel Rebel -- David Bowie (#64 -- peak Jun. 22) Nothing From Nothing -- Billy Preston (#1 -- peak Oct. 19) (#37 -- YE 1974) Waterloo -- ABBA (#6 -- peak Aug. 24) (#49 -- YE 1974) The Streak -- Ray Stevens (#1 -- peak May 18) (#8 -- YE 1974) Mighty Mighty -- Earth, Wind & Fire (#29 -- peak May 18) Midnight At The Oasis -- Maria Muldaur (#6 -- peak Jun. 1) (#13 -- YE 1974) Piano Man -- Billy Joel (#25 -- peak Apr. 20) Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo -- Rick Derringer (#23 -- peak Mar. 23) Bennie and the Jets -- Elton John (#1 -- peak Apr. 13) (#9 -- YE 1974)

10. Sweet Home Alabama -- Lynyrd Skynyrd (#8 -- peak Oct. 26) 9. TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) -- MFSB featuring the Three Degrees (#1 -- peak Apr. 20) (#7 -- YE 1974) 8. Tell Me Something Good -- Rufus & Chaka Khan (#3 -- peak Aug. 24) (#56 -- YE 1974) 7. Then Came You -- Dionne Warwick and The Spinners (#1 -- peak Oct. 26) (#47 -- YE 1974) 6. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number -- Steely Dan (#4 -- peak Aug. 3) (#51 -- YE 1974) 5. For The Love Of Money -- The O’Jays (#9 -- peak Jun. 15) (#75 -- YE 1974) 4. Rock Your Baby -- George McCrae (#1 -- peak Jul. 13) (#38 -- YE 1974) 3. Kung Fu Fighting -- Carl Douglas (#1 -- peak Dec. 7) (#15 -- YE 1975) 2. Dancing Machine -- The Jacksons (#2 -- peak May 18) (#5 -- YE 1974) 1. You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet -- Bachman-Turner Overdrive (#1 -- peak Nov. 9) (#98 -- YE 1975)

1973:

Honorable mentions: Right Place Wrong Time -- Dr. John (#9 -- peak Jun. 30) (#24 -- YE 1973) Soul Makossa -- Manu Dibango (#35 -- peak Jul. 28) Ramblin’ Man -- Allman Brothers Band (#2 -- peak Oct. 13) (#79 -- YE 1973) No More Mr. Nice Guy -- Alice Cooper (#25 -- peak Jun. 2) Killing Me Softly With His Song -- Roberta Flack (#1 -- peak Feb. 24) (#3 -- YE 1973) Crocodile Rock -- Elton John (#1 -- peak Feb. 3) (#7 -- YE 1973) Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu -- Johnny Rivers (#6 -- peak Jan. 20) (#78 -- YE 1973) Will It Go Round In Circles -- Billy Preston (#1 -- peak Jul. 7) (#8 -- YE 1973) The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia -- Vicki Lawrence (#1 -- peak Apr. 7) (#11 -- YE 1973)  Loves Me Like A Rock -- Paul Simon (with the Dixie Hummingbirds) (#2 -- peak Oct. 6) (#27 -- YE 1973) Hocus Pocus -- Focus (#9 -- Jun. 2) (#69 -- YE 1973) You Are The Sunshine of My Life -- Stevie Wonder (#1 -- peak May 19) (#19 -- YE 1973)

10b. Do It Again -- Steely Dan (#6 -- peak Feb. 10) (#73 -- YE 1973) 10a. Reelin’ In The Years -- Steely Dan (#11 -- peak May 12) (#68 -- YE  1973) 9. Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got) -- Four Tops (#4 -- peak Apr. 7) (#60 -- YE 1973) 8. Brother Louie -- Stories (#1 -- peak Aug. 25) (#13 -- YE 1973) 7. Love Train -- The O’Jays (#1 -- peak Mar. 24) (#32 -- YE 1973) 6. Frankenstein -- Edgar Winter Group (#1 -- peak May 26) (#16 -- YE 1973) 5b. Could It Be I’m Falling In Love -- The Spinners (#4 -- peak Mar. 3) (#47 -- YE 1973) 5a. One Of A Kind (Love Affair) -- The Spinners (#11 -- peak Jun. 30) (#82 -- YE 1973) 4. The Love I Lost (Part 1) -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (#7 -- peak Dec. 8) 3. Superstition -- Stevie Wonder (#1 -- peak Jan. 27) (#26 -- YE 1973) 2. Little Willy -- The Sweet (#3 -- peak May 5) (#18 -- YE 1973) 1. Live and Let Die -- Wings (#2 -- peak Aug. 11) (#56 -- YE 1973)

1972:

Honorable mentions: Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress -- The Hollies (#2 -- peak Sep. 2) (#24 -- YE 1972) The Candy Man -- Sammy Davis Jr. (#1 -- peak Jun. 10) (#5 -- YE 1972) My Ding-A-Ling -- Chuck Berry (#1 -- peak Oct. 21) (#15 -- YE 1972) Starman -- David Bowie (#65 -- peak Aug. 19) I Can See Clearly Now -- Johnny Nash (#1 -- peak Nov. 4) (#47 -- YE 1972) A Horse With No Name -- America (#1 -- peak Mar. 25) (#27 -- YE 1972) Rocket Man -- Elton John (#6 -- peak Jul. 15) (#40 -- YE 1972) I’ll Take You There -- The Staple Singers (#1 -- peak Jun. 3) (#19 -- YE 1972) Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard -- Paul Simon (#22 -- peak May 27)

10. Everybody Plays The Fool -- The Main Ingredient (#3 -- peak Oct. 14) (#29 -- YE 1972) 9. Me and Mrs. Jones -- Billy Paul (#1 -- peak Dec. 16) (#15 -- YE 1973) 8b. Use Me -- Bill Withers (#2 -- peak Oct. 14) (#78 -- YE 1972) 8a. Lean On Me -- Bill Withers (#1 -- peak Jul. 8) (#7 -- YE 1972) 7. Nights In White Satin -- The Moody Blues (#2 -- peak Nov. 4) (#32 -- YE 1972) 6. Go All The Way -- The Raspberries (#5 -- peak Oct. 7) (#33 -- YE 1972) 5. Let’s Stay Together -- Al Green (#1 -- peak Feb. 12) (#11 -- YE 1972) 4. School’s Out -- Alice Cooper (#7 -- peak Jul. 29) (#75 -- YE 1972) 3. Back Stabbers -- The O’Jays (#3 -- peak Oct. 7) (#35 -- YE 1972) 2. If You Don’t Know Me By Now -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (#3 -- peak Dec. 9) 1. Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone -- The Temptations (#1 -- peak Dec. 2) (#100 -- YE 1973)

1971:

Honorable mentions: She’s A Lady -- Tom Jones (#2 -- peak Mar. 20) (#25 -- YE 1971) Reason To Believe/Maggie May -- Rod Stewart (#1 -- peak Oct. 2) (#2 -- YE 1971) One Bad Apple -- The Osmonds (#1 -- peak Feb. 13) (#4 -- YE 1971) Proud Mary -- Ike and Tina Turner (#4 -- peak Mar. 27) (#55 -- YE 1971) It Don’t Come Easy -- Ringo Starr (#4 -- peak Jun. 5) (#43 -- YE 1971) If You Really Love Me -- Stevie Wonder (#8 -- peak Oct. 16) (#48 -- YE 1971)

10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain/Hey Tonight -- Creedence Clearwater Revival (#8 -- peak Mar. 13) 9. Tired of Being Alone -- Al Green (#11 -- peak Nov. 6) (#12 -- YE 1971) 8. Immigration Song -- Led Zeppelin (#16 -- peak Jan. 30) 7. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) -- The Temptations (#1 -- peak Apr. 3) (#9 -- YE 1971) 6. Ain’t No Sunshine -- Bill Withers (#3 -- peak Sep. 18) (#23 -- YE 1971) 5. Funky Nassau (Part 1) -- The Beginning of the End (#15 -- peak Jul. 17) (#75 -- YE 1971) 4. Smiling Faces Sometimes -- The Undisputed Truth (#3 -- peak Sep 4.) (#14 -- YE 1971) 3b. Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) -- Marvin Gaye (#4 -- peak Aug. 21) (#62 -- YE 1971) 3a. What’s Going On -- Marvin Gaye (#2 -- peak Apr. 10) (#21 -- YE 1971) 2. Whatcha See Is What You Get -- The Dramatics (#9 -- peak Sep. 25) (#46 -- YE 1971) 1. Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) -- Paul Revere & The Raiders (#1 -- peak Jul. 24) (#6 -- YE 1971)

1970:

Honorable mentions: Band of Gold -- Freda Payne (#3 -- peak Jul. 25) (#10 -- YE 1970) O-o-h Child -- The Five Stairsteps (#8 -- peak Jul. 18) (#21 -- YE 1970) Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon and Garfunkel (#1 -- peak Feb. 28) (#1 -- YE 1970) (They Long To Be) Close To You -- Carpenters (#1 -- peak Jul. 25) (#2 -- YE 1970) Venus -- The Shocking Blue (#1 -- peak Feb. 7) (#33 -- YE 1970) Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) -- The Delfonics (#10 -- peak Mar. 21) (#71 -- YE 1970) Lola -- The Kinks (#9 -- peak Oct. 24) (#52 -- YE 1970)

10. Solitary Man -- Neil Diamond (#21 -- peak Sep. 12) 9. Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine (Parts 1 and 2) -- James Brown (#15 -- peak Aug. 8) 8. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) -- Edison Lighthouse (#5 -- peak Mar. 28) (#40 -- YE 1970) 7. 25 or 6 to 4 -- Chicago (#4 -- peak Sep. 12) (#61 -- YE 1970) 6. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours -- Stevie Wonder (#3 -- peak Aug. 8) (#31 -- YE 1970) 5. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)  -- Sly and the Family Stone (#1 -- peak Feb. 14) (#19 -- YE 1970) 4. It’s A Shame -- The Spinners (#14 -- peak Oct. 17) (#76 -- YE 1970) 3. Spirit In The Sky -- Norman Greenbaum (#3 -- peak Apr. 18) (#22 -- YE 1970) 2. The Love You Save/I Found That Girl -- The Jackson Five (#1 -- peak Jun. 27) (#16 -- YE 1970) 1. War -- Edwin Starr (#1 -- peak Aug. 29) (#5 -- YE 1970)

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OCTOBER Karel Gott - Oct. 1 (Pop Singer) Kim Shattuck - Oct. (Rock Singer) Diahann Carroll - Oct. 4 (TV Actress) Ginger Baker - Oct. 6 (Drummer) Rip Taylor - Oct. 6 (Movie Actor) Larry Junstrom - Oct. 6 (Guitarist) David Weisman - Oct. 9 (Film Producer) *Robert Forster - Oct. 11 (Movie Actor) Kadri Gopalnath - Oct. 11 (Saxophonist) Sulli - Oct. 14 (TV Actress) Elijah Cummings - Oct. 17 (Politician) Alicia Alonso - Oct. 17 (Dancer) Bill Macy - Oct. 17 (TV Actor) Willie Brown - Oct. 22 (Football Player) Robert Evans - Oct. 26 (Film Producer) John Witherspoon - Oct. 29 (TV Actor)

NOVEMBER Rudy Boesch - Nov. 1 (Reality Star) Brian Tarantina - Nov. 2 (TV Actor) Walter Mercado - Nov. 2 (TV Show Host) Laurel Griggs - Nov. 5 (Stage Actress) Fred Cox - Nov. 20 (Football Player) Goo Hara - Nov. 24 (Pop Singer) Gary Rhodes - Nov. 26 (Chef) Godfrey Gao - Nov. 27 (Model)

DECEMBER Shelley Morrison - Dec. 1 (TV Actress) Ron Leibman - Dec. 6 (TV Actor) Juice WRLD - Dec. 8 (Rapper) Caroll Spinney - Dec. 8 (Puppeteer) Rene Auberjonois - Dec. 8 (TV Actor) Marie Fredriksson - Dec. 9 (Pop Singer) Philip McKeon - Dec. 10 (TV Actor) Danny Aiello - Dec. 12 (Movie Actor) Chuy Bravo - Dec. 14 (Reality Star) Mama Cax - Dec. 16 (Blogger) Claudine Auger - Dec. 18 (Movie Actress) Sue Lyon - Dec. 26 (Movie Actress) Don Imus - Dec. 27 (Radio Host)

[harrisonstories]

RTE Radio 2 Ireland - BP Fallon interview with George Harrison (18 Oct. 1987)

Photo by: Brian Roylance, Genesis Publications

This is an interview I’ve edited and uploaded to youtube because it’s quite long, and it was in two parts, so I’ve combined them together. You’ll notice at about 14:52 there’s a slight jump in the conversation which is where the second part begins. 

I really love this interview. It’s one of - if not my favourite interview he ever did. I strongly suggest you give it a listen. Similarly to the Swedish Fan Club Tape, George is extremely calm and open, and Irish DJ BP Fallon asks refreshing questions. BP Fallon has himself had an interesting life, and at one point worked at Apple for Derek Taylor (You can also see him miming the bass in the Instant Karma Top of the Pops video). I’m guessing this related to why George felt relaxed. I hope you enjoy it.

Below I’ve included the written version of this interview by BP Fallon for The Sunday Tribune. It has some information not available in the audio (not sure if it simply wasn’t recorded, or if there’s another version which includes the full conversation):

"Sometimes it feels like another world, another life, some previous incarnation," George Harrison says. "I view it a bit through a haze but, y'know, people don't ever stop talking about it so it's hard to got too much distance between myself and The Beatles." 

George Harrison doesn't mind that, not anymore. "I used to," he admits. "I used to not like it at all. I wanted to be free of it. Now I've learned to live with it. And also, don't forget, there was a period when The Beatles split up and there were all kind of court cases and bad vibes and stuff and that left a bad taste in the mouth for a while but after the years it's all cleared up, everybody's friends again." 

He's sitting in a little office in the house owned by his company Handmade Films, just off Cadogan Square in Knightsbridge in London, a few streets behind Harrods. Fourty-four-years old this man is, he has a bit of a beard and his shortish hair is swept back and there are new lines on his face. He drinks coffee and smokes ciggies and when you sit talking to the geezer you can't help but feel warmth for him. 

As one of John, Paul, George And Ringo, The Fab Four, as a member of the most popular, the most inventive, the most influential rock group of all time, he has gone through one of the strangest trips ever. They were Gods once, The Beatles. And sitting here now, George Harrison comes across as a normal bloke.

He was born in Liverpool, the fourth child of Harold and Louse Harrison. George's father was a bus driver - before that, he had been a ship's steward on the White Star Line for ten years and from one of his travels in America had returned with an old wind-up gramophone and records by bluesman and yodeller Jimmie Rodgers and country singer Hank Williams. Young George was smitten. He listened to skiffle, people like Lonnie Donegan and songs about the Rock Island Line. And then he heard Elvis Presley singing Hearbreak Hotel. "It came out of somebody's radio," George Harrison says, gazing out the window at the autumn light fading behind the trees, "and it lodged itself in the back of my head. It's been there ever since." 

At the age of 13, for £3, he bought his first guitar. Two years later, Paul McCartney introduced George to his friend John Lennon (George - "this snotty-nosed kid" as Lennon recalled). George joined John and Paul in their skiffle group The Quarreymen. In 1962, when George was 19, John, Paul, George and their new drummer Ringo Starr made their first record together. It was a fresh-sounding bluesey pop record called Love Me Do and they now called themselves The Beatles.

They changed the world, these four Scouse moptops making new noises and singing about wanting to hold your hand and about walruses and about revolution and all you need is love. 

And for eight years The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

For a while, The Beatles - at very least by example - endorsed smoking dope and taking LSD. John, Paul and George were each busted at least once for breaking the cannabis laws. "A lot of the stuff that happened..." - and then George brings himself up to the present tense - that happens, it's just like when Prohibition was on. If they make a big deal about stuff it becomes bigger than it actually is. In moderation... you have to have moderation in everything. The worst drug of all is alcohol... it actually kills more people then heroin." He says he was fortunate as a kid to see a film about the trumpet player Chet Baker, about Baker's heroin addiction, "and that and maybe something else made me aware that this thing was just too much. 

"Of course, the other things, the psychedelic drugs, are much different because they don't put your body in a stupour, they sort of..." and now he's laughing... "they sort of catapult you out into the universe. It's a totally different perspective." Then his voice is serious again. "These things obviously can be very dangerous too. I'd hate to have some right now because I don't think I could handle it. It just gives you too many things to think about all at once."

Love and peace went out the bathroom window when The Beatles split in 1970, with Paul McCartney publicly announcing he had left. George says he realised The Beatles weren't shaking a couple of years before that. "Everyone was just getting all uptight with each other. The new wives were coming in and, y'know, living under the piano and there was no privacy anymore for us as far as the group was concerned in what was normally the only privacy we ever had, the four of us when we got into a studio. And we'd just grown away from each other. One time or another every one of us left that group before we finally stopped." 

George left during the making of what would be Let It Be. Ringo left another time "and went on holiday, and John was always wanting to leave and Paul too. You know, it was too much pressure and we'd been through those years. It was just too much.”

He emphasises that the remaining three Beatles are good pals, now. "Paul and I went through a shaky period but we're okay, now. All the old aggravations have passed a long time ago. There's no reason not to be friends."

By 1971 George Harrison was the most successful solo Beatle, with his triple album All Things Must Pass and the enormous hit My Sweet Lord. Four years later his single Ding Dong Ding Dong - a record even worse than McCartney's Mary Had A Little Lamb - was the first release by a solo Beatle to fail to enter the charts. Several years later a court ordered him to pay £260,000 damages for plagiarising the Chiffons' song he's So Fine with My Sweet Lord. That Harrison had modeled My Sweet Lord on another song, the gospel Oh Happy Day by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, was bad enough. That he had to pay the money to his former manager Allen Klein - "a looney who didn't take care of business" George describes him now- because Klein had scooped up the publishing of He's So Fine... that rubbed salt into the wound. 

His career and also his marriage to his first wife Patti Boyd were in pieces. Patti had gone to live with George's close pal Eric Clapton, who had written Layla about his best friend's wife. George started drinking heavily, contracting a serious liver complaint that his friends feared might be the end of him. 

George's chum Eric Idle had found it impossible to raise the necessary finance to make the Monty Python film Life Of Brian, so George chipped in with half the required money, £2,250,000. It turned out to be one of the best investments George had ever made, reaping a profit of more than £30,000,000. Since then, Harrison and his film company Handmade Films have scored with another Monty Python film The Meaning Of Life - banned in Ireland - and delivered films like Time Bandits and Mona Lisa as well as Shanghai Express, a disaster for its stars Sean Penn and Madonna and its producer Harrison. But what the heck. George isn't short of a few shekels.

In 1978, George married Olivia Trinidad Arias, a 27-year-old who had been born in Mexico and had been working as a secretary in A&M Records in Los Angeles. George's health had been desperate. He was fading away. Olivia contacted the Chinese acupuncturist Dr. Zion Yu and within weeks of treatment George had regained his energy and his spirit. 

They have a nine-year-old son named Dhani - the Indian for wealthy - and the other day he asked his father to make him up a cassette of Chuck Berry songs. After George appeared at the Prince's Trust concert in London five months ago with Ringo, Eric Clapton and Elton John, Dhani came backstage. George had sung his own Beatle compositions While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Here Comes The Sun. "I asked him 'What did you think?' and he said 'Uh, you were alright Dad, but why didn't you do Chuck Berry songs like Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny Be Good and Rock'n'Roll Music?'" 

He has a new LP out any day now, his first in five years. It's called Cloud Nine. "Have you heard the album?" he asks solicitously. "No? I'll see if someone's got a copy." George Harrison wanders off, and returns with a young woman who says "It's a bootleg I taped from the CD." George flips the cassette into the music system and spins it through, looking for a specific track. "I think you might like this one," he says in his dry Liverpudlian drawl, settling himself into another chair as he watches for reactions. 

Ringo's drums with cellos straight from Lennon's I Am The Walrus lead into George singing with fondness for former Beatle times. It's a track that could fit on a Beatle record and it's called When We Was Fab. "Fab... but it's all over now baby blue" George sings, and at the end there's sitar sounds like George cosmicing out on Sgt. Pepper. It's... well, fab.

When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, George Harrison didn't suddenly lock himself away from the world in his Gothic mansion. Near the riverside town of Henley-On-Thames, this bizarre 70-roomed palace called Friar Park was remodeled a century ago by the eccentric Sir Frankie Crisp and is set in 33 acres of parkland with three lakes with secret stepping stones so one can appear to walk on water, underground caves linked by a river and a reproduction of the Alps that includes a perfect 100 foot high replica of the Matterhorn. George was already in hiding.

"I was already trying to hold onto some sort of privacy. I think everyone needs to have a bit of space, y'know. I mean, if you were just being mobbed and on the TV and that all your life you just turn into a loony, and long before John got shot I was already just digging in the garden, planting trees and just trying not to go on television, just having a bit of peace. 

"But what it did, it affected me probably like anyone who loved John and who grew up with him and his music. And it was a very sad thing and, um, it didn't make me feel..." Harrison's voice trails off, and for a moment his eyes look away and he's lost in private thoughts. He looks back. " It made me wonder about ever gettin' into situations where there's fans, although at the time you can't blame fans for that. There's one loony in every crowd, I suppose. But I go on living normally. I don't panic unnecessarily."

There was talk that for Live Aid Paul, George, Ringo and Julian Lennon might let it Beatle together, but George dismisses any idea of reunions. "I don't think we'll play together. The Beatles certainly can't play again and I think it's best left as it is, y'know." 

Long before Live Aid, George Harrison's Concerts For Bangladesh raised £45,000,000 for the starving. He didn't appear at Live Aid but says if he'd known more about it "maybe I would have done it but they did alright without me." George talks at length about the planet, his concerns about destruction. Last year he participated in an anti-nuclear rally in Trafalgar Square, and he's a member of the ecological organisation Greenpeace. "I love those people because they go out and actually do it. I mean, if it wasn't me that's the kind of thing I'd like to be, out there on a ship getting harpooned by Russians and Japanese."

At the turn of the Seventies, George became a benefactor to the Hare Krishna movement. He not only made records with them and talked about them publicly but also forked out a quarter of a million pounds to buy them a 15-room Elizabethan mansion with 17 acres of land. 

Since then, George's friend His Divine Grace Guru Bhaktivechanta Swami, the leader and founder of the International Society For Krishna Consciousness, who was 77 when they met, has died. George feels that some of the remaining Krishnas have at times abused his patronage, and he cites letters from people who wrote saying that they were hassled at airports by devotees using Harrison's name. 

Nevertheless, he still subscribes to "the Swami's ancient Vedic way of having God consciousness. The technique of chanting, just like the monks and Christians, they do it too really but it's just using beads and chanting these ancient mantras... they do have great affect. I wouldn't knock them at all. I am always a bit dubious about organisations and since the swami died it does seem to be chaotic, with all kinds of guys thinking they're the gurus. To me, it's not important to be a guru, it's more important just to be, to learn humility." And George still chants. "I've still got my bag of beads and they're really groovy now, all polished up."

Is he a happy chap? "Yeah, I'm okay. Sometimes I get depressed. It's a constant battle, isn't it? You have to consciously make an effort to be happy and considering everything, I've come along quite nicely. There's always room for improvement but, um, I have a laugh and I feel quite good about things." He believes in reincarnation. "The only reason we're actually in these bodies is to learn and develop love of God and liberate our souls from this round and round, the Memphis Blues." He reckons he'll come back again. "Well," he says laughing, "by the look of things I'll probably have to... but I'd like to give it a pass one of these incarnations!"

And, George Harrison, what would you like to be remembered for? 

He pauses. "I don't know... I don't know." And then he smiles and looks you directly in the eyes and you see the face of a man still searching, still looking to extend his gentle vision for all time. He'd like to be remembered, he finally says, "just as somebody who's not bad, not that bad”... 

"That'll do, yeah."

Fair play to you, George.

[brn1029]

On this date in music history…

August 1st

1987 - Bob Seger

Bob Seger scored his first US No.1 single with the Harold Faltermeyer penned 'Shakedown', which was taken from the film 'Beverly Hills Cop II'. The song was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but it lost both awards to Dirty Dancing's '(I've Had) The Time of My Life'.

1987 - Los Lobos

Los Lobos were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the Ritchie Valens song 'La Bamba', which was also a No.1 hit in the US. The song was the title track from the film based on Ritchie Valens who died in the same plane crash the killed Buddy Holly.

1987 - Dire Straits

MTV Europe was launched, the first video played being 'Money For Nothing' by Dire Straits which contained the appropriate line 'I Want My MTV'.

1987 - Dave Stewart

Eurythmics Dave Stewart married Bananarama founding member Siobham Fahey, (who later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning Shakespears Sister). The couple divorced in 1996.

1981 - Rick Springfield

Australian singer Rick Springfield started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Jessie's Girl', which later won the singer a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The song was at No.1 when MTV launched on 1 August 1981. Rick had played Noah Drake in the TV show General Hospital.

1981 - Shakin' Stevens

Welsh singer Shakin' Stevens had his second UK No.1 single with his version of 'Green Door', which had been a hit in the US for Jim Lowe in 1956 (squeezing out 'Love Me Tender' by Elvis Presley). Frankie Vaughan also scored a UK No.2 hit with the song in 1956.

1971 - George Harrison

The Concert For Bangladesh organised by George Harrison to aid victims of famine and war in Bangladesh took place at New York's Madison Sq Garden. Featuring Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and members from Badfinger. Harrison had to shell out his own money to maintain the fund after legal problems froze all proceeds. The triple album release (the second in a row by Harrison), hit No.1 in the UK and No.2 in the US and received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

1971 - Sonny & Cher

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour started on prime time American TV. By this time, Sonny and Cher had stopped producing hit singles so the duo decided to sing and tell jokes in nightclubs across the country. CBS head of programming Fred Silverman saw them one evening and offered them their own show.

1970 - The Rolling Stones

The film Performance featuring Mick Jagger in his acting debut, had its UK premiere in London. The British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg also featured James Fox.

1969 - Joni Mitchell

The three day US Atlantic City Pop Festival took place at the Atlantic City race track with B.B. King, Janis Joplin, Santana, Three Dog Night, Dr John, Procol Harum, Arthur Brown, Iron Butterfly, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Little Richard, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Mothers Of Invention and Canned Heat. Joni Mitchell started to cry and ran off stage in the middle of her third song because the crowd was not paying attention to her performance.

1964 - The Harmonica

Billboard Magazine reported that the harmonica was making a comeback in a big way thanks to its use by Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.

1964 - The Beatles

The Beatles scored their fifth US No.1 single in seven months when 'A Hard Day's Night' went to the top of the charts. The group had now spent seventeen weeks at the No.1 position in this year.

1963 - The Beatles

The first Beatles Monthly was published. A magazine devoted to the group, it continued for 77 editions until 1969 and at its peak was selling over 350,000 copies a month.

[ibmiller]

Introduction

I began researching this topic out of ignorance. After being more or less snookered by Dr. Warren into giving a presentation, I chose one of the first topics that came to mind. I hope you will bear with me as I exhume a body of knowledge that has already had several postmortems: that of Dr. Watson's wife, or wives, depending on your inclination. I attempted to gather every scholarly article on the subject I could find, so that I wouldn't have to do all the research myself. The Interlibrary Loan Department in Swem Library hates me now, thanks to Dr. Warren.

We all know Watson's predilection for members of the opposite sex. He remarks on their beauty and dress an uncountable number of times throughout the canon. We know from him that his experience with women extends over "many nations and three separate continents." We know from Holmes that the fair sex is "Watson's department." I will review the various theories on how many wives Dr. Watson had, and bring you to what I believe is the most logical conclusion. It should be an interesting area for exploration. It is also an area, in my opinion, that has barely been tapped.

In 1944, Dorothy Sayers said:

There is a conspiracy afoot to provide Watson with as many wives as Henry VIII, but, however this may be, only one is ever mentioned by him and only one left any abiding memory in his heart.

Less devout scholars than Ms. Sayers wanted Watson to have multiple wives so much that they invented them for him. William S. Baring-Gould points out that Watson marries the American Constance Adams in Doyle's unpublished play "Angels of Darkness." In 1978, Hartley Nathan purportedly found Watson's will and testament in Toronto, Canada, proving that the good doctor had twin sons (Clarence and George) by his first wife Constance, a daughter (Gertrude) by his second wife Mary, and another daughter (Elsie) by his third wife, whose name we do not know.

Two-Wife Theories

In any case, it is certain that Watson had at least one wife. Mary Morstan is explicitly mentioned in several places throughout the canon, starting with "The Sign of the Four." In 1888, Mary Morstan walked into Dr. Watson's life and swept him off his feet. Watson writes:

She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and dressed in the most perfect taste. There was, however, a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means. . . .Her face had neither regularity of feature nor beauty of complexion, but her expression was sweet and amiable, and her large blue eyes were singularly spiritual and sympathetic. In an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. (SIGN, pp. 11- 12).

Later in the narrative, Watson says of Mary:

My mind ran upon our late visitor -- her smiles, the deep rich tones of her voice, the strange mystery which overhung her life. If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now -- a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience. So I sat and mused until such dangerous thoughts came into my head that I hurried away to my desk and plunged furiously into the latest treatise upon pathology (SIGN, p. 16).

The prospect that the Agra treasure might spoil his chances with Miss Morstan certainly weighed heavily on Dr. Watson's mind. So distracted was Watson that when Thaddeus Sholto bombarded him with trains of symptoms, the Doctor found himself prescribing strychnine in large doses as a sedative. It seems evident that Watson was in love.

At any rate, Watson married Miss Morstan soon after the conclusion to "The Sign of the Four." Watson was 35 and Mary 27 at the time their troth was plighted. The popular view is that Mary died in 1893 or 1894. Holmes rose from the dead in 1894 and took Watson's mind off his "sad bereavement" for awhile with some new adventures. This didn't last forever, as, according to S. C. Roberts, Watson remarried soon after the turn of the century. Holmes himself, in "The Blanched Soldier," remarks in January 1903 that Watson had "deserted him for a wife," so it seems evident that Watson remarried at least once. The identity of this second wife has been conjectured by Chris Morley and George Haynes to be Lady Frances Carfax, and by S. C. Roberts to be Violet de Merville (ILLU).

The fact that Watson married Miss Morstan is well-known and goes almost undisputed. Of course, nothing is so abhorrent to many Sherlockians than a plainly stated, obvious fact. Eminent Sherlockian scholar and author Rex Stout wrote an article entitled "Watson Was a Woman," which, if true, would of course preclude any wives.

On the other hand, there are those who contend that Watson had not two wives, but one. In an interesting twist to the Rex Stout theory, Dr. Robert Katz, in his toast to the Second Mrs. Watson at the 1996 BSI Dinner, held that there was only one Mrs. Watson. Katz's logic was that because Holmes was such an intolerable lodger because of his bad habits and his propensity for getting his roommates into danger, they left him after a short while. This posed a problem for the Literary Agent, who had great success with Holmes and Watson. The conflict was resolved by having several Dr. Watsons in succession, each of whom was married only once.

On the other hand, there are those who claim that our mutual friend had three or more wives. We'll ignore Rex Stout for the moment and concentrate instead on the one-wife and multi-wife theories.

One-Wife Theories

The fourteenth century English scholastic philosopher, William of Ockham, held that assumptions used to explain something must not be unnecessarily multiplied. This "shaving away of multiple assumptions" is known familiarly as "Ockham's Razor." A more simple way of stating the principle is that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the best. This is known in science as the Law of Parsimony. There are only a few published proponents of the one-wife theory, but they claim to have Ockham's razor on their side.

Jane Nightwork, in 1946, made the surprising claim that "Watson's second wife was actually his first wife; and there never was a third." Nightwork speculates that Watson and Mary had a "falling out" in 1894 due to Mary's success in her own dress-making business. Since divorce at this time was all but impossible, it is likely that Holmes was referring to Watson's separation rather than Mary's death when he said, "Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson" in "The Empty House." According to Nightwork, when Holmes says, "The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife," he is referring to the happy reunion of John and Mary in 1902, when the couple decided to have another go at marriage. There is no need to assume that Mary died. This view was later supported by Christopher Morley.

H. W. Starr claimed that the "sad bereavement" doesn't refer to death, but is Watson's excuse to the reading public for moving back in with Holmes after violent marital disputes. Starr blames the switching of residences between Queen Anne St. and Baker St. on Watson's proclivity to go adventuring with Holmes, a habit which caused much marital strife for Watson. The couple finally reconciled in 1902 and left Holmes by himself.

Dan Warren claims that Mary is instead the victim of tuberculosis. Because she must spend so much time in a German health spa, Watson occasionally lives with Holmes. According to Warren, the "sad bereavement" mentioned by Holmes refers to the Watsons' miscarried child, an event which occurred more frequently among women with TB. How much of this has canonical support, I don't know, but it's a good theory, nonetheless. It might be what Doyle had intended all along, as his first wife Louise died after a thirteen-year battle with TB, and took many visits to Switzerland for her health.

Another bit of evidence for a single marriage lies in "The Dying Detective," which occurred, according to Watson, "in the second year of my married life." "The Dying Detective" wasn't published until 1913, eleven years after the presumed second marriage took place. It is evident that Watson had only been married once by 1913 or he would have said "the second year of his first marriage." As he was in his early sixties by in 1913, it is unlikely that he married again.

Three-Wife theories

There is some support for the claim that Watson had three wives. In "The Veiled Lodger," 1896, Watson says he has taken up separate lodgings. Harold Bell assumed that this referred to another marriage. I don't know if I believe him, but Trevor Hall points out that perhaps Watson was going through a mid-life crisis at this time. He was, after all, in his mid-forties. I think far greater evidence for a marriage lies in "The Five Orange Pips," which precedes "The Sign of the Four," and hence Mary Morstan, by a year.

In "The Five Orange Pips," Watson mentions that "My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street." However, in "The Sign of the Four," Mary states quite clearly that her mother was dead and that she had no relatives in England. The statement in "The Five Orange Pips" was later changed in light of this fact to refer to Mary's aunt rather than her mother, but keep in mind that this was a change made after the fact by editors, not by Watson. This instance gives rise to the theory that Watson had a wife in 1887, before he wedded Mary in 1888. A counter-argument is that "The Sign of the Four" is mentioned in "The Five Orange Pips" and therefore must have already occurred. I refuse to admit the late Gavin Brend's assertion that Watson had messy hand-writing or simply had his dates wrong. This happened only three times that I can tell -- once in "Wisteria Lodge," once in "The Red-Headed League," and once elsewhere in "The Sign of the Four." I think it more likely that Watson included the title for publicity reasons.

Four-Wife Theories

In the extreme case, Watson hypothetically could have had at least 4 marriages:

1887 - A short marriage to someone unknown. (FIVE) 1888 - Watson weds Mary Morstan (SIGN) 1896 - Watson takes up separate quarters (VEIL) 1902 - Watson deserts Holmes for a wife (BLAN)

Five-Wife Theories

If we're to trust Baring-Gould about "Angels of Darkness," Watson had a fifth wife in the mid-1880's named Constance Adams. Trevor Hall supports the five- wife theory, citing Watson's wives as Constance Adams, Miss X, Mary Morstan, Miss Y, and Miss Z.

Six-Wife Theories

In his review of the unpublished play "Angels of Darkness," Harlan Umansky claims that the play ends with Watson being engaged to Lucy Ferrier at the deathbed request of John Ferrier. Is Lucy Ferrier Miss X? Or should we add her to the list, making six short-lived wives for Dr. Watson? That is open to speculation, since, according to the rumor mill, the plot of "Angels of Darkness" directly contradicts that of "A Study in Scarlet"--it has Watson working in San Francisco and doesn't involve Holmes at all. It would be nice if the six-wife theory were correct--it would fulfill Ms. Sayers' prophesy of Watson having as many wives as Henry VIII.

Seven-Wife Theories

A case could be made that Watson had seven wives if you juggle the dates around in "The Sign of the Four," "The Five Orange Pips," and "A Scandal in Bohemia." We'll call this mysterious lady Miss Q. The evidence for her existence is flimsy at best, however, so I won't go into it.

Conclusions

Now, given the fact that Watson probably couldn't have divorced any of his wives by the laws in England at the time, this means, unless Watson was a bigamist as some have suggested, that all but the last of his wives must have died, and none of them under circumstances Watson sees fit to describe to the reader. In fact, Miss Q, Miss X, and Miss Y must have died after no more than a year of marriage--Miss Q and Miss X because Watson remarried the next year, and Miss Y because Watson was living back in his old quarters in Baker Street by 1897 (ABBE).

There are two theories we can dismiss out of hand. The first is that Dr. Watson was a deadbeat addicted to gambling.

Look at the facts. Watson is always skipping out on his practice to run off with Holmes. Watson spent a summer at "Shoscombe Old Place" of horseracing fame. He frequently spends half his pension check at the races. Holmes kept Watson's checkbook locked in his desk drawer. Is it any surprise to learn that Watson would be in dire financial straits? Could he have, for instance, had a system of marrying rich women who were at death's door, taken out huge life insurance policies on them, and then merely wait for them to pass on in order to collect and support his gambling habit? Given what other information we have about Dr. Watson's personality, my answer must be "Not bloody likely."

The second dubious explanation is that Watson was a serial killer.

How hard would it be for a doctor to procure poisons or administer deadly infections? Watson does admit to having "another set of vices" in "A Study in Scarlet"--could he be referring to a murderous streak a mile wide? This would make Watson one of the most diabolical, cunning, and daring killers of all time, to stay so brazenly close to the world's greatest detective and yet defy discovery at every turn. One would surmise that Holmes would get suspicious by the fourth or fifth time he was asked to present a ring as the best man.

Or could it be simply that because Watson, as a doctor, came into more frequent contact with women of frail health, he was hence more likely to marry such women? I tend to support this position. Cases could, and have, been made that Watson had as many as seven wives, but I tend to think he had only two: Mary Morstan and the Miss Z of 1903. It is now time to use Ockham's razor to cut through the extraneous theories. There are two strong canonical references to Dr. Watson's wives--Mary Morstan and Miss Z of 1903. The inference that these are one and the same woman is a stretch, and I believe that those who have claimed to have Ockham's razor on their side by saying that Watson had only one wife are misinterpreting the nature of parsimony. 'One' is not necessarily a simpler number than 'Two' when 'Two' makes more sense. In order to play The Game, we must accept what Watson says at face value unless he is clearly, undeniably wrong.

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MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE (Films, One-Shots, and Disney+ Series) Characters By Screen Time

Current through Moon Knight

Tony Stark / Iron Man - 378:30 Steve Rogers / Captain America - 268 Peter Parker / Spider-Man - 253:30* Loki Laufeyson - 252* Thor Odinson - 230:15 Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow - 207 Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Moon Knight - 175:30 Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch - 174:15 Clint Barton / Hawkeye - 164:15 Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk - 154:45

Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America - 141:15 Dr. Stephen Strange - 139:30 James “Bucky” Barnes / Winter Soldier - 136:45 Scott Lang / Ant-Man - 113:45 Vision - 113:15 Kate Bishop / Hawkeye - 110:15 Peter Quill / Star-Lord - 99:15 King T’Challa / Black Panther - 88:30 Gamora - 84:15 Nick Fury - 78:45 Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel - 78:45 Pepper Potts - 72:45 Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes / War Machine - 64:15 Xu Shang-Chi / “Shaun” - 63:45 Yelena Belova - 60:15 Mobius - 57 Hope van Dyne / The Wasp - 56:15 Peggy Carter - 55:15 Rocket - 55 Dr. Jane Foster - 53:30 Layla Al-Faouly - 53:15 Thanos - 52:15 Dr. Hank Pym - 52 Michelle “MJ” Jones Watson - 49:30 Ned Leeds - 47:15 Sersi - 46:15 Monica Rambeau - 43 Drax - 42:45 Dr. Darcy Lewis - 39 Arthur Harrow - 39 N’Jadaka / Erik “Killmonger” Stevens - 38:45 Nebula - 38 John Walker / Captain America - 37 Agatha Harkness - 37 Ikaris - 34:30 Ultron - 34 Baron Helmut Zemo - 33:15 Yondu Udonta - 31:45 Harold “Happy” Hogan - 31:45 Katy Chen - 31:45 Agent Phil Coulson - 29 Dr. Betty Ross - 28:45 Xu Wenwu - 27:15 Karli Morgenthau - 27 Odin - 25:30 Agent Jimmy Woo - 24:45 Dr. Erik Selvig - 24:30 Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian - 24:15 The Ancient One - 24 Okoye - 23 Sharon Carter - 23 Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger - 22:45 Talos - 22:30 Gen. Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross - 22:30 Trevor Slattery / “The Mandarin” - 22:30 Eleanor Bishop - 22:30 Judge Renslayer - 22:15 Xu Xialing - 22 Maya Lopez / Echo - 21 Johann Schmidt / Red Skull - 21 Melina Vostokoff - 20:45 Quentin Beck / Mysterio - 20:45 Ivan Vanko / Whiplash - 20:45 Groot II - 20:15 Wong - 19:45 Hunter B-15 - 19:30 Thena - 19:15 Adrian Toomes / Vulture - 19 Emil Blonsky / The Abomination - 19 Princess Shuri - 18:30 May Parker - 18:15 Dr. Christine Palmer - 18:15 Karl Mordo - 18:15 Mantis - 18 Tommy Maximoff - 18 Ego - 17:45 Billy Maximoff - 17:30 Sprite - 17:30 Justin Hammer - 17:15 Valkyrie - 17 Howard Stark - 16:45 Nakia - 16:45 Lady Sif - 16:15 Luis - 15:30 Kingo - 15:15 Phastos - 15:15 Agent Maria Hill - 14:45 Heimdall - 14:45 Groot I - 14:45 Dr. Arnim Zola - 14:30 “He Who Remains” - 14:30 Alexander Pierce - 14:30 Darren Cross / Yellowjacket - 14:30 Kazi Kazimierczak - 14:30 Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver - 13:45 Agent Everett Ross - 13:30 Kaecilius - 13:30 Tyler Hayward - 13:30 Ava Starr / Ghost - 12:45 Jack Duquesne - 12:45 Frigga - 12:30 Cassie Lang - 12:30 The Watcher - 12:30 Hela - 12:30 Volstagg - 12 Yon-Rogg - 12 Aldrich Killian - 12 Ulysses Klauë - 11:45 Brock Rumlow / Crossbones - 11:45 Sarah Wilson - 11:45 Fandral - 11:30 Agent Jasper Sitwell - 11:15 Drug - 11:15 Maria Rambeau - 11:15 Professor Ho Yinsen - 11 Lemar Hoskins / Battlestar - 11 Betty Brant - 10:45 Khonshu - 10:45 Ajak - 10:30 Janet van Dyne - 10:15 King T’Chaka - 10:15 Kraglin Obfonteri - 10:15 General Viktor Dreykov - 10:15 Korath - 10 Hogun - 10 Makkari - 10 Col. Chester Phillips - 10 Liz Toomes - 9:45 Ronan the Accuser - 9:30 Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin - 9:15 Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus - 9:15 Gilgamesh - 9:15 Queen Ramonda - 9 Dr. Abraham Erskine - 9 Flash Thompson - 8:45 Roger Harrington - 8:45 Dane Whitman - 8:45 Dr. Bill Foster - 8:45 Dr. Maya Hansen - 8:45 Isaiah Bradley - 8:45 Malekith - 8:45 Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster - 8:30 Laura Barton - 8:30 Kurt - 8:15 Zuri - 8:15 Taneleer Tivan / The Collector - 8 Lila Barton - 8 Ralph Bohner - 8 Dovich - 8 Ebony Maw - 7:45 Ying Nan - 7:45 Ivan - 7:45 M’Baku - 7:30 Samuel Sterns - 7:30 Joaquin Torres - 7:30 Wilson Fisk/Kingpin - 7:15 Max Dillon/Electro - 7:15 W’Kabi - 7:15 Georges Batroc - 7 Kro - 7 Sonny Burch - 7 Skurge - 6:45 Taserface - 6:30 Ying Li - 6:30 Harley Keener - 6:30 Ayo - 6:15 Algrim / Kurse - 6:15 Lucky the Pizza Dog - 6 Razor Fist - 6 Officer Jim Paxton - 6 Karun - 6 Raza - 6 Eric Savin - 6 Ian Boothby - 6 Grills - 6 Taweret - 5:45 The Grandmaster - 5:45 Proxima Midnight - 5:45 Cooper Barton - 5:45 Brad Davis - 5:45 Claire Wise - 5:45 Korg - 5:30 Soren - 5:30 Christine Everhart - 5:30 Dr. Christina Raynor - 5:30 Jackson Norriss - 5:30 Morris - 5:15 Dave - 5 Bennie Pollack - 5 Goose the Cat - 4:45 Corvus Glaive - 4:45 Cull Obsidian - 4:45 John Flynn - 4:45 Julius Dell - 4:45 Selim - 4:45 Nathaniel Pietro Barton - 4:30 Olivia Walker - 4:30 Herman Schultz / The Shocker - 4:30 Armand Duquesne - 4:30 Ammit - 4:15 N’Jobu - 4:15 The Great Protector - 4:15 Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine - 4 Sgt. Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan - 4 Maggie Lang - 4 Hunter C-20 - 4 Soo - 4 Laufey - 3:45 Rick Mason - 3:45 Phineas Mason / Tinkerer - 3:45 Miss Minutes - 3:45 The Dweller in Darkness - 3:45 Mar-Vell / “Dr. Wendy Lawson” - 3:30 Kree Supreme Intelligence - 3:30 Carina - 3:30 Flint Marko / Sandman - 3:30 Minn-Erva - 3:30 Ayesha - 3:30 Surtur - 3:15 Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard - 3:15 Dr. Helen Cho - 3:15 The Other - 3:15 Baron Wolfgang von Strucker - 3 Meredith Quill - 3 Rhomann Dey - 3 Ellen Brandt - 3 Tiamut - 3 Uzman - 3 Eitri - 2:45 Jonathan Pangborn - 2:45 Senator Stern - 2:45 William Ginter Riva - 2:45 Pvt. Gabe Jones - 2:45 William Lopez - 2:45 Richard (Jane’s Date) - 2:45 Nova Prime Irani Rael - 2:30 Aaron Davis - 2:30 Jackson Brice / The Shocker - 2:30 Pvt. James Montgomery Falsworth - 2:30 Att-Lass - 2:30 Bron-Char - 2:30 Jack Rollins - 2:30 Heinz Kruger - 2:30 Jon Jon - 2:30 Casey - 2:30 Topaz - 2:15 Dormammu - 2:15 Maria Stark - 2:15 Elijah “Eli” Bradley - 2:15 Dr. Leonard Samson - 2:15 O’Bengh - 2:15 Mitchell Carson - 2:15 Death Dealer - 2:15 Kathleen Sparr - 2:15 J. Jonah Jameson - 2 President Matthew Ellis - 2 Miek - 2 Pvt. Jacques Dernier - 2 Arishem - 1:45 Specialist Cameron Klein - 1:45 Fenriswolf - 1:45 Dr. List - 1:45 Jason Ionello - 1:45 Guang Bo - 1:45 Abu Bakaar - 1:45 Felix Blake - 1:45 Eddie Brock / Venom - 1:30 Stakar Ogord - 1:30 Pvt. Jim Morita - 1:30 Dr. Nicodemus West - 1:30 Mac Gargan - 1:15 Councilwoman Hawley - 1:15 Anton Vako - 1:15 Akihiko - 1:15 Matt Murdock / Daredevil - 1 Martinex T’Naga - 1 Councilman Singh - 1 Councilman Rockwell - 1 Councilman Yen - 1 Ann-Marie Hoag - 1 Pip the Troll - 1 Eros/Starfox - :45

Individual breakdowns here: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur51880615/lists

All figures are in minutes:seconds, rounded to the nearest quarter-minute. Will update with each new film release, and then revised after the home release of each film, or the end of each season of a show.

* Numbers for Peter Parker and Loki include all variants, combined, then with time subtracted for when multiple are on screen at once.

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Kết quả là chúng tôi có một chương trình giải cứu hoạt động tốt cho các ngân hàng trên Phố Wall và các tập đoàn lớn đủ may mắn để có quyền truy cập vào tín dụng cao cấp, và không thực sự cho bất kỳ ai khác. Trong vài ngày, tôi sẽ có nhiều hơn về chủ đề này, nhưng tôi đã sôi sục tại báo cáo này trên tờ Washington Post về mức độ ít của chương trình cứu trợ doanh nghiệp đã được chi tiêu. Cho đến một tuần trước, không có khoản tiền nào thực sự được chi tiêu, nhưng điều đó hoàn toàn không liên quan đến tác dụng của nó. Thông báo rằng Fed đã kiểm soát 4,5 nghìn tỷ đô la để giải ngân đã nâng mọi thị trường tài chính mà con người biết đến một cách hữu hình, mạnh mẽ. Bất kỳ nhà đầu tư nào cũng biết rằng họ đã được cứu trợ, nhờ vào cam kết của Fed về việc làm bất cứ điều gì cần thiết để bảo vệ họ. Nhìn vào tình huống như một kế toán viên và đếm số tiền bỏ ra cho bạn không biết gì về thực tế. 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QRKY Radio Playlist For 03/25/20

QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 03/25/20

Listen Free.  Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.

Click on the individual song titles in BOLD below.  They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows.  Or, if you’d prefer to autoplay the music video playlist, just click HERE.  It;s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.

Goody Goody -- Naomi & Her Handsome Devils

Shake ‘Em Up Baby -- Roy Brown

Flirtin’ With Disaster -- Molly Hatchet

It Feels So Good -- Lonnie Johnson & Spencer William

This Train -- Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Jerry Lee Lewis

Clap Your Hands -- Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Powder Creek -- Roland White

Nash Rambler (Retro Commercial)

Street Life -- Randy Crawford with the Crusaders

Adam Come and Get Your Rib -- Wynonie Harris

Butcher Shop Blues -- Nov-Elettes

Hold On -- Santana

Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens -- Louis Jordan

Wake Up Everybody -- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

JUBILEE Radio Show (03/19/48) with the Delta Rhythm Boys -- Armed Forces Radio Service

Swanson TV Dinners (Retro Commercial)

Treat Her Right -- Roy Head

You Don’t Knock -- Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt

One Mint Julep -- Ray Charles

Down Here I’ve Done My Best -- Selah Singers

Why Don’t You Do Right -- Peggy Lee

The Walk -- Jimmy McCracklin

Tink’s Groove -- Jeff “ Tink” Tincher

Kool-Aid (Retro Commercial)

25 Miles -- Edwin Starr

Young Blood -- Rickie Lee Jones

Mojo Hannah -- Neville Brothers

Who You Gonna Hoodoo Now -- Tony Joe White

Blow Me A Fat Note -- Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Pastures Of Plenty -- Woody Guthrie

The Thrill Is Gone -- B.B. King

Roy Rogers (Retro Commercial)

To Be Your Lover -- Billy Idol

Wang Dang Doodle -- Koko Taylor

Land Of 1000 Dances -- Wilson Pickett

Got My Mojo Working -- Ann Cole

Is That Clear -- Nick Waterhouse

Use Me -- Bill Withers

Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean -- Susan Tedeschi

I Like Ike (Retro Commercial)

You Don’t Know What Love is -- Fenton Robinson

Dr. Jive Jives -- Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra

Feel Good -- Ike & Tina Turner

Sue’s Cafe -- O.B. Buchana

We Wanna Boogie -- Sonny Burgess

What A Way To Die -- Crystal & Runnin’ Wild

Sing Sing Sing -- Benny Goodman

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Deck: Busy weekend for Plymouth Police…Towns: PlymouthTopic: Police BlotterHub Category: Police and FireAuthor: CapeCodToday StaffTeaser: Busy weekend for Plymouth Police…Main Image: Thumbnail Image: Body: Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 1 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 For Date: 08/03/2018 - Friday Time Call Reason Action 0643 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P03526] ALDEN PARK RESTAURANT - COLONY PL 0756 Abandoned Call Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P01281] Eversource Electric - SUMMER ST 0808 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: COURT ST 0839 Unwanted Guest Spoken To Location/Address: CHILTON ST 0906 Disabled MV Services Rendered Location/Address: COURT ST 0910 Assist citizen Assisted Party Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 0911 Assist citizen Assisted Party Location/Address: [PLY P02203] PLYMOUTH POLICE DEPARTMENT - LONG POND RD 0918 911 Accidental Call Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P04142] ASPEN DENTAL - COLONY PL 0942 Alarm Sounding Accidental Location/Address: [PLY 662] OUTRAGEOUS SOUVENIRS - LONG POND RD 1006 Alarm Sounding Secure Building Location/Address: [PLY 667] KENNEDY, KEVIN - LONG POND RD 1011 Motor Vehicle Accident Report Location/Address: PILGRIM HILL RD 1012 Animal Complaint Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P01910] PLYMOUTH DISTRICT COURT - OBERY ST 1015 Animal Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: CARVER RD 1022 Motor Vehicle Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: SOUTH MEADOW RD 1024 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: LANTERN LN 1043 Suspicious Activity Spoken To Location/Address: BARQUENTINE DR 1057 Disturbance General Unfounded Location/Address: TIDE VIEW PATH 1101 911 Accidental Call Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P03399] SOUTH SHORE SKIN CENTER LLC - SCOBEE CIR 1110 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: NELSON ST 1114 Fraud Report Location/Address: [PLY 537] PICKETT, ALEXANDER - ROCKY POND RD 1119 Assist citizen Report Location/Address: [PLY P02203] PLYMOUTH POLICE DEPARTMENT - LONG POND RD 1120 Check Wellbeing No Services Necessary Location/Address: CASTLE CT Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 2 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 1132 Runaway Area Search Negative Location/Address: [PLY P02836] STARR PROGRAM (DCF) - STATE RD 1134 Motor Vehicle Accident Report Location/Address: [PLY P02412] SUPER WAL MART - COLONY PL 1145 Assist citizen Assisted Party Location/Address: [PLY P02203] PLYMOUTH POLICE DEPARTMENT - LONG POND RD 1155 911 Accidental Call Accidental Location/Address: TOWN WHARF 1200 Suspicious Activity Gone on Arrival Location/Address: [PLY P04679] PLYMOUTH TOWN HALL - COURT ST 1200 Motor Vehicle Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: PINEHILLS DR 1240 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: DWIGHT AVE 1241 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P00058] HIGH POINT TREATMENT CENTER - STATE RD 1252 Disturbance General Arrest(s) Made Location/Address: COURT ST Refer To Arrest: 18PLY-17776-AR Arrest: SCHIRAGA, MARC J Address: 5 LOTHROP ST Apt. #1F PLYMOUTH, MA Age: 40 Charges: ROBBERY, UNARMED THREAT TO COMMIT CRIME (MURDER) A&B ATTEMPT TO DISARM POLICE OFFICER A&B ON POLICE OFFICER THREAT TO COMMIT CRIME (MURDER) DISTURBING THE PEACE c272 §53 WITNESS/JUROR/POLICE/COURT OFFICIAL, INTIMIDATE c268 §13B 1254 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02837] MOE’S - COLONY PL 1301 Alarm Sounding Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P02337] MARY LOU’S COFFEE SHOP - OBERY ST 1312 Alarm Sounding Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P03163] KARL-MARTIN WIKLUND, DMD - RESNIK RD 1315 Animal Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: [PLY P00937] MARKET BASKET - COMMERCE WAY 1325 Unwanted Guest Spoken To Location/Address: COURT ST 1339 Parking Complaint Spoken To Location/Address: POST N’ RAIL AVE 1354 Police With Ambulance Transported to Hospital Location/Address: MAIN ST EXT 1408 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P03753] Facility Services Offices - OAK ST 1452 Suspicious Activity Gone on Arrival Location/Address: [PLY P02030] MOODY, HAROLD F JR - MAIN ST 1452 Animal Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: [PLY P00937] MARKET BASKET - COMMERCE WAY 1457 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY 441] ANDY LANGE - KENNEDY PKWY Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 3 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 1509 Motor Vehicle Accident Report Location/Address: SOUTH ST 1511 Community Policing Activity Community Policing Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 1526 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P04235] HEALTH EXPRESS - LONG POND RD 1537 Parking Complaint Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02504] Ellis pool cover - SOUTH MEADOW RD 1545 Motor Vehicle Accident Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02059] SHAWS SUPERMARKET - STATE RD 1551 Motor Vehicle Accident Info Exchange Location/Address: [PLY P04448] SPEEDWAY - SAMOSET ST 1609 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P03963] Eubanks, Mark MD - CORDAGE PARK CIR 1635 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: WARREN AVE 1635 Animal Complaint Services Rendered Location/Address: [PLY P00993] PLY EAR NOSE THROAT - COLLINS AVE 1642 Community Policing Activity Community Policing Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 1652 Drug Overdose Transported to Hospital Location/Address: [PLY P00728] PILGRIM SANDS MOTEL - WARREN AVE 1709 Motor Vehicle Accident Other Agency Cont Location/Address: ROUTE 3 1720 Disabled MV Vehicle Towed Location/Address: SOUTH ST 1724 Check Wellbeing Area Search Negative Location/Address: WATER ST 1746 Suspicious Activity Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02639] DUNES AT OCEAN POINT - TAYLOR AVE 1751 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: LONG POND RD 1802 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02815] PLIMOTH PLANTATION - WARREN AVE 1803 Unwanted Guest Spoken To Location/Address: CHILTON ST 1810 Motor Vehicle Accident Info Exchange Location/Address: BLACK CAT RD 1812 Police With Ambulance Transported to Hospital Location/Address: LEYDEN ST 1823 Motor Vehicle Stop Report Location/Address: STATE RD Refer To Arrest: 18PLY-17814-AR Arrest: BURNS, DANIEL P Address: 5 SULLIVAN AVE PLYMOUTH, MA Age: 22 Charges: WARRANT-DEFAULT DKT# 1859CR001062 1848 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: TOWN SQ Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 4 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 1851 Suspicious Activity Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P00862] PLY PUBLIC LIBRARY - SOUTH ST 1917 Police With Ambulance Transported to Hospital Location/Address: [PLY P04409] TAVERN ON THE WHARF - TOWN WHARF 1932 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02083] 1620 WINERY - WATER ST 1954 Runaway Services Rendered Location/Address: [PLY P03016] PLYMOUTH STARR PROGRAM - STATE RD 1957 Attempted Service Summons Served In Hand Location/Address: [PLY 30] ROMBOLDI, JOHN - CURTIS DR 2019 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P02891] HARBOR VIEW PLACE - WATER ST 2051 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02435] HILTON GARDEN INN - HOME DEPOT DR 2113 Warrant Arrest Arrest(s) Made Location/Address: [PLY P00033] CAPE AUTO BODY - SAMOSET ST Refer To Arrest: 18PLY-17828-AR Arrest: TATUM, OSBEY Address: 39 ANDERSON DR KINGSTON, MA Age: 34 Charges: WARRANT-DEFAULT 2142 Police With Ambulance Transported to Hospital Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 2144 Attempted Service Summons Served In Hand Location/Address: PATRIOT CIR 2201 Motor Vehicle Accident Spoken To Location/Address: SHIP POND RD 2239 Check Wellbeing Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P01856] BURGER KING - SAMOSET ST 2257 General Services Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P04033] BEVERLY MANOR NURSING HOME - OBERY ST 2355 Noise Complaint Spoken To Location/Address: TURNBERRY DR For Date: 08/04/2018 - Saturday 0129 Noise Complaint Spoken To Location/Address: FOREST AVE 0148 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P04253] MAMMA MIA’S - VILLAGE GREEN NORTH 0203 Transfer Fire Transfer Fire Location/Address: [PLY P04535] VENTURE LLC, PH APARTMENTS - PINEHILLS DR 0223 Assist Other Agency Area Search Negative Location/Address: CHAPEL HILL DR 0237 Check Wellbeing No Action Required Location/Address: [PLY P04409] TAVERN ON THE WHARF - TOWN WHARF 0338 Assist citizen Services Rendered Location/Address: [PLY P02587] CUMBERLAND FARMS STORE #206 - SAMOSET ST 0344 Alarm Sounding Report Location/Address: [PLY P02309] TRU GREEN/ CHEM LAWN - RAFFAELE RD Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 5 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 0401 Alarm Sounding Cancelled Response Location/Address: [PLY P04253] MAMMA MIA’S - VILLAGE GREEN NORTH 0605 Larceny Report Location/Address: [PLY P01860] CITGO GAS STATION - SAMOSET ST 0607 Assist citizen Services Rendered Location/Address: [PLY P04682] SEASONS CORNER MARKET - HOME DEPOT DR 0620 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02618] FOSS TRUST - SANDERSON DR 0643 Assist Other Agency Taken/Referred to Other Location/Address: ROUTE 3 0653 B&E MV Report Location/Address: [PLY P03160] STONEBRIDGE CLUB - STONEBRIDGE RD 0738 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: FEDERAL FURNACE RD 0758 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY 607] REARDON, KENNETH - RIVER ST 0806 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P04253] MAMMA MIA’S - VILLAGE GREEN NORTH 0834 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P01556] PLY COMMUNITY INTERMEDIAT - LONG POND RD 0844 Parking Complaint Violation Location/Address: [PLY P00937] MARKET BASKET - COMMERCE WAY 0852 Assist Other Agency No Services Necessary Location/Address: ELLISVILLE RD 0920 Parking Complaint Gone on Arrival Location/Address: VALLEY RD 0921 Threats Report Location/Address: [PLY 488] CROSSROADS TREATMENT CENTER - LONG POND RD 0924 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY 93] PARTRIDD,DEREK - LITTLE SANDY POND RD 0936 Transfer Fire Transfer Fire Location/Address: PETER RD 0936 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: SOUTH ST 0957 Attempted Service 258E Served In Hand Location/Address: [PLY P00416] TAD TELECOMMUNICATIONS - SAMOSET ST 1028 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: AVENUE A 1031 Suspicious Activity Report Location/Address: [PLY P01616] VINE HILLS CEMETERY - SAMOSET ST 1040 Community Policing Activity Community Policing Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 1052 Property Damage Report Location/Address: [PLY P00393] GARIBALDI CLUB - STANDISH AVE 1101 Disturbance General Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02792] DOLLARTREE - CARVER RD 1116 Threats Report Location/Address: [PLY 274] GILLARD, CRAIG - DOTEN RD Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 6 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 1158 Property Damage Report Location/Address: TAYLOR AVE 1204 Alarm Sounding Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P01690] MANOMET GENERAL STORE - STATE RD 1207 Motor Vehicle Accident Info Exchange Location/Address: [PLY P02059] SHAWS SUPERMARKET - STATE RD 1227 General Services Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P02221] PINE HILLS MAINTENANCE SHOP - CLUBHOUSE DR 1240 Motor Vehicle Accident- Injury Report Location/Address: [PLY P04213] FLOORING LUMBER LIQUIDATORS - LONG POND RD Refer To Arrest: 18PLY-17876-AR Arrest: MALAGUTI, CHRISTINE Address: 293 SANDWICH ST PLYMOUTH, MA Age: 54 Charges: OUI LIQUOR NEGLIGENT OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE STOP/YIELD, FAIL TO 1250 Motor Vehicle Accident Report Location/Address: SAMOSET ST 1252 Motor Vehicle Accident Info Exchange Location/Address: STATE RD 1416 911 Accidental Call Accidental Location/Address: [PLY P04260] MIRBEAU INN & SPA AT THE PINE HILLS - LANDMARK DR 1440 General Services Other Agency Cont Location/Address: HALL ST 1445 911 Accidental Call Accidental Location/Address: [OTH] BUTTEN MEWS 1520 Transfer Fire Transfer Fire Location/Address: MANOMET AVE 1541 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02247] BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB - SHOPS AT 5 WAY 1607 Transfer Other Agency Taken/Referred to Other Location/Address: [OTH] FALMOUTH - HORSHOE LN 1610 B&E MV Report Location/Address: MARC DR 1633 Community Policing Activity Community Policing Location/Address: [PLY P00073] ALGONQUIN HEIGHTS - ALGONQUIN TER 1702 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P00160] JOHN CARVER INN - SUMMER ST 1726 Missing Person Report Location/Address: [PLY P03016] PLYMOUTH STARR PROGRAM - STATE RD 1734 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P00937] MARKET BASKET - COMMERCE WAY 1751 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY 406] PLYMOUTH REHAB AND HEALTH CARE CENTER - SOUTH ST 1811 Assist citizen Report Location/Address: [PLY 237] CURRIER, MARY - BUNKER HILL RD 1834 Abandoned Call Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: LONG POND RD Plymouth Police Department Media Log Page: 7 Dispatch Log From: 08/03/2018 Thru: 08/06/2018 0600 - 0600 Printed: 08/06/2018 1907 Suspicious Activity Spoken To Location/Address: [PLY P01011] PAPA GINOS WEST - CARVER RD 1915 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P03719] EAST BAY GRILLE - AT PINEHILLS - CLUBHOUSE DR 2004 Police With Ambulance Transported to Hospital Location/Address: EAST RUSSELL MILLS RD 2011 Transfer Fire Transfer Fire Location/Address: GLEN AVE 2019 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: [PLY P02920] STAFFORD HILL ASSISTED LIVING - STAFFORD ST 2034 General Services Services Rendered Location/Address: ROCKY POND RD 2148 Transfer Ambulance Transfer Ambulance Location/Address: SUMMER ST 2211 Alarm Sounding Building Checked/Secured Location/Address: [PLY P03233] OLD NAVY - COLONY PL 2212 Noise Complaint Unfounded Location/Address: ROCKY HILL RD 2239 Alarm Sounding Accidental Location/Address: [PLY 592] MARTINEZ, ANA - 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Raising Kain

The Living Room: Self Made at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, June 17 - October 15, 2017. Hamilton, Ontario.

By Anthony Easton

Andy Warhol, Jackie II, 1966. Screenprint on paper, A/P. Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. Hoffman, 1984. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”

― Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

The Art Gallery of Hamilton has turned one of its galleries into something called The Living Room. It is intended to be a social space, with a rotating collection. Right now, in it, they have put up three Warhol screen prints, which function as an essay on taste.

One is a double Jackie Kennedy on newsprint; one is a Marilyn on newsprint. The Jackie doesn’t mean as much as the larger ones: two Jackies instead of twelve; black on brown paper instead of black figures on a blue colour field printed on canvas, small size instead of epic scale. The quick and dirty quality of this small Jackie avoids the genderfucking of some of the other Jackies, like the Jackies whose mourning veils look like Wilgefortis beards. Warhol was epic, Jackie was epic, canvas is epic. Even divided, they function as a Mater Dolorosa for an America about to lose innocence. The smaller double print does none of the heavy lifting.

The Hamilton Marilyn is also on newsprint. Drag-ish pink lips printed separately from Monroe’s face– none of the subtlety, none of the care. The material lessens any attempt to push forward ideas of taste. It doesn’t make Warhol any more famous, and it doesn’t make Marilyn any more famous. It’s not even interesting in a vulgar way, like the green on pink ones that were done a few years later.

While these two were facing off, another was placed behind a half wall like a shameful secret.

It screamed Warhol. Jackie and Warhol compound each other’s fame. Marilyn and Jackie compound each other’s aesthetics. They require a kind of mutuality. The 80s Warhol portraits are all about the fame and aesthetic of Andy; they do not push against anything but his personae. Cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum has tried to defend these works, and art historian Robert Rosenblum’s introductory essay in the book Warhol Portraits has talked about them. When he has something to paint, 80s Warhols have an unapologetic camp vulgarity where pure material pleasure obliterates less corporeal pleasures. His Dolly matches camp step for camp step; his series on living queens has a post-queer wink-and-nod; his Blondie is sexy; his Drag Queen series is properly tawdry.

The Karen Kain portrait behind that half wall does nobody any favours. There is a reason why it is almost hidden. Bob Colacello’s biography of Warhol, Holy Terror, tells about how Warhol would corner vain and insecure women to do portraits, and he would offer them excess. If they wanted more colours, it would cost more; if they wanted glitter, it would cost more; if they wanted more than one variation, it would cost more.

Andy Warhol, Karen Kain, 1980. Screenprint on paper, ed. 46/200. Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gift of William S. Hechter, 1987. Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

I have no idea who paid for the Kain portrait initially, but it is a four-on-the-floor, super luxe, Cadillac of mid-1980s Warhol vulgarity. 10 colours. Glitter eyeshadow. Glitter lipstick. Highlighting around eyes, hairline, nose. It is an artful example of insecurity: Warhol worried about losing his skill or his fame, and spurted virtuoso excess to prove that he was capable of doing something– anything– new, while ballerina Kain wanted to prove that she was a worthy subject of the artist. Kain was not as famous as other New Yorkers; many of the portraits that Warhol did in the 80s were arriviste or b-list people who did not know how to properly operate in worlds of moneyed taste. In this portrait, artist and subject collide in an upstairs/downstairs moment.

Warhol had great, complicated, theoretically-viable work in the 1980s. It is churlish to judge an artist by their worst work. But Canadian museums and galleries are filled with third- or fourth-rate Warhols. Bought by dentists or doctors, donated to cultural institutions for the tax breaks, Warhols like the Gretzky at the Art Gallery of Alberta are worse than the Kain, mostly due to the lack of glitter. There are six of Gretzky, with each print run numbering hundreds more than the Kains.

But vulgarity is compelling. Luxury is compelling. Sumptuousness is compelling. Being out of fashion is compelling. Committing to complete bad taste is compelling. The worst work by the best artists can tell us something interesting. How we collect can tell us something. This Kain is compelling.

The 80s work of Warhol’s that has been redeemed by critics include prints from the series The Shadows, which are about death, paintings made from piss-oxidized copper, which are about abjectness, and his polaroids, which hold their vulgarity in a tight and tiny little ironic package. The big, whorish, 80s work is still embarrassing. In our hyper-capitalist world, being gauche about money is still considered in bad taste, but not in a slumming, winking style of bad taste. Warhol called this art business art. It was supposed to be about making money, and it did.

This work is so ugly and so vulgar, it is without redemption. Money is toxic, and work so purely about money is toxic. This print is an example of the aesthetic value of capital, but it is a seductive one. Liking things that are bad for you is a good time.

Installation view of The Living Room, Self Made: Stylo Starr’s 89 Dames with Warhol’s Karen Kain at right. Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

These three Warhols are in the same room as local Hamilton designer and artist Stylo Starr's 89 Dames. A collection of prints of African diasporic "glamour stars" from the 1950s and 1960s, Starr's work is different than Warhol, and I am not quite sure it is derived from Warhol's work. Starr's 89 Dames are screen prints that kind of look like Warhol's work but lack Warhol's flatness, with collaged lace around some pieces adding complicated texture. They do not play with problems of fame.

Most importantly, even with his Marilyns or Jackies, Warhol's work was always more news than history. Starr's screen prints depict people from the 1950s and 1960s. The choices Warhol made were choices of the market, while the choices that Starr makes are more intimate. Her work develops a canon not so much from the world, but against the world. Lastly, the tension of class and taste in Warhol and the camp self-awareness of the Starr pieces are gorgeous, but prove that bright, or even clashing, colour and patterns can be in good taste. The vulgarity and fame of Warhol does a disservice to the political, subtle, tenderness of Starr.

While the Art Gallery of Hamilton seems embarrassed by that Kain, it reminds me of an Elizabeth Taylor story:

Liz was having dinner with Princess Margaret, and was wearing one of her diamond rings. The diamond on this ring was extravagant. Margaret called it vulgar; Taylor asked if she wanted to try it on. After Margaret put it on, Taylor said “it’s not that vulgar now, is it?”

I feel that way about the Kain: so much to hate about it, so much to think about, so many ways that it is completely wrong.

But, trying it on, it’s not so vulgar, is it?

Anthony Easton is a writer, artist, and theologian. They are interested in class, sex, gender and the west. They have been published in Spin, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Globe and Mail, and others. They have presented at conferences throughout North America, and in Europe. Their art has been shown in Toronto, New York, Chicago, and is in the collection of the library of the National Gallery of Canada.