disques fridge

31/07/2024

Edvard Munch about at age 15

14/04/2024

Lee Miller, by Man Ray

14/04/2024

as heard on Country Time, RTÉ Radio 1, last night…

thanks to Brian Lally, in every sense!

outstanding (2:45)(music: seán a mcdermott; words: mike jones, seán a mcdermott)$1,000 weddingmary whelan: vocals seán a mcdermott: vocals, electric guitar...

20/03/2024

Happiest of birthdays to the brilliant and talented Laura Savini (aka Mrs Jimmy Webb).

All God’s blessings Laura!

12/02/2024

“Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before—that's really satisfying to me. I like that.”
–Anthony Bourdain

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28/01/2024

Jaco and Joni during the 1979 Mingus tour.

28/01/2024

Jimmy with Hal David at the 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards. Jimmy was Chairman and Hal was given the Visionary Leadership Award.

"The Visionary Leadership Award acknowledges a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame Board of Directors who has made a significant contribution in furthering the ongoing mission of the organization and in elevating the Songwriters Hall of Fame to a level of prominence and distinction."

Hal David * Songwriters Hall of Fame

04/01/2024

04/01/2024

Man Ray - Porträt de Lee Miller, Paris 1929

24/07/2023

Coming in September, Joe Gibbs and The Professionals: 100 Years of Dub. A 2CD release with 30 tracks new to CD and features essential mixes of some of the biggest Jamaican hits of the era. A must for all fans of classic high-quality dub sounds. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/joe-gibbs-and-the-professionals-100-years-of-dub-2cd/

11/06/2023

For forty years, Hollywood has tried (and failed) to bring Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood Meridian, to the big screen.

01/06/2023

This week in 1968, Glen Campbell recorded Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman". It hit the airwaves by October of that year and went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 simultaneously on the Hot Country Singles and Adult Contemporary Charts. It was in the Hot 100 for 3 months.

Glen Campbell (Official) * Glen Campbell Museum * Glen Campbell A Campbellology for Fans * Glen Campbell: The Original Fan Forum - News and Information

03/05/2023

release the bats!

Australian rocker recalls Queen Elizabeth II being ‘the most charismatic woman I have ever met’ and says he is not ‘so damn grouchy’ to refuse the invite

16/04/2023

16/04/2023

April 11th
1953 - Hank Williams
Hank Williams' 'Your Cheatin' Heart was at No.1 on the Billboard country chart. The story goes that Williams was prompted to write the song when thinking about his first wife, Audrey Williams, while driving around with his second, Billie Jean Jones who she is supposed to have written down the lyrics for him whilst sat in the passenger seat. The song was record during his last ever recording sessions, on September 23, 1952 and had been released the following year, shortly after he died.

09/04/2023

happy easter!

31/03/2023

A voz de Sarah Vaughan, foi sem dúvidas um instrumento notável na história da música.A letra poética de andamento tranquilo, somada ao timbre inigualável de ...

11/03/2023

Happy Birthday to Mrs Jimmy Webb, aka Laura Savini today.

Laura is a force in the entertainment world in her own right. She has produced numerous PBS programs and also keeps busy hosting a number of national programs for PBS.

Wishing Laura all the best today and all God's blessings for the coming year.

04/02/2023

Neal Cassady died on the railroad tracks near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, just shy of his 42nd birthday, on February 4, 1968, 55 years ago today. He had left a wedding party and was headed to the next town following the railroad tracks, on a cold and rainy night in just a t-shirt & jeans, where he was found the next morning, still alive, but comatose, dying shortly after he was brought to a hospital.

Pictured here in front of the 1403 Gough Street apartment he and Allen shared with Charlie Plymell in the Fall of 1963. Photo Allen Ginsberg

26/01/2023

It was January 23, 1965 when Petula Clark hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart with "Downtown" - making her the 1st UK female singer to do so since 1952 when Vera Lynn achieved it.

The song also reached #2 in the UK and was the #6 song for the year. Session musicians on the track included Jimmy Page.

22/01/2023

Jimmy Webb’s thoughts on David Crosby, January 20,2023.

Croz, as he was known to his friends, was a gregarious, mischievous, sensitive guy who you could have a legitimate conversation with. I remember the first time I saw him up close: He had driven his black Mercedes Benz 450 SEL out into the desert to go sailplaning with me. He got out of the big sedan in a cloud of dust and strode toward me like a giant, a big grin plastered across his face. I knew in that instant that he was absolutely stone-not-afraid to ride in a glider or anything else you might think of. Conditions were lousy that day so I paid for an extra long tow, up to 10,000 feet because I knew rightly enough that we wouldn’t be airborne for very long. I muddled around and kept us up for around 40 minutes or so, and the whole time he was like a child with a new toy. He was inquisitive about every detail of the mechanisms on board and did not get airsick - unlike some others I could mention! We landed safely in the late afternoon after a bond had been formed up about 5000 feet as we waved to hikers on the side of Mount Baden-Powell.

At the time I knew of him from my friend Art Garfunkel, who had used him profusely on backgrounds for the Watermark album, which Art and I cut with Barry Beckett in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. From listening to his lilting concert tenor on Artie’s rough mixes, I resolved that if I could get him to do it, I would have him sing some backgrounds on some of my stuff.

Endearingly, he came at first call and brought Graham Nash along with him. Most recently, he and Graham sang backgrounds on my song, “If These Walls Could Speak”, from my Fred Mollin- produced Still Within The Sound Of My Voice (2013). It’s possible that this will turn out to be the last recording the two made together.

He was there for me at Alice Tully Hall (NYC) the night a plethora of names showed up for my live concert birthday party. In short, whenever I asked him, he was there. If I have one regret in my life at this moment, it’s that I didn’t make time to get on the sailboat with him when I was asked during a rather busy trip to California. But he wouldn’t want me to look back with any regret about anything. He was just that kind of cool, easy-going, sweet guy.

His was a gigantic star, it shines still there somewhere above the Southern Cross, this sailor, prophet, humanitarian, intellectual, and songwriter. Oh, and lest I forget, father as well.

It’s natural to feel a little emptiness when a friend passes but in this case I am aching and grieving for a whole magic, scintillating era of unsurpassed music, a time of beauty and elegance in musical art. In my mind he stands for all of that. The political conscience applied to the art of communicating with the masses.

I was at David Geffen’s house the afternoon Graham and Croz showed up with a little number called “Four Dead in Ohio”. When I heard it, they were angry and it resonated off the walls of the house in a way that made me think: this is a song that will change things.

Godspeed, David. You left the world a better place than you found it.
Love, Jimmy.
David Crosby Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Crosby, Stills & Nash Music from the 60's & 70's Friends Who Like SiriusXM 60s Gold

08/01/2023

Happy new year peace and love. 😎✌️🌟❤️💖🎵🎶🌹🌈🥦☮️

08/01/2023

Glen Campbell was one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century.

01/01/2023

Happy New Year to everyone in the world - Paul 🎇

26/12/2022

Christmas Day (December 25, 1983) Dennis Wilson was at the lowest point of his life :

On December 25, 1983 Dennis Wilson was hardly having a Merry Christmas.

Not only was he kicked out of The Beach Boys he was homeless, he was broke, and he had lost the two material things that had meant the most to him. One was The Beach Boys’ “Brother Studio”, which the band had sold a few years earlier and most of all his beloved boat “The Harmony” that was repossessed.

By Christmas of 1983 he had lost his good looks, now puffy and bloated from years of abusing his body, he had also lost his singing voice.

The saddest part of all though was Dennis died pretty much thinking he had no legacy.

Days before his death in 1983 not only was his excellent solo record “ Pacific Ocean Blue” forgotten by the music buying public, his excellent songs he had written for The Beach Boys were forgotten too.

He had spent the past 6 years trying to finish recording his second solo album only to have it fall apart with a number of unreleased and unfinished songs that he most likely thought by this point would never see the light of day.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Dennis had already pretty much given up on life before he drowned a few days after Christmas in 1983 thinking he was not only a spent force but sadly yesterday’s news.

Well history has proven that nothing is further from the truth.

If I could I would go back before that fateful moment to show Dennis what he and his musical legacy has become just in the past few decades. Especially in the year of 2022 where much of his unreleased work and obscure songs from the early 1970s is now being celebrated 50 years later.

Just imagine on Christmas of 1983 how Dennis would respond to someone telling him that his unreleased song like “Carry Me Home” and overlooked track like “(Wouldn’t It Be Nice) To Live Again” would be reaching the masses in the year of 2022. He would think that person was nuts. But it’s definitely the truth.

I’d show him that not only is his music now beloved, but most importantly music fans have now truly begun to respect the talents he had as a musician and songwriter.

I’d show him how his solo album that he thought was a forgotten memory was re-released in the 21st century and actually sold better at that point than when it was first released in 1977.

I’d show him the proof that his songs with The Beach Boys did reach a whole new audience and would become respected by a whole new generation of fans.

I’d show him that people today actually play his music on their smartphones, keeping his memory alive and keeping his music easily accessible to the public.

I’d show him the recent documentaries from his peers praising him and his talents along with future musicians who would discover him later.

I’d show him that fans would learn the truth that he did write one of the most popular love songs of all time made famous by Joe Cocker called “You Are So Beautiful “.

Most of all I’d show him the social media platforms that are the ultimate proof that his legacy continues to live on by the many fans who continue to praise and discover his true greatness. Not for his good looks but for his musical talent.

The photo below was taken shortly before Dennis died.

It’s a shame that the Dennis of 1983 couldn’t see what he would become decades later. It only proves that even though he didn’t realize it he did matter and his legacy is now stronger than ever.

26/12/2022