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Monday, October 20, 2008

Pace Edie Adams

I somehow missed this:
Edie Adams, Tony-winning stage actress and widow of Ernie Kovacs, died last Wednesday (Oct.15th) at age 81.
link to story
She was an amazing person. When Ernie died in 1962, she found out that he was over half a million dollars in debt. She worked every job she could get for a year to both pay those off and finance her legal fight for custody of her two step-daughters. She had a Julliard-trained operatic voice, then married a mad genius and spent the rest of her life keeping his legacy alive (& in existance- for dcades few cared if kinescopes & videotape from the 40s & 50s survived, but she did).
She's with Ernie now, so she's happy.
Love and Peace, Clarence

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Updates-R-Us

I've added some new tracks to OlioRadio this week. Recordings emerge from these fine Artistes: A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly - Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bob Dylan (new outtake from his next outtakes collection...where else?) - Comedian Harmonists - Dame Moura Lympany - Foo Fighters (covering Husker Du) - Jesse Belvin - Joe South - Marvin Gaye (covering The Temptations) - Sun Ra - The Patti Smith Group (covering The Byrds) - and The Tides.
Have a good day, hope you don't have to pull your AK...
Love and Peace, Clarence

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

pace Paul Newman

Love and Peace, Clarence

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Relief for Webcasters??...

U.S.House passes Webcaster Settlement Act, Senate to consider it in next two days:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10053014-93.html?tag=mncol;posts.
Let us hope...
Love & Peace, Clarence

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New Recordings spinning at OlioRadio

There's some new tracks in the new playlist at OlioRadio. Well kind Sir, prithee who are the Artistes added to the most eclectic station anywhere?, you ask. Lemme tell ya the names: Ann Reed - Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Bob Dylan - Bob Wills - Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones - Continental Five - Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker (live) - Edward M. Favor - Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green version live) - Frank Zappa (live) - John Coltrane - Jonathan Coulton - My Bloody Valentine - Peter, Paul and Mary - Randy Newman (from his new cd!) - the Search for Tomorrow Organist - Sid King and the Five Strings - The New Mastersounds - Thelonious Monk Quartet (live, aussi) - Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis (yes, you read that right...and also live) - and Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
To my friends and former neighbors in Houston, Galveston, the Bolivar Peninsula, and the surrounding area: my thoughts and prayers are with you. Katrina didn't defeat us, and Ike won't defeat you.
Love and Peace, Clarence

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The OlioRadio Top 25 for August 2008 is here

The Listeners to OlioRadio have spoken! Again! The latest OlioRadio Top 25 Tracks list is now online at olioradio.net/toptwentyfive. These are the top-rated recordings as voted by listeners (between August 4th and September 3rd, 2008)..

As always, the Top 25 is pretty darned eclectic. From the past two decades come Lyle Lovett, Dread Zeppelin, Mosquitos, and Marcia Ball's release from earlier this summer (well, summer in the Northern Hemisphere). Then, from the 80s there's Warren Zevon (live!) and Time Zone, while the 60s and 70s give us Laurie Johnson, The Mamas and The Papas, and George Carlin. But, also loved were Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, the Canadian Band of The Allied Expeditionary Force, and (not an aria from one of his operas, but the voice of the man himself) Giacomo Puccini, all from the era of wax cylinders and 78s.

Wanna join in the fun? Listen to OlioRadio- your online source for All Eras, All Genres, All the Time.
Love and Peace, Clarence.