The Explanation
(for those who require one)

And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

The Heretofore Unmentioned #174



Lech Wałęsa

Celebrations #7


Joey Ramone's birthday party (with his brother, Mickey Leigh)

Weekend #18

Artists in Action #791

Sammy Davis, Jr. grips his tie

They Were Collaborators #830

Judy Holiday and Betty Comden

Movie Directors and the Means of Production #27

Movie Director: Jerry Lewis
Means: Camera, Make-up, Dumbfounded Crew
Production: The Day the Clown Cried (1972)

Old New York #63

Coney Island (1949)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #155


John Carpenter gives Hal Holbrook his eyeline on the set of The Fog (1980).

Seminal Image #1093

Rock-a-Bye, Baby
(Frank Tashlin; 1958)

In the Studio #131

Allan Sherman

Mop Tops in Action #89

Paul gabs

When Legends Gather #792

Isak Dinesen and Carson McCullers

How to Peddle the Zeitgeist #7

Radio Free Gunslinger #47:
A Certain Premium on Aloneness


Your host for this edition of Radio Free Gunslinger is Frank Lloyd Wright.

It is entitled A Certain Premium on Aloneness

The Content

 First Sequence:
The Luv'd Ones - Up Down Sue
Mel Torme - Comin' Home, Baby
Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On
Joe Williams - Get Out of My Life, Woman
Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused

Second Sequence:
Mamie Smith - The Lure of the South
Gladys Bentley - How Much Can I Stand?
Monette Moore - Medley: Shine On Your Shoes, Louisiana Hayride
Lillie Delk Christian (w. Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards) - It All Depends On You
Katherine Henderson (w. Clarence Williams' Blue Five) Take Your Black Bottom Outside

Third Sequence:
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Missouri Wobble
Benny Carter & His Orchestra - Arabesque
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - Jazznocracy
Earl Hines & His Orchestra - We Found Romance

Fourth Sequence:
Hugh Masekela - Up, Up and Away (live)
The Associations - P.F. Sloan
The Yokohama Knights - Where's the Playground, Susie?
Dusty Springfield - Magic Garden
The Three Degrees - Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon (live)

Summation:
Saul Aarons - Capitalistic Boss

The Art of Motivation #4


Who Will Support You When You're 60?
Mather & Company, Chicago, Ill. (1923)

The Art of the Close-Up #14


The Clock
(Cinematographer: George Folsey)
(Vincente Minnelli; 1945)

The Frame Within the Frame #68


The Ghost Train
(Walter Forde; 1941)

And Then It Was Ephemera #73


What's wrong with the Grateful Dead?

Before and After #311: Gene Kelly

Before

After

Mop Tops in Action #88

John and Paul collaborate on a Tea break

The Gunslinger Guide to Elizabeth Taylor #13

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #127

Tricky goes to work (1955)

Pickers #17

Robert Quine

They Were Collaborators #829

Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider

The Gunslinger Guide to Natalie Wood #32

The Art of Cinema #554

Hobson's Choice
(David Lean; 1954)

Broadcasters #99

Alex Trebek

The Cool Hall of Fame #162

Shelley Winters

The Art of Old World Advertising #4

When Legends Gather #791

Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer

And Then It Was Ephemera #72

Artists in Action #790

Faron Young contemplates

Jane B. #5

They Were Collaborators #828


George Harrison and Badfinger

Fun in the Sun #11


Beastie Boys enjoy Coney Island

The Heretofore Unmentioned #173


Minor Threat

How to Read... with Richard Avedon! #16

Nastassja Kinski

They Were Collaborators #827

James Cagney and Milos Forman

In the Studio #130

Angela Lansbury

They Were an Item #165

Liberace and Scott Thorson

The Art of Pop #72

That's All
(Mel Torme)
(CBS Records; 1965)

The Art of the Gig #57

And Then It Was Ephemera #71

Radio Free Gunslinger #46:
The Bankers and the Preachers



Your host for the second season premiere edition of Radio Free Gunslinger is Benny Goodman.

It is entitled 'The Bankers and the Preachers'

The Content

First Sequence:
Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur
Jim Bledsoe - Dial 110 Blues
Clarence London - Want to Boogie Woogie
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
T-Bone Walker - Bobby Sox Blues

Second Sequence:
Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra - That's What Puts the 'Sweet' in Home Sweet Home
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Lovable
Cliff Edwards - I'll See You In My Dreams
Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra - Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane

Third Sequence:
George Hamilton IV - When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Billy May & His Orchestra - Serenade
Jeanette MacDonald - One Kiss
Mantovani - Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise
Frankie Lymon - Lover, Come Back to Me

Fourth Sequence:
The Carolina Buddies - The Murder of the Lawson Family
Clarence Ashley - Frankie Silvers
Vernon Dalhart - The Floyd Collins Waltz
Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ
Bill Cox - The Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post

Summation:
Bernard Herrmann - The Collector's Item Suite

They Were Collaborators #826


Ramones and Arturo Vega

When Legends Gather #790


The 1927 Solvay Converence

Back row: Auguste Picard, Emile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Edouard Hersen, Theophile De Donder, Erwin Schrodinger, Jules-Emile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, Leon Brilloun
Middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr
Front row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugene Guye, Charles Thomas Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson

They Were Collaborators #825


Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson

The Foreground Obscures #8


In This Our Life
(John Huston; 1942)

The Extraordinary Engaging in the Ordinary #23

Brian Jones spins some vinyl