1960'S ICON ANN MARGRET!

Ann-Marget what a gorgeous shot!

Ann-Margret is one of the most fascinating of all the gorgeous stars of the 1960's. Multi talented and a risk taker too. Loves motorcycles and taking chances. One of her first movies was one of my favorite comedy films BYE BYE BIRDIE. Here is Ann singing the opening scene.

Ann-Margret Olsson becomes Ann-Margret. George Burns propels her into national prominence in Las Vegas. Her meteoric rise to stardom begins with LIFE Magazine cover story. For a really in depth bio on Ms Margret click HERE
 

This period details her early film career: "Pocketful of Miracles," "State Fair," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Viva Las Vegas" with Elvis Presley, "Stagecoach," and "The Cincinnati Kid." Her fairytale marriage to Roger Smith. TV Specials, record releases, Las Vegas nightclub act, and national recognition as a "superstar sex symbol" punctuate Ann-Margret's life in the fast paced sixties.
 

Roger Smith and Ann-Margret

Viva Las Vegas remains my favorite because of the chemistry between Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley. No one knew then that they were in a love affair but once we knew that tip you sure can see it on screen. Check this video, my favorite scene: The Lady Loves Me.

Really hot dancing scene with A and E

A really brave twist was the Who casting Ann-Marget in the Rock Opera Tommy. She stole every scene she was in.....Talk about RISK TAKING!

In 1977 while performing at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, she fell 22 feet from the stage and suffered injuries including a broken left arm, cheekbone and jawbone, that put her out of commission for ten weeks after which she returned to the stage almost back to normal. Roger Smith flew a stolen plane from Burbank to Lake Tahoe and back to get her to surgeons at UCLA to repair her injuries. She has never looked the same but she is beautiful just in a little different way.

Before and After

Boy those surgeons sure did a marvelous job! Ann Marget is about the hardest working woman in show business decade after decade she reinvents herself and her movies have proved her to be much more than just eye candy. Her most dramatic turn was with Jack Nicholson in (R Rated) Carnal Knowledge but we had a hard time watching her in this part. Well I think I'll end this Ann-Margret post with a fabulous video of Ann and TINA! Watch this one it is out of this world... who else could keep up with Tina Turner??? Annie DID

LENA HORNE (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) RIP

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer.

Horne joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her progressive political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs as well as television, and releasing well received albums.

Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway, and earned her numerous awards and accolades, and she would continue recording and performing sporadically into the 1990's.

TINO GROSS PRODUCING WITH BARRETT STRONG!

Tino and Barrett are seen here at the Detroit Music Awards.

From Tino:

Motown legend Barrett Strong and Tino Gross (Howling Diablos) have collaborated in the studio recently for tracks on Eliza Neals upcoming Soul rock record 'Misery' and Rev. Morris Baker's gospel record 'The Truth'.

THE BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS WITH STEVE GODOY!

The Bermondsey Joyriders
CORKTOWN TAVERN
are a loud, fast and furious..
no holds barred ...Rock N Roll power trio.

Members of The Bermondsey Joyriders are Gary Lammin
( principal songwriter of Cock Sparrer 1974 to 1978)
Martin Stacey (principal songwriter of Chelsea 1976 to 1977 )

AND NOW !


STEVE GODOY DRUMMER
THE F**K DOLLS AND THE LAST OF THE BADMEN

wsg
Smack Madame
Iron Clad

CORKTOWN TAVERN
doors at 8 pm
Only $5!

SCOTT MORGAN'S NEW METROTIMES REVIEW

Last weekend Scott and I went out to Street Records in Oak Park to sign autographs for National Record Day. While we were there Scott's manager Willy came in and gave Scott a copy of his self titled new album/cd Scott Morgan.

Scott was excited to finally hear the finished cd. We popped it into my Jeep cd player and we listened to it on the ride home. Scott was pleased with the results of the recording and I really liked it too. My favorite song on the cd is Lucy May. Scott told me the story behind the song. Lucy May died at 18 and was his grandmother's sister. Interesting story of a young girl that passed on so young. My second favorite is the Nina Simone song Do I Move You.

These 2 songs are really different and take Scott's voice to different levels than I am used to hearing. I just loved the whole cd. It will be officially released May 18.




Bill Holdhip of the Metrotimes wrote a really nice review of Scott's new record and here is a bit of it:

Dee-troit Royalty Metro Times May 5,2010

By Bill Holdship

On his excellent new eponymous LP — his first solo album since 1990 — Scott Morgan returns R&B music to the garage, which may not be the only place it belongs when played by white dudes, but certainly provides a nice, safe haven for the musical form when delivered properly. Of course, this is nothing new for Morgan, who's been doing the same thing with that type of music since the mid-'60s when, as the leader of the Rationals, he scored a major regional hit by garage-ifying (and/or punk-ifying) Otis Redding's "Respect" long before Aretha recorded her now-legendary version. In other words, Morgan was a pioneer of the form, doing it before it was a conscious and deliberate career choice. (Later, with Sonic's Rendezvous Band, he'd achieve the same thing with various cover versions. Who, besides Hendrix, could've gotten away with covering Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," as that band frequently did onstage?)

Read Bill's full review HERE

Credits


From SCOTT MORGAN

The back story of the recording:

ok here we go.

We started out with photos by Doug Coombe and ended up with 3 great sessions. I had put together some lyrics to bring to the table. I had also sent dozens of covers for the band to check out. We ended up with about 13 covers and originals.

First off was (Chris Taylor) Box's suggestion of the Four Tops Something About You. next up was my song about my mom which I ended up breaking down and choking up on. Apparently Alive Records liked it so much they decided to feature it as a single.

Next was 8th day's She's Not Just Another Woman which was a studio recording without a band from Motown. Summer Nights was originally called Peach Fuzz and we put that together in the studio and recorded it right off. Since I Lost My Baby was a Temptations' song which Fred Smith had suggested at the end of the Sonic's Rendezvous period.

I lost my voice and had to come back the next day. It ended up sounding more like Al Green.

Lucy May was my grandmother's sister who died more than a hundred years ago at the age of 18. Mississippi Delta is a Bobbie Gentry cover that we did once or twice with srb. Nick Royale and I had recorded Tony Joe White's Widow Wemberly at his urging so we were kind of following the pattern on this one.

Do I Move You is from Nina Simone Sings the Blues. She had studied as a classical pianist and they told her she would never make because she was African American. thank god.

Memphis Time was just some words i had scratched out and the band made it into a whole song.

Bring it on Home was supposed to be the live at the Harlem Square version by Sam Cooke and King Curtis.N ick and I had thought about doing this in Stockholm but this was our first go at it. Eddie Baranek and I got the vocal chores and he played guitar as well. The you send me intro got cut off and ended up not being used.

Highway was another song i had a rough idea for and the band finished it off and we were still jotting down lyrics when the recording began. reminds me of seeing Fred Smith with a box of little scraps of paper when we did City Slang.

Soothe Me didn't make the cut and the wind by Nolan Strong is still in the can but may make it to release later. well that's about it. it's a good thing I'm so long winded.... Scott

PAM GRIER'S NEW BOOK!

Pam Grier's New Book

This is my next book I am buying, Pam Grier has always been one of my favorite actresses and her soft but tough personality was unique to theater actresses. Mostly they used women as eye candy or helpless/hapless women who always fell down when a bad guy was chasing them. NOT Pam! She would either kick the tar outta them or shoot them dead. What a different image for young women to see. She inspired me for sure. Pam Grier is still a heroine of my life and I can't wait to read her book. You can buy your copy right below:

From Wiki:
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison films and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown.

Pam Grier Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She is one of a few African American actresses to have received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in the iconic film Jackie Brown.

Jackie Brown

You can get the film here:

She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in an Animated Program Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Ever Child. Director Quentin Tarantino, in an interview promoting Jackie Brown on Charlie Rose, remarked that she may well have been cinema's first female action star. With out a doubt she was a bad ass hero to me. You go girl! That phrase was invented for Pam Grier!

Foxy Brown

Notable Pam Grier Roles

* Grear — The Big Doll House (1971)
* Coffy — Coffy (1973)
* Foxy Brown — Foxy Brown (1974)
* Sheba Shayne — Sheba, Baby (1975)
* Charlotte — Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
* Valerie Gordon — Miami Vice (1985, 1990)
* Suzanne Terry — Crime Story (1986, 1988)
* Delores ‘Jacks’ Jackson — Above the Law (1988)
* Jackie Brown — Jackie Brown (1997)
* Assistant U.S. Attorney Claudia Williams — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002, 2003)
* Kit Porter — The L Word (2004 to present)

LYNN REDGRAVE (GEORGY GIRL) DIES AT 67

Lynn Redgrave Georgy Girl 1966

One of my childhood favorite movies was Georgy Girl as we all sympathized with her feeling like the ugly duckling when she really was beautiful. RIP Ms Redgrave

NEW YORK – Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of "Georgy Girl" and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as "Shakespeare for My Father" and "Nightingale," has died. She was 67.

Her publicist Rick Miramontez, speaking on behalf of her children, said Redgrave died peacefully Sunday night at her home in Kent, Conn. Children Ben, Pema and Annabel were with her, as were close friends.

"Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven year journey with breast cancer," Redgrave's children said in a statement Monday. "She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time."

Redgrave was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemotherapy.

Her death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident and just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave.

The youngest child of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgrave never quite managed the acclaim — or notoriety — of elder sibling Vanessa Redgrave, but received Oscar nominations for "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters," and Tony nominations for "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Shakespeare for My Father" and "The Constant Wife." In recent years, she also made appearances on TV in "Ugly Betty," "Law & Order" and "Desperate Housewives."

"Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress," Lynn Redgrave told The Associated Press in 1999. "It was always, 'Corin's the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there's Lynn.'"