Alison Steele January 26, 1937 – September 27, 1995 aka The Night Bird was a legendary DJ during the 70's in NYC. She was named Billboard’s “FM Personality of the Year” in 1978, the first woman to receive this honor. Although she was enormously popular, she was regarded with resentment by many of her fellow jocks. In fact, the station made very little effort to clue Alison in to just how important she was to the station. Steele was a member of Science of the Mind religion. read more via the link
A child prodigy Hebecame known for his skills to extract good music from virtually any object. He has recorded w/ Miles Davis. has written three symphonies & builds his own instruments.
"Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016. emerged alongside the early glam punk scene in New York, with a reputation for its confrontational live shows. Many of the band's early shows were at the Mercer Arts Center, alongside bands such as the New York Dolls and Eric Emerson and the Magic Tramps. During an early show at the Mercer Arts Center David Johansen played harmonica with Suicide. Vega and Rev both dressed like 'arty street thugs', and Vega was notorious for brandishing a motorcycle drive chain onstage. Vega once stated, _We started getting booed as soon as we came onstage. Just from the way we looked, they started giving us hell already._"
"Sanne Rambags (Dutch), Vocals; Vincent Courtois (French), cello; Julian Sartorius (Swiss), drums. The new band of quintessential unites three nations, three generations, and three different approaches to music. Twigs is the first CD by this line-up - bandcamp"
Aichi comes from eastern Algeria -- a region called Aures in the mountains of the Atlas range. She is a Berber singer of chaoui music. Aïchi sings songs that she learnt in her childhood, accompanied by bendir. Aïchi went to study psychology in Paris in the 1970s. While teaching sociology, she started to perform in 1985, singing traditional songs of her childhood (lullabies, love songs), accompanied by traditional instruments (gasbâ , bendir), Her first album was released in 1990. - wiki
Garrett Gleason is an American guitarist, pianist, performer, and songwriter. Raised in Massachusetts, he had music training in his youth at Boston’s Berklee College of Music via yearly summer programs
"On January 1, 1968, WNEW placed Steele in the overnight graveyard shift which granted her more creative freedom, leading her to develop her on-air personality and rapport with her listeners. She remained on the air for nearly a dozen years. Steele often hosted with her dog, a French poodle named Genya."
"Waldo's music is what inspired the opening sounds for Nightbird, Alison Steele popular late night show on WNEW in NYC. Waldo (b: 1918) lives in Tacoma, WA...she'd be 105 years old by now. Wiki details: She is American violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist. A scholar of pre-Colombian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music. Her melding of ancient and contemporary styles of American music ranks Waldo among the pioneers in the genre now known as Exotica. See link for bio on this fascinating woman. "
This is taken from Frank's sole LP, orisinally released in 1965. Jackson Carey Frank (March 2, 1943 – March 3, 1999) was an American folk musician. Although he released only one official album in his lifetime and never achieved much commercial success, he is reported to have influenced several better-known singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon and Nick Drake. His eponymous 1965 album, _Jackson C. Frank_, was produced by Paul Simon while the two of them were also playing folk clubs in England. Although Frank was well received in England for a while, in 1966 things took a turn for the worse as his mental health began to unravel, and his subsequent career took a plunge. Frank died of pneumonia and cardiac arrest in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on March 3, 1999, at the age of 56. - discogs"
"aka Volker Bertelmann is a German composer and pianist best known for his compositions for prepared piano. He won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front. B: 1967 Kreuztal, Germany"
"Post-rock band formed in 1988 in Birmingham, England by Rosie Cuckston (vocals, keyboards), Matt Eaton (guitar), Andy Weir (drums) -- who grew up together attending Harrogate Grammar School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire -- and Samantha Owen (bass)"
Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the _ultramoderns_. Though she composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, Seeger turned towards studies on folk music from the late 1930s until her death. Her music influenced later composers, particularly Elliott Carter. She was Peggy and Mike Seeger's mother, and Pete Seeger's step mother having married Charles Seeger, who was her teacher.
"Excerpted from a conversation they had live on the air, March 11, 1977. It was 6 years after Jim Morrison's death. Link takes you to an Alison Steele playlist. According to wiki, Steele was born Ceil Loman on January 26, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York. She had two sisters, Joyce and Emalie. She told an interviewer that her childhood had been comfortable until a sudden and drastic reversal of the family's fortunes. She credited the situation for creating a lifestyle of hard work and a lasting ambition for success. At 14, she landed a job running errands for a local television station, and opted not to study at university as she was too impatient. "
"Ernie Barrows, rabat; Lex Humphries, drums; High Lawson, piano; Richard Williams, trumpet; Yusef Lateef, tenor. This is Lateef's take on an ancient Japanese folksong."
"This tune was recorded at Stereo Sound Studios in New York City on July 8, 1960. Dolphy is on flute, Lalli, vocals, and Roger Mason on the Tambura. Dolphy was credited to pioneering the use of the Bass Clarinet as a solo improvising instrument and much of his best work was in the company of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. His death was tragic however, unable to finish some work in America and anxious to prove himself before his forthcoming marriage, he travelled to Europe 'single' but soon died of undiagnosed diabetes in Berlin. Lalli was born in Binghamption, NY and died Feb 16, 2019 in Austin, TX. At age 18, she moved to New York City, where she was able to see the Uday Shankar Company dance
1960s American folk group (similar to The New Christy Minstrels). Their debut single _Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)_ was a Top Ten hit and received the group's only Grammy nomination in 1965. The majority of the group's recording sales took place in a two year period of 1964 and 1965. The group's name was sold in the 1970s resulting in entirely new lineups of group members performing under the name The Serendipity Singers into the early 21st Century.
1960s American folk group (similar to The New Christy Minstrels). Their debut single _Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)_ was a Top Ten hit and received the group's only Grammy nomination in 1965. The majority of the group's recording sales took place in a two year period of 1964 and 1965. The group's name was sold in the 1970s resulting in entirely new lineups of group members performing under the name The Serendipity Singers into the early 21st Century.
"The song, which was inspired by Alice Roosevelt Longworth's signature gown, was first performed by Edith Day in the 1919 Broadway musical Irene.In 1920 the song was recorded and released. Artists who have recorded the song include Duke Ellington, Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Lilly Lanken & Rufus Wainwright, Glenn Miller, Wayne King, Frank Sinatra, Chet Atkins, and Lenny Breau. Carol Burnett sang the song as a spoof while wearing a fatsuit for the opening number of the March 29, 1975 episode of her eponymous variety show. Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland, sang it on her mother's Christmas show in December 1963. wiki Click link to see some other famous dresses"
