Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
RIP
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/06/gary-duncan-dead/
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Lee Iacocca, 94
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190702214657-lee-iacocca-1984-minivan-medium-plus-169.jpg
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6U57QkUe8
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Chrysler-Imperial-ad-with-Frank-Sinatra-page-1-of-2.jpghttps://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Chrysler-Imperial-ad-with-Frank-Sinatra-page-2-of-2.jpg
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
The car Sinatra actually drove around this time when he didn't want to be noticed was a Chrysler K-car wagon. I certainly wouldn't suspect Ol' Blue Eyes was behind the wheel of this thing....
http://www.thedrive.com/news/25511/frank-sinatra-actually-owned-this-1985-chrysler-lebaron-wagon-thats-headed-to-auction
― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
jesus christ @ that ad, can you imagine reading all that?
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
Somebody must not have been available that day:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYXeBQzecU
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
I believe that Imperial ad only ran in large-format magazines, so it was pretty easy to read. I used to have a copy that came from an issue of Ebony.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
From the Chrysler Dealer Ordering Brochure:"Sinatra did it his way–selecting 16 of his favorite cassette albums for the Imperial FS." ..."Your 16 Frank Sinatra tapes are sent to your dealer and presented to you when you take delivery of your new Imperial FS. These tapes come in a special tote bag designed by Mark Cross, one of America's premier leather manufacturers. In the Mark Cross tradition, the tote bag is constructed of the highest-quality scratch-resistant leather with leather straps and solid brass fittings."• It Might As Well Be Swing• Academy Award Winners• Sinatra's Sinatra• Softly As I Leave You• September Of My Years• My Kind Of Broadway• Strangers In The Night• That's Life• The World We Knew• Cycles• My Way• A Man Alone• Trilogy (3 tapes)....."The Past" ....."The Present" ....."The Future"• Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits (Volume 1)
"Sinatra did it his way–selecting 16 of his favorite cassette albums for the Imperial FS." ...
"Your 16 Frank Sinatra tapes are sent to your dealer and presented to you when you take delivery of your new Imperial FS. These tapes come in a special tote bag designed by Mark Cross, one of America's premier leather manufacturers. In the Mark Cross tradition, the tote bag is constructed of the highest-quality scratch-resistant leather with leather straps and solid brass fittings."
• It Might As Well Be Swing• Academy Award Winners• Sinatra's Sinatra• Softly As I Leave You• September Of My Years• My Kind Of Broadway• Strangers In The Night• That's Life• The World We Knew• Cycles• My Way• A Man Alone• Trilogy (3 tapes)....."The Past" ....."The Present" ....."The Future"• Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits (Volume 1)
Not a bad selection, but no Watertown, no credibility....
http://sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/41403-The-Frank-Sinatra-Edition-Chrysler-Imperial/page2
― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
but did it have rich corinthian leather
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
Man, haven’t heard that in a while. Seems like only yesterdaythree decades ago that I probably heard it every single day.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
XPS No Sinatra/Jobim either...
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
or the Sinatra/Jobim sequel that was only released on 8-track cartridges and was pulled after one week on sale. Most valuable 8-track in existance!
― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
True. Wait, what?“Strangers In The Night” was just featured on the Friendbook page of The Wrecking Crew, not sure why unless this week was the anniversary of it hitting number one. Always amuses me to think that Glen Campbell played on it - using a capo!
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
http://8tracksrock.blogspot.com/2011/02/most-valuable-8-track-sinatra-jobim.html
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sinatra-Jobim-Reprise-W7-1028-8-Track-ULTIMATE-Frank-rarity-Play-Tested/273674744014?hash=item3fb84930ce:g:6LUAAOSwq1tbZvzF
― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
Stan Cronyn tells a great story about that in the liners to the complete Sinatra/Jobim sessions CD.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
Interesting. Please tell us about that.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
PARAPHRASED: Sinatra had some issues with the sessions (a story unto itself), but had OK'd the release of the album. The first release copies were on 8-Track (which was made in Japan), with the vinyl/reel to reels etc. to follow like a week or two later. Copies of the 8-Track were sent to Sinatra's estate at the same time it was being shipped to stores. An hour after receiving the album, Sinatra calls Reprise and tells them to kill the album. He didn't like his vocals on three tracks, and also didn't like how another was broken up over two tracks on the tape. The label pleaded with him, but ultimately acquiesced and recalled the tapes a couple of hours after they landed in a handful of stores. Watertown was added to the release schedule in its place, and Sinatra later cleared the reissue of seven tracks from the album as half of Sinatra & Company.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
Huh, just noticed Watertown isn't on Spotify.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 05:01 (four years ago) link
All I know about Iacocca I learned from Bloom County. Would that I could say the same for Trump.
Oh gimmee hype! Publicity!Get them stretch marks off miss liberty!Mocha! Polka! Patriotic tapiocaThat's what is my Iacocca! Union busting, profit lusting,little pintos all combustingapple pie and diet coke-athat's what is my Iacocca!
Get them stretch marks off miss liberty!
Mocha! Polka! Patriotic tapioca
That's what is my Iacocca!
Union busting, profit lusting,
little pintos all combusting
apple pie and diet coke-a
that's what is my Iacocca!
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
As I said on Twitter, I could have sworn Iacocca was killed by a hit man in the lobby of Adrian Veidt's office in 1985.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
In college I was taught about the Ford Pinto fiasco as a sort of test case in corporate negligence/malfeasance. That story was quite a big deal when it happened and for some years afterward.
Have enjoyed driving Mustangs over the years, whenever I can rent one.
Anyway rip.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
The best bit of this Lee Iacocca obit (h/t @RayPride) https://t.co/GfezyYzcSN pic.twitter.com/wQVczAjxe2— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 3, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Little-known footnote to Lee Iacocca's career: his foray into the olive oil-based margarine spread business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivio_Premium_Productshttps://olivio.com/our-story/
― Lee626, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Erstwhile satirist and latter day global warming denier prick Christopher Booker
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/07/03/christopher-booker-campaigning-journalist-first-editor-private/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
RIP Jean-Louis Chrétien, French philosopher.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
same and otm respectively
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
^^^^
― maura, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Laugh-In's Arte Johnson
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
:-(((
― suzy, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
former large new york football giants quarterback jared lorenzen, 38
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Coco McCririck
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 5 July 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
I'm inconsolable rn tbh!
― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
hell needed a loudmouthed exhibitionist bigot etc...
― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 10:49 (four years ago) link
well maybe not so much after Norman Stone's passing t'other week!
― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
Ben Barenholtz, art-film exhibitor / distributor / producer, champion of Waters, Lynch, Coens
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/ben-barenholtz-john-waters-turturro-1202153765/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 July 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
Joao Gilberto
― Alba, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Oh no. RIP.
He was 88.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
RIP to a legend; that's a damn shame
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
He was a perfect musician
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 7 July 2019 05:28 (four years ago) link
Disney actor Cameron Boyce, dead at 20 from a seizure.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 July 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
Totally missed Arte Johnson; his hereafter line was my single favourite ever from that show (truthfully, one of the few specific lines I remember).
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 July 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Painter Leon Kossoff: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/leon-kossoff-obituary
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
― nathom, Monday, 8 July 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
Milos Stehlik, the cofounder and artistic director of the Chicago arts center Facets Multimedia
remembering him and Ben Barenholtz:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6481-film-culture-loses-two-innovators
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 July 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
I missed the Leon Kossoff death. I always liked his landscapes more than his figurative stuff, the Willesden Junction studies were brilliant.
― calzino, Monday, 8 July 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
This thread was right next to a revive of the Robert Wyatt thread and my heart stopped for a second.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Monday, 8 July 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link