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1960s
1960s
Hube the Cube, Professional Beatnik
Read of Hube the Cube's unique job in the final paragraphs of the article below.
(Artists Jane Belson & Hubert "Hube the Cube" Leslie)
Newspaper source: Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) 01 Sep 1960, Thu Page 7
A very interesting short memoir by a fellow who hung out with Hube.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 18, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Cafes, Coffeehouses, Teahouses, and Other Caffeine Culture, 1950s, 1960s
Tapioca Tundra
In honor of the recently departed Michael Nesmith, one of the Monkees' weirder songs.Reasoned verse some prose or rhyme
Lose themselves in other times
And waiting hopes cast silent spells
That speak in clouded clues
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you
Sunshine, rag time, blowing in the breeze
Midnight looks right standing more at ease
Silhouettes and figures stay
Close to what he had to say
And one more time the faded dream
Is saddened by the news
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's a part of you
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 12, 2021 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Surrealism, 1960s
Hog Farm Commune: Woodstock Security
What a trip!
No sound until about 0.33 mark.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 09, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Parades and Festivals, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
The Onstage Death of Leonard Warren
Article source: Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 05 Mar 1960, Sat Page 2As his Wikipedia page summarizes:
on March 4, during a performance of La forza del destino with Renata Tebaldi as Leonora and Thomas Schippers conducting, Warren suddenly collapsed and died on stage. Eyewitnesses including Rudolf Bing reported that Warren had completed Don Carlo's Act III aria, which begins Morir, tremenda cosa ("to die, a momentous thing"), and was supposed to open a sealed wallet, examine the contents and cry out "È salvo, o gioia" (He is safe, oh joy), before launching into the vigorous cabaletta. While Bing reports that Warren simply went silent and fell face-forward to the floor,[3] others state that he started coughing and gasping, and that he cried out "Help me, help me!" before falling to the floor, remaining motionless. Roald Reitan, singing the Surgeon, was on stage with Warren at the time of his death, and attempted to render aid.[1]
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 05, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Music, Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace, 1960s
Tinkerbell’s Mind
Bob Crewe had a master plan for the group, 'the Glitterhouse', who had been on his payroll for almost a year at the time that their first recordings came out. Crewe envisioned a one-two punch! Hit them with the 'Barbarella soundtrack album and then two months later, the Glitterhouse album, 'Color Blind'! Superstardom was surely around the corner at last for the now warehoused Glitterhouse. Big hits and big concerts? Barbarella' the single, did not happen for the Glitterhouse. The soundtrack album had some success but didn't seem to translate into any recognition for the band. The presence of the Glitterhouse was downplayed on the record and it seemed mostly a showcase for Bob Crewe and Charles Fox. The release of 'Color Blind - First Edition' was quick & quiet. A single from the album, 'Tinkerbell's Mind' made the top 50 in NYC, but died elsewhere. Any publicity was small indeed, and the band was never put out on the road or to play live. About four weeks after the release of 'Color Blind', when it was clear that the single had bombed, the Glitterhouse were taken off their meager salary, given no gigs and told to make do. Crewe had the band do some new demo's but there was also tension in the band. So, the Glitterhouse, attacked from without and within soon broke up and were readily released from their record label. One can only theorize about why the Glitterhouse were treated so shoddily by Crewe and his label. The Glitterhouse were a great live band that was never given an opportunity to play live. Crewe's company also managed them. Perhaps the label couldn't deal with a white sounding pop band fronted by a Black man. Who knows?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 03, 2021 -
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Category: Forgotten Figures and Where Are They Now?, Music, Psychedelic, 1960s
Swaying Chair
Zanesville Times Recorder - Jan 4, 1960
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 27, 2021 -
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Category: Furniture, 1960s
Miss Spirit World of 1960
In our ongoing exploration of strange beauty titles, this may be the strangest one yet. To be considered for this title, a contestant had to be dead.In 1960, the editors of Psychic Observer magazine asked their readers to send in "pictures of departed beauties taken by spirit photographers." A photo of the contestant while alive was also requested. The readers of the magazine would then vote to determine the winner.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet been able to track down any pictures of the Miss Spirit World contestants. Only a few issues of Psychic Observer are archived online. Nor are there back copies in a library near me.
Carlsbad Current-Argus - Feb 9, 1960
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 19, 2021 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Death, 1960s
“Sweet Blindness:” Your Choice
Which version do you prefer? Nyro's original bouncy and exuberant one? Or Minelli's "improved" manic and hyper non-stop whirlwind one?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 13, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Television, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1960s
The King Kong Show (and Tom of T.H.U.M.B.)
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 08, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, 1960s
Jay De Feo’s THE ROSE
The artist's Wikipedia page.
From an NYT article.
DeFeo, who died in 1989, at age 60, is known for a single work, her astounding “Rose,” a monumental accretion of oil paint that consumed her for more than seven years. Working in her apartment on Fillmore Street, she applied pigment in gloppy impastos, then chiseled into the paint. What finally emerged was an 11-foot-tall, ash-gray slab incised with a central starburst radiating white lines. The piece (which, by a happy coincidence, is now on view in the permanent-collection galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art) has a visionary energy and can put you in mind of William Blake’s blazing 19th-century suns.
In 1965, unable to afford a rent increase, DeFeo received an eviction notice. She worried that “The Rose” was unmovable. By then it weighed more than a ton and was too cumbersome to fit through the front door. Alternate plans were devised.... Several Bekins moving men in white jumpsuits pry “The Rose” from the wall and maneuver it out a bay window with a forklift as DeFeo sits disconsolately on a fire escape, smoking. “It was the end of ‘The Rose,’ and it was the end of Jay,” Conner said later in an interview.... She ceased working for several years,
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 03, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
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