May 12, 2022

Gray Loft Gallery ~ Art of the African Diaspora closing reception

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This Saturday, May 14, 2022, will be the last night of the stellar exhibition, Art of the African Diaspora, at the Gray Loft Gallery. The exhibition features the work of African-American artists. It is the second such show at the Gray Loft; the first was in February of 2020 (link below).     
 
 
Closing reception: 
 May 14, 1 – 5:00 PM      
 
 Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street
Third floor
Oakland CA 94601
 

installation photos by Styrous®
 

 
 
  
 
above & below: Gene Dominique
 


 
 
 
 

 
 Arthur Norcome
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 above & below: Dulama LeGrande


 
 
 

Alyssa Pickens
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
above & below Ron Moultrie Saunders
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
Kelvin Curry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Raymond Haywood
 
 
 
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
April 9 – May 14, 2022 
 
First Friday Reception:
Friday, May 6, 6:00 – 8:30 pm 

 
 
      
Viewfinder links:       
         
Art of the African Diaspora          
Gray Loft Gallery        
Dulama LeGrande         
Arthur Norcome         
Re-Envision         
Styrous         
Tom White        
     
Net links:       
        
Art of the African Diaspora                   
Kelvin Curry            
Gray Loft Gallery         
Dulama LeGrande                  
Arthur Norcome          
Styrous®       
Tom White       
        
        
        
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May 5, 2022

damn yankees & interesting suff over sixty years

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Over sixty years ago today, on May 5, 1955 - The musical Damn Yankees opened in New York City on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre.  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I mostly hate sports but I love this musical about the game of baseball, which is only slightly less boring than U. S. football. However, I did love it when my dad would take me to the Seals Stadium (affectionately called "The Queen of Concrete") on 16th and Bryant to watch the San Francisco Seals play.   
 
 
 
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Actually, the main reason I loved going to the baseball game was that there were vendors with large metal barrels that had spigots on the bottom strapped to the front of their bodies walking through the bleachers selling the hot soup that was in the barrels. It was usually cold so I always had a cup of soup!!!!   
 
Anyway, I've digressed; what a surprise! So, back to Damn Yankees. I like this musical as it has a lot of fun songs and it has a really interesting plot (who can argue with the Devil?). Fifty-year-old Joe Boyd transforms into 22-year-old Joe Hardy. The song the two Joes sing during the transition, Goodbye Old Girl, puts the play on my all-time favorite list. I wrote about the musical and in particular, the song, over ten years ago with lots of information in it that I won't repeat but you may read if you'd like at the (link below).      
 
In 1960 there was a lovely instrumental jazz quartet rendition of Goodbye recorded by Art Farmer on trumpet with Tommy Williams on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Albert Heath gently backing on drums (link below).    

In 2017 there was a revival of Damn Yahkees with Maggie Gyllenhaal, sister of Jake Gyllenhaal, taking the Gwen Verdon role as the seductress Lola and Whoopi Goldberg as the gender-bent Applegate,       
 
photo by Walter McBride 
 
 
 
Goodby, Old Girl lyrics
 
[JOE BOYD]
Goodbye, old girl
My old girl
When you awaken, I'll be gone
Can't tell you where I go
It isn't fair, I know
But trust in me and carry on

Goodbye old friend
My old friend
There's sometin' I must let you know
I haven't said it much
I guess I've lost my touch
But, my old girl, I love you so

No I know it hasn't all been rosy
We've had squabblin' days when tears were brought about
But in a moment or two
We would bill and coo
And never even knew
What we fought about
And now your Joe has to go
But he'll come back to you again
So sleep your sleep, old girl
Our love will keep, old girl, till then
My old girl
Goodbye

[JOE HARDY]
Hey
Did you...?
I can't beliеve it
Wham

And though your Joe has to go
He may comе back to you again
So sleep your sleep, old girl
Our love will keep, old girl, till then

Goodbye, old girl
My old girl
Goodbye
 
 
Other damn yankees stuff 

Damn Yankees was an American rock supergroup formed in 1989. It included Tommy Shaw of Styx, Jack Blades of Night Ranger, Ted Nugent of The Amboy Dukes and Michael Cartellone a drummer who would later join Lynyrd Skynyrd). That's a pretty good lineup.       

The group is remembered for the songs High Enough and Where You Goin' Now, both of them Top 40 hits in the early 1990s.       

          
photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives_Getty Images


Viewfinder links:
          
Art Farmer         
Whoopi Goldberg         
Gwen Verdon         
         
Net links:
       
Jack Blades ~ How I wrote Damn Yankees' High Enough        
        
YouTube links:
Damn Yankees ~ Goodbye, Old Girl 1958 (soundtrack)       
Damn Yankees ~ High Enough         
Damn Yankees ~ Where You Goin' Now                   
Art Farmer ~ Goodbye Old Girl        
         









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Art Farmer articles/mentions

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May 2, 2022

The Judds ~ Why Not Me? lyrics

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Why Not Me?

Escaping nights without you with shadows on the wall
My mind is running wild trying hard not to fall
You tell me that you love me but say I'm just a friend
My heart is broken up into pieces

'Cause I know I'll never free my soul
It's trapped in between true love and being alone
When my eyes are closed the greatest story told
I woke and my dreams are shattered here on the floor

Why, oh why, tell me, why not me?
Why, oh why, we were meant to be
Baby, I know I could be all you need
Why, oh why, oh why

I wanna love you
If you only knew how much I love you
So why not me?

The day after tomorrow I'll still be around
To catch you when you fall and never let you down
You say that we're forever, our love will never end
I've tried to come up but it's drowning me to know

You'll never free my soul
It's trapped in between true love and being alone
When my eyes are closed the greatest story told
I woke and my dreams are shattered here on the floor
Tell me baby

Why, oh why, tell me, why not me?
Why, oh why, we were meant to be
Baby I know I could be all you need
Why, oh why, oh why

I wanna love you
If you only knew how much I love you
So why not me?

You won't ever know
How far we can go (Go)
You won't ever know
How far we can go (Go)

Why, oh why, tell me, why not me?
Why, oh why, we were meant to be
Baby, I know I could be all you need
Why, oh why, oh why
Why, oh why, tell me, why not me?
Why, oh why, we were meant to be
Baby, I know I could be all you need
Why, oh why, oh why

I wanna love you
If you only knew how much I love you
So why not me?
(Why not me, why not me?)


Thanks to Moon Gandhi for adding these lyrics.
Thanks to ßhatt aasif, Ankit ranjan, shykh anum, kaiser ganaie, Ajay Singh for correcting these lyrics.


Lazy Country Evening


[Verse 1]
Lazy country evening
Sittin' by you
The baby's in his cradle
And the day's almost through

[Verse 2]
Red sunset
Over pine trees
I'm feelin' high as the mountain
Free as the breeze

[Bridge]
Yodel-ay-ee-oh
Yodel-ay-ee-oh
Yodel-ay-ee-oh
Yodel-ay-ee-oh




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