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July 4, 2024
video by Styrous®
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Styrous® ~ Thursday, July 4, 2024
July 4, 2024
Mitch Miller & the dialectogram
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Today is the birthday of American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist, Mitch Miller who was born in 1911.
He was involved in almost every aspect of the music industry, particularly as a conductor and artists and repertoire (A&R) man.
Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of A&R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, Sing Along with Mitch.
Miller was the inventor of the Dialectogram,
highly detailed drawings of places that are taken from the perspective
of those who live and work there and use pictograms and dialects to
interpret them (links below).
His album Sing Along with Mitch was one of the first CD’s issued by Columbia. For years he could be seen walking on the Upper West Side streets of Manhattan where he lived until his death on July 31, 2010 at the age of 99.
Viewfinder links:
Cornell University ~ Dialectograms: Machine Learning Differences between Discursive Communities
Dialectograms ~ Mitch Miller
Euroacademia ~ Dialectograms and The Architecture of Comics
Getty Images ~ Mitch Miller
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art ~ Dialectogram Exhibition
LA Times ~ Musical innovator Mitch Miller dies at 99
Old Time Radio ~ The Mitch Miller Show
Red Road Flats ~ Red Road Dialectograms
Rochester Hall of Music ~ Mitch Miller
Taylor & Francis ~ Dialectograms
University of Edinburgh ~ Talking Lines: The Dialectogram as Socially Engaged Design
July 3, 2024
20,000 vinyl LPs 367: The Doors ~ Light My Fire
The Doors ~ The Doors
vinyl LP back cover detail
Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey
back cover photo by Joel Brodsky
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Today is the anniversary of the death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the The Doors. He was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. He died on July 3, 1971, at Rue Beautreillis in Le Marais, 4th arrondissement, Paris, France.
On July 3, 1967, The Doors released the song Light My Fire in the U.S. Morrison indicated in his notebooks that he disliked this song and
hated performing it. He also seemed to resent that the popularity of the
band derived from this song, which he had just a small part in writing.
vinyl LP front cover
Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey
cover photo by Guy Webster
photo of album cover by Styrous®
I love so many albums by The Doors but this is my favorite, perhaps because it was the first one I knew, you know what they say about first loves.
vinyl LP back cover
Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey
back cover photo by Joel Brodsky
photo of album cover by Styrous®
I have three favorite songs from it; Light My Fire of course, Back Door Man, a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960, and the Alabama Song, written by Kurt Weill, sung by Lotte Lenya and made famous in the 1920's.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A1 - Break On Through (To The Other Side), words by, Music By – The Doors - 2:25
A2 - Soul Kitchen,Words By, Music By – The Doors - 3:30
A3 - The Crystal Ship, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:30
A4 - Twentieth Century Fox, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:30
A5 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Words By Brecht*, Weill* - 3:15
A2 - Soul Kitchen,Words By, Music By – The Doors - 3:30
A3 - The Crystal Ship, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:30
A4 - Twentieth Century Fox, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:30
A5 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Words By Brecht*, Weill* - 3:15
Side 2:
A6 - Light My Fire, words, Music By – The Doors - 6:50
B1 - Back Door Man, Written-By – C. Burnett*, W. Dixon* - 3:30
B2 - I Looked At You, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:18
B3 - End Of The Night,Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:49
B4 - Take It As It Comes, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 2:13
B5 - The End, Words By, Music By – The Doors - 11:35
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co. – Δ9991
Copyright © – Nipper Music
Published By – Harms Co.
Credits:
Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey
Directed By [Production Supervisor] – Jac Holzman
Drums – John Densmore
Engineer – Bruce Botnick
Guitar – Robby Krieger
Organ, Piano, Bass – Ray Manzarek
Photography By [Back Cover] – Joel Brodsky
Photography By [Front Cover] – Guy Webster
Producer – Paul A. Rothchild
Vocals – Jim Morrison
Notes:
Gold labels with no text to the left of the spindle hole. 2nd pressing with A-side label "(Weill-Brecht) Harms Co. (ASCAP)" publishing credit for Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar).
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side One & Two [stamped]): "MR" in a circle
Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - Side One [etched]): EKS-74007A (M) Δ9991
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - Side Two [etched]): EKS 74007B (M) Δ9991-X
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - Side One [etched]): EKS-74007A (M) Δ9991
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - Side Two [etched]): EKS-74007B-2 (MON) Δ9991-X
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - Side One [etched]): EKS-74007A-2 (MON) Δ9991
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - Side Two [etched]): EKS-74007B-2 (MON) Δ9991-X
Viewfinder links:
Net links:
SongFacts ~ Light My Fire
YouTube links:
Light My Fire (Ed Sullivan show) (1967)
Back Door Man (live)
The End
(11 mins., 43 secs.)
July 1, 2024
Ana Maria Briongos
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