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20,000 vinyl LPs 249: Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish & Charles Bronson
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Side 2:
B1a - Striking Back
B1b - Riverside Park
B1c - The Alley
B1d - Last Stop
B1e - 8th Avenue Station
B2 - Ochoa Knose 2:07
B3 - Party People 3:32
B4 = Fill Your Hand 6:15
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Columbia Records
Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.
Produced For – Catero Sound Company
Recorded At – The Burbank Studios
Recorded At – Western Recorders
Recorded At – Wally Heider Studios
Mastered At – CBS Studios, San Francisco
Mastered At – Customatrix
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
Credits:
Producer – David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Price Code (On Spine): X698
Matrix / Runout (A-Side Label): AL 33199
Matrix / Runout (B-Side Label): BL 33199
Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout, Stamped): o P AL 33199-1A 1 A1
Matrix / Runout (B Side Runout, Stamped): o P BL 33199-1A / A1
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, November 3, 2020
vinyl LP front cover detail
photo by Styrous®
Today is the birthday of Charles Bronson who was born in 1921. He was an American actor who was often cast in roles of police officers,
gunfighters, or vigilantes in revenge-oriented plot lines. He had
long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson and appeared in 15 films with his second wife, Jill Ireland.
At the height of his fame in the early 1970s, he was the world's No. 1 box office attraction, commanding $1 million per film.
Death Wish is an American vigilante action-drama film loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, an architect who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter sexually assaulted during a home invasion (link to plot below). This was the first film in the Death Wish franchise; it was followed eight years later with Death Wish II and other similar films.
It was released on July 24, 1974.
The film was based on the Brian Garfield 1972 novel of the same name.
Garfield was inspired to use the theme of vigilantism following
incidents in his personal life. In one incident, his wife's purse was
stolen; in another, his car was vandalized. His initial thought each
time was that he could kill "the son of a bitch" responsible. He later
considered that these were primitive thoughts, contemplated in an
unguarded moment. He then thought of writing a novel about a man who
entered that way of thinking in a moment of rage and then never emerged
from it. The novel denounced vigilantism, whereas the film embraced it. The film marked the screen debut of Jeff Goldblum, playing one of the "freaks" who assaults Kersey's family early in the film.
In 2018, Death Wish was remade with Bruce Willis assuming the role of the vigilante, now a Chicago surgeon.
The score for Death Wish was written by Grammy award-winning jazz musician Herbie Hancock; it was his third film score.
The music is progressive jazz with lots of strings. Most of the music puts me in mind of the group, Passport, a German jazz ensemble led by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger. A member of the group was jazz rock and rock music keyboardist, Brian Auger.
The interesting cuts from the album are Do a Thing, with its ticking-clock beat and mysterious strings, Fill Your Hand that has a great sax played by Bennie Maupin who was with the jazz-fusion band, The Headhunters formed by Herbie Hancock in 1973. The group fused jazz, funk, and rock music.
Hancock's theme for the film was
quoted in Judge, Jury and Executioner, a 2013 single by Atoms for Peace.
Death Wish was a watershed for Bronson, who was 53 years old at
the time, and who was then better known in Europe and Asia for his role
in The Great Escape. Bronson became an American film icon, who experienced great popularity over the next twenty years.
Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the eleventh of fifteen
children, into a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian descent in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He did not speak English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania. In 1954, during the House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC) proceedings, he changed his surname from Buchinsky to Bronson at
the suggestion of his agent, who feared that an Eastern European
surname might damage his career.
In a 1973 interview, Bronson said that he did not know his father very
well and "I'm not even sure if I loved him or hated him." He said that
all he could remember was that when his mother said that his father was
coming home, the children would hide. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died and he went to work in
the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine.
The family suffered extreme poverty during the Great Depression,
and Bronson recalled going hungry many times. His mother could not
afford milk for his younger sister, so she was fed warm tea instead. His family was so poor that he once had to wear his sister's dress to school for lack of clothing.
Bronson worked in the mine until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 during World War II. He served in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress aerial gunner with the Guam-based 61st Bombardment Squadron within the 39th Bombardment Group, which conducted combat missions against the Japanese home islands. He flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle.
Bronson scored the lead in his own detective series for ABC, Man with a Camera (1958–1960), in which he portrayed Mike Kovac, a former combat photographer freelancing in New York City.
Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac - October 2, 1959
Charles Bronson retired from acting after undergoing hip-replacement surgery in August 1998. He died at age 81 on August 30, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A1 - Death Wish (Main Title) 6:11
A2 - Joanna's Theme 4:46
A3 - Do A Thing 2:13
A4 - Paint Her Mouth 2:16
A5 - Rich Country 3:46
Suite Revenge (9:25)
A2 - Joanna's Theme 4:46
A3 - Do A Thing 2:13
A4 - Paint Her Mouth 2:16
A5 - Rich Country 3:46
Suite Revenge (9:25)
Side 2:
B1a - Striking Back
B1b - Riverside Park
B1c - The Alley
B1d - Last Stop
B1e - 8th Avenue Station
B2 - Ochoa Knose 2:07
B3 - Party People 3:32
B4 = Fill Your Hand 6:15
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Columbia Records
Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.
Produced For – Catero Sound Company
Recorded At – The Burbank Studios
Recorded At – Western Recorders
Recorded At – Wally Heider Studios
Mastered At – CBS Studios, San Francisco
Mastered At – Customatrix
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
Credits:
Producer – David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Tenor Saxophone: Bennie Maupin
Bass Guitar: Paul Jackson
Drums: Mike Clark
Percussion: Bill Summers
Guitar: Wah Wah Watson
Producer: David Rubinson/Herbie Hancock for David Rubinson and Friends, Inc.
Recording Engineer: Fred Catero
Notes:
This is the OST recording. First pressing, pressed by:
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman, as indicated
by a "P" stamped in the runout areas.
Bass Guitar: Paul Jackson
Drums: Mike Clark
Percussion: Bill Summers
Guitar: Wah Wah Watson
Producer: David Rubinson/Herbie Hancock for David Rubinson and Friends, Inc.
Recording Engineer: Fred Catero
Notes:
This is the OST recording. First pressing, pressed by:
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman, as indicated
by a "P" stamped in the runout areas.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Price Code (On Spine): X698
Matrix / Runout (A-Side Label): AL 33199
Matrix / Runout (B-Side Label): BL 33199
Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout, Stamped): o P AL 33199-1A 1 A1
Matrix / Runout (B Side Runout, Stamped): o P BL 33199-1A / A1
Viewfinder links:
Net links:
Roger & Ebert ~ Death Wish (1974)
SF Chronicle ~ Charles Bronson: Much more to him than Death Wish
Variety ~ Death Wish ~ 2018
YouTube links:
Charles Bronson articles/mentions
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Adieu l'ami screenshot
May 5, 2020
Herbie Hancock article/mentions
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Herbie Hancock ~ Death Wish
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Patrick Gleeson ~ Star Wars
Oscar Peterson ~ Maharaja of the keyboard
Herbie Hancock - 1968
photo by Jack Robinson
May 4, 2020
20,000 vinyl LP 220: Gleeson's Star Wars ~ Disco Daze 6
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Today, May 4, 2020, is Star Wars Day. Star Wars emerged at the dawning of the age of disco in 1977, so, I considered using the Meco
disco version of the soundtrack but settled on this not-quite-so-disco
electronic version by Patrick Gleeson instead. In addition to cuts from the original
soundtrack from the film, I used cuts from this version and others in my Star Wars act at the Hungry i (links below).
vinyl LP album front cover design by Peter Lloyd
photo of album cover by Styrous®
The first recorded reference was the phrase being first used on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher took the job as as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. An online news article from the Danish public broadcaster says her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News, saying "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations,"
The saying was used in a UK Parliament defence debate on May 4, 1994.
Astrophysicist and author Jeanne Cavelos used the saying on page 94 of her 1999 book The Science of Star Wars.
In 2008, the first Facebook groups appeared, celebrating Luke Skywalker Day, with the same catchphrase.
In 2011, the first organized celebration of Star Wars Day took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
at the Toronto Underground Cinema. Produced by Sean Ward and Alice
Quinn, festivities included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show; a
costume contest with celebrity judges; and the web's best tribute films,
mash-ups, parodies, and remixes on the big screen. The second annual
edition took place on Friday, May 4, 2012.
vinyl LP record sleeve
photo by Styrous®
Patrick Gleeson was born on November 9, 1934. He came to San Francisco in the 1960s to teach in the English Department at San Francisco State. He began experimenting with electronic music in the mid-'60s at the San Francisco Tape Music Center using a Buchla synth and other devices. He resigned his teaching position to become a full-time musician. In 1968, "upon hearing Switched-On Bach" by Wendy Carlos (at that time Carlos was still Walter Carlos), he bought a Moog synthesizer and opened the Different Fur recording studio in San Francisco.
He worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s, touring with Hancock – thus pioneering the use of synthesizers outside the studio – and appearing on the albums Crossings and Sextant. Hancock has credited Gleeson with introducing him to synthesizers and teaching him technique. Sextant and Headhunters were both recorded in part at Different Fur studios. Gleeson has worked with many other Jazz musicians, including Lenny White, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Earland, Eddie Henderson and Joe Henderson.
Gleeson has had a varied career in music (link below); he even had a shot at new wave when he worked as an engineer on the 1978 Devo album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, part of which was recorded at Different Fur.
He worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s, touring with Hancock – thus pioneering the use of synthesizers outside the studio – and appearing on the albums Crossings and Sextant. Hancock has credited Gleeson with introducing him to synthesizers and teaching him technique. Sextant and Headhunters were both recorded in part at Different Fur studios. Gleeson has worked with many other Jazz musicians, including Lenny White, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Earland, Eddie Henderson and Joe Henderson.
Gleeson has had a varied career in music (link below); he even had a shot at new wave when he worked as an engineer on the 1978 Devo album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, part of which was recorded at Different Fur.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 - Star Wars Theme (Luke's Theme) - 5:49
A2 - The Tatooine Desert - 6:25
A3 - Death Star - 5:29
Side 2:
B1 - Star Wars Cantina Music - 3:15
B2 - Princess Leia's Theme - 4:03
B3 - Droids - 2:18
B4 - Ben Kenobi's Theme - 7:07
Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Different Fur Studios
Mixed At – Different Fur Studios
Mastered At – Kendun Recorders
Manufactured By – Phonogram, Inc.
Distributed By – Phonodisc, Inc.
Credits:
Arranged By – Andy Narrel*, Charles Mims*
Artwork – Peter Lloyd (4)
Composed By – John Williams (4)
Drums – Billy Cobham, Harvey Mason, James Levi, Ronnie Beck*
Engineer – Pete Chaikin, Peter Granet, Seth Dworken, Skip Shimmin
Lyricon – Lenny Picket*
Producer, Keyboards, Performer [Breath Controller], Arranged By, Conductor, Engineer – Patrick Gleeson
Vocals – Sarah Baker
Notes:
"Selections from the film performed on the world's most advanced synthesizer".
"Patrick Gleeson's stunning and surreal interpretation of the music from the film".
This abum was recorded on an MCI24 Track with DBX Noise Reductionn and mixed on Different
Fur's Harrison console with Allison 65K automation.
Recorded and mixed at Different Fur, San Francisco, July 1977.
Mastered at Kendun Recording, Burbank.
Album includes a two-sided 12" insert with credits and program notes by Patrick Gleeson.
Side 1:
A1 - Star Wars Theme (Luke's Theme) - 5:49
A2 - The Tatooine Desert - 6:25
A3 - Death Star - 5:29
Side 2:
B1 - Star Wars Cantina Music - 3:15
B2 - Princess Leia's Theme - 4:03
B3 - Droids - 2:18
B4 - Ben Kenobi's Theme - 7:07
Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Different Fur Studios
Mixed At – Different Fur Studios
Mastered At – Kendun Recorders
Manufactured By – Phonogram, Inc.
Distributed By – Phonodisc, Inc.
Credits:
Arranged By – Andy Narrel*, Charles Mims*
Artwork – Peter Lloyd (4)
Composed By – John Williams (4)
Drums – Billy Cobham, Harvey Mason, James Levi, Ronnie Beck*
Engineer – Pete Chaikin, Peter Granet, Seth Dworken, Skip Shimmin
Lyricon – Lenny Picket*
Producer, Keyboards, Performer [Breath Controller], Arranged By, Conductor, Engineer – Patrick Gleeson
Vocals – Sarah Baker
Notes:
"Selections from the film performed on the world's most advanced synthesizer".
"Patrick Gleeson's stunning and surreal interpretation of the music from the film".
This abum was recorded on an MCI24 Track with DBX Noise Reductionn and mixed on Different
Fur's Harrison console with Allison 65K automation.
Recorded and mixed at Different Fur, San Francisco, July 1977.
Mastered at Kendun Recording, Burbank.
Album includes a two-sided 12" insert with credits and program notes by Patrick Gleeson.
Patrick Gleeson – Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars
Label: Mercury – SRM-1-1178
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
All things Star Wars
Herbie Hancock
Leatherneck, Pillow, a Hungry i
Meco (Domenico Monardo)
Star Wars
John Williams
Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars (33 mins. 16 secs.)
Label: Mercury – SRM-1-1178
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Viewfinder links:
Herbie Hancock
Leatherneck, Pillow, a Hungry i
Meco (Domenico Monardo)
Star Wars
John Williams
Net links:
Star Wars.com ~ Star Wars Day ~ May the Fourth Be With You
John Williams website
YouTube link:
May the Fourth Be With You
Styrous® ~ Monday, May 4, 2020
February 16, 2016
20,000 Vinyl LPs 51: Action Jackson & Vanity
Action Jackson soundtrack album
cover photo by Peter Sorel
Copyright 1988, Lorimar Productions
photo of album cover by Styrous®
I just discovered Vanity
died yesterday. I was saddened to hear the news and began hearing her
music in my mind. She only made two albums but she made an impression on
me when she was in full swing.
She was a model before Prince discovered her In 1980 and propelled her into the music
scene. She met Prince at the American Music Awards.
Prince renamed her Vanity because, he said, he saw his female
reflection when he looked at her. She first sang backing vocals for his song Free on his 1982 album, 1999; she reappeared on his 1994 album, Come, in the song, Orgasm. In 1982, she sang on the album, Vanity 6, along with Brenda Bennett and Susan Moonsie, one of many projects produced by Prince. The hit song from the album was the funky, Nasty Girl, which was composed and written by Prince.
Action Jackson soundtrack album
back cover photos by Peter Sorel
Copyright 1988, Lorimar Productions
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid- to late 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). The word funk
initially referred (and still refers) to a strong
odor. It is originally derived from Latin "fumigare" (to smoke) via Old
French "fungiere" and, in this sense, first documented in English in
1620. In 1784 "funky" meaning "musty" is first documented, which, in
turn, led to a sense of "earthy" that was taken up around 1900 in early
jazz slang for something deeply or strongly felt. It was a term used in
the early sixties by the gay community; it was picked up by funk
musicians in the late sixties.
Due to its explicit lyrics, Nasty Girl met with resistance on mainstream American radio, peaking within the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. It did, however, become a sizable hit on U.S. R&B radio and it hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart for four weeks in November 1982. The song was knocked off the number one position by Prince's 1999.
Lead singer Vanity, who later became a Christian preacher, subsequently
denounced the song and told members of her congregation who listened to
the song to "keep praying for the Holy Spirit"
Vanity was born Denise Katrina Matthews on January 4, 1959, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Her mother is of Polish descent and was born in Germany and her father was African American. She won the Miss Niagara Hospitality title in 1977 and went on to compete for Miss Canada in 1978.
In 1980, Matthews had a small role in the horror movie Terror Train, which was filmed in Montreal a year earlier. She then went to Toronto to film the lead role in the B-movie, Tanya's Island. At the time of both film roles, she was billed as D.D. Winters. After her music career started, as Vanity she starred in a number of movies, including The Last Dragon, which featured her underground hit 7th Heaven. In 1986 she starred in Never Too Young to Die opposite John Stamos. The film also featured Gene Simmons. She went on to appear in 52 Pick-Up and 1988's Action Jackson, her highest profile role, in which she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone.
Vanity was linked romantically to Adam Ant and Billy Idol. In 1987, she stated that she and Mötley Crüe bassist, Nikki Sixx, were engaged; she joked that she would become Vanity 6 (Sixx) again.
In 1994, Vanity overdosed on crack cocaine and suffered from near-fatal renal failure. She recalled that after being rushed to the hospital, doctors said she had three days to live while on life support. She said that Jesus appeared to her at this time and spoke to her, saying if she promised to give up her Vanity persona, he would save her. When she recovered, she renounced her stage name and career and became a born-again Christian. In 1995, she said, "When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I threw out about 1,000 tapes of mine — interviews, every tape, every video. Everything." She stated that she had chosen not to receive any further revenue from her work as Vanity, and cut off all ties with Hollywood and her former life in show business.
Matthews suffered from sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis, a rare complication of a peritoneal dialysis, and died in a Fremont, California hospital yesterday, February 15, 2016. She was 57.
In 1980, Matthews had a small role in the horror movie Terror Train, which was filmed in Montreal a year earlier. She then went to Toronto to film the lead role in the B-movie, Tanya's Island. At the time of both film roles, she was billed as D.D. Winters. After her music career started, as Vanity she starred in a number of movies, including The Last Dragon, which featured her underground hit 7th Heaven. In 1986 she starred in Never Too Young to Die opposite John Stamos. The film also featured Gene Simmons. She went on to appear in 52 Pick-Up and 1988's Action Jackson, her highest profile role, in which she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone.
Action Jackson movie poster
Vanity was linked romantically to Adam Ant and Billy Idol. In 1987, she stated that she and Mötley Crüe bassist, Nikki Sixx, were engaged; she joked that she would become Vanity 6 (Sixx) again.
In 1994, Vanity overdosed on crack cocaine and suffered from near-fatal renal failure. She recalled that after being rushed to the hospital, doctors said she had three days to live while on life support. She said that Jesus appeared to her at this time and spoke to her, saying if she promised to give up her Vanity persona, he would save her. When she recovered, she renounced her stage name and career and became a born-again Christian. In 1995, she said, "When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I threw out about 1,000 tapes of mine — interviews, every tape, every video. Everything." She stated that she had chosen not to receive any further revenue from her work as Vanity, and cut off all ties with Hollywood and her former life in show business.
Matthews suffered from sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis, a rare complication of a peritoneal dialysis, and died in a Fremont, California hospital yesterday, February 15, 2016. She was 57.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
1 - The Pointer Sisters - He Turned Me Out - written by LeMel Humes, Mary Lee Kortes - Producer: Richard Perry - 4:25
2 - Madame X - Action Jackson - written by Bernadette Cooper - Producer: Bernadette Cooper - 5:01
3 - LeVert - For The Love Of Money - written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff & Anthony Jackson - Producers: Craig Cooper*, Gerald Levert, Marc Gordon - 5:24
4 - Vanity - Undress Me - written by Kim Cage & Jesse Johnson - Producer: Jesse Johnson - 4:10
5 - Herbie Hancock - Building Up "Action Jackson" - written by Herbie Hancock - Producer: Herbie Hancock, Co-producer: Michael Kamen - 4:05
Side 2:
1 - Sister Sledge - Keeping Good Loving - written & produced by: Kae Williams Jr., Kathy Sledge, Phillip Lightfoot - 5:24
2 - Dave Koz & Vanity - Shotgun, Featuring Kareem - written by Autry DeWalt II - Producer: Jeff Lorber - 4:12
3 - Vanity - Faraway Eyes - written by Sue Ann Carwell & Jesse Johnson - Producer: Jesse Johnson - 4:24
4 - Skyy - Lover's Celebration - Producers: Randy Muller & Solomon Roberts Jr. - 3:46
5 - MC Jam & Pee Wee Jam - Protect And Serve - Producer: Stevie Salas - 5:05
Notes:
Some covers are gold stamped as promotional.
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode (Scanned): 075679088611
Net links:
Action Jackson cast and crew on IMDb
Action Jackson info on Forgotten Flix
Action Jackson Roger Ebert review
Yahoo Obituary
CNN Obituary
Rolling Stone Obituary
Washington Post Obituary
Variety Obituary
NY Daily News Obituary
YouTube links:
Vanity - Faraway Eyes
Vanity - Undress Me
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Action Jackson Official Trailer
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I started the Vinyl LP series because I have a collection of over 20,000 vinyl record albums I am selling; each blog entry is about an album from my collection. Inquire for information here.
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Those far away eyes will be missed!
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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