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The Oddity of KRIT Motors
One of the little known car manufacturers out of Detroit was KRIT or K-R-I-T motors. The main reason was that the company was only in existence for seven years—1909-1916. The company was never able to build up momentum because of the outbreak of World War I which interrupted the company’s...- Futwick
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Swing girls
Don't know if this has been posted before. Not bad for a bunch of high school chicks--Japanese at that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ob9I1O1J8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jYoJe4IN4U- Futwick
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Golden Era Trap Sets
My earliest instrument was the drums which I began playing at age 8. Before then, I had a little toy drum kit I got for Christmas but I started to get good on it and so my parents got me a real kit and signed me up for lessons. I hated the lessons but I loved playing and I knew the lessons...- Futwick
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Do You Listen to "40s on 4" on Sirius/XM?
I subscribe to satellite radio for my car. They have a 40s on 4 program, i.e. 40s music played on channel 4, as well as a 50s on 5, 60s on 6, 70s on 7, 80s on 8. Unfortunately, no 30s on 3 or 20s on 2. I keep writing them about it. They probably use the old formula of one letter or email... -
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We Deserve Better--Or Do We?
[This is more a blog than anything and you certainly don't have to agree with it so don't be afraid to do so.] As much as I detest modern day music and fashion, I have to ask why do we have it? Do we just get lazy all the sudden? Did guys just decide one day, “I don’t want to wear a fedora...- Futwick
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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That WAS a golden era
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The Double Bass
The sound of jazz is the sound of the double bass. While jazzy rock and fusion have opted for bass guitars, most of jazz has remained loyal to the double bass. It’s what gives jazz its distinctive sound. Certainly vintage jazz is typified and captured in the double bass whether we are talking...- Futwick
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Barbershops
Long ago, barbers were something like doctors, dentists and salonists--they performed minor surgery, pulled teeth and trimmed your hair and mustache and beard. They were actually called barber surgeons. The barber trade is ancient, going back easily 5000 years. Origninally, barber surgeons...- Futwick
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Drugstores
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Play Ball!
Published in 1908, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was written by Albert von Tilzer (music) and Jack Norworth (lyrics). Norworth came up with the idea of the writing it when he saw a baseball advertisement on the subway. Norworth was the husband of Nora Bayes--one of the highest paid performers... -
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Art Tatum
Art Tatum (1909-1956) was born in Toledo and showed musical promise at an early age despite being born nearly blind. At 3, he was already playing piano by ear via listening to his mother’s church choir and then repeating what they sang. Later, he listened to the radio and to player-pianos... -
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Barraud and Nipper
Francis James Barraud was born in Liverpool, England on June 16, 1856 and came from a family of painters. His father, Henry (1811-1874), had been a noted painter. And his Uncle William, Henry’s older brother, had also been a noted painter. Most of their works covered wildlife, fox hunting and... -
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Maceo Pinkard
[I have been trying to assemble a decent biography of Maceo Pinkard but there seems to be little to find. The following the best I've been able to come up with but some of you might have more info and might correct errors. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanx.] With summer on the... -
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Anybody ever read Mumbo Jumbo?
A novel by Ishmael Reed. It was published in '71 or 2 but the story takes place in 1920s New York, Harlem. It was one of the books that influenced Shea and Wilson to write the Illuminatus Trilogy. When I first read Illuminatus in '86, I was serving in the US Navy and had just left the...- Futwick
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The Strange Irony of Existence
I am half-Japanese--my mother was a Japanese citizen, my father was a white American--born after WW2. While I certainly didn't support the Japanese military govt of the war (my mother despised them), I realize an irony: I can trace my existence to one incident--Pearl Harbor. Without Pearl... -
