The Jack Benny Program: Jack Is A Contestant (With Groucho Marx)

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What's My Line? - Groucho returns to the Panel! - Anne Bancroft (Nov 15,...

5 full YEARS after his first appearance on the WML panel demolishing the whole format, the producers dared to have him back on the panel again. 

MYSTERY GUEST: Anne Bancroft
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf

NOTE: There was no WML broadcast on Nov 1, 1964, and the Nov 8, 1964 show with Robert Goulet as mystery guest is thought to be lost. The Oct 25th 1964 show with James Garner was posted earlier this year in tribute after his passing: It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_3Q3...

Groucho's first WML panel appearance in 1959-- by FAR the most popular video on this channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6wxr...

Groucho returns to WML as mystery guest in 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_NzX...

Groucho returns one last time as mystery guest in 1967:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tjO...

For more rare videos of the Marx Brothers and other legenedary comedians like the Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Burns & Allen, please visit the Vintage Comedy Vault channel athttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWdq...

Marx Bros. rare video playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dl82K...

Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIb...

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What's My Line? - Groucho Marx destroys the show; Claudette Colbert (Sep...

everyone on stage appears to be loving it just as much as the audience is. One of Groucho's finest (half) hours after the breakup of the Marx Brothers as a team.

MYSTERY GUEST: Claudette Colbert (Groucho on Panel)
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf

Groucho returns to WML as mystery guest in 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_NzX...

Groucho returns to the WML panel in 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSrD...

Groucho returns one last time as mystery guest in 1967:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tjO...

Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIb...

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TRUMAN CAPOTE writes about Marlon Brando

Profiles NOVEMBER 9, 1957 ISSUE

The Duke in His Domain

BY TRUMAN CAPOTE

And books, a deep-thought cascade, among which one saw Colin Wilson’s “The Outsider” and various works on Buddhist prayer, Zen meditation, Yogi breathing, and Hindu mysticism, but no fiction, for Brando reads none. He has never, he professes, opened a novel since April 3, 1924, the day he was born, in Omaha, Nebraska. But while he may not care to read fiction, he does desire to write it, and the long lacquer table was loaded with overfilled ashtrays and piled pages of his most recent creative effort, which happens to be a film script entitled “A Burst of Vermilion.”



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Marlon Brando and a Cuban Cigar

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Allman Brothers Band - July 17, 1971 - Municipal Auditorium - Atlanta, Ga.

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History of Southern Rock

 Published on Oct 15, 2012

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The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert - 09/23/70 - Fillmore East (OFFI...

ublished on Nov 13, 2014

The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East (New York, NY)

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Setlist:
0:00:00 - Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
0:04:06 - Dreams
0:13:55 - Whipping Post

Personnel:
Gregg Allman - organ, vocals
Duane Allman - guitar, vocals
Dickey Betts - guitar, vocals
Berry Oakley - bass, vocals
Butch Trucks - drums
Jai Johanny Johanson - drums
Tom Doucette - harp

Summary:
On this date, Bill Graham assembled a stellar roster of bands to participate in the filming of a television special called Welcome To The Fillmore East for broadcast on educational channels. Short sets were filmed by the Byrds, the Elvin Bishop Group, Sha-Na-Na, Van Morrison, and the Allman Brothers Band, as well as behind-the-scenes footage of Bill Graham and the Fillmore East staff at work.

The Allman Brothers performance is nothing short of spectacular and features the original lineup that included Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Recorded six months prior to the legendary Live At Fillmore East double album set, this performance captures the Allman Brothers when they were a relatively new band, full of youthful passion and performing what would become classic original material when it was fresh and new.

Following Bill Graham's introduction, they kick things off with a tight performance of "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'," which features the band's friend, Tom Doucette, blowing harp over the group's trademark sound. Gregg's vocal is barely audible, but it's obvious the group is full of fire. "Dreams," which follows, slows things down a bit and the group establishes a relaxed groove that showcases their trademark sound, blending elements that would eventually come to define "Southern Rock."

They hit their stride on the next number, Dickey Betts' "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed." Here, the dual guitar attack of Allman and Betts is astounding. The two guitarists intertwine and synchronize in a manner nothing short of telepathic, creating a melting pot seasoned with elements of jazz, rock, country, and blues into a style utterly their own. The set ends with a ferocious take of "Whipping Post" that features outstanding melodic bass playing from Berry Oakley, with both Duane Allman and Dickey Betts soaring over the propulsive rhythm section. Shorter than the expansive versions that would develop in coming months, this is all the more fascinating for it, as they compress an incredible amount of energy into the time allotted.

Time constrictions and vocal microphone malfunctions aside, this is still a fascinating performance. This original lineup of the band was certainly one of the most innovative and captivating bands to ever play the Fillmore.

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Delaney & Bonnie with Duane Allman - Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad 1971

Published on Apr 13, 2013

A&R Studios 1971
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Greatest Rock Guitar Playing: Duane Allman on Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude"

Published on Aug 15, 2013

Introduction: Eric Clapton names what he considers to be the "best rock guitar playing on an R&B record". Duane Allman plays lead guitar on Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude"-Version from 1969.
“I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it.., seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me.” Duane Allman

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Nina Simone Documentary

Nina Simone: Gloriously Revived in New Netflix Documentary

The new Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? returns the extraordinary singer Nina Simone back to mass culture in a way she hasn’t been present for in decades. Director Liz Garbus had a considerable challenge — to keep the details of the life Simone led from overwhelming the presentation of her art, and Garbus succeeds in this admirably. 

From the start, the film makes clear Simone was unique. A poor, classically trained pianist who had to fight both poverty and racism to make the art she heard in her head, Simone found her voice in the 1960s, performing idiosyncratic versions of pop, folk, and jazz compositions. 

She became radicalized by the civil rights and black-power movements of the 1960s and early ‘70s: It’s still startling to hear the blunt ferocity in a song she performed such as “Mississippi Goddam,” about the murder of civil rights figure Medgar Evers and the bombing of a Mississippi church that killed four black children. We tend to think we live in more open, un-shockable times, but imagine how pop culture would erupt even today if a well-known pop singer recorded a song as eloquently angry called “Charleston Goddam.” 

At the same time, What Happened, Miss Simone? chronicles the performer’s difficult marriage to Andrew Stroud, a former police officer who became her manager. Initially a shrewd businessman who helped position Simone as a star, Stroud becomes a figure of menace in the film, as comments from Simone, her daughter Lisa Simone Kelly, extracts from the singer’s diaries, and statements by Stroud himself attest to his sometimes-violent bullying and abuse of the singer. Garbus doesn’t shy away from the complications of Simone’s life — after the singer and her husband separated, her daughter ended up choosing to live with her father, because her mother had herself become abusive to the child. 

What Happened, Miss Simone? does a great job of capturing just how tumultuous, fluid, and confusing not just Simone’s life was — she aligned herself with black revolutionary movements and, upon being introduced to Martin Luther King, told him brazenly, “I am not non-violent” — but also the culture surrounding her. In the midst of the controversies she swirled around her like one of her full-length dresses, we see Simone appear on a TV show such as Hugh Hefner’s posh pop mind-blower Playboy Penthouse, singing “I Loves You, Porgy.” 

It is by allowing all the contradictions, triumphs, and sadnesses to come through in all their complexities that this documentary grants Nina Simone, who died in 2003, a new life.

What Happened, Miss Simone? is streaming on Netflix.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/tv/nina-simone-netflix-what-happened-miss-simone-122501047095.html

Ken TuckerCritic-at-LargeJune 26, 2015