#Bettye

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Lou Reed and his first wife Bettye Kronstad.

[gazihsah]

「let me down easy」

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Bettye Swann - Words (1969)

Words was a big hit for the Bee Gees, and later for Boyzone in the UK (can't say I've ever heard it), but here's Bettye with a wonderful version.

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A bit early in my Oregon time zone, but in many places in the world it's already 28 June 2024, the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion.

HAPPY PRIDE to all my QUILTBAG siblings and niblings and elders!

To counter some misinformation spread by transphobes, some helpful URLS

What Stonewall means to the people who were there

Gay rights pioneer & AIDS activist Yvonne Ritter shares personal experience in Stonewall Riots who is the third from left in Fred McDarrah's photo of gay youths at Stonewall -- and is an out and proud trans woman

Audio interviews on the first Christopher Street Day taken by Breck Ardery (2 sides)

Guardian article on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion

Village Voice onthe 40th anniversary

The Atlantic about Craig Rodwell's Oscar Wilde Bookshop

Interview with Craig Rodwell on Making Gay History

NPS's Virtual Fence Exhibit

Some of Fred McDarrah's Pride Photos, ccn( first page) and NY1.com (second page )

1999 article on Stonewall orig published in Socialism Today

Portrait of Craig Rodwell and Pride

Christopher Park Stonewall National Monument article: https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/christopher-park/ (And nothing about Fred Sargggghgent bc I find it reprehensible that he waited until Craig Rodwell was dead to start stealing Craig's thunder. Plus, you know, literal cop)

[claudia1829things]

Favorite Episodes of "THE OFFER" (2022)

Below is a list of my favorite episodes from "THE OFFER", Paramount+'s biographical miniseries about producer Albert S. Ruddy's memories of the making of the 1972 Oscar winning film, "THE GODFATHER". Created by Michael Tolkan, the miniseries starred Miles Teller and Matthew Goode:

FAVORITE EPISODES OF "THE OFFER" (2022)

1. (1.06) "A Stand Up Guy" - Producer Albert "Al" Ruddy deals with the fallout from the disastrous press conference regarding mobster Joe Columbo's Italian-American Civil Rights League. Paramount Studios' Head of Production, Robert Evans creates a plan to save the studio from a buyout. Ruddy's assistant Bettye McCartt takes action as the first day of filming is compromised by collisions with Gulf and Western, Paramount and the mob.

2. (1.07) "Mr. Producer" - Dissatisfied with the movie's footage, studio executive Barry Lapidus plans a potential coup as Ruddy attempts to save director Francis Ford Coppola and leading man Al Pacino's jobs. Mob leader Carlo Gambino questions Colombo's leadership, while the latter holds another Italian-American Civil Rights League rally.

3. (1.04) "The Right Shade of Yellow" - With Pacino and Marlon Brando considered for the leading roles in "The Godfather", Ruddy is faced with a variety of issues.

4. (1.02) "Warning Shots" - With Coppola and author Mario Puzo penning the script for "The Godfather", Ruddy and McCartt confront an ever-growing list of opposition. Evans and Lapidus lock horns over the creative direction of Paramount Pictures.

5. (1.09) "It's Who We Are" - As production runs into challenges in Sicily, Ruddy leaves early to get Evans back on track. Coppola's vision for the edit is jeopardized by post-production disputes. McCartt thinks about her next move.

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1982, from LA based Motown

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Bettye Lavette performing in 1965. I would definitely recommend reading her book, it was raw and very brutal. She’s definitely lived her life like most groupies in those days. I would relate her to Barbara Payton, Lithofayne Pridgon, or PP Arnold. Her book is a 10/10, it’s called A Woman Like Me.

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 2, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2023

Leyla McCalla controls the weather.

An overcast day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park suddenly turned sun-soaked when the former Carolina Chocolate Drop sang: My face to the sun as she performed Our Native Daughters’ “I Knew I Could Fly” during her Sept. 30 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass set on the Towers of Gold Stage.

“That’s awesome,” she said mid-verse as the Earth’s star emerged from the afternoon clouds.

Following the electric and steel guitar instrumentals of Hermanos Gutiérrez on the adjacent Swan stage and playing cello, banjo and electric guitar, backed with rhythm section and electric guitar, McCalla covered Kendrick Lamar’s “Crown” and offered a gumbo of New Orleanian, Haitian and American music delivered in English and Haitian Creole while showcasing her the Capitalist Blues and Breaking the Thermometer LPs.

The Sound Biteses’ day had begun in the pre-noon fog with the down-in-the-holler, old-time string music of Dry Branch Fire Squad playing the songs of Gillian Welch, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe on the Banjo stage. Later, it was gospel from the McCrary Sisters, who sung Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” “Amazing Grace” and other numbers backed by a full band during short, five- to 15-minute sets on the Rooster stage, where Brennan Leigh offered a lunchtime menu of traditional country music.

It was also on the Rooster that Emmylou Harris previewed her Sunday appearance by guesting with Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson and closing their Doc Watson tribute set with Guy Clark’s “Old Friends.”

Shortly afterward, Bettye LaVette sauntered onstage to deliver her grinding version of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” From here, it was an impassioned reading of songs from the Randall Bramblett-written LaVette! album as the singer prowled the stage and proved her 77 years have cost her nothing in vocal prowess and stage presence.

“If I could write, this is what I would have said,” LaVette said in introducing the new songs, which worked better on stage than on wax.

Rickie Lee Jones attracted a ginormous crowd to Banjo - “I haven’t seen so many people in front of me for so long,” she said, soaking it in - and their enthusiasm rubbed off. Jones, whose band included Vilray on guitar and vocals, plus accordion and bass, was animated as she danced around the stage and crooned like a lounge singer when she wasn’t playing guitar, banjo or piano.

Opening with a radically rearranged “Danny’s All-Star Joint” more suited for the streets of New Orleans than the fields of Golden Gate, Jones went on to perform “I Won’t Grow Up” - for the first time, she said - “Last Chance Texaco,” “We Belong Together” and a sinewy rendition of Steely Dan’s “Show Biz Kids” that found Jones lifting her orange sweater to sing of the Rickie Lee T-shirt beneath.

Give RLJ the MVP for turning in HSB No. 2’s No. 1 gig.

Faced with the quintessential festivalgoers’ dilemma, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites split the last hour between Steve Earle’s uncharacteristically sleepy solo-acoustic set on the Banjo and Irma Thomas’ barnburner R&B/soul revival at the Rooster.

At 82, Thomas played the day’s most rambunctious set, ripping into “Time is on My Side” and getting the audience bouncing and waving their handkerchiefs on her mashup of “I Done Got Over It” -> “Iko Iko” -> “Hey Pocky Way” -> “I Done Got Over It.” That one might be ringing through Golden Gate’s trees along with the birdsong for some time to come.

Read Sound Bites’ coverage of HSB Day One here.

10/1/23

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Odesza, feat. Bettye LaVette The Last Goodbye

[gunnerina]

McLaren invited fascist and Nazi sympathizer Donald Trump and standing next to him while people chant “USA” (which to this American woman of color is genuinely equivalent to hate speech and had I been there I probably would’ve left out of fear of my life and that is not an exaggeration) is insane.

But furthermore shame on the FIA for allowing this team to not only bring in politics after banning people like Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel from speaking up for Black lives and LGBTQ+ rights, but allowing the team to bring in a far right, neo Nazi promoting politician.

McLaren you have just proven once again what a disgusting amoral team you are, Zak Brown it’s been obvious how you leaned but to know you stand with right wing media extremists just truly takes the cake, and FIA has shown its ass again about where it stands on the political spectrum.

Literally fuck McLaren, fuck Formula 1, fuck the FIA.

[madeinthesixties]

Bettye LaVette

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Bettye Swann - Sweet Dreams (1969)

Here’s Bettye Swann, one of my favorite vocalists, with a cover of Don GIbson’s country classic.

I should hate you ...

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