#Clarence Williams

[detroitlib]

You're some pretty doll / by Clarence Williams. Song for voice and piano. Caption title. First line of text: Now listen Dolly come over here. First line of chorus: You're so pretty. Cover ill.: Couple holding hands by Barbelle. Above title on cover: Oh! so pretty, you're some pretty doll. New York: Shapiro & Bernstein, 1917.

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

Dave Van Ronk knew the jazz pianist and composer Clarence Williams in his youth. Williams' name is on many, many songs, many (most?) of which he didn't actually write, but bought all the rights to from the people who did. This was a very common practice in the first two decades or so of commercially recorded music. There were probably also some songs he simply stole outright and passed off as his own.

(So when talking about who wrote a particular song that was first recorded in the 'teens, 20s, or 30s, copyright or the record label is not a reliable guide.)

Apparently if you asked Williams about Jelly Roll Morton, he would fly into a rage. "That plagiarist?! That THIEF?!" Apparently Duke Ellington felt the same way, but when Morton was asked about the subject (in the context of WC Handy), he said, "Well, yes, there was a lot of unprotected material around in those days."

[julio-viernes]

El cubo tenía un agujero y nos hemos quedado sin birra. Louis Armstrong ataca en las imágenes, año 1962, una de las canciones que solía hacer en los años 10/20 en su natal Nueva Orleans. Le ayuda a cantar el tema su trombonista Trummy Young. La melodía original del tema atribuido a Clarence Williams, y que Hank Williams llevó al éxito en 1949, es muy similar a "The Midnight Special" y se acaba convirtiendo prácticamente en "Keep A-Knockin".

Hace unos días escuchaba esta canción en voz de Louis Keppard en el LP de Folkways, "The Birth of Jazz. The Music of New Orleans. Recorded by Samuel B. Charters". Keppard intentó hacer con la voz no sólo la parte del cantante principal sino también la orquesta. Muy simpático el paisano.

[mannytoodope]

Bumpy Johnson: A leader, like a shepherd, he sends his fastest nimble sheep, out front. And the others will follow. While the shepherd walks quietly behind... Now he's got the stick and the cane, and he'll use it! If he has to. But most times, he doesn't have to. He moves the whole herd quietly.

[modern-music-through-the-ages]

Clarence Williams (on piano) & His Orchestra (~1925)

The restlessness and entrepreneurial energy that would drive this prolific jazzman - one-part musician, one-part businessman and one-part hustler - were already apparent when Clarence Williams was 12, running away from home to join a traveling minstrel show run by popular comedian Billy Kersands.

That started a remarkable journey from New Orleans to Chicago to New York that would see this one-time honky-tonk pianist, vaudeville showman and cabaret manager - plus songwriter (including some that weren't really his own), music publisher, theatrical producer, A&R man and Harlem Renaissance convenor - play with some of the best, notably including early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Bessie Smith.

Clarence Williams was supposed to retire in 1943, having sold his back catalogue (of more than 2,000 songs) to Decca Records for US$50,000. He was soon back in business however, running his own used goods store, The Harlem Thrift Shop. He continued to write songs until he lost his sight in 1956, after being hit by a cab.

[classichorrorblog]

Tales From The Hood (1995) - Directed by Rusty Cundieff

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Die Hard (1988)

[sparklesfromtheashes]

Memebrush Chronicles

This blog has died for the 10312th time, so I figured I'd share some memes I edited for the LBC fandom!

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[cherryvampiro]

All of my prompt art for Creek Week '23 🌈🫶🏽😊💕

[cyanpromise]

"Oh dear, Little Painter."

[miyagi-hokarate]

1983 Black and White Press Photos, from The Karate Kid Universe

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Clarence Williams Ill

[bubblegumflavor]

This started as a relaxing evening doodle page a bit about more than two weeks ago.. then it turned into full lawrusso madness... then I decided to color it and now it's a moodboard I guess? o-o;

May I present: Disaster-date!Daniel. (But Johnny loves a firecracker..! ^^v)

[koiisure]

"Out of all of them you remind me of him the most"

[a-cat-in-toffee]

a william without platform boots is like an angel without its wings