#Savoy Records

[soulmusicsongs]

Since I Laid My Burdens Down - The Swan Silvertones (Since I Laid My Burdens Down, 1978)

[odk-2]

Werly Fairburn - Telephone Baby (1957) E. Myers from: "Telephone Baby" / "No Blues Tomorrow" (Single) "Werly Fairburn: Everybody's Rockin" (1993 Bear Family Records Compilation) "Rock-A-Billy Dynamite" (2013 Box Set | CD23)

Rockabilly

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Personnel: Werly Fairburn: Vocals / Guitar Joe Martin: Bass Eddie Landers: Drums

Unknown: Piano

Recorded: @ The Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana USA August, 1957

Released: on September 9, 1957

Savoy Records

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"Telephone baby, with your feet up on the wall" Photograph by Gordon Parks, 1951

Gordon Parks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks

[chasgow]

The Parkers - New Sounds in Modern Music, 1948 Savoy Records Album S-509

3 x shellac  10″ 78rpm records 

[lpsgirl109]

something about rick's last words to phin being him telling her to look away as he gets blown up

[arterrorist]

Savoy Brown „Looking in” (1970) - their sixth album, I was looking for it fir a while and finaly found it for an affordable price✨

I really like their take on British blues rock, and would gladly add „Hellbound train” to my collection. One day I will 🤗

[ominous-synths-records]

When I Was A Young Boy - Savoy Brown

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[rageyourdream]

[allgoodmusic]

$1 at the library!

[oopsl]

Blue Matter by Savoy Brown, 1969

[city-of-ladies]

"The most notable players in Palaiologue politics were the empresses Yolanda-Irene of Montferrat and Anna of Savoy, and on the whole their record is woeful: Yolanda-Irene of Montferrat, second wife of Andronikos II, was unable to comprehend the succession rights of her eldest stepson, Michael IX, and since her husband remained obstinately unmoved by her representations she flounced off with her three sons to Thessalonika where she kept a separate court for many years from 1303 to her death in 1317. From her own domain she issued her own decrees, conducted her own foreign policy and plotted against her husband with the Serbs and Catalans: in mitigation, she had seen her five-year-old daughter married off to the middle-aged Serbian lecher Milutin, and considered that her eldest son John had been married beneath him to a Byzantine aristocrat, Irene Choumnaina. She died embittered and extremely wealthy.

When Yolanda’s grandson Andronikos III died early, leaving a nine-year old son John V and no arrangements for a regent, the empress Anna of Savoy assumed the regency. In so doing she provoked a civil war with her husband’s best friend John Kantakouzenos, and devastated the empire financially, bringing it to bankruptcy and pawning the crown jewels to Venice, as well as employing Turkish mercenaries and, it appears, offering to have her son convert to the church of Rome. Gregoras specifically blames her for the civil war, though he admits that she should not be criticised too heavily since she was a woman and a foreigner. Her mismanagement was not compensated for by her later negotiations in 1351 between John VI Kantakouzenos and her son in Thessalonika, who was planning a rebellion with the help of Stephen Dushan of Serbia. In 1351 Anna too settled in Thessalonika and reigned over it as her own portion of the empire until her death in c. 1365, even minting her own coinage.

These women were powerful and domineering ladies par excellence, but with the proviso that their political influence was virtually minimal. Despite their outspokenness and love of dominion they were not successful politicians: Anna of Savoy, the only one in whose hands government was placed, was compared to a weaver’s shuttle that ripped the purple cloth of empire. But there were of course exceptions. Civil wars ensured that not all empresses were foreigners and more than one woman of Byzantine descent reached the throne and was given quasi-imperial functions by her husband. 

Theodora Doukaina Komnene Palaiologina, wife of Michael VIII, herself had imperial connections as the great-niece of John III Vatatzes, and issued acts concerning disputes over monastic properties during her husband’s reign, even addressing the emperor’s officials on occasion and confirming her husband’s decisions. Nevertheless, unlike other women of Michael’s family who went into exile over the issue, she was forced to support her husband’s policy of church union with Rome, a stance which she seems to have spent the rest of her life regretting. She was also humiliated when he wished to divorce her to marry Constance-Anna of Hohenstaufen, the widow of John III Vatatzes.

Another supportive empress consort can be seen in Irene Kantakouzene Asenina, whose martial spirit came to the fore during the civil war against Anna of Savoy and the Palaiologue ‘faction’. Irene in 1342 was put in charge of Didymoteichos by her husband John VI Kantakouzenos; she also organised the defence of Constantinople against the Genoese in April 1348 and against John Palaiologos in March 1353, being one of the very few Byzantine empresses who took command in military affairs. But like Theodora, Irene seems to have conformed to her husband’s wishes in matters of policy and agreed with his decisions concerning the exclusion of their sons from the succession and their eventual abdication in 1354.

Irene and her daughter Helena Kantakouzene, wife of John V Palaiologos, were both torn by conflicting loyalties between different family members, and Helena in particular was forced to mediate between her ineffectual husband and the ambitions of her son and grandson. She is supposed to have organised the escape of her husband and two younger sons from prison in 1379 and was promptly taken hostage with her father and two sisters by her eldest son Andronikos IV and imprisoned until 1381; her release was celebrated with popular rejoicing in the capital. According to Demetrios Kydones she was involved in political life under both her husband and son, Manuel II, but her main role was in mediating between the different members of her family.

In a final success story, the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, owed his throne to his mother. The Serbian princess Helena Dragash, wife of Manuel II Palaiologos, in the last legitimating political manoeuvre by a Byzantine empress, successfully managed to keep the throne for her son Constantine and fend off the claims of his brother Demetrios. She arranged for Constantine’s proclamation as emperor in the Peloponnese and asserted her right to act as regent until his arrival in the capital from Mistra in 1449.

Despite the general lack of opportunity for them to play a role in politics, Palaiologue imperial women in the thirteenth century found outlets for their independent spirit and considerable financial resources in other ways. They were noted for their foundation or restoration of monastic establishments and for their patronage of the arts. Theodora Palaiologina restored the foundation of Constantine Lips as a convent for fifty nuns, with a small hospital for laywomen attached, as well as refounding a smaller convent of Sts Kosmas and Damian. She was also an active patron of the arts, commissioning the production of manuscripts like Theodora Raoulaina, her husband’s niece. Her typikon displays the pride she felt in her family and position, an attitude typically found amongst aristocratic women.

Clearly, like empresses prior to 1204, she had considerable wealth in her own hands both as empress and dowager. She had been granted the island of Kos as her private property by Michael, while she had also inherited land from her family and been given properties by her son Andronikos. Other women of the family also display the power of conspicuous spending: Theodora Raoulaina used her money to refound St Andrew of Crete as a convent where she pursued her scholarly interests. 

Theodora Palaiologina Angelina Kantakouzene, John Kantakouzenos’s mother, was arguably the richest woman of the period and financed Andronikos III’s bid for power in the civil war against his grandfather. Irene Choumnaina Palaiologina, in name at least an empress, who had been married to Andronikos II’s son John and widowed at sixteen, used her immense wealth, against the wishes of her parents, to rebuild the convent of Philanthropes Soter, where she championed the cause of ‘orthodoxy’ against Gregory Palamas and his hesychast followers. Helena Kantakouzene, too, wife of John V, was a patron of the arts. She had been classically educated and was the benefactor of scholars, notably of Demetrios Kydones who dedicated to her a translation of one of the works of St Augustine. 

The woman who actually holds power in this period, Anna of Savoy, does her sex little credit: like Yolanda she appears to have been both headstrong and greedy, and, still worse, incompetent. In contrast, empresses such as Irene Kantakouzene Asenina reflect the abilities of their predecessors: they were educated to be managers, possessed of great resources, patrons of art and monastic foundations, and, given the right circumstances, capable of significant political involvement in religious controversies and the running of the empire. Unfortunately they generally had to show their competence in opposition to official state positions. While they may have wished to emulate earlier regent empresses, they were not given the chance: the women who, proud of their class and family, played a public and influential part in the running of the empire belonged to an earlier age."

Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204, Lynda Garland

[rolloroberson]

Paul McCartney and George Harrison recording harmonies and background for “Savoy Truffle” at Trident Studios in London circa October 5, 1968. Photographed by Linda McCartney during the White Album sessions.

[soulmusicsongs]

What Would You Give - The Artistic Sounds (Message To A Nation, 1977)

[odk-2]

Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train (1972) Kim Simmonds / Andy Silvester from: “Hellbound Train” (LP)

Blues | Blues/Rock | British Blues | Dirge

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Album Personnel: Dave Walker: Lead Vocals Kim Simmonds: Lead Guitar / Harmonica / Backing Vocals Paul Raymond: Keyboards / Guitar / Backing Vocals Andy Silvester: Bass Dave Bidwell: Drums

Produced by Neil Slaven

Recorded: @ The Trident Studios in London, England UK 1972

Released: in February, 1972

Deram Records (UK) Parrot Records (US)

[omgthatdress]

Night Gown

early 18th century

The Victoria & Albert Museum

"The loosely cut style of this man's informal robe is based on that of the Japanese kimono. Robes like this became popular in Europe from the mid-17th century, brought back by members of the East India Company, and by the 1670s European tailors were making them. The exact geographic and cultural source of the style was not generally well known in England, where they were called 'Indian gowns' when made of any non-European fabric, for example, Indian cottons, Chinese or Indian silks.

This nightgown is a striking and rare example, in very good condition for its age, made from blue silk damask woven in China for import into Europe. Such silks were primarily intended for furnishing, and appear in merchants' records as 'bed damasks'; the length of their pattern repeat was displayed to best advantage in the long drop of bed curtains. A silk damask of closely similar design to this was used to furnish a room in the summer palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Schlosshof, in 1725 (now in MAK in Vienna)."

[facts-i-just-made-up]

I haven't been in my home country of Norway for a while. Need some facts about it to remain sane please

Norway is a tropical island nation off the coast of Paraguay. Founded in 1914 by Tenzing Norge, the isle of Norway was quickly overrun by invaders from the neighboring Viking nation of Scandinavia.

Viking Norway lasted from 1915 to 1971, and the battles and treaties between various Viking leaders are recorded as a "Saga" by historian Brian K. Vaughan. Events in the Saga include the discovery of the Americas by Leif Erikson, the conquest of Terra Cimmeria by Erik Leifson, the recording of developmental psychology by Erik Erikson, and the invention of the Harmonica by Leif Leifson.

In 1971, Christianity was introduced to Norway by St. Olaf of Arendelle. Olaf was opposed by the Pagan leader King Cnut. That's C-N-U-T, read more carefully. Cnut was able to hold Olaf back for several years with his magical power of controlling the tides, but eventually, St. Olaf was able to land and convert the nation to Christianity, which resulted in the manufacture of numerous churches, which in turn provided firewood for numerous heavy metal singers like Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.

Today in 2011, Norway is a prospering nation with the strongest economy in the world, owing to their main export of Whale-Lard. Norwegian Whale-Lard is an important ingredient in McDonald's fries, Apple's iPhone A16 processors, and the elixir that keeps Jimmy Carter alive.

Norway is also shaped like a soup ladle.

[arterrorist]

It’s Kim Simmonds farewell. I’ve just learned he’s gone 🥺

I saw Savoy Brown live about 10 years ago, Kim was the only original member left. The show was very energetic and enjoyable. It was a small pub and Kim went out after the concert to sign some records and chat with fans. That’s how I’ll remember him - as a great musician and a great, amiable guy 😥

Spinning some Savoy Brown classics tonight.