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Characters I Write For

Please message me with any ideas/requests! I need ideas(short fics or series)

Mostly write for fem!readers. I can write fluff, angst, smut, etc. If I’m not comfortable with something I can let you know

Character/Actor List

Favorite Characters/Actors To Write For

Draco Malfoy, Weasley twins

Jesse Pinkman

Paul Dano characters

Josh Hutcherson characters

Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel

Damon Salvatore, Silas, Klaus Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson

Rodrick Heffley

Bellamy Blake

Ezra Fitz(should probably make it clear I don’t condone)

Ian Duncan(Community)

Charlie(It’s Always Sunny)

Luke Castellan, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase

Finnick Odair

Tommy Shelby

Killian Hook

Paul Dano

Klitz(The Girl Next Door)

Dwayne Hoover(Little Miss Sunshine)

Edward Nashton(The Batman)

Calvin Weir-Fields(Ruby Sparks)

Brian Wilcox(Fast Food Nation)

Joby Taylor(For Ellen)

Nick Flynn(Being Flynn)

Josh Hutcherson

Peeta Mellark(The Hunger Games)

Mike Schmidt(FNAF)

Josh Futturman(Future Man)

Devon Bostick

Rodrick Heffley(Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Jasper Jordan(The 100)

Cillian Murphy

Tommy Shelby(Peaky Blinders)

Dr. Jonathan Crane(The Dark Knight)

Neil(Watching the Detectives)

Christian Bale

Patrick Bateman(American Psycho)

Bruce Wayne(The Dark Knight)

Breaking Bad

Jesse Pinkman

Jane Margolis

Saul Goodman

Harry Potter(Golden Trio Era)

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Hermione Granger

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ginny Weasley

Luna Lovegood

Neville Longbottom

Draco Malfoy

Pansy Parkinson

Blaise Zabini

Theodore Nott

Daphne Greengrass

Adrian Pucey

Terence Higgs

Harry Potter(Marauders Era)

James Potter

Remus Lupin

Sirius Black

Lily Potter

Severus Snape

Regulus Black

Lucius Malfoy

Narcissa Malfoy

Bellatrix Lestrange

Arthur Weasley

Harry Potter(Fantastic Beasts Era)

Newt Scamander

Queenie Goldstein

Leta Lestrange

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson

Annabeth Chase

Luke Castellan

Thalia Grace

Jason Grace

+ Gods

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Aaron Hotchner

Emily Prentiss

Derek Morgan

JJ

Penelope Garcia

David Rossi

Elle Greenaway

Cat Adams

Megan Kane

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

John Winchester

Mary Winchester

Castiel

Charlie Bradbury

Rowena McLeod

Adam Milligan

Lucifer

Ruby

Jessica Moore

Gabriel

Benny Lafitte

Bela Talbot

Jo Harvelle

Ellen Harvelle

Superstore

Jonah Simms

Amy Sosa

Marcus White

Garrett McNeill

Dina Fox

Cheyenne Lee

Bo Thompson

Gilmore Girls

Lorelai Gilmore

Christopher Hayden

Luke Danes

Logan Huntzberger

Jess Mariano

The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark

Katniss Everdeen

Gale Hawthorn

Finnick Odair

Johanna Mason

Haymitch Abernathy

Pretty Little Liars

Aria Montgomery

Spencer Hastings

Emily Fields

Hannah Marin

Mona Vanderwaal

Alison Di Laurentis

Jason Di Laurentis

Ezra Fitz

Toby Cavanaugh

Jenna Marshall

Caleb Rivers

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore

Stefan Salvatore

Katherine Pierce

Elena Gilbert

Jeremy Gilbert

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

The Originals

Klaus Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Marcel Gerard

Davina Claire

Twilight

Edward Cullen

Bella Swan

Alice Cullen

Jasper Hale

Rosalie Hale

Emmett Cullen

Victoria

The 100

Bellamy Blake

Octavia Blake

Jasper Jordan

Shameless

Fiona Gallagher

Lip Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Frank Gallagher

Mandy Milkovich

Kevin Ball

Veronica Fisher

The Bear

Carmy Berzatto

Sydney Adamu

Richie Jerimovich

Suicide Squad

Harley Quinn

Rick Flag

Blackguard

Once Upon A Time

Emma Swan

Regina Mills

Killian Jones

Rumplestiltskin

Robin Hood

Ruby

Hades

Community

Jeff Winger

Abed Nadir

Annie Edison

Troy Barnes

Ian Duncan

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Charlie Kelly

Dennis Reynolds

Dee Reynolds

Mac

Cricket

House MD

Greg House

Robert Chase

James Wilson

Lisa Cuddy

Parks and Recreation

Ben Wyatt

April Ludgate

Andy Dwyer

MCU, Marvel

Steve Rogers

Tony Stark

Natasha Romanoff

Bruce Banner

Wanda Maximoff

Loki Laufeyson

Peter Parker(Holland, Garfield, Maguire)

Gamora

Peter Quill

Scott Lang

Steven Strange

Jessica Jones

Wade Wilson

DC CW

Oliver Queen

Barry Allen

Felicity Smoak

Laurel Lance

Sara Lance

Malcom Merlyn

John Constantine

Leonard Snart

Ray Palmer

Caitlyn Snow

Julian Albert

Rip Hunter

10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona

Cameron James

New Girl

Jess Day

Nick Miller

Schmidt

Other Characters

Charlie Kelmeckis(Perks Of Being A Wallflower)

Jesse Eisenberg Characters

Dr. Who(10th Doctor)

Will Probably Add More

[peterlorrefanpage]

So we need to find Peter Lorre playing baseball

Because during the filming of "You'll Find Out" (1940), this happened:

The annual charity [baseball] game benefiting Mt. Sinai Hospital and free medical clinic matched the Comedians (including Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Andy Devine, Buster Keaton, the Ritz Brothers, Edgar Kennedy, and Leo Carrillo) against the Leading Men (including Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Peter Lorre, and others) before a capacity crowd of 37,700 at Wrigley Field on August 8. Paulette Goddard captained the comics and Marlene Dietrich the principals. Milton Berle announced and Kay Kyser, James Gleason, Chico Marx, and Thurston Hall umpired. Lorre apparently lost himself in the 'charity fracas,' which advertised the Jack Benny–Fred Allen rivalry - Allen: “Did you warm up?” Benny: “Yes.” Allen: “I thought I smelled ham burning" - turned 'first-class riot', which was broken up by the Keystone Cops." - The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre

Maybe Lorre "lost himself" by managing not to be captured by photograph or film, or managed to stay off the field entirely!

But I am intrigued regardless. He'd look so damn cute in a baseball uniform.

I'm hoping he's at least in the background of pictures from the event - and that those pictures are online.

In the meantime, we do have another person to enjoy:

Boris Karloff's appearance as the Frankenstein Monster was a complete surprise for the crowd; he hadn't been listed on the program!

Buster Keaton was the catcher. As Boris thudded toward home:

"Keaton pretended to faint, keeling over backward, falling to the ground, and allowing Karloff to score the run in dramatic fashion."

Source of above two pictures and great writeup

So: Look for August 8, 1940 pictures, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Wrigley Field, charity baseball game, Leading Men vs Comedians. (It's easier to find pictures from surrounding years, drat.)

Lorre should have been signed up for BOTH teams, to match his talents! That would have been hilarious.

Otherwise, well, we've got him at least holding a baseball bat in this iconic Peter Lorre-Sydney Greenstreet picture. My idle fantasy now is that he absconded with that bat from the charity game and brought it along to the photoshoot. :D

[bigfan-fanfic]

Who are the top 5 people who would fit in a poly with Bruce and Batdad?

In-Universe Only: Clark Kent, Oliver Queen, Thomas Blake, Barry Allen, Maxwell Lord With Crossovers: Clark Kent, Bucky Barnes, Alan Scott, Thor, Benny Lafitte

[filmaticbby]

Aries: Tarantino, F. F. Coppola, Andrea Arnold, Eric Rohmer, Edgar Wright, Ruben Östlund, Josh Safdie, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Martin McDonagh

Taurus: Wes Anderson, Orson Welles, Sofia Coppola, Lars von Trier, Terry Zwigoff, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Waters, Frank Capra

Gemini: Fassbinder, Hideaki Anno, Makhmalbaf, Agnès Varda, Alex Garland, Clint Eastwood, Yorgos Lanthimos, Aaron Sorkin, Ken Loach, Alexander Sokurov, Giuseppe Tornatore

Cancer: Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, P. T. Anderson, Mike White, Ari Aster, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Eggers, Béla Tarr, Mel Brooks, Ken Russell, Sidney Lumet, Kinji Fukasaku

Leo: Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Gerwig, Alain Robbe-grillet, Kubrick, Wes Craven, Taika Waititi, Luca Guadagnino, Christopher Nolan, Polanski, Sam Mendes, Richard Linklater, Nicolas Roeg, James Cameron, Pablo Larraín, M. Night Shyamalan, Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Maurice Pialat

Virgo: Tom Ford, Joe Wright, Paul Feig, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Baz Luhrmann, Tim Burton, Friedkin, Takashe Miike, Noah Baumbach, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, E. Coen

Libra: Julie Dash, Almodóvar, Jacques Tati, Ang Lee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ti West, Walerian Borowczyk, Nicolas Winding Refn, Satoshi Kon, Kenneth Lonergan, Michael Powell, Jacques Tati, Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve

Scorpio: Mike Nichols, Barry Jenkins, Charlie Kaufman, Céline Sciamma, Tsai Ming-liang, Jean Rollin, Scorsese, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, François Ozon, Julia Ducournau

Sagittarius: Sion Sono, Cassavetes, Raj Kapoor, Steven Spielberg, Eliza Hittman, Terrence Malick, Ozu, Alfonso Cuarón, Gregg Araki, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, Lenny Abrahamson, J. Coen, Jean Luc Godard, Diane Kurys, Ridley Scott, Lynne Ramsay, Woody Allen, Fritz Lang

Capricorn: Larry Clark, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Damien Chazelle, David Lowery, Mary Harron, Sergio Leone, Todd Haynes, Pedro Costa, Gaspar, Noe, Fellini, Joseph Losey, Miyazaki, John Carpenter, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Curtiz, John Singleton, Vertov

Aquarius: Jim Jarmusch, John Hughes, Darren Aronofsky, Jodorowski, Michael Mann, Derek Cianfrance, Alex Payne, Truffau, Eisenstein, Tone Hooper

Pisces: Pasolini, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Benny Safdie, Jacques Rivette, Bunuel, Luc Besson, David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, Rob Reiner, Mike Mills, Sebastián Lelio, Jordan Peele, Ron Howard, Robert Altman

[projazznet]

Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron – The Complete Blue Note & Capitol Recordings(recorded 1947-1949)

Many valuable performances from the height of the bop era are included on this double CD. Subtitled “The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings” and comprised of 23 songs and 13 alternate takes, the reissue features the great trumpeter Fats Navarro in peak form with three groups headed by pianist/arranger Tadd Dameron, in trumpet battles with one of his major influences, Howard McGhee, and on a remarkable all-star quintet with pianist Bud Powell and the young tenor Sonny Rollins; among the other sidemen are altoist Ernie Henry; tenors Charlie Rouse, Allen Eager, Wardell Gray, and Dexter Gordon; and vibraphonist Milt Jackson. In addition to such gems as “Our Delight,” “Lady Bird,” “Double Talk,” “Bouncing With Bud,” “Dance of the Infidels,” and “52nd Street Theme,” Fats is heard with the 1948 Benny Goodman septet (“Stealin’ Apples”) and Dameron leads a group with the 22-year-old Miles Davis. On a whole, this double CD has more than its share of essential music that belongs in all historical jazz collections (Scott Yanow/AllMusic).

[jacensolodjo]

Pride 2024 Storybundle

For $5 or more you get the following in DRM format

The Lever by Mark Salzwedel

The Deep And Shining Dark by Juliet Kemp

Champion of the Scarlet Wolf - Books 1-2 by Ginn Hale

Off-Time Jive by A.Z. Louise

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus 9 more books, for a total of 13!

Black from the Future edited by Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker

Through the Doors of Oblivion by Michael G. Williams

A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen

We're Here - The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 by Naomi Kanakia and series editor Charles Payseur

Little Nothing by Dee Holloway

A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

Rabbits of the Apocalypse by Benny Lawrence

Pluralities by Avi Silver

Your money can also go towards charity which for this bundle is the Rainbow Railroad, which helps persecuted LGBTQ folks get the hell out of Dodge worldwide.

@dduane @neil-gaiman

[jules-has-notes]

Beauty & the Bieber (Unexpected Musical) — PattyCake Productions music video

Continuing their signature style of combining childhood classics with modern music, the PattyCake guys decided to tackle a tale as old as time for their next project. In addition to Justin Bieber's melodies and the musical motifs from the 1991 animated film, they also included elements from the forthcoming 2017 live action remake.

Details:

title: Unexpected Musicals — Beauty and the Bieber

performers: Jamie Fritz (Belle); Earl Elkins, Jr. (Beast); E. Michael Evans (Gaston); Joey D'Angelo-LaJoie (LaFou); Alexander Browne (Lumiere); Brad Pettitt (Prince Adam); Leah Lowman (village girls); Anita Wakim (Enchantress)

original songs / performers: [0:15] "I'll Show You" by Justin Bieber; [0:53] "Baby" by Justin Bieber, feat. Ludacris; [1:09] "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber; [1:21] "Never Say Never" by Justin Bieber, feat. Jaden; [2:12] "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber; [2:36] "Company" by Justin Bieber; [3:30] "Beauty and a Beat" by Justin Bieber, feat. Nicki Minaj; [4:10] "Sorry" by Justin Bieber; [4:22] "Let Me Love You" by DJ Snake, feat. Justin Bieber; [4:44] "Cold Water" by Major Lazer, feat. Justin Bieber & MØ

written by: "I'll Show You" by Justin Bieber, Michael "BloodPop" Tucker, Sonny "Skrillex" Moore, Theron "Neff-U" Feemster, & Joshua Gudwin; "Baby" by Justin Bieber, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, & Christina Milian; "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber, Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin, & Ed Sheeran; "Never Say Never" by Adam "Messy" Messinger, Nasri Atweh, Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Jaden Smith, Omarr Rambert, & Justin Bieber; "Boyfriend" by Mike Posner, Mason Levy, Matthew "Blackbear" Musto, & Justin Bieber; "Company" by Justin Bieber, Andreas Schuller, James Wong, Leroy Clampitt, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, James "JHart" Abrahart, & Thomas Troelsen; "Beauty and a Beat" by Max Martin, Anton "Zedd" Zaslavski, Savan Kotecha, & Nicki Minaj; "Sorry" by Justin Bieber, Michael "BloodPop" Tucker, Sonny "Skrillex" Moore, Justin Tranter, & Julia Michaels; "Let Me Love You" by William "DJ Snake" Grigahcine, Justin Bieber, Andrew "Watt" Wotman, Ali Tamposi, Brian Lee, & Louis Bell; "Cold Water" by Thomas "Diplo" Pentz, Justin Bieber, Karen Marie "MØ" Ørsted, Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin, "King Henry" Allen, Philip "Jr Blender" Meckseper, Ed Sheeran, & Jamie Scott

arranged by: Layne Stein & Tony Wakim

release date: 17 March 2017

My favorite bits:

combining the rhythmic strings and the villagers' greetings from "Belle" with the melody for "I'll Show You"

Belle explicitly giving Gaston the brush-off

the tinkling minor motif from the animated movie as Belle enters the castle

Earl's fantastic growl at the end of "Never Say Never"

LaFou's gleeful fawning over Gaston and dancing on the tables

the sneaky ♫ "May-be" ♫ from "Company" overlapping with the tavern scene and leading into the "Be Our Guest" instrumentation

the Beast's lovely vulnerability during the dinner and dancing

using the crunchy horn motif from "Battle on the Tower" to create menace in this version of "Let Me Love You"

Earl's voice being layered over the final lyrics after the transformation

Trivia:

○ The obvious starting point for this project was Jusin Beiber's "Beauty and a Beat", which Tony and Layne had performed as part of VoicePlay's "Wow! Vol. 1" medley during the 2015 Sing-Off tour, but one song does not a full plot make. The guys delved into his extended catalogue to find songs that fit certain story beats and would blend well with the animated movie's score.

○ This was an incredibly ambtious undertaking. According to the PattyCake guys, preparations took five months, and filming spanned "six long days" (and nights, clearly).

○ All that hard work paid off, though, since they were able to time their YouTube release for the same day that the Emma Watson movie hit theaters.

○ VoicePlay recorded a Beauty and the Beast medley for "Once Upon an Ever After" (2012), their first album with Tony as a member of the group. Excerpts from that arrangement later appeared in their music videos "Be Our Guest", "Aca Top 10 – Disney Sidekicks", and "Aca Top 10 – Disney Villains". They also included "Belle" in their "Aca Top 10 – Broadway" countdown.

○ "Love Yourself" was the first song in VoicePlay's PartWork series, which they started as preparation for Tony leaving the group.

○ Layne occasionally used "Baby" as his interruption at the end of VoicePlay's "Road Trip" medley / comedy sketch.

○ On top of their usual studio work, this production required multiple location shoots:

The outdoor village scenes were filmed at the Casa Feliz museum.

Beast's castle interior was the Ballroom at Church Street, which closed in 2019, and was demolished 2023.

The tavern was an actual bar, the Tap Room at Dubsdread.

○ Between the main cast and dozens of background folks, they needed so many costumes that Tony enlisted his mom Anita to help wrangle them all.

○ There are several of Tony's fellow "Beetlejuice Revue" alumni among the main cast:

Michael (Gaston) played Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.

Joey (LaFou) played Wolfman and Dracula.

Brad (Prince Adam) was a dancer in the final "Mashup" iteration of the show.

○ There are also many friends and family among the background cast and crew, including several cast members from previous Unexpected Musicals. Olivia Adkins and Leah Lowman are among the village crowd as Snow White and Cinderella. Rachel Copeland and Matthew Buckner are in the tavern crowd, but not as their previous characters. Many of the other villagers were clubgoers in "Hocus Heathens".

○ This video got a nice write-up on Huffington Post.

[l3m0ngal5]

Some awesome dialogue from the og green lantern Allen Scott that I could see Benny saying at a pride parade in his world to young queer heroes

Now that's inspiring

[oncasette]

all the boys i’ve loved before

i saw this on tiktok and thought it was cute omg. this is just off the top of my head but <3

A. adrien chase. andrew neiman. alfie solomons. adrian ivashkov.

B. barry allen. bruce wayne. bradley bradshaw. benny miller. benjamin barry.

C. charlie dalton. clark kent. cameron frye. carlisle cullen.

D. daniel larusso. darry curtis. draco malfoy. druig. din djarin. dean di laurentis. duke orsino.

E. eddie munson. eddie brock. eric northman.

F. finnick odair. finn hudson. frankie morales. ferris bueller. fred weasley. frank castle.

G. george weasley. garrett graham.

H. harry potter. hunter davenport.

I.

J. johnny lawrence. javier peña. jj maybank. jason dean. james potter. jack daniels. jim hopper. jake seresin. jesse swanson. johnny castle.

K. knox overstreet. kai parker.

L. luke skywalker. luke castellan.

M. marcus pike. matt murdock.

N. nick bradshaw.

O. oliver wood. obi-wan kenobi.

P. peeta mellark. phil wenneck. peter parker. peter quill. peter hayes. poor heyward. pacey witter. percy jackson.

Q.

R. ronald miller. rafe cameron. rick flag. regulus black. remus lupin. ron weasley. rodrick heffley.

S. stiles stilinski. stuart twombly. steven meeks. sirius black. scott lang. steven strange. steve rogers. seth cohen. stu macher.

T. thomas. topper thornton. theseus scamander. thomas shelby.

U.

V. vinny pazienza.

W. willard hewitt. walt finnegan.

X.

Y.

Z. zemo. zed necrodopolis.

tagging @fleurfairie @lucasnclair @forourmoons @dameronscopilot & anyone that wants to participate!!

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

COZY COLE, LE SEUL ET UNIQUE

‘’Cozy was one of a kind. There'll never be another Cozy, that is for sure."

- Jonah Jones

Né le 17 octobre 1909 à East Orange, au New Jersey, William Randolph "Cozy" Cole avait cinq ans lorsqu’il avait commencé à jouer de la batterie. Cole était issu d’une famille de musiciens. Les trois frères de Cole étaient également musiciens de jazz. Son frère Herbie était aussi batteur.

Même s’il avait été influencé par Chick Webb, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Gene Krupa et Jo Jones, Cole avait surtout été marqué par Sonny Greer.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Après avoir étudié durant deux ans à la  Wilberforce University en Ohio, Cole s’était installé à New York où il avait commencé à être fasciné avec le jeu de Greer qui se produisait alors avec l’orchestre de Duke Ellington. Cole avait amorcé sa carrière professionnelle en 1928 avec le groupe de Wilbur Sweatman, un chef d’orchestre bien connu de Harlem.

En 1930, Cole s’était joint aux Red Hot Peppers de Jelly Roll Morton, avec qui il avait fait ses débuts sur disque dans le cadre d’une pièce qui avait été composée spécialement en son honneur: "Load of Cole", sur laquelle il avait interprété un long solo. Après avoir joué de 1931 à 1933 avec le groupe de Blanche Calloway, la soeur du célèbre chanteur et chef d’orchestre Cab Calloway, Cole avait fait partie du premier orchestre de Benny Carter (aux côtés de Teddy Wilson, Chu Berry et Dickie Wells en 1935-1936) et du groupe de Willie Bryant (1936-1938) avant de se joindre au petit groupe du violoniste Stuff Smith (1938-1939) puis à l’orchestre de Cab Calloway (1939-1942).

Grande vedette du swing, Cole s’était aussi produit avec le pianiste Teddy Wilson et accompagné les chanteuses Billie Holliday de Mildred Bailey. À l’époque, Cole avait également travaillé avec d’autres grands noms du jazz comme Henry ‘‘Red’’ Allen, Bunny Berrigan, Bud Freeman, Chu Berry et Lionel Hampton.

Poursuivant sur sa lancée à la fin des années 1930, Cole avait joué avec le Jump Band de Pete Brown, les Delta Six de Joe Marsala, Wingy Manone, Duke Ellington et les All Stars de Leonard Feather. Dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec ce dernier groupe, Cole avait notamment joué sur des pièces spécialement conçues pour mettre en évidence ses habiletés de batteur comme ‘’Ratamacue’’, ‘’Paradiddle Joe’’ et ‘‘Crescendo In Drums’’. En 1943, Cole avait aussi fait une apparition dans la revue Carmen Jones (une adaptation du célèbre opéra Carmen de Bizet) dans laquelle il avait joué en solo sur la pièce ‘’Beat Out That Rhythm On A Drum.’’ Commentant sa performance dans le cadre de la revue, Cole avait déclaré: "I think I'm the only drummer to have been featured in a big Broadway show with his name on the program."

Par la suite, Cole avait joué et enregistré avec Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Jonas Jones et les Louis Armstrong’s All Stars. En 1943, Cole était devenu un des premiers de musiciens de couleur à briser la frontière raciale lorsqu’il avait été recruté par le directeur musical de la radio de CBS Raymond Scott. Lors d’une entrevue accordée en 1985, Scott avait précisé: "Cozy was the most professional musician I've ever worked with." Cole avait continué de travailler pour CBS jusqu’en 1945.

En 1944, Cole avait co-dirigé un petit groupe avec Benny Goodman au club Onyx de New York.

Poursuivant parallèlement sa formation au milieu des années 1940, Cole s’était inscrit à la prestigieuse Juilliard School of Music où il avait suivi des cours de théorie, d’harmonie, de piano, de timpani et de batterie avec le réputé Saul Goodman du New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Un an plus tard, Cole avait enregistré avec Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald et Louis Armstrong. En 1949, Cole s’était joint aux All Stars de Louis Armstrong avec qui il avait joué pendant quatre ans. Peu après, Cole avait ouvert la Krupa and Cole Drum School avec son ami Gene Krupa. Soulignant l’importance de l’éducation, Cole avait commenté: "The more you study, the more you find out you don't know; but the more you study, the closer you come." L’école avait remporté un grand succès et était demeurée en activité jusqu’à la mort de Krupa en 1973.

Cole et Krupa avaient aussi souvent joué en duo au club Metropole de New York dans les années 1950 et 1960. Comme professeur, Cole avait également fait des lectures à la Capital University à Columbus. Il avait aussi brièvement enseigné à la Juilliard School of Music. Parmi les étudiants de Cole, on remarquait le futur batteur Philly Joe Jones.

Plutôt inhabituel pour un batteur des années 1950, Cole avait fait deux brèves apparitions dans des films qui illustraient des styles complètement différents: ‘’The Glen Miller Story’’ en 1954 avec James Stewart, June Allyson et Gene Krupa et ‘‘Don’t Knock The Rock’’ avec Bill Haley, Little Richard et le groupe The Treniers en 1956. En 1944, Cole avait aussi joué dans le film ‘’Jammin' the Blues’’  aux côtés de Lester Young, Red Callender, Sid Catlett, Harry ‘’Sweets’’ Edison, Illinois Jacquet et Barney Kessell. Il avait également fait une apparition dans le film ‘’Make my Music’’ avec Benny Goodman.

En 1958, Cole était devenu un des premiers batteurs à atteindre la première position du Billboard avec la pièce ‘’Topsy Part 2’’ dans laquelle il avait interprété un long solo. C’était une des premières fois de l’histroire qu’un solo de batterie atteignait le sommet du palmarès Billboard. La pièce s’était également classée à la première position du palmarès R & B. Le disque, qui s’était vendu à un million d’exemplaires, était une nouvelle version d’un grand succès de Count Basie en 1937. La pièce avait été reprise par Benny Goodman en 1938. En plus de ‘’Topsy Part 2’’, le groupe de Cole, surnommé The Cozy Cole Combo, avait connu d’autres grands succès avec des pièces comme "Jersey Jump-Off", "Willow Weep For Me" et "Night Wind." Cole avait fait de nombreuses tournées avec son groupe en plus d’enregistrer à l’occasion. Comme soliste, Cole avait également participé à des tournées en Europe avec Jack Teagarden (1957) et Earl Hines. 

Après avoir été engagé en 1949 par Louis Armstrong pour travailler avec ses All Stars, Cole s’était produit le 7 juin 1953 aux côtés d’Armstrong et de la chanteuse Velma Middleton dans le cadre de la 9e édition de la Cavalcade du Jazz tenue au stade Wrigley Field de Los Angeles. Produit par Leon Hefflin, le concert mettait également en vedette de grands noms du jazz comme Roy Brown and his Orchestra, Don Tosti and His Mexican Jazzmen, Earl Bostic, Nat "King" Cole ainsi que Shorty Rogers and his Orchestra. Cole participe aussi à des tournées en Europe avec le groupe en 1949 et 1952.

Après avoir quitté Armstrong en 1953, Cole avait formé son propre groupe qui avait poursuivi ses activités jusqu’en 1969. La même année, Cole avait retrouvé son vieil ami, le trompettiste Jonah Jones, avec qui il avait joué au début de sa carrière dans le cadre des groupes de Stuff Smith et de Cab Calloway. Le duo avait continué de faire des tournées et d’enregistrer dans les années 1970.

En 1959, Cole s’était aussi produit à la Peacock Alley de St. Louis avec son épouse Lee Parker, une danseuse qui avait étudié sous la direction de Katherine Durham.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

Reconnu pour sa versalitité, Cole était réputé pour pouvoir jouer dans n’importe quel style. Il avait même enregistré du rock n’ roll avec Eddie Fontaine. La chanson intitulée ‘’Nothin Shakin’’’ avait éventuellement été reprise par les Beatles en 1962 sur l’album Live At The Star Club. Cole avait également enregistré ses propres albums comprenant des chansons comme ‘’It’s A Rocking Thing’’, ‘’Organ Grinders’ Swing’’’ (qui avait été popularisée par l’organiste Jimmy Smith en 1965) et ‘’Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On’’ de Jerry Lee Lewis. Loin d’être réfractaire à l’apparition du bebop contrairement à plusieurs musiciens de swing de son époque, Cole avait même enregistré avec Charlie Parker et Dizzy Gillespie en 1945.

Titulaire d’un doctorat honorifique en arts musicaux de l’Université de Columbus en 1978, Cozy Cole est mort d’un cancer le 9 janvier 1981 à Ohio State University Hospital de Columbus en Ohio. Il était âgé de soixante et onze ans. Cole s’était installé à Columbus en 1976, lorsqu’il était devenu artiste en résidence et lecteur à la Capital Universty.

Décrivant le style de Cole, le professeur de percussions de Capital University, Bob Breithaupt, avait déclaré: ‘’What he did between his hi-hat and bass drum were primarily tap dancing things. Then he’d simply play on top of it. But during the ’30s, that was pretty significant because no one was doing it. His solo techniques were really amazing. He found he could superimpose rhythms on top of one another and get some real interesting sounds. He obviously had some coordination that most people didn’t have.” Considérant Cole comme le Spinoza de l'histoire du jazz, le compositeur et multi-instrumentiste Alan Gerber l’avait décrit comme ‘’le représentant de la rigueur lumineuse et patiente, infatigable artisan d'évidences.’’

Batteur sobre et discret, Cole était avant tout un joueur d’équipe qui cherchait à mettre en valeur les autres musiciens. Grand pionnier de la batterie un peu comme Sid Catlett, Gene Krupa et Chick Webb, Cole n’avait rien d’un exhibitionniste. Comme le soulignait le violoniste André Hodeir, Cole s’appliquait surtout à ‘’créer une infrastructure propre à soutenir en toute circonstance le soliste.’’

Au cours de sa carrière, Cole avait joué avec les plus grands noms du jazz, de Teddy Wilson à Henry ‘’Red’’ Allen, en passant par Bud Freeman, Chu Berry, Bunny Berigan, Stuff Smith, Lionel Hampton, Jack Teagarden, Cab et Blanche Calloway, Jonah Jones, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Don Byas, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker et Louis Armstrong.

Décrivant sa longue amitié avec Cole, le trompettiste Jonah Jones avait déclaré en 1996:

"Cozy was like my brother. He was the most wonderful person I ever met. I first met him in 1936. I was new to New York and Cozy, being from New Jersey, showed me all around. In those days Harlem was full of great musicians and I was having a difficult time, because no one knew me. But old Cozy, he saw to it that I was offered jobs. One time Teddy Wilson offered Cozy a gig to record with some new singer. Cozy told Teddy that he would only take the job if Teddy hired me. That was how nice Cozy was. When Cozy and I got down there with Teddy, we met Johnny Hodges and that young singer's name was Billie Holiday. Cozy was one of a kind. There'll never be another Cozy, that is for sure."

Plusieurs batteurs de rock avaient mentionné Cole comme une de leurs principales influences, dont le batteur Cozy Powell.

©-2024, tous droits réservés, Les Productions de l’Imaginaire historique

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New Country 27e jaargang  #T1212 (S771) (C16)van 15 januari 2024  (wk 03) uitzending op Smelne fm & Crossroads Country Radio

Suzy Bogguss - Somewhere Between *maandartiest

Martina McBride – Wrong Again #1 25 jaar

Jelly Roll – Son of a Sinner   # 1 2023 

Charley Crockett/ Willie Nelson - Thats What Makes the World Go Around

Zach Top - Sounds Like the Radio  

The Castellows - I Know It’ll Never End  

Megan Moroney - What Are You Listening To .

Ryan Larkins  -  King Of Country Music    nw  59

Nate Smith - World on Fire    #1.

Gabe Lee – The Wild   Album vd week

Gabe Lee – Even Jesus Got The Blues    album

Lady Antebellum – I Run to You     single of the year        2009

Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend  1975

Trace Adkins – You’re Gonna Miss This 13/1  1962

Merle Haggard – Branded Man      

Callum Kerr & Chris Andreucci – Tamed by Tennessee   favoriet 

Jimmie Allen – Pray     *sofi  

Buck Owens - I' Ve Got A Tiger By The Tail album from the past

Buck Owens -  Cryin' Time

Rodney Crowell - Loving You Is The Only Way To Fly

The Pink Stones - No Rain, No Flowers

Florida Georgia Line  - Stay (3 in 1)

Florida Georgia Line - Cruise

Florida Georgia Line – H.O.L.Y.

Gabe Lee - Drink The River  Album van de week

Morgan Wallen –  Born With A Beer In My Hand    #1 album.

Brent Cobb – “When Country Music Came Back to Town.

Lori McKenna – Happy Children

Lainey Wilson – Watermelon Moonshine

Zach Bryan – I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)

3e uur :

Dailey & Vincent - - Hillbilly Highway Trucksong

Suzy Bogguss – Cross My Broken Heart   maandartiest

Darrell Scott  -The World Is Too Much With Me      juweeltje 

Chris Stapleton - Always On My Mind     Album vorige week

Gabe Lee – Eveline   Album vd week .

Hilde Vos / Bennie Jolink - The Last Thing on My Mind   Dutch corner

Major Dundee - The Longer The Distance .Dutch corner.

Savannah - Lay Down Beside Me   Dutch corner

Willie_Nelson --First_Rose_Of_Spring

Freddy Fender Wasted Days And Wasted Nights   #5  A Year in music . 1975

John Dever – I’m Sorry . #4

Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls . #3 

Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy #2

C.W. McCall - Convoy  #1

John Michael Montgomery – Sold 

[xerks44]

1981 MAX ROACH & tap dancer HAROLD NICHOLAS of the NICHOLAS BROTHERS

MAX ROACH DAY JANUARY 10, 1924 – AUGUST 16, 2007

A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO AN ALL-TIME JAZZ GREAT

Drummer Max Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in Newland, North Carolina.

Roach, who grew up in Brooklyn, started on the drums when he was ten and studied at the Manhattan School Of Music.

He was in the house band at Monroe’s Uptown House in 1942, getting opportunities to jam with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie who both recognized his forward-looking talents.

Roach made his recording debut with Coleman Hawkins in 1943 (and was on Hawkins’ pioneering bop sessions the following year), worked with the Benny Carter Orchestra, and played on 52nd Street with Gillespie.

With Kenny Clarke (who was the first bop drummer) in the service, Roach built upon his innovations and was quite busy during the second half of the 1940s including working with Stan Getz, Allan Eager, Hawkins, the Charlie Parker Quintet (1947-49), Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet (1949-50) and virtually every name in modern jazz including with Parker and Gillespie at the famous 1953 Massey Hall Concert.

He co-founded the Debut label with Charles Mingus in 1952 and worked with Louis Jordan, Red Allen, the Lighthouse All-Stars and Jazz At The Philharmonic.

During 1954-56, Roach co-led a pacesetting quintet with Clifford Brown that by late-1955 included Sonny Rollins; after Brown’s tragic death other members of the group included Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, Booker Little, Tommy Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, George Coleman, Stanley Turrentine, Clifford Jordan, Julian Priester and Roach’s wife singer Abbey Lincoln.

One of the most respected and skilled jazz drummers of all time (and a master at using space as he built up his solos), Roach continued leading groups for the remainder of his life including a long-time quartet with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Tyrone Brown, the all-percussion group M’Boom, the Uptown String Quartet, and special duo albums with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton and Archie Shepp.

Here is Max Roach accompanying and interacting with dancer Harold Nicholas in 1981.

-Scott Yanow

[drzito]

Las 242 peliculas que he visto en 2023 (parte 2)

122. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008)

123. Of time and the city (Terence Davies, 2008)

124. Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009)

125. La casa del diablo (Ti West, 2009)

126. Catfish (Ariel Schulman y Henry Joost, 2010)

127. Rare exports: Un cuento gamberro de navidad (Jalmari Helander, 2010)

128. Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale, 2011)

129. Infierno blanco (Joe Carnahan, 2011)

130. La maldicion de Rookford (Nick Murphy, 2011)

131. Berberian sound studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)

132. Turistas (Ben Wheatley, 2012)

133. Across the river (Lorenzo Bianchini, 2013)

134. Colonia V (Jeff Renfroe, 2013)

135. Como todas las mañanas (Toni Nievas, 2013)

136. El Congreso (Ari Folman, 2013)

137. The Sacrament (Ti West, 2013)

138. Vivir en peligro (Paul Wright, 2013)

139. El sopar (Pere Portabella, 2014)

140. Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014)

141. Sueñan los androides (Ion de Sosa, 2014)

142. Uno tras otro (Hans Petter Moland, 2014)

143. Equals (Drake Doremus, 2015)

144. Dope (Rick Famuyiwa, 2015)

145. 13 horas: Los soldados secretos de Bengasi (Michael Bay, 2016)

146. El Caso Sloane (John Madden, 2016)

147. El Contable (Gavin O'Connor, 2016)

148. El Vacio (Jeremy Gillespie y Steven Kostanski, 2016)

149. Holy Hell (Will Allen, 2016)

150. La autopsia de Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016)

151. Maria (y los demas) (Nely Reguera, 2016)

152. Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan y Daniel Scheinert, 2016)

153. Without Name (Lorcan Finnegan, 2016)

154. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S Craig Zahler, 2017)

155. Caras y Lugares (Agnes Varda y JR, 2017)

156. Good Time: Viviendo al limite (Benny y Josh Safdie, 2017)

157. Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017)

158. Secretos Oscuros (Michael Pearce, 2017)

159. Ghost in the shell. El alma de la maquina (Rupert Sanders, 2017)

160. The Cloverfield paradox (Julius Onah, 2018)

161. Illang: La brigada del lobo (Kim Ji-Woon, 2018).

162. Normandia al desnudo (Philippe Le Guay, 2018)

163. Al otro lado de la ley (S Craig Zahler, 2018)

164. Apuntes para una pelicula de atracos (Leon Siminiani, 2018)

165. El odio que das (George Tillman Jr, 2018)

166. 303 (Hans Weingartner, 2018)

167. El Convento (Payl Hyett, 2018)

168. La primera purga: La noche de las bestias (Gerard McMurray, 2018)

169. Mudo (Duncan Jones, 2018)

170. Noche de lobos (Jeremy Saulnier, 2018)

171. 6 en la sombra (Michael Bay, 2019)

172. Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)

173. Escape room: Sin salida (Adam Robitel, 2019)

174. Fyre (Chris Smith, 2019)

175. Sator (Jordan Graham, 2019)

176. Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019)

177. Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)

178. Ventajas de viajar en tren (Aritz Moreno, 2019)

179. Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi y Bilall Fallah, 2020)

180. El año del descubrimiento (Luis Lopez Carrasco, 2020)

181. Last and First Men (Johann Johannsonn, 2020)

182. Socias y Enemigas (Miguel Arteta, 2020)

183. Undergods (Chino Moya, 2020).

184. A tiempo completo (Eric Gravel, 2021)

185. Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, 2021)18

186. Black Phone (Scott Derrickson, 2021)

187. Candyman (Nia DaCosta, 2021)

188. Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021)

189. Destello Bravio (Ainhoa Rodriguez, 2021)

190. El Escuadron Suicida (James Gunn, 2021)

191. Eles transportan a morte (Samuel M. Delgado y Helena Girón, 2021)

192. Escape Room: La Pel·lícula (Hèctor Claramunt, 2021)

193. Espiritu Sagrado (Chema Garcia Ibarra, 2021)

194. Hellbender (John Adams, Zelda Adams y Toby Poser, 2021)

195. King Car (Renata Pinheiro, 2021).

196. La casa de las profundidades (Julien Maury y Alexandre Bustillo, 2021)

197. La Hija (Manuel Martin Cuenca, 2021)

198. Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021)

199. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)

200. Malignant (James Wan, 2021)

201. The ice road (Jonathan Hensleigh, 2021)

202. The Medium (Banjong Pisanthanakun, 2021)

203. Tiempo (M night Shyamalan, 2021)

204. Tros (Pau Calpe, 2021)

205. You are not my mother (Kate Dolan, 2021)

206. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)

207. Almas en pena de Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)

208. Ambulance. Plan de huida (Michael Bay, 2022).

209. Argentina 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022)

210. As Bestas (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2022)

211. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)

212. Cangrejo Negro (Adam Berg, 2022)

213. Crimenes del futuro (David Cronenberg, 2022)

214. El agua (Elena López Riera, 2022)

215. El triangulo de la tristeza (Ruben Ostlund, 2022)

216. Emily, la estafadora (John Patton Ford, 2022)

217. En los margenes (Juan Diego Botto, 2022)

218. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022)

219. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)

220. Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland, 2022)

221. La hija eterna (Joanna Hogg, 2022)

222. La paradoja de Antares (Luis Tinoco, 2022)

223. Men (Alex Garland, 2022)

224. Modelo 77 (Alberto Rodriguez, 2022)

225. Muertos muertos muertos (Halina Reijn, 2022)

226. O corpo aberto (Angeles Huerta, 2022)

227. Predator. La Presa (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022) 

228. Puñales por la espalda: El misterio de Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022)

229. RRR (SS Rajamouli, 2022)

230. Suro (Mikel Gurrea, 2022)

231. Vesper (Kristina Buozyte y Bruno Samper, 2022)

232. You won’t be alone (Goran Stolevski, 2022)

233. X (Ti West, 2022)

234. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)

235. Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)

236. El banco de Dave (Chris Foggin, 2023)

237. Elemental (Peter Sohn, 2023)

238. Indiana Jones y el dial del destino (James Mangold, 2023)

239. Llaman a la puerta (M Night Shyamalan, 2023)

240. Mision Imposible: Sentencia Mortal - Parte 1 (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)

241. Nadie te salvara (Brian Duffield, 2023)

242. The Creator (Gareth Edwards, 2023)

[project1939]

(Lucy and Ethel try to trick Ricky and Fred into believing they are burglars)

Day 25- TV and Radio: 

TV: 

I Love Lucy, season one, episode 27, “The Kleptomaniac,” April 14th, 1952. 

I Love Lucy, season one, episode 28, “Cuban Pals,” April 21st, 1952. 

The Burns and Allen Show, season two, episode 16, “Jack Benny Steals a Joke,” April 24th, 1952. 

Radio: 

Fibber McGee and Molly, “All You Can Eat for $1,” April 15th, 1952. 

The Great Gildersleeve, “Leroy the Beekeeper,” April 16th, 1952. 

Screen Guild Theater, “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” April 20th, 1952. 

I Love Lucy was a bit of therapy for me today. (It was like my “physikiatrist” as Ricky might say?). Both episodes I watched were funny, but the kleptomaniac episode especially killed me. Lucy and Ethel pretending to be burglars was a little ray of sunshine in my day. Also lines like the “I got the eye in the foot and the foot in the eye” one quoted earlier, and later Lucy saying, "I was a pickpocket. I picked a peck of pockets!”  

The other things I watched or listened to today were enjoyable as well. I got to hear Lizabeth Scott on Screen Guild Theater, which was fun. It’s still debated whether or not tabloid stories about her being a lesbian were actually true, but I could listen to her low sultry voice anytime! Jack Benny guest-starred on Burns and Allen, so of course it was funny. I really love Gracie’s character. At first you think she’s just an idiot, but when you actually listen to what she is saying, you realize she isn’t. She just interprets things in weird, but also weirdly logical ways. For example, in one episode a policeman was trying to get her to ID a criminal. At first the criminal was not wearing his hat, so the policeman said to her, “Now I’d like you to get a good look at him in his hat.” Gracie said, “Well, ok, it seems silly, but I’ll do it.” She proceeded to take the guy’s hat, put in on her own head, and continue scrutinizing him! 

...And now a word from today’s best sponsor: Pet milk! Would you like to drink rich creamy evaporated milk that sounds like it’s not meant for human consumption? Well, then you need to try Pet Milk! It’s not for your pets- it's for you! It’s not made from pets- it's made from your bovine friends! In the 50s evaporated milk was apparently the thing. Use it for baking! Use it for cooking! Use it to make whipped dessert toppings! Use it for drinking! Use it for baby! Use it for your other growing ones! Use it to hoard in case of nuclear war, maybe? 

[stubobnumbers]

Television History - 1950

TV History - 1950.

I'm starting the journey through TV in the year 1950. All information is from wikipedia. First up, the new shows that debuted in 1950, sorted by network. (If I don’t post years next to a show, that means it only lasted one year…or no year is listed on wiki.)

CBS: What’s My Line (1950 version) – The show ran from 1950 through 1967. Beat The Clock (1950-1961). Abe Burrows Almanac (I’ve never heard of this show.)

NBC: Your Show Of Shows (1950-1954). The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950-1955). Four Star Revue (1950-1953). Stars Over Hollywood (1950-1951). Hawkins Falls(?) (Wikipedia says it ran from 1951-1955, but it’s listed in 1950.) Your Hit Parade. September 18 – The Paul Winchell Show debuts on NBC with the title The Speidel Show.

Other shows: September 5 – The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo, premieres (1950-1956). September 7 – The game show Truth or Consequences debuts (1950–1988). October 5 – The comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premieres (1950–1961). (I actually watched a bunch of this on PBS.) October 12 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts (1950–1958). October 28 – The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, premieres (1950–1965). July 11 – Andy Pandy premieres on the BBC (1950, 1970, 2002). July 3 – The Hazel Scott Show on the DuMont Television Network (1950). (I’ve never heard of the "DuMont Television Network".

Events listed for 1950. February – European Broadcasting Union (EBU) inaugurated. February 15 KENS began transmissions as KEYL. It was the second television station to sign on in the San Antonio market. WSTM-TV began transmissions as WSYR-TV. It was Syracuse’s second television station, signing on a year and three months after WHEN-TV (now WTVH). February 21 – WOI-TV signs on the air as Iowa’s second television station (following WOC-TV, now KQWC-TV), and the first in the Des Moines area. March 27 – WHAS-TV signs on the air. It was the second television station to sign on in the Louisville market and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. April 2 – WTKR began operations on channel 4 as WTAR-TV. It was Hampton Roads’ first television station and the second television station in Virginia, after WTVR (channel 6) in Richmond. May 1 – WLNS-TV began transmissions as WJIM-TV. It is Michigan’s second-oldest television station outside Detroit. June 1 – WWMT signs on the air as WKZO-TV. It was West Michigan’s second television station to debut after WLAV-TV (channel 7, now WOOD-TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids). June 17 – WAND (at this time called WTVP) goes on the air in Decatur, Illinois. July 1 – WHBF-TV signs on the air. It is the fifth-oldest surviving station in Illinois, and the oldest outside Chicago. July 26 – First television broadcast station in Mexico, XHTV, Mexico City on channel 4; Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo is the first announcer to appear. September 18 – First television network in South America launches, PRF-TV on channel 3 in São Paulo, Brazil. September 30 First BBC television broadcast from an aircraft. WSMV-TV began transmissions as WSM-TV at 1:10 pm CT. It was Nashville’s first television station and the second in Tennessee. October 10 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approves CBS’s color television system, effective November 20. October 25 – Cuba signs on to television as Havana’s Union Radio TV signs on for the first time, the first television station in the Caribbean.

Ok, the wikipedia page on "DuMont Television" is fascinating. The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont[a] /ˈduːmɒnt/) was one of America’s pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States. It was owned by Allen B. DuMont Laboratories,1 a television equipment and set manufacturer, and began operation on June 28, 1942.

The network was hindered by the prohibitive cost of broadcasting, a freeze on new television stations in 1948 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that restricted the network’s growth, and even the company’s partner, Paramount Pictures. Despite several innovations in broadcasting and the creation of one of television’s biggest stars of the 1950s—Jackie Gleason—the network never found itself on solid financial ground. Forced to expand on UHF channels during an era when UHF tuning was not yet a standard feature on television sets, DuMont fought an uphill battle for program clearances outside its three owned-and-operated stations in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, ultimately ending network operations on August 6, 1956.

DuMont’s latter-day obscurity, caused mainly by the destruction of its extensive program archive by the 1970s, has prompted TV historian David Weinstein to refer to it as the "forgotten network". A few popular DuMont programs, such as Cavalcade of Stars and Emmy Award winner Life Is Worth Living, appear in television retrospectives or are mentioned briefly in books about U.S. television history.

This hurts me. DuMont produced more than 20,000 television episodes from 1946–1956. Because they were created prior to the launch of Ampex’s electronic videotape recorder in late 1956, they were initially broadcast live in black and white, then recorded on film kinescope for West Coast rebroadcasts and reruns. By the early 1970s, their vast library of 35mm and 16mm kinescopes eventually wound up in the hands of "a successor network," who reportedly disposed of them in New York City’s East River to make room for more recent videotapes in a warehouse.

Although films submerged for decades have been successfully recovered (see The Carpet from Bagdad as an example), there have been no salvage-diving efforts to locate or recover the DuMont archive. If it survived in that environment, most of the films have likely been damaged. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time.

It is estimated that only about 350 complete DuMont television shows survive today, the most famous being virtually all of Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners comedy sketches. Most of the existing episodes are believed to have come from the personal archives of DuMont’s hosts, such as Gleason and Dennis James.

Huh. TIL There were other tv rating systems besides the Nielsen's. The earliest measurements of TV audiences were performed by the C. E. Hooper company of New York. DuMont performed well in the Hooper ratings; in fact, DuMont’s talent program, The Original Amateur Hour, was the most popular series of the 1947–48 season. Two seasons later, Variety ranked DuMont’s popular variety series Cavalcade of Stars as the tenth most popular series.

In February 1950, Hooper’s competitor A. C. Nielsen bought out the Hooper ratings system. DuMont did not fare well with the change: none of its shows appeared on Nielsen’s annual top 20 lists of the most popular series. One of the DuMont Network’s biggest hits of the 1950s, Life is Worth Living, did receive Nielsen ratings of up to 11.1, meaning that they attracted more than 10 million viewers. Sheen’s one-man program – in which he discussed philosophy, psychology and other fields of thought from a Christian perspective – was the most widely viewed religious series in the history of television. 169 local television stations aired Life, and for three years the program competed successfully against NBC’s popular The Milton Berle Show. The ABC and CBS programs that aired in the same timeslot were canceled.

Life is Worth Living was not the only DuMont program to achieve double-digit ratings. In 1952, Time magazine reported that popular DuMont game show Down You Go had attracted an audience estimated at 16 million viewers. Similarly, DuMont’s summer 1954 replacement series, The Goldbergs, achieved audiences estimated at 10 million. Still, these series were only moderately popular compared to NBC’s and CBS’s highest-rated programs.

Nielsen was not the only company to report TV ratings. Companies such as Trendex, Videodex, and Arbitron had also measured TV viewership. The chart in this section comes from Videodex’s August 1950 ratings breakdown, as reported in Billboard magazine.

[ghastlyrosemaiden]

A post no one asked for: My OCs and their sleeping quirks

Minnie mumbles in her sleep, mostly in Korean. Doesn’t matter if she’s having a dream or not she’ll just...ramble.

Alejandro will wrap all his limbs around his s/o like a fucking sloth on a tree. The dude’s a long boy and doesn’t even know he’s doing it. Sloth gang rise up.

Marco snores kind of, but it’s not loud nor is it disruptive. He actually kind of sounds like a purring cat.

Benny kind of whimpers sometimes, like a dog chasing something in his dream mostly. But if it’s a sad whimper you know he’s having a bad dream and it’s best to wake him before he starts crying.

Casimir always likes to be the little spoon. Doesn’t matter how tall his s/o is. Backpack baby. He’s also very quiet and his chest barely moves so sometimes it’s hard to tell if he’s alive.

Brady sleeps on his back completely straight like a sociopath.

Lisa’s very prim and proper, wears hair curlers to bed and shit. Mostly sleeps on her stomach though, fucking weirdo.

Maxine likes to hold hands, okay. She’s a big ass baby and likes to know her s/o is there.

Rayne absolutely loves sleeping on her s/o’s chest or curled up clinging to them behind like a backpack. Lets her nuzzle into the neck for warmth. She is also very, very quiet in her sleep. Corpse ass.

Bianca sleeps with one of those night blindfold thingies on that just says “puta” on it. So whoever wakes her up gets a nice insult.

Corbin likes to listen to some noise whenever he sleeps, no matter how subtle it may be. Sometimes he likes to fall asleep to his s/o talking or reading to him. Soothing.

Phoenix doesn’t actually ever settle down to sleep she just kinda.......passes out on the spot. Can’t stop won’t stop.

Niklas physically cannot sleep unless he has his boyfriends in bed with him. It doesn’t feel right unless he has his muscle bfs. 

Stan can sleep whenever he wants to but it’s mostly in calls with Josh if he isn’t in the dorm room with him. If Josh is there, he flops over him.

Juniper LOVES having her s/o sleep on her chest. She’s fucking strong and believe it or not, her chest is actually REALLY soft. Also, her butt is a good pillow too if you wanna sleep and she’s still awake.

Simon rolls around a lot in his sleep if he’s in a bed alone. Can’t ever find a good place to get comfy. If he’s with someone, though, his movement is limited so he just kinda shuffles a lot.