#bertice reading

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The Moon in the Gutter (La Lune dans le caniveau) (1983) Jean-Jacques Beineix

June 17th 2023,

[abwwia]

Bertice Reading by Ida Kar, 1957

selenium bromide print from original negative

14 3/4 in. x 14 7/8 in. (375 mm x 378 mm) image size

Bertice Reading (July 22, 1933 – June 8, 1991) was an American-born actress, singer and revue artiste, who was based in England for most of her career. Via Wikipedia

[classicladiesofcolor]

Jazz singer and actress Bertice Reading 

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

look you cannot remake little shop of horrors 1986. lightning isn’t going to strike twice. you had frank oz directing, you had howard ashman (may his memory be a blessing) and alan menken adapting their own musical, everyone was perfectly cast, especially levi stubbs (rest in peace) and steve martin, there was a 22 PERSON PUPPET, everything was DRIPPING with 80s camp IN ADDITION TO 60s camp, even just little things like bertice reading’s (rest in peace) INCREDIBLE part in Skid Row and the amazing interplay of the voices of tichina arnold, michelle weeks and tisha campbell are NOT REPLICABLE. like, you literally can’t make it again. it’s done, it’s over, it’s perfect. move on. make a different musical. fuck off.

[soulmusicsongs]

Soul of the Week: Sunday Soul Music

Sunday Soul Music

Come Sunday - Yusef Lateef ‎(Hush ‘N’ Thunder, 1973)

Early Sunday Morning - Isaac Hayes (Shaft, 1971)

Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday (Night And Day / Gloomy Sunday, 1941)

Gloomy Sunday - Carmen McRae (The Sound Of Silence, 1968)

I Want Sunday Back Again - Maxine Weldon (Alone On My Own, 1975)

It Must Be Sunday - Phoebe Snow (Phoebe Snow, 1974)  

Sunday Afternoon - Dennis Lee and Notables (Sunday Afternoon / Funky Penguin, 1972)

Sunday Afternoon - Moses (Sweetest Love / Sunday Afternoon, 1978)

Sunday Mornin’ - Grant Green (Sunday Mornin’, 1961)

Sunday Morning - Bertice Reading (Sunday Morning / Lean On Me, 1974)

Sunday Morning - Billy Preston (Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music, 1973)

Sunday Morning - Mary Mary (Go Get It, 2012)

Sunday Morning’s Gonna Find Us In Love - Bettye Crutcher (Long As You Love Me (I’ll Be Alright), 1974)  

Sunday Morning Love - Bobby Blue Bland (After All, 1986)

Sunday Morning People - The Honey Cone (Take Me with You, 1971)

Sunday’s News - Labelle (Moon Shadow, 1972)

Sunday Sermon - Booker T. and The MG’s (Something / Sunday Sermon, 1970)

What Do I Do On Sunday Morning - Gene Redding (This Heart / What Do I Do On Sunday Morning, 1974)

Listen to Seven days of Soul

[slaycinder]

azalea, buttercup, orchid, sunflower, and violet?

I lost the master list so fast you’d think I was paid to do it! But I found it so here we go.

Azalea - One word that describes me? How about…“dilettantish.” A dilettante takes up various arts and activities just for the fun of it, like a dabbler.

Buttercup - Five guilty pleasures, eh? I don’t apologize for my interests much, but I will apologize for:

Yu-Gi-Oh! Just. All of it. The cards, the duel links the figurines, the collectibles, the stray memes on my main blog, the meme-saturated side blog, all of it.

the game Dante’s Inferno (everyone and their grandma calls it a God of War rip off but I like it ok) I played through it a lot and actually wasn’t interested in GoW.

shipping 2B and 9S from Nier: Automata (a lot of people around me aren’t into it but they’re cute I’m sorry)

every fan fic I’ve ever written, especially the porn (sorry mom I know you had high hopes for your daughter)

Aaaaaaand the first doujin I ever bought for myself, which was R18 of a 3-way ship that I honestly wanted for the novelty of it that my sister nearly disowned me for. It lives under my bed and we don’t speak of it (but I still read it every now and again)

Orchid - The last movie I saw (let’s just assume outside the house, like in a theater) was Beauty & the Beast (again) and it was GLORIOUS. (Pro tip: invite different people to the same movie so you can see it 2-3 times in theaters…)

Sunflower - My favorite quote. My freshman year of college, I had the privilege of hearing Bertice Berry speak on the topic of ethnic identity. She focused heavily on discovering who we are by understanding who we come from, and it was a wonderful and moving presentation. At one point she said, “When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.” And that still sticks with me five years later. I imagine it will echo in my head for the rest of my life.

Violet - Something most people don’t know about me… I practice very casual Wicca. I keep a grimoire and everything. I don’t particularly care for spells, but I use Wiccan meditation techniques and identify very strongly with Wiccan beliefs. I practice it as a way of life alongside my family’s religion, and I’ve never felt as satisfied with my belief system as I do now.

[jazzworldquest-blog]

USA: Jazz Takes The Stage With Swinging Versions Of Classic Show Tunes On Putumayo's Broadway Jazz

Contact: Adam Sullivan

Email: adam@putumayo.com

Web: www.Putumayo.com

  JAZZ TAKES THE STAGE WITH SWINGING VERSIONS OF CLASSIC SHOW TUNES ON PUTUMAYO’S BROADWAY JAZZ

Putumayo continues the celebration of its 25th anniversary with Broadway Jazz, featuring swinging jazz covers of beloved show tunes. The company began the year with New Orleans Party in May, 2018, honoring its current home in the Crescent City. Putumayo now celebrates New York City, another important music center and its original home in 1993. The album is set for release on January 25, 2019 and will be available on CD, digital download and streaming on Apple Music.

  Broadway Jazz explores the deep and storied history of musical theater and jazz and their intertwined relationship that dates back to the early 1900s. Since its inception, jazz has been seeping into Broadway shows. The influences went the other way as well, as songs written for Broadway quickly became adopted by jazz musicians as standards. That trend continued over the years, and the list of Broadway songs that have been interpreted by jazz musicians could fill a book.

  Broadway Jazz opens with Kermit Ruffins’ New Orleans-style take on “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a song that owes a big part of its success to another Crescent City trumpet player, Louis Armstrong. Act 2 of our musical revue highlights the silky vocal stylings of Maxine Sullivan performing Duke Ellington’s “I Got It Bad, and That Ain’t Good.” Blues legend Jimmy “T-99” Nelson reminds us that life is a “Cabaret” with his smooth performance of the title track from one of Broadway’s most successful musicals.

  Jazz saxophone legend Coleman Hawkins keeps the show going with “Make Someone Happy” from the musical Do Re Mi. Canadian jazz singer Emilie-Claire Barlow offers a playful version of the Frank Sinatra classic “You Make Me Feel So Young,” a song that lived a long life before it finally made it to Broadway in Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra revue Come Fly Away.

  Though its Broadway run was short lived, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera gave birth to one of the most recognizable jazz tunes in history (thanks to Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin’s famed renditions). Another great trumpeter and singer, Leroy Jones, gives his own New Orleans-style twist on “Mack the Knife.” This is followed by the classic Broadway tune, “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” from Show Boat, performed by Tony-nominated singer and actress Bertice Reading.

  Legendary saxophone player Sonny Rollins delivers a moving instrumental version of a classic with his 1957 version of “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face” from My Fair Lady. Our night at the theater concludes with a double-header from the late, great Peggy Lee who sings two classics from Oklahoma, “People Will Say We’re In Love” and the closer, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.”

  Putumayo’s Broadway Jazz brings together the beautiful melodies of musical theater and the coolness of jazz for a beguiling collection. Broadway and jazz music’s shared history and longtime reciprocal relationship make for a perfect musical partnership. For more information or to interview Putumayo founder and music compiler Dan Storper, please contact Adam Sullivan at adam@putumayo.com.

    julia thomas

publicist

julia@rockpaperscissors.biz

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[bookfortunes]

On Monday, we discussed The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead at the Westerville Senior Center Book Club, check out some of these titles as read-a-likes.  

Bound for Canaan          by:  M. Bordewich

From Midnight to Dawn  by: Hettie Jones

Gateway to Freedom      by: Eric Foner

Glory Over Everything    by: Kathleen Grissom

Homegoing: a Novel       by: Yaa Gyasi 

The Good Lord Bird        by: James McBride

The House Girl               by: Tara Conklin

Kindred                           by: Octavia E. Butler

The Kitchen House         by: Kathleen Grissom

The Known World           by: Edward P. Jones

The Last Runaway          by: Tracy Chevalier 

The Ties that Bind           by: Bertice Berry

[londontheatre]

Following the critically acclaimed release of ‘Lost West End’ (2015) and ‘Lost West End 2’ (2016), albums highlighted in both The Sunday Times and The Guardian, Stage Door Records are pleased to continue the album series with the 2CD set ‘Lost West End Vintage’ released on July 28th 2017.

LOST WEST END VINTAGE celebrates London’s forgotten musicals of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, compiling songs from 35 West End productions and showcasing these unique theatrical works from the golden age of the British musical.

Presented as a Deluxe Edition 2CD set; ‘Lost West End Vintage’ features over 50 tracks (including over 20 tracks appearing on CD for the first time) from London cast recordings to pop covers, live recordings and other musical rarities. Ranging from 1948 to 1962, the selections featured include a broad range of musical styles and genres from prolific theatre composers including Ivor Novello, Noel Coward, Julian Slade, Sandy Wilson, Lionel Bart, Leslie Bricusse, David Heneker, Monty Norman, Vivian Ellis and more. The album includes a glittering ensemble of star performers including; Pat Kirkwood, George Formby, Anna Neagle, Sally Ann Howes, Frankie Howerd, Bertice Reading, Hy Hazell, Elisabeth Welch, Jeremy Brett, Edmund Hockridge, Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Beatrice Lillie and Petula Clark.

The ‘Lost West End Vintage’ musicals included are: ‘Carissima’ (1948), ‘Cage Me A Peacock’ (1948), ‘Ace Of Clubs’ (1950), ‘Dear Miss Phoebe’ (1950), ‘Blue For A Boy’ (1950), ‘Gay’s The Word’ (1951), ‘Zip Goes A Million’ (1951), ‘The Glorious Days’ (1953), ‘Happy Holiday’ (1954), ‘Twenty Minutes South’ (1955), ‘Romance In Candlelight’ (1955), ‘Listen To The Wind’ (1955), ‘Wild Grows The Heather’ (1956), ‘Aladdin – The Wonderful Lamp’ (1956), ‘Grab Me A Gondola’ (1956), ‘Harmony Close’ (1957), ‘Lady At The Wheel’ (1958), ‘Expresso Bongo’ (1958), ‘Mister Venus’ (1958), ‘Chrysanthemum’ (1958), ‘Valmouth’ (1959), ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’ (1959), ‘The Crooked Mile’ (1959), ‘Kookaburra’ (1959), ‘Make Me An Offer’ (1959), ‘When In Rome’ (1959), ‘Follow That Girl’ (1960), ‘Johnny The Priest’ (1960), ‘The Golden Touch’ (1960), ‘Call It Love’ (1960), ‘Belle, Or The Ballad Of Dr, Crippen’ (1961), ‘Stop The World I Want To Get Off’ (1961), ‘Wildest Dreams’ (1961), ‘Scapa!’ (1962), ‘Vanity Fair’ (1962).

Although the shows didn’t last, their music lives on and this collection affirms that the ‘lost’ musicals featured are well worth rediscovering.

For more information about ‘Lost West End Vintage’, visit: http://ift.tt/2swyHDm

DISC ONE – LONDON CAST RECORDINGS 1. IT’S BOUND TO BE RIGHT ON THE NIGHT – Cicely Courtneidge (from ‘Gay’s The Word’) 2. CHASE ME CHARLIE / EVENING IN SUMMER / I LIKE AMERICA – Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn (from ‘Ace Of Clubs’) 3. ZIP GOES A MILLION / RUNNING AWAY TO LAND – George Formby, Warde Donovan (from ‘Zip Goes A Million’) 4. THE GLORIOUS DAYS (Part One) – Anna Neagle (from ‘The Glorious Days’) 5. THE GLORIOUS DAYS ( Part Two) – Anna Neagle (from ‘The Glorious Days’) 6. CARISSIMA – Lester Ferguson (from ‘Carissima’) 7. I SEE EVERYTHING I LOVE IN YOU – Bill O’Connor, Valerie Miller (from ‘Wild Grows The Heather’) 8. THIS IS LOVE – Donald Scott, Joan Bailey (from ‘Twenty Minutes South’) 9. LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE – Sally Ann Howes, Jacques Pils (from ‘Romance In Candlelight’) 10. SEW A SILVER BUTTON ON THE MOON – Reg Dixon (from ‘Happy Holiday’) 11. SONG AND DANCE MAN – Frankie Howerd (from ‘Mister Venus’) 12. FOLLOW THAT GIRL – Peter Gilmore (from ‘Follow That Girl’) 13. GIRL ON THE HILL – John Baddeley, Anna Dawson (from ‘Wildest Dreams’) 14. CALL IT LOVE – Richard Owens (from ‘Call It Love’) 15. STOP! – June Laverick (from ‘When In Rome’) 16. THE EARLY BIRDIE – Lucille Mapp (from ‘Lady At The Wheel’) 17. MY BIG BEST SHOES – Bertice Reading (from ‘Valmouth’) 18. GRAB ME A GONDOLA – Company (from ‘Grab Me A Gondola’) 19. PORTOBELLO ROAD – Company (from ‘Make Me An Offer’) 20. MEET ME AT THE STRAND – Nicolette Roeg (from ‘Belle, Or The Ballad Of Dr Crippin’) 21. WHEN DOES THE RAVISHING BEGIN – Hy Hazell (from ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’) 22. I AM – Millicent Martin (from ‘Expresso Bongo’) 23. THE RIGHT KIND OF MAN – Maggie Fitzgibbon (from ‘Kookaburra’) 24. IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN – Elisabeth Welch (from ‘The Crooked Mile’) 25. A BOY CALLED JOHNNY – Jeremy Brett (from ‘Johnny The Priest’) 26. NO MORE LOVE SONGS – Pat Kirkwood (from ‘Chrysanthemum’) 27. SOMEONE TO BELIEVE IN – Gordon Boyd (from ‘Vanity Fair’)

DISC TWO – COVERS AND OTHER RARITIES 1. SELECTIONS FROM ‘CARISSIMA’ – Theatre Orchestra Conducted By Hans May (from ‘Carissima’) 2. TIME ALONE WILL TELL – The Melody Maids (from ‘Cage Me A Peacock’) 3. BLUE FOR A BOY – Pear Carr, Dick James (from ‘Blue For A Boy’) 4. ORDINARY PEOPLE – Reg Dixon (from ‘Zip Goes A Million’) 5. I LEAVE MY HEART IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN – Edmund Hockridge (from ‘Dear Miss Phoebe’) 6. I SEE EVERYTHING I LOVE IN YOU (Single Version) – Bill O’Connor (from ‘Wild Grows The Heather’) 7. WHEN IN ROME – Andy Cole (from ‘When In Rome’) 8. BE NOT AFRAID – Toni Dalli (from ‘Johnny The Priest’) 9. FUNNY THING – Johnny Wade (from ‘The Golden Touch’) 10. LOVE LIKE OURS – Joan Regan (from ‘Mister Venus’) 11. LOVE HIM (Single Version) – Diana Coupland (from ‘Make Me An Offer’) 12. SIESTA – The Beverley Sisters (from ‘Lady At The Wheel’) 13. GETTING NOWHERE FAST – Mike Shaun (from ‘Harmony Close’) 14. THE SHRINE ON THE SECOND FLOOR – Cliff Richard (from ‘Expresso Bongo’) 15. KOOKABURRA – Tommy Steele (from ‘Kookaburra’) 16. THE DIT-DIT SONG – Tommy Steele (from ‘Belle, Or The Ballad Of Dr Crippen) 17. MY BIG BEST SHOES – Tommy Steele (from ‘Valmouth’) 18. TYPICALLY ENGLISH – Beatrice Lillie (from ‘Stop The World – I Want To Get Off!’) 19. LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS – Lionel Bart (from ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’) 20. SATURDAY NIGHT – Robb Stewart (from ‘Chrysanthemum’) 21. ONE, TWO, THREE – Eleanor Drew, Harry Dawson (from ‘Follow That Girl’) 22. NAUGHTY GALE BIRD – Dick Bentley (from ‘Listen To The Wind’) 23. SELECTIONS FROM ‘ALADDIN – THE MAGIC LAMP’ – Norman Evans, Dickie Henderson, Norma Evans, Jean Metcalfe, David Croft

BONUS TRACKS 24. SELECTIONS FROM ‘SCAPA!’ (Live) – David Hughes 25. ORDINARY PEOPLE (Live) – George Formby, Petula Clark (from ‘Zip Goes A Million’)

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[preciousporras]

What TRIO Gave Me

I want to share one of my favorite poems by Langston Hughes:

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare.

But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light.

So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.

Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

 Like many in this room, I am a first generation college student. I was also very poor growing up. I am a woman of color. The combination of those identities crafted a narrative in which I wasn’t supposed to succeed. I wasn’t supposed to get to where I am today. My life was not a crystal stair.

My life had tacks and splinters, I grew up in single parent home and we were very poor, using welfare and social services to supplement my mother’s meager income. My mother dropped out of school in the seventh grade to help raise her siblings. However, she always understood the value of education and she encouraged me to do my best so that I could go to college. My education was always a priority in my family. My mother taught me to read when I was four, always encouraged me to do well in school and homework always came before fun. I watched my mother work various low paying jobs to make ends meet; both she and I knew that college would be my key to a more fulfilling life. So while I knew that I was going to college, I had no idea how to get there. My life was bare and I stumbled in the dark, until I found TRiO.

When I was a sophmore, I was introduced into Upward Bound (Project Focus through Emporia State University). I joined because my friends told me how much fun it was and because that summer’s trip was going to be to Minnesota and the Mall of America. I stayed on through 3 more summers as a student and 6 more summers working for my program because of all of the things that TRiO gave me.

TRiO gave me a brother. That’s right, during one of my first Upward Bound trips, I met the half brother that I always knew I had, but had never met before.

TRiO gave me academic skills. Good Upward Bound students sit in the front and center; a rule I still say to myself to this day. I was always a good student, but I developed many strong skills that carried me through college and to this current degree.

TRiO gave me a college education. Now, I worked hard, as the poem says. I never gave up, but there were times I wanted to. College wasn’t easy, but I still had my TRiO family with me, as I had joined Student Support Services at Northwest Missouri State University, where I graduated, first in my family, with a degree in Psychology and Sociology.

TRiO gave me life long mentors. Upon entering college, I met the woman who would become one of my biggest mentors, Kenna Johnson. Kenna was the Associate Director for Student Support Services at Northwest. She spent countless hours with me. She answered my questions; she helped me with resumes and cover letters. She was the first person to hug me after I walked across the stage at graduation. She was waiting and she told me how proud she was of me; it’s one of the proudest moments of my life. When I look back upon college, she is the first thing I will always remember. Her commitment to TRIO and her devotion to the students was awe inspiring to me!

TRiO gave me a family. As much as I love Kenna, there are also a whole slew of other folks that I count lucky to have supported me on my journey and I have to say thank you to each of them. Carole Johnson is like a second mom to me. She has been a constant source of advice and support to me for over 20 years. Arland Donaldson, who taught me how to have the tough conversations. Duane Powell who taught me how to have fun and enjoy the job at the same time. Phil Kenkel, who showed me how to be selfless when it comes to my students. Jacque Loghry whose kindness knows no bounds. Kristi Bolen who led me through some of my toughest challenges as a first time supervisor, including firing a tutor! Trudi Benjamin who was my TRiO role model from the first time I met her when I was in high school. I got to work for Trudi when I was graduate student and her wisdom and unwaivering support of students were truly inspiring. Perhaps the best thing Trudi ever did for me though, was to introduce me to my husband. We met working for Upward Bound when were both in college.

TRiO gave me a passion and a career. As a senior, I had the opportunity to attend the MAEOPP Student Leadership Conference. The last night of the conference, we were at the banquet dinner and our keynote speaker was Bertice Berry. Dr. Berry spoke to us about making the most of the opportunities that we were given.  She had also been in Upward Bound. Her message was one of giving back. She became a professor, she said, to help students in the way she had been helped along her journey! As I sat there and listened to her speak, it was as if I light bulb went on over my head. By the time her speech had ended, I knew that I would work for TRIO. I realized that I wanted to spend my life helping students from similar backgrounds! TRiO gave me a passion to help others.

In 2005, I accepted a position in Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas. During my time at KU, I have had the opportunity to learn and gain many new experiences. However, there are two parts of my job that I truly treasure: Hawk (welcome) Week and Graduation. Those two events signify my life’s dream of helping students navigate and graduate from college. In the past 11 years in the office, I have held every position and was recently named Director in January of this year. This has been the hardest and most rewarding thing I have ever done. As the nation, region and our institution has been rocked by racial injustice, I have been able to provide leadership for the KU community to engage in dialogue and push the needle to create a more inclusive campus climate.

In my current position, I know that it’s important to have metrics. We have to show how we spend money and which services we provide students. At some point in my TRiO journey, I have been a metric. I have been a number that shows that yes, TRIO WORKS! But that metric can never truly convey what TRiO has done for me.

Did I graduate from college, Yes. Did I get my Masters, first in my family, yep! Am I currently ABD and one semester away from being a Dr. Precious Porras? Yes!!

Was it easy? Not at all! Which is why I love this poem because I think it speaks to preserving, even when times are the toughest. When life trips you up and feel like you can’t go one more step; don’t give up! Keep pushing on. I know this easier said than done because I’ve had more than my share of moments when I wanted to quit. But I didn’t quit because I knew I had a support system. TRIO was always my light in the dark, guiding me forward.

When I say I would not be here if it weren’t for TRIO, I mean it. TRIO gave me my life. I met my brother, I met my husband, and I discovered my career path; and those are just the large highlights. I wish I could quantify the intangible things TRiO has given me.

All of my life experiences were shaped by TRIO. I have no words of gratitude for the amazing professionals who helped me get to where I am today. Instead, I work to pay it forward and help the next generation. I was once given a road map and I want to share my map with others. I participate in McNair and SSS programs at KU, including graduation events. It is without fail that I am brought to tears every year as I celebrate with the students. I am always in awe at the power of TRiO. I am eternally grateful for those who helped me climb and achieve, despite that fact that my life has not been a crystal stair. I truly believe that we rise by lifting others. At the end of the day, it’s not about what you’ve accomplished, though don’t diminish your own light; it’s about who you’ve lifted up and who you’ve made better. Thank you to all of you in the room who devote your lives to lifting other’s up. I am, we are, here because of you.

[classicladiesofcolor]

Actress/singer Bertice Reading, photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1959

[rockincountryblues]

Bertice Reading, 1959

[soulmusicsongs]

Sunday Morning - Bertice Reading (Sunday Morning / Lean On Me, 1974)

[holdthisphoto]

Bertice Reading, 1957

by Ida Kar

[killerbeesting]

carl van vechten - bertice reading, nyc, 1959

[classicladiesofcolor]

Bertice Reading — “I Gotta Know”, ca 1959