So I'm listening to jazz on last.fm (what a great invention), when a soloing pianist starts to riff on the Flintstones theme. Quite charming. The listing says it's Ornette Coleman's Congeniality off the Ken Burns jazz set. I want to find out who the pianist is so I start poking around but can't find a Congeniality that's 13:59. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if it's Ornette at all. I wasn't paying that much attention when the song was playing but Ornette didn't pop into my head. So I ramble a little further and come to a much more likely candidate - 'The Egg' by Herbie Hancock. What does it mean though, when music is being so casually mislabeled in the Interverse?
I did discover that the composer of the Flintstones theme was a man named Hoyt Curtin, a commercial jingle composer before his big breakthrough with Hanna Barbara - and that musicians often riff on the tune.
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That's the rub of the web. Content comes easy, fast and free, but often at the cost of accuracy. I too have noticed internet radio misidentifying artists and song titles. When people rip free mp3s, track listings get shuffled. And the issue goes way beyond internet radio: Wiki can be as much an agent of disinformation as it is a valuable resource. But people who have never gone to a library and used the card catalog treat it like a primary source. We long ago abandoned quality for quantity, and convenience.
I was doing my new book and realized how rusty my researching skill have become.
When I was teaching junior high classes a kid told me that Johnny Cash was a white supremacist. I said that no, he was not. We argued back and forth for a minute and the kid insisted that I let him use my computer so that he could show me some proof. He pulled up a horribly racist country tune on some music downloading website, labeled as being by Johnny Cash. I tried to explain that it was a user generated site with zero quality control, and that if someone didn't know the name of a country tune the most generic name they could pull our of thin air would be Johnny Cash...didn't matter. It was right there on the screen, and that made it fact. I guarantee you there is a segment of the ninth grade population of Norwalk, CA. that to this day believes Johnny Cash would be burning crosses on their lawns if he were still alive.
By the way, did you know Johnny Cash was the first American (maybe even the first westerner) to find out that Stalin died?
You don't know how many times people have sent me stuff on the web 'proving' that a jet didn't hit the Pentagon on 9/11 or that Elvis was living in Atlantis.
So what's the Johnny/Stalin story. Inquiring minds...
He was an Air Force Morse code decoder and happened to be on duty at the time.
yo Robert what do you think about Medina's confession he lied about his death threats last week! Are there any real boxers left out there?
And speaking of jazz: when I was working at My Father's Place in Roslyn back in the summer of '74 I had to drive into Harlem to pick up Pharoah Sanders, Leon Thomas and the group in my 73 chevy van including an electric piano... it was quite a ride!
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