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A “Thriller” Evening with Edgar Allan Poe starring Vincent Price

Actor Vincent Price was considered to be a “Merchant of Menace” as he was featured in several horror movies inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.

 

 

He also was immortalized (well, his voice) in the John Landis directed Michael Jackson music video “Thriller,” as seen below.

 

 

 

 

Celebrating John Lennon’s birthday!

 John Lennon was born October 9, 1940.  The founder of The Beatles would’ve been 75 years old today.  He and his bandmates, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, shook the world with Beatlemania.

Individually the four continued to influence the culture but together they were a powerhouse.

“In My Life” is one of the many songs penned by John Lennon.  Enjoy the video of the “four lads from Liverpool.”

Teach Your Children Well by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

According to Song Facts.com, “Graham Nash wrote this. The lyrics deal with the often difficult relationship he had with his father, who spent time in prison.

Jerry Garcia performs the pedal steel guitar part of this track. He had been playing steel guitar for only a short period of time. Garcia played on this album in exchange for harmony lessons for the Grateful Dead, who were at the time recording their acoustic albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty.

Graham Nash (from the liner notes of their 1991 boxed set): “The idea is that you write something so personal that every single person on the planet can relate to it. Once it’s there on vinyl it unfolds, outwards, so that it applies to almost any situation. ‘Teach’ started out as a slightly funky English folk song but Stephen (Stills) put a country beat to it and turned it into a hit record.”

Deja Vu (released in 1970) was the first album the band recorded with Neil Young, but Young did not play on this.”

According to Wikipedia and this video, this song was immediately inspired by a Life magazine photograph by Diane Arbus titled “Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park.”

This picture prompted Graham Nash to pen down his thoughts on the social implications of messages given to children about war and other issues as well as his own relationship with his father.

 

Me and Paul Revere – Video

On July 3, 2012 at the historical house of Paul Revere, the actor, comedian, writer and musician Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers performed the song “Me and Paul Revere.”

Watch it now!

 

Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” featuring Vincent Price

Halloween wouldn’t be complete without “Thriller, “ directed by John Landis, featuring the voice of actor Vincent Price, best known for his horror films.

 

The lighter side of Vincent Price

 

Remembering the “King of Cowboys”

For those of you who don’t know… Wikipedia has this to say about Roy Rogers… “Roy Rogers was an American singer and cowboy actor who was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the “King of the Cowboys”, he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show.”

Roy Rogers was an American actor and singer born on November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio.   On July 6, 1998, the man known for his good guy hero image, died from congestive heart failure.

 

Here is a celebration of his memory:

Roy Rogers and the Statler Brothers

Roy Rogers joins the Country and Western group The Statler Brothers to sing (and yodel) the song Old Skyball Paint.