May's Underappreciated Music: the Links

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of....

Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Saturday Night Music; Theme Music

Brian Arnold: The Coasters

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Jim C.: Herbie Mann and Rufus Harley: The Wailing Dervishes

Sean Coleman: The Who Sell Out

Bill Crider: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day 

Elizabeth Foxwell: Lalo Schifrin; Maurice Jarre

Woody's Children 45th Anniversary Concert: the full audio recording of the radio series special, which will have a shorter-form PBS pledge special seen nationally beginning in August:

Pictured (L to R): Holly Near, Nora Guthrie, Christine Lavin, Noel Paul Stookey, host Bob Sherman, David Amram, Tom Paxton, Tom Chapin, Sandy O and Pat Humphries of emma's revolution.


Jeff Gemmill: Diane Birch: Bible Belt

Jerry House: The Zombies; Hymn Time; Herb Jeffries: "Flamingo" ; much else on a daily basis

Randy Johnson: Soil; Steel Panther; Little Caesar

George Kelley: Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl

Kate Laity: The Tonebanks; The Autumn Stones

Evan Lewis: The Outsiderz

Todd Mason: Memorial Day; music from my Mother; more Third Stream Music

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: The Dynamics: First Landing:  Ben Vaughn: The Desert Trailer Sessions; Arthur Alexander: Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

Jeff Segal/Vivienne Chow: Maggie Cheung

The Byrds: Under Review (part 5, and a link to all that's online)--a nice actually live vocals clip of "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better"...followed by the whole Hullabaloo performance, below:



Diane Birch: "Fools"  

Tune detective time: 
Herb Jeffries with the Ellington Orchestra: "Flamingo" (1940)


Anita O'Day with the Krupa  Orchestra: "Skylark" (1941)

Wednesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: day's delay edition with new links

A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)

Below, the (with apologies, delayed) links to this week's reviews and citations; As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone else's...and, as always, thanks to all our contributors and to you readers...a few more might be added over the course of the day.

Anne Billson: Black Death

Bill Crider: Cold in July [trailer]

Brian Arnold: Captain America serial plus intermissions

B.V. Lawson: Media Murder

Charlie Ricci: Don't Touch My Records!

David Vineyard: The Curse of the Midas Cup

Ed Gorman: Derailed

Ed Lynskey: Chef (the recent film)

Elizabeth Foxwell: David Goodis...To a Pulp 

Evan Lewis: The Terror of Tiny Town

Fred Blosser: Viva Sabata!

George Kelley: Fading Gigolo; Gojira movies

Iba Dawson: Keep On Keepin' On; When the Garden Was Eden

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Johnny Guitar

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: (and The CBS Radio Mystery Theater): "The Case of M.J.H." by Henry Slesar

Jackie Kashian: Julie Klausner

The Big Country

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Our Very Own

James Reasoner: Ace Drummond

Jason Bailey: 25 Underrated Films of 2000-2009

Jeff Flugel: The Big Country

Jerry House: The Case of the Frightened Lady; Lum and Abner: "The Pine Ridge Moving Picture Company"

John Charles: A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)

John Grant: Engagement; Douce Violence; Conflicted

Jonathan Lewis: The Heroes of Telemark; The Twilight Zone: "No Time Like the Past"; The Lineup (the film)

Laura: After Office Hours; They Were Expendable

Lucy Brown: Double Dynamite

Martin Edwards: Quirke; library events

Marshall Trimble: Tom Horn

Marty McKee: Hotline; Expect No Mercy

Mystery Dave: Roman Holiday

Patti Abbott: Kind Hearts and Coronets

Philip Schweier: Metropolis; John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy

Prashant Trikannad: Abwärts (aka Out of Order)

Randy Johnson: Cloudburst; 32 Caliber Killer (aka Killer Calibro 32)

Rick: Letters in movies; My Cousin Rachel

Rod Lott: Sightseers

Ron Scheer: Raw Edge

Sergio Angelini: Hammer Films

Stacia Jones: We Are the Best!; The Biggest Bundle of Them All

Stephen Bowie: Mannix

William Deeck: Dangerous Partners

Yvette Banek: Five Films That Should Be Available: Truly Madly Deeply; Five Came Back; Making Mr. Right; The Wrong Box; The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Saturday Music Club on Memorial Day

The Kinks: "Some Mother's Son"


The Suspects: "Swords of the Fallen"


The Weavers: "Venga Jaleo"


Human Sexual Response: "Anne Frank Story"


Tom Lehrer: "Send the Marines"

FFB: The Best from IF, Volume III edited by James Baen; World's Best Science Fiction 1970 and 1971 volumes, edited by Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr

Time for a few more examples of how the twig was bent...three important anthologies to me as a young reader. My father brought all three into the house, in the early/mid '70s, the two Wollheim/Carr annuals in their Science Fiction Book Club hardcover editions with the bold typography, the If magazine best-of in its only edition I've seen, published by the paperback arm of the magazine's publisher at the time, Award Books. These were fascinating anthologies to me, diverse and exposing a 10yo to a wide range of approaches to sf (11yo when the If book was published and arrived in-house), and to the life and matters around sf (the Hoagland and Geis and Del Rey columns in the If volume particularly). They didn't sweep me up as thoroughly as the "Alfred Hitchcock"-attributed anthologies I was reading in the same year or so, and as many as I could find, and the similarly eclectic horror anthologies I was reading (and humor, and so much else) were at least as influential and as eagerly devoured, but as I look at what I was dipping into with these, as well as with the other anthologies and collections my father would bring around along with what I could find on my own in booksales and libraries and even the increasingly frequent visits to actual bookstores, it's easy to see why I've remained an enthusiastic reader of the fantastic, and have perhaps an excessively nostalgic attraction to best-of annuals, even when I might disagree with the editors in question about their choices from a given year or run of issues...what they choose, and as much as they choose to share about how they chose, is often fascinating...beyond the quality of the work in question...while Terry Carr and Donald Wollheim weren't as eclectic in their annual as was Judith Merril or Harry Harrison  (increasingly in partnership with Brian Aldiss) with theirs, nonetheless the two Ace editors (in at least two senses) attempted to provide as diverse a cross-section of "true" sf as they could...and even though I've never much liked Alexei Panshin's fiction and "Waterclap" was disappointingly minor Asimov (particularly as I was already torn, as were the competing camps in the story, between passions for astronomy and oceanography), much of the rest ranged from eye-opening, to say the least (the Le Guin, the Richard Wilson, the Ellison, the Tiptree) to very funny indeed (Wilson and perhaps even more the Silverberg) and now I'm reminded where I first read such folks as Neal Barrett, and R. A. Lafferty, and Alice "Racoona"/"James Tiptree, Jr." Sheldon...the If volume mourned the passage of its source magazine, folded despite the strong revival it had experienced in sales under its young editor James Baen, and further gave me a lot of my earliest understanding of the writer/fan community around sf, as well as handing me not a few interesting stories as well. Not least what was probably one of  my first Fritz Leibers (along with "Ship of Shadows")... (Robert Arthur and Harold Q. Masur, hiding behind Hitchcock, had already introduced me to Theodore Sturgeon; Henry Mazzeo and Edward Gorey had already introduced me to Robert Bloch, among so many others...).

My immersion in fiction magazines, that could feed such wonderful fiction to such volumes as these (and the Hitchcock and horror and other anthologies I'd read), or the Best Detective Stories volumes (where Anthony Boucher's volumes, for example, weren't afraid to draw as far afield as upon Fantastic for a Ron Goulart story, or the Borges collection Labyrinths for examples of his work, which Boucher had been the first to translate into English and see published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the 1940s) and others I was just beginning to find, was all but inevitable. Haven't shaken it yet.

Indices courtesy of Homeville:

The Best from If, Volume III ed. James Baen (Award AD1544, 1976, $1.50, 220pp, pb)

• 9 · Midnight by the Morphy Watch · Fritz Leiber · ss Worlds of If Jul/Aug ’74
• 35 · Plaything · Larry Niven · ss Worlds of If Jul/Aug ’74
• 43 · A Little Night Flying [“Dark Icarus”; Rob Hasson] · Bob Shaw · ss Science Fiction Monthly v1 #4 ’74; If Aug ’74
• 61 · Half-Baked Publisher’s Delight · Jeffrey S. Hudson & Isaac Asimov · ss Worlds of If Jul/Aug ’74
• 69 · Mephisto & the Ion Explorer · Colin Kapp · nv Worlds of If Sep/Oct ’74
• 111 · Following Yonder Star · Richard C. Hoagland · ar Worlds of If Nov/Dec ’74
• 131 · Gut in Peril · Arsen Darnay · ss Worlds of If Nov/Dec ’74
• 141 · Time Deer · Craig Strete · ss Red Planet Earth #4 ’74 (and reprinted in If)
• 149 · The Alien Viewpoint · Richard E. Geis · ar Worlds of If Sep/Oct ’74
• 163 · The Descent of Man · Judith Ann Lawrence · ss Worlds of If Nov/Dec ’74
• 177 · Angel Fix · Raccoona Sheldon · nv Worlds of If Jul/Aug ’74
• 211 · Reading Room · Lester del Rey · br Worlds of If Nov/Dec ’74

The World’s Best Science Fiction: 1970 ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr (Ace 91357, 1970, 95¢, 349pp, pb)

• 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr · in
• 11 · A Man Spekith · Richard Wilson · nv Galaxy May ’69
• 37 · After the Myths Went Home · Robert Silverberg · ss F&SF Nov ’69
• 46 · Death by Ecstasy [“The Organleggers”; Gil Hamilton] · Larry Niven · na Galaxy Jan ’69
• 106 · One Sunday in Neptune · Alexei Panshin · ss Tomorrow’s Worlds, ed. Robert Silverberg, Meredith, 1969
• 115 · For the Sake of Grace · Suzette Haden Elgin · nv F&SF May ’69
• 138 · Your Haploid Heart · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv Analog Sep ’69
• 171 · Therapy 2000 · Keith Roberts · ss New Writings in SF. 15, ed. John Carnell, London: Dobson, 1969
• 189 · Sixth Sense · Michael G. Coney · ss Vision of Tomorrow Aug ’69
• 207 · A Boy and His Dog [Vic & Blood] · Harlan Ellison · nv New Worlds Apr ’69
• 246 · And So Say All of Us · Bruce McAllister · ss If Sep ’69
• 258 · Ship of Shadows · Fritz Leiber · na F&SF Jul ’69
• 302 · Nine Lives [revised from Playboy Nov ’69] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv *
• 328 · The Big Flash · Norman Spinrad · nv Orbit 5, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1969

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The World’s Best Science Fiction: 1971 ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr (Ace, 1971, pb)

• · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr · in
• · Slow Sculpture · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Galaxy Feb ’70
• · Bird in the Hand [Hanville Svetz] · Larry Niven · ss F&SF Oct ’70
• · Ishmael in Love · Robert Silverberg · ss F&SF Jul ’70
• · Invasion of Privacy · Bob Shaw · nv Amazing Jul ’70
• · Waterclap · Isaac Asimov · nv If Apr ’70
• · Continued on Next Rock · R. A. Lafferty · nv Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1970
• · The Thing in the Stone · Clifford D. Simak · nv If Mar ’70
• · Nobody Lives on Burton Street · Gregory Benford · ss Amazing May ’70
• · Whatever Became of the McGowans? · Michael G. Coney · ss Galaxy May ’70
• · The Last Time Around · Arthur Sellings · nv New Writings in SF. 12, ed. John Carnell, London: Corgi, 1968
• · Greyspun’s Gift · Neal Barrett, Jr. · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Win ’70
• · The Shaker Revival · Gerald Jonas · nv Galaxy Feb ’70
• · Dear Aunt Annie · Gordon Eklund · nv Fantastic Apr ’70
• · Confessions [Jose Silvera] · Ron Goulart · nv F&SF Aug ’70
• · Gone Are the Lupo · H. B. Hickey · ss Quark #1, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1970

For more of today's books, please see Patti Abbott's blog.

A night at the movies...

At the Jeffty Five Cineplex in Painesville, Ohio starting Friday...and simultaneously on Painseville's Channel 81 on your obsolete UHF dial (WAQZ, formerly an affiliate of no fewer than seven dead networks!):

Cartoon: "Jackie Kashian: Los Angeles Pet Owners" 


Cartoon: "April Richardson and Jimmy Pardo: Go Bayside!: The California Bandsaw Massacre"


Newsreel: The Onion Review for 12 May (despite preview image, still linked)


Serial:  The Maria Bamford Show


Short Western Film: The Tonto Woman (based on an Elmore Leonard short story)

Daniel Barber - Short Film - The Tonto Woman from Knucklehead on Vimeo.

Feature: Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn!)--based on Fritz Leiber's first novel.

Second Feature: The City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel) 

Anthology film: Three Cases of Murder (1st segment the most impressive, and no bones about it horror)

Very alternate feature: Siesta (now a dead link, an interesting though not completely successful variation on Carnival of Souls; a UCLA forum on it featuring director Mary Lambert, editor Glenn Morgan, and cast-members Ellen Barkin and Jodie Foster)...or Castaway (looking a bit soft in image, but difficult to pick up on the market otherwise of late...also not a perfect film, but an interesting one). Original choice here, Testament of Orpheus, didn't have any English subtitles option when I first posted this, but the current link does...for now!

Cartoon: "The Tell-Tale Heart" 

(A more recent, more loosely-adapted variant)

And my first film seen by myself in a cinema...a 1970 re-release of Kiss of the Vampire (1963)--rediscovered with indirect help from Jeff Segal, who guessed closely:

Organ Music: Rhoda Scott and Barbara Dennerlein: "Yes or No"

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: more links

amnesia film The Ipcress File

Below, the links to this week's reviews and citations; As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone else's...and, as always, thanks to all our contributors and to you readers...a few more might be added over the course of the day.

Anne Billson: Ten Places You Wouldn't Expect to See a Severed Head (a still from Re-Animator might upset some offices NSFWly) (insert discussion of severed heads Yes/bare breasts No here)

Where's Poppa?

Bill Crider: Where's Poppa?  [trailer]

Brian Arnold: the 2013-14 television season

BV Lawson: Media Murder

David Vineyard: Welcome to the Punch

Ed Gorman: Crime Wave

Ed Lynskey: Locke

Elizabeth Foxwell: Hell is a City

Evan Lewis: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)

George Kelley: The Wild Wild West (the tv series)

How Did This Get Made?: Ernest Goes to Jail

Iba Dawson: Love and Engineering; The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: High Pressure; Flight from Glory; Lightning Strikes Twice; The Bachelor Party; Johnny Cool

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Right Kind of Medicine"

Jackie Kashian: Myq Kaplan

Jacqueline T. Lynch: A Women's Vengeance

Jake Hinkson:  Leigh Brackett, screenwriter; Carl Dreyer

James Reasoner: Clutch Cargo

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

Jerry House: The Musketeers of Pig Alley

John Charles: The Terror Within; Dead Space

John Grant: Candellight in Algeria; Blood

Jonathan Lewis: The Abominable Snowman

Laura: Command Decision; Hit the Deck

Lucy Brown: Hobson's Choice

Kate Laity: Blitz

Martin Edwards:  Crimefest 2014; Happy Valley; Hinterland 

Marty McKee: Pier 5, Havana; Tarzan Goes to India 

Mystery Dave: Knights of Badassdom

Patti Abbott: Me, Natalie

Me, Natalie

Randy Johnson: The Deadly Mantis; Reptilicus; Tequila Joe (aka E venne il tempo di uccidere); Harlan Ellison's Watching

Rick: Robert Vaughn

Rod Lott: Evilspeak

Ron Scheer: The Gunfight at Dodge City

Sergio Angelini: The Top 20 Amnesia Mystery Movies

Stacia Jones: The Rose and the Jackal; Pennies from Heaven (the 1981 film) 

A New Leaf

Stephen Bowie: Amy Aquino

Walter Albert: Broncho Billy and the Baby

Yvette Banek: A New Leaf