August'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: Nick Cave (the sound-suit Cave)

Brian Arnold: Japanese SF television series theme music

Love: Da Capo

Side A
1. Stephanie knows who 00:00
2. Orange skies 02:38
3. ¡Qué vida! 05:32
4. Seven & seven is 09:16
5. The castle 11:43
6. She comes in colours 14:49
Side B
1. Revelation 17:37

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim C.: Sonny Criss

Sisters of St. Nicholas Convent Choir: Great-Lenten Chants: "Open to me the doors of penance..." (courtesy Anon.)


Sean Coleman: Motherload: "When I Die"

Bill Crider: The "5" Royales: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits: Local Charts

Cullen Gallagher: rediscovering vinyl

Sonny Criss Orchestra: "Sonny's Dream"


Jeff Gemmill: Juliana Hatfield: 20 Questions; Top 5s; Paul McCartney: Wingspan Documentary; 3 Girls...

Jerry House: The Arthur Godfrey Show; Daily Music+; Hymn Time

George Kelley: Jackie DeShannon: All the Love: The Lost Atlantic Recordings

RiffTrax: "Coffeehouse Rendezvous"


Kate Laity: early Springsteen; The Original Beekeepers: How the River Runs Dry

Jacqueline T. Lynch: western film theme music

Todd Mason: for Gunther Schuller: Orchestral Third Stream Music; sinister songs

Patrick Murtha:  "Olympus 7-0000" and other Larry Blyden musicals

The Virgin-Whore Complex: "I See More" (nsfw lyrics)


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: Black 47: New York Town

Vienna: The Sound of Hitchcock

Deanta: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" 
(for the people of New Orleans and Biloxi)

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday

The Night Watch

The selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...apologies to Bill Crider, whose primary review had a bad link last week (now fixed and also linked below), and this week what might be the last previously-missed review from the late Randy Johnson; adios, indeed. As always, thanks to all the contributors and you readers... 

Aaron West: My Life as a Dog

Allan Fish: The Tin Drum (aka Die Blechtrommel)

Allison Whitmore and Adam B. Very: 22 Films to See (courtesy Bill Crider)

Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre

Anne Billson: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Anonymous: Comanche Station

Bill Crider: Slow West; Tales of the Gold Monkey [opening credits for the series]; "Stop Driving Us Crazy"

Brian Arnold: The Jaws cycle

Brian Busby: Without Warning part 2

Brian Lindemuth: the dialog flow of Deadwood

BV Lawson: Media Murder

BNoirDetour: Red Wind; Odds Against Tomorrow


Colin: Walk a Tightrope

Comedy Film Nerds: Stephanie Wilder-Taylor

Cynthia Fuchs: Out in the Night; best of 30 for 30

Dan Stumpf: Chloe, Love is Calling You

David Cramner: Gunsmoke (tv): "Mannon"

David Schleicher: The Tree of Life

Johnny Come Lately

David Vineyard: The Elgin Hour: "The Sting of Death"

Dorian: Charade

Elgin Bleecker: Johnny Come Lately

Elizabeth Foxwell: The Upturned Glass; John Gray on Eric Ambler and the films from his novels

Evan Lewis: The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake

Gary Deane: The Scarlet Hour

Gary Dobbs: Melody Patterson

George Kelley: Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem

Gilligan Newton-John: I Dream of Jeannie: "Jeannie the Matchmaker"; The Love God?; Confessions of a Driving Instructor

Harlan Ellison: Mike Hodel's Hour 25: "Robert Silverberg" (KPFK/Pacifica Radio) incomplete but worthwhile recording from multiple cassette flippings; early static eventually is eradicated/better-tuned.

The Strip

How Did This Get Made?: Theodore Rex

Iba Dawson: Show Me a Hero

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Information Please (radio); Adventures by Morse

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Guilty Witness"

Jackie Kashian: Sex and the City 2; Paul Gilmartin of The Mental Illness Happy Hour

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Mary Wickes

Jake Hinkson: The Winning of Barbara Worth

James Reasoner: Knockout

Janet Varney: Felicia Day


Jerry House: great television comedians

J. Kingston Pierce: Madigan

Paper Orchid

John Grant: "Web of Lies"; Paper Orchid

Jon Warner: Shane

Jonathan Lewis: Stories of the Century: "Joaquin Murietta"; The Scarlet Coat

Judy Geater: Dinner at 8

Juri Nummelin: Split Second

Karen Hannsberry: Finishing School

Kate Laity: Tangential Deviation

Kelly Robinson: Charles Loeb

Ken Levine: Midnight in Paris

The Odyssey

Kliph Nesteroff: Della: Sandy Baron, Lou Alexander  (Della among Kaiser Broadcasting System programming)

Kristina Dijan: Dangerous Corner; The Man They Could Not Hang; The Man with Nine Lives; The Odyssey (1968-70 European television), etc.

Lance Charnes: The Strip (Australian television)

Laura: Preston Foster; Spenser for Hire: second season; Gentleman's Fate; A Global Affair

Lawrence Block and Robert Silverberg in conversation, 2011:

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5 these have some gaps, but are worth the look and listen.

Lindsey: Her Sister's Secret; The Great Man's Lady; Housebound

Lucy Brown: The Night Watch

Mark Evanier: Fred Astaire at the 1970 Oscars Ceremony

The Avengers

Michael Shonk: The Avengers seasons 3 vs. 4

Martin Edwards: Twisted Nerve

Marty McKee: Blood and Lace; Scalpel (aka False Face)

Mystery Dave: Bay of Blood

Patricia Nolan-Hall: Raton Pass; The Big Country

Patrick Murtha: The Black Museum (Orson Welles radio series)

Patti Abbott: Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin speaking about love

Pop My Culture: Wayne Federman and Jaime Fox

Randy Johnson: Killer, Adios (aka Winchester, uno entre mille)

Raquel Stecher: Christopher Plummer honored

The November Man

Richard Moore: Pulpfest 2015

Rick: The Horsemasters; Hostile Witness; Grizzly; The Mark; Twilight of Honor 

Rod Lott: The November Man; Extreme Jukebox; Police Story: Lockdown; Death Walks at Midnight; House of Terror

Ruth: John Barrymore

Sam Juliano: A. I.

Sanford Allen: Spring

Scott Cupp: Zombeavers

52 Pick-Up

Sergio Angelini: 52 Pick-Up

Stacia Jones: West of Zanzibar

Stephen Bowie: The Defenders: "The Benefactor"

Stewart Galbraith IV: being interviewed for The Tonight Show

Victoria Loomes: Intruder in the Dust

Vienna: early Robin Hood films

Walter Albert: The Student of Prague

Yvette Banek: "Krakatoa Katie"

Zombeavers

Hugo Awards Ceremony 2015 video feed and link to Hugo results...

Locus magazine list of winners and runners up...

A pretty good roundup of the arguments in Wired magazine, albeit featuring a foolish
misrepresentation early in the article that most sf has been about white male zap-gun engineers...arguably true in, say, 1930s magazines...

For a while, the Nominations video was the only one up and feeding at this link, now supplemented. (And the recording of the noms starts several minutes in as presented, and their PA system seemed to be picking up a local radio station, or at least it's audible on the audio as a background undercurrent.)


Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

FFB: NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS by Fritz Leiber (Arkham House 1947; Ballantine 1961; Berkley 1978)

Fritz Leiber's first book (as opposed to his first two novels, first published in magazines in 1943) was this brilliant collection, which has seen three major variant editions over the decades in the U.S.: the original Arkham House edition, with the jacket by Ronald Clyne below; the Ballantine paperback, part of their loose horror line around the turn of the 1960s, featuring (as did the other horror titles) a Richard Powers cover (at right) (and with the novella "Adept's Gambit" dropped so as to result in a rather thin paperback, much cheaper for Ballantine to produce in those years and thus easier to offer at the 35c price-point); and the Berkley edition, with a Wayne Douglas Barlowe cover, at bottom, and two stories added to the original contents, the important early story "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" and the impressive mid-career "A Bit of the Dark World"...whether these additions were made at Leiber's request or that of Berkley editor David Hartwell is a question I'll have to ask the latter.  This certainly leaves the Berkley as in some ways the best edition to have, in terms of value, and the Gregg Press 1980 clothbound library edition (on acid-free paper) is a facsimile reprint of the Berkley pages (with an introduction by Richard Powers's son, the historian Richard Gid Powers).

Even without the extra stories, all three variants would be eminently worth the reading even if they contained only the extremely seminal story "Smoke Ghost," one of the several stories where Leiber can be seen to be expanding the palette of fantastic fiction and pointing to new areas for exploration that he and many others would colonize over the next several decades; a very modern sort of haunting (even as "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" is a notable extrapolation of, and new approach to, vampirism). Others here are almost as influential and as entertaining, not least one of the three stories (including "Adept's Gambit") originally published in the Arkham House edition, "The Man Who Never Grew Young"--a neat inversion of the conceit at the heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and similar fantasies...and the novella itself, one of the key stories in, and the best of the early contributions to, the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series of sword and sorcery fantasies, often with autobiographical elements, Leiber would write throughout his career.

Night’s Black Agents Fritz Leiber (Arkham House, 1947, $3.00, x+237pp, hc)

Ballantine 1961 edition omits “Adept’s Gambit”.
• ix  Foreword · fw
• 5  Smoke Ghost · ss Unknown Worlds Oct 1941
• 21  The Automatic Pistol · ss Weird Tales May 1940
• 38  The Inheritance · ss Weird Tales Jan 1942, as “The Phantom Slayer”
• 53  The Hill and the Hole · ss Unknown Worlds Aug 1942
• 66  The Dreams of Albert Moreland · nv The Acolyte Spr 1945
• 83  The Hound · ss Weird Tales Nov 1942
• 99  Diary in the Snow · nv *
• 127  The Man Who Never Grew Young · ss *
• 137  The Sunken Land [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · ss Unknown Worlds Feb 1942
• 155  Adept’s Gambit [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · na *

The 1977 Sphere (UK) edition TOC, with the subsection breakdowns.

Night’s Black Agents Fritz Leiber (Ballantine 508K, Jun ’61, 35¢, 143pp, pb)
Omits “Adept’s Gambit”. • "For Jonquil, My Wife." on page 2. 

• 7 · Smoke Ghost · ss Unknown Worlds Oct 1941
• 22 · The Automatic Pistol · ss Weird Tales May 1940
• 37 · The Inheritance · ss Weird Tales Jan 1942, as “The Phantom Slayer”
• 52 · The Hill and the Hole · ss Unknown Worlds Aug 1942
• 64 · The Dreams of Albert Moreland · nv The Acolyte Spr 1945
• 80 · The Hound · ss Weird Tales Nov 1942
• 94 · Diary in the Snow · nv Night’s Black Agents, Arkham 1947
• 119 · The Man Who Never Grew Young · ss Night’s Black Agents, Arkham 1947
• 127 · The Sunken Land [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · ss Unknown Worlds Feb 1942

Night’s Black Agents Fritz Leiber (Berkley, Mar ’78, $1.75, xii+275pp, pb) This edition adds two stories not in the Arkham House ed. Note: it reverses the order of the subsections of the Arkham House edition.

• xi  Foreword · fw
• 3  The Sunken Land [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · ss Unknown Worlds Feb 1942
• 29  Adept’s Gambit [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · na Night’s Black Agents, Arkham 1947
• 91  The Man Who Never Grew Young · ss Night’s Black Agents, Arkham 1947
• 109  Smoke Ghost · ss Unknown Worlds Oct 1941
• 125  The Automatic Pistol · ss Weird Tales May 1940
• 141  The Inheritance · ss Weird Tales Jan 1942, as “The Phantom Slayer”
• 157  The Hill and the Hole · ss Unknown Worlds Aug 1942
• 169  The Dreams of Albert Moreland · nv The Acolyte Spr 1945
• 185  The Hound · ss Weird Tales Nov 1942
• 201  Diary in the Snow · nv Night’s Black Agents, Arkham 1947
• 227  The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · ss The Girl With the Hungry Eyes, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon 1949
• 243  A Bit of the Dark World · nv Fantastic Feb 1962

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; 
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. 
--William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Indices courtesy of ISFDB (which see for original magazine-issue contents) and Homeville.  

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

A photo.

My father and my recently late aunt as small children, ca. 1940 (courtesy my aunt Linda Wheeler):

Robert and Shirley Mason...eventually Shirley Gauthier.

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new links to the reviews, interviews, etc.

Kim Novak and Fred MacMurray in Pushover

The selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors and you readers... 

Allan Fish: The Long Day Closes; Mon Oncle

Anne Billson: The dangers of excessive whimsy...

Anonymous: Yellow Sky

Bill Crider: Slow West  [trailer]

Slow West

Brian Arnold: Ultraman and other Japanese SF tv series 

Brian Busby: Without Warning

BV Lawson: Media Murder

BNoirDetour: No Way Out with Linda Darnell (courtesy of John Grant)

No Way Out

Colin: Dawn at Socorro

Comedy Film Nerds: Ric Meyers on martial arts films; Baron Vaughn

Cynthia Fuchs: A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile; Cartel Land

David Cramner: 9 Best Gunsmoke television episodes

James Garner and Margot Kidder in Nichols

Elgin Bleecker: James Garner

Elizabeth Foxwell: Dark Hazard

Evan Lewis: Dashiell Hammett in San Francisco; LanceCon '82

Gary Deane: noir at the 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival

George Kelley: Justice League: Gods and Monsters

Gilligan Newton-John: Twisted Nerve; Deadly Strangers

How Did This Get Made?: Minisode

Iba Dawson: Two Thousand Maniacs

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The franchising of Bozo

Jack Seabrook, Christine Scoleri & John Scoleri: On Borrowed Time

Colleen Smith and fellow puppeteers

Jackie Kashian: Rise of the Guardians; Murray Valeriano and Monty Franklin on surfing and surfing culture

Jacqueline T. Lynch: The Barrymores

Jake Hinkson: Pushover

James Reasoner: Project Almanac

Janet Varney: Colleen Smith of No, You Shut Up!

Jerry House: The Six Shooter

John Grant: Out of the Rain; Out of the Shadow

Jonathan Lewis: Two Flags West

Karen Hannsberry: Blondie Johnson

Kelly Robinson: IDing silent films at the Mostly Lost Festival; The Werewolf (1913 film; lost)

Ken Levine: wardrobe at music awards shows and how not to (courtesy Ed Gorman)

Kliph Nesteroff: Betsy Palmer

Leigh Brackett

Kristina Dijan: Leigh Brackett; Shadows on the Stairs; A Free Soul; Cobra Woman; The Hired Gun

Lance Charnes: Rush (tv series)

Laura: Hell's Five Hours; Oliver & Company

Lawrence Person: 2014 WorldCon

Lindsey: The Women; Ida Lupino (courtesy John Grant)

Lucille Juliano: The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

Lucy Brown: Homefront

Mark Evanier: KPFK (Pacifica Radio) Television Comedy Panel (1961): Groucho Marx, Carl Reiner, Steve Allen, Robert Young

Martin Edwards: Lifeboat

The Saint

Marty McKee: Tattoo; Love and Bullets

Mystery Dave: The Saint (1997 film)

Patrick Murtha: Alan Ladd

Patti Abbott: Holiday (1938 film)

Paul Bishop: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Part 2

Agnes Bruckner

Pop My Culture: Agnes Bruckner

Randy Johnson: Fantastic Four (1994 film)

Raquel Stecher: Fury (1936 film)

Rick: Patrick McGoohan

Rod Lott: The City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel); Watch Me When I Kill; I Drink Your Blood  [Sergio Angelini on The City of the Dead]

Ruth: Alice Guy

Sam Juliano: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Sergio Angelini: Strangler's Web

Stacia Jones: Alibi (1929 film)

Stephen Bowie: The Defenders: "Fires of the Mind"

Steve Lewis: PulpFest 2015; Johnny Rocco

Stuart Galbraith IV: Kaiun! Nandemo kanteidan 

Victoria Loomes: June Mathis

Vienna: They Met in a Taxi

Walker Martin: PulpFest 2015

Yvette Banek: 23 Paces to Baker Street

Bud Yorkin and Yvonne Craig, RIP.