Bob and Ray, SCTV and The Simpsons all echo a comedic world view, that people are fundamentally good-natured but inept. The world won’t die by evil design but because someone had an oopsy. These thoughts come to mind while watching the Barry Richards TV Collection Vol. 1, a DVD/CD collection of segments from disc jockey [...]
Tag Archives: Fats Domino
Funeral for Billy Diamond Friday
December 8, 2011 – 1:25 pm
New Orleans blues legend William “Billy” Diamond passed away on October 20 at the age of 95. Services and burial for Diamond will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at St Louis Cemetery Number One; relatives and friends are invited to attend. Gather at the front gates on 400 Basin Street for a procession to the [...]
Obituary: Billy Diamond (1916-2011)
December 1, 2011 – 12:11 am
Billy Diamond, who was instrumental in the launch of Fats Domino’s career, passed away in Los Angeles, October 20 from natural causes. He was 95. Diamond was born in New Orleans on October 5, 1916, and grew up on Louisiana Avenue. “Louis Armstrong actually gave me a trumpet in 1930, but I never learned to [...]
Hero of the Ponderosa Stomp: Historic Films’ Joe Lauro
September 15, 2011 – 3:08 pm
A young Clarence “Frogman” Henry, singing in his prime in the corner of a late-1950s Bourbon Street Bar, backed by a crack lineup of New Orleans musicians. For those who wish they could have been there, last year’s Heroes of the Ponderosa Stomp film was a highlight of the festival. The film—part of the Stomp’s [...]
YouTube du Jour: Lil’ Band o’ Gold
May 4, 2011 – 8:46 am
Last Friday, the rumor of the night was that Robert Plant might appear at the Parish with Lil’ Band o’ Gold as he did at Tipitina’s in 2007. It didn’t happen—Plant showed up at Preservation Hall instead, where current bandmates Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin were playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band—but here they [...]
Jazz Fest Poster—The New Big Mac?
February 16, 2011 – 11:31 am
The Jazz Fest poster has been worse. 2004′s Harry Connick, Jr. poster holds that dishonor for being banal and presenting a Connick that looks more like Warren Beatty. But let’s look at this year’s poster: Art4Now, who does the Jazz Fest posters, went to local broadcaster Garland Robinette for the image, which raises the first [...]
