From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #68 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, May 16 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 068 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: gary burden (annie's hubby) -- Cass Eliott -- Lennon/McCartney -- NJC [David Eoll Subject: Re: gary burden (annie's hubby) -- Cass Eliott -- Lennon/McCartney -- NJC rosemjoy@aol.com wrote: > Hmmm...now you have me curious David..so I googled him, and found this. I appears he designed Joni's "Blue" album. Well, hush my puppies. [checks liner notes] You're right. I think at some point or other I started going through her albums and checking to see who did the art, saw that she did the artwork, and usually the cover design, and just assumed she did all of 'em. Hey, she's a painter, right? Real quickly, I just looked at FtR and see she didn't design that one either. It was someone else, Anthony Hudson, who also did C&S. There are several others where art "direction" (how that differs from design, I don't know) was done by someone else besides Joni, either Ed Thrasher, or Glen Christensen. But in all cases if there are drawings or paintings on the cover, its Joni's work. I did the same google quest as you and found a cute story about how Gary got into the biz to begin with. Apparently, he was helping remodel Cass Elliot's house in the canyon, and she suggested that he should design rock album covers. And he says, "But, I don't have any training to do that." And she basically says, "So?" Ta da. A career is born. Everything I've ever heard about Cass indicates she was really freakin' cool. And, man, she could sing. She was the only M&P I really cared for. The only songs of their's I particularly like were the ones where she took the lead. My fave is a Beatles song (a Lennon composition, I believe, although with the L/McC joint credit thing its hard to tell) I Call Your Name. Its a great Beatles song, but when Cass sings it, as they say on Idol, she makes it her own. ;) Now that I mention the Lennon/McCartney songwriting credits, I'm curious about something. I used to have a clipping from a magazine where John Lennon went through every single one of those Lennon/McCartney songs and says exactly who did what. "Paul did that one, but I wrote the bridge." "That was mine, but Paul helped with a few lines." Or in the case of Maxwell's Silver Hammer, "That was Paul's, he made me play it a million times, and I hated it." I think I remember he remarked that by the time they finally finished with that song, he didn't just hate the song, and he didn't just hate Paul, he actually hated everything in the world. Anyway, I've lost track of that clipping, and I wish I could find it. I'm not 100% sure which magazine it was from, I think Playboy. And I'm pretty sure the interview was from the year he was murdered, but I could be wrong. I found an interview online from Playboy and another from Rolling Stone, both from 1980. In the Playboy one he does go into details about some songs, but not exhaustively. In the print interview I had he went through every single song one by one, even the B-Sides. Crap, I wish I could find that thing. I know I would never deliberately throw something like that away, and I'm an incorrigible pack rat, so I may still have it, but I cannot remember the last time I saw it. It could actually be decades ago. Alot of the stuff I owned before going to UMass got scattered to the winds either there, or when I hit the road after getting kicked out of school there. So it maybe its gone for good. :( Peace, David ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #68 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------