From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #82 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 Tuesday, May 27 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 082 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- njc sydney pollack dies ["Vince Lavieri" ] Suggestions (njc) [] Re: The First Album 40 years on, desert island top 5 records [David Eoll ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:52:21 -0400 From: "Vince Lavieri" Subject: njc sydney pollack dies just announced that he died tonight ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:41:08 -0700 From: Subject: Suggestions (njc) Arck, Monika. Definitely sounds like a scam. Such scams have been going on a long time. Back in around 1934 or so my father submitted his poetry in s similar type of "contest." He never heard back anything more but later was reading a book of poetry from some publisher in New York and wouldn't you know but there was his very same poem attributed to someone else. What is really bad is that they may not only be ripping off your entry fee but may potentially be actually stealing your creative work. I heard this story from him when I entered lyrics in the American Song Festival back in the late 70s. He was warning me. Happily, it was a legitimate contest and I made the semi-finals and was asked to do a demo of the song by one of the judges. I was still a bit wary until I learned he was the brother of the legendary Keely Smith and head of A&R at Capitol Records. It never went anywhere but I was just happy to be "nominated" so to speak. What really made me irritated it that some new songwriter named Kim Carnes won the contest and I just was like "huh?" at her submission. She then skyrocketed overnight. I'm sure with the musician resources here they can refer you to some legitmate contests. I googled the topic and there seem to be some good ones out there. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 01:31:59 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: The First Album 40 years on, desert island top 5 records > From: "Jeff Hankins" > Subject: The First Album 40 years on > > 2 What IS that siren thing on 'Nathan La Freneer'? It's an instrument? Electric guitar. > Is Joni playing it?. 4 decades on, you'd have thought I'd have bothered to find > out. Unless I'm mistaken, its David Crosby. His sole non-producer contribution to the album, I think. Actually, he claims to have made few contributions even as a producer other than starting the tape machine rolling and letting Joni do her thing. I think I read somewhere that arranging for himself to be the producer on that album was really just a sneaky way to allow Joni free reign as a musician, a pretty rare opportunity for an unknown artist on a debut album. If that's true, then thank you, David. Hell, they didn't even let Laura Nyro play piano on her debut album. StaS is one of my favorite albums, bar none. Serious desert island material. Actually, there's a serious flaw in that whole desert island top 5 concept. How will you play them? Unless you also have a lifetime supply of batteries and a cd player that won't crap the bed after a year like they usually do these days. And would you really want that many batteries on your island? What would you do with them? Wouldn't they find their way into your water supply? I think the best you could hope for is to be stuck with a Victrola and some decent 78s. But, that would pretty much preclude Joni or anyone else from her era or later. When did they stop making 78s? I guess some good Bessie Smith, or Satchmo, or Chuck Berry, or something like that wouldn't be too bad. Actually, if I were stranded on a desert island with any kind of musical anything, I'd hope for a Martin and a box of D'Addario strings. (I wouldn't mind being stuck there with Joni, but she might not be so thrilled.) Some sort of female companion would be essential, or it would just plain suck, guitar or no guitar. I'd end up just playing the blues. Of course, I might end up singing the blues even if there were a woman on the island, if she was on the other side of the island wanting nothing to do with me. It'd be just my sort of luck. Yeah, now that I've thought it over, I'll never wear a life preserver again. Peace, David ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #82 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------