07-20-2020, 01:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-20-2020, 10:08 AM by Eric the Green.)
This is a difficult time. Three of my favorite sixties icons died recently.
Carl Reiner starred in one of my favorite sixties movies, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming in 1966. I saw it that Summer and it helped spur my awakening. It stayed with me for years. My Dad loved him for his work. He was co-creator with Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks of the legendary Your Show of Shows, and later of the Dick Van Dyke Show. His son was the voice of the creator of All in the Family, my favorite TV show.
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thr...l#pid54597
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thr...l#pid54678
John Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) spoke at the March on Washington, was a freedom rider, SNCC president from 1963-1966, and got beaten for leading a march for voting rights at the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma in 1965. The result of that event was the Voting Rights Act introduced soon afterward by LBJ. I look upon that march as one of the events that started a movement that continues today. It's kind of unreal that he now is just gone. In some way, these 3 spirits are still with us. Like his mentor Dr. King, he passionately supported every good cause including peace, gun control and the environment as well as civil rights and voting rights. He treated everyone with love. His friend Rep. Clyburn said the bridge should be renamed after him, and a new bill to restore voting rights will be introduced bearing his name as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis...ts_leader)
And #3 today, Emitt Rhodes (February 25, 1950 – July 19, 2020). With the Merry Go Round he created a song in 1966 which I loved in the sixties and for which I made one of my first youtube videos, and by far my most popular. Emitt had a successful solo career of 3 albums, but he worked mostly alone and could not make enough albums to satisfy his record company, which took away his earnings. Upset and disillusioned, he stopped making songs for release until about the time I made the video. On his third solo album back in the old days, he worked with producer Curt Boettcher, also the producer earlier of two even greater and bigger favorite songs of mine by Lee Mallory in 1966.
I got to meet and know Lee, who died in 2005, but not Emitt. I did connect with folks who knew him and quoted him after I made the video in 2009, and I heard about his new plans. I was glad to see him come out again. I didn't hear the results, but I'm glad from reading about him now that he fulfilled them. I knew from the discussions in 2009 that he was in poor health. I'm glad he made it this far. Here is the video I made of his sixties hit with the Merry-Go-Round, "Live"
Here's a good article by wikipedia with good references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitt_Rhodes
https://pitchfork.com/news/emitt-rhodes-dead-at-70/
Lee Mallory (1945-2005)
http://philosopherswheel.com/melee.htm
Carl Reiner starred in one of my favorite sixties movies, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming in 1966. I saw it that Summer and it helped spur my awakening. It stayed with me for years. My Dad loved him for his work. He was co-creator with Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks of the legendary Your Show of Shows, and later of the Dick Van Dyke Show. His son was the voice of the creator of All in the Family, my favorite TV show.
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thr...l#pid54597
http://generational-theory.com/forum/thr...l#pid54678
John Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) spoke at the March on Washington, was a freedom rider, SNCC president from 1963-1966, and got beaten for leading a march for voting rights at the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma in 1965. The result of that event was the Voting Rights Act introduced soon afterward by LBJ. I look upon that march as one of the events that started a movement that continues today. It's kind of unreal that he now is just gone. In some way, these 3 spirits are still with us. Like his mentor Dr. King, he passionately supported every good cause including peace, gun control and the environment as well as civil rights and voting rights. He treated everyone with love. His friend Rep. Clyburn said the bridge should be renamed after him, and a new bill to restore voting rights will be introduced bearing his name as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis...ts_leader)
And #3 today, Emitt Rhodes (February 25, 1950 – July 19, 2020). With the Merry Go Round he created a song in 1966 which I loved in the sixties and for which I made one of my first youtube videos, and by far my most popular. Emitt had a successful solo career of 3 albums, but he worked mostly alone and could not make enough albums to satisfy his record company, which took away his earnings. Upset and disillusioned, he stopped making songs for release until about the time I made the video. On his third solo album back in the old days, he worked with producer Curt Boettcher, also the producer earlier of two even greater and bigger favorite songs of mine by Lee Mallory in 1966.
I got to meet and know Lee, who died in 2005, but not Emitt. I did connect with folks who knew him and quoted him after I made the video in 2009, and I heard about his new plans. I was glad to see him come out again. I didn't hear the results, but I'm glad from reading about him now that he fulfilled them. I knew from the discussions in 2009 that he was in poor health. I'm glad he made it this far. Here is the video I made of his sixties hit with the Merry-Go-Round, "Live"
Here's a good article by wikipedia with good references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitt_Rhodes
https://pitchfork.com/news/emitt-rhodes-dead-at-70/
Lee Mallory (1945-2005)
http://philosopherswheel.com/melee.htm