Sunday, 8/15/10

three takes

“Milky White Way”

The Trumpeteers (1947, Baltimore)

*****

Elvis Presley (1960, Nashville)

*****

The Trumpeteers, live (TV broadcast, with “I John Saw the Number”), 1960s

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lagniappe

all roads lead (on Friday, anyway) to Bay City, Michigan

Friday morning: I post ? and the Mysterians’ “96 Tears,” which was recorded in 1966 in, yep, Bay City, a town of about 35,000 on Lake Huron that also gave the world Madonna (she was born there) and the Bay City Rollers their name (the first dart landed on Arkansas but “Arkansas Rollers” lacked pizazz).

Friday afternoon: I stop by a book fair in Chicago, where I buy one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen—a rare one by a favorite poet (William Bronk, Careless Love And Its Apostrophes, Red Ozier Press, 1985, limited edition [175 copies])—from a dealer (Jett W. Whitehead) based in, where else, Bay City.