GRABBED
Sunday, January 29, 2006
I grabbed a random cassette tape of the Sunday KABF radio program, “Music for the Feminist in You,” from the early 80s, DJ Debbie. It was a time when high tech was a cassette tape in a portable radio/recorder, buttons hard to push. Station 88.3, at the far end of the dial, and grassroots/volunteer community operated. The women’s music show had its rotating four DJs, foremothers to Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair. Suffice it to say, Sundays for me were a standing date for about three years, the line-up: Women’s Music, The Poetry Show, and Radio DA-DA, forum for what passed for alternative performance in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The tape I mentioned above is now in my car, the best place to travel into music, lately. One of the songs is a Righteous Mothers’ cover of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.” Hearing their layered harmonies gives the song a sassy humor that cracks a smile on a face about to crack up on the other (sad) end of the spectrum.
The 1981 LP in The Berning Archive is:
This website shows a 2006 date, so I’m heartened to know there are women out there who pulled me through my late twenties and into my thirties, and are still thriving as musicians, artists, and “day jobs” nurturing communities in one way or another.
http://www.righteousmothers.com/index.htm
Song List (sometimes by merely the artist) in the day of pause button and Smith-Corona Selectric Typewriter:
Side A
Common Woman – Righteous Mothers
Songs by Diedra McCalla. Judy Small, Karen Mackay
Mona Lisa – June Millington
Water Coming Down – Holly Near
Last Chance Saloon – Cris Williamson
Women Together – Karen Beth
***Instrumental Guitar*** - Nancy Vogl
Pride Cried – Ferron
Where Do We Go From Here – Meg Christian
Genius At Work – Kay Weaver (for those who shuffling lovers)
Angel Fire – Tret Fure
Just the Woman You Love – Ann Reed
Side B
Sweet Woman – Cris Williamson (A Classic)
Unexpected – Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull
Love Triangle – Gayle Marie
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Righteous Mothers
Dancing Bird –Holly Near
I Believe In You – Marcia Taylor
Leapin’ Lesbians – Meg Christian
A Few Links To Artists:
Ferron: http://www.ferrononline.com/
Diedra McCalla: http://www.deidremccalla.com/
Nancy Vogl: http://www.songpeddler.com/NancyVogl/index.asp
Cris Willamson: http://www.criswilliamson.com/
Meg Christian: http://www.jtsears.com/rubymusmeg.htm
Ann Reed: http://www.annreed.com/
Barbara Higbie & Teresa Trull:
http://www.barbarahigbie.com/teresatrull.htm
Holly Near: http://www.hollynear.com/
Just found out this album cover is logged into a world’s worst LP covers list:
Can’t say I disagree.
Excerpt from “Leapin’ Lesbians,” performed the romp of spoofy Halloween music:
"We're gonna please you tease you,
Hypnotize and tightly squeeze you,
We're going to get you if we can.
Don't go and try to fight it,
Run away or try to hide it,
We want your love and that's our plan."
“Leapin’ Lesbians” by Sue Fink, included on the LP LESBIAN CONCENTRATE - A Lesbianthology (100% Diluted) (1977) Olivia Records’ response to the 1976 orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant’s anti-gay campaign. Some titles from that album:
For Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant (Written and performed by poet Pat Parker)
Don’t Pray For Me
Ode to a Gym Teacher
And these, are gems:
Teresa Trull’s cover “Prove It On Me Blues,” by Gertrude (Ma) Rainey
“Sweet Woman” by Cris Williamson
“Kahlua Mama” sung by BeBe K’roche
Closing the album is Teresa Trull singing her own raucus “Women Loving Women.” I bought the album from the now defunct Publisher’s Bookstore thirty-plus years ago. When the chorus pumped up the volume on the song, I confess I made a mad dash across the living room in my apartment to turn it down on the dashboard. (I wasn’t quite familiar with remotes.) That’s how it was.
Here is the Pat Parker poem:
For The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant
By Pat Parker
You know, some people got a lot of nerve. Sometimes I don't believe the things I see and hear.
Have you met the woman who's shocked by two women kissing and, in the same breath, tells you she is pregnant? But gays, shouldn't be so blatant.
Or this straight couple sits next to you in a movie and you can't hear the dialogue because of the sound effects. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
And the woman in your office spends an entire lunch hour talking about her new bikini drawers and how much her husband likes them. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Or the "hip" chick in your class rattling like a mile a minute, while you're trying to get stoned in the john, about the camping trip she took with her musician boyfriend. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
You go into a public bathroom and all over the walls there's John loves Mary, Janice digs Richard, Pepe loves Delores, etc., etc. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Or your go to an amusement park and there's a tunnel of love with pictures of straights painted on the front and grinning couples are coming in and out. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day and night, every place--even in gay bars--and they want gay men and woman to go and hide in the closet.
So to you straight folks I say, "Sure, I'll go if you go too. But, I'm polite so, after you."
Here is a link to the Pat Parker and Judy Grahn poetry compilation WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOU on Olivia Records LP (1976):
http://www.musicstack.com/item.cgi?f=1&aid=z&item=1013833&band=Pat+Parker+%26+Judy+Grahn
Dig the artwork,
Oh, the days when an LP cost six bucks. Mint.
A rare recording on LP:
From the link: http://www.longhousepoetry.com/catlq.html
18534. Moore, Honor / Rich, Adrienne / Lorde, Audre / Larkin, Joan. A Sign / I Was Not Alone. Out & Out Books (New York City), 1977. Vinyl L. P. Recording. Very close to fine vinyl recording with sleeve and all the poets included in photographs; plus the photographer, designer, engineer and editor. A fine example of sisterhood. Poetry readings / Vinyl LP. $25.00
On the LP
HONOR MOORE
Excerpts from her play, “Mourning Pictures”
Polemic #1
http://www.honormoore.com/bio.htm
JOAN LARKIN
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/biographies/larkin.html
Link to poem “In the Duchess”-- not on the lp and dated 1973
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/poetry/larkinjduchess.html
AUDRE LORDE
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/lorde.html
ADRIENNE RICH
(Enough resources in The Berning Archive to support a long shelf)
Only three excerpts on the LP, but less is more:
The Mirror In Which Two Are Seen As One
Power
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
Power
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
I grabbed a random cassette tape of the Sunday KABF radio program, “Music for the Feminist in You,” from the early 80s, DJ Debbie. It was a time when high tech was a cassette tape in a portable radio/recorder, buttons hard to push. Station 88.3, at the far end of the dial, and grassroots/volunteer community operated. The women’s music show had its rotating four DJs, foremothers to Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair. Suffice it to say, Sundays for me were a standing date for about three years, the line-up: Women’s Music, The Poetry Show, and Radio DA-DA, forum for what passed for alternative performance in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The tape I mentioned above is now in my car, the best place to travel into music, lately. One of the songs is a Righteous Mothers’ cover of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.” Hearing their layered harmonies gives the song a sassy humor that cracks a smile on a face about to crack up on the other (sad) end of the spectrum.
The 1981 LP in The Berning Archive is:
This website shows a 2006 date, so I’m heartened to know there are women out there who pulled me through my late twenties and into my thirties, and are still thriving as musicians, artists, and “day jobs” nurturing communities in one way or another.
http://www.righteousmothers.com/index.htm
Song List (sometimes by merely the artist) in the day of pause button and Smith-Corona Selectric Typewriter:
Side A
Common Woman – Righteous Mothers
Songs by Diedra McCalla. Judy Small, Karen Mackay
Mona Lisa – June Millington
Water Coming Down – Holly Near
Last Chance Saloon – Cris Williamson
Women Together – Karen Beth
***Instrumental Guitar*** - Nancy Vogl
Pride Cried – Ferron
Where Do We Go From Here – Meg Christian
Genius At Work – Kay Weaver (for those who shuffling lovers)
Angel Fire – Tret Fure
Just the Woman You Love – Ann Reed
Side B
Sweet Woman – Cris Williamson (A Classic)
Unexpected – Barbara Higbie and Teresa Trull
Love Triangle – Gayle Marie
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling – Righteous Mothers
Dancing Bird –Holly Near
I Believe In You – Marcia Taylor
Leapin’ Lesbians – Meg Christian
A Few Links To Artists:
Ferron: http://www.ferrononline.com/
Diedra McCalla: http://www.deidremccalla.com/
Nancy Vogl: http://www.songpeddler.com/NancyVogl/index.asp
Cris Willamson: http://www.criswilliamson.com/
Meg Christian: http://www.jtsears.com/rubymusmeg.htm
Ann Reed: http://www.annreed.com/
Barbara Higbie & Teresa Trull:
http://www.barbarahigbie.com/teresatrull.htm
Holly Near: http://www.hollynear.com/
Just found out this album cover is logged into a world’s worst LP covers list:
Can’t say I disagree.
Excerpt from “Leapin’ Lesbians,” performed the romp of spoofy Halloween music:
"We're gonna please you tease you,
Hypnotize and tightly squeeze you,
We're going to get you if we can.
Don't go and try to fight it,
Run away or try to hide it,
We want your love and that's our plan."
“Leapin’ Lesbians” by Sue Fink, included on the LP LESBIAN CONCENTRATE - A Lesbianthology (100% Diluted) (1977) Olivia Records’ response to the 1976 orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant’s anti-gay campaign. Some titles from that album:
For Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant (Written and performed by poet Pat Parker)
Don’t Pray For Me
Ode to a Gym Teacher
And these, are gems:
Teresa Trull’s cover “Prove It On Me Blues,” by Gertrude (Ma) Rainey
“Sweet Woman” by Cris Williamson
“Kahlua Mama” sung by BeBe K’roche
Closing the album is Teresa Trull singing her own raucus “Women Loving Women.” I bought the album from the now defunct Publisher’s Bookstore thirty-plus years ago. When the chorus pumped up the volume on the song, I confess I made a mad dash across the living room in my apartment to turn it down on the dashboard. (I wasn’t quite familiar with remotes.) That’s how it was.
Here is the Pat Parker poem:
For The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant
By Pat Parker
You know, some people got a lot of nerve. Sometimes I don't believe the things I see and hear.
Have you met the woman who's shocked by two women kissing and, in the same breath, tells you she is pregnant? But gays, shouldn't be so blatant.
Or this straight couple sits next to you in a movie and you can't hear the dialogue because of the sound effects. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
And the woman in your office spends an entire lunch hour talking about her new bikini drawers and how much her husband likes them. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Or the "hip" chick in your class rattling like a mile a minute, while you're trying to get stoned in the john, about the camping trip she took with her musician boyfriend. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
You go into a public bathroom and all over the walls there's John loves Mary, Janice digs Richard, Pepe loves Delores, etc., etc. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Or your go to an amusement park and there's a tunnel of love with pictures of straights painted on the front and grinning couples are coming in and out. But gays shouldn't be so blatant.
Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day and night, every place--even in gay bars--and they want gay men and woman to go and hide in the closet.
So to you straight folks I say, "Sure, I'll go if you go too. But, I'm polite so, after you."
Here is a link to the Pat Parker and Judy Grahn poetry compilation WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOU on Olivia Records LP (1976):
http://www.musicstack.com/item.cgi?f=1&aid=z&item=1013833&band=Pat+Parker+%26+Judy+Grahn
Dig the artwork,
Oh, the days when an LP cost six bucks. Mint.
A rare recording on LP:
From the link: http://www.longhousepoetry.com/catlq.html
18534. Moore, Honor / Rich, Adrienne / Lorde, Audre / Larkin, Joan. A Sign / I Was Not Alone. Out & Out Books (New York City), 1977. Vinyl L. P. Recording. Very close to fine vinyl recording with sleeve and all the poets included in photographs; plus the photographer, designer, engineer and editor. A fine example of sisterhood. Poetry readings / Vinyl LP. $25.00
On the LP
HONOR MOORE
Excerpts from her play, “Mourning Pictures”
Polemic #1
http://www.honormoore.com/bio.htm
JOAN LARKIN
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/biographies/larkin.html
Link to poem “In the Duchess”-- not on the lp and dated 1973
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/poetry/larkinjduchess.html
AUDRE LORDE
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/lorde.html
ADRIENNE RICH
(Enough resources in The Berning Archive to support a long shelf)
Only three excerpts on the LP, but less is more:
The Mirror In Which Two Are Seen As One
Power
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
Power
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
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