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This is great that they are asking the public's help to restore these films. I find it odd that the "Restored" SWING YOU SINNERS doesn't have it's original opening frame. the one pictured is from a 1950's TV print from UM&M. The original would have a credit to Paramount or the Publix Corporation, which is what Paramount operated as when it was restructurin (www.animationarchive.org....nners.html)
Roq la Rue gallerist Kirsten Anderson points us to The 7 Deadly Sinners , a group art blog with contributors from Seattle, California, Vancouver , and Calgary . Seen here is Mortimer, Mother, Father, and the Spider , a painting that blogger Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley completed for the Artist Trust fundraiser auction in Seattle. Lin (www.boingboing.net....s-art.html)
Roq la Rue gallerist Kirsten Anderson points us to The 7 Deadly Sinners , a group art blog with contributors from Seattle, California, Vancouver , and Calgary . Seen here is "Mortimer, Mother, Father, and the Spider ," a painting that blogger Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley completed for the Artist Trust fundraiser auction in Seattle (www.boingboing.net....s-art.html)
Excellent job on restoring this cartoon! The vocalist in "Swing, You Sinners " sounds a lot like Ward Pinkett. Pinkett, an enormous talent whose life was cut short by alcoholism in 1936, played trumpet and sang with several New York City bands in the 1920s and 1930s. Some of these bands included Chick Webb, Bingie Madison , and King Oliver . Go to http://www.redhotjazz.com/oorchestra.html and listen to "Stop Crying" which has a Pinkett vocal, and you'll see what I mean. Pinkett would have been in New York City at the time this cartoon was created, and it doesn't stretch the imagination too much that he might have made a little extra money doing studio work like this, especially considering how the Fleischers used African-American talents in the soundtracks of their earlier cartoons. Perhaps some of the trumpet work is by Pinkett as well. The title song of the cartoon is actually, "Sing, You Sinners " and the studio band is following a 1929 Frank Skinner orchestration that was available through Paramount's music publishing win (www.animationarchive.org....nners.html)
One of the films preserved with the assistance of ASIFA-Hollywood was the classic Fleischer Talkartoon, Swing, You Sinners . Animated by Ted Sears and Willard Bowsky, with an eye-popping surreal ending by Grim Natwick and Bowsky, this film was the first of many Fleischer cartoons that mixed surrealism, cartoony ghosts goblins, and hot jazz. While other studios built their cartoons around fairy tale stories or topical gags, the Fleischers constructed cartoons in the same way jazz music was constructed. statement of the theme, a series of variations and a big finish (www.animationarchive.org....nners.html)
New England singer/songwriter Erin McKeown is rarely described as anything but a folksinger, but as I listened to her latest effort, Sing You Sinners (Nettwerk, 2007), it occurred to me that this jazzy record seems about as natural to McKeown as some of her most singer/songwriterly work from her previous records. In fact, Erin McKeown has slalomed in and out of contemporary folk, making intermittent stops in the areas of electronic, rock, swing, and various other forms. On Sinners , though, her experimental nature and mastery of so many layers of Americana proves both invigorating and inspired (folkmusic.about.com....inners.htm)
From the onset, Eilen (pronounced like 'wheelin') Jewell's second CD, Letters from Sinners and Strangers (due on Signature Sounds, July 10), starts jumping. The first words she almost moans, "Well, it's a rich man's world," come in over a backdrop of rockabilly and country with a modern feel. It's impossible to miss the smooth , sultry loneliness as she sachets through every song on the album (folkmusic.about.com....angers.htm)
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