Heard, Never Heard
Among today’s many celebrations, it’s National Ice Cream Day. Rocky Road, please. Photo from Google Images:
Now no one can accuse Quid Pro Joe of never having done the right thing. There’s a first time for everything. Will his influence peddling finally come to an end?
Headline from msm.com: “The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth and it’s beginning to impact us.” It will lengthen days at an incredibly slow rate. In 200 million years a day will last 25 hours, according to the article by Harry Fletcher. Silly me, I wondered if it would affect climate, since the Moon affects tides.
RIP Harry “Happy” Traum, 86, a musician I’d never heard of until moments ago. Born in the Bronx, he was part of the scene at Washington Square Park and the Village in the late ‘50’s. With his group, The New World Singers, Traum cut the first released version of Blowin’ in the Wind on Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1. On the album he also did a duet with Bob Dylan on his own anti-war ballad, Let Me Die in My Footsteps. The New World Singers recorded an album for Atlantic Records, liner notes by Dylan, that featured the first recording of the Original Vagabond’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. Traum played guitar, banjo, bass and sang harmony on four songs that appeared on Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II and The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 — Another Self Portrait (1969–1971). Traum did five blues albums with his brother Artie. He cut six solo albums and sat in on a host of others, including Allen Ginsberg’s Holy Soul Jelly Roll, produced by Dylan. He was a father of three. Well done, Sir Facts from Wiki, photo from GI:
Beautiful but hot today at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. My thanks to the two women who pulled up in an SUV and dropped off a bunch of mostly young adult titles, and to local porter Robert, who dropped off a game I’d never heard of, The Clow, based on Japanese anime, and to the young woman who bought it; and to the young mom who purchased Elmo’s Potty Book by the Editors of Phoenix International Publications, Illustrated by Tom Brannon; and to the other young mom who overcompensated me for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain; and to Herbie, who hauled away half the YA books and put them in front of the library’s return bin for people to take. I’m way overstocked in that category. Photo from GI:
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