Beat Generation Jazz Poetry Folk Lyrics Beatnik Record LP Wavy Gravy
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Beat Generation Jazz Poetry Folk Lyrics John Brent Len Chandler Hugh Romney At the Gaslight.
Super cool beatnik beat generation lp record. Hugh Romney is on this LP and is also known as Wavy Gravy. From Beatnik to Hippy. Also on this is John Brent who did an amazing album entitled "How to Speak Hip". Len Chander also included on LP.
- A1 Hugh Romney - Apple Sauce and Peanut Butter
- A2 Len Chandler - Troubadour
- A3 John Brent - Bibleland
- B1 John Brent - A Poem for Lamont Cranston
- B2 Len Chandler - Nathan’s Goat
- B3 Len Chandler - I Remember Jazz
- B4 Hugh Romney -Sometimes
The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. John Moyant bought the club in 1961, and his father in law Clarence Hood and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s.
A real beatnik hangout.
Folk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s.
The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, including Bob Dylan. Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene.
In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead."
This is a real time piece and really cool. This is practically impossible to find and is on the Musitron label.
Best wishes!
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