From: wills@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (William Schmidt)
Subject: Re: The face? and What song did they play? and... and...
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:08:52 GMT
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In article <BxnF54.F4D@unix.amherst.edu>, twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
|> Weird.  Here's what Random House had:
|> 
|>    White, William A(lanson) (1870-1937), US psychiatrist, b. Brooklyn,
|>    N.Y. He was superintendent of St Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington,
|>    D.C., from 1903 to 1937. He was a pioneer in the establishment of
|>    psychiatric training and research, and he helped psychoanalytic theory
|>    to gain acceptance in the United States.  Among his works are Essays
|>    on Psychopathology (1925); Insanity and the Criminal Law (1923); and
|>    Crimes and Criminals (1933).
|> 
|> Anyone know the significance?  It doesn't make much sense to me
|> offhand.

You have the wrong William A. White.  The one you want is William Allen White,
who (as others have mentioned) was editor of the Emporia, Kansas gazette.
White was a great promoter of education in general and libraries in particular.
To this day there is a William Allen White award for some class of books
(perhaps juvenile fiction?).  I remember this from hanging around libraries
too much as a kid, and I assume that's probably where J&J got it as well.
You'll find a similar picture of White on round gold stamps on books that
won the award.

While I'm here, when they played the second show at First Avenue in Minneapolis,
the Johns refused to listen to people shouting out songs to play.  Instead they
decided to pick one guy from the audience and ask him what he wanted to hear;
they picked on a guy dressed all in black, because "the way you're dressed,
you must be in the record business."  Anyway, the guy picked, "Love Will Keep
Us Together" (for those of you not old enough to remember this low point in
American history, that was the Captain and Tennille in the mid-70s).  I was
pleased to see that they hadn't a clue about the words, and Flansburgh went
so far as to sing muttered obscenities through most of one verse, which was
highly amusing.  They pulled off the changes OK, but then there aren't very
many changes in that tune.  The most fun part was the way they kept bringing
that horrid song back out during the rest of the concert.  During "Birdhouse
In Your Soul," when the song was supposed to come back around to, "I'm your
only friend, I'm not your only friend...," Linnell started crooning, "You...
you belong to meee now" and put us all on the floor.

Oh, also somebody was asking about Edgar Winters (sic).  The Edgar Winter group
was a rock band that hit their stride around 1974.  They only put out a couple
of albums, the most successful of which was called _They Only Come Out at
Night_.  This contained "Frankenstein" and their other radio success, "Free
Ride," which had fairly dopey lyrics but was another irresistibly funky tune.
Their brand of music could probably be summed up as straight-ahead rock'n'roll
with synths and saxophones.  Edgar himself was a skinny albino in tight leather
that played a lot of the instruments, including the saxes, on the albums.  The
band was too talented to survive the disco movement that started immediately
afterward (sigh).
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