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Welcome to Venice West: Audio Recordings from the Lawrence Lipton Papers

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Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989, actor; Tandy, Jessica, 1909-1994, actress; Cronyn, Hume, 1911-2003, actor; Fulton, Jack, 1903-1993, composer; Steele, Lois, composer; King's Jesters, musical group; Posner, Paul M., 1930?-2007, speaker; Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, speaker; Snyder, Gary, 1930- , poet; Grass, Günter, 1927-2015, poet; Grass, Gunter, 1927-2015, poet; Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 1929- , poet; Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- , translator; Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998
Tape 154, side 1, part 1) Collection of 16 television and radio news broadcasts regarding the Los Angeles Police Board of Commissioners hearing to determine whether the Gas House, 1501 Ocean Front, Venice, California, would be granted an entertainment license, 1959 August (0:21, 1:38, 3:44, 5:15, 11:33, 23:55, 28:55, 30:04, 32:07, 32:53, 33:33, 35:07, 35:52, 36:59, 37:42, 42:03). DETAILS: Microphone testing by Lawrence Lipton (0:02). ❧ News program (television or radio) (0:21): on hearing for license to operate the Gas House, Venice, West: mentions Al Matthews (landlord), Board of Police Commissioners, A.S. Roberts (president, Venice Civic Union), Eric Nord (beatnik), Mrs. Robert Swann[?] (witness), noise, immoral actions, A.L. Wirrin (attorney). ❧ News program (television or radio) (1:38) on hearing for entertainment permit to operate the Gas House: mentions beatnik art. ❧ News program, ABC television, 1959, with Clete Roberts, foreign correspondent, and Pat Michaels, local reporter (2:31, 2:52): on China invasion of India (3:01, 4:28), Dwight Eisenhower cold-war talks (3:09), labor reform bill (3:16), permit for the Gas House (3:44), weather (4:23), sports: Dodgers (5:07). Commercial: Mark C. Bloom tire distributor (2:38), Tom Harmon sports authority (2:48), Deborah Kerr on actress May Britt (3:27), John Daly and the news (4:35), ABC's High Road debut (4:49), Pepsi Cola (5:01). ❧ Lew Irwin Reports (television program), KABC Channel 7 Los Angeles, 1959 August 28 (5:15, 6:37): on the beat generation and Venice community distress over Gas House entertainment license (A.L. Wirrin, attorney; Lew Irwin interview of Lawrence Lipton; Michael Kelly, witness; Al Matthews; Eric Nord) (5:15, 11:33), delayed bus strike (Charles Thompson, judge) (7:17), Abraham Lincoln sculptor Dr. Emil Seletz and supervisor Kenneth Hahn (8:47), final rites for William V. O'Connor (attorney) at high mass service, Vibiana's Cathedral, Los Angeles (9:20), 231 U.S. citizens naturalized at Federal Building, Los Angeles (9:31), middleweight boxing match in San Francisco (9:54), baseball at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (10:07). Commercials: Papermate Holiday pens (5:27), Maxwell House instant coffee (6:51), Rex Marshall on Maxwell House instant coffee (7:41), Maxwell House instant coffee (10:27). Public service announcement: radar outposts (19:48). ❧ News program (Ed Fleming, reporter), [CBS KNX-TV?] (television): Russia refrains from testing nuclear weapons (19:55), Richard Dimbleby (BBC) reports on on British royal military event for visiting Dwight Eisenhower (president) mentioning Harold Macmillan (prime minister) and Nikita Khruschev (premier) (20:37), China invasion of India (22:10), transportation strike (23:18), USC coed Linda Martin funeral service (23:27), Chris Albert sued for divorce (23:40), Gas House entertainment license hearing (A.L. Wirrin, attorney; Robert Swann, apartment house manager; Mrs. Gerhart Custo[?], witness; Julie Meredith, folksinger) (23:55), weather (27:17). Commercials: John Harland on Chevrolet dealers (22:33), Tidewater Flying A 100+ gasoline (23:15, 26:15), Arpege perfume (27:39), telephone company (27:45). ❧ Annoucement for upcoming news (television or radio) (28:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (28:55): Gas House entertainment license hearing, Al Matthews (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (hearing examiner), K.A. South (policeman) (28:55); broadcasting officials endicted (29:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (29:50, 31:44): automobiles driving on front lawns. ❧ News (television or radio) (29:56): re Ignacy Paderewski (pianist) (29:56); Gas House entertainment license hearing, Igor Stravinsky (composer), Stan Laurel (actor), Ron Waller (football player), Eric Nord (beatnik), Al Matthews (landlord) (30:04), VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legion (31:44). Commercial: Maxwell House instant coffee (30:34). ❧ News (television or radio) (32:07): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Al Matthews (landlord), A.L. Wirrin (attorney) (32:07, 32:53), FBI on crime (32:43), Ransom Calicott (councilman) and Edward Roybal (councilman) (32:48), Walter G. Williams, oldest living Civil War survivor (33:22, 34:46), baseball club (34:57). ❧ News (television or radio) (33:33): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Al Matthews (attorney) (33:33), Jimmy McHugh (composer) honored, Lemoine Blanchard (councilman) (34:25). ❧ News (television or radio) (35:07): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Lawrence Lipton (writer), A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge) (35:07), shooting during robbery in Beverly Hills (35:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (35:52): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge), Lawrence Lipton (poet) (35:52). Commercial: George Barclay on Tidewater Flying A 100+ gasoline (36:49). ❧ News (television or radio) (36:59): beatniks, Lawrence Lipton (poet), A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge) (36:59). Commercial: Maxwell House instant coffee (37:34). ❧ News (television or radio) (37:42): beatniks, Gas House hearing, Thomas Mulherin (judge), comments by A.L. Wirrin (attorney) and Willis O. Gooden (resident), Lawrence Lipton (poet) reading a poem "Upbeat, downbeat, offbeat" (poem 39:46) (news 37:42), baseball news (41:45). ❧ News (radio), KNX radio (41:54): monorail for mass transit (41:54), Gas House entertainment permit hearing, comments by Lawrence Lipton (witness) and Thomas Mulherin (judge) (42:03), weather (49:44). ❧ Tape 154, side 1, part 2 (0:02); side 2, part 3 (23:56) Lawrence Lipton and teenage? male (Hugh) and teenage? female (Blanche) discussion, re theft from corporations vs. from individuals, church attendance, Presbyterian, Catholic, upbringing and independence, living in night vs. day, watching television, talking and interacting with individuals vs. groups, marijuana, reading the newspaper, listening to television or radio news, Suez crisis, sporting events, parades, hunting or fishing, camping, having children, atomic anihilation and radiation, education, growing old, love. ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 1) Unidentified male reading poetry: "Upon no time other than up and down time" (0:02, 0:26). ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2A) Lawrence Lipton reads his poetry: "In Africa" (0:43) with music. ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2B) Lipton reads his poetry: "Newscast for a disconnected microphone" (14:13). ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2C) Lipton reads his poetry: "I was a poet for the FBI" (18:08). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin. Barclay, George, speaker; Custo, Mrs. Gerhart, speaker; Dimbleby, Richard, 1913-1965, reporter; Fleming, Edward J. "Ed", 1918- , reporter; Gooden, Willis O., speaker; Harland, John, speaker; Irwin, Lew, reporter; Kerr, Deborah, 1921-2007, speaker; Lipton, Lawrence, 1898-1975, speaker; Marshall, Rex, 1919-1983, speaker; Meredith, Julie, speaker; Michaels, Pat, 1925-2010, reporter; Mulherin, Thomas, speaker; Roberts, Clete, 1912-1984, reporter; Swann, Robert, speaker; Wirrin, A.L. (Abraham Lincoln), speaker
Tape 185, side 1) Langston Hughes and Lawrence Lipton read their poetry at Lipton's home, Venice, California, 1958 April 13 (0:02), all with music (Bob Dorough, keyboard; Saul White, percussion): Langston Hughes reading his poetry: "Afro-American fragment" (0:36), "The negro speaks of rivers" (1:59), "Merry-go-round" (4:49), "Could be" (6.25), "Six-bits blues" (8:50); Lawrence Lipton reading his poetry: "What ever became of Sally Ann" (11:38), "The questioner" (21:09) with no music. ❧ Tape 185, side 2) Outdoor public program (0:02) of Lawrence Lipton poetry with music (Jimmy Alonze, percussion; Paul Friedan, flute and alto saxophone). Lawrence Lipton reading his poetry: "The word heard in the throat" (0:31), "The ultimate weapon" (2:36), "African mirage" (6:40), "Not on the velvet cushions" (12:40), introducing (but not reading) "Night song for the sleepless" (23:17). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.
Tape 396, side 1, part A1) Kenneth Rexroth in a live performance, 1957 [1958?] January, reading poetry (all with music) (0:14): Li Qingzhao's "Late spring" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator; Ron Croddy, double bass) (2:10), Ju Shu Chun's "Spring has come" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator; Ron Croddy, double bass) (5:46), Rexroth's "Sword in a cloud of light" (1999) (10:24), Rexroth's "This night only" (Erik Satie's Gymnopédie #1"; Claire Willy, piano) (16:55) , Francis Carco's "The shadow" (22:05), Rexroth's "Habeus corpus" (38:03). ❧ Tape 396, side 2, part A2) [playback speed is too fast] Kenneth Rexroth in a live performance, 1957 [1958?] January, reading poetry (all with music): unidentified poem (0:06), Carl Sandburg's "Mag" (1:20), Kenneth Rexroth's "Quiet lady" (7:34), Rafael Alberti's "Homecoming of love amongst illustrious ruins" from "Retornos de lo vivo lejano" (Kenneth Rexroth, translator) (10:34). ❧ Tape 386, side 2, part B) Tram Combs reading his poetry, 1959 (all with music): "A farewell for Elliott Thomas" (15:29), "On the necessity of new statement of myths and ideas alien to the times" (18:07), "In the mind's silences" (19:50), "Ballad for Americans in mid century, for Elizabeth Malone with five kids" (21:03), "No responsibilities and small thoughts" (22:45), "En la que tu de la noche en San Juan" (24:15), "Lust at night" (26:09), "April carnival, St. Thomas" (27:32), "Down fields of concrete" (30:09), "A going away gift" (31:04), "A pastorale in New Orleans" (32:44), "Middle class" (36:09), "A letter to Gil to remember a hermit" (38:09). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin. Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999, poet; Carco, Francis, 1886-1958, poet; Combs, Elisha Trammell "Tram", Jr., 1924-2018, poet; Combs, Elisha Trammell "Tram", Jr., 1924-2018, speaker; Croddy, Ron, double bass; 李清照, 1084-ca. 1141, poet; Qingzhiao, Li, 1084-ca. 1141 writer; Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, poet; Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, speaker; Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, translator; Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, poet; Satie, Erik, 1866-1925, composer; Willy, Claire, piano
Tape 397, side 1, part A1) Jazz canto, vol. 1, 1958, transferred from the commercial 33⅓-rpm record (World Pacific Records PJ-1244). CONTENTS: Tape 397, side 1) "Poets to come" / Walt Whitman (John Carradine, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble) (0:02) -- "Tract" / William Carlos Williams (Hoagy Carmichael, reader; Ralph Peña Quintet) (2:36) -- "In my craft or sullen art" / Dylan Thomas (Ben Wright, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble; Fred Katz, composer) (7:16) -- "Night song for the sleepless" / Lawrence Lipton (John Carradine, reader; Chico Hamilton Quintet) (8:48) -- "Lament" / Dylan Thomas (Ben Wright, reader; Jazz Canto Ensemble; Jack Montrose, composer) (14:42). ❧ Tape 397, side 1, part A2) -- "Dog" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Bob Dorough, reader; Bob Dorough Quintet; Bob Dorough, composer) (0:06) -- "Young sycamore" / William Carlos Williams (Hoagy Carmichael, reader; Bob Hardaway, tenor saxophone; Bob Hardaway, composer) (4:04) -- Three songs ("Daybreak in Alabama" (4:50), "Night and morn" (9:04), "The dream keeper" (12:47)) / Langston Hughes (Bob Dorough, reader; Bob Dorough Quintet; Bob Dorough, composer) -- "Big high song for somebody" / Philip Whalen (Roy Glenn, reader; Gerry Mulligan Quartet; Gerry Mulligan, composer (Piano blues)) (17:19). ❧ PERFORMERS: Jazz Canto Ensemble (Jack Monrose, conductor; Fred Katz, violoncello and piano; Ralph Peña, double bass; Bob Hardaway, tenor saxophone and clarinet; Buddy Collette, tenor and clarinet; Lee Katzman, trumpet; Al Porcino, trumpet; Larry Bunker, drums and vibraphone; Tommy Tedesco, guitar; Paul Horn, alto saxophone and clarinet); Ralph Peña - Bob Dorough Quintet (Bob Dorough, piano; Ralph Peña, double bass; Billy Bean, guitar; Bob Hardaway, tenor saxophone; Larry Bunker, drums and vibraphone); Chico Hamilton Quintet (Chico Hamilton, drums; Buddy Collette, flute; Jim Hall, guitar; Fred Katz, violoncello; Carson Smith, double bass); Bob Hardaway, tenor saxophone; Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Gerry Mulligan, piano; Jon Eardley, trumpet; Red Mitchell, double bass; Chico Hamilton, drums). Bean, Billy, 1933-2012, guitar; Bob Dorough Quintet; Bunker, Larry, 1928-2005, drums; Bunker, Larry, 1928-2005, vibraphone; Carmichael, Hoagy, 1899-1981, speaker; Carradine, John, 1906-1988, speaker; Chico Hamilton Quintet; Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010, clarinet; Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010, flute; Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010, tenor saxophone; Dorough, Robert L., 1923-2018, composer; Dorough, Robert L., 1923-2018, piano; Dorough, Robert L., 1923-2018, speaker; Eardley, Jon, 1928-1991, trumpet; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919- , poet; Gerry Mulligan Quartet; Glenn, Roy, 1914-1971, speaker; Hall, James Stanley "Jim", 1930-2013, guitar; Hamilton, Chico, 1921-2013, drums; Hardaway, Robert Benson "Bob", 1928- , composer; Hardaway, Robert Benson "Bob", 1928- , clarinet; Hardaway, Robert Benson "Bob", 1928- , tenor saxophone; Horn, Paul, 1930-2014, clarinet; Horn, Paul, 1930-2014, alto saxophone; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, poet; Jazz Canto Ensemble; Katz, Fred, 1919-2013, composer; Katz, Fred, 1919-2013, piano; Katz, Fred, 1919-2013, violoncello; Katzman, Lee, 1928-2013, trumpet; Lipton, Lawrence, 1898-1975, poet; Mitchell, Keith Moore "Red", 1927-1992, double bass; Montrose, Jack, 1928-2006, conductor; Montrose, Jack, 1928-2006, composer; Mulligan, Gerry, 1927-1996, composer; Mulligan, Gerry, 1927-1996, piano; Peña, Ralph, 1927-1969, double bass; Pena, Ralph, 1927-1969, double bass; Porcino, Al, 1925-2013, trumpet; Ralph Peña - Bob Dorough Quintet; Ralph Pena - Bob Dorough Quintet; Ralph Peña Quartet; Ralph Pena Quartet; Smith, Carson, 1931-1997, double bass; Tedesco, Tommy, 1930-1997, guitar; Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953, poet; Whalen, Philip, 1923-2002; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, poet; Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, poet; Wright, Ben, 1915-1989, speaker

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