BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy-memories

Subject: BS: Hello
From: ActressWendy
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 11:45 PM

Just joined, guys. My credentials are growing up in Chicago, in Hyde Park - born in 1945. Went to grammar school at St. Thomas Apostle. I hung out at the Fret Shop, knew Paul the Wobbly, hung with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield - and Mark Dorinson. Was in attendance at the first U of C Folk Festival, where aside from the music, Severn Darden presented his Theory of Resistentialism. Knew Fred Holstein from when he was a teenager. Went to the Barbarossa, knew Terry, of course.
Anybody remember Lou Yeidel and Inman and Ira (both drinking buddies)?    How about Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap? I once, in my deep folk days, collected 347 verses of Barbara Allen and 17 tunes for it - and my grandfather is mentioned on liner notes of Carter Family recordings because he was instrumental in bring them to prominence. Are my credentials okay?

I'm now an actress in NY - living, of course, in the Village.

Wendy

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: JennyO
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:00 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Wendy. You'll probably find we're all a bit mad here, but no doubt you'll get used to us.

I'm in Sydney, Australia myself, but there are a lot of US catters. I know a couple who live in Long Island who came and visited us last year.

Now that you are a member, check out the FAQ and other features. You can send a PM (personal message) to any other member (but not GUESTs) by clicking on the PM next to their name.

Anything else you need to know, just ask, and someone who knows the answer is bound to come along within minutes.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Amergin
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:33 AM

Your credentials are a fairly decent start, however to be truly accepted here you must answer the question that has plagued mankind for millenia, and many wars have been fought over......







What is Folk Music?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:41 AM

Don't listen to Amergin, Wendy. I'm sure I don't need to say why!! LOL

You might enjoy swapping Chicago tales with our resident Chicagoan, Art Thieme, with whom I expect you have crossed at least one trail. He posts as often as he can and if you look up his past posts (see the FAQ) you'll find some common memories in there, I would imagine.

As for your credentials, they are much too good, but we'll try to shape up! Welcome to the 'Cat.

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Slag
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 01:39 AM

Welcome! I'd be interested in your G'father's connection to the Carter family! I'll be looking forward to your input!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Deckman
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:22 AM

You are obviously way too YOUNG! Wait another fifty years and then you might fit in better! (welcome)Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: KT
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:27 AM

Welcome, Wendy. It's a great place!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:50 AM

Sheesh, I posted to this right after JennyO; must've hit the wrong button. I mentioned Art Thieme, but there ya go...I've got a great tape of him and Fred, I think it was, doing a Woody tribute. He doesn't come to the BS section much, but I'll make sure he sees this thread. Also, through connecting with Art, here, my sister and I sang his "Cowboy's Barbara Allen" in WY where he collected it.:-)

Welcome to the Mudcat!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:22 AM

Well I like it here and I hope you do too. Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Hawker
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 05:06 AM

Welcome Wendy, Hope you enjoy being part of this community, like most communities there is good and bad, but we are all linked by a common interest and most of the time get along, great to have tou.
Cheers, Lucy in Cornwall, UK

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 05:41 AM

Welcome, from another one the other side of the pond.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 06:05 AM

Hi there. Welcome to Mudcat. The only real credential that you need to have is that you enjoy the music, want to keep intouch with likeminded people all over the world and enjoy having fun... anything else is a bonus. Welcome from Another Catter in Cornwall

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 06:57 AM

Wendy ! Welcome to the Loony Bin we like to call The Cat ! If you really want to get to 'meet' us , drop into MudChat and have a natter !

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 07:37 AM

hello.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: kendall
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 07:38 AM

Welcome aboard. Stow your gear and relax.Oh, and don't feed the Trolls, especially after mid night.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 07:39 AM

You related to Wendy Saints?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 08:07 AM

Wwlcome Wendy. I hope that you get as much fun from this site as I have. It's a great resource as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 08:18 AM

Hellow
Did you know that its snowing in Los Vegas as I post this?
some resource huh

I'm an artist doing the suburban DC shuffle.
I knew Andy W and stayed our of Viet Nam by playing the cello.
I behaved like Hunter Thomson while being a professional hypnotist for 13 years.

Your best strategy here is to tell the truth since it will be dismissed as fiction. Over seven years I have always had my questions answered on the mudcat. There is a large sub set of the sub genius philosophers here as well as folk singers who work for the military industrial complex... But thats no reason to hold that against them.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: aussiebloke
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:03 AM

G'day Wendy

Welcome to Mudcat...

Please don't feed the trolls, especially the really obvious ones.

Cheers all

aussiebloke

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Bee
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM

Wecome. This is a great place, and credentials are interesting but, as I can attest, not at all required. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Bee
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 01:18 PM

That would be 'welcome'.... typing around a cat (fur-bearing type), sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:16 PM

Art Thieme fan here and late 70's Barbarossa latenight closer, here. Welcome to the zoo, Wendy!

Your credentials are fine so far, but the REAL credentials are, do you read the FAQ here (often) and know how to get around Mudcat's amazing (and sometimes hidden) site features? Know to ignore flames, trolls, and how to respond to blind date invites from Mudcatters? Those take awhile to earn but are worth more than the paper they're not printed on.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Gizmo
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 04:12 PM

"Oh, and don't feed the Trolls, especially after mid night"

.....And I promise I won't turn into a gremlin.

Hello Wendy, I hope you'll like it here as much as I do.

I'm another one of the UK catters but the world gets an awful lot smaller here.

Hope to see you around.


Gizmo

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: skipy
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 06:00 PM

Welcome aboard, be prepared to ride the storm, but it is a great place to be, hope you never have problem, but if you do, Hell, there are so many out here would will try to help.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:27 PM

Yes, welcome!!!! I don't know if we've ever met, but I was there then at the same time you were too. I was on the North side---but I got to Hyde Park for that first U. of Chicago Folk Festival in '61. I'd been going there since '59-----the year I graduated high school---- from Lakeview High. By '60 I'd found Pete Leibundguth's store called the Fret Shop on 57th Street and often just ambled in there to shoot the breeze when I was back in Chicago from Univ. Of Illinois down state. In '61 I tape recorded PAUL DURST, the old Wobbly you mentioned, in his big chair by the door of the Fret Shop. Several threads here are full of my reminiscences of Paul.

And while I was taping Paul back in Dec. of 1961, Mark Dorinson was trying out a guitar in the background. At one point there is a large "CRASH" audible on that tape. It was Mark dropping that guitar on the floor! And Fred H. was an old, good friend. So was Mike Bloomfield. Severn Darden was at Second City back then I think---unless I'm confusing him with Avery Schreiber. I did see Darden do a play called "Rhinosaurus" somewhere during those years. Inman and Ira were good performers I thought. Their renditions of early Oscar Brown jr. songs like "Bid 'Em In" -- about a slave auction market -- was pretty hard-hitting to say the least. Last I saw Ira Rogers, though, he was less than holding it together. It was sad to see. Roy Inman wasn't around at all---by then.

I was born in '41. Could be we were both there in Chicago at the same time---but passed like melting iceburgs in the night...

Those first ten U. Of Chicago Folk Fests sure did influence me. I followed the folksinger road for close to 4 decades until I couldn't do it any more.

Anyhow, welcome to Mudcat. I'm here less now, but it's a good place to hang out on line. Enjoy!

Art Thieme (who can't join Mudcat for tech reasons I don't comprehend.)

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:49 PM

Wendy, good to see a new face! Where are you in the Village (cross streets)? That's where I usually stay when I'm in NYC. Great location for so many reasons! What kind of singing and what kind of acting do you do these days?

You might remember Art, if you think about it. Were you ever at a singing event with a fellow with a great voice, wonderful story-telling, and the rottenest puns you remember hearing? That was Art. . .

Stilly River Sage (from north of Seattle, residing in Fort Worth)

Subject: RE: BS: Hello
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:29 AM

Wendy,

I took phtos around the folk scene for many years----a ton of 'em were of the folk music life of Chicago. You can see 'em on line at

http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html

When asked for a user name and a password, type in the lower case word mudcat for both of those. That'll get you in there.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 06:21 AM

Welcome Wendy.

Yes, we have trolls but we try to make them live under Mudcat Bridge. If they attack the best thing to do is smile and ignore - it drives them mad.

Try and drop into Mudchat. If it's empty, keep trying or go in and wait. I do hope to chat to you in there soon.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:28 AM

Art would have been the man with the saw.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:43 AM

Wal, mebbe Wendy reckoned it woudl take weeks for anyone to answer up?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: autolycus
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:12 PM

Welcome from Norwich in East Anglia.

   You have much better credentials than me and they haven't thrown me out.

   Glad someone else from year of '45 has joined. I sometimes think that year hasn't made as much impact as people from the years around it.







       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:29 PM

I was born in 1945 in Birmingham England, so welcome ActressWendy from over here in Market Rasen Lincolnshire England.

Here is my website Market Rasen Folk Club

If you are ever over here drop in and see us.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:48 PM

Gee, I was born and reared up in Quincy, Illinois. The folk scene was pretty vinyl there, but it was long-playing and kept us going around and around.

Welcome.

This place is a madhouse, a zoo. Remember, you don't have to read ALL of MOAB to post there. And yeah, I was born in 1945 too.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: ClaireBear
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:10 PM

I was born in 1954, which is a lot like 1945 if you're dyslexic, as my husband is (plus, he spent many interesting years in Chicago, 1960-1971 or so...back in the day).

Welcome, Wendy!

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:03 PM

Welcome from another 1945 vintage Mudcatter, from Stoke-on-Trent, England(by adoption, not origin). They make Wedgewood pottery here, among other things(like very reasonably priced folk CDs). I work in the theatre too.
Have fun
Dont worry about the Rt Hon Sir JOhn from HUll, he's from Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:25 PM

Rente pi haule une bush la! All's welcome dans la Cafe, eh. Well, they let me in, and even let me stay, so the rules are pretty loose.

Greetings from the fly infested bog country of New Brunswick, Canada.

Not many flies on the go today, though. All the moose are on the south side of the hill today... cold enough to knock yer antlers off.

Enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:46 PM

I, too, am a '45-er, the cutting advance guard of the Boom.

Ciao from Southern California, where Xmas sunbathing is a preferred outdoor sport.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 03:14 PM

Welcome, Wendy. I'm a theater critic but don't sweat it, I'm not in New York. Born same year as you. And you don't need no steenking credentials here.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:58 PM

Oh right, so it's entirely a coincidence that an (English) actress called Wendy* has just left our (English) Eastenders soap, having been one of the original cast 20+ years ago, and you've just arrived as a Mudcat member......???

I hope you have a great time!

Kitty

* Wendy Richards, who appeared in the British sitcom "Are you being served?" before arriving in Eastenders and being bumped off by her daughter-in-law in a recent episode.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 05:19 PM

Wendy, your last name isn't "Darling" by any chance, is it? If so, how are John and Michael and Peter and the Lost Boys?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: SharonA
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 06:48 PM

Welcome, Wendy, from a few degrees latitude south, in the Philadelphia area! Do you ever come down this way to perform in the local theaters?

Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 07:40 PM

Yeah, an a big ol' welcome from the resident hillbilly, the lovely P-Vine (my wife), the trusty Wes Ginny Slide Rule and Donnie "i'm a Drunk"...

Ahhhh, the Villiage, huh??? Is that Hillary's "It Takes a Villiage" 'ere the one down the street from Gramercy Park??? Nevermind that one...

Well, what can I say that others ain't said yet??? Maybe...


















...Get her done, Wendy!!!

(No, Bobert, "get her done" ain't Villiage...)

Okay, here's soemthing helpfull... Be sure yer up on yer shots ''ause there are some sickly cats that hang 'round here who ain't had no shots but could use a couple good shots... Yeah, that 'bout sums it up...

BTW, what kind o' actress is ya'???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: number 6
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 07:52 PM

Welcome Wendy.





I do think Wendy has been frightened off.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bobad
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 07:56 PM

Anyone who has seen "Deliverance" would be frightened off by Bobert.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 08:48 PM

Get her done, bobadster...

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bobad
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:11 PM

I'm a squealin' Bobber.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM

Hi Wendy. I don't know any other actresses named Wendy. I know a director named Wendy. Well, I guess she must have been an actress at one time, huh? Heck, nobody starts out directing, do they? Have you ever played Wendy in Peter Pan? Huh? If I were in Peter Pan I'd want to play the part of Smee. No particular reason, I just like the name. Say "Smee" enough times and it starts to sound really stupid! Just like this post!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM

He's almost a maountain man. Don't say 'squeal', bobad. It gets him excited.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:14 PM

Poor girl ain't comin' back.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bobad
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:36 PM

Ah Wendy, don't be put off, we're all (except maybe Bobert) just funnin' - stick around you'll have a good time.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:03 PM

Nah, she can't run off yet. Her introduction to the idiot contingent isn't complete. Neither Spaw nor khandu have been heard from!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:04 PM

Is contingent a good thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:19 PM

Wendy:

You caught my eye when you mentioned Severn Darden, one of those humorists who made all those who came in contact with him remember him, but is alas not as widely disseminated as he deserves, his kind of humor was charming, accessible, cogent, and surreal. I have his philosophy lecture down almost by heart.

Never heard of resistentialism, though!

Robo

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:29 PM

I thought he was very funny in The President's Analyst. I almost mentioned it above but thought it was off track. But since Wendy hasn't returned, I guess we can talk amongst ourselves. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 12:45 AM

Chicago---the Wendy city. She blew away.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Ron Davies
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 06:01 AM

Welcome Wendy! One thing this place is not is dull. You may however find it's dangerous to other aspects of your life---- it's ferociously addictive.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:08 AM

Not to Wendy, apparently. More than two days and this is her only post to Mudcat.

Hey, maybe she has a life eh? That would be different.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John Hardly
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:21 AM

maybe she didn't suspect that there'd be the likes of an Art Theime here who might sus out her "creds".

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:42 AM

Looking at the title of this thread when I suddenly realised something; we don't have actresses in the UK any more.
Both sexes are now referred to as actors in what I assume is another stupid PC idea!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:10 AM

Well, why not? Shakespeare called 'em "actors." I don't think the word "actress" is mentioned anywhere in his poems or plays.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:15 AM

They are thespians. Nice inclusive word with a noble Greek background.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: ClaireBear
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:23 AM

Bit of a shame really, not having any more actresses. Gender is, after all, such a noble thing, I myself am an editrix.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:03 AM

Well Rapaire, that may have been because women didn't act on stage in the Elizabethan era, and all female parts were taken by 'boys'
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:06 AM

Yes, "actor" still has a definite male connotation for me. But "actress" does seem a bit sexist and dated. When I think "actress" it's Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver) who pops into mind, not Hillary Swank. Perhaps it's the "o" in "actor" that implies the masculine. Maybe we should drop both terms and call them all "acters".

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:14 AM

And if they played cleaning people they would be




are you ready for this?














char acters

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Alec
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:24 AM

In traditional pantomime the principal boy is female & the Dame is male.
Thread drift aside Hello & welcome Wendy.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:27 AM

But suppose they played Communist censors? Redacters, in other words.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John Hardly
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:40 AM

what about chirops?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:28 AM

Texan Fission physicists? (Newkularly acters).

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 12:44 PM

That's several energetic swats with an inflated virtual pig's bladder for Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:01 PM

Wendy must be on the road in winter-stock. Was looking to a nice reminiscence. Still might happen.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Alice
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:02 AM

Welcome to the madhouse, Wendy. I'm sure you will enjoy it.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 10:22 AM

It's a long and Wendy road
It's a hot and heavy load....

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 12:47 PM

Hi, Wendy:

Welcome to the Cat. I grew up in southern Wisconsin and came to the Village in 1960. Lived in the area four years, overlapping in time if not space with Peace. I have a grand daugther who is an acress in New York City, any my Sister-in-law's nephew is, too. They both were here for Christmas, and are a pleausre.

My wife and I live up here in Connecticut, next door to New Haven.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John J
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 06:21 PM

I hope you lot haven't scared the poor girl off!!

Welcome aboard Wendy, this is a truly wonderful community.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 12:43 AM

How could she be scared off? She hasn't been back to be scared off! And this has been a mighty civil greeting, all things considered!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 11:26 AM

Are you perchance the famous Wendy Redredrobincomesbobbobbobinalong? if so, that could be why you don't sign too many autographs.....

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 02:13 PM

Maybe she's taking the piss.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 05:29 PM

Hi Wendy,

" My credentials are growing up in Chicago, in Hyde Park - born in 1945."

I lived in Hyde Park (1364 Madison Park) in the 1950's. Also on Cornell Street.

"Mike Bloomfield"

Had a folk trio there in the "Folk Scare" era at the Fickle Pickle...owned by Mike. Dick Gregory used to come down for impromptu sets.


"Was in attendance at the first U of C Folk Festival,"

I remember when Mike Fleischer first promoted them. I was on one of them.

" Severn Darden presented his Theory of Resistentialism. "

Severn was known for conducting a "black mass" in Rockerfeller Chapel at the U. of C.
He paraded around in a costume reminiscent of "The Phantom of the Opera" long before Lloyd-Weber scared it up. Severn went to a cocktail party at some place like the Empire Room, removed his tux coat and displayed a t-shirt with a tux tie painted on it.
Severn was not easilly up-staged (with an exception at a party I once gave with the Clancy Brothers in attendance).

"Inman and Ira (both drinking buddies)? "

Local impresario Frank Fried and I did a demo with Inman and Ira attempting to interest a recording company in them. A short, stout, cigar smoking A and R man attended the session and insisted that they could not do an acapella chain gang song (which they did admirably) because "the kids wouldn't like it. They wanted saxes." I was so disgusted I walked out of the session. I really felt bad for Inman and Ira.

" and my grandfather is mentioned on liner notes of Carter Family recordings because he was instrumental in bring them to prominence."

Was he an associate of Ralph Peer?

"Are my credentials okay?"

Fortunately, Mudcat doesn't care if you're up for part. Anyone can participate and generally does.

"I'm now an actress in NY - living, of course, in the Village. "

I remember when I was living with a friend on MacDougal Street, you could walk the streets at midnight and it was the same as walking during the day. Totally safe. I hung out at Izzy Young's Folklore Center during the day and was regular at Washington Square.
The Village was great during the Fifties but probably reached it's zenith in the Twenties and Thirties.

Do you train at Neighborhood Playhouse with Meisner or Strassburg's studio? Cassavetes used to have an improv class in the Village. Al Arkin made a break from the folk scene there. Knew him in LA.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bobad
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:44 PM

Refresh for Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,ira rogers aka inman and ira
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 09:27 PM

have no clue how i came to this sight but wendy know that i majored in theatre and received awards for portrayel of iago. it was theatre that brought i and i together u must have caught me in a transitional period . have written 3 major pieces for theatre was artist in resident at city colleges awarded 20,000 to produce "to reach a circle". done over 14 movies featured in 3 .still playin acoustic have act ira andhis folk jazz fusion . yea inman n ira performed first folk festival uoc still live in hyde park jimmy's gone woodlawn tap still there roy died 3 yrs ago u must member monmarte willie wright etc. it was a special time    good show with your career

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 10:35 PM

Right on, man.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 11:20 PM

Maybe Actress Wendy was another of Little Hawk's creations? Let's say he goes to the dentist, and there's an old copy of The New Yorker sitting on the end table in the waiting room. He picks it up and thrumbs through "Goings On About Town" and they still don't call him, so he skims "The Talk of the Town." By now he's entranced by those little pen-and-ink cartouches between items. A thought occurs. . .

I'll yank their chains at Mudcat with a composite character out of The New Yorker!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 02:08 AM

Ira, Thanks for the update. So sorry to hear about Roy.

I was the asst. mgr. of the Old Town Folklore Center on North Ave. at Sedgwick--1965, '66 & '67. Banjo man John Carbo was the manager then. He wound up being the film editor on THE BLUES BROTHERS film. ----------I mainly recall you and Roy doing "Bid 'em In" and "The Rollin' Mill Done Burnt Down".
Nice memories.

All the best to you,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,ira rogers
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 03:42 PM

yo art of course i remember u. was at beginning of old town school w/ dawn greening ray tate managed later became ini accompaniest. saw f hamiltons memo on i n . that guy with cigar was ernie altschiller yo frank glad to know youre still around ernie became our a and r man for our columbia albums and at same time was trying to find a hit song for another columbia artist whose career was in the tank he was a and r for this guy too his name tony bennett the hit that revived him i left my heart in san fran .yea was there at village gate .used to go ti basement club think it was staircase cheer up a comedian who had no audience bill cosby. frank was a legend in folk at the time yea a special time with the clancy brothers josh whie bobby gibson bobby camp who became hamilton shell silverstein was onthe scene at gate of horn. was there when lenny bruce was saved from cops when we got tipped they were coming and they dumped his junk needles and all in toilet just in time was at earl of old town ,featured there when along came steve goodman, bonnie kolac but of allfred neal and the dolphins got me. he was special. could go on and on got lots o stories by the way have musical dealin with substance abus e tryin to get iy on boards .its a great piece anyone interested can e mail or send hard copy w/ music   e mail [e-mail] had no idea i would ramble on

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John Routledge
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 07:01 PM

Didn't know you were so prophetic JohnJ :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 08:06 PM

Very strange. Wendy started this thread and hasn't been back since.

Will ye no come back again?
Will ye no come back again?
Better lo'ed you ne'er can be
Will ye no come back again?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 11:33 PM

Ira, I'm sure you remember Guy Guilbert. He's out in Van Nuys, CA now. He and Elaine (Spanky)McFarland and Ginny Clemmens were called the Old Town Trio in '59 and '60. ------ A ton o' water through the lock gates since them good times.

Best regards,

Art

Subject: RE: Inman and Ira
From: GUEST,Long ago fan
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 01:10 AM

Inman and Ira performed at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1962 or 63. I was a student there then. I still have the record (33 1/3 LP) I bought at that concert. Loved the concert, loved the music. Thanks for the memories.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 05:53 AM

This is getting to be like Samuel Beckett's-Waiting for Godot.
Everyone gets to show, except Godot!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: John J
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 08:25 AM

Prophetic? Me? I can't even spell the word!

JJ

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 10:34 AM

spelling would seem to be an overrated aspect of this thread--but the reading is fantastic!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: number 6
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:15 AM

Will this thread ever reach 50000 posts?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:20 AM

Maybe when it does Actress Wendy will return.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:30 AM

Maybe she took a sabbatical.

Exit stage left.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Scrump
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM

Hello to you too Actress.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 04:27 PM

I'm now beginning to wonder just how many regular posters are real, or are composites designed by some Mudcat fiend.

And I'm not feeling very well myself...

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 05:25 PM

yo art   yeah guy n i keep in touch he was our accompaniest for 3 years he took elaine with on   our 60's college tours last time we talked he informed bout hamilton camps passing little bobby was great people jim mcguinn was chad mitchell's guitarist before steppin out on his own elaine went on to become spanky   johnny brown still performing in fla.guy is on all of our albums worked with me on musical "HIGHER THAN YHE RAINBOW" wow u 've got quite an archive of the past with great respect   ira

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,me
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 05:54 PM

My theory is someone wanted the old timers to start a discussion of this time and place in folk music. So keep it up. It is very interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 06:10 PM

I also suspect Wendy is a sockpuppet, but the thread's great. Thanks for starting it, Wendy, whoever you are.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Gizmo
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 06:17 PM

Darn it - just missed the 100!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 10:29 PM

Who's peekin out from under the staircase
callin the name that's lighter than air?
Who's reachin out to capture a sunbeam?
everyone knows it's .......

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 12:19 AM

Junie May Farkbright?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 12:20 AM

I KNOW! It was Wendy from Peter Pan and she ran off with Peter and Tinkerbell!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Neovo
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 06:11 AM

347 verses to Barbara Allen?!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 11:32 AM

Maybe she's on her way to California as the famous...
Wendy SwallowscomebacktoCapistrano

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bobad
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 11:35 AM

Or Wendy Swallows.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: bubblyrat
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 11:58 AM

The name WENDY is a made-up one---Before "Peter Pan " the name didn"t exist. It doesn"t seem like many Wendys exist AFTER Peter Pan, either !!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM

personally, I think Wendy got a hint of what this place is truly all about and skedaddled.

The Wendy Swallows comment was uncalled for, bobad. I don't think she's that kind of actress.

Yes, Spaw, Junie May Farkbrighte, with an e on the end.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 05:00 PM

Ira and all,

More Chicago names from that old paradigm:

Martin Yarborough, Joel Corey (Cohen), George McKelvey, Penny McKelvey, Norman Mark, Albert Grossman & Allen Ribback at the Gate Of Horn, John Brown, Silver Sid, Joe Klee, Adam & Paula Cochran, John Carbo, John Scofield, Gay Kyle, Judy Bright, Lisa Kindred...

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: dianavan
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 08:15 PM

Wow, Wendy, such a warm welcome.

Where have you gone?

Be careful, Mudcat is addictive.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 10:08 PM

What you tryin' ta do, Art? Make me nostalgic?

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 12:33 PM

Actually, all the people and places Wendy talked about in her first and only post were people I'd reminisced about at length in several much earlier threads. Mark Dorinson---old wobbly hobo Paul Durst---the Fret Shop--where I met and tape recorded Paul in December of 1961---etc..

Either Wendy was trolling for some reason known only to her, or she really was exactly what she said she was---and then went away & couldn't find Mudcat again. Sooo many questions---all from one post...

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 12:48 PM

Doesn't matter which, Art, as it got you rolling which is worth a troll all by itself!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,ira aka inman and ira
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 10:20 PM

yo art george and penny got beginnings at cellar boheme in hyde park    where martin yarbourough n lots of us got start it was don luchino who had his flamenco dancers actors, poets like kent foreman it was THE happening in hyde park. i got paid 5 dollars anite to do shakespere . did u know george and joel corey hooked up and formed asuccessful comedy team. penny went on and became a major activist for all native americanns,though she had white pale skin her great grandfather was geronimo. joel was head of hootenanny at old gate of horn when we met he later was big time doing nat'l t v voiceovers he created the pillsbury doughboy. i too became major voice over while doing acting scene for 20 yrs. i was at goodman theatre with chris walken in "THE NIGHY THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL" billy friedkin of the exorcist n french connection was close to inman and ira . he wrote linear notes for first columbia album the clancy's fired their manager marty . the following year,inman and ira did today show it was barbara walters third week. she was nervous cause the producer had consented to us doing the "KLAN" we made history and became well known overnite. footnote . nbc fired the producer allan arkin's father wrote the klan. anyway whike crossing times square , we ran ito marty asked how he was doin since clancy's fired him. he said it had been rough bit he had hope with a new talent he had exclusive n thought she could really make it . we asked her name   BARBARA STREISSAND we wished him luck he was really a nice guy. got lots o stories art with great respect    ira

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 12:38 AM

Ira,

These flashes from the past are quite intriguing--to say the least---like fireworks that flashingly explode, draw the eye, and wink out.

The first paying gig I ever had was in Hyde Park--at a storefront coffeehouse on 57th Street called the Limelight. It was operated by Norman Tong---who inexplicably got rather upset when I once told someone what his last name was --for some reason. The deal was that I was to be paid twenty-five per cent of the door. ONE PERSON came in and plunked down her dollar cover---so, at the end of the evenings festivities, I went home with twenty-five cents. It cost me more than that on the Illinois Central R.R. to get back to the loop and then on to the North Side of town.

Across the street from the Limelight Coffeehouse was the Fret Shop music store--where Paul Durst camped out in their back room. He was 93 then. Born in 1868. He'd been a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Knew Joe Hill--and they had shipped out together on a tramp steamer to Hawaii. He told me he'd been asleep under the boardwalk when the bomb went off at the Haymarket Riot in Chicago. Also said he'd been part of the strike in Ludlow, Colorado when the Ludlow Massacre went down.

Those storefronts on the North and South sides of 57th St.---between the I.C. tracks and Stoney Island Avenue, were left over concession shops from the Columbian Exposition of 1893. After the Exposition ended, those cold water shops with dirt floors became known as the 57th Street ARTIST COLONY. Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandberg, Floyd Dell, Maxwell Boddenheim, and many others got affordable cheap lodging there.

In 1963 the first Mayor Daley decided to tear 'em down. We had a festival in the middle of the street with music and speeches trying to save those little places---. Willy Wright and Jim Norris and Ella Jenkins ane me and Little Brother Montgomery and Dodi Kallick and Spanky McFarland and others did what we could--but to no avail.
And, I guess, I'm here, like Ishmael, to tell thee!

It's fun to remember...

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:12 AM

ira & inman and Art, PLEASE don't stop! This is the Best Mudcat has seen in ages. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Thank you!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:14 AM

Note to self: print this thread and tuck it in with mudcat tapes. What a gem!

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:29 AM

P.S. I've posted a request on the help page that this be moved above the line and the "BS" be removed.

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 07:41 PM

Howdy! Welcome!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy-memories
From: Alba
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 10:23 PM

While I am glad that Actress Wendy joined I have to say, no offense intended, I haven't thought about Wendy in a while..:)

Art and Ira I am so enjoying your posts to this Thread.
Thanks to you both for sharing these wonderfilled memories.
Warmest Wishes,
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Hello - from new member Actress Wendy-memories
From: GUEST,ira rogers aka inman and ira
Date: 03 Feb 07 - 07:02 PM

yo art willie wright was special with a special voice . so sad how he passed ,agallon of paint fell on his foot causing gangrene , it killed him at age 26 of course every knows ella jenkins talked to her a few months ago . she's still doin it. few know that she was an original advocate for civil rights. she gave inman and ira a classic song "LONG TIME" I BEEN PICKIN YOUR COTTEN FOR A LONG TIME BUT WHEN FREEDOM COMES I'M GONNA BE FREE FOR A LONG LONG TIME". pete seeger had just signed 60,000 dollar contract with columbia records. lots of people put him down but he seemed to have maintain ed his integrity except ,it is a fact that he and the brothers four with others snubbed inman and ira when we sang "LONG TIME" at the columbia convention 1961 in the southern city of miami.you could hear a pin drop as we defied convention and let everybody know where we were comin from. thats when i realized how phony all of the so called folkies were . josh white and odetta warned us but i was naive. i thought this country was on yhe verge of waking up to racism 40 yrs later   nothings really changed terry collier had to go to europe to get the recognition he deserves. by the way wendy were you referring to terry collier or terry rebenaur. that was a time when lou gosset came through chicago as an actor in Genet's,"THE BLACKS"   few know that he was an accomplished guitarist and folk singer. we got to be pretty tight helped him get gigs . cicely tyson and the others went back to n .y.few know he wrot a folk classic made popular by ritchie havens    oh by the way the columbia convention launched tony bennett back into the spotlight with "I LEFT MY HEART etc etc. sorry didnt mean to ramble on with respect ira