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07 Jan 02 - 08:58 PM (#623038) Subject: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: GUEST,glen I heard Bill often in the 70's but he seems to have left the folk scene...is he still performing and is there any way to reach him? Glen |
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07 Jan 02 - 09:05 PM (#623041) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: 53 you might want to ask banjo bonnie if we ever find her. BOB |
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07 Jan 02 - 09:14 PM (#623047) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Jeri Glen, I remember him too, and have a couple of songs by him in a songbook someplace. (Didn't he write 'Garbage'?) I haven't heard anything of him recently, though. |
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07 Jan 02 - 09:30 PM (#623056) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve) Bill lives in Ithaca, NY and is still active there locally. |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:02 PM (#623076) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: DonMeixner Bill had an album out on Bay Records back in the early, early 70's. Garbage and Other garbage. My favorite cut was "Charlie Chan" a song lamenting the fact that every actor to play Charlie up till that time was of European decent. "Tho he's yellow on the outside, He's always white within, He's the movies top banana, Charlie Chan." I have the album some place in the attic of no return. Ithaca in the 70's was the home base to many great musicians. Besides Steele, John Roberts and Tony Barrand, Bill Destler, John Miller, Bottle Hill lived near by, Russ Barenberg, Howie Bursen was there often as well. And there were others I have forgotten. Don |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:49 PM (#623104) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Anglo I believe Bill is still president, or something like that, of the Cornell folksong society. I don't remember Bottle Hill living anywhere near Ithaca, Don, they were Jersey boys. Highwoods certainly did though, also Country Cooking with Peter Wernick. Howie Bursen was at Cornell for 6 years as a student in the 6-yr Ph.D. program. And for yet more banjo there was Ken Perlman. |
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08 Jan 02 - 05:51 PM (#623691) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Bill was certainly going strong in 1999 (or was it 2000?), one snowy, blowy winter night when last I was invited by the Folklore group there at Cornell. We had SRO- lively and friendly folks. Just a lovely place to play and sing. Bill was in charge and in top form. Maybe too busy now to travel about the country much... Jean |
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08 Jan 02 - 05:52 PM (#623694) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Joe O: Sorry- the old "Website not responding" fooled me again. Delete one, please? |
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09 Jan 02 - 01:28 AM (#623940) Subject: RE: BS: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Sandy Paton We saw Bill the last time we played on "Bound for Glory," the long-running coffee-house radio show that Phil Shapiro hosts at Cornell. Bill's very active locally, as kytrad has told you. Some of you may remember when Howie Mitchell and Peter Yarrow were at Cornell. Peter even sang some demonstration songs for Thompson's folklore class. As for Howie Bursen, he got his PhD in Philosophy, then found he didn't care for teaching, but loved to make wine. He's now married to Sally Rogers, runs a winery in Connecticut and makes lots of music. That's true upward mobility! Sandy |
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29 Aug 17 - 11:28 PM (#3874244) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: GUEST,David Usher Nice to hear he is probably doing OK. He was a favorite at Fox Hollow. Dr. Jekyll's Cola got a lot of nervous titters from the audience. I do it occasionally at private parties -- it is hilariously true commentary on the loaded generation that was the hippie movement. |
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20 Mar 18 - 05:12 PM (#3912121) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: GUEST,David Usher He is not traveling any more. He put his albums up for free on a website. You can enjoy them and contact him at http://billsteelesongs.com/ I will never forget him doing Dr. Jeckyll's Cola and Henry Smith's Memorial Granite Block at Fox Hollow. I occasionally do the Dr. Jeckyll tune for appropriate audiences mostly late night campfire jams. |
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21 Mar 18 - 06:57 PM (#3912367) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: GUEST Bill's a good guy. I've had several good evenings at Cornell FSS while he's been in charge. |
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23 Mar 18 - 09:09 AM (#3912672) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Brian Peters Oops, above Guest was me. Didn't realise I wasn't logged in. |
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23 Mar 18 - 09:30 AM (#3912675) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: Felipa I remember Bill (and most of the other people mentioned in this discussion) from Ithaca, but I didn't know he had some fame beyond the Finger Lakes. |
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05 Jun 18 - 12:26 PM (#3929300) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: GUEST,Ron Small I found the Billsteelesongs website. Total nostalgia to here Dr. Jekyll's Cola again. Now finding the website blocked. I hope it's temporary. I can only find snippets, and partial lyrics anywhere else. |
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06 Jun 18 - 09:26 PM (#3929560) Subject: RE: Whatever became of Bill Steele From: open mike never hear this before!! http://billsteelesongs.com/songpages/Jekyll.html only for special audiences D. Jekyll's Cola |