Fugging With You Dept.
Isle O'Foam© House Band The Fugs hit the big time with these albums. After guesting on The Andy Williams Show (and typically refusing a regular spot) they played a record-breaking four month residency at Las Vegas playground of the stars, The Sands. They backed Billy Graham on his nation-wide tent crusade and played at the White House wedding of Lyndon Johnson's daughter, Thelma-Louise.
On Tenderness Junction, they pay tribute to C&W legend Jim Reeves (premiering the album at The Grand Ol' Opry to a rapturous reception), and their version of Christmas Country Carol stayed at the top of the Billboard pop and country charts well into February.
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest saw them performing at Carnegie Hall with the Jewish National Symphony Orchestra helmed by Leonard Bernstein, who went on to compose his Mass In Fug Minor in their honor.
Sadly, their retirement from show business and well-publicized retreat to the Fug Yurt high in the Nepal foothills to re-align their chakras lost their momentum and the fickle public's interest. They are currently house band at the Tiki Hut here on th' Isle O'Foam©.
You want?
ReplyDeleteNo thanks. I preferred their earlier canon before they went all commercial and sucked up to the Man
ReplyDeleteHarsh.
DeleteWith all due respect to the early canon, I adore the songs on "It Crawled Into My Hand", and yet I've never listened to "Tenderness Junction", so my answer is YES, and again (for emphasis) YESYESYES -- I want.
ReplyDeleteAs a public service, UbuWeb has made available issues of Ed Sanders' poetry magazine, "Fuck You: A Magazine Of The Arts". It too became a massive global success. Sanders became a multimedia star, and was persuaded by newfound pals like Frank and Dino to adapt the title to the more genteel and pastoral "Fug Yurt: A Magazine of Architecture".
https://www.ubu.com/vp/FuckYou.html
WoWoWoWoW! "Fuck You - A Magazine Of The Arts"???? That's a must-have item! Thank you!
DeleteI'll up th' yalbums just as soon as this gas attack passes.
https://workupload.com/file/hrnL4N2f8Zf
DeleteSome Ed Sanders albums here: https://we.tl/t-GwaBpEdyN5
Delete1969 - Sanders' TruckStop
1973 - Beer Cans On The Moon
1990 - Songs In Ancient Greek
1996 - American Bard
Nowadays, one wouldn't get away with his riff on Melvin Laird on The ABM Machine without having your ass sued or banned from social media
Buried treasure courtesy JJWombat - a great find! Thank you.
Deletecan kinda thank the Fugs for the Firesign Theater, Peter Bergman got kicked off the radio for playing "Johnny Pissoff''and had to find another outlet for the stuff in his head
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a story I never heard. "Johnny Pissoff" is a song worth getting fired over. Thank you, Fugs!
DeleteI remember hanging out stage side with Zubin Mehta at that Carnegie Hall show. We were all hopped up on tar heroin and crack cocaine. Demz wuz da daze.
ReplyDeleteDude, you got zonked with the Zube??? I mean, I've done poppers with Arthur Fiedler at a Boston bathhouse -- but who hasn't, amirite? Artie loved to party!
DeleteLeonard Bernzedrine, as he was known, used to get hopped to the gills before mounting th' podium.
DeleteThanks, Farq, jonder, and JJWombat!
ReplyDeleteOK, even though none of youse bums actually asked for it, here are Tuli Kupferberg's 'No Deposit No Return (An Evening of Pop Poetry with Tuli Kupferberg)' from 1966 plus Jeffrey Lewis and the Deposit Returners' 'Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)' from 2018: https://we.tl/t-GJfbDV9yuS
ReplyDeleteWe didn't ask cuz we didn't know you was holdin, JJ! You're a man among men, a wombat among wombats, a real mensch. A sheinem dank!
DeleteWhat else you got there, JJ? We can do this the easy way or your way. Empty your pockets.
Delete1964's The Holy Modal Rounders
Delete1965's Fugs First Album ("The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction")
1966's Fugs Second Album
Herewith https://we.tl/t-MP0qx0gT90
Dere ain't no more! (unless you want later albums)
Thanks, JJ! Fugs FoamFeatured Antecedently, but not sure if links are still working.
DeleteI have The Belle Of Avenue A and Golden Filth, which I'll feature later, but not Virgin Fugs, which is unobtainium on the internet, as far as I can see. Anybody gots?
Virgin Fugs obtained https://we.tl/t-szNDv7sY5E
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DeleteThanks Farquhar for this two FUGS albums.
ReplyDeleteI stayed on the 1st esp album in 1968/1969 but it was too crazy for my then musical culture . But it was long before I listened to Albert Ayler, coltrane and Sun Ra, Long before the section 43 of country joe and the wind of circus maximus arrive at this open garden.
Wandering around the internet today I found these remembrances of Tuli:
ReplyDeletehttps://pleasekillme.com/tuli-kupferberg/
Shameless plug. When I was about to put Music Around the World project to bed, I returned finally to the ole USofA. Most everything Fugworthy can be found. https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2013/11/united-states.html
ReplyDeleteLive from the 60s & Outtakes & Alternate cuts from Electromagnetic Steamboat. Plus a damn fine read if I do say so myself.
Thank you, Nathan! Big fan of your work.
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