New News – Ringo Bites The Hand That Feeds

 Taken from www.uncut.co.uk

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has posted a video online, declaring that he will not autograph anything for fans as of next week citing that he “has to much to do”.

The musician who most recently caused a stir when promoting his contribution to the Liverpool 08 album saying that there was ‘nothing he missed about the city’ now says that all fan mail he receives will be “tossed”.

In the video, Starr says: “Please do not send fan mail to any address you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it’s gonna be tossed.”

“I’m warning you with peace and love I have too much to do” he added.

And just in case it wasn’t clear, he repeats: “No more fan mail and no objects to be signed. Nothing.”

Watch the video here at Ringo’s official website: ringostarr.com

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Neil Hefti Dies

 

Neal Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger.

He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. He became a prominent composer and arranger while playing trumpet for Woody Herman; while working for Herman he provided new arrangements for “Woodchopper’s Ball” and “Blowin’ Up a Storm,” and composed “The Good Earth” and “Wild Root.” After leaving Herman’s band in 1946, Hefti concentrated on arranging and composing, although he occasionally led his own bands. He is especially known for his charts for Count Basie such as “Li’l Darlin'” and “Cute”.

In the 1960s and later he composed and arranged mainly for movies and television. He wrote the background music for movies such as Sex and the Single Girl, How to Murder Your Wife, Synanon, Boeing Boeing, Harlow, Lord Love a Duck, Duel at Diablo, Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, and Barefoot in the Park.

His best-known contributions of this period are the themes for the TV series Batman and The Odd Couple.

 

Here is Link Wray’s famous version of “Batman” and a great version of “The Odd Couple” by Martin Taylor

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“The Odd Couple” – Martin Taylor