Reel 0837, 1963 March 16-17

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Note 1: "1963. #1 Sam Benedict, First program. 3-2?? Scottie and His Erienps. Washington Cultural center TV. program. Scottie and his Friends March 16 or 17 1963. Alfred Drake. Diahann. Carroll. Cornelia Otis Skinner. Dance - John Butler Group (Duke Ellington Music). Scene from Camino Real. Phyllis Curtin. Ossie Dais - Reading 4 points. Walter Butterpeak - Pianist (van clibourne Winner.) Article as by my beard will pre concept Knows."; Note 2: CD 1: Play. CD 2: Jamming. Sax and trumpet. Dan? CD 3, tr. 8, 3:48: In the loft. Smith: "Now if I've been up so long…exhaustion and drinking that I start seeing things I enjoy them…[laughter] Because when I've been up eight or nine days, um, I think nine days is the longest I've ever gone without sleep…Slipped on my face? Yeah, I've often slipped on my face from sheer exhaustion and passed out. That's different. But yeah in about nine days I often see these figures moving…"Tr. 11: Argument (maybe joking? Probably not) between Smith and another man. Man leaves yelling, "You ain't no good! You ain't no goddamn good!" over and over as his voice gets more distant. Smith laughs. CD 4: TV program about American performing arts, playing excerpts from musicals, dance performances, etc. Station not identified. Tr. 5: "In theater, American plays hold the stage around the world. Our playwrights in translation jostle the native artists for playing room in Paris, Berlin, Prague, Rome, Budapest, Moscow, and London. None more often than Tennessee Williams, represented here by a moment of compassion and beauty from Camino Real. Marguerite, having tried desperately to escape from the fantasy town, is comforted by Jack." [excerpt begins].(*The full one-act play, directed by Jaime Prades, aired 1/27/64 on "ITV Play of the Week." Smith recorded Capote's "The Grass Harp" off this program, but that could be a coincidence.); Note 3: Extra CDII 1. Sonny Clark and Smith in loft. "All Blues" tune talk and trumpet, sax riffs. Typing 2. talk and recording talk "record yourself, you ain't gonna record me right now." 3. "All Blues" typing, talk and playing "I ain't playing no more" Talk and typing, presumably Smith. 4. Humming tune and voice: "Wake up, you're sleeping, you are sleeping." "Sonny" and talk, including a Smith poem, quote? and terrible feedback "air raid air raid air raid..." CDIII 1. small talk "where's that, man" Smith: "South Carolina" "giving birth to a baby" (nurse midwife, Maude Callen?) 3. "was taken out the window, out here." "Charlie, wake up." 4. Lin, acouple of years ago" and records, Ladbelly, Billie Holliday, Carlie Parker, Miles, Dial records (all mentioned) 5. onging talk, Smith's vice 6. Smith on psychology 7. Talk, DT's, piano 8. Smith story then more feedback 9. "I used to have it wired from top to bottom...jam sessions."*** and "Hey, where the hell did you get that picture of Monk?" and "need a mic outside before the door opens." 10. talk 11. talk "Al" and more 12. cont'd 13. Jumps to Smith and Carole

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