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John Riley (poet)
John Riley (1937–1978) was a poet who was associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Riley was born and grew up in Leeds. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1958 and then attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1961. He then worked as a teacher in various schools around the Cambridge area. During this period, he became acquainted with many of the poets who made up the Cambridge group, one of the key elements of the Revival.
He left to take up a teaching post near Oxford in 1966. That same year, he set up the Grosseteste Press with his friend Tim Longville. The pair started a magazine, Grosseteste Review, two years later. Riley retired from teaching in 1970 and returned to Leeds to write full-time. In 1977, he was received into the Orthodox Church. He was murdered near his home on the night of October 27–28, 1978.
Riley's poetry was influenced by Charles Olson and Osip Mandelshtam, whose poetry he translated into English. His first book, Ancient and Modern was published in 1967 and the posthumous The Collected Works in 1980. The latter includes the first full printing of his major long poem, Czargrad. A Selected Poems was published by Carcanet Press in 1995.
Jack Riley (American football)
John Horn Riley (June 13, 1909 – March 22, 1993) was an American football tackle in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
Early life
Riley was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, as well as St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin. While at St. Johns, he participated in rowing and captained a championship crew in 1927.
College career
Football
Riley attended and played college football at Northwestern University. While he was there, Northwestern had a 20-5-1 record and won two Big Ten Conference championships. He was named an All-American in 1931.
Wrestling
Riley also wrestled at Northwestern and was the national collegiate heavyweight champion in 1931 and 1932. He then won a silver medal in wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics, behind Swede Johan Richthoff and ahead of Austrian Nickolaus Hirschl.
Professional career
Odetta
Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time included her song "Take This Hammer" on its list of the All-Time 100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music."
Biography
Early life and career
Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, attended Belmont High School, and studied music at Los Angeles City College while employed as a domestic worker. She had operatic training from the age of 13. Her mother hoped she would follow Marian Anderson, but Odetta doubted a large black girl would ever perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Her first professional experience was in musical theater in 1944, as an ensemble member for four years with the Hollywood Turnabout Puppet Theatre, working alongside Elsa Lanchester. She later joined the national touring company of the musical Finian's Rainbow in 1949.
Odetta (1967 album)
Odetta is the 1967 album by Odetta. It is viewed as one of her most "commercial" (that is, aimed at mainstream audiences), but it has not subsequently been re-released on CD as many of her other albums were.
It should not be confused with other self-titled albums by Odetta on different labels: the 1963 compilation LP Odetta on the Everest label and 2003's Odetta which is actually the album To Ella.
Reception
Allmusic stated in their review that "She also acquits herself fairly well on cuts that strike a sort of funky lounge jazz mood, although those songs aren't memorable. Overall, it's a curiosity, not too embarrassing, but not matching her with the settings that suit her best."
Track listing
Side A:
Side B:
Odetta (1963 album)
Odetta is a 1963 compilation album by American folk singer Odetta. It is now out of print.
Odetta is the first official compilation of Odetta songs. It features songs from The Tin Angel, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, At the Gate of Horn and Odetta At Town Hall although not necessarily versions from those albums.
It had a poorer reputation than the above-mentioned original albums, being seen as thrown-together by the label. This LP has subsequently not been released on CD like those three albums. As a result, this album is rarer than most Odetta releases; the album is sometimes quoted as being released on "01-01-63", but this is probably not true, and rather a result of computer-automation on one music website which led to others quoting it as fact.
Track listing
Side A:
- "Oh, Freedom" (Traditional)
- "Come and Go with Me" (Traditional)
- "I'm on My Way'" (Traditional)
Podcasts:
Odetta
ALBUMS
- Gonna Let It Shine released: 2005
- The Tradition Masters released: 2002
- Odetta Sings Dylan released: 2000
- Absolutely the Best released: 2000
- My Eyes Have Seen released: 1994
- Christmas Spirituals released: 1988
- Odetta Sings released: 1970
- At Town Hall released: 1963
- Odetta and the Blues released: 1962
- Odetta at Carnegie Hall released: 1960
- At the Gate of Horn released: 1957
- Sings Ballads and Blues released: 1957
- Livin' With the Blues released:
- The Tin Angel released:
- The Tradition Masters, released:
- Best of the Vanguard Years released:
- Christmas Spirituals released:
- The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues released:
Gonna Let It Shine
Released 2005- Intro
- This Little Light of Mine
- Rise Up, Shepherd
- Mary Had a Baby
- What Month Was Jesus Born In
- Shout for Joy
- Virgin Mary Had One Son
- Down by the Riverside
- Poor Little Jesus
- Freedom Trilogy (Oh Freedom, Come and Go with Me, I’m on My Way)
- Somebody Talking ’Bout Jesus
- Keep on Moving It On
- O Jerusalem
- If Anybody Asks You
- Midnight Special
- Bonus: This Little Light of Mine
Absolutely the Best
Released 2000- Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole)
- Joshua
- Chilly Winds
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hand
- Take This Hammer
- Muleskinner Blues
- Another Man Done Gone
- Midnight Special
- Alabama Bound
- God's Gonna Cut You Down
- Glory, Glory
- Easy Rider
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Shame and Scandal
- 'Buked and Scorn
- Lowlands
- Pretty Horses
- Spiritual Trilogy: Oh Freedom / Come and Go With Me / I'm on My Way
At Town Hall
Released 1963- Let Me Ride
- The Fox
- Santy Anno
- Devilish Mary
- Another Man Done Gone
- Chidren's Trilogy
- He Had a Long Chain On
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Take This Hammer
- Ox Driver
- Hound Dog
- Carry It Back to Rosie
- What Month Was Jesus Born In?
- The Frozen Logger
- Timber
- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom / Come and Go With Me / I'm on My Way
Odetta at Carnegie Hall
Released 1960- If I Had a Hammer
- I'm Going Back to the Red Clay Country
- When I Was a Young Girl
- Gallows Pole
- God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
- John Riley
- John Henry
- Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Prettiest Train
- Meeting at the Building
- No More Auction Block for Me
- Hold On
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
Livin' With the Blues
- Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
- Mean and Evil
- Livin' With the Blues
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- House of the Rising Sun
- Empty Pocket Blues
- Fare-Thee-Well
- Rosie
- Special Delivery Blues
- Down on Me
- Another Man Done Gone
- Jumpin' Judy
- Timber
- Rambler Gambler
- Sail Away Ladies
- Midnight Special
- Rambling Round Your City
- Bald Headed Woman
- Ain't No Grave
- Roll On, Buddy
The Tin Angel
- John Henry
- Old Cotton Fields At Home
- The Frozen Logger
- Run, Come See Jerusalem
- Old Blue
- Water Boy
- Santy Ana
- I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing
- The Car-Car Song
- No More Cane On The Brazos
- Pay Day At Coal Creek
- I've Been 'Buked And I've Been Scorned
- Rock Island Line
- Another Man Don' Gone
- Children Go Where I Send Thee
- I Know Where I'm Going
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
- Timber
- Wade In The Water
Best of the Vanguard Years
- Midnight Special
- Cotton Fields
- Special Delivery Blues
- Rambling Round Your City
- Cool Water
- Down on Me
- I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain / Water Boy
- Saro Jane
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- If I Had a Hammer
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Meetin' at the Building
- No More Auction Block for Me
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- He Had a Long Chain On
- Another Man Done Gone
- He's Got the Whole World in his Hands
- Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
- Livin' with the Blues
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- House of the Rising Sun
Born: 1930-12-31
Died: 2008-12-02
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John Riley
by: Tim O'BrienJohn Riley came from Galway town in the years of the Irish hunger
And he sailed away to America when the country was much younger
Now the place was strange and work was scarce
And all he knew was farming
So he followed his other Irish friends to a job in the US Army
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory
Now they marched down Texas way to the banks of the Rio Grande
They built a fort on the banks above to taunt old Santa Anna
They were treated bad and paid worse, and then the fighting started
And the more they fought the less they thought of the damned old US Army
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory
Now when the church bells rang on Sunday morn, it set his soul a shiver
He saw the Senoritas washing their hair on the far side of the river
Then John Riley and two hundred more Irish mercenaries
And they cast their lot, right or not, south of the Rio Grande
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory
How they fought bravely under the flag of the San Patricios
Till the Yankees soldiers beat them down at the battle of Churubusco
Then fifteen men were whipped like mules
On the cheeks they were hot iron branded
Made to dig the graves of fifty more, who a hanging fate had handed
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory
Now John Riley stands and drinks alone at a bar in Vera Cruz
And he wonders if it matters much if you win or if you lose
"Well, I'm a man who can't go home, I'm a vagabond", says he
"I'm a victim of some wanderlust and divided loyalty"
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story
How some get drunk on demon rum and some get drunk on glory
Adventure calls and some men run, and this is their sad story