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"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895. The song was first published in 1911, and was first recorded in 1923 by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. A version by Lloyd Price reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.
The historical "Stagger Lee" was Lee Shelton, an African-American pimp living in St. Louis, Missouri in the late 19th century. He was nicknamed "Stag Lee" or "Stack Lee", with a variety of explanations being given for the moniker: he was given the nickname because he 'went "stag"', meaning he was without friends; he took the nickname from a well-known riverboat captain called "Stack Lee"; or, according to John and Alan Lomax, he took the name from a riverboat owned by the Lee family of Memphis called the Stack Lee, which was known for its on-board prostitution. He was well known locally as one of the "Macks", a group of pimps who demanded attention through their flashy clothing and appearance. In addition to these activities, he was the captain of a black "Four Hundred Club", a social club with a dubious reputation.
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its diverse output and ever-evolving line-up. Prior to this, he fronted the Birthday Party, one of the most extreme and confrontational post-punk bands of the early 1980s. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman, releasing its debut album the following year.
Referred to as rock music's "Prince of Darkness", Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.NME described him as "the grand lord of gothic lushness".
Cave has also worked as a composer for films, often in collaboration with fellow Australian musician Warren Ellis. Their films together include The Proposition (2005, based on a screenplay by Cave), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). Cave is the subject and co-writer of the semi-fictional "day in the life" documentary 20,000 Days on Earth (2014).
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) (/ˌhjuː ˈlɒri/), is an English actor, writer, director, musician, singer, comedian, and author. He first became known as one-half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster in the 1980s and 1990s.
From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild awards. Laurie was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode in House.
Laurie was born in Oxford. The youngest of four children, he has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (née Laidlaw). He notes that his mother "was Presbyterian by character, by mood" and that he was "a frustration to her... she didn't like me". His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band that was formed in Melbourne in 1983 by lead singer Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey and keyboardist Conway Savage (all four from Australia), keyboard/percussion player Barry Adamson and guitarist George Vjestica (both from the United Kingdom), and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). The band has released fifteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.
The band was founded after the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria, Australia. Deviating from the noise rock roots of their contemporaries, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have produced alternative rock that has been influenced by various genres, such as punk rock, gothic rock, no wave and blues. Their early material—From Her to Eternity (1984), The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Your Funeral... My Trial (1986) and Tender Prey (1988)—primarily featured a post-punk sound. The band has progressively incorporated other songwriting elements; for example, the 2008 release Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! experimented with garage rock, also an influence of the side project Grinderman. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work feature prominently on their newest album, Push the Sky Away (2013), recorded after the departure of Harvey in 2009.
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Ranging from quintet to septet, the band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, rock, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, space rock, for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams, and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band was ranked 57th in the issue The Greatest Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and their Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (May 8, 1977) was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
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Plot: Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.
Keywords: amazing-grace-the-hymn, box-office-flop, cameo, celebrity, character-name-in-title, director, fake-documentary, film-director, film-industry, film-producerMusic video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing Stagger Lee.
The first censored rock n roll record to be a n°1 hit
Exclusive web-only bonus track not included in television broadcast. Watch Austin City Limits on PBS. To find out when ACL is on in your area, visit: acltv.com/watch/tv-schedule/ to check your local listings.
Watch Hugh Laurie perform "Stagger Lee" from Ocean Way Studio's. Hugh Laurie's new album 'Didn't It Rain' is now available to purchase worldwide: http://smarturl.it/HughLaurie.DIR Follow Hugh Laurie on: Facebook: http://po.st/BGfRWE Twitter: http://po.st/THjf8N Website: http://po.st/i2k0PB
In My Opinion ; One Of the Best And Most Genuine Musical Pieces Ever Recorded. Mississippi John Was an Amazing Musician And Human Being.
Nick Cave Stagger Lee ● Glastonbury 2013 would make a great morning address [assembly] in any school around the world ... maybe what he had in mind ...
Grateful Dead - Stagger Lee Recorded Live: 12/31/1978 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA) More Grateful Dead at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com/ Subscribe to Music Vault on YouTube: http://goo.gl/DUzpUF
Music video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing Stagger Lee.
The first censored rock n roll record to be a n°1 hit
Exclusive web-only bonus track not included in television broadcast. Watch Austin City Limits on PBS. To find out when ACL is on in your area, visit: acltv.com/watch/tv-schedule/ to check your local listings.
Watch Hugh Laurie perform "Stagger Lee" from Ocean Way Studio's. Hugh Laurie's new album 'Didn't It Rain' is now available to purchase worldwide: http://smarturl.it/HughLaurie.DIR Follow Hugh Laurie on: Facebook: http://po.st/BGfRWE Twitter: http://po.st/THjf8N Website: http://po.st/i2k0PB
In My Opinion ; One Of the Best And Most Genuine Musical Pieces Ever Recorded. Mississippi John Was an Amazing Musician And Human Being.
Nick Cave Stagger Lee ● Glastonbury 2013 would make a great morning address [assembly] in any school around the world ... maybe what he had in mind ...
Grateful Dead - Stagger Lee Recorded Live: 12/31/1978 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA) More Grateful Dead at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com/ Subscribe to Music Vault on YouTube: http://goo.gl/DUzpUF
Aka Homegrown July 22. 2016 the "Stagger Lee" Special #40 Join us as we enjoy nine different artists telling the story of the famous bar room fight between Stack Lee and Billy! Aka Homegrown is a radio show from St Louis Missouri available now as a weekly podcast hosted by Phil Shaw, Doc Blooze , and Richie Darling. We focus on blues and specifically St Louis blues with a few others thrown in for good context. If you are a local musician seeking airplay, or have any questions please contact us at akahomegrown@gmail.com Check out our slide show, it changes each episode! Sit back, relax and enjoy yourself. Smokin' the Blues in the Lou! Join us on Fac...
The Midnight Express vs Bill Watts & Stagger Lee 1984
SGWA, Southaven Mississippi, 6-19-2015
00:00:00 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire 00:01:53 - Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Good 00:04:34 - Bill Haley - Rock Around the Clock 00:06:46 - Adriano Celentano - 24.000 Baci 00:09:05 - Ritchie Valens - La Bamba 00:11:12 - The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pt. 1 & 2 00:15:41 - The Marvelettes - Please Mr Postman 00:18:11 - The Coasters - Down in Mexico 00:21:27 - The Miracles, Smokey Robinson - Shop Around 00:24:18 - Little Eva - The Loco-Motion 00:26:47 - The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie 00:28:48 - The Mar-Keys - Last Night 00:31:27 - Sam Cooke - (What a) Wonderful World 00:33:32 - Aretha Franklin - Won't Be Long 00:36:41 - The Crystals - He's a Rebel 00:39:07 - Chubby Checker - The Twist 00:41:40 - Dion - The Wanderer 00:44:29 - La Vern Baker - Jim Dandy 00:46:39 - The Chordettes ...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads 01 - Song of Joy 0:00 02 - Stagger Lee 6:48 03 - Henry Lee (featuring PJ Harvey) 12:03 04 - Lovely Creature 16:01 05 - Where the Wild Roses Grow 20:15 06 - The Curse of Millhaven 24:11 07 - The Kindness of Strangers 31:09 08 - Crow Jane 35:48 09 - O'Malley's Bar 40:03 10 - Death Is Not the End (Bob Dylan) 54:35 (1996) More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads
Recorded in Leipzig in June 2015. Vocals and guitar: Richard Limbert Piano: Bertolt Pohl Bass: Alexander Schmidt Drums: Justus Zürch 1. The Folk Is Comin' - 0:00 2. 1492 - 5:10 3. The Spark Is Setting Fire - 11:20 4. The Killer Of The Black Lagoon - 15:40 5. Moonshiner - 20:45 6. Die Band und Wortgefecht mit dem Bassisten - 25:58 7. At The End of the World - 27:37 8. Hang Me Higher - 33:05 9. You Make Me Blue - 37:17 10. St. James Infirmary - 42:26 11. Dr. Watson - 48:12 12. You Can Only Die Once - 53:05 13. Never Mine - 57:28
Mastered by Charlie Miller: SBD - Cm - ? - Dat - Prodif Plus - Samplitude v6.0 - CD SHNID# 96421
This is a blindrun video of the custom Portal 2 map "Cube Extraction" by Stagger Lee Map : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=250225145 Author : Stagger Lee Player : nintendo.erk
The night was clear and the moon was yellow
And the leaves came tumbling down
I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
He was barkin' at the two men who were gamblin' in the dark
It was Stagger Lee and Billy, two men who gambled late
Stagger Lee threw seven, Billy swore that he threw eight
Stagger Lee told Billy, "I can't let you go with that"
"You have won all my money and my brand new stetson hat"
Stagger Lee started off goin' down that railroad track
He said "I can't get you Billy but don't be here when I come back"
Stagger Lee went home and he got his forty-four
Said "I'm goin' to the barroom just to pay that debt I owe"
Stagger Lee went to the barroom and he stood across the barroom door
He said "Nobody move" and he pulled his forty-four
Stagger Lee shot Billy, oh he shot that poor boy so bad