VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[Otto]

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From: "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com>
To: "Pynchlist" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent


> From: Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent
>
>
> > "Mucho was one of the very first to audition, but not, he was later to
add
> > hastily, to call back, fledgling musician Charles Manson. He almost
signed
> > Wild Man Fischer, and Tiny Tim too, but others got to them first." (309)
> >
> > It's been Frank Zappa who'd got Wild Man Fischer first.
> > http://www.united-mutations.com/w/wild_man_fischer_evening.htm
> >
> > I'm no Tiny Tim expert so who's got him first?
> >
> Here's the skinny on Mucho's lost opportunity with Tiny Tim.
>
> "His big break came in August 1967, when Warner Bros. Records impresario
Mo
> Ostin discovered the tousled apparition trilling away at the Scene, and
> offered him a contract.
>
> "Tim was just the act 'Mr. Sinatra's Reprise Records' had been waiting
for.
> They ushered Tiny, carrying his uke in a brown paper bag, into the
> studio...."
>
> --from Irwin Chusid's book Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of
> Outsider Music (A Cappella Books, 2000), which includes chapters on Wild
Man
> Fischer as well as Tiny Tim
>
> d.
>
>

Thanks for clarification.

merry go, merry go, merry go round . . .

O.