Round Robin - I'm The Wolfman
Evil Dr. K says "If you are anything like me you can only imagine this playing in the lurid glow of Lux Interior and Poison Ivy's living room while they sip some obscure steaming cocktail from the sewed up, hollowed out pygmy heads they use as crystal. Round Robin, real name Lloyd Robin, but hey he was fat hence the pun, seems like an interesting character, a guy who bounced around the span of the sixties always doing something from rock n' roll, inventing brief dance crazes (The Slauson), novelty records, R&B, serious soul, Spanish language versions of standards for Mexican audiences, in fact pretty much anything to avoid a day job. You gotta admire guys like that who just stick in there."
Nina Simone - See-Line Woman
Evil Dr. K says "Another interesting character. As well as being an enigmatic performer well known for her championing of civil rights there was another side to the rather unstable Nina. She pulled more guns than the Sundance Kid and Phil Spector but together. When not attempting to murder record producers, she also held up shop assistants for refusing to refund returned goods and once shot her neighbours child with an air pistol for noisily playing in his garden while she composed - she served 8 months in a French jail as a result."
Jackie Wilson - Whispers
Evil Dr. K says "Well we may as well have a triumvirate of interesting characters. Having just sung the words 'my heart is crying' Jackie collapsed with a massive heart attack on stage in 1975. He slipped in and out comas and required serious medical care for the rest of his life before dying in the mid eighties at the young age of 49. Perhaps this is the reason that Jackie Wilson's legacy seems to have faded somewhat with the passing of years, today we think of Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding or James Brown rather than Jackie Wilson. However from the 50's to the 70's Wilson was a first rank star who had an amazing 50 chart hits. His personal life was also jammed with incident and I couldn't even begin to cover it here but if I said he once jumped out a 2nd storey window after a concert to avoid being arrested you'd have some idea. Shootings, assaulting police officers, arrests, prostitutes, multiple marriages, almost infinite affairs, a clan of illegitimate children, drugs, murders, tax evasion, bankruptcies, yep, pretty everything you'd need for the greatest TV movie ever."
_________________ He has arrived, the mountebank from Bohemia, he has arrived, preceded by his reputation. Evil Dr. K "The Jimmy McNulty of Payment Protection Insurance"
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