Daibhid James

A Silent Sundays Happy 130th Birthday To the stunning Barbara La Marr, AKA "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful". One of the wilder Flappers she drank, did lots of coke, married 4 or 5 times (one not legal) and bragged that she only slept three hours a night making films with titles like "The White Moth", "Flame Of Youth", "Land Of Jazz", "Souls For Sale" & "Heart Of A Siren". She was no bimbo though, she actually started out as a writer until Mary Pickford said she was "Too Beautiful" not to be a star. She slowed down her party girl ways a bit after becoming a mother but died of tuberculosis and complications of too many diet pills aged 29 in 1926. A few of her films survive.

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1973 ~ The New York Paws;

RIP to Freddie Cannon;

Throwback Thursdays Charts ~ July 1985 CFRU; REM, OMD, Talking Heads, The Fall, Sonics, Sonic Youth, ? & the Mysterions, Nick Cave, Nico, Kate Bush, Stewart Copeland, Jonathan Richmond, Screaming Tribesman, Guadalcanal Diary, Lime Spiders, UB-40, Celibate Rifles, Jazz Butcher, Woodentops, Kid Creole, Hugh Masakela, Gregory Issacs, Cancon from Handsome Neds, Deja Voodoo, Living Proof, Hype, Satellites, Tulpa;

RIP to Class Assassins singer Chad Nugent;

CIUT onair at 5 w/Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets, Dave Edmunds, Rockpile, The Chieftones, Swinging Canadians, Glass Cage, Tuuli, Sinisters & stuff;

Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Sara Carter (1898) & Screaming Jay Hawkins (1929);

Silent Sundays Happy Birthdays to two Sirens of Silent Horror; Lyda Salmonova (1889) of "Der Golem" & "The Student Of Prague" and Mary Philbin (1902) of "The Phantom Of The Opera" & "The Man Who Laughs". Lyda would marry co-star & director Paul Wegner, in fact she married him twice, outliving him & dying in 1967. Meanwhile Mary's career petered out with talkies and she retired, never married and became a recluse dying in 1993.

RIP to Jennifer Finch of L7. They had recently announced they had to cancel a tour due to illness;

Throwback Thursdays Charts - July 1986 KSDT La Jolla California. The Smiths, Smithereens, The Fall, Mission, Descendants, Agent Orange, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Butthole Surfers, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, Mekons, Pussy Galore, Felt, Durutti Column, Scratch Acid, Die Kruzen, Live Skull, Agnostic Front, Wipers, Jazz Butcher, Residents, Frank Tovey, Bob Marley, Black Uhuru, Run DMC, Afrika Bambatta, Cancon from Strum Group & 54-40. The artwork is from the cover of Visage's first album;

CIUT onair at 5; Some Velvet Underground & VU covers w/The Scenics, Modernettes, Cowboy Junkies, Raving Mojos. Primitives, Surf Riders, John Borra, Kirby Sewell & stuff;

RIP to Joe Melson, singer and songwriting partner with Roy Orbison on "Only The Lonely" & "Crying";

Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Blind Boy Fuller (1907) & Louis Jordan (1908).

Silent Sundays Happy 116th Birthday To Sally Blane seen here looking cool at the beach with pals Louise Brooks & Nancy Philips. Blane appeared in over 100 films but mostly low budget or in supporting roles (including in a Valentino film), she also had an affair with singer Russ Columbo. Real name Elizabeth Young and her sisters were actresses Loretta Young, Polly Ann and Georgina Young. Maye she should have kept the name. Note Louise is wearing heels, I don't get the feeling she spent a lot of time at the beach

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1978; The Talking Kitties.