Hi, I’m Hy.
Music & making film/videos have for the past 50 years been a or the focus of my being, hopefully after family.
This is so even though at the first forty of those years, I was a significant people’s nationwide trial lawyer. Think environmental law,
founder of the largest class action ever on the date it ( The Agent Orange/Dioxin Class action) was filed (date -article-caption fn).
As such I got the inventor of the first patent to edit video tape back his patent from his prior lawyer, winning the malpractice case in court in 196ish 70ish -date
…Marijuana… Croce, Kal Mann, Pedal Steel Guitar- Winnie Winston, Prine,Goodman, Fagan,…
The Story Behind LifeonVideotape.com
John price & Steve Goodman borrowed my 1/4 Akai video tape camera with Its attached via cord VCR at during a mid 1970s Phila Folk Festival. Steve brought it back to me after the weekend, showed me the tape, you can imagine the 2 attractive young ladies captured. Stevie returned them with the borrowed 1/4 b & w video tape, advising me to keep it as neither he nor John had a video recorder (VCR). A short time later He wrote The Song:
“Life On Video-tape” (LOV). Some time after that Steve performed the song on Austin City Limits, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOO0VdZxOI. Thereafter, in 1991 Soon to be emerita prof’r ,Sharon R. Sherman began her Folklore Article in …by quoting the lyrics to Steve’s Life On Video-tape.https://www.jstor.org/stable/1499397
SHARON R. SHERMAN is Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Oregon where she directed the Folklore Program for over twenty years. of Folklore at Origan)
1967 L Cohen – Suzanne through …
“Hallelujah” is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success,[1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale’s version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone‘s “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time“.
The song achieved widespread popularity after Cale’s version of it was featured in the 2001 film Shrek.[3][4] Many other arrangements have been performed in recordings and in concert, with more than 300 versions known as of 2008.[5] The song has been used in film and television soundtracks and televised talent contests. “Hallelujah” experienced renewed interest following Cohen’s death in November 2016 and re-appeared on international singles charts, including entering the American Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.[6]
1970
Jim Croce et al . Kal Mann ,Leonard Cohen
Jamaica
Greece
Alabama – Black Roots Festival
1980
Winnie Winstone Pedal Steel
Jamaica, Bat Cave & Red Salvation