Frank Kogan

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Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated. https://koganbot.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@koganbot

Album cover The Chad Mitchell Trio Mighty Day On Campus (1961). Four young men in brown suit jackets and ties, relatively casual, stride across green grass w/ venerable collegiate clock tower in the back. The man on the right is carrying a banjo by a strap.
Grace Slick on American Bandstand 1967, photographed from neck up, dark nun's garb, dark hair, eyes hauntedly intense.
Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in the Godfather, artificially aged-and-saggy face, workmanlike mustache, black bow-tie and suit jacket, dark ambience but light through ornate window behind him.
A girl screams as student lies dead after National Guard open fire at Kent State University, Ohio, May 4, 1970. Body in foreground on street, young woman in neck kerchief, on knee behind the body, arms outstretched, screaming; another person standing next to her in bell-bottoms; students milling behind them, front & behind wire fence. Photo by John Filo, Valley Daily News, Tarentum, PA, May 5, 1970.
New York Dolls (album cover, 1973): B&W photo, gray bkgd, 5 men jammed together on white couch in heavy makeup wearing women's bargain-basement blouses and vinyl slacks, high platform heels, insolent looks.
K-pop star HyunA circa 2011, red nails and massive red hair, metal stud bracelet.
Page from orig Gutenberg Bible, 1454. Letters are ornate in that old-style way, and (I'm told) are in the Latin Vulgate. Abd there's a good looking large P in red with blue trim and what looks like hearts or spades or some crest cut out of its stem, though I suspect its type is not as movable as the surrounding text's.
Max Slevogt's Portrait Of The Dancer Anna Pavlova, 1904. Elegant young woman dances in low-cut blue dress, stretching expressively, yellow shawl dangling from left upper arm (her left). In back left (our left) is unoccupied chair draped w/ hat on chairback; on right a couple of workaday bkgd musicians; the mustached percussion (?) guy on far right wearing a flat expression.
Front cover of fanzine Why Music Still Sucks or Why "Why Music Sucks" Sucks w/ doodle-like drawing of prone man, arm across forehead, watching portable TV that is perched on his stomach, the words "the magazine for gushing pessimists" hand-written underneath.
Inner record label, Sound Of New York, Side Two, Indeep, 1. D.J. Delight, 2. Telephone Ringing (Sound Effect), 3. Screeching Tires (Sound Effect), 4. Flushing Toilet (Sound Effect) [This is the B-side of "Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life," though the picture doesn't tell you so.]
Orange band* across the top that says "Duophonic" in black letters w/ sideways double arrows in the middle of the o's. Beneath that "KINGSTON TRIO ENCORES" in red letters and beneath that "enhanced for stereo phonographs" (green letters except "stereo" is red, beneath that, photos of two previous album covers "...from the 'Hungry i'" and "The Kingston Trio" and I'm too lazey to describe them, then underneath that 12 song titles in columns of three each. *A "band" in the sense of a broad line or material (like a headband) as opposed to, say, a group of people engaged in a common purpose, such as musicians or thieves.
"The Ig Unbound: Some Of The Real Truth About Iggy Stooge," by John Mendelsohn, Entertainment World, May 29, 1970. This is the first page of a three-page article. Describes Iggy Pop's dangerously self-destructive behavior during a club performance; then the start of an interview where Iggy is personable and articulate.
Profile of mannequin head wearing wavy, bucket "fishing" hat
Young woman in black two-piece stands sideways with head facing up while right hand dangles hot yellow pepper directly above her mouth, as if she's about to eat it; album title "Electric Salsa" in pale yellow script is to the right in front of her, beneath that "Featuring Some Of The Greatest Latin Dance Hits Ever, Extended Versions By The Original Artists," beneath that in smaller letters are songs and band names, and beneath that is album subtitle "Hot Latin Dance Hits."
Young woman with flowing red hair, wearing print dress of psychedelic petals and flower, stands full-length in what seems like a gilded elevator, album title "Heavy Hits" and band names to her left.
Old record player with a record changer, a couple of 12-inch records on the top of the spindle, waiting to drop.
Scratched-up photo of the cover to the Kinks album Something Else, the title in slightly psychedelic lettering, "something else by the KINKS," and the four bandmates looking a bit formal and stiff, each a separate image in what looks like the parts of a pendant.
Grace Slick looking luminescently dark and intense in a nun's habit. Jorma Kaukonen calm in the bkgd, holding an electric guitar.
The Status Quo (a band), cover for their "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" single (yellow lettering), w/ "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe" (shocking pink lettering, presumably B-side), the 5 bandmates in colorful late 1960s' shirts (yellow, white, red, olive, pink), with slightly out-of-date mod haircuts, standing as a group, three of them with arms folded. Band name "the status quo" all lower case, grass-green lettering.
Movie poster, Night Moves. A detective license half submerged between sea and air, under the surface a swimming woman in flippers holding an undersea flashlight, Gene Hackman in lower foreground, mid 40s, wavy hair, mustache, a look of concern.
Windy (tuxedo cat in bkgd, in front of desktop screen) and Claudio (foreground, white-and-ginger cat); cords, compact disk, stacked papers, wall in bkgd. 14 Feb 2021.
Bella (a small dog) as Taylor Swift, in striking dress and western boot.
Bob Dylan, Playboy Interview 1966 with Nat Hentoff as straight man.
Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross, small motorboat, rough sea, sun's rays but dark storm bearing down
The Swinging World of Johnny Rios and the Us 4, Nuevo Boog-A-Loos (album cover, music staff and notes in the shape of a 4)
XG - XG Tape #4
Album cover Dread Locks Dread by Big Youth staring diagonally up and left with heavy beard and long dreadlocks, not surprisingly.