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Who is Blue?

Blue Morris is a guitar player, composer, and bandleader of the Blue Morris 6 Swing Band and Pink Flamingo Burlesque, a variety show with burlesque dancing set to live music. He lives in Vancouver.

Watermelon Man at the Lusty Latin Luau
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Pink Flamingo Burlesque perform "Watermelon Man" at the 'Lusty Latin Luau' show at the Biltmore in Vancouver, November 2008.

 
The Love Boat at the Lusty Latin Luau
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Pink Flamingo Burlesque perform "Love Boat" at the 'Lusty Latin Luau' show November 2008.

This video features Evil Bastard singing 'Love Boat' and then introducing the show. Filmed from the audience by Greg McKinnon.

 
LIFE magazine photos released though Google
Music and Jazz
Thursday, 20 November 2008

LIFE Magazine photo of Folie Bergeres dancerThanks to the Burlesque Daily blog I learned that LIFE Magazine has just released millions of photographs from the LIFE archives to Google:

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

The LIFE archives can be searched from the main LIFE/Google Webpage. If you search for "burlesque" you'll get 77 great images from the past. This includes photos of June St. Clair demonstrating "how to undress before your husband at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing."

Or try searching "jazz" and you'll get some 200 images, most of which have never been published before. Some of the first photos that show up in that search are from the Jazz At the Philharmonic series of concerts.

 
Live at the Penthouse Dec 14!
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Monday, 17 November 2008

Pink Flamingo Burlesque at the Penthouse

The next Pink Flamingo Burlesque show will be live at the Penthouse! Originally the Penthouse was one of Vancouver hottest Supper Clubs attracting celebrities and stars from around the world. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, the Mills Brothers & Harry Belafonte were regulars on the stage entertaining crowds nightly.

We're thrilled to have the opportunity to put on a classic burlesque show in this most classic venue.

Advance tickets are for sale on my website: www.bluemorris.com/tickets. Advance tickets are $12 and tickets at the door will be $15.

The show will feature:

* Shaboobie Boobarella
* The Starlet Harlots!
* MC Evil Bastard
* Valentina Virago
* Live music
* Period costumes
* Comedy and theatrics
* Glitter, sparkles, fun and sexiness!

 
Who is Blind Joe Death?
Music and Jazz
Friday, 10 October 2008

Blind Joe Death album coverIn 1959 an album was released with one of the simplest cover art ever published, next to perhaps the White Album. On one side it read "Blind Joe Death." On the other side was printed only "John Fahey." Only 95 copies of the LP were pressed. There were no liner notes and no obvious credits given to the musician playing the music. And it's arguably one of the greatest solo guitar albums ever recorded.

John Fahey was a guitarist and avid record collector. In his collection Fahey had a scratched old 78 RPM record from 1927 of a song called "John Henry" by a man called "Blind Joe Death." It is Blind Joe Death's only known recording and it's quite possible the recording was never actually released because it is not listed in the Paramount label's catalogue.

That old 78 record was so influential to John Fahey that in 1959 he released his own album under that name: the cryptically titled album with only the words "Blind Joe Death" on the cover. That album has since garnered such a cult following that the name "Blind Joe Death" is more often thought to be John Fahey himself....

 
Shakin' the Salt Video
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Friday, 03 October 2008

The Vancouver City Limits New Music Review featured one of my bands, Leonard and the Lab Rats about a month ago. City Limits regularly tapes their shows and they posted this video of Leonard's original song, "Shakin' the Salt."

 
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