October 6, 2015

October 6, 2015

I decided that I should have an instrumental record in my collection.  I loved a lot of instrumentals during the 60s.  Remember Telstar, Classical Gas, Grazing in the Grass, Pipeline, Walk, Don’t Run, Green Onions, The Stripper, Taste of Honey, Yellow Bird, Hawaii Five-O and so many others.  I decided to do Green Onions.  I had a vision of a row of green onions in a chorus line doing a can-can.  I could not find fake green onions locally, but I saw a set of five on eBay and bought them.  When they came I was very disappointed.  They were papier-mâché—even the green stems which were bent and cracked.  They also had unattractive little strings hanging down like a strange beard.  So there will be no green onion chorus line—at least not for this show.  Then Sirius 60s played Baby Elephant Walk—a song that I had forgotten, by Henry Mancini.  So I made a 12” x 12” baby elephant scene.  I bet you have to play this recording when you come to the gallery, it is not one that we remember.