{"id":62,"date":"2005-07-13T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=62"},"modified":"2005-07-13T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T08:04:00","slug":"the_crimson_canary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/07\/the_crimson_canary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crimson Canary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the cinema, Charlie Shoemake, lightning vibraharpist and late-night TV movie browser, sent a message after he read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/07\/a_blog_by_any_o.html\"target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s posting<\/a> about the name of our adventure in blogging.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Concerning the &#8220;Hollywood Stampede&#8217; session, tell your readers if (truly out of left field) they should stumble sometime in the wee hours of the morning across a 1945 &#8220;B&#8221; movie entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037623\/\"><em>The Crimson Canary<\/em><\/a> (Noah Beery Jr.) to grab onto it because they&#8217;ll see Coleman Hawkins, Howard McGhee, Oscar Pettiford, Sir Charles Thompson, and Denzil Best playing &#8220;Sweet Georgia Brown&#8221; (&#8220;Hollywood Stampede&#8221;). I had it on Beta tape years ago but now can&#8217;t find it, though I continue to search. The band sounds absolutely great and Pettiford, in particular, takes a classic solo. The plot of the movie has Noah Beery Jr. as a dixieland trumpet player on the lam for a murder he didn&#8217;t commit. While ducking the law, he pops into this club and who should be appearing&#8230;.you guessed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charlie isn&#8217;t the only one who can&#8217;t find <em>The Crimson Canary<\/em>. I did a deep-dive Google search through a dozen or more web retailers who brag about their stocks of hard-to-get films. No one offered it for sale on DVD, VHS, Beta or cellophane strips. (Does anyone but Charlie still have a Beta deck?) If you know where to find <em>The Crimson Canary<\/em>, tell us all, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the cinema, Charlie Shoemake, lightning vibraharpist and late-night TV movie browser, sent a message after he read yesterday&#8217;s posting about the name of our adventure in blogging. Concerning the &#8220;Hollywood Stampede&#8217; session, tell your readers if (truly out of left field) they should stumble sometime in the wee hours of the morning across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}