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  Profile: Lord Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Buckley was tap-dancing on the bar, as all the fur coats began to burn.
Buckley was something of a conman, too, not necessarily driven by avarice or dishonesty, but just because he’d always be on the cadge; his lowly stage earnings not nearly enough to support the hedonistic lifestyle of booze and drugs he lived.
Buckley’s career was cut short on October 19, 1960, when he lost his cabaret card – the document issued by the New York Police that determined who was a fit person to take to the stage in the land of free speech.
www.chortle.co.uk /standup/sufeatures/buckley.php   (1090 words)

  
 Lord Buckley rides again! - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Buckley is mentioned, it gets one of two standard responses.
Lord Buckley: the picaresque pill-popping darling of Al Capone...
Lord Buckley: the original viper, the Hall of Fame Hipster, the baddest Beatnik, the first flower child, the premier rapper...
dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2002/06/26/buckley/print.html   (555 words)

  
 Lord Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Buckley did not really have anything to do with music.
When he tells the rhythm, the noises, the different voices, all come to live as one brooding living monster, undangerous,  like a monster from a Punch-and-Judy show, but as alive to us listeners as a monster in a puppet-show is alive for children.
It was Buckley's riff on the crucifixion of Jesus (the Nazarene).
singersong.homestead.com /LordBuckley.html   (462 words)

  
 Bob Dylan Who's Who
Lord Buckley was a Calypso singer/monologist who was popular with the sort of "hip" bohemian crowd within which Dylan found himself in Greenwich Village in t he the very early 60's.
Lord Buckley's style is difficult to categorize: sort of "Carribean Rap" before its time.
Lord Buckley would still have been a topic of conversation in the circles in which Bob Dylan moved when he arrived in New York City...
www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/b/buckleylord.html   (905 words)

  
 Lord Buckley
Buckley assumed the manner of an English nobleman, becoming a most immaculately hip aristocrat with a mischievous Holy Man/trickster twinkle in his eyes, twirling his Daliesque mustache and sleekly drawing on his de rigueur Lucky Strike--his massive, graceful frame cloaked in a tuxedo, a fresh carnation attached smartly to the lapel.
Buckley was dragged from the stage of the Jazz Gallery in late October by several of New York's Finest because of an alleged cabaret card violation, an antiquated statute that prevented not only performers but all restaurant and club employees from working if they had a police record.
Lord Buckley boldly crossed the ill-defined frontier from icon to myth, taking the language of his art and investing it with new intensity, color and consequence.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/7923/lordb.html   (1451 words)

  
 Lord Richard Buckley, Lord Buckley the hipster
Lord Buckley applied these principles.) She was followed by his Lordship, who was very regal even without his fl tie and tails.
Lord Buckley was a frequent visitor at Frank's home and the Vagabond Club in Miami, Florida.
Ever the nomad, Buckley and his family moved to San Francisco in 1960, where he took up residency at clubs like the Hungry i and the Purple Onion; a performance at Oakland's Gold Nugget formed the basis of the 1970 release The Bad Rapping of the Marquis de Sade.
parsec-santa.com /celebrity/celeb_pages/Lord_Buckley.htm   (1907 words)

  
 Cosmik Debris Magazine Presents: Lord Buckley, October 2002
Buckley was not only a great verbal gymnast, he was somebody whose sheer force of personality begged notice.
Buckley inspired a cult that continued on even after he shook off this mortal coil in 1960.
Buckley was never afraid of the darkest aspects of humanity.
www.cosmik.com /aa-october02/buckley.html   (1079 words)

  
 Ruminator » Lord Buckley’s Last Laugh
Buckley was practicing his art in the 1930s and 40s, but he didn’t have a platform for national recognition, as Jack Benny did with his radio show and Bob Hope with his movies.
Buckley’s climb to being one of the most creative forerunners of this new breed of comedians was a long one.
A group of Buckley admirers formed a committee to get the police to rescind their suspension of him, but the turmoil got the better of him, and he died—most likely of a stroke—in November 1960.
www.ruminator.com /?p=134   (2044 words)

  
 Salon.com People | Lord Buckley rides again!
The more frequent response is, "Lord Buckley -- who's he?" It's that reaction that makes the existence of Trager's book and the attention it's getting -- it will be featured on NPR's "Morning Edition" on Friday, June 28 -- slightly miraculous.
In the mid-'50s, as Beat culture and Buckley's metamorphosis took hold simultaneously, he became as well known to a certain sector of the population for his abundant eccentricities as for his rhapsodic and transcendent storytelling.
Many Buckley fans point to one of his most frequently quoted remarks to make a case for his being a precursor to the evangelizing for tolerance, equality and the power of love that became such a force in the youth movement of the 1960s.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2002/06/26/buckley/print.html?pn=2   (1802 words)

  
 His Majesty the Policeman by Lord Buckley: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This is arguably the best of the Lord Buckley recordings to have made the transition from vinyl to CD.
Buckley's unique brand of storytelling incorporates references to the burgeoning beatnik counterculture into his already Bunyan-esque tall tales.
The fluidity of Buckley's delivery is likewise enhanced by his inimitable ability to verbally improvise with a feline-like sense of timing and precision.
www.mp3.com /tracks/714901/reviews.html   (143 words)

  
 A Chronology : Lord Buckley
Richard Myrle Buckley born, weight: 14 lbs, in Tuolumne, California, son of William Buckley, originally of Manchester, England, and Annie Laurie Bone Buckley, whose parents had imigrated to Seatle from Cornwall, England.
Lord Buckley dies in New York City after suffering a stroke aggravated by malnutrition and a kidney ailment.
Memorial for Lord Buckley at The Village Gate in New York City is attended by many cultural luminaries.
homepage.mac.com /tedgoranson/BeatlesArchives/Buckleyroutines/Lord_Buckley/A_Chronology37.html   (417 words)

  
 Educational CyberPlayGround: Database of Information for The Arts
Lord Buckley: A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat, Straight Records, (compiled by Frank Zappa), The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade, Governor Slugwell, The Raven, The Train, The Hip Einie (Still available, now on Compact Disk, released in 1992 and named by Tower Records' "Best Comedy CD of the Year.")
April 5, 1906 Richard Myrle Buckley born, weight: 14 lbs, in Tuolumne, California, son of William Buckley, originally of Manchester, England, and Annie Laurie Bone Buckley, whose parents had immigrated to Seatle from Cornwall, England.
The Lord Buckley spot on NPR's Morning Edition Morning Edition, July 1, 2002 · Lord Buckley could be described as a jazz monologist and comic known for retelling biblical and classical tales in beat lingo.
www.edu-cyberpg.com /Arts/resources2lordbuckley.html   (1013 words)

  
 On the enigmatic Lord Buckley's trail / '50s hipster monologist left his mark on the Beats and hippies
The Life and Art of Lord Buckley." But his influence on several generations of the counterculture is evident.
Many of the details of Buckley's life were not exactly forthcoming, said the author, who wrote the Grateful Dead encyclopedia "The American Book of the Dead" and is working on a similar resource about Bob Dylan.
Buckley did not live to see the flowering of the hippies, but it's safe to assume he would have relished it.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/09/DD183829.DTL   (830 words)

  
 Lord Buckley's Mind Bubbles: Table of Contents
These texts were transcribed from recorded performances by Richard "Lord" Buckley.
They are for the enjoyment, research, and delectation of all who have come to know and love his work and the enlightenment of those who have never heard it.
All cats and kitties who are blown away by this material are encouraged to perform it, share it, download it, post it, make it known to the not-yet-hip, but hungry, masses.
www.columbia.edu /~tdk3/buckley.html   (189 words)

  
 Lord Buckley, pg. 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
"Lord Buckley was that rare breed of artist," Trager continued, "who got to live his art when the stage lights dimmed.
"Lord Buckley was that rare breed of artist who got to live his art when the stage lights dimmed.
Suddenly Buckley comes out, but he's unprepared, see, so he goes through this whole Svengali-like double-talk routine, 'When is a flame not a flame?' and 'What you see is not what you really see.' He's vamping.
www.salon.com /02dec1995/columns/cruickshank3.html   (505 words)

  
 Hipster Saint Lord Buckley
If the coolest one can be is fashioning an accurate expression of what's inside, then Buckley was easily, to borrow a phrase from him, one of "the wildest, grooviest, hippest, swingin'-est, double-frantic, maddest, most exquisite" cats that ever breathed.
Buckley shouts, whispers, wails like an evangelist wired to a generator, stomps through the tale (there is no way to repeat or paraphrase his explication of Einstein's theory--you have to be there) and finally winds down.
Buckley's personal (and sometimes highly public) life was a true trip itself.
www.catalog-of-cool.com /buckley.html   (1202 words)

  
 FIREZINE #3: Lord Buckley
DAVID OSSMAN: Lord Buckley was the biggest and baddest hip-talking white man ever.
In fact, I was much more influenced by Lord Buckley, than I was by Lenny Bruce, for example.
In fact, I had a rare tape of Buckley that someone had passed to me that I played on the Oz show, which got lost, a tape of Buckley riffing with some friends about being the Angel of Death going through a train crash.
www.firezine.net /issue3/fz3_09.htm   (923 words)

  
 Police Interview : Lord Buckley
Humes transcribed the interview and gave it to attorney Maxwell T. Cohen when he engaged him to represent Buckley at the hearing that was scheduled for November 3, 1960.
Humes: I'm a friend of Lord Buckley's, and I was just curious to know why people come around and pick up his Card without giving him any reason.
Humes: (to Buckley): Is this the case you told me about fifteen years ago.
homepage.mac.com /tedgoranson/BeatlesArchives/Buckleyroutines/Lord_Buckley/Police_Interview3.html   (1683 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: LORD BUCKLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Buckley's subjects are Christ, Gandhi, Nero and Julius Caesar.
Fans of Lord Buckley...Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Lenny Bruce, Robin Williams, Bill Cosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman, Dylan, Sinatra etc., Lord Buckley has a legion of followers in Britain and America especially where his life has been as seriously documented as any classical artist.
Those same followers of Lord Buckley are celebrating the artist's centenary.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/lord.buckley.html   (127 words)

  
 Lord Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
New York writer Oliver Trager has put together the definitive oral biography of the great and singular Lord Buckley, entitled "Stompin' the Sweet Swingin' Sphere." Now, if some publisher will kindly wake up and smell the decaffeinated double latte, maybe we'll get to read it one day soon.
Lord Buckley, who died in 1960, was a comedian who didn't tell jokes, a storyteller who treated words as music and ideas as Ping-Pong balls, a poet who worked nightclubs.
For years, he appeared as Dick Buckley, doing a melange of shticks until, in the 1950s, he began to use in his performance the stories he'd been telling at parties and backstage.
www.salon.com /02dec1995/columns/cruickshank.html   (148 words)

  
 Jazz News: His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley in The Zam Zam Room
His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley in The Zam Zam Room is a fizzy cocktail of style and substance, featuring “the hippest stories in storydom” backed by a live jazz band.
Lord Buckley single-handedly brought “Hip Semantic” into the mainstream in the 1950s.
One of the most influential figures of American counter-culture, Lord Buckley inspired a host of visionary performers, including Lenny Bruce, Robin Williams, Richard Prior, as well as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Thelonious Monk and Frank Sinatra.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=7914   (653 words)

  
 Amazon.com: His Royal Hipness: Music: Lord Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
If you haven't heard Lord Richard Buckley before, I don't really know how to explain to you who and what he was.
Plunging into Lord Buckley is like taking a leasurely swim through the mind of Jack Kerouac, or Sam Spade.
What makes it so enthralling is not humor, but the sheer delight of Buckley's wordplay, and his thorough knowledge and love for humanity and for his subjects.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003MT9?v=glance   (1058 words)

  
 Lord Buckley Reincarnation Ensemble
Jason Eisenberg's LORD BUCKLEY REINCARNATION ENSEMBLE re-creates the 1950s bebop oratory invented by Lord Richard Buckley, the visionary beat philosopher/comic and beforedaddy of 20th century spoken word performance.
Lord Buckley remains the undisputed King Of The Word Whammy according to his many adherents who acknowledge the influence of his inspirational model--such as Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, George Carlin, The Beatles, and Robin Williams.
The characters who inhabit Buckley's illuminating monologues personify an unbridled humanist ethic bordering on impossible optimism with a very hip twist--in startling counterpoint to the darker focus of some of his contemporaries in Beat literature and the arts during the 1940s and 1950s.
www.jackmagazine.com /issue7/lbe.html   (492 words)

  
 Lord Buckley Reincarnation Project
Lord Buckley Reincarnation Ensemble will be the first humans to set foot
Lord Buckley's WORD will come a-ranting, raving, and filling all heads
Buckley remains the undisputed King of the Word Whammy
wesingfire.tripod.com /iniusa/id15.html   (1198 words)

  
 MANCUNIAN ECCENTRICS - Lord Buckley
Lord Buckley was born in the little mining and lumber town of Tuolumne, California.
On 5th April 2006 at the Studio Theatre in Salford, a fine swinging gas of a time was had by a whole heap of cats and kitties - click somewhere on this sentence for a small snippet of CP's rendition of the Lord Buckley classic, Willie The Shake.
IMAGE BELOW IS OF CP LEE AS LORD BUCKLEY AT THE GALLERY, MANCHESTER IN 1982
www.itsahotun.com /Lord_Buckley.htm   (131 words)

  
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