#jumpingjackflash

2025-05-18

@Starcade Been a long time since I saw #JumpingJackFlash (1986) but it's among a group of #WhoopiGoldberg's early comedic work -- including #SisterAct (1992) & #Ghost (1990)-- that I liked.

She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Ghost but I think she deserved the Oscar for Best Actress in #TheColorPurple (1985) too.

2025-04-24

Ananda Shankar is the debut album by the Indian musician Ananda Shankar, the son of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of the Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar. It was released in 1970 on the Reprise record label. The album fuses Indian music with Western rock and electronic music, and was among the first works in the rock genre by an Indian musician. Consisting mainly of instrumental recordings featuring sitar and Moog synthesizer..

Ananda Shankar followed a series of sitar-based releases by artists hoping to capitalise on the mid-1960s raga rock trend. Initially conceived as a collaboration with guitarist Jimi Hendrix, it was instead recorded in Los Angeles by Shankar with contributors such as synthesizer exponent Paul Lewinson... - Wikipedia

#anandashankar #sitar #ragarock #jumpingjackflash #moog

youtube.com/watch?v=BTji5FtkSk

2024-10-17

About your answer that I boosted, @CivilityFan, you mentioned . One day Keith Richards looked out his window and saw Jack, his gardener. Keith Richards said "Jumping Jack" and Mick Jagger immediately said "Flash" and they found the title of their next song, according to Keith Richards in his interesting autobiography: .

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