Friend and local novelist/poet Karen Lillis informed me last night of the death on January 1st of the NYC poet, Bingo Gazingo. Today, she sent along this YouTube video of Bingo's impromptu performance of the J-Lo song at the Astor Place subway station. The reaction of the street musician behind him says it all ...
Rest in peace, Bingo.
for the poor
there's not a spring
without blossoms!Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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6 comments:
sorry to hear that.
Bingo Gazingo? Now that's a NAME!And yes the two behind guys were upstaged.RIP Bingo.
that's some tremolando
there in..
I used to LOVE hanging in the tube.. the roaring by trains... music to the ears...
in the 50's used to take the train downtown to the automat...
once we looked up my grandmother's cousin the "crazy poet" Harvey Silver (Silvar, if you please)
both Bingo Gazingo (Murray Wachs) and Jack Micheline (Harvey Silver)
hit by a taxi on the way to the Bowery Poetry Club? (that still there?)
shit!
opps,
I left something out... again...
both these guys
well
priceless and national treasures!
maybe even geniuses
me again.
here is link to The Bowery Poetry Club..
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Home
http://lifejustbounces.blogspot.com/2010/01/rip-bingo-gazingo-1924-2010.html
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/77993
Ed, I had a feeling you would be able to knit this all together ... the Holman video on the Bowery Poetry Club site is fantastic ...
eejit ... beauty!
Charles, thanks.
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