Monday, January 25, 2010

Bingo Gazingo: R.I.P.




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:

  1. Charles GramlichJanuary 25, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    sorry to hear that.

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  2. TotalfeckineejitJanuary 25, 2010 at 7:34 PM

    Bingo Gazingo? Now that's a NAME!And yes the two behind guys were upstaged.RIP Bingo.

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  3. Ed BakerJanuary 25, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    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!

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  4. Ed BakerJanuary 25, 2010 at 8:32 PM

    opps,

    I left something out... again...

    both these guys

    well

    priceless and national treasures!

    maybe even geniuses

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  5. Ed BakerJanuary 25, 2010 at 8:50 PM

    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

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  6. Issa's Untidy HutJanuary 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM

    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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