Tag Archives: dick curtiss

kjr super car: horrible crippling of laughter

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) you can keep yer oscar meyer wienermobile and your pope-moblie and yer batmobile, too. when it comes to mighty advertising novelty cars, the northwest corner of these united states had the mightiest baddest ‘mobile’ of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged batmobile, dick curtis, dick curtiss, ian roberts kjr radio, james brown boeing, Jimi Hendrix, KJR freeway super car, KJR Super car, oscar meyer wienermobile, pat o'day, pope-mobile, seattle seafair torchlight parade, spanish castle ballroom, The Kinks, the ventures, The Who | Leave a comment

all that jazz

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) AN old friend and client (and fellow rocket alum), paul de barros, wrote a wonderful book on the history of the jazz scene in seattle. it is titled “jackson street: after hours” and chronicled the history … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged art chantry, dave lewis trio, dick curtiss, ella mae morse, ernestine anderson, jelly roll morton seattle rag, Jimi Hendrix, mildred bailey, pat o'day, paul de barros, Quincy Jones, ray charles | Leave a comment

before good fun became a commodity

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dave

before the big corporate money began pouring its cold soul into popular music culture…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Before there was Rolling Stone magazine, before we had ‘rock critics’, before we had ‘genres’ of rock music, there was only radio. They … Continue reading →