Sandy Hurvitz - Revision history

Spider of Destiny: Died.

2023-12-13T17:40:18Z

Died.

Jason.Kreitzer at 13:19, 4 October 2021

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Spider of Destiny at 18:30, 23 September 2020

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Spider of Destiny: Added more info

2019-10-29T06:44:18Z

Added more info

Thomas279: FZ interview on album

2017-05-05T22:42:04Z

FZ interview on album

Spider of Destiny at 10:24, 26 August 2014

2014-08-26T10:24:57Z

Duncan: external link fix

2008-04-17T11:30:01Z

external link fix

Duncan at 08:29, 18 June 2007

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KillUglyRadio at 12:30, 20 September 2005

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 [[File:Sandy_Hurvitz_Money_cover.jpg|200px|right|Sandy Hurvitz on the album cover of "We're Only In It For The Money".]]
-[[Sandy Hurvitz|Sandra Elayne Hurvitz]] (Philadelphia, 23rd April 1948) was a singer and flautist for the Mothers.
+[[Sandy Hurvitz|Sandra Elayne Hurvitz]] (Philadelphia, 23rd April 1948 - 11 December 2023) was a singer and flautist for the Mothers.
 ==Biography==
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 [[Sandy Hurvitz]] changed her name to [[wikipedia:Essra Mohawk|Essra Mohawk]] in the early 1970's. She has released several albums under this name with some of her songs being recorded by other artists.
 ==Notes==

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 She recorded [http://www.duncanmoran.me.uk/ZWJ/theboywith.mp3 The Boy With The Way] / The Memory Of Your Voice (Liberty 55815 - 1964) as Jamie Carter at the age of 16.
-While in New York with a couple of friends from [[Los Angeles]] they recognised FZ in the street and he gave them free tickets to the [[Garrick Theater]] show. After a few days of hanging around the [[Garrick Theater]] Sandy was offered a job accompanying flautist [http://www.jeremysteig.info/index.html Jeremy Steig] who opened the early shows. When [[Don Preston]] was feeling ill FZ asked her to join [[The Mothers]] on keyboards.  She would sing duets with [[Ray Collins]] and it was he who came up with the name Uncle Meat. FZ liked the name and would introduce Sandy to the audience as Uncle Meat.
+While in New York with a couple of friends from [[Los Angeles]] they recognised FZ in the street and he gave them free tickets to the [[Garrick Theatre]] show. After a few days of hanging around the Garrick Theater Sandy was offered a job accompanying flautist [http://www.jeremysteig.info/index.html Jeremy Steig] who opened the early shows. When [[Don Preston]] was feeling ill FZ asked her to join [[The Mothers]] on keyboards.  She would sing duets with [[Ray Collins]] and it was he who came up with the name Uncle Meat. FZ liked the name and would introduce Sandy to the audience as Uncle Meat.
 <blockquote>
 ''"After a couple of months of it I said "Hey I really don't want to be Uncle Meat"! and Frank said "I'm sorry, but I must insist you are." And I said "Well excuse me. Here I thought you were Frank Zappa the wonderful musician and now I find out you're God and you're going to tell me who I am." So a few days went by and he said "Okay you don't have to be Uncle Meat. If you don't want to make money out of the name I will."''</blockquote>

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 ''"After a couple of months of it I said "Hey I really don't want to be Uncle Meat"! and Frank said "I'm sorry, but I must insist you are." And I said "Well excuse me. Here I thought you were Frank Zappa the wonderful musician and now I find out you're God and you're going to tell me who I am." So a few days went by and he said "Okay you don't have to be Uncle Meat. If you don't want to make money out of the name I will."''</blockquote>
-When FZ described his idea of a parody of [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper's]] for the cover of the next record Sandy suggested her ex boyfriend [[Cal Schenkel]] as the perfect person for such a project. She herself is also featured on the album cover (see image above).<ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/We%27re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money_Cover.html</ref>
+When FZ described his idea of a parody of [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper's]] for the cover of the next record Sandy suggested her ex boyfriend [[Cal Schenkel]] as the perfect person for such a project. She herself is also featured on the album cover (see image above).<ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/We%27re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money_Cover.html</ref>
 With the setting up of [[Bizarre Records]] FZ signed her up to record an album (Originally planned to be by Uncle Meat And The CIA) with [[The Mothers]] backing her.[[Image:Sandy hurvitz album.jpg|200x|right|Sandy Hurvitz - Sandy's Album Is Here At last]]

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 [[Category:Bandmembers|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
-[[Category:Musicians|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
+[[Category:Flautists|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
 [[Category:We're Only In It For the Money (The List)|Hurvitz, Sandy]]

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 [[Sandy Hurvitz|Sandra Elayne Hurvitz]] (Philadelphia, 23rd April 1948) was a singer and flautist for the Mothers.
-Recorded [http://www.duncanmoran.me.uk/ZWJ/theboywith.mp3 The Boy With The Way] / The Memory Of Your Voice (Liberty 55815 - 1964) as Jamie Carter at the age of 16.
+==Biography==
 While in New York with a couple of friends from [[Los Angeles]] they recognised FZ in the street and he gave them free tickets to the [[Garrick Theater]] show. After a few days of hanging around the [[Garrick Theater]] Sandy was offered a job accompanying flautist [http://www.jeremysteig.info/index.html Jeremy Steig] who opened the early shows. When [[Don Preston]] was feeling ill FZ asked her to join [[The Mothers]] on keyboards.  She would sing duets with [[Ray Collins]] and it was he who came up with the name Uncle Meat. FZ liked the name and would introduce Sandy to the audience as Uncle Meat.
 <blockquote>
-"After a couple of months of it I said "Hey I really don't want to be Uncle Meat"! and Frank said "I'm sorry, but I must insist you are." And I said "Well excuse me. Here I thought you were Frank Zappa the wonderful musician and now I find out you're God and you're going to tell me who I am." So a few days went by and he said "Okay you don't have to be Uncle Meat. If you don't want to make money out of the name I will."</blockquote>
+''"After a couple of months of it I said "Hey I really don't want to be Uncle Meat"! and Frank said "I'm sorry, but I must insist you are." And I said "Well excuse me. Here I thought you were Frank Zappa the wonderful musician and now I find out you're God and you're going to tell me who I am." So a few days went by and he said "Okay you don't have to be Uncle Meat. If you don't want to make money out of the name I will."''</blockquote>
 When FZ described his idea of a parody of [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper's]] for the cover of the next record Sandy suggested her ex boyfriend [[Cal Schenkel]] as the perfect person for such a project. She herself is also featured on the album cover (see image above).<ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/We%27re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money_Cover.html</ref>
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 With the setting up of [[Bizarre Records]] FZ signed her up to record an album (Originally planned to be by Uncle Meat And The CIA) with [[The Mothers]] backing her.[[Image:Sandy hurvitz album.jpg|200x|right|Sandy Hurvitz - Sandy's Album Is Here At last]]
 <blockquote>
-"(It) was gonna be a whole other album. Frank had been producing and we had started on the first tracks and the original Mothers were backing me up. Somewhere that track exists - it's a shame I guess there's no way to get to it - but it's the Mothers playing one of my songs "Arch Godliness Of Purpleful Magic" and I never even got to put my vocal on it. It was great, I still remember Frank's guitar lick over the front of it."
+''"(It) was gonna be a whole other album. Frank had been producing and we had started on the first tracks and the original Mothers were backing me up. Somewhere that track exists - it's a shame I guess there's no way to get to it - but it's the Mothers playing one of my songs "Arch Godliness Of Purpleful Magic" and I never even got to put my vocal on it. It was great, I still remember Frank's guitar lick over the front of it."''
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 [[Category:Bandmembers|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
 [[Category:Musicians|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
 [[Category:We're Only In It For the Money (The List)|Hurvitz, Sandy]]

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 She suggested to FZ that the track would be better if they did another take using [[Billy Mundi]]'s drumming part played all the way through. FZ disagreed and after a brief argument she stormed out of the studio.
-In despair FZ handed the production over to [[Ian Underwood]] who had not produced anything before. With [[The Mothers]] no longer working on the album he had little commitment to the project and Sandy described the resulting album as ''just like a stripped down demo''.  it was engineered by [[Dick Kunc]] at [[Apostolic Studios]] with [[Cal Schenkel]]'s cover design and photographs. The record was released by [[Verve Records|Verve]] (V6-5064 1968) as part of FZ's deal to end his contract with them.
+In despair FZ handed the production over to [[Ian Underwood]] who had not produced anything before.<ref>Frank Zappa interview, February 21, 1969 on WBIA-FM New York City from the Frank Zappa GSW Project Vol. 4 1969, disc 1 track 8 (misspelled Gurvitz album)</ref> With [[The Mothers]] no longer working on the album he had little commitment to the project and Sandy described the resulting album as ''just like a stripped down demo''.  it was engineered by [[Dick Kunc]] at [[Apostolic Studios]] with [[Cal Schenkel]]'s cover design and photographs. The record was released by [[Verve Records|Verve]] (V6-5064 1968) as part of FZ's deal to end his contract with them.
 [[Sandy Hurvitz]] changed her name to [[wikipedia:Essra Mohawk|Essra Mohawk]] in the early 1970's. She has released several albums under this name with some of her songs being recorded by other artists.

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 [[Sandy Hurvitz]] changed her name to [[Sandy Hurvitz|Essra Mohawk]] in the early 1970's. She has released several albums under this name with some of her songs being recorded by other artists.
-[[Category:Bandmembers]]
+[[Category:Bandmembers|Hurvitz, Sandy]]
-[[Category:Musicians]]
+[[Category:Musicians|Hurvitz, Sandy]]