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    Under the Grandstand: "The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”
    Under the Grandstand: "The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”
    Under the Grandstand: "The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”
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    Under the Grandstand: "The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”

    By Jim Lyons

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    Those who have lived not just witnessed - the efflorescence of a pivotal culture moment never see the world through veiled eyes again. Jimmy Lyons was there, devising wholly original inventions of words and music while the Beats, the neo-folk troubadours, the post-bop jazz shooting stars, and the tie-dyed psychedelic rockers were scorching through the underbrush and opening new paths of creativity as alternatives to the increasingly bottom line-driven mainstream. Lyons, though, wasnt content to find a niche in one countercultural movement or another. He kept moving, observing, and writing new poems, stories, and songs. But he never gave up on the wry sophistication of the classic American popular song. Indeed, he has dedicated himself to infusing the same hallowed forms perfected by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and others, with his singular fantasias of ingeniously colored and textured wordplay.

    These plays have a subtext only Lyons can provide, derived from what he calls the rituals of the road and the the circular rhythms of the race track, the beats and pulses of everyday American life that rarely raise a ripple on the surface of American culture. Lyons hears the screams and dreams of his countrymen and woman; from them he creates new modes of expression. He has been changed by each of his open-hearted an open-eared encounters, and this body of work is his way of making those changes sing and swing. Derk Richardson

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 6, 2013
    ISBN9781475971378
    Under the Grandstand: "The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”
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    Jim Lyons

    Jimmy Lyons is a spoken word performance poet and pioneer in the Sound Experience of music and poetry who started his career in Greenwich Village, New York, sharing stages with Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Allen Ginsberg and other creative spirits. He was termed by the 'King of the Beats' Jack Kerouac and Beat original Bob Kaufman as 'The Jazz Man' and A Pure Sound Poet'! Jimmy was arrested performing at the Gaslight. The charge was that he was a cabaret performer. He went through the courts of New York City and won the right to expand the art boundaries and definition of poetry. Documented by photos and his work in major books as a part of the developing American Poetry movement and later a part of the West Coast Wordhustlers publication; at a seminal point in his life Jimmy also became a playwright in the famous Actors Studio where James Dean, Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro studied. He became a composer and lyricist whose musical 'Eclipse' was being prepared for Broadway starring Christopher Walken. Jimmy has written several documentary film scores and his poetic songs have been recorded by Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, The Lords and others in the US, and His own album 'Night's Music' is popular in Europe. Since returning to California, he has performed his sound poetry at Keystone Corner and many festivals, notably Ken Kesey's Hoo Haw and is a favorite at the 'Beat and Beyond' and other Santa Cruz Poetry Festivals.

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      Under the Grandstand - Jim Lyons

      Under The Grandstand.

      The Five O’clock Rainbow

      &

      Eclipse and his Shoes Blues

      Jim Lyons

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      Under The Grandstand. The Five O’clock Rainbow

      & Eclipse and his Shoes Blues

      Copyright © 2013 by Jim Lyons.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      The following characters are projected on slides and their voice are taped: John Wayne, Jesse Jackson, The Pope, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Billy Graham, Ann—a female jockey, a male jockey, Mildred, an Owner, Ralph Nader, slides of horses will also be used. Film clips video tape (for hospital scene) can be used. Original songs: Beautiful Losers (at the end of the first act); You can Bet on That (played while the audience is being seated before the Prologue); Alone, Slip Away, the last act. Song tapes are available. Rights to songs and play are obtainable from author.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7136-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7137-8 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 02/01/2013

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to thank Mars Alma from iUniverse for her patience and understanding that I live life without a net underneath me. She saddled this project, to come off the crown at the head of the stretch through a wall of noise, she never dropped the whip on me as I came through the stretch heading towards the finish line. All out boot and whip to the wire. I would also like to thank my doctors James B. Karol of NorCal Urology and Alka Sharma of Affinity Medical Group of Alameda for their patience and medical insights that have lengthen my journey on this planet. They allowed me to once more spring from the starting gate and to solo out through the nights music where I belong. I also want to acknowledge my grandfather Thomas J. Buckley, a brilliant writer, plays, song writer. A man who was a head of his time. My grandmother Marie Parenti Buckley, who always knew something before it happened, her son… one of the undiscovered talents of his time… Leo Buckley who sang and danced his way into our hearts. And lastly my mother Loretta Agnes Buckley Lyons, for believing in me and inspiring me carry on. I would like to thank Jon Raymond Odion for staying the course when it came to deadlines and other difficult completions. And also Ken Cicerale for his insights and analysis as he traded fours with my listening ear, being a musician, a sax player, the pulse and beat of his knowledge was a swinging thing.

      Under The Grandstand

      The Five O’clock Rainbow

      By Jim Lyons

      For my mother,

      who always played the longshorts.

      Glossary Of

      Terms And Slang

      CAST

      Stuart, Trainer, early thirties. A sensitive, sometimes transient highwire walker—committed to conscience, a believer in peoples’ dreams, making his relationships vulnerable to emotional conflicts. A loner observer. He often sees too clearly that people need to belong. This awareness sends a chill wind to those far away places in his mind. His experiences at the track are making him realize that time waits for no one. The track is a mirror for all of life’s questions—the answers, like tips, are only good if they come from the right source.

      BRAD, Owner, early sixties. Ex-carney midway hustler. Thrives on the hustle, the one thing he does best. A follower, he uses people (another form of hustling). Cut from the old school, a man is a man, and a woman is a woman, everything else is a little strange. He goes with the times, but thinks the younger generation should be smoking Bull Durham. A man in search of a family. (A fact he doesn’t always relize.) He hustles the need to belong.

      Ann, Jockey, early twenties. A woman in sports, shadow boxing with the traditions of horse racing, realistic about its domination by men. Truly a beautiful loser who dared to dream. Determined, loyal, talented, gutsy, frustrated—she refuses to give in to the subordinate role women jockeys are subject to around the track. Cut from the fabric of stain and leather, mud and honey, she’s a believer.

      CAL, Groom, early thirties. Scarred early in life (broken home, boys’ school), ascetic in nature, a drifter who found a place and meaning in the world of the backstretch—his sanctuary. Imaginative, revolves in the psychic occult world of sight and sound. A groom who knows his horses better than anyone around the track, he’s a trainer’s dream. Self-taught, street smart, the world outside the backstretch is not of his choosing. His fulfillment is just a race away.

      MILDRED, Owner, middle fifties. A business woman who is in love with the man on the Marlboro billboard. Brad in the right outfit will do (boots, blue jeans, flannel shirt, and cowboy hat). Feminist sympathizers have bad vibes

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