Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine Writer With a Lyrical Touch, Dies at 91
He deftly mocked pop culture, politics and more for 57 years. He also wrote new lyrics for familiar songs, which led to a lawsuit from Irving Berlin and others.
The longtime Mad magazine writer Frank Jacobs, as drawn by the longtime Mad magazine artist Jack Davis. Mr. Jacobs was, a former colleague said, “the best writer Mad magazine ever had.”Credit.Jack Davis via TM/E.C. Publishing
April 14, 2021Updated 6:36 p.m. ET
Frank Jacobs, an inventive satirist who in his 57 years at Mad magazine mocked popular culture and politics, often in pitch-perfect verse and lyrics, died on April 5 in Tarzana, Calif. He was 91.
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Necessary
Necessary Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Joni Mitchell The Reprise Albums (1968-1971) available June 25 in celebration of Blue 50th anniversary
JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES SERIES CONTINUES WITH REMASTERS OF HER FIRST FOUR ALBUMS IN CELEBRATION OF BLUEâS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Author:
LOS ANGELES – On June 22, 1971, Joni Mitchell released
Blue, concluding her prolific four album run for Reprise Records with an album considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time. Its stirring, confessional songs have been celebrated by music lovers and critics alike for decades while inspiring a wide variety of artists as diverse as Prince and Taylor Swift. Even today, its stature as a masterpiece continues to grow. Just last year, the album was named #3 on
Oscar Hammerstein II, (born July 12, 1895, New York, New York, U.S. died August 23, 1960, Doylestown, Pennsylvania), American lyricist, musical comedy author, and theatrical producer influential in the development of musical comedy and known especially for his immensely successful collaboration with the composer Richard Rodgers.
The grandson of the opera impresario Oscar Hammerstein, he studied law at Columbia University before beginning his career in the theatre. Between 1920 and 1959 he wrote all or part of about 45 musical dramas for stage, film, or television. Until he became exclusively Rodgers’ librettist in 1943, Hammerstein wrote lyrics for several other composers, among them Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg (“Lover Come Back to Me”; “Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise”), and Jerome Kern (“All the Things You Are”; “The Last Time I Saw Paris”). Among Hammerstein’s best known early works are
Face the Music: Portland musician Sara Hallie Richardson takes on iconic Joni Mitchell album
Richardson will be performing Blue in front of a small audience Feb. 19 at The Halo at Thompson s Point.
Photo by Aimsel Ponti
Joni Mitchell’s 1971 “Blue” album is on my top 10 list of all-time favorite albums, and musician Sara Hallie Richardson will be playing every song from it on Feb. 19 in Portland.
“Blue,” Mitchell’s fourth album, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and was released when the artist was 27.
I’ve been essentially obsessed with the album for decades, and it never ceases to amaze me how it encapsulates such a deep sense of love, longing and place. From the opening “All I Want” to the closing “The Last Time I Saw Richard,” the journey Mitchell offers is profound, and as a fan of Richardson for nearly a decade, I have unfettered faith that she’ll take the audience on a similar journey, while also putting her own mark on it.