Omaha Rainbow : Issue 2
A
Amy....John's daughter.
Angel Rain....it's a long time since John saw Angel Rain.
Peter Asher....produced John's second solo album ''Willard''.
Alias....Bob Dylan got the part in preference to John in the film (see
B).
B
Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett....Kris Kristofferson got the
Kid's part in this film in preference to John.
Bolinas....a little fishing village on the coast of Northern California..''It's
one of my favourite places in the world.''
Brunswick....record label for the Kingston Trio's final albums.
C
California....John's home State.
''California Bloodlines'' ....John's first solo album.
Fred ''The Flash" Carter, Jr....produced John's fifth solo album ''Cannons
in the Rain".
Cort Cassidy....John's manager up to this album.
Cumberland Three....John founded this group and cut three albums with it
before leaving to join the Kingston Trio.
Capitol....label for a host of Kingston Trio albums, and for "Signals
Through the Glass", ''California Bloodlines'' and 'Willard''.
D
''Daydream Believer''....The Monkees had a hit with this
John Stewart song at the end of 1967/ beginning of 1968.
Johnny Douglas....drummer in John's current backing group.
John Denver....with whom John nearly teamed up..they cut demos of ''Daydream
Believer'' and ''Leavin' on a Jet Plane'' together.
Bob Dylan....see Alias.
Chris Darrow....legendary session musieian..was in John's backing group
and remains a personal friend.
Henry Diltz....his photographs appear on each of John's album sleeves..occasionally
provides back-up vocals or harmonica.
E
''Earth Rider"....was to have been John's second solo
album but was scrapped at the eleventh hour..the title track turned up
on ''Willard''.
F
Buffy Ford....Johnn's lady..with whom he cut an album prior
to his solo ones, called ''Signals Through The Glass"..it was never
released in the UK.
The Furies....John Stewart and the Furies was the name of his first ever
group.
Pete Frame....published a superb article on "California Bloodlines"
in ZigZag 38.
Bernie Fuchs....painted the portrait of John on the sleeve of ''Sunstorm''.
G
''Green Grasses''....the first John Stewart song to be recorded
by the Kingston Trio back in 1959.
Dave Guard....founder member of the Kingston Trio..whom John replaced.
Voyle Gilmore....producer of the Kingston Trio's albums on Capitol..and
also ''Signals Through the Glass".
H
Highway 101....there ain't no wild horses out on that road
nowadays.
''Harkin....John wrote the script for that film (which is about the Depression
in the 30's dustbowls / Woody Guthrie / Grapes of Wrath stuff) and
hopes it may get further than his manuscript one of these days..the title
song of the ''Sunstorm''
album was from that film script.
The Handdkerchief Brothers....would you believe that in his distant youth
John was one half of a comedy duo of that name? He was!
I
I live at 10 Lesley Court, Harcourt Road, Wallington, Surrey,
England..if you are in to John Stewart then do get in touch with me.
"I was a Rooster''....''was top 10 as far as I was concerned.'' (see
Tex Ritter.)
J
Jeremy....one of John's sons.
Ernesto Juarez....John remembered his name!
Davy Jones....sang the lead vocal on the Monkees ''Daydream Believer''.
K
The Kingston Trio....John was a member of the group from
1961 to 1967.
Robert Kennedy....John and Buffy were on his Presidential campaign in 1968.
Kid Gloves....recorded an album of that name on Buddah..which opened with
a song called ''Let Him Sing His Song (John Stewart's Song)''.
Kris Kristofferson....see Billy the Kid.
L
"The Lonesome Picker Rides Again''....John's third solo
album.
The Lovin' Spoonful....John played guitar ("merely as a session guy'',
he says) when they recorded his song ''Never Goin' Back" on their
final album.
''The Last Campaign''....a song about Robert Kennedy's Presidential campaign..Also
the working title of his next album.
M
Michael....John's other son.
Mill Valley....a township in Marin County, over the Bridge from San Francisco,
where John and Buffy live.
Arnie Moore....Johh's long time friend and bass player in his current backing
group.
Mt. San Antonio Jnr. College...John was a student there.
Scott McKenzie....John, John Phillips and he nearly teamed up to form a
gronup..Howdever, Scott wouldn't come out of his hotel room so John stayed
a little longer in the Kingston Trio.
John Montgomery....one third of the Cumberland Three.
The Monkees....see ''Daydream Believer".
Oliver Makin....using this pseudonym, John quoted himself on the sleeve
of ''Sunstorm''.
N
Loren Newkirk....ace pianist in John's backing group.
Fred Neil....John cut some tracks with him for an album that was never
released..What unmined gold!
Nashville....John did go back!
O
''Omaha Rainbow''....hear the song..read the magazine.
Peter O'Brien....comhpiled this A to Z..suffers from the John Stewart O'Bsessions!
P
Phoenix, Arizona....John cut a live double album there 22/23.3.74...for
release later in the year.
John Phillips....see Scott McKenzie..also co-wrote songs with John, i.e.
''Chilly Winds'' and ''Molly Dee'', before hitting the big-time as leader
of the Mamas and Papas.
Pasadena....where John lived awhile when he was younger.
Pomona....the town where John was at college.
Picker....Arnie, Moore calls John by this name all the time.
Q
Question....Why, after all this time, ain't John Stewart
a Star?.
R
Peter Rachtmann....John's current manager.
Nick Reynolds....founder member of the Kingston Trio.
RCA....John's current record company.
Riverside....another Californian town where John lived awhile when he was
a boy.
"Rocking Anna"....the only single cut by John Stewart & the
Furies.
Roulette Records....the label for which the Cumberland Three cut their
albums.
Tex Ritter and the Sons of the Pioneers...John's earliest acknowledged
musical influence.
S
John S. Stewart....John's father..whose ''Account of Halley's
comet'' narration appeared on the ''Sunstorm'' album.
Michae Stewart....John's brother..a member of We Five..latterly producer
of ''The Lonesome Picker Rides Again'' and ''Sunstorm'' - JoHpn's fourth
solo album ..never released in the UK.
San Diego....Southnern Californian coastal town where John was born.
''Signals Through the Glass''....see Buffy Ford.
Bob Shane....3rd original member of the Kingston Trio.
San Joaquin....John was never the saint of that place.
Mike Settle....one time replacement member of the Cumberland Three.
T
John Andrew Tartagalia....orchestrations on "Signals
Through the Glass'' and ''Willard''..recently did music on the TV series
''Alias Smith and Jones''.
Tempe....Crazy lives in Tempe.
Debbie Tatto....American president of the Friends of John Stewart.
U
The Ultimate....John Stewart.
V
Nik Venet....producer of "California Bloodlines'' and
John's upcoming live album.
Vita Records....Pasadena record company who cut that Furies first single.
Ken Veeder....Capitol Studios photographer who did most of the sleeves
on the albums of the Kingston Trio with John.
W
''Willard''....he's a loner! John's second solo album.
Warner Bros....the label for whom John cut ''The Lonesome Picker Rides
Again'' and ''Sunstorm''.
Andrew Wyeth....his paintings heavily influenced John's writing during
the "Signals" period..one of his paintings was on the sleeve.
James Wyeth....his son..whose portrait of John is on the sleeve of ''Willard''.
We Five....brother Michael's group.
Frank Werber....manager of the Kingston Trio..and producer of their Brunswick
albums.
X
Xantous....not an accurate description of John.
Y
George Yanok....boyhood friend of John and the other half
of the Handkercnief Brothers..Co-wrote "Strange Day" with John,
an incredibly weird song which was recorded on the Kingston Trio's album
''Somethning Special''.
Yeoman Cottage, North Marston, Buckinghamshire, England... Pete Frame says
''John Stewart fans always welcome!''
Z
Frank Zappa....taught John the chords to "Streets of
Laredo'' in those early days in Pomona.
Zapata....John's nickname for Nik Venet.
ZigZag....see Pete Frame.
Z..Z.. Z..Z..Wake up to John Stewart!