Bingo Gazingo
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Murray Wachs(June 2, 1924 – January 1, 2010), better known asBingo Gazingo,was a poet fromNew York City,who was a postal worker for most of his career. Two versions, each also titledBingo Gazingo,were released of the only single-artist album ever released byWFMU—the first on cassette, the second on CD. (Among other changes, the CD replacedRavel'sBolérowith an improvised bolero as accompaniment to "Bingo's Bolero".) Bingo's parents were big fans of the game ofBingo,which resulted in him getting his notable name.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
The album consists of Bingo's reading his poems to an improvised musical accompaniment by WFMU DJsR. Stevie Moore,Bob Brainen,Dennis Diken,Dave Amels,Chris Bolger and Chris Butler, andengineeredby Amels. Often, while performing live, the background music to his frantic, poetic incantations is nothing more than a cassette tape inserted into a cheap cigar-box tape recorder and miked.
Bingo's poetry often contains complicated rhyme schemes, extendedstream-of-consciousnessrambling, and crude language, with titles like "Up Your Jurassic Park" and "I Love You So Fucking Much I Can't Shit". He penned hyper-caffeinated odes toMadonna,Tupac Shakur,andBeavis and Butthead,and had his "Everything's O.K. at the O.K. Corral" (a dreamy reminiscence of the cowboy movie serials by an old nurse-attended man) featured on a 1996 CD produced by the famedGreenwich VillagecoffeehouseFast Folk Cafe.
Bingo was accompanied and interpreted byMy Robot Friendperforming his "You're Out of the Computer" at theOutsider MusicFestival at Time Cafe (downstairs fromFez) in New York City and, according to what My Robot Friend said there, also at appearances in Europe.
Bingo would always introduce NYC band Crambone when they would play at local downtown clubs like CBGB's, Arlene's Grocery, Baby Jupiter, The Continental, The Mercury Lounge and other New York venues. His image appeared on Crambone's breakout CD "Go Getcha Shinebox" in 2001.
Bingo Gazingo recorded for GRANDGOOD in May 2003 in Centerport, Long Island. Versions of 'Everyday I Leave $10 On The Table', 'J-Lo', and 'OK Corral' were recorded. 'Everynight Man', 'Old Man River', and 'Freey Zeeky' were also recorded.
Born in Queens in 1924, Bingo Gazingo wrote music for most of his life, struggling on the edge of obscurity. He continued to actively write, record and perform perverse, edgy music until the day he died (New Year's Day2010) at 85 years old, struck down by a cab on his way to perform at the Bowery Poetry Club.[1]
Prior to his death. Bingo performed every Monday night, at 6:00 PM, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
Filmography[edit]
- Kiss Loves You(2007)
References[edit]
- ^"I'm So Used to Losing".Bandcamp.RetrievedJune 21,2021.
Bibliography[edit]
- (2003). "[1]".villagevoice.com. Retrieved September 9.
- Kennedy, Randy (1997). "The Ballads of Bingo Gazingo."The New York Times.January 5.
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