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The type of specificity about harmony Graham Nash neglects in Wild Tales, Crosby delivers in Long Time Gone: “What we did which made me extremely proud, was to sing a lot of nonparallel stuff. I did some of my very best work being subtle, moving the middle part around in internal shifts that kept it happening.” (155).
— Oct 25, 2025 11:13AM
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Doerge quotes Basie: “They don’t pay me for playing,” the implication being that they pay him for traveling.
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Crosby did well not to write songs about the 2nd Amendment. His “facts” have grown less persuasive with each unprovoked shooting.
— 18 hours, 59 min ago
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The co-screenwriter of Jaws gets nautical about Croz (202-203).
— Oct 26, 2025 11:24AM
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A lengthy discussion of Crosby‘s early thoughts about drugs (118-121).
— Oct 26, 2025 11:08AM
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Crosby‘s father worked with many of the greats Flaherty (5), Murnau (6), Zinnemann (13), Rossen, and Welles (14). Floyd Crosby was blacklisted. Through his union Floyd filed an affidavit, revealing he had been on secret orders during World War II and was allowed to return to work without naming names (13).
— Oct 26, 2025 10:22AM
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From Cosby‘s mother, he learned the “cooperative effort” of harmony singing (11).
— Oct 26, 2025 10:15AM
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Jerry Garcia says Croz got “better out of me than I get out of myself “ (197)).
— Oct 25, 2025 10:51AM
