Child's Garden of Grass

Iva

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Jun 25, 2003, 8:45:40 PM6/25/03

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Just got the following announcement from Rhino Handmade:

JACK MARGOLIS
A Child's Garden Of Grass
A cult comedy classic from 1971, A Child's Garden Of Grass is an
expanded audio companion to Jack Margolis and Richard Clorfene's
book of the same name. Radio legend Ron Jacobs suggested the
spoken-word adaptation to Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman,
who notes "Weed was everywhere, so why not contribute to the
ongoing party that was the late '60s?"
With Margolis hired to do the writing and members of The Firesign
Theater, among others, doing the voice work, what resulted was a
clever compendium on the science, history, and culture of
marijuana. Within Garden's parody of a painfully polite
instructional record (you know, the ones that taught kids of the
'50s and '60s to be upstanding citizens) are dryly comic sketches
that surely had a hand in shaping the stoned genius of Cheech &
Chong.

In addition to the highly sought-after A Child's Garden Of Grass,
this Handmade release includes the comedy sketch "A Presidential
Trip." Appearing on a 1970 Elektra album by impressionist David
Frye, the bit portrays Richard Nixon as he discovers
"marijeewanna" for the first time. Then there's "I Like
Marijuana," a David Peel & The Lower East Side rant recorded in
Washington Square and appearing on their 1968 Elektra album Have
A Marijuana.

A Child's Garden Of Grass is available as an individually
numbered limited edition of 5000 copies. Get it at:
www.rhinohandmade.com

Iva

Brian Westley

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Jun 25, 2003, 11:17:26 PM6/25/03

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"Iva" <iv...@ptd.net> writes:
>Just got the following announcement from Rhino Handmade:

> JACK MARGOLIS
>A Child's Garden Of Grass

Thanks for the heads up! I'll send out something on it.

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Merlyn LeRoy

Schoolboy

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Jun 26, 2003, 10:31:21 AM6/26/03

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"Iva" <iv...@ptd.net> wrote

> JACK MARGOLIS
> A Child's Garden Of Grass
> A cult comedy classic from 1971, A Child's Garden Of Grass is an
> expanded audio companion to Jack Margolis and Richard Clorfene's
> book of the same name.

Does anyone know more about Jack Margolis? I understand he was a Los
Angeles radio artist whom Phil Austin admired.

Yours,
Schoolboy

John Scialli

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Jun 26, 2003, 4:04:08 PM6/26/03

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From: "Michael Packer" <spa...@grcmc.org>
To: "John Scialli" <sci...@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Child's Garden of Grass
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:01:16 -0400

Jack Margolis acted in the films "Roots of Evil" and "I Love You,
Alice B. Toklas". He also wrote "The Complete Book of Recreational
Drugs" and "Cooking for Orgies and Other Large Parties". That's about
all I know about him.

Michael

Ted Alvy

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Jun 26, 2003, 7:36:34 PM6/26/03

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from laradio.com

Margolis, Jack: KMPC, 1962-67; KLAC, 1967; KMET, 1970-71; KGBS, 1973.
Whereabouts Unknown.

Ted Alvy COSMOS TOPPER Home Page http://members.aol.com/tedalvy/
60's L.A. Underground Radio, Little Feat, Neon Park, Zoot Horn Rollo, Mallard,
Firesign Theatre, Theodore Sturgeon, Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart, Paul
Krassner, Bruce Lee