He also signed Madonna, but you can't win 'em all. He was moving to sign Jimi Hendrix early on, but he took a pass, because he didn't like the way Hendrix treated Linda Keith.
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The accompanying cartoon had characters who looked like the ones he drew for MAD.His parents were Jewish immigrants from Zarasai, Lithuania. In addition to MAD, he also contributed to a CHABAD publication The Mosiach Times from which I found this illustration. Al Jaffee reinvented a character called “the Shpy.” Part-fumbling secret agent and part-Torah scholar, “the Shpy,” clad in a trench coat with his hat pulled over his eyes and an attaché case filled with every conceivable gadget, is tasked with doing battle against the Yetzer Hora, the evil inclination. With a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist.
The story:Marshmallowmilkshake wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:45 am Harry Belafonte, the barrier-breaking singer, actor and activist, has died at 96, per the New York Times.
Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a major force in the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said Ken Sunshine, his longtime spokesman.
At a time when segregation was still widespread and Black faces were still a rarity on screens large and small, Mr. Belafonte’s ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. He was not the first Black entertainer to transcend racial boundaries; Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others had achieved stardom before him. But none had made as much of a splash as he did, and for a few years no one in music, Black or white, was bigger.
Born in Harlem to West Indian immigrants, he almost single-handedly ignited a craze for Caribbean music with hit records like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell.” His album “Calypso,” which contained both those songs, reached the top of the Billboard album chart shortly after its release in 1956 and stayed there for 31 weeks. Coming just before the breakthrough of Elvis Presley, it was said to be the first album by a single artist to sell more than a million copies.