James Avati: A Life in Paperbacks

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James Avati - A Life in Paperbacks (VPRO television, 2000)
Excerpt from the documentary "James Avati - A Life in Paperbacks" by Koert Davidse and Piet Schreuders , an independent graphic designer based in Amsterdam, also known as a co-founder of Beau Hunks with Gert-Jan Blom and a contributor of Basta Music.  Camera: Ton Peters Sound: Gusta van Eijk

JAMES AVATI (1912-2005) earned renown as a pre-eminent paperback cover artist in an illustrious 40-year career that began during the paperback revolution of the 1950s. His work helped popularize the literature of Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Alberto Moravia, Ayn Rand, Louis Bromfield, Robert Penn Warren and many others.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams
"It's the Talk of The Town (And Other Sad Songs)"
original release: Idiot Records/1985,
available now via Basta Music
Liner notes and art direction by Piet Schreuders,
cover painting by James S. Avati for the paperback novel 'Down All your Streets' by Leonard Bishop (Signet Books D1009, 1953)


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Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Gigolo And Gigolette)
Music by - Harry Warren
The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Orchestra (an inspiration of Ton van Bergeijk and Gert-Jan Blom (Beau Hunks)— has it's roots in the Dutch small bands discipline, from which it emerged around 1984)
Featuring [Tenor Sax] - Roland Brunt
Album: It's The Talk Of The Town (And Other Sad Songs)

"It should be noted that the Broken Dreams Orchestra did not really exist as a band. It was as they advertised; "... a dream, purposely evoked each Spring and shattered each Fall". Until 1987 when The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams ceased to exist."