FINALLY! THE WILD MAN IS HERE!

Ok, here it finally is, that strange track from "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer" that we somehow managed to digitally fuck-up and we still don´t know what really happened. Anyway, sorry for the long wait. We´ve been kinda of busy here at the office spinning 78s and being lazy. As a mild compensation for your long suffering we´ve added on a few previously unreleased gems from Rhino Handmade´s long gone collection The Fischer King (1999). The first two tracks was recorded in September 1977, live at the Dodger Stadium. It´s basically Larry wandering around, singing and chatting with the crowd (these two are around ten minutes each). The third is a fine duet with Rosemary Clooney, recorded on the 15th of march in 1986. As Larry recalls it: Actually, I used to listen to it a lot because, you know, I liked Rosemary singing. I used to call her. She used to always be nice to me. I used to call her on Christmas and she would sing “White Christmas” to me. She was in the movie “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby. You didn´t know that, did you?

The entry for the complete download of "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer" has been updated, and the corrupt track has been replaced. All links have been updated.


BONUS TRACKS:

01 A Few Minutes With Larry At Dodger Stadium [includes performances of "Merry Go Round"/"I'm Selling Peanuts For The Dodgers" and "Monkeys Versus Donkeys"]
02 A Few More Minutes With Larry At Dodger Stadium [includes performances of "Jimmy Durante"/"Merry Go Round"/"My Name Is Larry"/"Oh Tina Tina My Little Schlemina"/"Answer Me Lord Above"/"Love Me Tender"/"The Rocket Rock"/"I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover"/"Go To Rhino Records" and "I'm A Truck"]
03 It´s A Hard Business (duet with Rosemary Clooney)
04 Bye!

>Download (all 4 bonus tracks zipped -23MB) at files.ww, or
>Download (all 4 bonus tracks zipped -23MB) at zShare.

The Top Ten Sexiest Female Robots

The Top Ten Sexiest Female Robots.
Sexy female robot displayed here is Dorothy Stratten in Galaxina. (via Unscathed Corpse)

Squiddly Diddly's Surfing Safari

Hit the boards! Surf over to Bubblegumfink and get your hands on this Squiddly Diddly baby.

Old time Ads: Beauty and Hygiene

"I Like Barbasol So Well I Shave All Over"
All over?? That is too much information, Kojak!!!
Click Image.

Ad*Access: Beauty and Hygiene . (thanks to Honk)

SUNKA GÅ GÅ! Vol. 2

Yes, Volume 2 is here. PCL posted about SUNKA GÅ GÅ! Vol. 1 here.
Magnus has some shocking facts this time: "... Track one is a Norwegian release but girl sound Swedish, Mona was doing a porno movie next door to a recording studio, and was somehow persuaded to make a record. Maybe because she was tone deaf. "
I don't know what is most shocking: the fact that she was filming a porno flick or the fact that she was tone deaf. Hm...

Francine Lainé 45rpm

"Is there a better choice to start a new "vinyl rip" blog than to post a small erotic artifact from the french seventies ? It seems that Francine Laine (or "Lainé", can't figure if the little mark on the last "e" of her name is an accent or not...) recorded these 2 tracks to promote a now forgotten erotic book named "Lolitissimo" by a guy named René Varrin. In itself, this is already cool...but what is cooler than cool is the fact that these 2 tracks were arranged by the great André Popp himself !! The man behind the "Delirium in hi-fi" (Available here!) lp and the "Piccolo & Saxo" recordings, the man who wrote "Love is blue"... " , says Whoops.
Francine Laine "Lolitissimo" 45rpm.

Updated: annukka says there should be an accent. We trust her.

Piero Piccioni - Camille 2000

My main man! Piero Piccioni. The man behind the URL to this blog as well as my username. A legend indeed. ;-)
Piero Piccioni - Camille 2000 OST available at Lellebelle.
Learn more about this brilliant composer in the Guardian obituary and a little more here at IMDb.

Seen On The Streets of Montevideo-Uruguay

"Innocent youth victims of a new SEX CRAZE!" (artist: Santiago) (via Wooster Collective)
Click image.

Cuban Television Sets

"In Cuba, television is the most important communication medium and a national pastime. No matter that the TV sets themselves are outdated, pre-revolution relics imported from America or sets from Russia over fifteen years old; green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altars.
In Cuba the government controls all media, including the three main newspapers as well as the two television stations. They broadcast news reports, baseball, educational programs, soap operas, and Hollywood movies. Whether used for information or as a background for socializing and drinking rum, during broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are ON."
Cuban Television Sets in Polar Inertia (Journal of Nomadic and Popular Culture). (via Coudal Partners)

Glen or Glenda

Watch Glen or Glenda (IMDb) at YouTube!

Also read this highly enjoyable article about Ed Wood's b-movie classic over at Bright Lights Film Journal. (via Bibi's Box)

Nearly Naked Musicians

Nearly Naked Musicians at Queer Music Heritage. Probably not safe for work. (via Sex?)

Divine did some real Hard Magic

Divine - Hard Magic . (YouTube Video)
More Divine on YouTube: You Think You're A Man and I'm so beautiful. (via Fulminatia)

Derek Art

Derek Art. Art and Illustration. Tiki and Lowbrow retro style. (via Eye of the Goof)

Lift Every Voice

Freedom Singers. "Freedom Is a Constant Stuggle." 1964. Broadside 22 September 1964: 1. From the Marvin Tatum Collection of Contemporary Literature.

"This exhibition takes its name from a hymn composed a century ago by two African-American brothers, James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson. Written in the days of the Jim Crow South, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" inspired African Americans to persist in their struggle for equal rights. During the 1920s, the song was being pasted into the backs of hymnals and had become known as the "Negro national anthem." The hymn opens with an injunction to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty," calling for those constitutional rights which were being denied to African American, and closes by affirming God and country. These sentiments frame hopes for a better future, "the white gleam of our bright star." ..." (from Overview)
Lift Every Voice exhibition at University of Virginia Library. (via PLEP)

Good things doesn't always last forever...

All albums (and compilations) shared here at PCL will go off line in 48 hours.
We want to fresh up. So, last call for last years audio ball.
Time to move on.



/Z aka Sebastian

"the Percy Trout hour!"

"the Percy Trout hour!"
Super-Fizz-Sugar-Pop
from all Over the Globe!

Monday Night 1-30-06
8pm to 10pm (EST, USA)

WRFL 88.1fm
Lexington, Ky.

LISTEN ONLINE:
http://wrfl.uky.edu/Pages/listenNow.php

The World of Grace Jones

"IT DOESN’T SURPRISE ME THAT PEOPLE CAN’T SEE BEYOND MY IMAGE. IT'S AMAZING BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND IT. THAT'S WHAT IMAGE IS FOR. BUT IT'S NEVER A PROBLEM FOR ME. IT'S ONLY A PROBLEM FOR THEM. I DON'T REALLV CARE. I DO WHAT I WANT REGARDLESS. "
The World of Grace Jones.

Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin (Note: flash site) - Art, Illustration and Graphics. (via Agence Eureka)

Tamura Seji

'象のパレード' (transl~ 'Parade of the elephant')

Tamura Seji - Art and Graphics. Beautiful! (via Cipango)

Brian Rea

'Crazy ex-girlfriend'
Click image.

Brian Rea - Illustration. Sketches and unpublished works here. (via A Best Truth)

Week 46 - The 45s, Trevor White / The Cannibals

In 1976 Trevor White played guitar with the Sparks, after the split up of glam band The Jook. A few years earlier he had recorded a track that he now polished up and turned into Crazy Kids (Island) in hope to get some cash out of it. It sure sounded like a hit back then but all good things aren’t to be. But you have to love that blue jumpsuit. Trevor was also the singing voice of Rocky in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, though oddly not on the soundtrack.

After singer Mike Spenser got the sack from Count Bishops he formed the Cannibals. A pubrockband that only released a few singles as far as we know. This debut single (Big Cock Records – great name for a label - 1977) is a very decent cover of the Standells Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White.

Click images for larger views.

14. Trevor White – Crazy Kids
15. The Cannibals – Good Guys

>Download (both tracks zipped) at Rapidshare or,
>Download (both tracks zipped) at Momoshare or,
>Download (both tracks zipped) at YouSendIt.

Earlier posts by HTMPL Prod. in the 45s mp3 comp. project: Week 42 - Week 43 - Week 44 -Week 45

Merit Hemmingson & the Meritones

Merit Hemmingson & the Meritones "at the Esquire Club" (or perhaps Discoteque dance a go go if this is not the name of a series of records. Does anyone know for sure?) was recorded live on the 1st of February 1966 and released in 1967.

This was the first record Merit ever did and not the most interesting and personal but I definitely think it's worth listening to. I don't believe it has ever been reprinted so until it's released on CD (if ever) go to Martin Klasch to download.

A Hemmingson collection called "Merit/Queen of Swedish Hammond" was released last year and you can buy it here for instance.
If this gets you interested please visit Merit Hemmingsons own website.



click here for better image of the "at the Esquire Club" cover

The cover image is the result of a restoration effort I've undertaken based on a lousy photo found googling. It's pretty close to the original but if you think it looks less than perfect, that's why:)

Mini Break

Not a "Mini" as in Bomarr Blog going on "Mini Vacation" - but a short break. Back Sunday or Monday.

Evrybaddy Kiss å Bajs!

/Z aka Sebastian

Shalimar, bollywood funk

Shalimar, (IMDb) funky bollywood soundtrack by RD Burman available at Soundsational.

MIGUEL RAMOS Y Su Organo Hammond Vol. 1

Miguel Ramos Y Su Organo Hammond Vol. 1 at Phil Musical's Lounge Corner.
12 international pophits performed by one of the Spanish kings of lounge.

My Family's Dune Buggies Over the Years: 50's, 60's, 70's

"My father, Bob Forgnone, got involved in off-road recreation in the late 50's. Pop liked to go clamming at Moss Landing Beach, California, which is halfway around Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz, right at the location of the large power plant. In order to get to the best clamming spots, they needed some transportation, and this came in the form of "Beach Buggies," which he differentiated from "Dune Buggies" because the Beach Buggies only had enough power and traction for the flat parts of the beach. The early buggies were stripped down cars, sometimes shortened for weight reduction and handling. ..."
My Family's Dune Buggies Over the Years: 50's, 60's, 70's (via BoingBoing)

The art and craft of Vince Packard

Cannibol: The art and craft of Vince Packard : tattoo portfolio; watercolors; sculpture; animation, video & etc, and much more. (via LinkFilter.net)

Miss Van

Miss Van at Galerie Magda Danysz. See also Google Images.
"Miss Van started wall-painting in the streets at the age of 18, in the early 1990's, initiating the feminine movement in street art. She is now exhibiting all around the world from NY to LA, in Europe."
More about her street art/graffiti career here (it started on the walls of the old Toulouse, France) . (via gmtPlus9)

Fandangos In Space

"British-American group Carmen broke new ground in rock music, combining rock with a strong flamenco-influence into a very fresh, energetic and powerful new mix, that still sounds fresh today. ..."
Fandangos In Space - A Web Site Dedicated To the Music of Carmen.
Carmen In Pictures: New Year's Eve in New York City, 1974 and Dreamland Theatre, Margate, Kent, on 16 December 1973.
Listen here (2 tracks taken from 'Fandangos In Space')
Also: "In 1973, Carmen appeared on David Bowie's Midnight Special, with a dazzling performance of "Bulerias", opening track of their first album. Two clips from that performance are now availble here at fandangos in space. " (thanks Jonas)

We Share Our Mother's MP3s

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health at 20 Jazz Funk Greats.
"I Ain’t Gonna Give You None" sings Big Boy Teddy Edwards, but Honey, Where You Been So Long? gives us 2!
Mahi Beamer - He'eia (a tenor from Hawaii, has the ability to take his voice into a high-register falsetto and sing it out like a woman. This is a apparently an ancient tradition in the music of the islands spanning back to the times when it was kapu, or forbidden, for women to sing.) at The Record Robot.
Celia Cruz - La Vida Es Un Carnaval at *Adoru.
John Coltrane Quartet - "Afro Blue" at Said the Gramophone.

'The Wild And Mild Sides Of ...' - Woody Martens

"... Mr. Woody Martens expertly showing off his wild and mild sides on his Hammond B-3 organ ..."
'The Wild And Mild Sides Of ...' - Woody Martens, kindly shared by Pastor McPurvis.

BollyWeird Clip: Rocky

Bollyweird Clip at Turbanhead: A dance number under the mirror ball from the 1981 Bollywood classic Rocky [IMDb] starring Sanjay Dutt.
"... Murder, trauma, mistaken identity, separation, rape, attempted suicide and disco. ..."
BollyWeird Clips 18: Rocky
See also: The original theatrical promo booklet graphic for Rocky.

The Monks - footage

Mirco has another great little video clip to share: "The Monks were certainly one of the rawest garage-punk bands of the sixties. Five texan soldier kids living in Germany, they were crazy enough to shave their heads and dress like real monks. They opened their perfomance at the Beat Club on '65 with a really noisy instrumental track: tribal beats, an heavy fuzz bass guitar riff, hysterical howls, people torturing the electric guitar...and the audience that tries to dance at it! ..."
Monks - Monk Chant/Oh How To Do Now
Also: The Monks - Complication (German TV appearance. Beat Beat Beat) and The Monks - Cuckoo (more footage of The Monks from Beat Club) Both links goes to YouTube.

Product Music, Volume 1

"This album is billed as "Industrial show tunes in praise of the products we trust!" This one will truly raise some eyebrows. "My Bathroom is a Private Kind Of Place" (American Standards) has to be heard to be believed. " says Chuck Fensch of The Groove Grotto! about...
Product Music, Volume 1

Songs of Brazilian Birds

"The luxuriant diversity of Brazilian nature also expresses itself in the huge variety of bird songs. The selection made for this CD tries to illustrate the richness of the biodiversity in Brazil. Songs amongst the most beautiful, strange, or rare birds from all habitats have been selected from Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul. ..."
Read more here - and listen to the very talented feathered singers from Bibi-land.
The Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) sounds sad in the most beautiful way. (via MetaFilter)

Old Japanese Picture Postcards

"Kyoto3 - The annual Cherry Dance (Miyako Odori) was first performed in March 1872 by Geisha of the Gion district. Since then it has been performed in April at the Kaburenjo (Geisha School). Musical accompaniment is by singing, shamisen, drums and bells."
Click image for large view at source.

Old Japanese Picture Postcards collected by Hans Gruen. (via IWR)

Discussion

An interesting "discussion" about music sharing is taking place.
I have no "official" statement to make and no rocks to throw.
But thoughts and points from both sides should be read and digested.

/Z aka Sebastian

Les Krims

'The Nostalgia Miracle Shirt', 1971

Les Krims (via Conscientious), conceptual, satirical photographer.
Note: Flash site. Most works are NSFW (like this fantastic one named 'Mom's Snaps' portraying his mother).
(Wikipedia entry for Les Krims)

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

Henry Mancini - The Thief Who Came to Dinner (IMDb) is the Album of the Week at Basic Hip.

Rick van der Linden august 5 1946 - january 22 2006

Fans,

Hereby a sad message. This morning Rick passed away after a battle his spirit could not win from his body. Rick died after the complications of a brain stroke.

Rick van der Linden - overture to beggar Julia's time trip (3227 KB)

More info:

http://members.home.nl/ekseption/

Sivuca

Martin Klasch joins the vinyl sharing community in style. P-E Fronning says: "Here's a great record with Brazilian guitar and accordion player Sivuca recorded in Stockholm Sweden in 1969. Flute and string arrangements by Merit Hemmingson [PCL posted about her here] ."
Wonderful!
Sivuca.

Sage Sohier, photographer

'Brian and Hanns, Key West, FL', 1987
From series: At Home with Themselves:Gay and Lesbian Couples.
Click image.

Sage Sohier - Photographs. More here.

Week 45, The 45s: The Rings

The Rings only did one single (Chiswick, 1977), a wonderful slab of gritty pop punk with the boys jumping in front of legendary London record shop Rock On. Produced by Martin Gordon of Radio Stars fame. Guitarist Alan Lee Shaw went on to form the Physicals and Maniacs as well as playing with Brian James.

Click image for larger view

12. The Rings – I Wanna Be Free
13. The Rings - Automobile

>Download (both tracks zipped) at Rapidshare or,
>Download (both tracks zipped) at Momoshare or,
>Download (both tracks zipped) at YouSendIt.

Earlier posts by HTMPL Prod. in the 45s mp3 comp. project: Week 42 - Week 43 - Week 44

Barbara Schreiber

'What's on your mind, dear?', 2004

Barbara Schreiber - Play with me, Online exhibition at Barbara Archer Gallery.
Don't forget to give Mr. Happy Penis an outfit!

Soft Machine Footage, late '67

Soft Machine Footage for the Dutch TV, in late '67 (2 songs: "I Should've Known" and "Soon, Soon, Soon"). Nice and psychedelic. Shared by Mirco at Music For Your Eyes.

Leave the mp3 off the hook

Hannah Brown aka Emmylou Harris sings at Down In the Groove.
The Polynesians at Boot Sale Sounds.
PAN AM Commercial - Leave the phone off the hook at Friday Weirdo Shakedown.
Candy Men visits Tuwa's Shanty.
Allyn Ferguson - Your Red Watermelon at Garage Hangover.

Gyula Fazakas

'Fürdési lehetôségek' (2005) (Bathing Facilities)
Click legs for large view at source.

"... Gyula Fazakas's imaginary world, woven of fairy threads and painted by a magic brush, made up of elements of the past, present and future of his personal reality. ..."
Gyula Fazakas: Night Flower Scent (Entrance)(via gmtPlus9)

Covered and covering jazz

This weeks La Spirale show carries an interesting and jazzy collection of covers. A groovy bunch of Jazzy takes on popular and standard hit songs.
"Covered and covering jazz" (via Monsieur Aperitivo)

SUNKA GÅ GÅ! Vol. 1

Magnus of Bellybongo has a real treat for us lovers (there are at least 4 of us...) of Odd/Incredibly Strange Music in Swedish: " Here's the first collection (I plan four) of the latest odd Swedish 45s I have brought home. Some older finds slipped in due to the nature of the songs. This may be FOR SWEDISH SPEAKING PEOPLE ONLY. I am not sure so try it out for yourself. Skål och Aloha!"
More information about some of the artists as well as more information about the whole genre that is known to us crazy Swedes as "Sunkadelica" can be found at the site Sunkit (some info in English).
SUNKA GÅ GÅ! Vol. 1 - En Knuff På Vägen

Kiddie Au Go-Go

Kiddie Au Go-Go - Nursery Rhymes With The Teenage Dance Beat Of Today by the Mod Moppets available at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else.

Plasmatics - Pier 62

"... Smashing up expensive things ... makes me cum! ..."
Wendy O. Williams (check out the duets with Lemmy posted earlier on here by HTMPL Prod.)
Here's her first band.
Plasmatics - Pier 62 (YouTube Video).
A little more info about this 15 min. video can be found here.

Recipe Cards from the 1971 Betty Crocker Library

"Plastic fruit meet fiery embers. Smell the fumes, inhale deeply the toxic air, stare at the side of the brass box that the green grapes are overhanging, see the face of a Maurice Sendak type monster, freak out. " (And here's the recipe) Found in 'Men's Favorites')
Click beef.

Recipe Cards from the 1971 Betty Crocker Library. (via Bifurcated Rivets)

Updated: Space Debris reminds us of this "classic" link to Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 (may have been linked to here before - but it's certainly worth a second look!).

Little Marcy in Moving Pictures!

Fudgeland has uploaded a video capture of Little Marcy and friends from the extremely rare "Learning To Do God's Work" video.
Amazing. In so many twisted ways.

More Marcy: The Marcy Zone.

Bargain: Space Helmet and Goggles $1.69.

Ad from Better Homes & Gardens, circa 1950s/60s.

Found at Swapatorium.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The video for The Beatles 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' at PistolWimp. (via MilkandCookies)
"Here is an abbreviated excerpt from the book detailing the thrilling sequence that many people recall as their favorite: the “Lucy in the Sky” dream within a dream fantasy"

And here is (Google Video) Bill Shatner doing the same song.

Mp3s come running

I'll Come Running - Brian Eno at Shake Your Fist.
"A round of don't-break-up songs" (Charlie Rich, Johnny Horton and George Jones) at the Unwanted Gaze.
The FOUNTAIN and the MIRROR by Fred Frith & John Zorn at Chasradio.
"Lucy Leave" by Syd and guys back in '65 at Dang!
Gate Wesley & Band - (Zap! Pow!) Do the Batman at Funky16Corners.
Kenny Rogers & First Edition – “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” at Extra Allt.

The Golden Age of Travel Posters

"... The 1920s and 1930s ushered in an unprecedented era of travel to exotic and romantic destinations. And nowhere was this more clearly expressed than in the travel posters of that time.
The Los Angeles Public Library's collection of travel posters perfectly captures this era. With this exhibition, the Library shares its bounty with the public for the first time. ..."
Far and Wide: The Golden Age of Travel Posters Virtual Gallery (via Coudal Partners)

Mr. Spock´s Music From Outer Space

Leonard Nimoy - Mr. Spock´s Music From Outer Space. Hmm... Yeah!
Kindly uploaded at Pinicchio´s Easy-Listening- & Instrumental-Corner.

Josef Dienst

Josef Dienst, art works. Fascinating stuff. (via the Cartoonist)

You can need to SPRUCE PETROL any time now!

Soon, you'll be heading to luxuriamusic.com at 8pm PST/11pm EST (0400 GMT Thursday with a rebroadcast at 1300 GMT). Once there, you'll be exposed to a never-before-heard episode of your One False SPRUCE PETROLS.

Your Unsound of Wind and Limb episode will include offerings from Shawn Lee's Ping-Pong Orchestra, Georgie Auld, Billy May, Lenny Dee, Tony Mottola, Janko Nilovic, and something not very good by Bing Crosby's boys.

The playlist, full of scans of original album art, is already awaiting you at
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axenhammer.com/spacepatrol/sp92 .
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Eldon Dedini

"Why can't you, just for once, enjoy yourself and forget that Castro is right out there?"
(taken from Dedini's Gallery)
Click image.

Cartoonist Eldon Dedini, died last week tells Paul Giambarba of Cartoons: an Appreciation and posts some beauitiful scans from (mostly) Esquire.

From Playboy comes (so, careful at work): "Gosh! No wonder you keep making passes at me!"
More Dedini: at Ask Art and Dedini's Gallery.
Some art works may be Not Safe For Work.

A touch of French 70's music

"Locomotion was written to illustrate transmissions of sporting sequences on French television . It is far from what you would normally expect from him , possibly his only library album, powerful and groovy . Includes Henri Texier (a 1976 solo album by this French bassist can be downloaded from this entry over at Space Debris) & Bernard Lubat . ..."
Martial Solal - Locomotion (1974 TV Library Music) available at Soundsational.

Back to the Future II trading cards

Card 39: MARTY McFLY, AGE 47
"The caption says it all...this is what our young time travelling hero will look like 30 years from now. Of course, the past, present and future are all interconnected, and a paradox-or series of temporal mishaps-could change the very fabric of time and space."

Back to the Future II trading cards
Cards 1-19, Cards 20-39, Cards 40-59, Cards 60-79 and Cards 80-88. (via Thighs Wide Shut)

Beverley Ashe

'Altercation with the Bluebird'
Click for larger view at source.

Beverley Ashe - Art works.

The Whisperers

Sounds of Champaign posts a rare John Barry soundtrack called "The Whisperers" (IMDb) from 1972.

Sittin' on wicker

"long before rappers were “sittin’ on chrome” and sippin’ don on their yachts the funky and soulful cats among us were sitting on something altogether different; they were sittin’ on wicker. yes folks, that is correct, as the older among us can attest their was a time not so long ago when wicker was some fashionable shi’ite. ..." tells Jaime from The Nonist in this excellent post about cool people sittin' on wicker.

Art Posters in Lebanon

"The AUB collection of 177 art posters dates from the early sixties until the late twentieth century. Although the posters announce, mainly, individual painting and sculpture exhibitions, the collection includes group and theme art exhibits, plays and musical recitals, movies, conferences and environmental awareness posters. ..." (from the Introduction)
The Jafet Library Archives and Special Collections presents Art Posters in Lebanon. (via RaShOmoN)

Perez Prado - La Nina Popoff

Perez Prado - La Niña Popoff. Mambo party over at Mexicovers.

Chris Turnham

'Evil Dead Regeneration - Port Turnham' (In 3D)
Yes, from from Evil Dead Regeneration, the Playstation 2 and Xbox game.
Click image for much better view at source.

Chris Turnham's online portfolio. Amazing illustrations in 2 as well as 3 dimensions. (via MetaFilter)

APERITIVO RADIO SHOW

Aperitivo Radio Show. New show up!

"the Percy Trout hour!"

Super-Fizz-Sugar-Pop
from all Over the Globe!

Monday Night 1-16-06
8pm to 10pm (EST, USA)

WRFL 88.1fm
Lexington, Ky.

LISTEN ONLINE:
http://wrfl.uky.edu/Pages/listenNow.php

Prehistoric Women

"See the invention of fire! See the world's first swan dive! See the prehistoric beauties battle the giant caveman! See it all in the glory of beautiful Cinecolor! Who could ask for anything more?"
Well put!
Prehistoric Women (1950) (IMDb) available at the Internet Archive.

Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66

Excellent HansZUNblog has been goin' totally Brazil lately and presents (among other things) the Greatest Hits of Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 . It contains, of course, "Mais que nada". Go get it - nem mas, nem nada!

Week 44, The 45s: Lemmy

It’s Lemmy week here at the office, we let the days dwindle away as we sip our jack and coke, listening to one of the last rock´n´roll heroes left. Back in 1982 Lemmy did a single (Bronze) with the singer from The Plasmatics, Wendy O Williams. Not reaching the heights of the previous collaboration with Girlschool on the St. Valentines Day Massacre EP, mainly due to the fact that Wendy is a lousy singer and the production aren’t very good either. Still, it’s a bit of a fun curiosity, a view not shared by Fast Eddie Clarke for whom this was the final straw that caused him to leave the band. In 1990 there was another single (Sunnyside Records) this time by Lemmy & The Upsetters with Mick Green, the legendary guitarist for Johnny Kidd & The Pirates in the early 1960s. The b-side is a self-penned ballad by Mick Green & Lemmy.

Click images.

7. Lemmy & Wendy – Stand By Your Man
8. Lemmy & Wendy – No Class
9. Lemmy & Wendy – Masterplan
10. Lemmy & The Upsetters with Mick Green – Blue Suede Shoes
11. Lemmy & The Upsetters with Mick Green – Paradise

>Download (all 5 tracks zipped) at Rapidshare or,
>Download (all 5 tracks zipped) at Momoshare or,
>Download (all 5 tracks zipped) at YouSendIt.

Earlier posts by HTMPL Prod. in the 45s mp3 comp. project: Week 42 - Week 43

The Savage and Sensuous Bongos

Xtabay presents Don Ralke with The Savage and Sensuous Bongos

Rita Lee

"Original vocalist of Os Mutantes, Brazil's greatest pop group of the late sixties, Rita Lee begins here, in 1970, her solo career which lasts until today. Although it was recorded in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, "Build Up" always feels like a very European Tropicalia. Pay special attention to some gems included in this ecletic album, like "José" (a very touching version of Moustaki's original "Joseph"), the exotic "Hulla-Hulla", the semi-spanish tango "Prisioneira do Amor" or the electric Lennon-McCartney's classic "And I Love Him"."

Go to Rato Records Blog

Short break

I'm not fully recovered from the virus I got last week and besides I'm a little tired of blogging. Need rest and health.
If any of my fellow PCL-contributors feel the need of posting stuff I will not stand in your way. Go right ahead.
I'll be back in a few days.

/Z aka Sebastian

Merit Hemmingson

Don't miss this! This is not her best album. But still a very good one. The Swedish folk-beat queen of the 70s!
Merit Hemmingson - Balsam uploaded by Kristof at Space Debris.
More information about Merit and her recordings can be found here (and also an interview). And here is her website.

Woot!

Not only does CBC One have the (Canadian) leadership debates tonight, but there will be a special on typewriters!

The Arts Tonight (click here to listen online)
Monday, January 9, 2006, 10:00 p.m.
09/01/06

It was oh-so-useful and now it's such a relic, this evening on The Arts Tonight, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with author Darren Wershler-Henry about his irreverent history of the typewriter.

Bad girls movie poster index

Eskimo Nell (IMDb)
Click igloo for large view at source.
(Read 'The Ballad of Eskimo Nell' here)

Great and quite extensive index of cool mostly adult-labeled movie posters.
/18+ movie posters at de Lijst.
Incl.: Frauleines In Uniform, Unmoralischen Geschichten (Immoral Tales), Lorna, LSD Flesh of Devil, Sorority Babes in The Slimeball-O-Rama and many more! (via Agence Eureka)
Note: Many of the posters are NSFW

Excuse me, weren't you in the Fall?

"Mark E Smith's band is legendary for its ever-changing line-up. Dave Simpson made it his quest to track down everyone who has ever been a member"

"... This has been my life for weeks. I've become an internet stalker and a telephone pest, all because of an obsessive drive to track down everyone who has ever played in the Fall. That's 40-odd people, including drummers abandoned at motorway services, guitarists left in foreign hotels and various wives and girlfriends of the band's provocateur-ringmaster, Mark E Smith. ..."

Excuse me, weren't you in the Fall? article in Guardian Unlimited. (via Conscientious)

Las Vegas Grind

Las Vegas Grind Vol. 1-6 (1&2 - 3&4 - 5&6) at Lellebelle.

Week 43, The 45s: Hansson & Karlsson

Hansson & Karlsson (link goes to page in Swedish) is probably the best band ever to come out of Sweden in the 1960s. Consisting of a duo with organ and drums this innovative band put out one single and three albums in the late 1960s. Although being at the verge of a major breakthrough it never quite happened. So far there’s only been a single cd compilation reissued which really is a shame. What we really want to hear is of course a giant live cd box of the boys jamming on their own as well as with the likes of Frank Zappa, Cream, Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix (who recorded their song 'Taxfree'). Bo Hansson went on to record a highly successful interpretation of Lord of the Rings and Janne Karlsson became an actor and TV-show host. Here’s their sole single as well as a paper-flexi (hence the sound) put out by Dagens Nyheter (Sweden’s major daily morning paper) in 1967.

Click covers for larger views.

4. Hansson & Karlsson – Lidingö Airport
5. Hansson & Karlsson – Canada Lumberyard
6. Hansson & Karlsson – Paper-flexi

>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at Rapidshare or,
>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at Momoshare or,
>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at YouSendIt.

Earlier posts by HTMPL Prod. in the 45s mp3 comp. project: Week 42

Updated: Micke Orgel (a Swedish music blog) has made 3 tracks from the 1998 CD compilation 'Hansson & Karlsson' available.

Updated II: The Hansson & Karlsson tracks are now available as a part of the 45s mp3 comp. project.

The Wurlitzer Theatre Organ at Brentford

" ... These amazing instruments, with their myriad of sounds were then used to provide musical interludes and to accompany the stage acts which formed a part of many cinema programmes back in the 1930s. The hundreds of organ pipes, the percussion instruments and the many sound effects which make-up this unique instrument were tucked away behind the decorative proscenium of the cinema and were connected to the illuminated console containing several thousand wires. ...
When re-installed in the Musical Museum, the organ was connected to a very rare Wurlitzer Automatic Roll Playing Cabinet, enabling the performances of many American Theatre Organists of the 1920s to be faithfully recreated. "
At Music and the Cinema (don't forget to listen to the bombastic audio samples at the bottom of that page!) at The Musical Museum London, England. (via Blind Höna)

Action Comics (1966) Complete

All the DC Action Comics from 1966 (13 editions) downloadable as 2 pdfs at The Groovy Fab Workshop.
Action Comics (1966) Complete. (Note: password=groovyfab.blogspot.com)

2 Kenyon Hopkins TV Soundtracks

Your Pal Doug Presents 2 Kenyon Hopkins TV Soundtracks
East Side/West Side from 1963 and The Reporter from 1964

Two For the Aperitif

Two For the Aperitif - A Romantic Comedy is a superb (one of the best I've come across this far) mix of soundtrack pleasure delivered to us by Monsieur Aperitivo.

The Iraq War Paintings by Gerald Laing

'American gothic'
"Naked bodies piled up like logs drying for the winter is a new and strange phenomenon. Soldiers gesticulate proudly over this achievement. They wear green rubber gloves, just in case. One of each sex, standing in close relationship, they put me in mind of an American painting which is important in the mythology of the US – American Gothic, by Grant Wood. But if you look closely at the farmer and his wife in the painting they seem pretty grim. Hard working children of toil they may be, but could they also be bigoted and ignorant? In case they are, I have substituted for them newer and more reassuring figures in the composition – two friends from Abu Ghraib." (See the whole thing at the source by clicking the image)

The Iraq War Paintings (read the artists comments to his works here) by Gerald Laing. (thanks to Dick Headley)
Note: Not for the easily offended or those who love war.

More Tenngren

We posted about Gustaf Tenngren earlier on here. Now ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog has another beautiful post up with scanned images from another book, 'Small Fry and the Winged Horse' (written by Ruth Campbell)
Gustaf Tenggren's Small Fry and the Winged Horse

Will Cotton

'Candy Curls'

Will Cotton - paintings. (Note: Some are maybe a little NSFW) (via Fulminatia)

The Gyros Project

"These masterpieces of prosaic art, in which anonymous artisans lovingly render a staple of the culinary underclass, put transcendence on the street corner. Fast food is not the usual subject of creative vision, nor ramshackle shacks and under-the-El storefronts its usual location, but that makes this accidental outdoor art show all the more pleasing."
The Gyros Project, featuring the gyros signs of Chicago presented by Interesting Ideas' Roadside Art Online.

Your Opinion

I've been thinking of leaving HaloScan behind and use blogger's own comment function. What do you say? Pros and cons?

/Z aka Sebastian

Zyne

"Let'z zelebrate ze firzt anniverzary of Free Zample Zone wiz zome out-of-rhyzm zit by Zenard / It'z called Zyne / Track zeven appearz in ComfortZtand'z compilation Auld Lang Syne ..."
Chenard Walcker - Zyne at Free Sample Zone.

Nintendo Entertainment System Audiopalooza

Nintendo Entertainment System (1985-1994) 2-CD set at Post-Punk Junk. Blip'n'blop 'til you drop!

George Barris' show cars

1958 Turbo Sonic Dragster

French site honoring some of George Barris' really groovy show cars (via Fulminatia)
More here of course.

Birthday boys

Adland has dug up a few links to ads birthday boy Rowan Atkinson has appeared in.
Fujifilm (.wmv) , Nissan Martino (and another one) (both .mov), Barclaycard (.wmv) (also Behind the Scenes of a Barclaycard Shoot)
Another one it looks like we should celebrate today is Flash Gordon! Check this post out over at Datajunkie!

Turkish Delights

" ... this one proofs how much alive the Turkish beat- and psych scene of the mid- to late 60's was. ..."
Turkish Delights - Ultrarities from beyond the Sea of Marmara available at Lellebelle.

"a hip collection of pop-cultural links"

We have made the lists! The PCL Headquarters celebrates with IPREN and freshly pressed orange juice.
5 Blogs for Musical Archaeologists in LA Weekly.

Yngwie Fan Art

Yngwie-Related Artwork (via Screenhead)
The question is: are these artists fans or are they just making fun of him. But as you all know it's quite impossible to make fun of Mr. Malmsteen. He is the real deal.
Maybe this is possible to label Outsider Art?
Art shown in this post by David S. Perez.

One Man Band

Magnus says: "I guess you need to be somewhat lonely, or a visionary who can't stand other people's messy fingers, or a son of a bitch, or a genius to start a One Man Band, whatever the reasons, I always love these LPs, full of spirit."
Deb Hyer - One Man Band

She Likes to MP3 Real Low

I've come down with some really grim virus.
This is for getting me in shape. I'm fighting my cold with hot audio.

On The Flipside: Baby Please Don't Go.
Some Elvis imitation post-marabi South African 1950s pop music from Benoni Rocket at Benn Loxu Du Taccu. Super!
Uri Geller (!) - Come On And Love at Post-Punk Junk.
Sergio Mendes: What Is This? at The Ten Thousand Things.
Frankie Lee Sims - “She Likes to Boogie Real Low” at Toe Stubber.

My darlings! How I missed you!

Did you miss me? Tell me you missed me!!!

Herm...sorry. Got a little needy there. As I was saying, I'm glad to be back in Deadmonton, and I look forward like only I can to being back at the switch this Friday.

The only rain cloud in my sunshiney garden is that it'll be a truncated version of Pills, due to a barbaric hockey game, starting at 6.45 p.m.

Tune in anway, though, won't you? I'm gonna play...stuff.

Liza's Pills: Friday, 6-6.45 p.m., MST on CJSR. You can listen live on the internet, you know!

Pink Frost

Wonderful. Brings back memories and feelings from a life before I grew old cold and comfortable ;-)
Perhaps the best romantic and melancholic pop song ever recorded. Before indiepop. The video is top independent 80s.
The Chills - "Pink Frost".mov. Enjoy it over at Bedazzled.
The Chills on the web.

Hilarious Blonde Joke

Perhaps the funniest Blonde Joke ever!

Space Patrol Ship

"Firing Engine With Noise". Pop Artifact at This Is Pop!

European Advertising Posters

'Dubo Dubon Dubonnet' (Click Bottle)
"French menu sheet utilizing the famous Dubonnet design of Cassandre, one of the greatest 20th century advertising images. This was printed c.1950s, and is highly collectible today (and much cheaper than one of his posters!)"

European Advertising Posters (via WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Namur

Another (see my posts on 'Kiling') cool photo novel delivered to us by Arboles muertos y mucha tinta.
Namur: 1st Part & 2nd Part (of 4 installements).

Big Bold And Brassy

Enoch Light and The Light Brigade - Big Bold And Brassy at TAM TAM & Mélodie.

Manfredi Beninati

'Mondello', 2004.
Click image for larger and much better view at source.

Manfredi Beninati at James Cohan Gallery (via Moon River)

Off to the beach in 1973

Beach outfits from 1973 pattern magazine. Uploaded to flickr by juliazed.
Click image.

Week 42 - THE 45s Part 1

We’re off again. This time we’ve been browsing through the 45 racks. No fancy collectors stuff just some unjustly forgotten 45s and some justly so. All in glorious vinyl transfers with bumps and grinds. First out is a biker 7” from the singer of The Leather Nun, Jonas Almqvist. We let him tell the story: "'Lucky Strike' was recorded by SMC Ål Star Blosband, a side-project of mine. Actually a number of Swedish campfire-musician bikers, which I got together for a band to play at a very large biker meeting in Sweden early fall 1985. The gig was a laugh and much appreciated, playing a standard bikerparty-repertoire. Personally, I was trés content with just playing lead guitar in the band. After the one-off performance, I suggested a recording of a single with original material to be sold as a souvenir to bikers who'd attended the meeting. After a quick rehearsal (due to the biker-musicians being scattered all over Sweden), two tracks were recorded at Decibel Studios. The A-side was a track called 'A Bikers Fucking Hell' and dealt with the pains and problems that can surround a biker's life. I supplied the song Lucky Strike, for the B-side. The vocalist, a big harp-blowing geezer, didn't approve of the sexually bragging lyrics. After I'd recorded several layers of feedback-guitars, I stepped up to the mike and cut the vocals."
How Do I was a Danish band, that did an LP in the early 1990s and then disbanded. This 45 from 1991 is their striking cover of ABBAs 'Knowing Me Knowing You'. Produced by the Nomads legendary knob turner 4-Eyed Thomas. Our copy has been scribbled on by the singer, saying; No, I don’t regret anything. No, neither should you Anders. Cause this is one of the better ABBA covers we’ve ever heard.

(Click covers for large views)

1. SMC Ål Star Blosband – A Biker´s Fucking Hell
2. SMC Ål Star Blosband – Lucky Strike
3. How Do I – Knowing Me Knowing You

>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at Rapidshare or,
>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at Momoshare or,
>Download (all 3 tracks zipped) at YouSendIt.

The Dukes of Dixieland

"... Frank Assunto's Dukes of Dixieland were stereo LP superstars on the Audio Fidelity label. This Columbia album, however, appears during the band's "pop" period where the Dukes give standards (or sub-standards, depending on the song choice) the ol' Dixieland treatment. The album is certainly up-tempo. ..."
The Dukes of Dixieland - Breakin It Up on Broadway available at Snow Day.

Erik Sandberg

'Grace Lines' 2003

The art of Eric Sandberg (via Art Dorks)

Happy New Year/New monthly radioshow

Best wishes to everybody!



Rivka (12, week 40 of 52 weeks) is singing nursery rhymes and Mary Poppins songs in todays new show on Radio Zwolle, The Netherlands. From now on I'm presenting a two hours program each first sunday of the month starting at 17:03 local time (16:03 GMT, 9:03 am PST, 11:03 am EST)
Listen online: Radio Zwolle stream or http://82.192.77.1:8470/ (shoutcast)

After broadcast the shows will be available for a month at this page: http://www.omroepzwolle.nl/opnames/ (scroll down to the right date and look for "Radio Zwolle Klassiek").
In this series I will explore the borders of the definition of classical music. Today's theme is "the human voice" (part one). Pieces from both the 365 days project and the 52 weeks project will be played. There's a monthly "three of a kind" with unusual interpretations of famous classical pieces in the second hour. Today: the flight of the bumble bee.
In the second part of the first hour, there is live music played and sung by kids.
For a complete playlist: http://www.meneerjan.nl/radiozwolle/1.html

Splogman