Sesame Street: Soliloquy On B

Worm Wrestle

U.N.C.L.E.B.T.D.I.C.O.

The United Nations Command for Law Enforcement By Tonner Dolls In Custom Outfits.


Looking for an Illya Kuriyakin pic- found it.Just go, it's too exquisitely obsessive to bother interpreting. Herculean effort/Intent in juxtaposition.

CERRONE - Cerrone's Paradise

Okay, here's trying not to be a lazy bastard and post a little more than just another youtube clip, without any kind of a story to go with it.
He is almost sixty years and grey now, but still alive and kicking: Marc Cerrone! (Kermit: YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!) I've got all of his records and I play them almost every day. No, that's not true. It's actually a bold lie. I only have one record of Cerrone and I played it once or twice, I think. Anyway, I didn't buy it for the music, but for the girl on the cover that fitted nicely into my sleeve-girls project, but then the picture was removed by photobucket, because of violation of terms and I had to upload it to my own account and now it is hotlinked by others and causing bandwidth overflow. Info on youtube says this clip was done by the Monty Python team.



Reader's question: has anyone seen "Brigade Mondaine" by Eddie Matalon? How was it?

Rod McKuen, Deep as the Deep Blue Sea

Home to the Sea was a collaboration between smarmily-sincere 70s poet Rod McKuen and composer/arranger Anita Kerr, who should have known better than join forces with Rod.

I was going to add a video of Rod McKuen in action, but was physically unable to sit through an entire video of him reading his poems about his cat and his failed love life. Home to the Sea is unwittingly hilarious in its attempts at profundity-- I'm sure it was used in many (probably failed) seductions in the 70s.

On the back cover Rod tells us to try to listen to the album before buying, because you'd probably be happier with something more "predictable". You got that right, Rod! Though the cut "Bathtub Surfing" from the album is kinda funny and odd, and worth a listen.

Donna Summer as a harem girl

This clip - I don't know where it came from. It features future disco chart-topper Donna Summer. She is about twenty years old in this and still may have been going by her birth name (LaDonna Gaines). She is singing in German and wears a harem costume.

Breakout

Psychedelic pop music from 1960s Poland at Sa Starog Gramofona

Meanwhile, back at PCL Headquarters ...

Elli Medeiros - Toi mon toit

Scary Monsters

Gōjin Ishihara's work graced the pages of numerous kids' books in the 1970s. I think I'm wishing I was born in Kyoto. The Hardy Boys pale in comparison.

"Score with a Mate every month"

Alice Coltrane (August 27,1937- January 12,2007)

Alice Coltrane's first solo l.p. - A Monatastic Trio - was a tribute to her late husband, John Coltrane, who passed away a year before its' release. This l.p. features noted jazz musician like Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, Ben Reily, and Jimmy Garrison. On it, the late Mrs. Coltrane (who was born on this day, in 1937) plays the harp and the piano. This l.p. - as with many of her recordings - falls under the Avant-Garde jazz banner. It is a times very soothing to hear and just a lovely album to listen to. Check out the tune I have posted - "Ohnedaruth" - and see…hear for yourself.

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the Percy Trout hour

Super Fizz Sugar Pop
from all over the Globe.

Download another show from the Archives.
This one from June 7, 2010:

Part One

Part Two

Samantha, Darrin and Endora

Where's Larry Tate?

Via La Dolce Vita

Aw HELL Yes, It's Martha Davis & Her Spouse Again

How did I miss this when I was searching for Martha Davis & Her Spouse a few weeks back? A whole mess of great R & B classic tunes, courtesy of FouTourist, thank you thank you!

Loosers Can't Spell, Either

Loosers Are Weepers

The Ballads of Lt. Wm. Calley

I say war criminal, you say war hero....that's what makes America great, I think....The World's Worst Records has not one, not two, but THREE musical tributes to the man held responsible for one of the worst massacres of the Vietnam war.

I Dreamed I Broke Into An Abandoned Church In My Maidenform Bra

I Dreamed I Broke Into An Abandoned Church In My Maidenform Bra
Originally uploaded by clotho98

HALEVAI - Moishe Oysher and The Barry Sisters

Oh, and yes, we are there as well.

If you haven't noticed it yet. We are on Facebook. It's the same lame shit as here but spiced with occasional bonus thingies from Baikinange and Me. Nothing new. Same old. Yada yada. And, yes, we rule!

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Toby Rix - Trumpetconcerto in Eb Joseph Haydn

Terrorist Attack!

"Terrorist Attack", a 35 card factory set that profiled famous terrorists and terrorist acts of the last century was issued by the Piedmont Candy Company in 1987. Honing in on the success of the "Mars Attacks" set previously issued, 25 years earlier, the set features some jaw dropping art work and currently sells in the $15 to $25 dollar range at collector shows.


Back of card reads - "Being a terrorist is not an easy occupation. The average terrorist is an ignorant and illiterate slime who has difficulty using a fork, much less operating a machine gun or rocket launcher. Therefore, those nations that feel national policy is advanced through kidnapping and murder of innocent people need training camps where terrorists can learn their repulsive skills. Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Syria and Libya are among the nations which train terrorists how to kill unarmed tourists and workers. These nations then supply their murderous vermin with weapons, supplies and even targets of attack. After an attack has been made, these countries claim that the terrorists were working independently. Of course, when their training camps get attacked, these countries throw diplomatic temper tantrums at the United States."





In this post 9/11 climate, they have become a pariah of the non-sports collectible world. All the more reason to have them in your collection.

Link via El Blog Ausente
Additional info by The Wrapper

Jelly Bean Bandits

With deep and meaningful lines such as "The bandits love your mind, and what remains of society is manure", you know you need the rest of the 1967 album by the Jelly Bean Bandits.

Di-gue-ding-ding

From 1964, Michel Legrand's ultra-groovy Archi-chords, via Blue Beat in My Soul

Di-gue-ding-ding:

Sylvia of Hollywood

If you're in the UK, you can hear my Lethal tones in this radio doc, which airs on BBC4 tomorrow.

See more here.

The Whistler and His Guitar

From 1964, early Toots Thielemans--no harmonica, just a man, his guitar, and his pursed lips. Also featuring Dick Hyman, and Don Lamond. And not to disappoint those of you who share my love of stupid song titles, I have chose the cut entitled "Indiana Nuts" to represent the album.



You can either get the FLAC version not divided into separate cuts here, or get it nicely converted to MP3 and divided (by ME, you're welcome), here

Ernie K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge

Nice footage of Ernie K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge backed by The Egg Yolk in 2001, just before he passed away.

Hello My Lover:


Te Ta Te Ta Ta:

Both videos uploaded by RoccoFancypants

Won't You Dance With Tiny Tim ?!?!

"Tiny Tim's single and music video from 1989, "Won't You Dance with Me?" This video also features Judy Carne whom Tiny Tim worked with on Laugh-In."

Uploaded by GodBlessYouTinyTim

Piccadilly

"With its stunning production design and photography, 'Piccadilly' depicts London through an otherworldly cocktail of influences, blending the debauchery of the rich West End set with the sleazy excitement of a Limehouse dive bar and the city's smoky Chinese quarter.

German émigré E.A. Dupont, who brought an international flair to late-'20s British cinema, also tackles the then risqué subject of inter-racial sex. As Shosho, who works her way from kitchen hand to star attraction at the eponymous nightclub, via a love tryst with its (attached) owner, Chinese-American star Anna May Wong represents the ultimate, and ultimately doomed, Deco diva." (Simon McCallum)

New music score by Neil Brand

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Big Maybelle

Big Maybelle - The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55. Available thanks to Revenant Glint.


Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On (rec. 2 years before The Killer's version)


Big Maybelle at the Newport Jazz Festival 1958 growlin' and rockin' out "I Ain't Mad at You":

Uploaded by JamesKPower

Live Hawaiian Party

Swanky shares Sam Makia - Live Hawaiian Party as 2 large files.

Rowdy Roddy Is Your Man!

The fifth entry on PCL was about this man. That, if anything, says something about his importance. 'Cause you know: He's your man!

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

Piano Red

Piano Red - Percussive Piano "Dr. Feelgood" available thanks to Don't Ask Me ..... I Don't Know.


Think She Ain't

Baby Blues

"He had baby blues. So crystal clear. Blue enough to fill a swimming pool."
Jan Terri knows love.

Uploaded by oswaldwang

Femme Fatale

From 1957, the smoky afterhours blues of Hadda Brooks:
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

I Ragazzi del Jazz

Nini Rosso - I Ragazzi del Jazz

Marsautos

From Virtuelles Puppenhausenmuseum

Rock and roll.

The Swedish blog Radiovikarien had an entry 3 years ago about the 10 December 2007 Led Zeppelin re-union at the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert. The author of the blog had access to a press archive. He found an intersting photo of Zeppelin in Sweden.

The caption translated from Swedish:
"Archival footage from 1973 of hard rock group Led Zeppelin at the porn club Chat Noir in Stockholm, receiving the gold records which are placed against the bed on which the clubs sex artists perform. From the left John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham. Photo: Bertil Ericson."

Note: Click the image for the full NSFW view.

(Via Iggo Babom Frostskada at Sunkit)

Pete Drake & his talking steel guitar

Galeria of Semi-Failed Dance Crazes: The Letkiss

Finland's Letkiss may not qualify for a failed dance craze, because it seems to have persisted through at least 2001. Should this dorky little dance appeal to you, you can get a collection of Letkiss music that includes the Beatnik Letkiss, the Royal Letkiss, and the Swan Letkiss, which are virtually indistinguishable to my ear.

This is the Italian version:



Is this the pop Minuet Bunny Hop Letkiss? I am confused.

That's The Way the Ball Bounces

Swinging Willie Davis crooning away on this novelty record from 1963. Also features the smooth stylings of Maury Wills with his rendition of "Somebody's Keeping Score". The team went on to win close to 100 games that year and swept the Yankees in the World Series. Desuko might want to convince Manny to grab some studio time and bust a move. Karma.





Thanks to boyjohn for the link.

The brassiest wall of sound

"Malagueña" by Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

Mziuri

And the bus trip ends up in the country of Georgia, or at least with the Georgian kiddie band Mziuri. What a greeting!

Dimm dee dee dimm dee dee dimm dee da doo Dimm dee dee dimm dee dee dimm dee da doo


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Утесисто тема

No, this is not The PCL Team on tour. This is a russian instrumental band taking on the Rocky Theme budget style.

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Ken Nordine's Levi's ads

Freewheelin' kiddos are wearing them too.

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Dull has gone out of style.

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Harp Boogie

Jazz harpist Adele Girard and her band. Not sure if the hottie doing the boogie-woogie is necessary?

Tutto Nero

Thanks, Numero Six

Henry Mancini: The Readers Digest recordings

Henry Mancini - The Readers Digest recordings - 1981 - vol 1, vol 2 and vol 3.
This was made available thanks to Lounge Legends.



The Hustle

Karls Disco Wiener Haven

From Alex Cox's "Straight To Hell"

Sour Kraut Music

Fritz Guckenheimer and his Sour Kraut Band play German oom-pah music the way it was truly meant to be played--loud, slightly out of tune, and listing drunkenly to one side. Mr Fab, a kind reader of my blog shared a link to this album in the comments on a totally unrelated post -- Music For Non-Thinkers is available in a suitably low-fi bitrate of 128, you can snag it here.

Kommes Ein Birdie Yet:

Jolly Land

Music by 60s Argentine pop star Jolly Land from Los Discos Viejos de Hector.

The War Between Fats and Thins

From 1969, Harvey Matusow's Jew's Harp Band - The War Between Fats and Thins, found at ... którędy pójdą dzicy święci

Cha-ba-da cha-ba-di

From GENERAZIONI e "PICK-UP"

Gimme Some More

Also known in my household as - Gimme Some S'mores!
M-m-m-m…D.D. Sound are de-lish.

Suntory White

Suntory White Whiskey commercial from the early 70s with Sammy Davis ad- libbing.

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

Literary pets

Gilbert Alter-Gilbert at A Journey Round My Skull presents a handful literary pets.

"Nerval enthusiast Evonne Kummer with lobster at NY World Fair"


(c) Kate Simon, print, Burroughs and friend

Stroszek - Dancing Chicken

Stroszek - Dancing Chicken. "...The famous ending of Werner Herzog's 1977 feature. RIP: Bruno S.

Monsieur Bong Bong

Yves Lemieux, j'adore tu, or je t'adore, or whatever it is.

Walrus Trophy

Found at Bad Postcards

Club Hot-Cha at Midnight, Don't Be Late

Map of Harlem nightspots in the 1930s at Big Think, including the Cotton Club (ruled by Cab Calloway), the Savoy, and the Radium Club, where breakfast was served at 4 or 5 am for the musicians at the end of their work day. Found via T. Tex's Hexes.

Les Napoléons a Go-Go

Les Napoléons a Go-Go

O Frigideiro

What can I say, sometimes it's just fridge day, and that's all there is to it.

O Frigideiro by Miguel (AKA Bruno Lauzi) e I Caravana

Crosley Shelvador

The Crosley Shelvador was the only fridge made with a built-in radio (to date). You can hear its infectiously snappy little theme song at Artwork by Manic Mark. Or just press "play" below.

Moanin'

The Quincy Jones Big Band - Moanin' (trumpet solo by Clark Terry)

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

Mumbles

Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry - Mumbles

(Via Videosift)

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Super-Fizz-Sugar-Pop

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The Big Band of Helmut Gunter plays Rock & Roll Hits for Dancing

Sounds Like Last - The Big Band of Helmut Gunter plays Rock & Roll Hits for Dancing. Available thanks to charity shop stuff.


Travelin' Band

Nixon Family Album

Check out the Nixon Family Album over at Bostworld.