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.

Finnish Wild West and Snake Charmers

I really dislike sites that let you hear the music but don't actually allow you to download it...but I'll make an exception here. Maybe there's some way to download that I'm just to uneducated to know about and some nice person will educate me.

Finnpicks has SO many great cover versions of songs, including Rawhide (Lännen tie) by Matti Heinivaho from their Wild West Week:



I think "koolkay" means "rollin'" in Finnish.

Snake Charmer by Annikki Tähti:

"Vestio vaatettaa"

Thanks to Pat Padua.

Laila Kinnunen - In My Imagination

[via patpadua]

Living Doll goes Finnish

A Finnish version of Cliff Richard's 'Living Doll' from the 1961 movie 'Toivelauluja' [IMDb]

Video uploaded by Sirri2

(via David Nessle)

Putti putti

Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri - "Putti putti" (via Sunkit)

Jackson, in Finnish!

Lasse Mårtenson & Carola Liemola - "Mä lähden stadiin":

Uploaded by Sixtiesalltheway

This Week's My New Favorite Band

Hey- I know you're all hipper than me and this is probably over for you all already, but there's seven (okay, maybe more, maybe less) deadly Finns, and they define the essence of ROCK (make gesture with clenched fist and flexed forearm). For me, their music transcends the gag, because their arrangements are so comprehensively perfect. Also the Elvis hubcap belt buckle, beehives, real russian balalaika players, skeleton minidresses, ubersquiffs, and african drummers don't hurt, either.

OFFICIAL SITE

Wikipedia provides the backstory (and in this case behaves like a music blog at the bottom)

Covering Uriah Heep's Easy Livin'


Covering Smoke on the Water


Sweet Home Alabama


If they ever come to the USA I'm a-goin'!

First Christmas Post 2007??

Stolen from April Winchell's Blog
"Here’s Rajaton, a Finnish a cappella group, performing Jingle Bells on some Nordic morning show. I don’t know the name of it, but I like to pretend it’s Live! With Hrothgar and Gunhilda."

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....time to get back in the bunker.

The Refer Man

Lex10 here. As a brand, spanking, (see? I'm a little dirtier already!) new contributor to PCL, I finally have an outlet for some stuff I wanted to refer, but had no solid venue to refer it in. My regular blog GlyphJockey is more a place where I generally show stuff I've personally archived, plus my art. I do refer there, but it's more a bandwagon/holidays/deaths things (BTW R.I.P. Bobby "Boris" Pickett! Now you're a graveyard smash!) as opposed to hard referring. Did I say "refer" enough?

Here's my first post: SIVUPOLUT Finnish Pin-ups. Or should I say Piinukka Uuppaa. The images are not that large, and I get the impression that it's tied to some store there, but the reason to take a look is the interpolation of the American Pin-up magazines and paperbacks by Finnish publishers.



There's also an assload of other hardboiled/racy/noir imagery there too. Perfect for PCL, no?


Puuhakas Puna Tukka, indeed!

PMSFWUYWIACOS (pretty much safe for work unless you work in a convent or something)

Lastly, less words in future. I promise. If you care to criticize or praise on a personal level, go HERE
Thanks to Dante for the warm welcome.

Route 66 demo

Get your kicks on Route 66 with M.A.Numminen & DJ Sane (first track).