Steve Gibson and the Red Caps

Here's a real find if you're craving some music in the tradition of Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, and the King Cole Trio--the swinging small group hipness featuring Steve Gibson and the Red Caps.

Not the least bit disturbing.

Kids In The Hall - My Pen!

Kids In The Hall - My Pen! (Flash Video 04:13). Missed the original run as I was out of the country. Happy to finally catch up with this nuttiness!

Soul Train: The Documentary

screenshot by yours truly {2008}

Well, Donna Lethal and I were on to something awhile ago.
Wondering and guessing if the story of fabulous Don Cornelius and his glittering Soul Train would ever be told.
Leave it to N.P.R.
Listen and learn.
It'll be a stone gas!

GlyphJockey Moved New Site/New RSS

Greetings, one and all (especially all)
Blogger in it's infinite run-by-robots faceless wisdom will no longer support my old GlyphJockey.com as a blog so it's now at http://glyphjockey.blogspot.com - and while a pain in the ass it already seems easier to use. The feed is new (no real way to redirect) so please stop by and resubscribe to my list of inane musings.
Thanks!

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Download another show from the Archives.
This one from December 14, 2009:

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May the Meat in a Can Be With You.

After a week of being laid low by a horrible cold and various other personal travails, nothing hits the spot like a wild intersection of classic "Star Wars" and Japanese TV. Thank you, Japan, for renewing my faith in humanity.

[via Monkeys4Helping.]

Ritmo de "Rock"

"Have Lips, Will Kiss In the Tunnel of Love" is but one of the hits from Norberto Baldauf's collection of accordion-laced teen tunes.

You see a lot of disembodied head artwork, but never dungaree'd floating legs, very splendid!

South Sea Island Bolero

The bizarro South Sea Island Bolero from 1934 must have been the final nail in the coffin for the lavish Busby Berkeley-type musical number....stick with it until at least the 3:00 mark.

Dames Prefer the Mambo

From The MÜLLER-FOKKER Pulpbot Effect

En Busca en Aventuras

From El Desvan del Abuelito

The Big Gundown

Old post, but the link still works. I've been on an Upsetters kick lately, and was telling a friend about the various "Django" tunes that Sir Lord Comic and the Upsetters did. This is what you need. Wanna listen first?

No, not that Mickey Rooney!

{Modesto Bee/ May, 1958}

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Tubby, Revisited

I always find the most interesting things when I'm looking for something else. I ran across some GREAT stories about comedian Tubby Boots-- including the tale of his friendship with Lord Buckley-- on Classic Television Showbiz.

Truth? Fiction? Who cares!

Happy Norway To You!

Every time I visit my mother I seem to unearth more and more stunningly awful Norwegian kitsch...how much could she have toted over from the old country when she came here?? Anyway, this time it was lovely black and white guidebooks paying tribute to the joys of Norski living, with photos of cod drying in the sun, hideously ugly wedding parties, babes in the nip posing as the Little Mermaid (hey, no fair, that belongs to the Danes!) and the photo below of a woman who is best pals with a bear. Let's just be grateful by the time this pic was taken, she had weaned if off to the bottle.

Robert Wyatt "Sea Song"

This one is even better... a pox upon the disablers of embedding!