Effets Spéciaux

" ... Don't let the bright magenta colored cover of this album deceive you. Many of the tracks on this release consist of haunting ambient music, punctuated by a variety of percussion instruments, deep bass, electronic synths and strange sound effects. On the whole, Umiliani creates an atmosphere that is bleak, desolate, and mysterious. ..."
Piero Umiliani - Effets Spéciaux. Available thanks to Digital MeltdOwn.


Piero Umiliani - Batiments N° 1

Flowmotion

"I was quite proud of the fact that the booklet that came with the album stated that I had copy #137 of 500. Oh yeah, chicks dug me!
...
It's hard for me to now objectively evaluate an important artifact of my youth, but I can tell you that I used to be endlessly fascinated by songs like the mutant disco of David Jackman's orgy of overdubbed Casios, and the one vocal number on the album, The Legendary Pink Dots' "The Hanging Gardens," which was seemingly the greatest tune that Syd Barret never recorded. Colin Potter's "Rooftops" was sheer Moogy bliss. ..."
Mr. Fab at Music For Maniacs shares Flowmotion: an album of contemporary and electronic music.


The Legendary Pink Dots - The Hanging Gardens

Royal Garden Blues

Billie Poole 1960

Sing, Sing, Sing

Sing, Sing, Sing from Paul Anka's first album. He also does a version of Jambalaya on the album, with less success. But really, can anyone find me a BAD version of Sing Sing Sing?

John W. Bubbles

Music from the effervescent half of the vaudeville duo Buck and Bubbles, who was also the first Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess.

John W. Bubbles - I Won't Dance

Los Bric a Brac

Live show from Chile's Los Bric a Brac, recorded in 1968. From La Nueva Ola con Lufaro.

Mi Abeula Bailo Sirilla:

Savage Love

No other love will do but your savage love...

Slowing It Down.

Diddy Wah has embarked on a fascinating series of posts of classic 45 rpm singles played at 33 rpm. Here's that beloved melancholy ballad, "Daydream Believer."

"WHAT KIND OF SODA POP DO YOU DRINK?"

The Teenagers Responsible "Soda Pop" from Resonant Hole on Vimeo.

Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster

The US lobby cards for Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster. At the Manchester Morgue.

Now That You Don't Mention It

It was interesting to discover that Pink Anderson on film existed.

WOW! Lucky Clover CLub

Johnny Greenleaf and his sister Janie really love to "watch 'em grow!"

Makes you wonder what that surname is all about.

One-man band Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller - Double Double Do Love You (live 1966)

Uploaded by bobblues1

(Thanks to Doug Spalding.)

An Emotional Experience In Musical Communication

Enoch Light Presents An Emotional Experience In Musical Communication: Patterns In Sounds. Vol 1. and Vol 2. Available thanks to Third Island.


True Blues Traveling Dance Band - Ukulele Talk

Punk Anderson

Some friends of mine recorded this 13 years ago. Rock!

Punk Anderson - City Dues

(Thanks to Magnus for the upload.)
Note: Click the cassette cover for a nice article of the band in Swedish)

Lady Keglers

Check out these hotties! Champions all. All set to belly the ball and knock down some moose ears.




Found at Neat Stuff Blog

The Obscene Carrot

Found in an innocent bag of baby carrots, this rude little root vegetable dares to live life free of inhibition!

Special thanks to my brother who had the wisdom to photograph this and send it to me!

Gloomy Movie

Gloomy Movie (Flash Video 02:48) from Mori Chack.

Alex Chilton: I Will Always Love You

Live On WLYX Memphis 1975. Just the song. No video. Just a picture.

Track uploaded by wesgriff1

Blue Friday

Well, I have completed my holiday shopping for the PCL Ladies......this lovely Evening in Paris gift set was only $2.98 at my local Jupiter Five and Dime store. Probably my gift to the PCL guys will be Hai Karate soap on a rope, or just a handful of dollar bills for tipping their favorite exotic dancers. Shopping completed! 

Goin' Deer Huntin'

Put on your camo and grab that musket, Billy...we're a goin' deer huntin'.







At Frances Favorite 45's

The Patton Brothers - Banana Boat Song (Day-O)

Opposite of Ranch Party

WANDA JACKSON - RANCH PARTY

Puerile Placement

On the Heels of Dick

Julie Newmar crashing on My Living Doll. Get it while you can- Jack Chertok Productions has been making the thugs at Viacom take down these clips, despite his corpse a moulderin' in the grave, lo these 15 years. Julie, however, yet lives and breathes. God forbid they release it on DVD so she could make a few lousy shekels, maybe.

Julie Newmar!

A great collection of high resolution images of the amazing Julie Newmar relaxing at her swanky home circa 1958.

Julie's Official Web Page can be found here.

Aar Paar

O.P. Nayyar - Aar Paar. Available thanks to Music From The Third Floor.


Geeta Dutt - Hoon Abhi Main Jawan

Here is a lovely clip from the movie with Shakila acting out "Babuji Dheere Chalna" (vocals here as well is from Geeta Dutt).

Uploaded by studpup

Trumpet In Love

How could I not? Trumpets are a many splendored thing over at Lounge Legends.

Girls on Bongo Boards

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

Reverend Gary Davis - Feel Like Goin' Home

Uploaded by mrdantefontana666

The Donster

The Donster from Alec Lourmier on Vimeo.

Animated by Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quarterly. Written by Jordan Morris and Evan Keogh
Music: "Bad Motorcycle" by the Storey Sisters, "Rumble" by Link Wray and the Wraymen

Swelling of the Organ

You only get one cut from this album from Atomic Vinyl Zombie, but those who love lame-ass party records won't care. And such a fetching album cover!

Kristian Hoffman

Kristian Hoffman has had a long and quite fabulous, almost Zelig-like career, beginning in the early 70’s, where as a high school student in Santa Barbara, California, he hooked up with a young Lance Loud, often appearing as Loud’s best pal on the first ever reality TV show - An American Family.

His newest is called "Fop" (I love it) - this is the first I've ever read that spans his entire career here at Boogie Woogie Flu. Fittingly written by James (The Hound) Marshall, you can download some choice picks from Fop, as well as Kristian's previous bands, The Mumps and James Chance and The Contortions.

PS. Betcha didn't know this:

Hoffman is also a talented graphic artist who designed the famed New York Dolls logo (their name written in lipstick under a bend over nubile, goth girl) that appeared on the inner sleeve of their debut LP and millions of t-shirts ever since

Give Him the Ooh-La-La

Take a tip from Blossom Dearie, we gals can make men give us stuff and not give us traffic tickets if we only give them the ooh-la-la! Who knew.



From Zona de Jazz

This One Goes Out to the Teens

Who says PCL is just a bunch of pre- through post-middle aged hipster-wanna-bes who are out of step with today's youth culture? This hep platter comes from The Swingin' Shepherd from Canada, that bastion of cutting-edged-ness, no less. What could be groovier? Possibly the cuff links, or this rendition of Darktown Strutter's Ball, a big hit when Alf Landon was in the third grade. Swing it, Daddy!

For Nightpeople Only

Do you feel the fire? I FEEL it, I FEEL it!!
Light My Fire - Horst Jankowski from For Nightpeople Only (1970)

A Beautiful Memory

themathematicalbrain has created a really dreamlike salute to the disco floors.

Rondenion's "The Beautiful Memory" mashed together with footage (early or mid-eighties?) from the dance floor.

Tamara Lund

Everyone needs a little sultry in their Sunday, so here ya go......

Jerry Colonna - Music? For Screaming!!!

Horrific. This is Jerry Colonna at his best?!
from WFMU's blog.

Down by the Old Mill Stream

Adam and Evil

Uploaded to Flickr by Boy de Haas.

"Adam and Evil" by John Carlova. Cover by Charles Copeland.

Fire

Fire - The Lords from The Devil's Music

Jimmy et Les Kingbees

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Jimmy & Les Kingbees - Comme un Fou (1968) from Blue Beat in My Soul

Growling Tiger

The Parrot - Growling Tiger (Neville Marcano) from Black Star Liners 

Doris Day with Her 6 Poodles c.1952

The most popular dog of the 1950s in the US.

A wonderful dog by the way. I have one. The standard is sturdy, even tempered, loyal, hypoallergenic, and a makes a great guard-dog. I don't know why everyone feels the need to cross-breed this animal, with labs., etc. It's possible the breed got a bad rap from the high-strung toy size. Or perhaps, they became a problem in the 50's from in-breeding, and poor handling by snobs who sequestered them away.

photo courtesy Lisa's History Room.

Mambos And Cha-Cha-Chas

Carlo Peretti - Mambos And Cha-Cha-Chas. Available thanks to In-Flight Entertainment.


Mambo For Latin Lovers

Harmonikings perform on the Celebrity Cabaret pilot 1977

find more Borscht Belt style entertainment @ aNoidProduction's YouTube channel.

Mr Lacey, why do you do the things you do?

A short clip about Bruce Lacey and his robots. Make these robots!

Uploaded by JetSetTelevision

And, yeah, Fairport Convention wrote a song about him.

Dance the Hula in the Moonlight

Dance the Hula in the Moonlight - Danny Stewart

Greasy Kid Stuff

Don't be swayed by advertising, guys--we gals LOVE the slicked back hair.Here is a tribute to guys who still use the Greasy Kid Stuff!

Harold Mabern (with Lee Morgan and Hubert Laws) - Greasy Kid Stuff (1970) from Jazzsi

  

Image from A Sampler of Things, and the story of this product.

Sam Spence - NFL Films

Sam Spence is an American composer whose work is best known as the soundtrack of NFL Films. Any American boy worth his salt would be hard pressed not to blast his little brother with a Dick Butkus forearm shiver after hearing the bombastic arrangements of Mr. Spence.

Titles like "West Side Rumble", "The Equalizer", "Salute To Courage" and "The Power and The Glory" pretty much sum up the pompous character of the genre. Often accompanied by the Voice of God and awe inspiring film of our gridiron heroes kicking the bejesus out of each other, NFL Films paved the way for the immense popularity of the game today.

Now go ahead and find that scrawny sibling and clothesline him ala Chuck Bednarik while humming along......

Chicago Is A Polka Town

With the impending onslaught of hideous holiday music already upon us, I thought we should celebrate the wonders of the beat for our dancing feet, Lil' Wally style!



Found at 27th Street

Laurie Spiegel - "Improvisations on a 'Concerto Generator'"

Important Lesson: How to identify ritual satanic killings

From "Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults".
"Teaches officials what to look for and how to anticipate satanic activity."
Now, You can become an expert!

Via Christian Nightmares.

Enne Mpo Ni

Ghanaian highlife band Kwasi Boateng's Band - Enne Mpo Ni. Available thanks to Global Groove.


Adee a obi wo

Now, this is ...

Cheek To Cheek

Fausto Papetti - Cheek To Cheek. Available thanks to Lounge Legends.


Too Much Tequila

HIPÓCRITA

Trio Irakitan - Hipocrita

Cocktail Time

Rae Bourbon - Cocktail Time
From Ladies of Burlesque

Sporting Themes

In-Flight Entertainment celebrates one year (congrats!) by posting BBC Sporting Themes.
Groovy music and sports. Hm. Works great!


Ray Davies - Breezy Bounce

Men (the manly kind)

Bruton Music - Face of Danger

A rather nice collection of groovy beats from Bruton Music library records collected and shared by Art, Guns, Money & Records.
Bruton Music - Face of Danger.



John Hawkins - Zed Bends

Haunted Cinema

Jack Stevenson writes about grindhouse/porn cinemas for Bright Lights Film Journal:

Haunted Cinema - A Client-Centered Approach to Film Spectatorship.

"... The theatre never had more than one employee on the premises, a union projectionist who could sit at either the ticket counter or in the projection booth, since he was responsible for both. If he sat behind the counter, he could see the screen in a mirror. He couldn't really make out what was happening in the movie, but when the film had tailed out of the projector and the screen went white, he knew it was time to put on another film. If he happened to be reading a book or was otherwise diverted, it could be quite a while before he happened to notice the movie had ended. No one ever came out of the theatre to complain. If the projectionist chose to kill time in the booth he could snooze on a sofa. When the film tailed out of the projector, it would flap away until he woke up and started the next movie. If he put the machine on rewind and went downstairs to sell tickets, the same thing would happen to the beginning of the film; it would flap away and eventually break off in pieces. This was how the beginnings and ends of so many porn films were lost. ..." (about The Green Parrot in Seattle)