This Is Parris Island (1970)

Via: Everlasting Blort

From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli.

100 Guitars

Are you MAN enough to defend your love against... 100 GUITARS!?


I didn't have a lot of information about this video when I posted it, but thanks to a PCL visitor who did some great research, now we know...

"de la TV Romande" indicates that it's French-Swiss (i.e., from the French-speaking part of Switzerland). In this case it came from SSR/TSR (Télévision Suisse Romande). It's an excerpt from "Happy End", which won the main prize at the 1964 Rose d'Or Swiss TV festival/awards. (See WIKI LINK).

Apparently the Stones and Petula Clark played live at the awards that year. The whole thing looks pretty demented, in all the right ways."

The song is "Every Night (Without You)" from 1962 by Paul Anka.

Naughty Military Illustrated Postcards

Anyone know any back story on these?

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.

G.I. Jokes

Hey, Mac! What Do You Know?

Follow the right steer, and not the bum steer, and you won't get the clap. Or something like that. See the entire 1950s pamphlet here.

Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy invites you

Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy has tons of cool and interesting photos, posters, book covers and stuff in her sets (perhaps I should write "her" sets, i don't know ..), mostly from the post WW2 era (like army photos and memorabilia).

US Navy posters - Photos from USS Corporal SS 346 (submarine) - A selection of photographs of hotel interiors - Transport & Travel Posters - Variety Acts & Vaudeville and much much more!

Above images were taken from the set Now read on . . . (Fun book jacket art) (via 「好きになった」メモ)