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.

The 80s in Swiss TV

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Hula Hawaiians

There's not a lot of information that I could find about the Hula Hawaiians, other than that they were a Swiss and German band who recorded from the 40s through the 60s. In fact, here is a video that is supposed to be the Hula Hawaiians still performing not that long ago. Listen and love The Chimpanzee Rock:



If you think you'd dig hearing a Hawaiian themed song sung in German, try Zucker Lilly (from 78rpm):



And a small four song download I made just for YOU (no, not you, but YOU):

Hula Hawaiians

Doesn't their neckwear look less like leis than giant pipecleaners?