The Big Guava

This week half of the American political circus comes to Tampa, Florida and there's more to the Tampa Bay area than Joe Redner, the Shuffleboard Hall of Fame and Rondo Hatton's grave — as this 1976 promotional film will show you.

In the early '90s I lived in Tampa while pursuing studies at the University of Sun and Fun and Tampa's public access cable was a goldmine of visual delights from Carol H. Sudler IV's (AKA Harrison) award-winning Chatterbox talkshow to GG Allin videos shown by Suzy Morbid (now DJ Suzy Solar) and, of course, the legendary Sondra Prill.

Behold The Hammer

Good grief.....

"Ling Ting Tong"

If you don't recall, PJ is the Texan-born rock star who is famous for being banned in the Sixties for splitting his too-tight trousers repeatedly on stage. Here he is in this lip-sync nightmare.

Viva Knievel

Been humming this one all day.
Gene Kelly? Marjoe Gortner?? Red Buttons!!!

Blue Jean Boy

Conny Froboess, "The Berliner Göre" of the 50's and 60's rides the rock and roll wave at some crappy looking holiday camp in this clip. Dubbed as the German Annette Funicello shes quite a little tart, ain't she?

Podium 70

music by Georges Garvarentz for french podium 70 tv show.

Mendocino

Mendocino, Mendocino
Ich fahre jeden Tag nach Mendocino
An jeder Tuer klopfe ich an
Doch keiner kennt mein Girl in Mendocino



Another inadvertent hamster in the pants video for your perusal. Check out the "it" at the 2:00 minute mark averting his/her eyes in shame as he/she is filled with shame at having lingered on "Lothar's" package.

Video grabbed from Histoire de l'Oeil

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It's been a few years since Mr. Fontana has posted any Raffaella Carrà links so I do not consider this redundant. Besides it contains overabundant uses of beloved 1980's editing abuses.

Lifted from Onkel Chrispy.

Can't Leave You Alone

George McCrae video that was obviously directed/edited by a recent graduate of the Leon Spinks Technical College for Film Editing. Try to count how cliched early video techniques are at work here. Too bad the "bad teeth" edit button was not working that day.

In Praise of Older Men (and Citroens)

If I could find any men older than me, I would ogle them, too. Instead, I will gaze longingly at the vintage Citroens that drive past Les Parisiennes in this 1965 video.

Lots more fun girl group vids can be found Ready Steady Girls!

Abby - The Black Exorcist

Another typical Sunday morning at the Yuma household. Watching cheesy, blaxploitation flicks on You Tube filmed in "Crap-O-Vision"

Thanks to Immoral Tales for the goodness.

Ster Trek meets Monty Python

Exotica dance in 60s lucha libre movie

An exotica dance routine scene found while watching a cheap 60's Lucha Libre VCD brought back from Mexico by a friend of mine. (merci Mathias!)

Blue Demon Contra Los Cerebros Infernales (1968), Luchador, mad scientist and zombie pussies ... the perfect blend!

Cloclo-Sha-la-la

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Uploaded by cfclint

Lord, I need some Dramamine after watching this video, that set is something ELSE. The wallpaper reminds me of Father Ted's bathroom.

Though the best part for me is that the model's dangling legs seem to stay in frame for like about 10 minutes. "Tout les sha-la-la-la tout les whoa-whoa..."

Thank you Mr. Battlecat for your wonderful recommendation of this video. If you want to learn about Cloclo's life (and untimely yet bizarre death) and see the world's dorkiest snowball fight, click here.