Lynn Carey - Mama Lion

If Lynn Carey's voice sounds familiar, that's because she did the Carrie Nations vocals on the "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" soundtrack. She could easily have been a Russ Meyer chick, and was a Penthouse Pet, but preferred to keep on the music side with her group, "Mama Lion" (you can see her on the cover in the video, suckling a lion cub!)

A Sinatra Memory

"Would you like a bullshot Mr. Rome?"

Since PCL's on a eentsy Sinatra jag:

First of all let me say I love Frank Sinatra. Not his music, really, because I'm a closed minded jerk who is from the rock and roll era or later (It's OK music, but what am I, some kinda metrosexual Sopranos wannabe? Fuck no), but his movies. From Here to Eternity, The Man With The Golden Arm, Von Ryan's Express, Suddenly, The Manchurian Candidate, and my two top faves, Tony Rome and Lady in Cement......... I think they're all great.

But when I was kid, I used to just hate him. He was establishment, and a pig, and he came from a bullshit world that the new world order of peace and love would crush. ...Ah, yoot, as they say in North Jersey. Since then, as I continue to not croak, my mind has opened, like the ribs of a deer that has been hit by a car and is half eaten by buzzards while lying in the sun. Reluctantly, in a dessicated fashion, but allowing more access to those who insist I expose my delicious vulnerable underbelly. And like Sinatra - so now I do.

So, when I was first married, I read His Way by Kitty Kelly. I was shocked and pleased to read just how demonic an individual he really was, like a lone Roman orgiast, or a vampire. It confirmed my suspicions. Joey Bishop acting as apologist on Phil Donahue only helped. It was exquisite Hollywood Babylon-esque debauchery and decadence.

My mother in law, a new friend if you will, at the time, loved Frank Sinatra, and nearly worshiped the man. She refused to read or believe the book, and when we told her about this quote from Peter Lawford:

"one time at a party in Palm Springs he got so mad at some poor girl that he slammed her through a plate glass window. There was shattered glass and blood all over the place and the girl's arm was nearly severed . . . Frank paid her off later and the whole thing was hushed up, of course."

She replied,

"Oh he was just trying to relax............she was probably bothering him."

Fly me to the moon

The real thing! Ah. Refreshing.

Opening scene from Sinatra, Man & His Music Part 2 (Frank Sinatra TV special from 1966):

Video added by balboabill

Sinatra Squirrel

Let's just assume exotique booze was involved creating this somehow ...

Video created and uploaded by RubberRepublic

The Slim Gaillard Vout-o-Reenee Dictionary

As a public service to PCL's own Mr. Dante Fontana, whose embarrassing showing in the jazz quiz he posted below compels me to offer a little remedial training in the art of hiptitude (though I admit my sorry total of 64 only puts me on the outskirts of Squaresville). Who better to show us the way than the voutest of the voot, Mr. Slim Gaillard himself.



The owner of this copy of Slim Gaillard's Vout-o-Reenee Dictionary asks on his site if anyone knows how much it's worth. Well, pal, it's worth NOTHING (or translated into vout, "tee-but-tar"), so I'll send you $5 for postage and you can send it to me PRONTO (there appears to be no word for quickly or right away in Slim-speak, which seems appropriate). Reet?

Now let's enjoy Slim and Bam (and Scatman Crothers, I believe....10 extra points for me for knowing!) performing the very superior "Dunkin' Bagels o'Voutee Mac Vootee", and feel the ambient hipness wash over our nerdy little souls.

50´s spanish sci fi paperbacks

'El experimento del Dr. Kellman' & '¡¡Entropía!!'
Click images for enlargement.

50´s spanish sci-fi novels, a nice set at flickr. (via Coudal Partners)

The Dude

The Dude - Vol.03 No.05 May 1959.
The complete mag. scanned and uploaded to Vintage Girly Magazines.
Note: Not all pages are safe for work!

Don't miss the Funky? quiz (click pages to see the questions):
It's actually a really hard (but fun) test of your Jazz knowledge.

Are you from Squaresville or Endsville?
(The answers to the questions can be found somewhere on this page).

And, me? I'm bitterly moving into my new house in Squaresville (I only scored 26 points ... out of 100)

the Crystal Clear Piano

"Let's stay for a while in the Black Forrest. This is Stuttgart calling, where Horst Jankowski made his way before leaving for the RIAS Berlin in 1975. His wonderful creations of Sound and Singers climed the charts between 1964 and 1970. Jankowski convinced the German audience of the existence of a musical style beyond Schlager and Classics but actually, he succeeded in the US where people called him the Crystal Clear Piano from the Black Forrest. ..."
The Sound Spectrum offers up this Horst Jankowski double feature:- Baby But Grand! / And We Got Love
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A sports moment

Life in Soviet Russia

Life in Soviet Russia: Private Moments, a mixed series of great photographs of "ordinary" life in yesterdays Russia/Soviet collected and uploaded by English Russia. (via Coudal Partners)

Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 3

Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 3 is ready and waiting for you.
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South Pacific

Les Baxter and His Orchestra plays South Pacific. Now available at Xtabays World.
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Transylvania 4-5789

Continuing with my monster-music kick, you can dig up a coffin full of terrifying tunage, courtesy of the Sinister Dr. Sparber, who is now channeling the spirit of the Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf over at his latest 'blog, 50,000,000 Sparber Fans Can't Be Wrong.

The Ghoul's latest entry features vintage television horror-host, Zacherle, the Cool Ghoul, crooning his big hit, Dinner With Drac. Mmmm, batwing confetti and the veins of a mummy named Betty. Now them's good eatin'!

More Essential Ghoularity.

"You Call That Dancin'?"

The Not Very Pretty Music Blog has an hour long interview with Bettie Page. It's at the time of publication of Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-up Legend. She's a sweet old lady, and her country style is really kinda counter to the whole sleek Bunny Yeager thing.

She even speaks with one of her former photographers.

What Iggy Wants ,,,,,,,Iggy Gets!

The Smoking Gun has a very funny concert rider for the Stooges tour.

Excerpt:


It's not that it's just funny, one gets the impression that Iggy's a good boss, and it also provides insights as to how all that stuff gets set up, and why some concerts can really suck.

The Official Tate-LaBianca Murders Blog

Who Knew? It has like 30 contributors! Ya gotta really be into it, huh? Or connected to it......


Susan Atkins (supposedly) participating in a ritual as part of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.

Flying w/Lex10

I recently flew Frontier, a lovely airline with friendly staff and little maps of our progression across the USA! USA! USA!



I wqs impressed with their safety guide, which was rendered in lovely gradients, as opposed to the simpler fills used by the printers of other airline safety guides:



And their use of celebrities, as illustrated by this image of Quentin Tarantino donning an oxygen mask:



But what caught my eye was this "check to see if the coast is clear" portion of the brochure:



REALLY thorough don'tcha think?