No Fuss No Muss Shrunken Heads For All Occasions

Another fine product from Pressman Toy makers.

Found by Christian Hell

Kannst du schon den Calypso

Bibi Johns 1957

Welcome to Hell

Lileks has a new site! It's not quite finished - well, I'll let him say it:

Hey, it’s an unfinished site with only one thing on it! That must mean it’s in “beta.” But since there’s a lot of content in that one link, then it’s maximum beta - or, to make it really super 70s, “Betamax!” Ha ha. Can I write for the Hudson Brothers’ Summertime replacement variety show now?

Don’t know who the Hudson Brothers were? We’ll get to that.

But what's there so far is a blast.

"Honey, Honey" (Czech Version)

Join Hana Zagorová and Petr Rezek for a romantic stroll through the bread line of dreams in this Czech music video. Watch out for that streetcar, Hana!

From an Earth-man?!

See here.

So Many Kanimambos, So Little Time

I've already expressed my love for the tune Kanimambo, but can't resist posting a few more versions.

Kanimambo - Los españoles

The Keggs - To Find Out (1967)

"A band so hated in their hometown Detroit they had to change their name after every show they played".
This track features some primal screaming, unintelligible lyrics, drunken vocals and a discordant guitar track that melts the ears. Perfect recipe for a rock and roll classic.

Rare Celebrity Photos @ This Is Not Porn

As if ye old net hasn't sucked precious hours of my life already, along comes this site with photos of celebs. hamming it up for the camera, posing at dinner parties, yucking it up on the sets of classic films, etc. A period of time captured for eternity. Peer into the abyss and the hours tick away. It's safe for work 'cause This Is Not Porn.

Frasier the Randy Li'l Lion

Meeee-OW!  From 45 Blog

Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: The Eggbeater

Dead Wax offers up the tune and fledgling dance craze (that died in the nest) "The Egg Beater".


Billboard, March 3, 1962 :

Cincinnati
« The Egg-Beater, » new release by Dale Wright and the Wright Guys on the Starburst label and an accompanying dance originated by the lads, is taking off in this sector. WKRC-TV started the Egg-Beater Dance Contest on Glenn Ryle’s « Sub-Teen Dance Party’ several weeks ago, with finals held on the Ryle show before a studio audience Saturday (24). Bob Braun, at WLW and Bob Smith and Dick Provost, of WCPO, have also been spinning the new Wright release. Next Wednesday (28), Wright and his guys introduce the Egg-Beater tune and dance on the Dick Clark TV-er.

 Bonus track - Dale Wright "She's Neat":

Two from Os Incriveis

From this album:



And my all time favorite tune from the Clevers (as they were later known) -- what could be more delightfully stupid than a song about a guy who thinks the girls love him because when he was a baby they had no talcum powder so his mother put powdered sugar on him. I LOVE it.

Society Twist

Hooray, yet another soundtrack for my descent into madness, I am unable to stop myself from downloading any album that contains a twist version of Indian Love Call, when I'm calling yooo-ooo-oo-uuuu..

UPDATE: a reader reported getting a horrible virus from this link. Follow at your own risk! Or just listen to Indian Love Call below.

Society Twist by Carl Stevens

Back to the Future

: FLOR IN 1975 & 2010, Buenos Aires

Irina Werning writes:

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

Viva Knievel

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

The Routers: A Serendipitous eBay Mistake

I was looking for an inexpensive wireless N router and got this high up in the results:

The Routers - never heard of 'em - but that's 'cause it looks like something my Uncle Rudy would've offered to put on the HiFi for me because it was Rock n' Roll, while I waited for him to leave so I could get at his Playboy collection (why were a naked man and woman in bed in that cartoon?) . Who knew - industrialized session men music produced for the bargain bin of the sundries aisle of the grocery.... In addition they invented, and I quote: "clap clap clapclapclap clapclapclapclap let's go!" hence the cheerleaders on the cover of their third album pictured above which featured one of their hits, Stingray, present below along with the clap-happy Let's Go.

They briefly featured Leon Russell, who presumably ruined that experience like he did everywhere else he went. Black Cat Rockabilly Europe has a pretty good history and The Routers even have a Wikipedia page, too.

I Need a Vacation

I know it sounds odd, but for the past few weeks I've been having dreams about Jim Backus. Not those kinds of dreams, silly, just...dreams. How perfect that Probe! Is Turning On The People has this nifty Backusfest/Backanal for people just like me. And maybe you, too. It's delicious!

Monkeys a Go Go

Who doesn't love cheap ripoff records like this one, cover versions of Monkees hits like "A Little Bit Me"  recorded by "The Chimps"? Get Monkeys a Go Go at Red Telephone 66.

Your Uncle Grizzly - The Chimps