Ape Call

I, Dick Cannon, pass judgement and officially declare the official song for the year 2012... or not.

Blue Jeans (1975)

Everyone! Sing along! "Blue..... Jeans..... hot..... pants.... why?...... why'd you move your hips so near my face?"

Gloria Guida portrays Daniela, a seventeen year old street -walker by the nickname of "Blue Jeans".

I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust

The oddest thing about this record is not the falsetto of Tiny Tim, or his choice of obscure tunes, but the bizarre and seemingly random laughter and crowd reaction from this (supposedly) live record, "Concert in Fairyland". You can hear him imitating each of the Ink Spots in his version of "If I Didn't Care", romancing those with canine-hearing in "Indian Love Call", and resurrecting the long-forgotten "I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust". Truly an effective way to rid your home of those last New Years Eve party stragglers who refuse to leave.

Mihail Boyarskii - New Year is coming!

Mihail Boyarskii and The PCL Crew A Go Go Dancers



Music Mr. Ivanov, words D. Ruby 1985, uploaded by pustinnik25

Where are the termites when you need them?

Mitch O'Connell shares with us his collection of ventriloquist pics and my personal phobia of the demons that await my arrival in Hades.

Mama Guitar

Andy Griffith was cool.


Andy Griffith was a great actor.
More info about the movie here: A Face in The Crowd

a Killer

Featuring Clive Jones (from Black Widow, from "Come to the Sabbath" not to be confused with Black Sabbath, etc...) as a lead singer.
NSFW (boob alert)

So Wrong, it's Even More Wrong...

...all these years later. Love Jimmy Savile's awkward intro.


A few nights ago, a friend and I were discussing this song and he said, "God...what was he thinking? And it was a hit!" Skin-crawling, to this day.

Music to be played before midnight

This is one of my favourites in the Hammond genre: Dorsey Dodd playing songs like: c'est si bon, St Louis Blues, El Negro Zumbron, Tea for two and even A whiter shade of pale (here called: senza luce).
If you don't have any boxing to do this evening, maybe you can listen to this album, but make sure you do it before midnight, otherwise the whole effect will be spoiled:

http://tinyurl.com/clsj5pq

Terry Gilliam's The Christmas Card

An oldie, but a goodie. I'd seen clips of this before, but never the whole thing.

JingleBell Rock on handbell

No, I didn't say that I don't like Christmas! I love it! I like the abundance of food and drinks, seeing my family once a year: my elderly aunts and uncles, the sweet nieces from Portengense Brug and my dirty cousins from Amsterdam, going to a church packed with people taking flashlight pictures of their family-members in the choir and speaking of which ... most of all.... I think the music this time of year is great, don't you agree? Especially all those bells! I can't get enough of them.



Don't forget to see the other handbell-clips as well. They're a real treat!

Wow - Fleischer Christmas!

Holy crap - Charlie Parker.gunslinger, etc, etc. contributor swac posted a link to the Fleischer Brothers online Museum which has a wunderbar collection of Christmas cards.

D*mn! Sh*t! The F*cking Best Xmas Gift Ever, B*stards and B*tches!

Spotted by me and purchased at the thrift shop TODAY, by Lex 11. Who wouldn't want to protect their families' precious ears from foul language? Klik 4 bigger

It has a handy chart using amount of cusses removed from popular movies, in order to prove "f"-icacy.

AND It has a setting to allow schmucks like Pat Robertson to shout "Jesus Christ!" without it getting bleeped.

Hooray for Curse Free TV - Fuck Yeah!

The Rhodes Kids Christmas

IT'S GETTIN' ECKS-MASSY UP IN HERE. And you know what that means. Everyone's favorite semi-forgotten Partridge Family rip-off band, celebrating the season so that you don't have to!

And if you tire of Xmas music (because truthfully, it kind of sucks) clear your palette with this hot number:

It's Not Xmas w/out Liberace!

No More Xmas Music, Unless It Contains the Words Spazz or Burrito

....and is sung by an amorous mouse puppet. The playlist includes En un burrito orejón, and the incredibly festive Spazzacamino, I don't know what holiday Spazzacamino represents, possibly one that has something to do with dysfunctional classic vehicles, but it's a swell tune. And on the same blog, you can get some holiday tunes from the very excellent Los TNT, including Escuchad, Escuchad which turns out to be Jingle Bells, but better.

Topo Gigio - Spazzcamino

Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose A Good Thing

Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose A Good Thing (Flash Video 02:58). Thank you, Stan.