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Saturday, February 28, 2009
CBS Saturday Morning 1973
A couple of reruns and retreads and a few new 'bombs' based on hit tv shows of the time: Jeannie and My Favorite Martian speckle this hit and miss, mostly a miss, year from CBS. And let us not forget Bailey's Comets, a cartoon about a Roller Derby team that goes around the world looking for clues that lead to a million dollar prize!
To be fair this was the debut year for Speed Buggy, which went on for ten years and was a fairly entertaining concoction for my childhood mind.
I was unable to find video clips for Everything's Archie.
Bailey's Comets - Opening & Closing
My Favorite Martian - Intro (horrible quality - I can't find any other video for this series)
Jeannie - Intro
Speed Buggy - Intro
Josie and the Pussycats - Episode 2- Make Way for the Multi-Men (complete)
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Fat Albert - Video Montage Tribute to Mushmouth
CBS Children's Film Festival - UK Promo
Sultan the Warrior Trailer
It looks like Bollywood is getting into the motion capture business! My hope is that this is an EARLY preview and that the whole movie doesn't look like this!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Strange Album Covers Revisited
This one was posted at the LP Cover lover blog and while they don't usually feature audio clips from the ablums that they post they made an exception this time and posted a short MP3 clip from this album.
“MGA PAKULO” D’Big 3 Sullivans Mavon Records - Filipino Folk
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Hal Willis is Mr. Lumberjack
Do you think that someone actually paid money for this one? Folk music about being a lumberjack? Are you kidding me?
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Not available on dvd and hard to find on youtube, this series is considered mildly racist these days but it was somewhat based on the Charlie Chan detective series of movies from the 1930's and 40's that was going through a mild popularity burst during the early 70's.
Episode 9 - The Great Illusion Caper
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Episode 10 - The Bronze Idol
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Episode 16 - Scotland Yard
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House of Hammer (the Magazine)
It's time for you to take another visit to the Crosseyed Cyclops. This time they are hosting the Hammer House of Horror series of magazines.
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Windmills of Your Mind
The cover picture and title combine to promise what surely must be some long forgotten psychedelic masterpiece but instead you get more of a lounge-y affair. Now that's not necessarily bad but it was a little dissapointing.
Link (posted at Zip Your Rip)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Pac-Man Dossier
Everything you always wanted to know about Pac-Man but did not necessarily know where to ask..
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What? You haven't played Pac-Man in over twenty years? Me neither. To save you the trouble (and monotony) of getting yourself to level 256 here is a video of what happens when one gets to this level:
Les and Larry Elgart - Wonderful World of Hits
Apparently all you had to do to sell your crappy elevator music lp in the 70's was slap some half-nude woman on the cover. I'm not saying that these guys are bad (or good) but this concept has always intrigued me.
Link (posted at Third Island blog)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The New Scooby Doo Movies (Special Edition)
Today's special edition post features a few of the New Scooby Doo Movies that are not available on dvd. Enjoy!
Episode 3 - Scooby Meets the Addams Family
Episode 8 - The Secret of Shark Island with Sonny and Cher
Episode 19 - Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie (excerpts)
Creepy (the Comic Magazine)
Crosseyed Cyclops again! This time there are at least six or seven lots of comics posted so make sure you grab them all!
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The New Scooby Doo Movies
Twenty four episodes were produced for this series that aired in 1972 and 1973. The concept was good as many guest stars rotated through in each 'movie' including the Three Stooges, Batman and Robin, The Harlem Globetrotters, Sonny and Cher, Don Knotts, Jerry Reed (!), and many more. This was the last Scooby series with new content until 1976 when the franchise moved to ABC.
Most episodes are available on dvd (with a few notable exceptions) and it seems that all episodes are available on youtube.
Episode 1 - Ghastly Ghost Town with the Three Stooges
Episode 2 - The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair
Monday, February 23, 2009
The Shadow (Comic Book)
Another fine post from the Crosseyed Cylops. A complete run of volume 1 of this DC series. I have also linked to some other SHADOW media but it's still pretty hard to find the actual pulps online (as ebooks).
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Bonus Items:
The Shadow Strikes - movie at archive.org
Old-Time Radio episodes of THE SHADOW
Jumping the Shark
In case you weren't alive in the late 1970's this is where the phrase 'jumping the shark' came from. It alludes to the fact that this is a defining moment in a tv series' life when the show goes completely down the tubes as it strive to re-identify itself and it ends up ruining everything that was good. It's inevitable with any successful series and it's kind of unfair for Happy Days to get the moniker but that's how it is!
Music From the Vast Wasteland of the 60's and 70's
Tere Mere Sapne OST - Sachin Dev Burman (1971) - posted at Music From the Third Floor
Let's throw another great vintage Bollywood soundtrack into the mix, shall we? Link
Brain In a Box - Various Artists (5 disc set) - posted at Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory
Nice collection of tv and movie themes and other mad scientist related music bits. This link is only to the first cd but the whole set is posted at this blog. Link
Supertwist With Zacharias - Twist Fiddle - posted at Evil Pain Clown
German fiddles, saxophones, and other craziness combine to try and cash in on a current craze. Link
Tequila a Go-Go - Richard Davis and the Tequila Brass (1966) - posted at Schadenfreudian Therapy
Suppposedly this stuff was all the rage at some point in time but it sounds kind of cheesy to me now - which may be why I like it? Link
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Dominic Moore of the Toronto Maple Leafs Demonstrates the New Sport of Soccey
I saw this one Saturday night on Hockey Night In Canada. If they could only have scored on this play it would have made it much more impressive.
Various Artists - The Thing With No Heads
The Manchester Morgue has posted this really cool home made compilation with really nifty cover art!
This fairly eclectic mix includes everything from White Zombie to ABBA!
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Who the hell is Mrs. Shufflewick?
Looks like a comedy album but I have never heard of this person? Anyone?
High Definition/Super SloMo Video of a Bear Shaking Off Some Water
I thought this was more interesting to demonstrate the current state of HD streaming over the net via Youtube than it was for the subject matter but I guess I am a techo-geek. Don't forget to select the HD mode and then make it full screen and tell me what you think of the quality.
Look out Disney World, It's Dubailand!
Only in Dubai! This thing is sure to be the biggest and weirdest amusement park ever conceived. If you look at the interactive map at the Dubailand website you will see that it is not situated far from those luxury fake island housing developments (if you don't know what I am talking about, look at the palm tree shape in the ocean - the one that is surrounded by a ring).
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Dark Roasted Blend has posted a feature on the World's Strangest Amusement parks. You can see some more conceptual drawings from Dubailand in the middle of this post.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
CBS Saturday Morning 1972
I wouldn't call this the most exciting year in Saturday Morning tv but it did see the debut of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (which ran for 12 years!) and a new incarnation of a Scooby show (The New Scooby Doo Movies). Bugs Bunny reruns were also shown this year but a newer show would debut in 1973.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Two Rabbits Too Many
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan - The Burmese Crown Jewels
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The New Scooby Doo Movies - Intro
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space - Episode 2 - Make Way for The Multi-Men
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The Flintstone Comedy Hour - Intro
Archie's TV Funnies - Closing
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids - Intro
Mort Sahl At the Hungry i
This album was posted at Dr. Forrest's blog and is a good exampled of early comedy on vinyl. When I was a kid we used to live for this comedy on vinyl (in the pre-Comedy Central days I guess).
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Mind Blowingly Bad Album Covers
What in the hell could even be on this album? I guess this is a sequel to 'Music To Clean Your House By'?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show
The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm show (with the now teenaged stars) aired in the 1971-72 season and then was expanded to be a part of the Flintstones Comedy Hour in 1972. It starred the voices of Sally Struthers (yes, that Sally Struthers) and Jay North (yes, that Jay North) as the voices of the title characters.
All episodes of the show are available on dvd.
Episode 2 - Putty In Her Hands
Episode 3 - Frog For a Day
Episode 4 - The Golden Voice
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Omega - Hungary's Most Famous Rock Band
barin99 has posted all 9 albums from this legendary psych/space band. Here is a quote from AMG if you are still undecided:
The most successful Hungarian rock band in history, Omega was formed in 1962 in Budapest by a group of friends. The lineup changed several times during Omega's early years and there was no consistent music style to speak of. Like with many other rock groups of the early '60s, the band's repertory largely consisted of songs by popular British bands of the period. Only in 1967, when they were joined by Gábor Presser (keyboards, vocals), did they began recording their own songs and issue a few singles. Presser's mixture of rock with elements of jazz and folk proved to be a winning formula. In 1968, John Martin, the manager of the Spencer Davis Group, invited them for a tour in Great Britain, where they recorded the album Omega: Red Star From Hungary for the Decca label. Later that year, they issued their first Hungarian LP Trombitás Frédi és a Rettenetes Emberek (Trumpeter Freddy and the Terrible People) that became their first golden album. The band sealed their success with two subsequent LPs: 10,000 Lépés (10,000 Steps) (1969) and Éjszakai Országút (On the Highway at Night) (1970). Their 1969 song "Gyöngyhajú lány" (The Girl With Pearls in Her Hair) became their first international hit and it was reworked by the Scorpions into "White Dove" in the mid-'90s.
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Fan Dance Captured on the Jumbotron
I ride a bus to work and I have always wanted to get up and do my own Bollywood style dance up and down the aisles...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Out of the Shadows (the Comic Book)
Crosseyed Cyclops has posted 6 issues of this great 1950's series. Where do they get all of this great stuff?
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Comedy Monday
Robert Klein - New Teeth (1975) - posted at Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory
Nice comedy album from this master of words. Link
Lloydie and the Lowbites - Censored (1971) - posted at Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory
Extra dirty lyrics combined with a nice reggae groove. Link
Skipp Whitman Vs. Richard Pryor - Mix-Tape - posted at Black Radio is Back
Vintage comedy bits mixed with hip-hop beats. Link
Godfrey Cambridge - at the Hotel Aladdin - posted at WFMU
Get this one and a dozen more rarities (including Rowan and Martin, Milt Kamen, Phyllis Diller, more Robert Klein) by following the link. Link
Sunday, February 15, 2009
NHL - Detroit Vs. Colorado - April 1, 1998
I was watching the Avalanche play the Red Wings today (the Avs won, a small victory in an otherwise lackluster year) and it reminded me of this classic matchup. If you aren't a hockey fan you should know that goalies rarely fight.
Alive Records 2009 Sampler by Various Artists (FREE at Amazon.com)
I have not yet listened but I like a couple of bands on the list
Alive Records 2009 Sampler (Amazon.com link)
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Star Wars Valentines
I know, it's a day late but I just saw these this morning and I didn't want to wait until next year to post them.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Valentine's Day Satellite Sightseeing (compliments of Google)
Google Sightseeing has a special Valentine's Day post with satellite images of heart shaped objects and other valentine's day themed images.
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