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WARNING!!! This one is pretty vulgar!
I was a little young to catch Redd in his 'prime' but it has been captured for eternity in this (and many others like it) vinyl album. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Redd Foxx - Sly Sex (1960)
WARNING!!! This one is pretty vulgar!
I was a little young to catch Redd in his 'prime' but it has been captured for eternity in this (and many others like it) vinyl album. Enjoy!
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Rockin' Toys at Deadalicious
The Deadalicious blog has posted a nice set of cool toys and even cooler books from his collection. It's got The Fonz so it must be cool right? Ayyy! (argh, how do you spell that?)
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Jayne Mansfield - Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas
This week's vintage comedy album tribute continues with this stinker. It's more of a cabaret album than a comedy album but that is what you got when you bought music on vinyl back in the 60's and 70's - unless you knew someone who had the album, you never really knew what you were getting until you bought it and listened to it.
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World's Largest Miniature Landscape Model - 11,840 SQUARE FEET, 300,000+ LED's!
Gizmodo has a feature (including a rather low-quality video) about this over-the-top model. When I was kid I used to marvel at the models in the museums and always wanted to create them when I 'grew up.' I guess I still want to but I have no talent in that area.
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Comedy Album Week at Cool-Mo-Dee
This week Cool-Mo-Dee is hosting a special salute to the comedy album! At one time this genre was extremely popular as hundreds of well-known (and even some unknown) masters of comedy recorded their routines and released them for public consumption. This genre has since been mostly supplanted by cable tv but a few standouts still exist (Adam Sandler and Weird 'Al' Yankovic for example). In addition to this 'four pack' of comedy albums, we will be posting another comedy album each day at 1 pm so come back every day and see what is new.
Burns & Schreiber - The Watergate Comedy Album (posted at Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory)
Vintage and timely (if it was still 1974) comedy album from a mostly forgotten duo. Link
Rodney Dangerfield - No Respect (posted at Any Genre Goes)
This one was enormously popular at the height of the genre's popularity. I am sure that everyone remembers Rodney's signature line - 'I don't get no respect.' It tends to get old but there are still some choice bits in this album. Link
Bill Cosby - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (posted at Bobo's Favorites)
My mom had this one so I used to listen to it a lot before I could afford to purchase my own albums. Is that a ringing endorsement or what? Link
Various Artists - The Best Comedy Album In the World... Ever (posted at Zona-Musical)
This is a great starting point for the person wanting to explore the genre, lots of different bits from lots of different artists. Highly recommended. Link
Sunday, March 29, 2009
IGN's List of Top Ten Cartoons of All Time
Very interesting list (in that IGN's Readers must be MUCH younger than me - nothing even close to any favorites of mine made the list).
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The Roots of Chica - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru (2007)
This stop in Peru yields an absolutely fantastic compilation (for which we have Babe(b)Logue to thank again).
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Imperial Starbucks
Some guy (Mark Brooks) created these Imperial Starbucks for a Star Wars convention that he was attending. Realy cool!
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CBS Saturday Morning 1977
Highlights this year are a new Mr. Magoo show, Skatebirds (to cash in on the skateboarding craze - of which I was a part - of the late 70's), Space Academy (live-action show with Jonathan 'Dr. Smith' Harris), and a Tarzan/Batman show with Batmite and Burt Ward and Adam West providing the voices for the dynamic duo. Returning were the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour (expanded to 90 minutes by mid-season), The Secrets of Isis, and the Fat Albert show. A variety show called Wacko was attempted but it only lasted for a few weeks!
To put it in simple terms, there was lots and lots of crap on CBS in 1977! Not much of this dreck is fondly remembered and it was pretty hard to find ANY video footage on the net, which is quite an oddity when one searches for Saturday morning cartoons.
What's New Mr. Magoo - Opening (in French)
The Skatebirds - Intro
Space Academy - Intro
The New Adventures of Batman - Intro
Tarzan - Intro
The Secrets of Isis - Intro
The Rough Guide to Australian Aboriginal Music
Today we hit the bush for some Aboriginal music from Australia.
Thanks to Babe(b)Logue for posting.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Ark II
This live action science fiction series aired from 1976-1977 on CBS during it's Saturday morning 'cartoon' lineup. This was one of the many post-apocalyptic survivors on the run series during the mid to late 1970's. Only thirteen episodes were created but that was seemingly enough to fill TWO SEASONS of Saturday mornings!
The complete series is available on dvd (Amazon.com link
- there are some used copies available for less than ten bucks!) but I could find only one episode on the internet.
Episode 6 - The Mind Group
The Rough Guide to Sufi Music (Iran)
Today we hit Iran in our musical journey around the world. Thanks to welovemusic.net for posting.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Rough Guide to the Music of Russia
Next stop: the motherland. Well, I guess it is only the motherland if you are actually from RUSSIA (I am not) but what the heck. Thanks to Toulaki for posting.
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The Top Ten Mail-In Action Figures of All Time
Poe Ghostal's Points of Articulation blog (a real mouthful to be sure) has posted a list of the top ten mail in action figures of all time and it brought back some dusty memories of mine dealing with the mail-in Boba Fett figure. I think that my brothers and I had saved enough proofs of purchase to get five or six of these things and we ran to check the mail every day for MONTHS as this thing seemingly NEVER came. Months later it finally did show up but the rocket launching capability of the backpack was now missing! What a gyp!
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The Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt
Today our mp3 players make a stop in Egypt. I really like this cd and listen to it all of the time. Thanks to the Carcassemrah blog for posting.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Clue Club
The wikipedia entry calls this show 'similar to Scooby Doo' but it was much more than that! Only 16 episodes of this show were produced and it first aired as a mid-season replacement for the Scooby Doo show. Not available on dvd but most of the episodes appear to be available on youtube and Boomerang seems to show it regularly. One premise of the show was fairly new at the time - one of the kids stayed at home to help solve the crimes using her home computer, something that was virtually unimaginable at the time for most people.
The show is reviled by a lot of people as a direct Scooby Doo knockoff but the only real similarity is that this is a group of kids that solve crimes. Hanna-Barbera did a lot worse when it came to copying their popular shows!
Episode 3 - The Real Gone Gondola
Episode 4 - Who's To Blame For the Empty Frame
Episode 5 - Weird Seaweed Creature
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Mohammed Rafi -The Rough Guide To Bollywood Legends - 2004
Our muscial voyage around the world week continues. Today we go back to India.
Posted at World of Soundtrack.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Cassette Tape Art
This one was making the rounds this week and it was this really sweet portrait of Jimi Hendrix that caught my eye. What else can one do with old cassette tapes?
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A Voyage to Far Lands (Cool-Mo-Dee Celebrates 'World' Music)
Prinsi Raimund - Lo Stallagio del Leon D'Oro (Italy 1979) - posted at Italian Folk Music
Nice mix of instruments that you don't get to hear very much in popular US music. Link
Various - Africa Roots Vol. 4 (Africa) - posted at Likembe
An excellent collection in from one of my favorite 'World' music locales. Link
S.D. Burman - Adradhana OST (1969 - India) - posted at Parties, Sarees and Melodies
A decent soundtrack album and a good introduction to vintage Bollywood soundtracks. Link
Buddah Bless - Kat Man Du (Thailand) - posted at Monrakplengthai
Nice modern Reggae/Dancehall album from Thailand. Different. Link
Stay tuned all week as we present a new post each day from a new land.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
American Scary (review)
I just finished watching AMERICAN SCARY, a documentary about the history of US based horror hosts, and I had to rush over to my computer and rant and rave about the show on my blog. Many will probably nitpick it to death if it doesn't include their favourite horror host but it does manage to hit most of the biggies (Elvira, Ghoulardi, Vampira, Zacherle, and many more) and many of the small ones (Hoolihan and Big Chuck/Big Chuck and Little John - one of my favourites growing up in the Cleveland, Ohio area). They did happen to miss a few of my other favorites (Superhost for example) that I would loved to have seen again but there is always youtube for that! Minor quibbles aside, it is still an excellent piece of documentary film-making that is required viewing for every fan of the genre.
Available on dvd
and on instant watch from Netflix (excellent quality on my home theater PC). Zacherle Clip
Ghoulardi Clip
Svengoolie Clip
Vampira Clip
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The Cure - Hot Hot Hot (bootleg from 1989)
This is a pretty nice bootleg from 1989, one of my favorite periods for this band. Two discs including two encores and lots of really great stuff.
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Take the Universal Horror Quiz
This one was actually pretty easy! There are some questions about modern Universal Monsters stuff but I actually got all of those right.
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