[Images found scattered across the internest.]
Halloween – Best Of Show
Month: October 2023
Halloween in the UK 1930s
“An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. […] By the 1930s costumes based on characters in mass media such as film, literature, and radio were popular.”
[Images are from the UK Mirror, October 2017.]
Habilatory Hot Links
Do The Zombie, M.R. Baseman & The Symbols (1963) This song was the B-side of a 45rpm recorded on the Graphic Arts label, the A-side being a cover of the Devotions’ Rip Van Winkel, recorded by “Marty & The Symbols.” Very little is known about this group except they may have been from Astoria, Queens, NY. No relation to the 1960s UK pop band The Symbols.
Meow.
The original version is the best.
Izuna Fair [via Memo Of The Air].
Mr. Bone’s Pizza [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Earth is leaking [via Bunkerville].
The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley (1919)
[also via Memo Of The Air].
Frankencamper [via The View From Lady Lake].
Cool but impractical shelter [via Feral Irishman].
Tired of the lies? Here’s The True Story of Hushpuppies.
[Top image: Detail from The Reward of Cruelty, William Hogarth (1751) found here.]
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Saturday Matinee – The Creepshow, Messer Chups, Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential, and The Reverend Horton Heat
The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).
From St. Petersburg, Russia, Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.
Decent cover of Freddie King‘s classic Boogie Man performed by Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential of Ireland. According to the band’s website, Martin has moved on to other ventures..
Gretchmaster The Reverend Horton Heat has a tailgater to deal with.
Just a few days to go before the little spooky ones come a-knockin’. We had maybe a half dozen last year, and that includes the one who showed up twice. In any case, pumpkin vivisection is scheduled for Monday.
See you tomorrow, you know where to find me.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 825 – Mechanical Dracula, Bony Peeper, Octo Creepo & Boop’s Jack o’ Lanterns
Cosplay on a Budget
[Mermaid Man found here.]
The X From Outer Space (1967)
Formerly known as The Twitter From Outer Space.
When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish earth invasion. After one of the spores is analyzed in a lab, it escapes, eventually growing into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast.
[These images and more found here. Wanna see the movie? It’s archived!]
Entirely Justified.
[Found here. Kinda.]
Hot Pants
Ventricumbent Hot Links
Stampede, The Scarlets (1959)
Not to be confused with the R&B vocal group of the same name, or the 1960s band from Denmark, or the glam-punk band from Australia, this was an instrumental group with Peter Antonio, (aka Pete Antell) and John Sanzone on guitars. Originally titled Dragstrip, Stampede was the theme to the movie Dragstrip Girl. From Billboard’s Music Popularity Charts Sep. 28 1959: “A fine instrumental blues with lots of echo. Side makes use of a downward progression of notes as one of its base themes. Plenty of raucous guitar and sax sound here (Atlantic, BMI).”
Dancing chicks (sound up).
April 11, 1954 was a Sunday.
Here are the signs [via Memo Of The Air].
Border collie staredown [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: I Am Joe’s Chin.]
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Tacky Raccoons 