Echo Four-Two, Bad Manners (1980)Bad Manners hooked me with their cover of Millie Small‘s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop (a cover of My Girl Lollipop credited to Robert Spencer of The Cadillacs and recorded by Barbie Gaye in 1956). Bad Manners also recorded one of the prettiest reggae love songs ever: Samson and Delilah.
The Police Lip-Synch Challenge.
Fluid dynamics of swimming ducks.
LARRY FERRARI—Radio, Television & Recording Artist/
[Top image: Will Elder and Al Jaffee.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The Cadillac Three (originally known as The Cadillac Black) have been around a while with several albums with hits on the country charts. Good stuff.
A combination of Louis Prima, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson, Chubby Checker and Joey Dee, Si Cranstoun arrived on the London scene in the early 1990s to keep the ’40s to ’50s rock n’ soul music styles alive.
Wild cover of The Night Caps‘ 1959 hit. From the Uto0bage comments:
“The Electric Flag performing at the Monterey Pop Festival, in 1967. The musicians in the band are: Mike Bloomfield (guitar); Harvey Brooks (bass); Nick Gravenites (vocals & percussion); Sivuca (guitar & percussion); Barry Goldberg (keyboards); Herbie Rich (keyboards & tenor sax); Mike Fonfara (keyboards); Buddy Miles (drums); Peter Strazza (tenor sax); Marcus Doubleday (trumpet); Stemzie Hunter (baritone sax).”
I must have a lot of time flies buzzing around because the days and weeks are blazing by. Maybe that’s a good thing, but I have my doubts. Have a great weekend, consider what you’ll do IF and WHEN, and we’ll se you back here tomorrow.
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P.S. That’s my .gif but it’s not my cat photo. We don’t have a cat.
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“This whale had breached a couple of times before this and many times they’ll just keep doing it. I went below deck to shoot from a porthole close to the water line. That’s what gives this amazing perspective of looking up at the whale. Since the boat is closer, it should look bigger, but the whale is huge! If I’d been the fisherman, I’d probably need some new underwear.”
[Images and story found here.]
Cadillac Walk, Moon Martin (1978)John David “Moon” Martin had a minor hit with Cadillac Walk (as recorded by Willie DeVille) and also wrote Robert Palmer‘s mega hit Bad Case of Loving You. Both songs first appeared on Martin’s 1978 album Shots from a Cold Nightmare but received little attention. Popular in the UK but relatively unknown in the US, he opened for / played with the likes of Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt and Jimi Hendrix. Many of his songs had “moon” in the lyrics, hence the nickname.
The Pedal [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corps.
“There is not a single sad person in this video.”
High-Tech Predictions From the ’50s & ’60s
Leon Redbone’s audience polaroids (sorted by year and marked with his ratings for show, sound and audience).
[Top image: Chinese motorcycle hair care.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
From Wiki:
The Pathé Brothers of France went into the photographic business in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world’s largest film equipment and production company, as well as a major producer of phonograph records. In 1908, Pathé invented the newsreel that was shown in cinemas before a feature film.
[The future of the past found here.]
Leon Redbone could scat-sing better than almost anyone, and there’s proof with his cover of Tommy McClennan’s Bottle Up And Go (aka Step It Up And Go recorded by Blind Boy Fuller and many others). If someone in the audience pulled out a camera to take his photo, when the flash went off, he’d stop the song, jump for his camera and take a shot of them. He’d wait as the Polaroid image developed, (“Hmmm. Not a bad likeness”) and pick up the song right where he left it. He kept those photos, too.
Tuba Skinny plays Blind Boy Fuller‘s Untrue Blues.
Kelly Finnigan & The Atonements resurrect the ghost of Otis Redding. Great soul R&B.
Tomorrow is only two days from yesterday, so we’ll see you back here then. Have a great weekend and stuff.
Tacky Raccoons 