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.]
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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.”
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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.]
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Tacky Raccoons 