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I Love You Darling, 11 Year Old Faith Taylor & the Sweet Teens (1959)According to Luky 1966:
“Faith Taylor was born in Dumas, Arkansas, in 1948. She began performing at the age of four and won her first amateur contest in Little Rock. She came to Chicago with her family in 1957 and continued her music career by singing at small club affairs. She also worked in a few combos, including that of Muddy Waters. In June 1957 she entered and won the ‘Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour‘ on WGN-TV. The following year a friend of Taylor, Charles Jones, was assembling a vocal group and brought her in as the lead. Other members of this group were alto Yvonne Waddell (17), tenor Saundra Long (16), soprano Mary Collins (17), and bass Curtis Burrell (17). Most of the group came from two South Side high schools, DuSable and Dunbar. Faith Taylor and the Sweet Teens were unlike most ‘teen tenor lead’ groups in being mostly comprised of females. From that start, the group was not going to be a ‘girl group’ but one patterned after Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.”

There’s a rumor that Sun Ra backed the Sweet Teens for some performances.

SNAIL.

400 HP = 16,807 DP.

Cold Cup O’ Noodles.

Teen girls’ CD pics in 1994.

Late 1960s Haight Ashbury.

Dominican Republic barrio tour.

The Mayflower (and other airships).

The Columbo Statue in Budapest, Hungary.

Cherilyn Sarkisian mugshot [via]. She was 13 when she “borrowed” her mom’s car. She’s better known as Cher.

[Top image found in here and I have no idea what it means. The Culter & Proctor Stove Company made cast iron stoves in the late 1800s in Peoria, IL.]

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Saturday Matinee – Avner the Eccentric, Khruangbin & Raskahuele Estridente

That’s some class clowning. While street performing in Paris,  Avner Eisenberg (aka Avner the Eccentric) was once arrested for buffoonery in public.

Space surf funk jazz mixed with world music = Khruangbin.
The name is Thai for “aeroplane,” and they make their recordings in a barn in  Burton, Texas (pop. 300). There’s more about them here than on their cool website.

Formed in 2004, L.A.’s Raskahuele Estridente is sort of a latino version of Fishbone, and I like their style.  Their song topics include socio-political / immigration issues mixed in with fun stuff.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, fight for the leftovers, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 708 – Deflocking the Tree, Obscene Porcine & A Pair of Slippers

[Found here,  here and here.]

Update: Eagle eye Corinne L. wondered what flew out of the hand of Slipper No. 2, so I culled three frames. He was talking on his cell phone when he went all slippy and let go of it. The phone beat him to the bottom – and was left behind by Mr. Attentive.

More fun slippers here.

My WebEx Meeting Notes 11 October – 19 November 2021

9AM daily. Pen on paper, 8-1/2 x 11, 3.34 square inches per day.

Finally got some work. I can breath again.

Saturday Matinee – The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Old Dominion & Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials

Andy Bean & Fuller Condon, aka The Two Man Gentlemen Band, have a fancy beer with some Slim & Slam style speed jazz.

Old Dominion are out of Nashville with roots in  Virginia, hence the  name.
[h/t Octo].

Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials are killer.
Lil’ Ed Wiiliams (vocals, slide guitar), Ed’s half-brother James “Pookie” Young (bass), guitarist Mike Garrett (guitar) and drummer Kelly Littleton (drums) have been jamming for over 30 years. Lil’ Ed & Pookie learned from their uncle,  J. B. Hutto.

Thanksgiving comes just a little earlier every year and now it’s just days away. Have a great weekend, we’ll figure out the menu tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 707 – Doing the Wubba Wubba Dance, Drive-Thru Oil Change & A Moth Ball

[Found here, here and here.]

Predatory Polynoid Polychaete

[Predatory Polynoid polychaete (scale worm) image found in here. Related posts here.]

Dorkworm of the Deep

Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope. Nicholas Gayet 2015

Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.

Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”

[Image found here.]

P. K. Kunze’s Contribution To The World – A Vise With Oscillatable Cheeks

According to the U.S. Patent, the machine was described as a Device For Obtaining Intimate Contact With Engaging, Or Clamping Bodies Of Any Shape, or DFOICWEOCBOAS for easy. It contained 30 nested rotating jaws.

Application filed March 21, 1912.
Serial No. 685,288.
The invention purposes to effect by means of rotatable and oscillatable cheeks, an intimate contact, engagement with or clamping of bodies of any shape, the contact being effected at as many points as possible, Whereby owing to the reactions or the automatic adjustment to the position of equilibrium of all the cheeks, if the latter are symmetrically arranged, the pressure is uniformly distributed over all points of contact, while if the arrangement is unsymmetrical there is a greater pressure to one side.

The Mantle Vise, Mantle & Co. New York, NY, ca.1922.

Inventor Paulin Karl Kunze was a “subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna.”

The term fractal was coined by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1973 and is defined as “never-ending pattern.” Jump to 34:00 for a silly but cool demonstration of the completed restoration.

[Found at BustedNuckles & the U.S. Patent Office. Images of Mantle & Co. vise found here and here.]

Bathykolpian Hot Links

Soup du Jour by Lemanshots 2021.

Cuttin’ In, Johnny “Guitar” Watson (1961)John Watson Jr. came from a musical family, and when he was 11, his grandfather offered to give him a guitar if, and only if, the boy didn’t play any of the “devil’s music.” His recording career spanned forty years;  his highest charting single was A Real Mother for Ya (1977). Frank Zappa: “Watson’s 1956 song ‘Three Hours Past Midnight‘ inspired me to become a guitarist.” Many others were influenced as well.

Are trees racist?

The History of Punk.

The Ghost Dance in 1894.

Games involving dead octopi.
[h/t Octo]

Geostorm hits the NY tri-state area.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Rent a flat in Augsburg Germany for $1 / per year.

The Great Gazoo was voiced by actor Harvey Korman.

The theme to Raising Arizona, Way Out There, was written in 1936.

Twitter secretly removes likes and retweets. See what Twitter doesn’t want you to see.

[Top image: Soup du Jour by Lemanshots 2021.]

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