Category: Cool

Saturday Matinee – Rats & Star, Oh!Sharels & Shelly Trip Realize

Rats & Star (ラッツ&スター, Rattsu ando Sutā), formerly called Chanels, was a Japanese pop group that specialized in R&B & soul music… in blackface. Good stuff otherwise. {Had to update the vid. Original was sent to the YouTube gulag.]

Oh!Sharels is also Japanese and also do some nice retro covers, like this 1959 hit by the Flamingos (which was a cover of the song from 1934).

How ’bout some Japanese rockabilly? Not sure just what to make of  Shelly (aka Shelly Trip Realize, aka Tinc), but the band rocks.

Have a great weekend or something. See you back here tomorrow for stuff.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 621 – A Short Interview, A Wet Kiss & HOLY CRAP WTF WAS THAT?!

[Found here, here and here.
Check out the Umbrella design vid here.]

That’s a cold bowl of noodles.

Greta Thunberg blames you for this, too.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – 405: The Movie, Hank Jr., The Cleverlys & Run C&W

That’s my afternoon commute, the southbound 405. Thank God for Imperial Highway, the 105 & the 110, and God bless Wayz!

Heard that on a houseboat on a remote bank of Dale Hollow Lake in 1980, and the song suddenly popped into my head. It’s not PC 40 years later, but I still like it.

How ’bout some pickin’ & grinnin’? Black Eyed Peas ala Bill Monroe performed by The Cleverlys at Larry’s Country Diner.

Run C&W escaped my radar until now. Nice version of Sam & Dave‘s 1966 hit.

IIRC, Sam & Dave were in the Stax studio with the studio session band (Booker T. & the M.G.s). Steve Cropper had just come out of the restroom down the hall when Booker Jones (or Duck Dunn) hollered something like, “Steve! Check out this groove!” Cropper yelled back, “Hold on! I’m coming” and a song title was born.

For decades I thought “M.G.” stood for “Memphis Group.” Apparently not.

Have a great weekend, and may Kansas City pound the 49ers.

 

The .GIF Friday Post No. 620 – Snow Drift Diver, Beer Bong Blowzit & Cannonball Cannonball

[Found here, here and here.]

Black & Decker sells these, too.

[Found here via here.]

dogmelts

[Found here and everywhere.]

THEY’RE HERE.

[Found here.]

Nudiustertian Hot Links

Chúc mừng năm mới – Năm của chuột!

Tết 2020 – The Year of the Rat.

Lunges.

The Escape.

Ooga Chacka.

One Hell Of A Bender.

Running With Parrots [via].

21 Quotes By Margaret Sanger.

Russian Elephants In The Snow [via].

Miss World & Miss Universe Statistics.

Another Great Actor Who Wasted His Life On Drugs And Alcohol.

“If you buy a bucket of chicken, check it before you leave, or all you’ll get are backs and feet.” –Grampa Strutts

“The instant you pull out of your driveway you become traffic and everyone hates you.” –Bunk Strutts

“If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. If Papa ain’t happy, nobody gives a shit.” –Anonymous

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

[Top image: Painted gourd found in my garage. Artwork by Bunkessa years ago.]

Saturday Matinee – Thomas and Brian Owens, Barbara Lynn Ozen & Clarence Gatemouth Brown (Plus Rare Damone Ramone Audio)

Such a pretty cover of Sam Cooke’s 1964 classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Brian Owens and his father. (Cooke was singing about the Civil Rights Act and the repeal of Democrat Jim Crow Laws. The white people in that audience are embarrassing to watch.)

Barbara Lynn Ozen cranked some cool Ray Charles, left-handed, on a 1966 TV show called The !!!! Beat.

Here’s a cool convergence. The house band for The !!!! Beat was led by Clarence Gatemouth Brown.

Brown was one of those rare musicians who could play the hell out of a 16d nail if you told him it was a musical instrument, and he had one tight band.

A TACKY RACCOONS EXCLUSIVE

This is a “found” recording ostensibly from Damone Ramone‘s only public performance (Burma, 1979) performed on sewing machines, and sent to us by the 5th Ramone himself.

Have a great weekend folks. Stick around for more stuff.