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Cincinnati Retro
Category: History
Can You Hear Me Now?
Unmasked
A Great Gibber of Hot Links
Image above from Walt Kelly‘s “Kluck Klams,” an evisceration of the KKK. The Pogo Poop Book was a collection of things that Kelly wanted to say in his daily comic strips but couldn’t, due to left-wing censorship.
Dancer and Prancer and a few Vixens here.
“If we aren’t allowed to test shampoo on monkeys, how will we ever know if our monkeys are clean?” – Diesel Kroese. Diesel helped me start this blog a long time ago, so now he spams me with his book adverts. Payback’s a bitch.
HELLLOOO CLEVELAND! (and this guy‘s got some awesome drafting skills).
Best versions of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star you’ll ever hear.
This Tornado Tracks graphic blows me away [via].
The precurser to “Hot Rod Lincoln” was Arkie Shibley’s 1951 recording of “Hot Rod Race.“
Speaking of “Hot Rod Lincoln, THIS is the perhaps the best version I’ve heard.
There are some surprises, so stay with it.
“The Wizard of Mental Telepathy” Harry Ingalls suckered thousands.
Giant fluorescent pink slugs found living atop a mountain in Australia.
This spam comment showed up in our inbox yesterday and it made me smile:
Octopus action is cool despite crappy video.
Oh, and one more thing. Do This.
Saturday Matinee – Arkie Shibley, Commander Cody, Roy Acuff, Rocky Roberts & The Bo-Keys
Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys set up the original template for the answer song “Hot Rod Lincoln” by Charlie Ryan. For decades I thought Phil Harris was the original author/artist.
HRL was later covered by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen.
Smoke on the Water by Roy Acuff.
Rocky Roberts was pure awesome soul in France, but not in the US. [tip o’ the tarboosh to Bunkarina for the find.]
The Bo-Keys‘ moniker is a apparently a riff on The Bar-Kays and The Mar-Keys, both great session groups from Stax Records of Memphis Tennessee. There’s enough soul in the last vid to last you for at least a month.
Have a great weekend, and for all men who accept their duties as fathers and do it right, Happy Fathers Day.
Remember Always – 6 June 1944
The Normandy Invasion: A Huge Gamble With A Huge Price.
God Bless Those Who Gave Their Lives For Freedom
and God Bless Those Who Finished The Job.
Animal Retro House
Delta House: Stork, D-Day, Boon, Bluto, Hardbar & Otter. Hoover’s in front. Photo taken shortly before The Night Of The Seven Fires.
[Image found here. If anyone has a link to TNotSF, first published in the October 1974 issue of National Lampoon, lemme know. I re-read it a few years ago, but the online copies have disappeared.]
Memorial Day – Remember Always
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Saturday Matinee – UFO Intro, Cab Calloway with Al Morgan, & Mitch Woods with Pinetop Perkins
UFO was a 1970 British sci-fi TV series with the premise that the earth is invaded by aliens in the distant future: 1980.
From the 1933 W.C. Fields film International House, Cab Calloway‘s “Reefer Man” is some hot jumpin’ jazz featuring Al Morgan slappin’ bass.
“Mitch Woods‘ Boogie Woogie Blowout” at Yoshi’s, Oakland, CA. Nov 19, 2009. Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011) is featured. Jump to 01:30 for the music. Mr. Perkins (96 years old at the time of this recording) wanders on stage to kick ass just past 03:00. [h/t trebob]
“Too hot to handle and too cold to hold” is a recurring theme of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks.
