Ombrophilous Hot Links

You Sure Can’t Do, Buddy Guy (1958)An homage to Guitar Slim‘s The Things That I Used to Do.
Band lineup:
Buddy Guy – Guitar and Vocals
Ike Turner – Guitar
Willie Dixon – Bass
Odie Payne – Drums
Harold Burrage – Piano
Carlson Oliver – Tenor Sax
Eddie Jones – Tenor Sax
Jackie Brenston – Baritone Sax

Clam lick.

Vibrating salt.

Do Not Hug the Tree.

1945 computer data cable.

Pops Coffee on the Four Leaf.

Beetle wing embroidery (tutorial).

Signs found on Google Street View.

Rationing of food, petrol, etc., ended in Britain nine years after the end of WWII. [h.t Possum]

A 23 year old auditioned for the Monkees on 7 October 1965. R.I.P. Michael Nesmith.

[Top image: I wasn’t shopping for socks but I found those here.]


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Campanological Hot Links

Theme to Barbarella, Bob Crewe & The Glitterhouse (1968)Composer/producer Bob Crewe (aka the Godfather of Easy Listening) invited New York-based group The Glitterhouse to provide the “But Hey” style vocals for the title song of the cult classic Barbarella.

Gizoogle!

Abe Lyman  (1927).

Carlin & immunity.

10 hours of Kamala.

So how cold was it?

Ms. Julie’s Cootie Catcher.

Hunters of the Golden Cobra.

Circus Peanuts – a Twitter Exposé.

An elephant, a dog and a cow walk into a green tube.

[Top image found here.]

Malacophilous Hot Links

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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Deipnosophical Hot Links

Just Wailin’, Louie Myers & the Aces (1956) Originally titled Just Whaling on Chicago’s ABCO Records. The Aces were also known as the Chicago Aces, the Four Aces, the Three Deuces, the Three Dukes, and the Jukes,  depending who they were backing. The prolific session group was comprised of brothers Louis and Dave Myers and Fred Below [BEE-low] and backed many great Chicago blues artists.

Saxquatch.

Can’t Help Myself.

Hatin’ on the brush.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]

Inexpensive video effect.

In 2015 a monk was stolen.

Samuel Rowbotham, proto-troll.

37 years ago four men saved NYC.
[h/t Nate L.]

More from the Streets of Philly, and why some are hunched over.

Me showing Hurricane Irma all the memes we made about her.”

Then somebody said, “Let’s use by the beard of the prophet’ because that’s what Muslims say.”

[Top image of tactical plaid mom found here, story here.]


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Naufrageous Hot Links

Let Your Love Run To Me, Larry Dale (1960)Ennis L. Lower (aka Larry Dale Matthews, aka Larry Dale) had a recording career that ran from 1952 through 1987, both under his own aliases and with other notables, including Bob Gaddy, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, Big Red McHouston, Champion Jack DuPree, Cootie WilliamsBobby Bland, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

Dog tag.

Please try to explain this.

Jill Trent — Science Sleuth.

Octopi punch fish. Really. They do.

Imagine you’re at a campfire in Alaska.

No more private bank deposit accounts?

Dance Me to the End of Love – Madeleine Peyroux

A mom informed a Fairfax Virginia school board of the pornography in their high school library, so they amended school policy.

Drawbacks Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Overlook [h/t Steve M.]

[Top image: That’s a male Lowland Nyala, and they bark. Image found in here.]


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What in the Samhain Hot Links


Cantina Blues, Kevin MacLeod (2008)His music is ubiquitous, he’s composed 1,000s of tunes and soundtrack material, and, because of his disdain for copyrights, he gives it away. Some of MacLeod’s work is free for download on his website, and a documentary is coming.


BOOGAH BOOGA!

Spooky Eye Cheeseball.

The Annual Pumpkin Roll.

Halloween decoration fails.

Samhain, Samuin & Samfuin.

Claude Raines costume (for Zoom).

Halloween Glow In The Dark Terrible Towel.

Thwarting body snatchers. [h/t Mme. Jujujive]

13th Floor Haunted House: “They kindly prepare you for what’s going to happen by telling you the legends, then letting you see how much worse the reality is.”
[More haunted attractions here.]

Not sure why anyone would want to avoid Halloween candy leftovers, but here’s a calculator.
[h/t Innocent Bystanders]

No masks, no clown or priest costumes, no corsets, no trick-or-treating for 14 year olds, no Sunday celebrations, no fake mustaches in church, no silly string. In some places, no Halloween PERIOD. Know the Halloween Laws.


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Sepicolous Hot Links

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.

Problem.

Red Jelly.

The jazz retriever.

Amazing trick shots [via].

Elephants squashing squash.

Birth month frequency chart.

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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Myrmecological Hot Links

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.


Real deep.

Big engines.

Stick bombs.

All about mosquitos.

The Trovants are growing.

John Wayne beat the KGB.

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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Hypenemious Hot Links

Will You Ever Be Mine, Donnie Willis (1960)“The music business is full of crooks and thieves and people who’d stab their mothers for a dollar. And then there’s the downside.”
At 19, Donnie Willis co-founded the Vibra-Harps in 1955 and went solo in 1957, recording dozens of records for many labels and writing hundreds of songs during his career. Willis had first-hand experience getting cheated by record companies and partners in the music business, but found greater success as a “Northern Soul” artist in the UK. Eventually he got sick of it and quit.


The “Pass” is evil.

Tiny, Michael & Arlo.

Random image finder.

Making hemp rope [via].

The Tautochrone Curve.

The Brachistochrone Curve.

Northern Soul streams 24/7 here.

A crane married a man [h/t Mme. Jujujive].

The Grievance Studies of 2018 (with video!).

Ancient Tardigrade fossil found [h/t Paul Y].

“The morning was calm, but when the wind picked up, and the sheep still did not come in, Grit made the decision for them.”

[Top image found here.]


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Capelocratic Hot Links

Gotta Get Up Every Morning, Jr. Brown (1996)In 2020, Rolling Stone Magazine’s listed 50 Country Albums Every Rock Fan Should Own and honored Brown’s  12 Shades of Brown (1990). That same year, Brown and his wife began hosting The Junior & Tanya Rae Brown Show on Facebook.

Red wind.

Inspiring

School shoes.

Catch & Release.

Finding Beyhan.

Eclipse rides the bus.

The reason for the internet.

What bears do in the woods.

Testing a 20,000 watt light bulb.

Nice guy but his neighbors hate him.

[Top image (cropped and inverted) from here.]


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