Have a Cartoon Lee Majors Christmas… oop, no, wait:
Have a Tiny Tim Christmas, or not. But hey! Lookee here:
We wish you all a Bootsy Christmas! And may Santa bring you all the funk you deserve.
Category: Music
Saturday Matinee – Simpsons in Estonia, How to Make Candy Canes, Sleigh Ride, Darlene Love with the E Street Band
Another Simpsons opening scene re-enactment, from ESTONIA!
[Found here.]
How candy canes are made. Very cool. [Found here].
Bunky just can’t get into the Christmas Spirit until he hears the Ronettes’ version of “Sleigh Ride.”
Unfortunately, the best vids of that song have been pulled, and we just can’t bring ourselves to post a video of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, or worse, a picture of an album cover (losers). BUT, we’re certainly willing to post THIS version. Screw the copyright Scrooges.
So here’s a compromise, a Christmas song with Darlene Love, backed by the E-Street Band (with video splices from, um, “Home Alone“).
Christmas Shopping – Something for Everyone
I’d love to see her gift list. I just hope they fit.
This picture reminds me of a classic Steve Goodman song, cowritten with Shel Silverstein: “3-Legged Man.”
[Image found here.]
Saturday Matinee – B_ETWE_EN, Maccabees, Bunkface, Ronettes
B ETWE EN. Very odd, reminds me of David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Click on the image, hit full screen, and meet me back here.
The Maccabees put a video of the winner of the 2007 Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling to music. Who woulda guessed. (Bunkarina suggested this one.)
So just for the heck of it, I click the Utoobage and start typing b, u, n, k… and up pops Bunkface. (I’ve been called worse.)
You’d not believe how difficult it is to come up with the correct video links for rain. “Rain Rain Rain” doesn’t even come up on the search mojo; The Videos’ “Trickle Trickle” is a no show also. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow held possibilities. Or I could link to It’s a Beautiful Day’s self-indulgent “White Bird (in a golden cage in the rain).” Ugh. I couldn’t bring myself to post a Melanie vid either, so while I’m hunting, try this.
The Ronettes’ “Walking in the Rain” is THE best rain song ever.
Saturday Matinee – The Beatles, The Rutles, The Troggs, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Ape Man
The history of the Beatles. [Found here.]
“With a Girl Like You.” The announcer mispronounces the group’s name as “The Rutles.” Heh.
Here’s the Troggs’ original version of “With A Girl Like You” from 1967. The Troggs got their name from Troglodytes, aka, cavemen, which brings us to this:
“Troglodyte” was one of the worst yet most popular funk trainwrecks ever. Recorded in 1972, the Jimmy Castor Bunch introduced us to Bertha Butt of the Butt Sisters. Boom shakalaka.
And now for our Feature Presentation: “The Ape Man.”
[Note that this is the 1971 original uncut version. Not for the squeamish.]
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[Secret bonus hidden videos: cbullitt snuck a couple into the comments section on this post. If any of you have links to your favorite classics, email me at bunkstrutts@verizon.net and I’ll put ’em in the lineup rather than leave them hidden in the comments. –Bunk]
Saturday Matinee – 5 Buddys with Schweppes
This week’s features are brought to you by Schweppes. [Found here.]
Buddy Hackett on the tonight show. Wait for the story about the duck.
Buddy Holly rockin’ out in 1958.
Buddy Greco. Serious Lounge “Whoa But Hey” music.
Why Buddy Rich doesn’t use a match grip.
The ever awesome Buddy Guy. Here he is teaching Blues 101, but y’all know that’s just not enough, so down below is “Five Long Years” live at Montreal. Enjoy the weekend, folks.
Saturday Matinee – Butterstick, Us, Stand Up and Shout, Jerry’s Breakdown, After You’ve Gone
I axed Bunkarina to pick out a video or two for this week’s video trainwreck, and she chose this. From Drew Carey’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” here’s “Butterstick.”
Bunkarina likes this video by Regina Spektor, and so do I.
The Tubes were the late 70’s equivalent to FZ’s Mothers of the late 60’s. MockRock at it’s best. “Stand Up and Shout” covers a lot of ground while featuring Fee Waybill as druggie frontman “Quay Lewd.”
The late Jerry Reed pickin’ with the late Chet Atkins. This one’s for Aussie Phil.
Suzy Boggus‘ & Chet Atkins’ excellent version of “After You’ve Gone.” (Ignore her stupid outfit, she’s a great singer.)
Saturday Matinee – Papa Oom Mow Mow
Meyer Kessler, aka Carl Ballantine/aka Lester Gruber/aka Ballantine the Great.
27 September 1919 – 3 November 2009.
Here’s the Beach Boys’ cover of the Rivingtons‘ classic,
…that was coopted by the Trashmen,
…that was covered by the Ramones. For a one chord song, it’s almost impossible to play without a vocal, and without a vocal, it’s not worth listening to.
Even the Oakridge Boys stole the line, but we have more class than to post that one, so here’s an ear cleaner instead.
Bette Midler’s version of the Stone’s “Beast of Burden.” Odd enough.
Saturday Matinee: 1967
Classic scene from 1967’s “The Flim Flam Man,” starring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and the irascible Slim Pickens. Scott was only 40, and Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. was 48 when this was made.
Where do we go from here? Patton? No. Too obvious, so let’s find something Y’all haven’t heard in a while, also from 1967.
Mannix. What kinda name was that? A very cool one.
Ironsides rocked the courtroom, even before handicapped parking was invented.
The 2nd greatest TV theme song ever. Book ‘im, Danno.
Inane sitcom with a great intro. Very loosely based upon the great movie “Stalag 17.”
1965’s “Wild Wild West” intro. So what if it’s not from 1967. The animation, updated during the program, counts big time. Forget Robert Conrad. The real star was Ross Martin, aka Artemus Gordon.
Best TV theme song ever? This.
Saturday Matinee – Happy Halloween!
I thought this was clever. [Found here.]
Can Head by the same guy who did the classic Potato Hunter.
[Found on Plate O’Shrimp… nice new find by our crack team of webminers.]
Easy Dub Allstars’ reggae version of Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them.” Nice riddim… [Tip ‘o the Tarboosh to “S&Dman” of Blogmocracy.]
And what is Halloween without Oingo Boingo? Danny Elfman’s band was tight and bizarre at the same time. In 1980 or so, G-off and Bunk sat next to them at Madame Wong’s, buying them rounds and vice versa, without knowing who they were. Great show.
Tacky Raccoons 