Category: Music

Saturday Matinee – The Pencil, The Multiverse, & The Echos of Nyro

School is back in session, so check these out.


The Pencil. The late Milton Friedman is one of my favorites.


2005: Dr. Michio Kaku describes the purpose of LISA, scheduled for launch in 2010(?).  Woof.  This guy’s got some amazing ideas, despite his Berkely ties.


The intelligent Homerbird describes the daily rotation of the earth in easy to understand terms.
[Found at the Presurfer.]

Speaking of Dimensions, I caught myself before I posted a 5th Dimension vid, and decided to post Laura Nyro instead since she wrote several of their hits. Because there are so few decent Laura Nyro videos on the Utoobage, here are three of her songs performed by others, including the 5thD.

Blood Sweat & Tears‘ version of  “When I Die” from 1970, live in Japan.  (Hope someone can take this semi demagnetized video tape and balance out the sound.)


Three Dog Night‘s “Eli’s Comin’.”


I secretly liked Nyro’s version of this song, too.


The Royalettes‘ “Gonna Take A Miracle.” This was not a Nyro song, although she covered the 1965 hit in 1971.

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What a difference 46 years makes.

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1963– The Steven Victor Tallarico look.

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1975– The Steve Tyler look.

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2009– The Barbara Boxer look.

[Images  from here, here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Kill a ‘Dilla, Comma Song, Follow the Sun, Waiting on a Friend, Happy Boy

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Jimmy Jones’ “Handy Man” cracked me up when I was a tad. I remember it as the “Comma Song.”

Del Shannon came a long way from 1961’s  “Hats Off To Larry.” This song made it to Number 9 in November 1964.

This is one of the prettiest songs the Stones ever did, not that they were ever known for pretty.

And because my computer has been reborn and hasn’t thrown up in over 24 hours, here’s a repost of  the late great Country Dick Montana & the Beat Farmers to sum up my current mental outlook.

Saturday Matinee – ’65, ’66 & ’67

Folks, we had some odd computer problems today, so we had to throw this together at the last minute.

Hello Vancouver!

1965, Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet.

1966 Yardbirds.  That was the same year Dad bought a set of the World Book Encyclopedia. The cellophane inserts  showing frog anatomy were very cool.

1967, crappy sound, but it’s the Blues Magoos.

1967, and Stephen Stills was only 22 in this video.  I was into Big Daddy Roth and Mad Magazine.  Oh, man.  Seems like it was just February.

Listen Loudly.

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Ken Nordine

[Found here.  Click here if you don’t know who he is.]

Saturday Matinee – Ghosts & Vapors, Pink Dub, Midnight Animals Oil, Ramones California Sun


Ghost caught on video!
“Booo! Booo! Run for mayor somewhere else! Booo!”
[Found here. Don’t jump to a Beer Summit conclusion, there’s more to the story.]

[Found here. Welcome to Electric Pelosiland.]


No video, but the concept is great. Pink Rock Floyd Steady Dub.

Nice cover of the Animals’ 1965 hit by Midnight Oil. But here’s some trivia: The song was written by Barry Mann. (More about him here.)

Oh, yeah.

Saturday Matinee – Oddness, Beat Girl, Hang & Guitar, Procol Harum & Brownsville Station

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Procol Harem’s 1967 hit, Whiter Shade of Pale, was a great song even if nobody cared what it meant.

Brownsville Station double header. I give credit to any three-man power group that can pull this kinda stuff off, even if they were only remembered as a one-hit wonder.

Saturday Matinee – Possession(?), EMW, Rex, Howlies, Demitri Martin & Harry the Hipster

Interpret it as you like. Found that here.

[Cool video found at Ivan’s Place.]

This one’s been around, but I found it again via the Divine Ms. C.

The Howlies had an excellent video of  “Aluminum Baseball Bat” that was pulled from the Utoobage.  They’ve resurfaced with this new one that’s ALMOST as good as their original.

Demetri Martin is Steven Wright minus 30 years, but with a guitar.  The Question and Answer Song was improvised…  (I’m certain that I posted some of his stuff before.  If not, let him know.)

Who? I suspect Harry the Hipster. (Thanx for the fin, Feng.)

Saturday Matinee: Translations

[Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Nicole for the ferrettage link.]

“Oh Liver! Don’t you know I gotta LEG?!”
[Another Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Dan S. in Idaho for this gem  Happy Birthday, Dan.]

Ben E. and I jest…

This one is a repost. It keeps getting yanked from the Utoobage, but it keeps growing back like a fungus. I love it.

Other good news:  Tube No. 1 restored “Dance Girl,” so the link HERE has been repaired.

Sunday Matinee – To Our Non-Yankee Friends

Following in the footsteps of our Fearless Leader, I must apologize for yesterday’s post, as it addressed my fellow citizens while overlooking our friends around the globe.  To make up for this egregious oversight, here are some video picks for everybody.

For Nurse Myra, Phil, Archie & others in and from the land of Oz.

For Herr Eagle. [Vielen Dank für die Ausschreibung. Der Aufstand bewegt sich mit uns Ihre Pläne.]

For Chiqui and others. [Had a difficult time finding a funny video from Spain, as the Utoobage is undergoing some revamping. Video found here.]

The last one is for Rain & Metro and the rest of my friends from Canuckistan.

If  I’ve overlooked any of your homelands, let me know in the comments and I’ll make up for it in a future post.  (Please respond in English, otherwise it looks like spam.)  In other words:

Si je n’ai négligé aucun de vos pays d’origine, faites le moi savoir dans les commentaires et je ferai en place pour lui dans un futur poste. ( S’il vous plaît répondre en anglais, sinon, ça ressemble à du spam.)

Pokud jsem přehlížet jakékoliv vaše vlasti, dejte mi vědět do komentářů a uvidíme se až na to v budoucnu post. ( Odpovězte prosím v angličtině, jinak to vypadá jako spam.)

请回复英文，否则它看起来像垃圾邮件。如果我忽略了您的家园，让我知道的评论中，我会弥补它在未来的职位。

Als ik het heb over een van uw vaderland, laat het me weten in de reacties en ik zal je make-up voor het in een toekomstige functie.  (Gelieve te reageren in het Engels, anders is het er uit ziet spam.)

してください英語で、そうでなければ、スパムのように対応しています。もし私はあなたの故郷の見過ごしてきた、私のコメントで知っているが、私は将来のポストを作ってあげることができます。

Если я игнорировать любые Ваши хоумленды, дайте мне знать в комментариях, и я, естественно, составляют для него в будущем пост. (Просьба ответить на Английский, иначе это выглядит как спам.)

Wenn ich übersehen habe jede Ihrer Heimat, lassen Sie mich wissen, in den Kommentaren und ich machen es in einem zukünftigen Post. (Bitte antworten Sie in Englisch, sonst sieht es aus wie Spam.)

Blame any and all mistranslations above on Google Translate.

Your Pal, Bunk