Día de Los Muertos, Merengue Urbano (2021)
[Skulls found in our living room and on the front door stoop.
Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
Category: Music
Habilatory Hot Links
Do The Zombie, M.R. Baseman & The Symbols (1963) This song was the B-side of a 45rpm recorded on the Graphic Arts label, the A-side being a cover of the Devotions’ Rip Van Winkel, recorded by “Marty & The Symbols.” Very little is known about this group except they may have been from Astoria, Queens, NY. No relation to the 1960s UK pop band The Symbols.
Meow.
The original version is the best.
Izuna Fair [via Memo Of The Air].
Mr. Bone’s Pizza [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Earth is leaking [via Bunkerville].
The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley (1919)
[also via Memo Of The Air].
Frankencamper [via The View From Lady Lake].
Cool but impractical shelter [via Feral Irishman].
Tired of the lies? Here’s The True Story of Hushpuppies.
[Top image: Detail from The Reward of Cruelty, William Hogarth (1751) found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Creepshow, Messer Chups, Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential, and The Reverend Horton Heat
The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).
From St. Petersburg, Russia, Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.
Decent cover of Freddie King‘s classic Boogie Man performed by Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential of Ireland. According to the band’s website, Martin has moved on to other ventures..
Gretchmaster The Reverend Horton Heat has a tailgater to deal with.
Just a few days to go before the little spooky ones come a-knockin’. We had maybe a half dozen last year, and that includes the one who showed up twice. In any case, pumpkin vivisection is scheduled for Monday.
See you tomorrow, you know where to find me.
Ventricumbent Hot Links
Stampede, The Scarlets (1959)
Not to be confused with the R&B vocal group of the same name, or the 1960s band from Denmark, or the glam-punk band from Australia, this was an instrumental group with Peter Antonio, (aka Pete Antell) and John Sanzone on guitars. Originally titled Dragstrip, Stampede was the theme to the movie Dragstrip Girl. From Billboard’s Music Popularity Charts Sep. 28 1959: “A fine instrumental blues with lots of echo. Side makes use of a downward progression of notes as one of its base themes. Plenty of raucous guitar and sax sound here (Atlantic, BMI).”
Dancing chicks (sound up).
April 11, 1954 was a Sunday.
Here are the signs [via Memo Of The Air].
Border collie staredown [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: I Am Joe’s Chin.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Oz Noy (w/ Amitai Pariente), Ghalia Volt & Joanne Shaw Taylor
Oz Noy / guitar, Amitai Pariente / bass and (?)/ drums, with their version of Pee Wee Ellis’ The Chicken. The Utoobage lists the drummer as “Omer Punk” but that appears to be an alias.
Belgian guitarist (and occasional one-woman band) Ghalia Volt scored the number three slot on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart in 2019.
Joanne Shaw Taylor kicks the hoodoo loose all the way from the UK.
Batteries have been running low for the past few days, but I’ll be up at the crack of noon tomorrow. See you then.
The Toddlyrz – Live at The Grunge Garage
This has been circulating on the TwitX, so click it first:
I wanted to suss out the song, so I stripped the audio, slowed it down, increased the volume, then pasted it back into the video. Sounds like two teens blasted out of their minds.
“Welcome to McDonald’s?” No idea.
[h/t Charlene604 for linking to the original.]
Goniometric Hot Links
Fiberglass Jungle, The Crossfires (1963) Formerly known as The Nightriders, The Crossfires released one 45rpm record in 1963, then abandoned the surf guitar sound, changed to folk rock and renamed themselves The Tyrtles. Then they changed the spelling and became The Turtles. (See also Flo and Eddie.)
“The war on inflation is over.” Or not.
Paper toy templates [via Mme. Jujujive].
Nature’s pinhole cameras & the solar eclipse.
Putting the lizard in the pot [via Bunkerville].
The Four Corners of the Earth [via Memo Of The Air].
Window Swap opens a random video window with audio.
[Top image: Training the Worm, AI image courtesy Pam M.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Dolen Ffermio / Ugandan Women’s Music Group, 8 Ball Aitken Band & The 45s
Ugandan cover of Midnight Special?
Dolen Ffermio (Farming Link) is a Welsh charity that supports projects in Uganda. 30 women from the Llanfyllin area supported 30 Ugandan women by buying them Adungus (bow harps) and paying for training.
8 Ball Aitken Band is out of Brisbane, Australia, plays Aussie blues and country. Good stuff.
The 45s are a self-described “60’s Beat, Soul and R&B of a certain vintage” group from Carlisle, England. The band formed in 2012 when they were only 14 years old; they released their first single, It Ain’t Over, two years later.
Another weekend, another eclipse, another reason to sit on the porch with the dogs. See you when you get here.
Dexiotropic Hot Links
Black Dog Blues, Bayless Rose (1930) Guitarist and singer Bayless “Bailey” Rose’ recordings have been included in both white country blues and black ragtime anthologies. He was a Melungeon according to Mildred Justice, daughter of Dick Justice, another guitarist of the same era.
A life saved [via Bunkerville].
The Fried Egg [via Mme. Jujujive].
Starship Size Comparison Chart [via The Daily What].
Polar Bears – A Netflix Documentary [via Feral Irishman].
A big driftwood finger (and more nautical-themed works of Etsy).
Three young women eating spaghetti on inflatable mattresses at Island of Capri, 1939.
[Top image found here, colorized.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Stalecracker, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Justin Johnson & Shaye Cohn
“Growing up in South Louisiana, my Paw Donald would add cayenne pepper to his dishes and he called it Da Cajun Two Step. We wanted to create the perfect spice blend that can be used to step up any dish. This is it and it can be used on anything and EVERYTHING!!! Put it on a Cracka, dude!”
“Stalecracker” (aka Justin Chiasson) is a Tiktok legend who cook him up da cajun food, dood. He’s also a Louisiana State Trooper.
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is always entertaining (despite the shaky video).
Justin Johnson cools the fire with the swampslide.
Shaye Cohn, cornetist and director of New Orleans based jazz band Tuba Skinny, joins her dad Joe Cohn (guitar), Zaid Nasser (alto sax) and Rob Adkins (bass).
Had a busy week, kinda wiped out, but we’ll be up and about by the time you get here tomorrow. Have a great weekend.
Tacky Raccoons 