Category: Music

Callipygous Hot Links

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, Big Maybelle Smith (1955) Mabel Smith began recording in 1947 when she was 23 years old, yet she’d been singing in various venues since she was a child. She was the first to record Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, produced and arranged by a young Quincy Jones for Okeh Records, and predating Jerry Lee Lewis’ version by almost two years. (Lewis liked the song so much he stole it, then credited Big Mama Thornton.)

oh hell no

Bigfoot Eruption.

A Drive-by History.

A long strange trip.

Song of the blobfish.

Remember Monkeypox?

Emotional support demon.

A round of applesauce [via Bunkerville].

It’s not easy being the coolest in the club.

Dave Chappelle talks about the funny business.

Only the names (in the Rocky Horror Picture Show).
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top image found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Sadeck Waff, The Mound City Blue Blowers, Bette Midler & Los Lobos

Sadeck Waff, Oxandre Peckeu et 126 performers professionnels et amateurs. Remerciements à la Neodance Academy et leurs équipes pour le casting et la gestion des danseurs.

A clip from their 1931 short film Nine O’Clock Folks, The Mound City Blue Blowers featured Red McKenzie (kazoo), Jack Bland (Vega guitar) and Frank “Josh” Billings on suitcase. YouTube video description includes Eddie Condon, but I think that’s Eddie Lang on guitar. The movie title referred to the local curfew.

Bette Midler at her peak (circa 1984) with a killer cover.

One of the most underrated bands ever: Los Lobos, from How Will the Wolf Survive , 1984.

Well, dang. Down to the wire, out of time & out of steam. See you tomorrow.

Farraginous Hot Links

Mama Can I Go Out Tonight, Jo Ann Campbell (1959) Before you roll your eyes, Bo Diddley wrote that song – that’s him on guitar, with King Curtis on tenor sax and Jerome Green on the maracas. It was recorded for her 1959 album I’m Nobody’s Baby. Campbell had a promising career as a dancer when she transitioned to rock and roll. Promoted by Alan Freed (and appearing in his showcase movie Go Johnny Go!) she had a successful recording career, charting hits in the UK as well as the US.

Audi do.

When Worlds Collide Department: The Mastodon home invasion.

This cow.
[via Bunkerville}

Bibi & Fritz.
[via Mme. Jujujive]

Seatbelt safety flaw.
[via Feral Irishman]

The House of Taste.
[via Memo of the Air]

“Stop licking this toad.”
[h/t Suz P.]

One disorienting thing.

The Jimmy Dugan Story.

You get what you pay for.

4th century B.C. cat sculpture.

The Day After The Night Before.

Name 50 States in 17 seconds. Go.

When Worlds Collide: The Mastodon home invasion.

[Top image: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Zhenjiang San Francisco. found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Platypus Conspiracy, Messer Chups, Tito & Tarantula and Rory Gallagher

The Platypus [h/t Gord S.]

From St. Petersburg, Russia,  Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock, and their version of the Bondage theme is the best I’ve heard. Recorded at Brin de Zinc (Chambery-France) 2014
Oleg Gitaracula – guitar;  Zombierella – Bass; Rockin Eugene – Drums.

Ten minutes of a bluesy Doors-ish groove. Tito and Tarantula were filmed for an episode of Texas Roadhouse Live (hosted by Kinky Friedman) in 2010. Tito Larriva played Radio Head in the movie TRUE Stories (1986) and was a founding member of The Plugz.

Rory Gallagher slides all over the place at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1977. Five years earlier he was crowned International Guitarist of the Year. He died in 1995 at the age of 47, from liver failure caused by prescription drugs; his grave marker is a replica of the award.

That’ll do for now. Have a great weekend, see you back here sometime tomorrow.

Adynatonal Hot Links

Go! Go! Go!, The Coconut Monkeyrocket (2010) Uptempo electrokitsch surf rock /cartoon funk. Gotta slip it into the Christmas mix.

Prothesis.

Twiter [sic].

Punch Clock.

Worth doing.

Deadly hypnosis.

PAY ATTENTION.

Talivara pumpkins.

How asparagus grows.

Forgive and forget? Nah.

Pineapples. [h/t Bunkerville]

Kwang Toong! With oyster sauce! [h/t Memo of the Air]

[Top image: Gillian Anderson found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mario Wienerroither, The Reverend Peyton’s Bid Damn Band, and Johnny Winter w/ Edgar Winter & Rick Derringer

#klangberlins: Konzerthausorchester Berlin pays tribute their city.

Mario Wienerroither‘s (mostly) unplugged Rolling Stones. [h/t Pam M.]

It’s hard to tell, when the devils look like angels and angels look like hell.
The Reverend Peyton’s Bid Damn Band has an appropriate message for the upcoming elections. 

Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer, Rockpalast 2007.

I have big plans to sleep in tomorrow, but stop by anyway and help yourself to the cooler on the porch. I’ll be out soon enough and we’ll do stuff.

¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!


Pillco Canto Ritual (Bolivia), Los Folkloristas (2014)

[Source images here and here. More in the Día de Los Muertos Archive.]

Nictitating Hot Links

Jungle, The Nite Cats (1962) No information about this group, but the song is suitable for Halloween ambient neighborhood music. The Nite Cats recorded this wonder on the CPM (Consolidated Music Publishing) Records label, and it appears in several “jungle rock” compilations. The flip side of the 45rpm is Skip School Flu.

A Prayer.

踊ってみた

Dog gets it.

Reeperbahn.

Biddy Boys 1972.

Do the monster mask.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]

Funeral greeting cards.

Halloween Safety (1977).

Someone ran over a bird.

Throat singer on the intercom.

“A day in the life of a Twitter employee” is NOT a parody.
[h/t Bunkerville]

[Top image: No idea what that’s all about but I like it. Might be a still shot from a Netflix series that I haven’t watched. Found here. h/t Charlene.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee Halloween Edition – Rebooted, David Lynch, Tom Waits & Alabama Black Snakes

“It’s not easy for a movie-star to age – especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster. Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect.”

Article with “the making of” video here.

David Lynch does the creepo.

Who needs Halloween music when you got Tom Waits.  Little kids wouldn’t come near our house once they got within earshot of Bone Machine.

Alabama Black Snakes fit in with the theme.

Gonna be some pumpkin sacrificin’ around here, even if Halloween comes on a Monday this year. Have a good one, see you tomorrow.

Castrametational Hot Links

Safe European Home, The Clash (1978) The song is about a trip to Jamaica gone wrong, hence the lyrics “I went to the place where every white face is an invitation to robbery.”

Singer Joe Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones were sent to Jamaica for two weeks in December 1977 to write songs for their upcoming second album. “We must’ve looked like a strange pair to the locals… I’m surprised we weren’t filleted and served on a plate of chips” noted Jones. “We went down to the docks and I think we only survived because they mistook us for sailors.” 

Sound up.

Noah’s Ark.

Getter done.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Bollards never give up.

Age-appropriate chores.

Kitty’s birthday surprise.

Louie’s going down tonight.

Cars designed to be trashed.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]

Baby elephants and their trunks.

Biblical angels were scary. More about them here.

[Top image: Belgian goat with Doppelbock found here.]

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