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Saturday Matinee – Bill Plympton’s Boney D, Elise LeGrow & Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

Boney D. (1996) by Bill Plympton & Jonathan Lee . Better than computer animation, and Plymptoons always made me smile.

Elise LeGrow‘s unusual take on Fontella Bass’ 1965 hit Rescue Me is sultry and sleazy, yet still respectful to the original.

Boogie woogie master Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra head over to Fat Freddie’s Place. Don’t know who the soloists are in this lineup, but that trumpet player melts it.

Fun times this week, and I’m getting a bit tired of it. See you back here tomorrow and we’ll cook up a big ‘ol pot of drudgery. Have a great weekend.

Bdellotomic Hot Links

My Girl Sloopy, The Vibrations (1964) The Jayhawks recorded the hit Stranded In The Jungle in 1956, changed their name to The Marathons, and eventually became The Vibrations. The McCoys’ 1965 cover (retitled Hang On Sloopy) is the better known, and The Yardbirds’ version is just awful. Now about Dottie Sloop…

High score.

Bubbly Brain.

Search Zippy.

It seems odd to me.

Dance hard [sound up].

The Survivability Onion.

Bdellotomic is not a typo.

Pure awesome from 1980.

It’s in the hole [h/t Gord S.].

The Dancer [via Mme. Jujujive].

THE Ringtone [via Bunkerville].

Drifting plates [via Memo Of The Air].

Hard on the eyes yet cool at the same time.

NA Intermodal Units Rail Traffic has a pulse, and 2023 is down for some reason. [h/t GuardDuck]

[Top image: Best guess is that’s a late 1940s Chevrolet 5700 COE truck, courtesy Chuck C. Now chop that top.]

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Saturday Matinee – Guldies, The Howlin’ Brothers & The North Mississippi Allstars

Lots of gloopy in this oddity by Swedish animator Alexander Unger, aka Guldies.

According to their bio, The Howlin’ Brothers sound “like what would happen if a bunch of Appalachian punk rockers formed a jug-band.”
Close enough.

Luther and Cody Dickenson and bassist Chris Chew make up The North Mississippi Allstars. They’ve been around for a while, and crank out some damn fine roots blues and bluegrass, like this cover of Charley Patton’s Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues (1929).

Gonna leave it right there. See you tomorrow.

Ventilabral Hot Links

I Do, The Marvelows (1965) Formed in Chicago in the 1950s as Little Satan & The Demons, later as The Mystics, the group landed a recording deal with ABC-Paramount in 1964 and became The Marvelows. In 1968, to avoid being confused with The Marvellos, they became The Mighty Marvelows and recorded In The Morning.

Don’t eat it.

Aerchie’s Norty Blues.

Sandwiches rotating slowly.

Eatin’ the bottle [h/t Chuck C.].

“…a redneck hick.” [h/t Gord S.].

Penn Gillette’s Great Green Gobs.

Rock and roll tree scooter [via Bunkerville].

When you know someone’s taking a photo.

The Peeps of Willendorf [via Mme. Jujujive].

Early cinematic special effects [via Memo Of The Air].

Newark NJ partnered with a country that doesn’t exist.

[Top image: Alarm clock from 1643 found by Mr. Philosopher Mouse.]

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Saturday Matinee – The World’s Largest Laser Gun, Oorutaichi, The Heavy Heavy, and St. Paul & The Broken Bones

World’s Largest Laser Gun (2018) by Corridor.

Oorutaichi is a “free-form, improvisational electropop artist from Osaka. Inspired by The Doors and The Residents,” he once had a band called Urichipang, and the Utoob description (via Google Translate) doesn’t help much:

PV of “Atlantis” from the album “Giant Club” by Urichipan-gun, which has been well received by UA, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Seiichi Yamamoto, and many other people as one of the masterpieces in J-POP history.

What a laid-back groovy groove. The Heavy Heavy is “a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues, acid rock and sunshine pop” based in Brighton, UK.

Jake’s and Elwood’s long lost nephew.
Paul Janeway of St. Paul & The Broken Bones nails the Stax/Volt soul sound, while Janelle Issis makes the video even better.

Might get a haircut tomorrow before someone starts calling me “mulletman” – again. See you back here for popcicles and beer.

Dextroducting Hot Links

Soul-Limbo, Booker T. & The M.G.’s (1968)
Greatest rock /soul session group ever. Soul-Limbo features a marimba solo by Terry Manning and cowbell by Isaac Hayes.

Here’s the pitch.

What’s for dinner?

Luckey’s Lost Rockers.

Unsatisfying animation.

俺たちイケてる奴らでwow.

Ozzy Man’s Jack Black interview.

Jackin’ the cane [via Bunkerville].

Macaroni Legos [via Mme. Jujujive].

Geometry in action: Batman’s Epicycle.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top: Rotated and inverted colors of image found here.]

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Gnosiological Hot Links

Freddie’s Boogie, Freddie Mitchell And His Orchestra (1953) Saxophonist Freddie Mitchell was among other things “a session musician and bandleader for multi-artist rock shows held by Alan Freed. Mitchell had previously recorded Moondog Boogie named in honor of the disc jockey and the two of them appeared together in the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock.”

Rock, Rock, Rock was the first video cassette tape I ever bought; spotted it in a bargain bin for a couple bucks. My next purchase was a video player.

The Bystander Effect.

Sexism in PhD Awards.

Icecoasters [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Celtic sport of ferret legging.

R.I.P. Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).

Um, better stay out of Earl Orkin’s room.

The angels’ share and the devil’s fungus.

This cheeseburger costs over $21 per ounce.

Czar Peter the Great, Amateur Dental Surgeon.
[via Memo Of The Air]

Meerkats. Cutsey little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
[h/t Bunkerville]

[Top image: Mao money mockery found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Biscuits & Gravy Revew, Olena Uutai, Reverend Peyton & The Terraplanes Blues Band

“It looks like vomit.”
“I’m so scared to try this.”
“It looks like a chopped up ferret.”

Born in Yakutia, Russia, Olena Uutai (Olga Podluzhnaya Uutai) pulls unearthly sounds from a khomus, a type of jaw harp once played by tribal shamans of the far east. [h/t Pam M.]

Reverend Peyton got hold of a groovebox in 2018.

The Terraplanes Blues Band shows us yanks how to play Delta Blues.

It’s later than usual for this time of year, hope it’s still early where you are. See you tomorrow, and if I’m not here, start without me.

Mallophagous Hot Links

All I Need Tonight (Is You), Gentleman Jesse & His Men (2019) Live at Fuzzville #5, L’Albir, Valencia, Spain. 1970s garage punk for the ears of today.

Magic.

Old friends.

Timesavers.

Victims of ancestry.

Power washing p0rn.

The 10th Amendment.

This is not a baby crow.

How To Mind Your Business.

Tell me again. Whose choice?

Up the turbine via Bunkerville.

George and Mabel (The Real Story).

Invasions de Ballons via Mme. Jujujive.

Nobudtaka Aozaki made a map h/t Gord S.

One-room roller coaster via Memo Of The Air.

A simple request: A friend posted this video on Youtube. You don’t have to watch it, just click the like button. That’s it. 😀

[Top image: Spotted in Puerto Rico and captioned here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Messer Chups, Kevin Ayers w/ Ollie Halsall, & Bob

From St. Petersburg, Russia, Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock.
Oleg Gitaracula – guitar
Zombierella – Bass
Rockin Eugene – Drums

Kevin Ayers with Ollie Halsall, 1981 Barcelona. Nice groove, too bad he had to sing. British rock journalist Nick Kent once wrote: “Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them.”

Idiot Wind is a Bob Dylan classic, pretty much my favorite, and it doesn’t have to do with weather, even though it’s blowing like hell around these parts.

That’ll do for now. See you tomorrow if we don’t get blown away.