Aaron Moloney‘s Toast (2017) won an RTÉ 60 Second Short Award.
Markus Proske‘s 4-string electric cigar box guitar.
Lollypop Lorry covered the Wailers’ / Skatalites’ 1964 hit Simmer Down in style – wait for the trumpet solo. Not bad for a ska band from Russia.
Okay, outta steam, outta time, gotta go, be back tomorrow, seeya.
Who’s Been Talking, Howlin’ Wolf (1970) Sometimes mistitled Cause Of It All, Chester Burnett’s recording from the The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions (Chess 1971) is a classic. Backing musicians for this track included Eric Clapton, Lafayette Leake, Hubert Sumlin, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman.
This is The End.
If true, this is disturbing news.
Hoogerbrugge’s Hotel was awesome.
What an honor! Thanks Mme. Jujujive!
Pelican trying to eat a capybara [via Bunkerville].
Church puzzled by low attendance at men’s conference.
[Top image: Still from After the Storm.]
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He was 30 years old when he ripped up The Judy Garland Show in 1964. From the Utoobage comments:
“The ‘Best Boy Dancer’ happened to be the choreographer for this dance. His name is Bobby Banas. He also played Joyboy in Westside story.”
I’d say the girl did a bang up job but she got no credit.
Al Jackson Jr., Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Booker T. Jones,
aka Booker T. & the M.G’s, groovin’ in 1971.
Zontar Venus. You’re on you’re own with this one. [h/t Gord S.]
Modern soulfunkgroove (with some serious technical music skills embedded).
MonoNeon: lead vocal, background vocals, guitar, bass;
Davy Nathan: keyboards, drum programming.
Guess that’ll do for now. Hope the summer heat is cooling down to a more tolerable level for y’all, and remember: it ain’t the heat, it’s the humanity. See you back here tomorrow.
Brazil, Geoff & Maria Muldaur (1970) In 1939, Ary Barroso was stuck in his house during a rainstorm, so he wrote Aquarela do Brasil. Three decades later, multi-talented musician Geoff Muldaur and his wife Maria (nee D’Amato) recorded it as Brazil. In 1985, Terry Gilliam adopted the song for his cinematic vision of a retro-future dystopia, and now it’s immediately recognizable as the Theme to Brazil.
Pre-WWII smoke screen.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Mr. Hitler, Leadbelly (1942).
Rocket cats from the 16th century.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
It’s legal in Brazil to kill motorcycle thieves.
“I have turned into Moira Rose, Queen of the Crows.”
[Top image: László Löwenstein, aka Peter Lorre, in promo for movie Crime and Punishment, 1935.
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Antonio Vivaldi’s “Sommer” wird zum Schauplatz eines musikalischen Wettkampfs. Salut Salon fechten ihn akrobatisch aus, und mit viel Humor – ein Klassiker des Hamburger Quartetts. Ein Konzertmitschnitt aus dem Film “Salut Salon. Der Film” von Regisseur Ralf Pleger.
“We are Rockabilly & Country & Rock ‘n’ Roll band of Thailand.”
Bangkok’s Trix ‘O’ Treat has a cool mix of retro flavors with a bit of punk thrown in, and Billy Move is now my favorite song so far today. [Nice shirt at 1:09].
“Dude’s bass is lower than my parents’ expectations for me.”
– Youtube comment
Wikipedia describes 1000mods as “a stoner metal band from Chiliomodi, Greece, formed in 2006. [..] The name of the group is a pun linked to the village in which they were formed, as ‘a thousand’ is pronounced ‘chillia’ in Greek.”
Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow for no reason at all.
Funbar, Deerpeople (2013) I heard this song years ago (on Atomic Flash Deluxe Hi-Fi Radio) but didn’t know the title or the band name until recently. Formed in 2012 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Deerpeople were described as psychedelic folk rockers. One day they just stopped performing and recording for no particular reason, but reunited to officially disband in 2019.
Checkpoint Jumbo.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Magnetic vibrations.
[via Memo of the Air]
Catch the Chameleon. Great soundtrack.
The War of Human Cats by Festus Pragnell.
98 year old found out how old he is. [NSFW]
“In America if it is worth doing it is worth overdoing.”
Here’s proof.
It’s a multipart saga about earplugs in space: Surprise Visit (Part I).
[Top image found here.]
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Digger Cleverly (frontman for the five member trio The Cleverlys) talks about his alpaca ranch.
Marion & Sobo Band does 1930s-era gypsy / Hot Club pretty well. Nice quirky video, too.
The Mustangs, is a famous western surf instrumental band from Finland. They’re so famous I can’t find anything about them.
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears bring back the Stax/Volt soul sound without a Hammond B3 organ.
Have a great weekend, stay cool, and be where you belong. See you tomorrow.
Love is All Right, Cliff Nobles & Co. (1968) Cliff Nobles recorded this A-side for the 45rpm, but the B-side, The Horse, was the instrumental hit. It became one of the most recognizable instrumentals ever, and EVERY high school band played it. The Horse was also the theme song for Radio Veronica, a popular dutch pirate radio station that broadcast from a ship on the North Sea in the 1960’s & 70s.
Sound up.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Milton Friedman would have turned 110 years old today.
Clifford Stoll talks about what he’s not going to talk about (2006).
[Top image found here.]
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Steve Ripley & The Tractors were responsible for creating the highest selling album ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma. Ripley passed away at his home in Pawnee, Oklahoma in 2019. He was 69
The Blue Cats – Beltane Fire hail from Southhampton, England. They morphed somewhat over the years, moving from rockabilly to psychobilly, then “ditched the quiffs and upright bass for something darker, heavier and evocative of merry old England” according to one review.
Tony Spinner is probably better known as a background vocalist/guitarist for Toto. He owns owns a 1964 Chevy SS.
Have a great weekend, busy or not, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow for, you know, whatever.
Thunderbirds, A. Aallon Rytmiorkesteri (2000) A. Aallon, also known as A. Aalto and A. Aalto’s Rhythm Orchestra, is an iskelmä (pop) music group from Ylöjärvi, Finland. Interesting mix of styles, but this particular space western surf instrumental struck a chord with me.
The Proposal.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Fibbonacci Elephant.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]
Ridiculous Inflatable Swan Thing.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
[Top image found here.]
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Tacky Raccoons 