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Category: Retro & Vintage
Saturday Matinee – Kmac2021, Stevie Ray Vaughan with Jeff Beck, and Don Nix with the Mar-Keys
Kmac2021 is a one-man Spinal Tap. Reminds me of the vids entitled, “What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store.”
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Okay, so where do we go from here? Goin’ Down.
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Beck covered Don Nix‘s “Going Down.”
I always thought it was a Freddie King song. So what else did Nix do? A lot.
From Wiki: Don Nix began his career playing saxophone for the Mar-Keys, which also featured Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and others. The [1961] hit instrumental single “Last Night” (composed by the band as a whole) was the first of many successful hits to Nix’s credit. […] The Mar-Keys evolved into Booker T. & the M.G.’s.
What a convergence of talent at the right time and the right place. God Bless Stax Records.
Have a soulful weekend, folks, be back here tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 537 – Blimpcycle, Steel Cutter, & The Popeye & Olive Construction Co.
[1st one was snipped from this cartoon. Second is an eye-witness .gif Guy’s cutting rebar for dowels and burning his pants at the same time. 3rd .gif is the way high-rise steel buildings were once constructed, with red-hot iron rivets tossed from below.]
Hot Links con Huevos y Salchichas
WIN.
These are Maori War Faces (minus one).
Her knees are real and they’re fabulous.
I hear, “Brain Needle.” It’s The McGurk Effect. Oh, and I hear “Yanny.”
If you ever need to fold a 5 dollar bill into something completely awesome, this is how.
Retiree uses a common Microsoft program to create artwork, and it’s NOT MSPaint. He uses MSExcel.
Guess which three countries contribute the most to plastic pollution of the oceans, then click here.
My respect for the late Muhammad Ali just went down a notch or two. Ohio Democrat Congressman Wayne Hays, Sly Stone, an unidentified British Jew and Ali discussed racism on The Mike Douglas Show.
[Top image: That’s Bambi Nicklen’s heel. Story here.]
Saturday Matinee – Tommy COOper, CockatOOs, TerryTOOns & Brenton WOOd
Old trick, but it’s a good ‘un. I had one that was similar – the bottles flipped from right side up to upside down using the same basic gaffe (like this). [via here.]
Attitude.
“Jazz Mad” TerryToons 1931 [via]. From Wiki:
Through much of its history, the studio [Terrytoons] was considered one of the lowest-quality houses in the field, to the point where Paul Terry noted, “Disney is the Tiffany’s in this business, and I am the Woolworth’s.” Terry’s studio had the lowest budgets and was among the slowest to adapt to new technologies such as sound (in about 1930) and Technicolor (in 1938), while its graphic style remained remarkably static for decades. Background music was entrusted to one man, Philip Scheib, and Terry’s refusal to pay royalties for popular songs forced Scheib to compose his own scores. Paul Terry took pride in producing a new cartoon every other week, regardless of the quality of the films.
In keeping with the accidental Double O Theme, here’s one more.
Alfred Jesse Smith, aka, Brenton Wood, had back-to-back hits in 1967: The Oogum Boogum Song and Gimme Little Sign. Filmed in Hacienda Heights California on “Thee Mr. Duran Show,” this video dates to pre-2006. Jump to 01:53 for the song.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend, folks. Remember those we are memorializing and why.
Retro Rocky Horror
[Found here.]
Druids.
Saturday Matinee – Allotria Jazz Band, Fats Waller, Leon Redbone & Captain Beefheart
Die Allotria Jazzband ist eine Combo, die 1969 in München gegründet wurde und dem traditionellen Jazz verpflichtet ist. [Allotria translates to Monkey Business.] “Wolverine Blues” was written and recorded by Jelly Roll Morton in 1923.
Two decades later, Fats Waller was playing the same style.
Nice lip-sync of a pretty song. According to the UToobage:
“Myra Johnson voiced-over the girl “vocalist” sitting on the piano, who, according to trumpeter Eddie Henderson, is his mother.”
In 1975, over five decades later, Leon Redbone recorded his own version (and this isn’t it. Click the link). Mr. Redbone’s music is meant for eggs and coffee and a side of toast.
That’s a version of Blind Blake‘s recording from 1929.
Captain Beefheart recorded an entirely different song called “Diddy Wah Diddy” that was later covered by The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Whoa. I just found out that “Diddy Wah Diddy” was written by Willie Dixon and Bo Diddley, and was recorded in 1956.
Now it all makes sense.
Have a great weekend folks and be back here tomorrow for more diddy wah diddy.
The .Gif Post No. 535 – Dial 4 x Infinity, Hamburger Heaven & Riding The Crazy Train
We recently posted our 1,600th .gif but I don’t know which one gets the award because I’m estimating. If you’ve got time on your pants and you’re bored, have at it. –Bunk
Tacky Raccoons 