[Image from here. .Gif from here. Video previously posted here with awesome commentary. Long Live the King.]
Category: Videos
Saturday Matinee – Miscellany
For the New Year, we thought that this Saturday Matinee might consist of top hits of decades past… that is until we looked at the list of contenders:
1890 Semper Fidelis – The U.S. Marine Band [no video]
1899 Kiss Me, Honey, Do – Arthur Collins [no video]
1909 Good Evening, Caroline – Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson [no video]
1919 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? – Bert Williams [no video]
1929 Sweethearts On Parade – Guy Lombardo [no live video]
1939 They Say – Artie Shaw [no video]
1949 A Little Bird Told Me – Evelyn Knight [no live video]
1959 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – The Platters
1969 Crimson And Clover – Tommy James & The Shondells
1979 Too Much Heaven – BeeGees
1989 My Prerogative – Bobby Brown
1999 Have You Ever – Brandy
2009 Love Story – Taylor Swift
After careful consideration and review of the available videos on the Utoobage, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to post any of them, but the links are there just in case some of you are into self-flagellation. Meanwhile, let’s just back away from the pop trainwrecks for now.
The shortest Rolling Stones song you never heard. [Found here.]
As for rock commercials, try this.
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ “Ghost of Stephen Foster” with a cool cartoon.
[Update 12:50PM – Gabriel left this fine memory in Thursday’s comments. Gotta post it here.]
Saturday Matinee – Reptilicus, Rob, Roches & James Gurley
The Day after Christmas. Quick! What’s the first word that comes to mind? “Reptilicus! An annihilating mastodon immune to all known weapons of warfare!”
Where’s Rob? Simple premise, funny result, and the ending makes it all worthwhile. [Found here.]
Cbullitt sent an email link to The Roches’ version of “The Hallelujah Chorus.” It reminded me of the first Roches’ song I ever heard, “Mr. Sellack.”
Here’s some serious retroness from 1967. From the Utoobage:
Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding company perform live on San Francisco TV program called “POW” that had Rolfe Petersen as the host on KPIX.
Big Brother & The Holding Company’s guitarist James Gurley recently passed away at the age of 69.
Saturday Matinee – Simpsons in Estonia, How to Make Candy Canes, Sleigh Ride, Darlene Love with the E Street Band
Another Simpsons opening scene re-enactment, from ESTONIA!
[Found here.]
How candy canes are made. Very cool. [Found here].
Bunky just can’t get into the Christmas Spirit until he hears the Ronettes’ version of “Sleigh Ride.”
Unfortunately, the best vids of that song have been pulled, and we just can’t bring ourselves to post a video of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, or worse, a picture of an album cover (losers). BUT, we’re certainly willing to post THIS version. Screw the copyright Scrooges.
So here’s a compromise, a Christmas song with Darlene Love, backed by the E-Street Band (with video splices from, um, “Home Alone“).
Saturday Matinee – B_ETWE_EN, Maccabees, Bunkface, Ronettes
B ETWE EN. Very odd, reminds me of David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Click on the image, hit full screen, and meet me back here.
The Maccabees put a video of the winner of the 2007 Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling to music. Who woulda guessed. (Bunkarina suggested this one.)
So just for the heck of it, I click the Utoobage and start typing b, u, n, k… and up pops Bunkface. (I’ve been called worse.)
You’d not believe how difficult it is to come up with the correct video links for rain. “Rain Rain Rain” doesn’t even come up on the search mojo; The Videos’ “Trickle Trickle” is a no show also. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow held possibilities. Or I could link to It’s a Beautiful Day’s self-indulgent “White Bird (in a golden cage in the rain).” Ugh. I couldn’t bring myself to post a Melanie vid either, so while I’m hunting, try this.
The Ronettes’ “Walking in the Rain” is THE best rain song ever.
Day of Infamy – 7 December 1941
Saturday Matinee – The Beatles, The Rutles, The Troggs, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Ape Man
The history of the Beatles. [Found here.]
“With a Girl Like You.” The announcer mispronounces the group’s name as “The Rutles.” Heh.
Here’s the Troggs’ original version of “With A Girl Like You” from 1967. The Troggs got their name from Troglodytes, aka, cavemen, which brings us to this:
“Troglodyte” was one of the worst yet most popular funk trainwrecks ever. Recorded in 1972, the Jimmy Castor Bunch introduced us to Bertha Butt of the Butt Sisters. Boom shakalaka.
And now for our Feature Presentation: “The Ape Man.”
[Note that this is the 1971 original uncut version. Not for the squeamish.]
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[Secret bonus hidden videos: cbullitt snuck a couple into the comments section on this post. If any of you have links to your favorite classics, email me at bunkstrutts@verizon.net and I’ll put ’em in the lineup rather than leave them hidden in the comments. –Bunk]
Saturday Matinee – 5 Buddys with Schweppes
This week’s features are brought to you by Schweppes. [Found here.]
Buddy Hackett on the tonight show. Wait for the story about the duck.
Buddy Holly rockin’ out in 1958.
Buddy Greco. Serious Lounge “Whoa But Hey” music.
Why Buddy Rich doesn’t use a match grip.
The ever awesome Buddy Guy. Here he is teaching Blues 101, but y’all know that’s just not enough, so down below is “Five Long Years” live at Montreal. Enjoy the weekend, folks.
Saturday Matinee Bonus: UFO Eyewitness
Saturday Matinee – Butterstick, Us, Stand Up and Shout, Jerry’s Breakdown, After You’ve Gone
I axed Bunkarina to pick out a video or two for this week’s video trainwreck, and she chose this. From Drew Carey’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” here’s “Butterstick.”
Bunkarina likes this video by Regina Spektor, and so do I.
The Tubes were the late 70’s equivalent to FZ’s Mothers of the late 60’s. MockRock at it’s best. “Stand Up and Shout” covers a lot of ground while featuring Fee Waybill as druggie frontman “Quay Lewd.”
The late Jerry Reed pickin’ with the late Chet Atkins. This one’s for Aussie Phil.
Suzy Boggus‘ & Chet Atkins’ excellent version of “After You’ve Gone.” (Ignore her stupid outfit, she’s a great singer.)
Tacky Raccoons 