Guaranteed to make you smile. [Found here.]
Go find your 3D red/blue glasses for this one (or turn off the 3D and watch the 2D version).
Roots reggae with The Mighty Diamonds, live at Channel 1 in Kingston, Jamaica. Nice harmonies.
The Skatalites‘ classic “Simmer Down,” has great audio but a so-so video. So what, I like it.
And we’ll wrap up this babozo with The Supersuckers‘ “Born With A Tail.” (Some NSFK language.)
Have a great weekend, folks, and be back here tomorrow for more fun stuffage.
The Chords‘ original A Capella version of Sh-Boom.
Nice collection of Ray Harryhausen‘s greatest hits.
If you’ve never seen Terry Gilliam‘s excellent movie Brazil this would be a good weekend to watch it. Twice.
There’s something very wrong with taking Dave Brubeck‘s classic “Take Five,” completely missing the musical pun involved (5/4 time) and turning it into a ska version (in 4/4). Aside from that blasphemy, it’s kinda fun.
Punk Funk Reggae Ska compilation, courtesy The Aggrolites. I like.
Have a great weekend folks, see you back here tomorrow for more fun.
Awesome original by Prince Buster, later covered by Annette Funicello with Fishbone (!) and worth reposting:
SkaBoom‘s “Love and Affection.”
Filmed at 86 street, a former night club located on the Vancouver Expo Grounds, and at the UBC War Memorial Auditorium.
And then there was Oingo Boingo‘s cover of one of Willie Dixon‘s classics, “Violent Love.” Unfortunately, Dixon’s original isn’t available on the Utoobage, so we’ll default to this classic:
“Crazy ’bout My Baby” from 1966, Dixon on bass and vocals, and with that, we’re out. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see ya’ll back here tomorrow.
Cirque du Soleil is always awesome. Gotta wait for the cool stuff in this vid. [Found at a blog whose name has a lot of t’s and w’s in it.]
Fishbone is/was just nuts. I love ’em.
Steve Vai’s “Love of God” is another awesome rock classic.
Louis Armstrong is one of a handful of people that I would have liked to have met. ¡Adiós mis muchachos!
Johnny “Dizzy” Moore passed on in August of 2008, so as a late tribute, here are the Skatalites:
Biographical info on Dizzy Moore can be found at this site (which has it’s own ska track auto play by the way.)
Joe Bennet & the Sparkletones’ “Black Slacks.”
Intermission.
Trailer for “MANtage,” coming to a theater near you. [Great find, FinPeng.]
Back by popular demand, the J. Geils Band’s version of the Marvelow’s classic “I DO.”
Jake Shimabukuro makes his Uke Weep. Amazing.
Kaje. Nice hat. Nice Uke.
Nice animation. Nice Uke.
Nice hair, no Ukes, but wait ’til you see their cantalopes. (Found it on this guy‘s website. The B-52’s are always cool.)
Not sure where these folks are from, but I’d love to hear ’em play this:
Todd Rundgren’s ska more than makes up for last week’s lack of Saturday Matinee offerings. (Here’s Bad Manners’ take on “Bang the Drum All Day.” Unfortunately, no video, but Linerider rocks out here.)
[Image of headbangers via email from Grampa Strutts. More Ukelele here.]
Every Feature Presentation should be preceded by at least one movie trailer and a short animation. Here at TR we do things differently.
Just so you’re not disappointed with the Feature Presentation when the trailer and animation clips are so much better, here’s Annette grooving with Fishbone.
Requisite Movie Trailer clip… The Darwin Awards, coming to a DVD player near you.
Here’s a great animated short by Ivan Maximov: Provincial School.
And what the heck. Here’s a brief history of Ska. [Looks like a young Mick Jagger with Brian Jones in there after the “Flamingo” sign at 6:50.]
Is it just me, or are they dancing to “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs?
Alternate .mp3 version of “Wooly Bully” is available at here along with some other freebees. Rhino Records put out a Best Of compilation on vinyl decades ago, and it’s prolly available on CD.
“Hey there, Little Red Ridin’ Hood… You sure are lookin’ good… You’re everthang that a Big Bad Wolf could want… Ooooooow!”
Tacky Raccoons 