The Hi-Lo's In Stereo

If you don't know who The Hi-Lo's were, you really....OK, I don't know who they were either. And since they recorded for Omega Disk Records, they are guaranteed to forever remain in obscurity. Omega Disk was a budget record label in the late '50s, back when anything with the word "Stereophonic" sold records, no matter how unknown or talented (or lack thereof) the performers were

Not sure what is going on here, we have four guys, three appear to be talking about something that's way out of the league of the little guy on their left. Not that he cares. He's just happily gaping his mouth wide open and that's maybe why the other three decided to keep what they were talking about to themselves. Smart move.

On the other hand, perhaps these three guys are just standing around, slacking off while the other guy was doing the actual singing on the record........

Body On Tap Shampoo

Remember this commercial (starring a very young Kim Basinger)? "Brewed with 1/3rd real beer..(WOW!)..But don't drink it......"

Amitabha Buddhist Chant Player

My Amitabha Buddhist Chant Player

I have a strange gizmo

I can't remember how I found it, but it looked like a little radio, but with no tuning dial. You turned it on and it played a simple Buddhist chant over and over and over again, using a microchip in the unit. That was all it did. On it's side, it had a receptor for an AC adapter and an external speaker (I plugged this into my stereo using a patch cord, but the output was monaural and sound only came from the left speaker of my stereo.) It ran on 4 "AA" batteries. It's model number was #K-747....

Nobody I showed this to knew what it was either. The writing on the unit was definitely Chinese. But although I can tell the differences between Asian characters, I'm not very good at reading them individually. But one character did say "Buddha". So that was my only real clue.

Well, I had a breakthrough a few years ago whilst searching Google. It looks like this was a chant player for Amitabha Buddhists. The chant itself repeated "Ahhhh-Mit-Abha....Ahhhh-Mit-Abha....Ahhhh-Mit-Abha.....Ahhhh-Mit-Abha" over and over.

Here's what it sounds like (though the chant my player sounds a little different....)


http://www.amtbweb.org/amtb.mp3



More on Amitabha Buddhism and electronic players..... 

http://www.amtbweb.org/tchet420.htm

This little thing was a mystery to me for the longest time. But the back story is just as fascinating as the player itself.......

September

"Do you remember the 21st night of September......."

And it's Friday night too......Make it special.....

Cheers!

1976 Mazola Margarine Commercial

"You call it corn, we call it Maize....."

Who can forget this commercial?.........