History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...
This was before, and after, Jack In The Box. In 1985, Jack In The Box
in one of the most disasterous blunders ever made by a fast food chain,
changed it's name to "Monterey Jack's"
Patrons were not impressed by
the yuppified image makeover and exactly a year later, they became Jack
In The Box again.
Anyone
who collects stamps knows the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has by
far the strangest and most unusual postage stamps in the world.
But
these have to be amongst the STRANGEST of the strange. In the early
'70s, Bhutan issued record-stamps. They are actual one-sided phonograph
records, playable on any turntable without automatic, end of side pick
up.
They featured history talks and traditional Bhutanese folk music.
In a 21st century update, Bhutan recently issued a series of CD-ROM stamps....
If you've always wondered where all that crazy grunge stuff in Seattle
got it's start, look no further. This 2 hour documentary takes you back
from the '70s all the way up to 2007 and looks at every aspect of the
whole punk scene of the last 30 years from every location in the Puget
Sound from Vancouver, BC to Olympia. A MUST watch for every fan of
indie/DIY/punk/hardcore!
I don't know what attracts me so much to this song, but somehow I love
it. I remember hearing it many years ago online on the now-defunct Saga
FM 105.7 in Birmingham, England. There's a certain, distinctly British beauty about it that's hard to put in words. It's a song that really should/could have been a hit here in the States.
"Lightning
Tree" (York Records, later reissued on Decca Records UK.) was
originally released in 1971 and only charted in the UK and a few other
countries. It was the biggest hit for a '60s UK pop band called The
Settlers.
The song is most famous there for being the theme song to the
Yorkshire TV/ITV series Follyfoot, which was about a rest home for
horses, It had challenging things to say about the treatment of horses
in British society that was far ahead of it's time. The show had a two
year run on British TV and ran there as repeats until well into the late
'80s.
Here's the UK TV opener for Follyfoot:
The Settlers never had another hit single. Which was odd. I always
thought they kind of sounded like The Seekers and I guess I'm wasn't
alone when I looked them up on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_(band)
"The Settlers have generally been referred to as a folk group. However, like the Seekers, the successful Australian group with which they shared marked similarities, some of their material gravitated towards mainstream pop, which, taking its cue from American singer-songwriters Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and such groups as Peter, Paul and Mary and The Byrds, readily absorbed folk influences in various ways in the mid 1960s......"
