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...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Monday, September 08, 2014
"Shake Baby Shake" Sodsai Chaengkij (1968)
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Sodsai Chaengkij was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s....in Thailand. She was also one of the few Asian pop stars who recorded pop songs with the original English lyrics, as she covered this 1958 Jesse Lee Turner classic...
Sunday, September 07, 2014
"Bras On 45" Ivor Biggun & The D-Kups (Dead Badger, 1981)
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In 1981, a Dutch group called Stars On 45 made a horrifying disco-fied medley of Beatles songs that actually was a worldwide smash hit in June of that year (don't laugh, it actually went to #1 in the US.)
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| This is still the longest song title ever for a 45 RPM single at 41 words.... |
Bear in mind, these weren't the original Beatles recordings stringed together (EMI would NEVER have allowed that), but the Stars On 45s were pretty good imitators (or at least significantly better than anything you hear at the karaoke bar down the street) and they did fool quite a few people.
The success of Stars On 45 made them ripe for parody, which UK TV personality Ivor Biggun did with "Bras on 45". Ivor Biggun's parody on reached #50 in the UK and never charted in the US, but it was widely played on The Dr. Demento Show.
Saturday, September 06, 2014
"Is That All There Is?" Cristina (Ze/Island, 1980)
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My favourite version of the Peggy Lee classic. Cristina Monet's twisted remake was also featured on the first KROQ Rodney on The Roq compilation (which I believe was the only release of this song in the US.) It was a "mystery" track, final cut on Side 2 and credited to "New York" with the track title "Surprise!"
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