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, October 25, 2014
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014
The Sugar Bears
Hello Dumpster Divers,
Yes, it's been a while since I've last posted. I really haven't felt very inspired lately. The depression spells have hit quite hard in recent weeks. But the fog appears to be breaking up. So I'll start fresh.
It seems like the late '60s/early '70s were filled with cartoon pop acts; The Banana Splits, Josie & The Pussycats, The Archies, et al. But The Sugar Bears appeared to be the first act directly tied to a commercial product mascot (Sugar Bear of Super Sugar Crisp cereal.) They were promoted through a short-lived cartoon series and cut out records on the boxes of Super Sugar Crisp cereal.
Presenting The Sugar Bears was one of the earliest releases on the fledgling Big Tree Records label, which would be the '70s record label home of Lobo, Hot Chocolate, Brownsville Station and most notably, England Dan & John Ford Coley.
The Sugar Bears was another stop in the career of Kim Carnes, who joined shortly after leaving The New Christy Minstrels. She wrote some of the songs and sings on this album (as "Honey Bear".) Another former Christy and member of Kenny Roger's First Edition, Mike Settle, also writes and sings on this album.
Yes, it's been a while since I've last posted. I really haven't felt very inspired lately. The depression spells have hit quite hard in recent weeks. But the fog appears to be breaking up. So I'll start fresh.
It seems like the late '60s/early '70s were filled with cartoon pop acts; The Banana Splits, Josie & The Pussycats, The Archies, et al. But The Sugar Bears appeared to be the first act directly tied to a commercial product mascot (Sugar Bear of Super Sugar Crisp cereal.) They were promoted through a short-lived cartoon series and cut out records on the boxes of Super Sugar Crisp cereal.
Presenting The Sugar Bears was one of the earliest releases on the fledgling Big Tree Records label, which would be the '70s record label home of Lobo, Hot Chocolate, Brownsville Station and most notably, England Dan & John Ford Coley.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Sony Music Pops Cassettes
1985 was the year cassette players got colourful. The Sharp QT-50 was a hot item, neon and pastel colours got a comeback.
So as Warner/Reprise dumped the old staid white or beige cassette shell for the sleek clear shells of their then-new commercially released cassette tapes and Teac unveiled their reel to reel look, Sony gave us the Music Pops cassettes.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The Seattle Bubbleator
This was the Seattle Center Bubbleator. A hydraulically driven clear glass "bubble" that illustrated in 1962 how elevators would be driven in "the future".
And having personally rode the "Bubbleator" several times from the 1970s and early '80s, for the LEAST, I can say I was disappointed when this legendary ride of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair ended up as a greenhouse in some rich yuppie's yard.
It was heartbreaking really. You just DON'T throw away HISTORY like THIS.
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