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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Cocaine Advertising of the '70s and '80s
Labels:
1970s,
1980s,
Advertising,
Banned,
Crime,
Drugs,
Funny,
Law,
Magazine,
Mail Order,
Novelty,
Obscure tech,
Rare,
Strange Products
Friday, August 26, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends (Cotillion, 1970)
Images: Discogs |
Is it really that bad?
You decide...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Now That's What I Call Yacht Rock!
In the late 1970s and early '80s, the airwaves were filled with a certain vanilla latte type of music nobody really had a name for back then.
It was a super polished style of slick, studio perfect pop music that's mostly associated with acts like Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan and Michael McDonald era Doobie Brothers. But acts like Hall & Oates, Chicago, Pablo Cruise, James Ingram, Toto, Christopher Cross, Boz Scaggs, Nicolette Larson, George Benson, Dr. Hook and others were also making this type of music. Or converting briefly to it.
And it wasn't necessarily limited to any one subset of bands and artists. Although it always had a core of artists that tended to appear on each others albums - namely Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins and members of Toto. But many other major pop acts of that time period are guilty of contributing to it in some way. Including Elton John, The Bee Gees, The Eagles Fleetwood Mac, Barbara Streisand, Cliff Richard and Smokey Robinson.
But thanks to a later generation of lovable hipster music fans (they just get it. don't they?) This music finally has the proper name those of us who actually grew up in the era of this music never really had for it; Yacht Rock.
Yacht Rock was what was left when you removed the Anne Murray, Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Neil Diamond and the rest of the torchier ballads and disco crossovers from the then-current Adult Contemporary radio playlists of that period.
Yacht Rock is also the name of a hilarious 2005 internet mockumentary series about this era of music. Originally made for internet video site Channel 101, the series is one of the most popular online video series ever and was the subject of a June 2015 article in Rolling Stone. And the source of the very name Yacht Rock.
Yacht Rock as a genre also connotes a recurring theme in the lyrics and album covers of these songs, usually about sailing. But also the fact that many yacht owners simply loved laid back, easy going pop music when out for a sail (and that's not a stereotype. Having some friends who are yacht owners on Puget Sound and sailed with them on day cruises, I can testify to this.)
And Yacht Rock today has made a comeback, mostly by way of the internet series and younger music fans rediscovering these old songs and the artists behind them (the resurgence in vinyl LP records in the last decade to today has also contributed.) But also in the fact that this was once the most familiar type of music on the radio for two decades. And the older fans really miss it.
And I confess, it's a guilty pleasure for me too sometimes....
Thursday, November 05, 2015
The W.C. Fields Battery Tester
Labels:
1970s,
Film,
Funny,
Movie,
Obscure tech,
Strange Products
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Children's Disco Musical Stories (Venus, 1988)
It's not every day you run into disco versions of children's stories, especially South Asian ones. And one made eight years after disco fizzled out in America. But this cassette really exists.
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Sunday, October 25, 2015
Holy Toledo!
Photo: Katie Rausch/The Toledo Blade |
She's running for mayor of Toledo, OH.
Well, actually it's kind of a long story. You see, according to Opal Covey, she is supposed to be mayor of Toledo. Right now. But for the past few elections, they have all been "rigged" against her, in spite of Covey never receiving more than 400 votes in the last mayoral elections she's run in.
Covey's platform is an interesting one to say the least. It consists of building an amusement park on three acres of land in downtown Toledo (surrounded by a parking garage which sits on far more space than this entire proposed amusement park.) And others on similarly sized lots of vacant property in downtown Toledo, claiming it would somehow make Toledo a hot tourist destination.
I can't even fit my attitude on three acres.
Yet she insists there's enough room for several full size carnival rides, arenas, ticket booths, concessions, game booths and porta-potties on these three acres. As well as the thousands of visitors she's expecting to flock to this particular amusement park (did I mention all this is supposed to be on three acres?)
O...K then. But folks, you ain't seen nothing yet.
A few weeks ago on Fred LeFebvre's morning show on Toledo news/talk station WSPD, Opal Covey was invited to discuss her plan on his show. And when Fred asked her to be specific about the physics and means of this particular amusement park in comparison to outlying amusement parks in the Toledo area, she...
Well, never mind. Just....just play it.
Video courtesy of 1370/92.1 WSPD Toledo/iHeartMedia
This wasn't the end of it. As LeFebvre was escorting Opal Covey out of the station building after the interview. Well, this happened. Perhaps the damnedest thing you'll see all year.
Adjectives will utterly fail you.
Video courtesy of 1370/92.1 WSPD Toledo/iHeartMedia
Wow. Just....Wow.
But just for the sake of sheer fun, let's pretend she was actually elected mayor of Toledo. What could we expect from an Opal Covey administration?
- Well, needless to say, Toledo's Public Access TV channel will get a HUGE ratings boost. Why watch any of these crappy new sitcoms on the broadcast/cable TV networks or Netflix when the funniest damn comedy in America is the city council meetings on Toledo Public Access TV?
- The natural laws of geometry, physics, dimension and space (and possibly gravity) are about to be overturned by the Covey administration to accommodate Mayor Covey's three acre amusement park plan. Suck it Nye and deGrasse-Tyson.
- Wiping the dust off your feet will become the latest dance craze.
- Local signs in the Toledo area will be in English and Tongues.
I think this very well may be Opal Covey's year. With all the media attention she's been getting recently, she may very well crack that 400 vote ceiling.
I'm not a fan of Republican politicians (they're all bull moose nuts as far as I'm concerned.) But if I lived in Toledo, she'd definitely have my vote. If only for the amusement value in Opal Covey alone, regardless of her amusement park plans.
We'll all just have to wait until next Tuesday to find out how she fared. I'll keep you updated on the Facebook page. Be sure to Like. There's links to current news stories in the world of pop culture and oddities as well as vintage photos and other memorabilia.
And good luck to Opal Covey....
But just for the sake of sheer fun, let's pretend she was actually elected mayor of Toledo. What could we expect from an Opal Covey administration?
- Well, needless to say, Toledo's Public Access TV channel will get a HUGE ratings boost. Why watch any of these crappy new sitcoms on the broadcast/cable TV networks or Netflix when the funniest damn comedy in America is the city council meetings on Toledo Public Access TV?
- The natural laws of geometry, physics, dimension and space (and possibly gravity) are about to be overturned by the Covey administration to accommodate Mayor Covey's three acre amusement park plan. Suck it Nye and deGrasse-Tyson.
- Wiping the dust off your feet will become the latest dance craze.
- Local signs in the Toledo area will be in English and Tongues.
I think this very well may be Opal Covey's year. With all the media attention she's been getting recently, she may very well crack that 400 vote ceiling.
I'm not a fan of Republican politicians (they're all bull moose nuts as far as I'm concerned.) But if I lived in Toledo, she'd definitely have my vote. If only for the amusement value in Opal Covey alone, regardless of her amusement park plans.
We'll all just have to wait until next Tuesday to find out how she fared. I'll keep you updated on the Facebook page. Be sure to Like. There's links to current news stories in the world of pop culture and oddities as well as vintage photos and other memorabilia.
And good luck to Opal Covey....
Labels:
2010s,
Conspiracy,
Funny,
Opinion,
Politics,
Radio,
Religion,
Republican,
Strange
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The Ethel Merman Disco Album (A&M, 1979)
There are some records you just can't make up even if you tried.
Whoever thought combining an aging Broadway singer like a then 71 year old Ethel Merman, who's star had largely faded by this time and disco music would be a smashing crossover success probably has been court-ordered to stay away from recording studios for life.
Her last big hit up until then was 20 years earlier and she was mostly doing variety and talk show TV appearances by the late '70s.
12" inch Ethel Merman single from the album. |
But not for long, as the disco backlash was well underway at the time of this album's release. And to the cut-out budget bins this record went.
Ethel Merman died on February 15, 1984.
Plastic Man
Labels:
2010s,
Fake,
Funny,
Halloween,
Music,
Strange,
Strange Products,
Supermarkets
Thursday, October 01, 2015
Wing Over America
Her name is Wing. Wing Han Tsang, to be exact. She's from Hong Kong by way of New Zealand and she's gonna rock your world.....
You might have heard of Wing from an episode of South Park (they dedicated a whole episode to her)
She has recorded 20 CDs of cover versions of songs ranging from Elvis to AC/DC (in fact, she recorded TWO albums of AC/DC covers!)
Here's her rendition of AC/DC's "Hells Bells"
She actually has a huge worldwide fan base, proving that talent and singing on key and coherently are simply overrated.
But sadly in June of 2015, Wing announced her retirement from music.
http://wingmusic.co.nz/
Saturday, September 26, 2015
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