Showing posts with label Sixties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sixties. Show all posts
Friday, June 18, 2010

Reasons to be Cheerful, Part Four

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Since this is officially the day I turn “another year old and deeper in debt,” I’m going to just slip backwards in time (which comes easily ...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Of drinking songs and the "Aintree Iron": I'm led to the Scaffold

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When I interviewed Neil Innes (more info above!), he brought up a British band that I had heard for what I think was the first time ever ear...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

When "Stinky" Met Sky: "The Mothers-in-Law"

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Two posters have already uploaded to YouTube the legendary moment when garage rock burst onto America’s TV screens in the odd guise of a “hi...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

AM pop heaven: part the second

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Continuing on from last week’s post, I offer two more hook-driven Sixties hits that will never, ever exit my cranium. First, the tale of a y...
Friday, September 4, 2009

AM pick to click (in another era)

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The sheer hookiness of old pop can't be beat, and for discovering these songs at a moment's notice, YouTube is quite the inescapable...
Friday, March 6, 2009

The Sixties: The gift that keeps on giving...

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Am glad the page views are growing by the week. And what pray tell brings people to this here blog — or any website for that matter? Well, t...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Pure pop: "Music to Watch Girls By"

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We salute you Andy Williams, oh Tiki-headed god of easy listening. Andy had a big-time string of hits in the early ’60s, but what I have bee...
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Forgotten '60s sitcom gem 2: He and She

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Courtesy of the same poster who put up the item below, who calls himself “Mr. Retro” (thank you, Senor!) we have another lost Sixties sitcom...
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Forgotten '60s sitcom gem: The Good Guys

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Fifties sitcoms are the blueprints for the genre (borrowed liberally from the radio and certain master comedians like Fields), while the Six...
Friday, July 27, 2007

What the Swingin' Sixties did to Busby Berkeley (and Nelson Eddy for that matter)

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This muscial number from the pretty much entirely forgotten Roseland from 1970 evokes the great movie musicals of Hollywood's Golden Er...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

A rare underground pic featuring vintage '60s NYC, and one of my all-time fave Donovan tunes

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Since I'm on a '60s kick with these latest posts, I link to a wonderful bit of vintage NYC footage from filmmaker Robert Steinbreche...
Friday, June 22, 2007

"Roller Girl": a definite Funhouse favorite! (Anna, 1967) (from the old Funhouse blog)

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Exuberance is the only word for it. Anna Karina, bored at home, lamenting her dismal romantic condition, dancing around in a hastily assumed...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

One of my favorite commercials, EVER (psychedelia from the old blog)

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See the light, man! I have literally hours and hours of vintage commercials on tape, but I decided that this little item should be the one I...

Obscure psychedelia, scored by Syd and the Floyd (the number 1 most-viewed post on the old Funhouse blog)

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In reviewing the material I’ve got on a certain Deceased Artiste, namely Roger Barrett (aka Syd the Madcap), I found this short film on a Fl...