Amateurs and Fans
Gamma Goochee
A YouTube commenter explains:
According to the notes to "Great Googa Mooga" (Ace CHCD 830) Gamma Goochee Himself was a dental technician named John Mangiagli from southern California. Each year, he would spend his summer vacation making and promoting a self-produced record. This disk was the only one that even came close to charting in the US. The backup singers were his pre-teen nieces. Strange song, even stranger story behind it..
Hear another song by Mangiagli at the link (non-embeddable).
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2023 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, Outsider Art, 1960s
Six Boys in Trouble
This album features jams on homemade percussion instruments by six 11- and 12-year-old African American boys living in New York City public housing, about 1955. These young, untrained musicians improvise the tunes and tales of their upbringing on this rhythmic release and draw inspiration from family folk traditions and popular radio and juke box hits of the era. The group’s enjoyment is apparent in their school yard musical expressions, as is their self-identification with the community in which they live. The album is divided into three parts: Percussion Ensembles, Rhythms with Voices, and Rhythms with Verses. The liner notes provide a deeper look into each section, as well as a subsequent transcription of the lyrics.
Playlist for the rest of the album here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 23, 2022 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Hobbies and DIY, Music, Juvenile Delinquency, 1950s
RIP Maria Makowska-Kalinowska, Champion Moviegoer
"Today, Ms. Maria Kalinowska, the greatest Poznań (Polish, and probably the largest in the scale of the universe) cinema lover, has passed away today," wrote the employees of the cinema to which Maria regularly visited her husband. A married couple wrote down each screening in a notebook - they could spend whole days in the cinema, equipped with sandwiches. People from Poznań who regularly visit the Muza Cinema had to meet them at least once.
News article source of quote.
Their Wikipedia page says:
Maria Makowska-Kalinowska (1945 – 14 November 2020) and Bogdan Kalinowski (1939 – 9 November 2017) were a married couple from Poznań, Poland, known as the most avid filmgoers in Poland. They watched films in cinemas of Poznań regularly from 1973 on. In 2010 alone they watched 563 films. Altogether, between 1973 and 2010 they had viewed over 11,000 films together; by mid-2015 the total exceeded 13,000.[
Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were librarians, and they met during a course for librarians. There was also a library of the films watched, which they meticulously kept. The Kalinowski family went to every film festival, sat down with notebooks in their hands and took notes of every film they watched. And they saw thousands of them together - in 2017, when Mr. Bogdan died, this number probably exceeded 16,000.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 17, 2020 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Eccentrics, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Europe
Bette Davis Sings
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 18, 2019 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Starlit Stairway
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 19, 2018 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Regionalism, Television, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
The Kate Bush Dance Troupe
The Kate Bush Dance Troupe - Babooshka at The Sculpture Center from Kate Bush Dance Troupe on Vimeo.
In case you needed visuals to accompany your Kate Bush songs, these folks will gladly provide them.
More videos here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2016 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Eccentrics, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Dance
Mailed herself to the Beatles
June 1966: 12-year-old Beatles superfan Carol Dryden of Sunderland, England came up with an ingenious scheme to meet the Fab Four. She packaged herself inside a box and arranged to have a friend mail her to them — addressed "to the Beatles, care their fan club, London." Shipping cost $8.47.But Carol only got as far as the railway station, where a clerk noticed the box she was in wobbling back and forth. Inside of it, Carol, overheated and running out of air because she hadn't made any holes in the box, was trying to take off her sweater.
Carol confessed, "I hadn't thought about fresh air or food. All I wanted was to see the Beatles. I don't know what I would have done had I really arrived on their doorstep. I suppose I would have fainted."
The railroad refunded the freight charge.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - June 16, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 26, 2016 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, 1960s, Postal Services
Co-Star Records
There were fifteen of these uniquely bizarre records.
The whole story is here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 30, 2016 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Celebrities, Hobbies and DIY, 1960s
The Legend of Lost Cove
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 04, 2014 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Movies, Pirates, 1930s
Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge
No soundtrack, but it's still better than 90% of current Hollywood productions.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 07, 2013 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Movies, Books, 1930s
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