Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack
Truman Capote, Broadway Lyricist
Did the same author who penned IN COLD BLOOD write "Two Ladies in De Shade of De Banana Tree?"Indeed he did!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 09, 2023 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Stereotypes and Cliches, Theater and Stage, 1950s
The Riddle of Today
The other ten tracks are here, but this is the best.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 17, 2023 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1960s
Haysi Fantayzee
Here's a live performance by a New Wave band that has arguably aged less well than many others, such as Blondie and The Cars. The rest of their 13-track playlist is here.Their Wikipedia page says:
Haysi Fantayzee was an avant-garde, new wave pop project emanating from the Blitz Kids street arts scene in London in the early 1980s. The group's music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.[3]
Catapulted to stardom by their visual sensibilities, Haysi Fantayzee combined their extreme clothes sense – described[4] as combining white Rasta, tribal chieftain and Dickensian styles – with a quirky musical sound comparable to, but distinct from, other new wave musical pop acts of the era, such as Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Bananarama
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 18, 2022 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1980s
The Electronic Record for Children
Bruce Haack's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2022 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
The Bay City Rollers Show
What happens when some one-hit wonders team up with the creators of H. R. Pufnstuf and The Banana Splits.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 27, 2022 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Television, 1970s
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Everything was extra trippy in the 1970s.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 18, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Fantasy, Stop-motion Animation, Psychedelic, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #529
Synesthesia in advertising.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 07, 2022 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Children, Cereal, 1900s
Lily & Maria
"I knew the shape of thirsty flowers..."
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 10, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1960s
Tapioca Tundra
In honor of the recently departed Michael Nesmith, one of the Monkees' weirder songs.Reasoned verse some prose or rhyme
Lose themselves in other times
And waiting hopes cast silent spells
That speak in clouded clues
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's part of you
Sunshine, rag time, blowing in the breeze
Midnight looks right standing more at ease
Silhouettes and figures stay
Close to what he had to say
And one more time the faded dream
Is saddened by the news
It cannot be a part of me
For now it's a part of you
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 12, 2021 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Surrealism, 1960s
Little Clowns of Happytown
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 06, 2021 -
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Category: Clowns, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Cartoons, 1980s
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