Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack
The Crazy Otto Medley
Number 2 on the Billboard Charts in 1955.
The man's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 03, 2019 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1950s, Europe
High Flyin’ Bird
Quasi-angry, quasi-metaphorical, quasi-psychedelic song--from these folks.
Relevant Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 16, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Television, 1960s
The Chocolate Choo-Choo
Despite what the YouTube poster writes, this song was issued to the marketplace, as you can see from the pic of the physical record and the advert.But those circumstance do not make the song, with its faintly scatological title, any less weird.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 07, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Chocolate, 1940s
Wild and Wonderful
From the Wikipedia entry:Dick Vosburgh of The Independent commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle."[5] In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in Wild and Wonderful, and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dogs, 1960s
A Kookie Little Paradise
Since when did Tarzan inhabit the jungles of the Caribbean?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Nature, 1960s
Tales of Justine: “Albert, A Pet Sunflower”
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 16, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Nature, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
Miniature Cusine
Lots more here.
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 26, 2017 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Food, Foreign Customs
Doddy and the Diddymen
Apparently, the UK had their own version of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Creator's Wikipedia page.
Live version of the act here, not embeddable.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 14, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1960s, Europe
Toys Are Made for Children
Sometimes the writer masters the metaphor, and sometimes the metaphor masters the writer.
"You keep me jumpin' in your hopscotch world."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 08, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1960s
The King Midget
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 28, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, 1940s, 1970s, Cars
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