Music
The Distant Galaxy
Spacey, man!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 24, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Touch, The Generation Gap Musical
This dated abomination seems to have all but vanished from the annals of stage history, so far as googling can determine.
Enjoy the whole performance, thanks to the capacious memory of the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Theater and Stage, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
The Wozard of Iz
A 1960s, Moog-synthesizer parody of the Wizard of Oz.Wikipedia quotes Kim Cooper who described it as, "the pinnacle of the rather small genre of psychedelic Wizard of Oz-themed albums."
Detroit Free Press - Dec 20, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 15, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Parody
What a Wonderful Thing Is Me
If the music doesn't put you to sleep, you will learn all about your various parts.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 13, 2023 -
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Category: Music, PSA’s, Cartoons, 1970s
Hoover Dam music soothes mentally ill
I've visited the Hoover Dam a number of times but had never heard about its unusual acoustic properties that produce "a soothing effect on violently ill mental patients when they listen to musical recordings made at the dam site."I searched in vain for copies of these Hoover Dam sound recordings.
Los Angeles Times - Sep 22, 1955
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 11, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Psychology, 1950s
Soul Dracula
The group's page at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 09, 2023 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Horror, Music, Cemeteries, Graveyards, Crypts, Mortuaries and Other Funereal Pursuits, 1970s
The Coach With the Six Insides
James Joyce's novel FINNEGANS WAKE is notorious for its undecipherability. But somehow Jean Erdman, wife of mythologist Joseph Campbell (himself a Joyce expert) decided the book could be transformed into a dance.See video after snapshot.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 06, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Music, Unsolved Mysteries, 1960s, Dance
Thingumybob
One of the less typical and hence weirder Lennon-McCartney compositions.Get the full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 01, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Old-Fashioned, Vintage, Classic and Retro, 1960s
Humorous Songs of Abe Burrows
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 20, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Music, 1940s
Chrome
Let us all know if/when you bail.The band's Wikipedia page.
Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco in 1976 by musician Damon Edge and associated with the 1970s post-punk movement.[3] The group's raw sound blended elements of punk, psychedelia, and early industrial music,[4] incorporating science-fiction themes, tape experimentation, distorted acid rock guitar, and electronic noise.[5] They have been cited as forerunners of the 1980s industrial music boom.[6] They found little commercial success as part of San Francisco's 1970s music scene...
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 16, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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