Music
Running Bear
The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 18, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Music, 1960s, Native Americans
Worst. Classical Music Album Cover. Ever?
This is exactly the mental image conjured up in my brain by the songs listed below.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 17, 2023 -
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Category: Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s
The Whole Damm Family
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 15, 2023 -
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Category: Family, Humor, Music, 1900s, Postal Services, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Mad Drums
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 12, 2023 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s
RIP Jerry Samuels, aka Napoleon XIV
An obit is here.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 11, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity
Miss Paramount Week
This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Hazel Scott Playing Two Pianos Simultaneously
Her Wikipedia page.See also WU's post on the multi-horn playing of Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 09, 2023 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Music, Twentieth Century
Rhapsody in Big Blue
Darryl Gammill came up with a way to convert stock-price movements into music. The result was the release in 1985 of "Rhapsody in Big Blue," which was a musical rendition of IBM's stock activity between April 1984 to April 1985.I haven't been able to find any samples of the album online. I can't even find any used copies of it for sale. This was evidently an extremely obscure record release.
Popular Computing Weekly - April 3-9, 1987
Time - Sep 16, 1985
The Economist - Aug 31, 1985
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 06, 2023 -
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Category: Business, Music, 1980s
Murder, Inc. Vinyl Album
Get the full story here.Start grooving with this cut, then find the rest of the playlist on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 05, 2023 -
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Category: Crime, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s
Music for playboys to play by
The woman looks both disturbed and perplexed.
Lancaster Sunday News - May 4, 1958
More info: Unearthed in the Atomic Attic
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 04, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1950s
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