Music
Music to help you stop smoking
An album released in 1964. The Phoenix New Times offers some info about it:
Wikipedia has some info about The Living Strings:
There was no actual orchestra known as the Living Strings. The orchestra for most of the recordings was made up of musicians from various British orchestras assembled for the purpose of making the records.
I couldn't find any tracks from "Music to help you stop smoking" on YouTube, but apparently you can listen to the entire album on Spotify, if you have access to that (which I don't).
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 17, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Smoking and Tobacco, 1960s
Johanna Went
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Halfway through 1984’s Knife Boxing, Johanna Went interrupts her incessant frenzied bopping to thrust her hands into a crudely made body part—half-buttocks, half-vagina—suspended from the roof of Club Lingerie.1 A vicious viscous excremental substance seeps down her arm. She brings her face close and sucks the stuff into her mouth before hauling out a giant goo-covered tampon that she aggressively flings at the audience. Some cringe, others laugh. Quickly she pulls on a costume, a huge mask-headed apron covered in sex doll heads, all the while screaming her unique tongue, a babble from Hell channeled through Lolita-cum-Medea. Screeching tape loops accompany her, along with a blaring saxophone and a loud percussive racket emanating from a woman drumming on found objects.2 A monstrous vagina appears stage right. Went extracts more tampons, heaving each into the mesmerized mosh pit. Completely at one with her, the audience starts hurling these back in a game of volleyball gone mad. After all, this show was held to coincide with the Los Angeles Olympics. Much art programming accompanied that event, but Went was not part of the roster. Instead, she held her own celebration of sports, on the stage of a punk club, flanked by headless stockinette figures replete with genitalia parodying the elegant cast metal kouroi made by Robert Graham to decorate the official Olympic stadiums.
Source of quote, long essay.
Another essay on the creator, here.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 13, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Antisocial Activities, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Twentieth Century
Bollywood Beatles
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1960s
Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 07, 2020 -
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Category: Humor, Music, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
House Music
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 27, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Music
Every Night I Bring Her Frankfurter Sandwiches
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 21, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Humor, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1930s
Chattanooga Choo Choo, Brazilian Style
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 08, 2020 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Music, Foreign Customs, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1940s, South America
The Beatlettes
Mystery queens of Beat music! No one knows who the Beattle-ettes were. They were one more answer record knocked off responding to the maelstrom of the Beatles' invasion of New York in 1964. (It was rushed out so fast, in fact, that they got the spelling of the boys' name wrong, with an extra 'T'!) But it is sure that they were produced by "Shadow" Morton just before his breakout success with the fabulous Shangri-La's. Because of this, and the definite New York moxie of the singers, many believe it might actually be the Shangs! This would be cool as all hell, of course, but no one knows for sure. What we do know is this is a rockin' two minutes of punky Beat music that sticks in your head all day.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 31, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1960s
Dorothy Ashby, Bebop Harp
Unlike most of the music we revel in here at WU, this piece is actually beautiful and accomplished. The weirdness factor is the chosen instrument, the harp, not generally accorded a place in jazz.The Wikipedia page for Dorothy Ashby.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 25, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Twentieth Century
Eefin Music
NPR’s Jennifer Sharpe has defined eefin music as "a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago."Back in the early 1960s, some in the record industry thought that eefin was going to be the next big thing. Though the hopes for it never panned out. The biggest eefin hit was "Little Eefin Annie" by Joe Perkins, which reached #76 in the charts in 1963.
But if you're a fan of Benny Hill, you might appreciate the song 'Eefin Nanny Stomp,' released in 1960 by Billy Hutch His Harmonica And Orchestra. You can clearly hear the Benny Hill theme (Yakety Sax) during parts of it.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 23, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
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