Music
The Hudson Brothers: “Disco Queen”
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 01, 2021 -
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Category: Fads, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Television, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Jiminy Cricket’s Safety Songs
The first song from the album is in the video, but the entire album is here for your listening pleasure.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 27, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Insects, Movies, Music, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
Martian Hop
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 25, 2021 -
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Category: Aliens, Fads, Music, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Science Fiction, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Jazzercise
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 18, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Fads, Money, Music, 1960s, 1980s
B-B-B Sweatshirts
Inexplicable fashion fad: In 1962, San Francisco adman Howard Gossage came up with the idea of putting the faces of classical composers on sweatshirts and selling them for $4. Consumers could choose between Beethoven, Bach, or Brahms. He quickly sold around 60,000 of them.If you want one of these sweatshirts today (at least, an original one), you'll have to pay significantly more. On eBay, the asking price ranges from $1500 all the way up to $9000.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - May 4, 1962
Oakland Tribune - Feb 8, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 12, 2021 -
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Category: Fads, Fashion, Music, 1960s
Answer Songs
Wikipedia defines an answer song as "a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist." For example, "Yes, I'm Lonesome Tonight" by Dodie Stevens was the answer to Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"Frank Hoffmann and William Bailey, in their book Arts and Entertainment Fads, note:
In this case, there was even an answer to Jeanne Black's answer: "I'm Gonna Stay" by Johnny Scoggins.
The Original: "He'll Have To Go" (by Jim Reeves, 1960)
The Answer: "He'll Have To Stay" (by Jeanne Black, 1960)
The answer to the answer: "I'm Gonna Stay" (by Johnny Scoggins, 1960)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 06, 2021 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
“Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo”
Not a song about Wikipedia.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 03, 2021 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, Regionalism, Foreign Customs, 1910s, Slang
Hidden Message in “I Am the Walrus”
Everyone knows that the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus" is all about the secret death of Paul McCartney.But back in 1968, reporter Jed Drews heard something else there.
Source: Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) 24 Feb 1968, Sat Page 15
I can find literally not one other online endorsement of this interpretation of the lyrics--except when Mr. Drews's article was inserted into the Congressional Record upon his testimony in DC.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 25, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Government, Music, Newspapers, 1960s
Orienta
From the Wikipedia page:
The album's liner notes stated that the music "resembles the dreams of an imaginative person who has fallen asleep during a 'Dr. Fu Manchu' movie on television," with vignettes that "combine the sounds of the East with the wit of the West; the charm of the Orient with the humor of the Occident."[1]
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 16, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Asia
The Amplifier, or Enunciator
Robert Linn theorized that a loudspeaker shaped like a human head, containing a mouth and nose cavity similar to that of a person, would produce sounds that were of a higher quality and more "pleasing and properly modulated" than a regular loudspeaker would. So he created (and patented in 1927) what he called the Amplifier or Enunciator.
The resemblance to a sex doll has to be coincidental, because they weren't invented until after World War II. (The claim that Hitler invented the first sex doll is apparently a hoax).
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 14, 2021 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, 1920s
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