Music
Let It Out
Some inspirational advice from The Hombres.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 05, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1960s
Elderly Rockers
Little Richard to return to performing reads the headline at the BBC. Do we need another 76-year-old rocker? Here he is in 1992. But that was eighteen years ago!
Your opinions, please.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 02, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Elderly
The Walls Keep Talking
How many Big Band songs recounted literal horror stories worthy of Stephen King? Probably just this one.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 29, 2009 -
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Category: Horror, Music, 1940s
Bohemian Rhapsody Muppet Style—viral!!
Here's another Muppet piece which has gone viral in just a few days. If you missed it, here is all the gang waxing bohemian!!Three million hits in just three days -- top that!! Favorite characters?
Posted By: gdanea - Thu Nov 26, 2009 -
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Category: Music
Lena Horne, Rock Star
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 09, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1970s
Ethel Merman Disco Album
The actual Tonight Show singing occurs in part 2.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 05, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1970s
The Musical Doctor
This is one demented video. Please note how Mae Questal, the voice of Betty Boop, is like a living incarnation of that cartoon icon.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 23, 2009 -
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Category: Humor, Medicine, Music, Cartoons, 1930s
The Hut Sut Song
An explanation from the obituary of the composer:
A native of Towner, N.D., Leo Killion grew up in Minneapolis, where he heard Swedish folk songs that he later spoofed in nonsense lyrics. Written in 1939 by Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens, "The Hut Sut Song" was recorded and popularized by the Freddy Martin Orchestra and the Horace Heidt Orchestra. It was sung by the Merry Macs in the 1941 movie "San Antonio Rose." More than a decade later, it was featured in the landmark World War II film "From Here to Eternity." Sung by such Swing Era and wartime favorites as Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters, the song included such lyrics as "Hut Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and brawla, brawla sooit."
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 28, 2009 -
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Category: Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, 1930s
Florence Foster Jenkins
Worst opera singer ever? Read about Florence Foster Jenkins here.
Then, if you want more, buy this CD!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 21, 2009 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Nineteenth Century
Barry White Comes To The Rescue Of Zorro!
A six year-old male shark imported by the London Aquarium to breed with their resident female was initially a disappointment. Zorro the zebra shark showed little interest in London girl Mazawabee, despite having built a reputation as a lover at his previous home in Belgium. Staff at the aquarium floundered around for a solution before suggesting that perhaps Zorro's uncharacteristic shyness could be overcome with a little masterly mammalian mood music from legendary sole-singer, Barry "Great" White?Surprisingly, the treatment has almost worked too well, to the saving of Zorro's reputation and further enhancement of Barry's. Zorro and mate Maza are now so ardent that their frequent, and violent, public courtship has alarmed some visitors, with Zorro's "love-bites" being misinterpreted as an attack. But with a "tiger in their tank" the aquarium staff are happy, Zorro is happy, Maza is (probably) happy and maybe, somewhere, Barry is smiling too (Annova).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Fri Sep 18, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Music
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