Music Video collector Spike Priggen (of the Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com blogs) will present a program of rarely seen music video clips from his collection.
First up is a program of "Scopitones", the almost forgotten pre-cursor to the modern music video, shot on 16mm film and shown on an early type of "Video Juke-Box". Scopitone machines were usually located in bars and lounges, allowing for a slightly more "risque" feel than one could see on TV or in the Movies at that time. Scopitones became a sensation in France in 1962 and quickly spread to the US, but by 1967, after a racketeering trial and fortunes lost by both Francis Ford Coppola and Debbie Reynolds, Scopitone was over.
The 2nd hour of the program will feature newly unearthed footage originally broadcast on French TV, including early live footage of bands such as The Kinks, The Who, The Yardbirds, Them, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Moody Blues, The Pretty Things, & The Spencer Davis Group as well as clips of Nancy Sinatra, The Shirelles, Dion, Screaming Lord Sutch, Dusty Springfield, Sonny & Cher, The Electric Prunes and much much more. Link to event page
Monday, October 17, 2011
Rarely Seen Music Video 1962-1970 - Tuesday, October 25 - Toms River, NJ
JASON WILLIS SUPER GENIUS PART ONE
Jason Willis, proprietor of the great blog Scar Stuff (still up but not quite as functional as before), last year on Halloween did an animation that is so massively mindblowing to me. It coincided with the release of a book I thought could never happen about the history of Eerie Publications. Eerie Pubs (not to be confused with Eerie Magazine pubished by Warren) was a super sleazy publishing house with a long dirty history of Myron Fass' weird one shot magazines (exploiting just about ANYTHING of the moment from Son Of Sam to Elvis & Test Tube babies from Outer Space). Eerie Pubs did a long series of the lowest rung horror comic mags with the sickest most insane covers ever! I was so obsessed with these as a kid that i almost never noticed how crappy the insides were. Redrawn cut up & put back together old comics that Fass did in the 50's with loads of extra gore dumped on the top, with some good new stuff thrown in as well. These were looked down upon forever & you could buy 'em up till about 10 years ago for about a quarter. Suddenly people started appreciating these magazines (Weird, Tales of Voodoo, Witches Tales, Horror Tales, Tales From The Tomb, Terror Tales, Weird Vampire Tales, etc...haha) and prices went up & up which was as bizarre as the magazines themselves. The good folks at Feral House Publishing did a gorgeous book about these magazines & the history of Mr. Fass. Jason Willis did an animation made out of dissected images from the covers of these mags. Seeing them move, even this much is total magic to me as these images are burned into my brain from a lifetime of staring at these magazine covers.
Here is his animation (best to watch on YouTube as the right side seems to be clipped here):
here is a link to his blog entry & description of this animation:
http://scarstuff.blogspot.com/2010/10/cast-of-eerie-publications-perform.html
and here's a link to the book:
http://feralhouse.com/the-weird-world-of-eerie-publications/
They even made a commercial for the book! haha..
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
La Pelicula
El Rock 'n' Roll En Peru
Starring: Los Shain's, York's, Belking's, Drag's, Holy's, Saico's, Jaguar's and more!!
Punishment Poll
Have a little mercy and make a pledge during our "silent fundraiser" that's going on now thru the end of October. The goal for Ichiban is $3000 and we've only raised $300 so far!!! If you dig the blog or listen to the stream, please kick in some change to make it possible for us to keep doing it. Thanks!!
Thank you to Joe, Richard, Jimmy, Carmen, Greg, Kogar and Michael for pledging to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban!!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Jungle 45 of the Week!
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(I had no way to rip vinyl for a while that's why this series disappeared. There may be a few more 45's before I can fill a complete CD. Then the whole series will be posted here along with a swanky J.R. Williams cover)
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Happy Birthday, Melba Montgomery (MP3s)
Big Big Heartaches
South Of Lonesome
Big Tears Are Coming
From the Ichiban satellite office down here in Georgia, I'd like to wish Melba Montgomery a very happy 73rd birthday. Melba, who was born on October 14, 1938 in Iron City, Tennessee, came from a very musical family.
Her brothers Earl and Carl, like Melba, were also talented songwriters. Carl, in fact, co-wrote two great trucker anthems, Six Days On The Road and Give Me Forty Acres, while Earl (also known as Peanutt) cut his teeth as a studio guitar player in the Muscle Shoals area (that's him playing on Arthur Alexander's You Better Move On) and went on to write over three dozen songs recorded by George Jones.
After spending a few years as the "girl singer" in Roy Acuff's band, Melba began releasing records under her own name in 1963, around the same time she began recording a string of duets with George Jones. Her solo material from this time period is comprised on numerous superb honky-tonkers like the three tracks above and, as Joe Sixpack points out, it remains a scandal and a shame that no one has put together a good compilation of her early years.
The Monster!
I know I do.
Pure shlocky fun!
Below you can see what happens when ol' Gila shows up at the teen dance hungry for Rock & Roll Action, but gets subjected to saccharine chump Don Sullivan's warbling instead.
Surely the shindig would have been much more... umm... SMASHING... if Evans Carroll & The Tempos had been booked as the musical entertainment.
Sho'nuff.
Evans Carroll & The Tempos - The Monster
More Songs We Taught Porter Wagoner
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
October Surprise: The High Priest of LSD vs. the Pineapple Princess
Fall is here and the time is right for reflection. The tenth month presents us with the occasion to assess the respective impact of two particular personages whose work has contributed mightily to popular culture. Born the same day, October 22nd, twenty-two years apart, Timothy Leary (1920) often gets the nod over Annette Funicello (1942). After all, the principal tribute accorded the Disney donna was an under-two-minute L.A. radio hit, Red Kross’ “Annette’s Got the Hits,” whereas the paddy medicine-man earned a 6:36 salute from the Moody Blues in the FM staple “Legend of a Mind” (“He'll fly his astral plane, Take you on trips around the bay/ Brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary”).
A look at the records, however, reveals a much more complex case, one that tilts toward the gal who taught the world to do “The Clyde” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YDC8n0xuQI]. Leary’s big coming-out was 1967’s Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out LP, which is no Surrealistic Pillow or even David Hemmings Happens. Against a background of electronic skronks, blips and sitar blues, acid’s high priest freaks freely and encourages co-tripper Ralph Metzner to “relive all those scenes” in an “electric chain of remembrance.” In “All the Girls Are Yours,” Timbo’s gal-pal Rosemary Woodruff challenges Ralphy-boy to put forth his pud: “Can your offer your stamen trembling in the meadow for the electric penetration of pollen?” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiDII6ZFIP4].
As you might expect, Annette’s more chaste, limiting her birds-and-beeswax to “chalk on the sidewalk, ’nitials on a tree” in 1959’s “Tall Paul” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2yFQPYYmU]. But she out-rocks Leary and along the way invents Carole King (whose copycat “Short Mort” single on RCA followed later in ’59; King’s classic may well have inspired pint-sized popsters like Jerry Landis). Funicello’s “First Name Initial” is even better,” and, while it’s a toss-up when it comes to their respective forays into spiritualism—Annette’s “O Dio Mio” vs. Tim’s “You Can Be Anyone This Time Around”—in the creative-collaboration department the Cali kid easily bests the Cambridge quack. He pairs with Simon Stokes (of the Black Whip Thrill Band) for the extended dope-joke “Mushroom Adventure” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XatGAwdi4], but she pals with Paul Anka, to do his Joe Turner-modeled “Train of Love” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3oSgh4Zz0Q ], a Top-40 entry in 1960. Around then, T.L. was dosing convicts as part of Harvard’s ‘Psilocybin Project.’ No contest.
--Gene Sculatti
A Change Of Tense
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Chiller!!!!
Do you DARE enter The House Of Terror!?
B-R-R-R-R OH-H-H-H!
SHIVERS!
JACKIE CANNON - CHILL BUMPS
Monday, October 10, 2011
Bobby Bare-Vampira
Here's a classick 45 plus a rare newly unearthed super weird photo of Vampira at the beach!!!
plus the original show opening...something we had thought we'd never see in our lifetime...horribly good...
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
DAVID HESS R.I.P.
So sad to hear of the death of cult film icon David Hess...star of Last House on the Left & so many more films...he wrote my favorite Elvis song "I Got Stung" (and All Shook UP) and i was privileged to be in a movie with him "Zodiak Killer". David was a super cool funny guy that scared the shit outta millions of people & rocked like a motherfucker.
Here's a link with some info.
Zacherley's Disc-O-Teen with The Box Tops!
Speaking of Zacherley...not only is he the coolest guy (ghoul) i have ever met and the greatest horror host of all time...even now at 93, still sharp as a tack, he hosted this cool local show in New Jersey, "Disc-O-Teen" in the mid 60s....watch as he terrorizes Alex Chilton! Hahahaha...
Fool's Paradise
Thanks to the mad pinstriper, Martin from Ocean County, NJ for this Fool's Paradise decal!! Pledge now to keep the Saturday Afternoon Tradition humming along.
Music To Pledge By (mp3s)
Jerry Madison & The Spacemen - Von Hutch, The Mad Martian Pinstriper
The Collins Kids - Hot Rod
The Surfer Girls - Draggin' Wagon
The King Pins - Rod Hot Rod
Ghoul A Go-Go Halloween Bash!!
You're invited to the Ghouls' Halloween Bash on Saturday, October 22! Come dressed as your favorite character from the show for the Ghoul A Go-Go Costume Contest! See new episodes!! Wavy Gravy Halloween music for the all night dance party. Burlesque! It's all happening at the Observatory 543 Union St. in Brooklyn. 8 PM.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Horror Movie Hosts Part 2
Earlier this week I shared some clips of Cleveland area Horror Movie Hosts.
Today I give you three more that, along with being hauled on an almost weekly basis to the old Skyway Drive-In in Zanesville, Ohio (where I witnessed ALL manners of horror, sleaze & perversion in the early-mid seventies), really were what set me on the CORRECT path as a child.
First we have from Columbus Ohio, Fritz The Night Owl!
He had a nightly movie, but on Friday night it was Chiller Theater and frequently showed two films!
I was fortunate to live in Pittsburgh during the late seventies.
A veritable feast o'frightening fear flicks awaited me every weekend from these next two cats:
The main man on the scene was Chilly Billy Cardille with Chiller Theater on channel 11!
Amazing. He and his cast of characters (Terminal Stare!!) showed all manner of action & it was from him that I REALLY developed a taste for Eurohorrorsleaze. He showed a LOT of it.
(Plus, he was in the original Night Of The Living Dead, but I'm sure anyone reading this blog already knows that lil' tidbit.)
Here is a clip circa 1981 (following some naff commercials):
And here is a little retrospective about some of the show's history:
Great flicks and great opening. I was always wonderfully creeped out by his voice.
Plus, anyone who would sign off his show saying "Until next week, here's BLOOD in your eye," was someone to be idolized in my book!
Happy Halloweentime, group, from me and a few of my childhood friends!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Rich With Nothing
Uploaded by SpindleRecords The only known surviving footage of the original Tampa Florida band in performance, shot on 8 mm film from the drummer's mother's camera in her living room. The footage also shows the band in the Charles Fuller Studios in Tampa Florida as well as scenes the band filmed on their way to California to appear on Happening '68.
The Rockin' Ghost!
My copy's a little rough, but this is a great one. Co-written by Steve Allen!
Archie Bleyer - The Rockin' Ghost
Spooky!
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| Spooks Run Wild 1941 |
The East Side Kids VS. Bela Lugosi? Of course!
Spooks Run Wild INDEED!
Aaaaannnd... while we're at it, you KNOW the best place to stab your eyeballs with a heapin' helping of Spooks Gone Wild is right down home in:
SPOOKSVILLE
Come on by. I'll leave the front porch torch on for you!
The Crawling Hand Mow Mow!
This pretty much sums up my world of visuals, music, movies...there are a few doozies of perfection...and this is up there at the top of the list...let's have a hand for...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
HOWL!!!
The Howl Triple Feature!!!
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| AWAO! Rare mexican Wolfman poster |
AWAO!
Johnny Eager
AWWWWWWWAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TV THING EVER.
If you grew up in the New York area & were a second generation "Monster Kid", you know the insane 70's Chiller Theater show opening...i obsessed on this for decades till the internet & YouTube appeared & i finally got to see this over & over again...i can just watch this 20 odd seconds forever...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Bad-TV Beat: Playboy, Pan Am & the Fake Sixties
Like most folks, I kinda try to keep up with the culture. And, being a Sixties-raised oldster now, I had to tune in to Pan Am and (the already cancelled) Playboy Club, just to see how the decade would be portrayed.
This week I read an L.A. Times piece celebrating two MTV programming clods for their bold new shows, all being promoted under the network’s new slogan “Life Amplified.” Watching Playboy and Pan Am, and knowing Mad Men, I realized how right-on that line is. TV’s main riff isn’t accuracy, but embellishment, a high-gloss exaggeration polish applied to whatever subject is at hand. In the case of era-specific TV shows, the intent isn’t dramatic. It’s simply expedient: to get us to recognize the pre-screened, dolled-up signage that we’ve been taught spells “SIXTIES”; bouffants + skinny ties = Early Sixties; straight hair + tie dye= Late Sixties. A genetically modified culture crop, these Sixties look and taste like we think they should, whether they’re real or not.
So The Playboy Club, set in 1961, has Les Gore belting out 1963’s “It’s My Party” to all the bunnies and Don Draper clones. Do you really think the young-adult crowd swishing cubes in that joint would’ve given a chit to see a high-school hitmaker sing rock & roll to them? Hardly. But then I thought, ‘Hey, the club’s in Chicago. And so was Gore’s label, Mercury, so maybe’…Were Zola Taylor’s Platters warming them up in the lounge? Was Vee-Jay’s Wade Flemons valet-parking? Perhaps. But what about last week, when Bunny Mother Laura Benanti roused the club with her boob-rubbing, crypto-girl-group arrangement of the Chords’ “Sh- Boom”? Phony, yes, but it telegraphed “pre-Beatles era,” which on TV conflates everything from Sun rockabilly to the Sunrays into one big mash-up.
[http://www.nbc.com/the-playboy-club/video/looks-that-could-kill/1356307]
Gore’s club gig was but another example of a driving conceit of period TV producers. Since rock & roll/pop was the era’s big bang, we’re shown that back then everybody, all the time, consumed it all day and all of the night. So Playboy Club has the off-duty Bunnies dancing (in their lingerie) to “The Locomotion” in their rabbit hutch. It’s virtually the same scene that routinely appeared on the Eighties series Crime Story. Dennis Farina’s genial Detective Frank Torello couldn’t stop tossing twist parties at his Googied-up pad, he and his 30- and 40-something squad members and their high-heeled spouses forever squashing the carpet to Joey Dee’s latest. (This show was also Chicago-set: Was there something in the air?)
http://www.amuseline.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/crime.jpg
Twister Torello: “You should see…my little sis.”
This amplification of reality also works in reverse. As much as they need to put us in our place chronologically with visual cues, TV creators need to click the empathy tab to show us that, despite the quaint Jet-Age customs, folk then were really just like us. Hence the conversations on Pan Am where the cutesy stews of ’62 earnestly discuss their ambitions much the same as the solipsistic members of a reality-show focus group—or utter lines, as they did last week while resting poolside on a stopover, like “We’re not in Kansas anymore!” (That sentence, not known to exist in nature, is rivaled only by the deadpan “Let’s do this” that precedes every guns-drawn takedown scene on TV or film.)
As someone once said, you gotta love it. And I kinda do.
Horror Movie Hosts
I try to live like it's Halloween all year 'round and nothing quite says Halloween (all year round!) like yer old Horror Movie Hosts.
They have been wondrous & many, but THESE are the ones that warped ME at a young age:
CLEVELAND/AKRON/CANTON, OH
(All from the Ghoulardi family tree in some way)
Hoolihan & Big Chuck
The Ghoul
Son Of Ghoul (Late 90's promo - I watched him in the 80's)
Both Big Chuck & The Ghoul (Ron Sweed) worked with the daddy
of all Northeast Ohio Horror Hosts - Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson).
Heed the Call Of The Wighat, Group, and stay tuned for more!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
WFMU Silent Fundraising
Help a sister out and make a tax-deductible pledge to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban during our Shock & Awetober silent fundraiser. There's a special spot for you in Hillbilly Hades (Texas Bill Strength) if you tell 'em Ichiban sent you. Thanks!!!
Two More Things About Jim Reeves
Mrs. Jim Reeves
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| Mary Reeves (1929-1999) |
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| James Travis Reeves (August 20th 1923- July 31st 1964) |
Ichiban Means Number 1!
Ichiban means #1! from Greg Harrison on Vimeo.
Thanks to Greg Harrison for this Awesome Ichiban spot!!!
Look for it in-between shows on Network Awesome.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Country Music Week
Miss Billie Rae & The Virginians - Only Mama That'll Walk The Line (mp3)
Answer to Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
Produced by Sid Kleiner at the House Of Guitars in Califon, NJ
See also Tom Hyatt - My Benny's Wearing Off
Country Music Week
Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming response to Country Music Week. Here is the playlist for Hillbilly Music To Spazz By with special guest Greg G!!
Listen Now
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Country Music Week / Judy Lynn (MP3s)
Here are two highly alluring instrumental tracks from Judy Lynn's 1965 United Artists LP titled The Judy Lynn Show. Both numbers are highly atypical selections for a country performer, but thoroughly enjoyable all the same due in no small part to the exotic sounds produced by Gene O'Neal, the band's pedal steel guitarist.
Judy Lynn Show - Night Train (3:18)
Judy Lynn Show - Baby Elephant Walk (3:08)
