Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
"Einstein is dead. Schopenhauer is dead... and I'm not feeling so well myself!"
Brian Johnson Hoover Vacuum Commercial (1980) I wonder if Angus Young heard this and said "Yeah, this is our guy."
PSA - Big Trouble in a Small Tube (1960s) Confession: While building a model car in my youth, I accidentally sniffed the tube. And then I ran outside, panicking, believing that then and there I became a drug addict.
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - For What It's Worth (1970)
The Sweet - Broken Heart Attack (1967) NOT the same group that did "Ballroom Blitz". This Sweet had two discs on Smash Records out of Chicago in 1967, featuring Bobby Howard, who recorded with Link Wray. Would you like to hear 5 versions of "Rumble" recorded by Link Wray? Not today. Soon.
The Sweet - Slow Motion (1968) This is the real deal. Well, as real as the initial idea got. In just a few years, "Love is Like Oxygen"!!
Wink Martindale - Look at Me (1964) Music by Bobby Darin, Lyrics by Randy Newman, sung by gameshow presence from the '70s and '80s. Do you like Eric Andre? Do you recall the first season when that guy showed up in a black bodysuit with little balls on it? THAT WAS WINK MARTINDALE!
Fantastic 4 Meets The Moleman (1975) Fantastic Four is a short-lived 1975 radio drama based on the Marvel Comics series. It adapted the early issues of the comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Featuring Bill Murray as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch.
Y Dyniadon Ynfyd Hirfelyn Tesog - Dyddiau Fu (1970)
Bill Cosby - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1968)
Pacific Gas and Electric - Are You Ready (1970) This song reached #14 on Billboard, and should not be played on my show. I don't care. Do u?
David Frye - Nixon Gets High (1970) Like our man Vaughn Meader, David Frye's shelf-life was not up to him.
T.J. Stone - She's Gotta Have It (1974) Deep Throat II Soundtrack. Very good song from a rarely heard soundtrack. This movie also starred Andrea True, who had a big hit with "More, More, More", which was sampled a few decades later on Len's only hit, "Steal My Sunshine". This particular song was co-written by one of my favorite singers, Tony Bruno.
I know you don't have the inclination to do this, but if you're a crate-digging so and so like me, porn music was MUCH better in the '70s than any era after. It was in the budget. Now, it's just synth noises and fake synth strings. OR SO I HEAR.
Eddie Kendricks - He's A Friend (1976)
Brother Theodore - Quadrupedism (1959) POACA will remember the David Lettermen show in its nascent stages, wild, untamed, unpredictable. And he used to have this guy on. He was brilliant. Transcendent. After a fevered, impassioned plea to us to escape the "DUNG HEAP of the UNIVERSE!!!", he deadpans, "Let me read you an article from the 'Woman's Daily Digest'" and I lost it. This is an amazing piece of art. Play this at parties when you have one.
And he was ALSO in a porn movie, not as an actor, but in one of the great flicks of the era, "Gums".
Frank Sinatra - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Ole Oak Tree (1974)
Denny Doherty - Gathering The Words (1971) Everyone in The Mamas and the Papas had terrible solo careers. I wonder why.
The Style Council - Internationalists (1985)
Joy Unlimited - All Together Now (1970) Starts out sounding like "Come Together" and I wish it were.
Lally Stott - Bimbyloo (1973) British singer/composer. He wrote the original version of 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep', a worldwide smash hit in 1971 when it was released by Middle Of The Road. Died on 6 June 1977 on a Harley Davidson allegedly bought with the royalties of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. See what happens? The lesson: Don't write Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
Mudcrutch - Cause is Understood (1973)
Sha Na Na - Sleepin' on a Song (1972)
Split Enz - Holy Smoke (1978)
The Fireballs - Chicken Little (1968) Their hit was "Sugar Shack". Listen to the unique production of "Sugar Shack" next time it comes up on your Beach Music station.
XTC - Funk Pop a Roll (1983)
Zager & Evans - Cary Lynn Javes (1969)
Jerry Clower - Thoughts On Streaking (1975)
PSA - 7th Day Adventists (?)
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