Joe Tex Show

Thanks to Todd from Our Facebook Page

Rarely Seen Music Video 1962-1970 - Tuesday, October 25 - Toms River, NJ

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

Ron Haydock!!

Our Patron Saint

Rufus Thomas 
March 26, 1917 - Dec 15, 2001

Young Jessie

Playing Saturday March 26 in Brooklyn

The Blues According To Lightnin' Hopkins

 

Thanks to pal Jody for bringing this incredible video to our attention.  Click here to watch the 1967 film of Lightnin's visit to his hometown in Centerville, Texas.

Update!  More Lightnin' from SShark here.

That Don't Make No Sense No. 1: 'Ling Ting Tong' — Chinatown, My Chinatown?

In this ongoing series, we shall explore the incongruities, illogic and idiocy to be found in many of our favorite songs.



The Five Keys announced themselves as the progenitors of "wok 'n' roll" with "Ling Ting Tong," their Top 5 R& B smash from 1955. This work of proto-doo-wop vocal harmony from Column A, coupled with a lyrical penchant for exoticism from Column B, became the recipe for a veritable pupu platter's worth of "chop suey rock" singles to follow.

And while one shouldn't have much of an expectation that a quintet of R&B slingers from Newport News, Va., would be Geography Bee champs, their curious knowledge of matters of a municipal nature can only be called, for lack of a better word, inscrutable.

Just take in the opening lines of "Ling Ting Tong" (okay, to be precise, the first words that are actually delivered in English, following the beautiful nonsense of "Tie-sa-mokum-boo-dye-ay/Tie-sa-mokum-boo"), and make sure to have your favorite head-scratching finger poised and at the ready:

I went to Chinatown
Way back in Old Hong Kong
To get some Egg Foo Yung
And then i heard a gong

Now, this author can't claim to be an absolute expert on provincial affairs as they pertain to Sino-British colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries, but under what line of reasoning would someone presume that Hong Kong has its own Chinatown? That would be akin to singing about picking up a couple of scoops of gelato in Rome's Little Italy!

Why, the whole thing makes me throw my hands up and exclaim, "That don't make no sense!"

Learn To Dance In 12 Easy Videos!

Live Music Show

Here's another Live Music Show I put together for Network Awesome.  This time featuring rockers on sit-coms.   The Beau Brummelstones, Sacred Cows, The Gories, The Honeybees, Standells, etc!!  Be sure to look for a cameo of  Phil Spector on I Dream Of Jeannie w/ Boyce & Hart!  And Leslie Gore on Batman!

Also showing today, Twilight Show, Talk Show, Spiderman, You Bet Your Life and The Naked Kiss!!

Don't miss the archive section for more  TV greatness!!

Beau Brummels

Village Of The Giants

Screaming Lord Sutch Medley 1966

via hall9calation

Round Robin

via Whitney

Robert Nighthawk Chicago 1964

Thanks to Whitney for sharing.

See The Hound's blog for more info.

Who Do I Think I Am

Webb Pierce

The Gories Are Coming

July 29, 30 and 31st! New York City.

Happy Birthday James Brown

JB would have been 77 today. See our previous post here for clips from his 1970's tv show, Future Shock.

Double Super Buzz

The Dancing Outlaw, Jesco White

The Rebels of the South are back with The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia, debuting next month at the Tribeca Film Festival. Our Man Of The Hour, Deke Dickerson scored the soundtrack and you can rent it on your computer and watch it right now.

"If you want to get to Heaven, you've got to raise a little Hell"

Tune in to Fool's Paradise on Saturday May 1 when Rex welcomes director Julien Nitzberg!!

Arch Hall, Jr

Our hero makes his debut in this 1961 classic, The Choppers. Featuring his two smash hits, "Konga Joe" and "Monkey In A Hat Band"

Arch Hall, Jr

Cow Cow Boogie

Courtesy All WOW videos