Do you like the Chipmunks?

If you do (and what right-thinking American doesn't?), then I strongly recommend you go have a look at this swell blog stuffed full of photos of rare Chipmunks items. It looks like she may have given up on it, but perhaps a flood of comments might wake things up again.

Battle Of The Blues

Joe Williams and T-Bone Walker duke it out, with Della Reese serving as ref. It's another incredible photo from the JET archives.

Joe Tex - Chicken Crazy!

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Joe Tex On Soul Train

February is JOE TEX month!

The New Boss. The Dapper Rapper. The Soul Preacher. The Clown Prince of Soul. There's lots of stuff to know about Joe Tex - whose career spanned the entirety of the classic soul era and peaked with some of the most consistent, hilarious and wise soul LPs of the 1960s. But the first thing you need to know is that Joe didn't play.

I'm serious! Dude quit school in the very first grade because they had recess every day!

JOE!

He's got a bulldog jaw...

50 years ago Dick Tracy was everywhere - especially thanks to his short lived but memorable 1961 cartoon adventures.

He almost got back on the tube in 1967 but the live action pilot didn't get picked up as a series...

 

despite the KICKASS theme music by the Ventures!

Everyone's fave arm of the law was even immortalized on 45 earlier in 1961 by NY group The Chants during the height of Dick Tracy-mania.

Have a listen and remember group, crime doesn't ever pay.
 

Dick Tracy

Tassel Twirler Tuesday!

El_Monkey!

Comic Book Crazy

Little Sammy Yates - Comic Book Crazy
What? No Archie!?

Wynonie Harris, 1954

No matter where he goes, no matter what he does, the law enforcement ladies want to bust up Wynonie's party! Ten hours later: "Good morning, judge!" Photo courtesy the JET archives.

Wynonie Harris, 1958

From the JET archives.

"Mini-skirts, Kids, Stores and Long Hair" ("Magasins Des Jeunes Mini Jupes et Cheveux Longs")

Documentary footage from France. Featuring an Ultra-Cool French Pop-Psych/Freakbeat band called "Les Something", who I don't think made any records. I couldn't find any info on them, anyway. Lots of great shots of cool 60's French dancing teens. It was labeled "Magasins Des Jeunes Mini Jupes et Cheveux Longs" which Google Translate tells me means "Mini-skirts, Kids, Stores and Long Hair". Not sure if that's an actual title or just something somebody made up. No idea when this was broadcast or on what show. via Bedazzled.tv

The Impressions

With Binky Griptite and the Dee-Kays!!!

The Impressions - We're A Winner (2:18)