From Daytime TV, April 1970.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Barnabas at the White House on Halloween--Jonathan Frid and Tricia Nixon, 1969
From Daytime TV, April 1970.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Halloween 2009, Part THIRTEEN!!!!!!!
Today's playlist includes the theme from The Night Walker by Vic Mizzy, who died on the 20th. This makes Vic the second person from my slaylists to pass away during this Halloween season--the other being Al Martino.
Anyway, we're at post number 13, and today's slaylist count is (what else?) 13. Among the titles new to the blog--Larry Groce's The Curse, my very own Traffic Jam on Pluto, and the Gallants' version of the Laurel and Hardy theme (The Ku Ku Song).
Meanwhile, your blogger has a respiratory virus that, hopefully, won't reach flu proportions. So far, no fever--just sore throat, body aches, head congestion of a 7-on-scale-of-10 nature, achy ears, and so on. For me, sinus infections tend to go with respiratory infections, but my doc doesn't want me on antibiotics (which I used to take regularly). So, I am irrigating my sinuses. Don't ask. You do not want to know.
On a less horrific note, here's today's slaylist: ZIP FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
SLAYLIST NUMBER 13!!
HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE--Lawrence Welk, 1966. THE THEME FROM LAUREL AND HARDY (THE KU KU SONG)--The Gallants, 1966. TRAFFIC JAM ON PLUTO (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, 2009. THEME FROM THE NIGHT WALKER (Vic Mizzy)--Sammy Kaye Orch., 1965. THE FACE FROM OUTER SPACE--Jeff Barry, w. Billy Mure Orch., 1960. I DREAMED OF A HILL-BILLY HEAVEN (Dean-Southern)--Tex Ritter, 1961. SORCERER'S APPRENTICE--Del-Vikings, 1963. SPOOK'S HOLIDAY--Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers, 1947. THE CURSE (L. Groce)--Larry Groce, 1976. BEWARE OF "IT" (Coben)--Johnnie and Jack, 1954. LUNA TRIP (Geo. Goldner)--Dickie Goodman, 1969. SKYBLAB--Dan Dayton (Jeff Devine), 1974. JOURNEY INTO SPACE (Phillips)--Frank Weir and His Orch., 1955.
Lee
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Hit counter
Well, I'm 88 hits away from 1,000,000 on my hit counter.
Seeing as how the counter only has six spaces, I wonder what will happen at that point? Will an extra column appear?
I guess we'll find out....
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Halloween 2009, Part 12--The Incredible Shrinking Man, Forgotten Websites, Ben Crazy
As I put this image together, I hoped I would come up with a title or caption. Or some explanation of some kind. But no luck. Basically, we have the Loch Ness monster leading a Mummy dino, a dragon, and a Dracula dino in some kind of mission on the Moon. It has a Saturday morning cartoon feel to it, anway. "C'mon, guys! Let's go!" Nessie is saying.
Where did I get Mummy and Dracula dinosaurs? Memory tells me I got them at a $1-$3 store ten years or so ago. That's what it was called. It lasted maybe ten months before folding.
What we're seeing is the "White Sand" region of the Moon--thus, no craters. Or shadows. Everyone has heard of the "White Sand" region of the Moon, right? I thought so.
Today's slaylist includes six space-related tracks, three of them by me. Meanwhile, Ghost Riders in the Sky is an uncredited version from a Prom label LP. By the time of this track, Prom and Promenade had become the same label. The Parade folks owned them, far as I can tell. You wouldn't believe how much searching I've done to date to confirm the utterly useless information I just shared. Among the clues: a mutual Prom and Promenade single that showed up on eBay, with the only difference being the "-enade" part.
To the crypt-file: ZIP FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
SLAYLIST
HUSH... HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE--The (Capital University) Capettes.
COUNTDOWN; LAUNCH; INTO ORBIT (Grofe)--Rocketship X-M soundtrack, 1950.
THIRTEEN MEN--Dinah Shore w. Harry Zimmerman's Orch. and Cho., 1958.
GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY--Hits a Poppin' (Prom 214 or 216)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN--Ray Anthony Orch., 1957.
BEN CRAZY--Dickie Goodman and Dr. I.M. Ill, 1962.
SPOOKY MOVIES--Roy Clark, 1963.
THE DEAD SITCOM ZONE (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, 2009.
FORGOTTEN WEBSITES (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, 2009.
GHOSTS ON THE STAIRS (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, 2009.
Lee
Monday, October 19, 2009
Balloon News, "Where's the money?"
So, first thing I did today was turn on the Balloon News Channel, a.k.a. MSNBC. Then, hours later, something wondrous and puzzling happened--they switched topics. Specifically, to health care reform. Well, to the extent that having some industry shill repeat 500 times in a row that health care reform costs money amounts to covering health care reform.
A similar phenomenon occurred back when Big Bear was trying to keep their business going by airing camera-in-the-face ads with real, genuine customers testifying that 1) prices are lower at Big Bear, and 2) at Big Bear, prices are lower, and 3) if one had to pick the one best word to describe the prices at Big Bear, that word would be "lower" or its equivalent, and 4) You can save money at Big Bear, and 5) at Big Bear, money is to be saved owing to the (there's that word again) lower prices, and 6) the prices at Big Bear are to be preferred to less-lower prices elsewhere, and 7) By the way, Big Bear has lower prices, which is great if you're looking for things that cost less.
One message, over and over. Non-variations on a theme. Big Bear has (or had) lower prices. Health care reform costs money. Yeah, running a country doesn't happen for free.
As I pointed out before, the "where's the money?" chorus only gets underway when something is proposed for the common good. Then, suddenly, there's no money. There's only money when we're flushing it down the porcelain palace. Once someone talks about directing its use, suddenly there's no money.
Money/no money. It's magic, I tell you.
Lee
A similar phenomenon occurred back when Big Bear was trying to keep their business going by airing camera-in-the-face ads with real, genuine customers testifying that 1) prices are lower at Big Bear, and 2) at Big Bear, prices are lower, and 3) if one had to pick the one best word to describe the prices at Big Bear, that word would be "lower" or its equivalent, and 4) You can save money at Big Bear, and 5) at Big Bear, money is to be saved owing to the (there's that word again) lower prices, and 6) the prices at Big Bear are to be preferred to less-lower prices elsewhere, and 7) By the way, Big Bear has lower prices, which is great if you're looking for things that cost less.
One message, over and over. Non-variations on a theme. Big Bear has (or had) lower prices. Health care reform costs money. Yeah, running a country doesn't happen for free.
As I pointed out before, the "where's the money?" chorus only gets underway when something is proposed for the common good. Then, suddenly, there's no money. There's only money when we're flushing it down the porcelain palace. Once someone talks about directing its use, suddenly there's no money.
Money/no money. It's magic, I tell you.
Lee
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Halloween 2009, Part 11--Elektras, Douglas Byng, Dominic Frontiere, Merv Griffin
The slaylist starts with a sound-alike version of the Ran-Dells' Martian Hop by the Elektras on the Update label. 16 Top Hits is the name of the LP this came from. I bought it because I just had to have a sound-alike version of Martian Hop. No, my life isn't complete, but it's one big step closer to being so.
Many of the rest are favorites of mine on their second, third, and fourth time around. The new tracks are The Modernaire's Girl with the Long Black Hair and The Rockin' Ghost from a Mercury LP that turned up on my last thrift stop. I find jazz-style quartet vocals from this era (1960) to be pretty comical, in no small part because of the we're-better-than-mere-pop attitude. In particular, the augmented-11th-chord cliche screams "progressive." It's especially effective when done in a woo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-woo-oo-ooooo manner. Watch out, listeners--you're in modern music territory.
The other new item to the Halloween playlist is Dominic Frontiere's Big Finish from the soundtrack of The Outer Limits. And, no, I have no plans to post more from the three-CD set in question, which you'll have to buy if you want to hear it. Which should be a no-brainer--it's just about the best bargain in the history of digital discs. And, astonishingly, this limited-edition gem is still available. It's $30. You have yourself, and yourself alone, to blame if you fail to order it.
To the slaylist: ZIP FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
SLAYLIST--Halloween 2009, Part 11
MARTIAN HOP--The Elektras (16 Top Hits, Vol. 2; Update label) I'M A MUMMY (Harrington-Byng-Hobson)--Douglas Byng, 1962. BEAR DANCE (Bartok)--National Symphony Orch., 1962. POEM TO THE MOON (Mantovani)--Mantovani and His Concert O., 1948. ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON! (Indelli)--William Indelli and His O., 1960. LOOK OUT FOR THE BATMAN (Tony Eira)--(Batman BT 95; no artist listed) BATMAN AND HIS GRANDMOTHER--Dickie Goodman, 1966. THE ROCKIN' GHOST (Steve Allen-Ira Lee)--The Modernaires, 1960. THE GIRL WITH THE LONG BLACK HAIR (Rugolo-Allen)--Same. BIG FINISH (Dominic Frontiere, from The Outer Limits)--Hollywood Studio O., 1963. HOUSE OF HORRORS (Roberts-Katz)--Merv Griffin, 1962.
Lee
Sunday morning gospel--Singing Millers; Statesmen and Blackwood Bros. Quartets
Southern gospel goodness with the Singing Millers, c. 1973, and the Statesmen and Blackwood Brothers Quartets from 1960.
Click here to hear: Sunday morning gospel
THE SINGING MILLERS
LOVE LIFTED ME
PREACH THE WORD
OVER IN THE GLORY LAND
GOD'S NOT DEAD
SOUL MUSIC
THE STATESMEN Q.
THE WORLD IS NOT MY HOME
HE'LL UNDERSTAND AND SAY "WELL DONE"
ROLLING, RIDING, ROCKING
BLACKWOOD BROTHERS Q.
MY HEAVENLY FATHER WATCHES OVER ME (Gabriel-Martin)
GOODBYE, WORLD, GOODBYE
SOMEBODY BIGGER THAN YOU AND I
THE LOVE OF GOD
JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE
BLACKWOODS AND STATESMEN
WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
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