They use their guitars to stop pucks too

One thing of passing interest about this clip of the Quebec group Les Megatones doing Guitare Limbo...



...is that, supposedly, one of the members of the group in the video--Michel Roy--is the father of Patrick Roy the famous NHL goaltender!

(P.S. What's the deal with music video producers of the 1960s wanting helicopters in their videos? That's two I've spotted now!)

Well, I feel like crabgrass today, but this is nice

I am a Canna What Flower Are You?

Jonathan Bell

Minister Jonathan Bell means well, I am sure, but this old Godstuff clip shows that he needs to try decaf. He's so intense!

Just like Shreddies, er, Just Like Eddie

An older, and no longer platinum-coiffed, Heinz Burt lip-syncs to his biggest hit, Just Like Eddie:



That's Ritchie Blackmore as the lead guitarist on that song.

Aftre reading this post, my grandfather would have taken my computer and thrown it off the roof of his house

Turn Me Loose, by Fabian...



(You'll notice that the doohickey that centers the 45 is upside down. :) )

Super Mario Bros. in five minutes

I remember Super Mario Bros. I also remember that my mother got so good at the game that she would be many worlds ahead of me as we played. She would volunteer to earn me some extra men, so that I could keep on playing. :)

Chainsaw Ted

"You might be a redneck..." Indeed!

Bryan Williams, known as "Chainsaw Ted" for his ability to do motor impressions, appears on the Johnny Carson show...

I Will

Billy Fury performing his version of I Will on British TV in 1964...



See if you can spot the girl, close to the start of video, who is standing only a couple of feet from Fury as he lipsyncs his song but spends her time checking her hair in an off screen mirror.

(I've always though that Fury's version of I Will is far better than Dean Martin's....)

What a dis!

James Lileks amusingly expresses his dislike of the northern B.C. city of Prince Rupert is his Bleat today.

Action replay from the last time I played touch football

No this isn't an instant replay from a B.C. Lions game. It's someone taking advantage of a flaw in one of my old video game faves, Tecmo Bowl, to score a crazy touchdown.

Good thing I never showed my mother how to play it. I would have always lost.

It said "Your Pet May Be An Extra-Terrestrial"...

The news that the Weekly World News is shutting down reminds me of the Weird Al song Midnight Star:



What is Ed Anger going to do? :)

Be prepared!

In honour of the World Jamboree celebrating the 100th anniversary of Scouting this weekend, here's Tom Lehrer's Be Prepared:

Three little maids from the 'hood are we, booty filled to the birm with girlish glee...

A YouTube wag has wed footage from a Gilbert and Sullivan play a rendition of Baby Got Back by Sir Mixalot. Is it me, or does the singer sound like Robert Goulet? :)

Hello camera man, we're the band in this video and we're over here. Hello...Helllooo!

The French band Les Chats Sauvages is almost an afterthought in this video promoting their French cover version of the Four Seasons song Sherry. Watch this scopitone and you will see what I mean!

Post for my mother

Big Girls Don't Cry...



Walk Like A Man...

Neato...

My blog will go over 50,000 page views some time today... :)

"Bill, you can't hurt Jessie! Neither of us can!" "I don't want to..." Crow T. Robot: "...but I have to. This is a soap opera after all."

Mom might like this post. The gang from Mystery Science Theater 3000 starts an episode by making fun of an early 1960s episode of General Hospital!

Their spoof starts 5 1/2 minutes into this video...



and continues in this video:





"You wiped your feet on the doormat of my heart!"

These gumboots are made for walkin'

The audio is 1960s singer Eileen doing "Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher", her French cover version of These Boots Are Made For Walking.

Sorry, I don't know who the young lady with the boots is. :)

Today, we're singing with Heino! Today, we're singing with Heino....

Heino, a German singer with blond hair and ever-present sunglasses, must be seen to be believed. Here he is on his TV show Sing mit Heino.



He's Mitch Miller with a side order of Bratwurst. :)

There goes my planned series of posts on South Park :)

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