This must be quite the rockin' circus! Do the clowns play Fender Strats?

Early British instrumental rockers Nero and the Gladiators with their version of Entry of the Gladiators:



However did a piece of music with a title like that get associated with the circus?

In the year 2525, er, 1999!

Early 1960s British singer Dave Sampson predicts a little of the future in his song 1999!

There really was a Chef Boyardee!

It seems that the "Chef Boyardee" brand was really based on a real person. Chef Ettore "Hector" Boiardi's spaghetti sauce was so popular that restaurant patrons wanted to take it home with them, so he created what he called the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee brand to sell it, giving joy to kids from then on.

Here's Chef Boiardi giving a demonstration on TV:

Just like we ran the play in practice

Coventry City scores a unique--to say the least--free kick goal in a 1970 soccer game.

The mystery of the "Paul is dead" song

Terry Knight, best known as the manager for Grand Funk Railroad, recorded the song "Saint Paul" in 1969 that may have started the great wave of "Paul McCartney is Dead" rumours of the late 1960s.

Here's the song, spliced to footage of a Beatles performance of Hey Jude (which the writer of Saint Paul liberally cribs from!):




(I'm more familiar with the cover version by Shane, which was a monster hit in New Zealand.)

You may see the Shane version here:



If all this interests you, I suggest that you read the fascinating book I Am The Walrus, which examines the history of the rumour.

(The late Mr. Knight, when asked whether he knew that the song had contributed to the rumour, is reported to have smiled and said "Yes, I'd heard that...")

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(Two "fart"s and a dead will do that. :))

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Uh oh, The Shotgun is PG-13!

Traceur Santa!

A Santa has to use stunts and crazy jumps to get his sack of presents back when it is taken by accident.


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Mmmm. Musical Fruitcake

I've been enjoying Musical Fruitcake, a dormant site that collected really bad Christmas songs.

One that I like is Mom and Daddy, Please Don't Steal For Me This Christmas, which I immediately e-mailed to my parents. Enjoy!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah!

I Want a Beatle for Christmas!



(Well, not me, but rather Patty Surbey and the Candian VIPs. from 1964 :) )

Rodney McCray

Rodney McCray was probably my favourite Vancouver Canadians baseball player during the team's Triple A days. Here's why.



"After finally making the majors with the White Sox in 1990, McCray was sent back down to the AAA Vancouver Canadians of the Pacific Coast League the following year. On May 27, 1991, at Civic Stadium (now PGE Park) in Portland, Oregon, McCray chased after a fly ball hit by Portland's Chip Hale; unable to make the catch, he ran right through a plywood fence in right field. McCray was not seriously hurt, but became an instant celebrity as the play was shown repeatedly on newscasts across the country; a video clip of the play is now part of a blooper reel looped at the Baseball Hall of Fame...."

Rodney! Rodney! Rodney!

I remember seeing that clip on the CBC National news broadcast the day after it happened.

Not Ray Charles

Here's the song Some Other Guy...and it's *not* by Ray Charles despite what it sounds like:



Listen to it quickly, before that video is off YouTube
Here's a little bit of background about the Richie Barett song...

Floats like a butterfly, stings like a packing crate

A quick clip of Mokujin Ken, beloved as wrestler "Ken the Box"



Call Don King! :)

Brother, can you spare $1.5 million?

Ric Dolphin passes on an update about my old boss Ted Byfield. It's too bad that his daughter has died, but God is evidently helping the Byfields in some ways, which I am happy to see.

Watch out, he's got a box cutter! :)

A video highlight of the immortal wrestling career of...Ken the box! :)

Rick wants a typewriter solo during the bridge

Now I realize that I should have learned to play the typewriter in addition to being able to write on it...



[Oh Yeah, Uh Huh, by Australian rocker Col Joye...]

Rick wants to have a typewriter solo during the bridge

Mugus of the world, unite

I must be moving up in the blogging world, as I have received my first "mugu" e-mail from an African scam artist!

Thanks to Steve Graham's book, I know what to do, though... :)

One...more...time!

Now that the video of Jesus is A Friend of Mine by Sonseed has hit a million plays on YouTube, I'll bet that people all over Brooklyn are looking for the group's only LP to sell on eBay. "The bidding starts at one thousand dollars..." :)

"He was sadly deprived of his final wish, which was to be run over by a beer truck on the way to the liquor store to buy booze for a date."

I think we have a candidate for best newspaper obituary ever!

The Door To Heaven

Another neat C.O. Baptista christian film from the 1940s: The Door to Heaven:



The intro part and additional music at the start is by the weisenheimer YouTuber who posted this...but I do owe him thanks for putting it online.