You'll know T.V.'s Teri from her role as Samantha in long-running "Science Fiction" show Bewitched [needs research? - Ed.] but did you know she's also a respected tapestry embroiderer and collector of mid-sixties "pop" music records? What are the chances of that? [rhetorical question. Stupid also - Ed.]
That's right, subscribers! Toothsome Teri loves nothing better whilst *cough* "voyaging where no man has gone before" than working up a much-loved album sleeve into a stylishly contemporary wall hanging! Today's Foam-O-Graph© shows Ms. Garr wrinkling witchy nose at lovely interstellar cabin companion Wanda Whiplash in front of latest needlework masterpiece!
But can you identify inspiration, readers? Well-known long-playing "L.P." cover artfully transformed into heritage decor accent, which with its bold colors and striking composition lends space-age look to oh-so-feminine living quarters!
If you can, leave clew, hint, suggestive allusion to demonstrate familiarity with topic! Don't name act, album directly! There's a swell Grand Prize for the winner! Beam me up, Scotty!
I've been kicking your elderly butts recently with th' FoamKwiz©, so here's an easy one to ease us into th' Yuletide season! No xtry clews, neither - everything you need is (quite literally, when I think about it) in the Foam-O-Graph©!
ReplyDeleteToday's Grand Prize? Happy you axed, old-timer! It's fifty (50) Mambo lessons at your local Arthur Murray Dance School! Imagine look on confreres faces as you mambo into office cubicle, in commissary line, or whilst waiting for crosstown bus! Oboy!
"everything you need is (quite literally, when I think about it) in the Foam-O-Graph©!" - and the caption.
ReplyDeletePretty sure it isn't the beatles "white album".
ReplyDeleteAs you had the simple good manners to comment, you get today's Grand Second Prize - this wonderful Table Lighter! Fashioned from solid Lucite©, this elegant executive accessory is invaluable whenever you have a table to light!
DeleteThank you. I will reserve a place of honor for display.
ReplyDeleteHmm... I've discounted disraeli gears and beegees first album, but i'm not yet unconvinced that it could be a grand re-imagining of "The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill". It was 1965 you know, which doesn't come more "mid sixties" in my book. I have also observed that Mr III is very gifted in his creation of new album artwork, so ya know....
ReplyDelete*sigh*
DeleteStand on your head and squint at your screen from across the room. HOW HARD CAN THIS BE???????
I got nuthin'...."Tapestry" and "pop" make me think of the obvious LP title but that's not "mid-Sixties." Hmm.....agglomerate, agglomeration, alphabet soup, assortment, botch, clutter, collage, crazy quilt, farrago, gallimaufry, grab bag, gumbo, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jambalaya, jumble, jungle, litter, macédoine, medley, mélange, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, montage, motley, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, ragout, rainbow, rummage, salad, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, smorgasbord, stew, tumble, variety, welter, detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundries,accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomerate, conglomeration catchall, admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, combination, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix-up....
ReplyDeletebollix, chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, dog's breakfast [chiefly British], mess, morass, shambles, imbroglio, knot, snarl, tangle
Is it the Devil's own travelling band? The Bogrollin Stoned? I'll make no more requests of you.
ReplyDeleteHummmmm.....all you need is love, forever?
ReplyDeleteThat cover has a white background. It's about 60% white. Do you see any white space here?
Delete*facepalm*
ReplyDeleteI really, really believed you'd get this. It's Saturday!
Many thanks for the BLINK post!!!
ReplyDeleteLet's get meta--sez the guy who almost always misses the Blink posts--there should be a Blink post about Blink-182...shouldn't there? OTOH, a nod's as good as a wink to a hoarse blind guy, #amirite
DeleteIs the corner of the wall hanging the corner of the album cover?
ReplyDeleteI know it seems fantastic, but yes. It's upside down, so there's a yellow bit top right - what would that be, I wonder? And some yellow at the bottom ... hmm.
DeleteGet someone to hold your computer (or device of choice) upside down, take off your glasses and squint.
Number 1 album late '66, UK & USA.
I bought both number 1 albums in 1966, both around the same time. The first one whilst on holiday in Shropshire in April and the other in August. I still have them. only the second had a white background. On the turntable, it went round and round. I could be wrong though.
DeleteLooks like two red kangaroos toasting...
ReplyDeleteSi, the album is obviously that classic mid-60s extravaganza Have a drink (or two) by Red Kangaroo.
And if any of y'all tell me that such an album doesn't exist - well, it damn well should...
The Kangaroo album is on th' IoF© somewhere, but not in this post.
Deleteum, going more on your klew's than the actual likeness, I'd say there's a train on side 2? If so, it's a stretch and not the usual obscure fair.
ReplyDeleteYup.
DeleteCan’t wait to start Mamboing all over the friggin’ place! It might be easiest to send me your account info for automatic withdrawal as my local Arthur Murray franchise doesn’t accept vouchers or checks. Thanks in advance!!
DeleteUh - I don't think you quite understand - the prize is fifty Mambo lessons. Doesn't say anything about being "free".
DeleteHey hey I think I've got it
ReplyDeleteDamn it all, looks like I was pipped at the post, congratulations MrDave. Do you think we can sue for permanent eye strain and damage to the syrup?
DeleteYup.
DeleteHowdy pardner,
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but that album cover reminds me of the musical prowess of a band that would be able to sonically quote something by someone who could write something like this; "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
Happy holidays from the miss' and me!
As ever,
Billy Gates of the Double X Ranch.
I thought the band (if they had enough typewriters) would have been able to write "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen", except some other bunch beat them to it.
ReplyDeleteNumber 1 album late '66, UK & USA.
ReplyDeleteOnly one pop-group album was no 1 in the UK in late 66.
In fact only 2 pop-group albums made no 1 in the UK in the whole of 66.
Mostly it was the Sound of Music soundtrack.
Have a look at the cover the right way up - kinda obvious, ain't it? No?
ReplyDeleteNope.
DeleteTrouble is, I'm dealin' wit' guys got no visual suss. Type guys what look at dem Picasso paintins and sez why, a child o' five could of done dis shit. You know - slobs.
DeleteWhich I'm not callin' you poisonly a slob, Nobs - but den again, mebbe I am at dat. Please to accept my apologies.
DeleteI've spun it round, still nothing.
DeleteSlob, yup, & that Cipasso, I mean I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
Deletehttps://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/images/works/2314.jpg
That is a goodie.
DeleteGot it as a poster (wot cant afford the original, cheapskate!!) And spend endless hours in contemplation of all the incongruities, makes me laugh.
DeleteI see faces, repositioned. But then I've surrendered to the void.
ReplyDeleteMrDave wins this week's FoamKwiz! Even though he didn't see the pitcher, he got the clews (some in my earlier comment - believer - Saturday), and the Mambo Lessons are available at his local Arthur Murray Dance School! Let us know how it goes for ya, MrDave!
ReplyDelete(Incidentally, this technique will be re-used in future kwizzes, but I know now to make it easier for youse bums)