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| Schnitzengruben auditions star of tomorrow at prestigious Flick-Disc™ HQ, yesterday! Foam-O-Graph© |
Here on th' Isle O' Foam©, we cherish record labels devoted to second-tier psychedelia! Let's hear it for Musicor! [That's a link, right there! - Ed.] and Mainstream! [That's another! Go ahead and click - it won't bite! - Ed.]. Today we honor industry visionaries Flick-Disc©, who operated out of Verve Records warehouse toilet! Here's youthful Flick-Disc© prexy Dick Schnitzengruben to moisten our music oysters!
Hi, teens! Flick-Disc© prexy Dick Schnitzengruben here, with his finger on the throbbing pulse of the nation's youth! And man oh man, have we ever got some swingin' platters comin' your way!
The Boston Tea Parties have that Bosstown Sound down to a Tea! Hailing from right here in downtown Pomona, this husky foursome is sure to set the pop charts alight with their finger-poppin' blend of Now Sounds!
Watch out, Establishment "squares"! It's The American Revolutions comin' at ya! Yes, teens, this swell combo from downtown Pomona is all fired-up with the latest in psychedelic-style beat tunes! Roll over Paul Revere and tell Uncle Sam the news!
And here's St John And The Greens with their distinctive blend of far-out stylings! From calypso to bossa, from ballads to beat, this wholesome Pomona foursome delivers a challenging musical "happening" for the youth of today!
Sadly, Schnitzengruben was busted for human trafficking, violating the Mann Act, and felony removal of mattress labels. These three discs were to be the label's only product, and everybody died tragically, including Schnitzengruben's youthful ward and personal assistant, Twinky Hunkcheese, who painted the covers for these albums all by himself. But you can relive the heady atmosphere of that Golden Era of second-tier psych by simply clicking the link in the comments!
This post funded in part by Morty's Munchy Meat Mart, Pomona, CA. "Try our world famous Hen Knuckles!"
The Boston Tea Party album is the rare (actually non-existent) Deluxe Legacy Expanded Collector's edition with FIVE non-album tracks! Oh boy, is it ever swell! Everything's upgraded to @193 and SHOT OUT OF HUGE GUNS for that distinctive puffy texture!
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of violating the Mann Act, my aunt Fifi (on my mother's side) violated Thomas Mann with a first edition of 'The Magic Mountain', when he tried to violate her — true story…
*clutches pearls, faints*
DeleteAunt Fifi was a charter member of the Corsican French Resistance, not a woman to be trifled with. "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" and all that jazz.
Deletethat's pretty great...Viva Tante Fifi! Why do people not have these pasts anymore? Well, bearing in my mind the past isn't even the past and all that...Faulkner as psychedelic?
DeleteThere was a Public Service Announcement at the college radio station where I was news director. It had kind of a snappy jingle sound to it. The text was:
ReplyDeleteEmphysema doesn't seem to care who gets it
Emphysema doesn't seem to care at all
Black or white, red or brown, short, fat, thin, or tall
We all look alike to emphysema,
To emphysema we're all just plain folks
So who does emphysema seem to pick on most?
You guessed: the one who smokes!
One of the resident geniuses at the station (no, really: he became a successful film director and producer!) took that, and re-recorded it. He changed the disease to gonorrhea, the third-to-last line to "...we're just sitting ducks," and then bleeped out the word that substituted for "smokes!"
We laughed ourselves silly, and played both PSAs incessantly. Good times!
D in California
"Future Leaders of America".............
DeleteThe ad only was aired once and somehow it was for a software company. It starts with a marching band in full regalia striding onto a football field while performing a song. A calming voice narrates and says something along the lines of even when you least expect it, life will throw you a curve. And, cue the release of wild wolverines on the marching band with chaos ensuing. Yeah, it only aired once.
ReplyDeleteAnd, proving once again that everything ever recorded finds its way on the internet, here's the commercial. I had some aspects of it wrong - it was a software sales company and it was wolves instead of wolverines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXxXNd7HF_g
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ReplyDeleteThis was not a banned commercial as some might think
this ad was a real ad, not for Learning English, but for the company that made ad.
But by far funnier is an untranslatable ad about nail factory Van Leeuwen and the company that made their ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAoxI0oHMI
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Shake Weight
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtcE52LKgk
Aaaaah! Nooooo, I can't stand those body building types, I had to turn it off.
DeleteBabs, I'm surprised at you.
I suffer from dynamic inertia.
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ReplyDeleteHow I miss the Brentford Nylons TV ads. staring Alan 'Fluff' Freeman. Not 'arf-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu14L2myvE
ReplyDeleteEverything about this is just wrong.
DeleteGotta be the 1964 Rice Krispies ad, incidentally soundtracked by an early UK R&B band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKVQNtkdzw
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ReplyDeleteFreeze this at 10 seconds flat. I know, Je Kunt Het
Etymologists agree that the Skids’ big guy Richard Jobson ‘s actual lyrics made less sense than they do here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o
ReplyDeleteFarq, please convey my profound thanks to your funder, Morty's Munchy Meat Mart . As a former Pomona resident, I seem to remember Morty's original tagline as being "You can't beat our meat!"
ReplyDeleteI think I've been to Pomona. But I imagine a lot of people say that.
DeleteI listen to a shitload of Old Time Radio, and lately I've been enjoying Dick Tracy, the kids' series, which is sponsored by Puffed Wheat, who advertise their product as being SHOT OUT OF BIG GUNS (complete with booming cannon FX) during manufacture. So that's my current favorite. Way back when, I loved the Volkswagen Beetle print ads, and a very memorable Perfectos cigarettes campaign where they refused to show the pack. I wish I smoked cigarettes, such a stylish and relaxing thing, all the accoutrements and gestures. But it always made me nauseous, so I never managed it. The upside is my lungs don't look like the La Brea Tar Pits, but who's admiring my lungs?
ReplyDeleteAny youse bums want these albums? The Boston Tea Party is just great - garage punk-psych pop, beaucoup of energy, well played and sung. St John Green is the usual Kim Fowley crapfest, and the American Revolution (Boston Tea Party contiguous) is okay.
This one ...
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Yowza! I'm giving that ad. top marks.
DeleteThat's brilliant, excellent commercial art. I couldn't help but thinking that here in Oakland, at least four or five people would have returned real gunfire immediately.
DeleteThis gets my vote!
DeleteAnd .. yeah .. I w-wantz .. I wantz 'em!! Thanks, awfully old boy!!
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'elp ya'selves!!
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDRtNuj-jNQ Always makes me laugh. --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteAnd this classic cereal ad, which was made by ad execs tripping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57i8Ttgt4lY --Muzak McM.
DeleteYes I enjoyed those two MM.
DeleteOrange Moose will be the name of my next band.
DeleteYour fans will chant MOOOOOOOOSE!
DeleteI always like the violent cinéma vérité of this ad... which only aired a few times; apparently home invasion and backyard beatdown by corporate mascots wasn't popular.
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Ann Miller and 1.2 Million (adj) dollars.
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'nuff said
Ann Miller = Stockard Channing, and no thank you.
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