Rare Les Paul Documentary: 8-track recorder invention (Part 5 of 5)

Part 5 of 5 of a Les Paul documentary, "The Wizard of Waukesha." Features footage of the Rolling Stones, Mike Bloomfield, and Rick Derringer. Lots of great shots of Les Paul Customs and Les Paul Standards, among others.

Rare Les Paul Documentary (Part 4)

Part 4 of a Les Paul documentary, "The Wizard of Waukesha." Features footage of the Rolling Stones, Mike Bloomfield, and Rick Derringer. Lots of great shots of Les Paul Customs and Les Paul Standards, among others.

Rare Les Paul Documentary (Part 3)

Part 3 of a rare documentary on Les Paul, "The Wizard of Waukesha." Features footage of the Rolling Stones, Mike Bloomfield, and Rick Derringer. Lots of great shots of Les Paul Customs and Les Paul Standards, among others

Rare Les Paul Documentary (Part 2)

Part 2 of a rare documentary on Les Paul, "The Wizard of Waukesha." Features footage of the Rolling Stones, Mike Bloomfield, and Rick Derringer. Lots of great shots of Les Paul Customs and Les Paul Standards, among others.

Little Richard Explains Origin of "Tutti Frutti"

Very short clip of Little Richard from October 1975 in the NYC area explaining how the scat lyrics to "Tutti Frutti" came to be.

"Blue Suede Shoes": All Star Jam: Dick Clark (with everyone below)

A rare all-star jam on Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" with Elvis and his band on a video in synch. Features Johnny Rivers, Charlie Daniels, Stephen Stills, Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats, Tommy Shaw of Styx, George Duke, Mick Fleetwood, Teena Marie, Tom Scott, Glen Campbell, James Ingram, Eddie Money, Tom Wopat of The Dukes of Hazzard, Dee Murray of the Elton John Band, Ricky Scaggs, Steve Cropper of Booker T and the MGs,, Stanley Clarke, John Schneider of the Dukes of Hazzard, Bo Diddley, Nigel Olsson of the Elton John Band, Rindy Ross of Quarterflash, Chuck Mangione and Lee Ritenour.

Les Paul Documentary Part 1

The Wizard of Waukesha. Rare documentary on Les Paul. Features Mike Bloomfield, Rick Derringer and others.

The Hellcats: I DID MY PART (lorette 'tav falco's ex-girlfriend' velvette, lisa 'crazee' mcgaughran, et. al. memphis, 1990)

I DID MY PART by all girl band the Hellcats. An indie Memphis music video circa 1990. Shot on location near Brooks Art Gallery in Overturn Park, midtown.

PETE FOUNTAN: BIRTH OF THE BLUES: (Earliest known video footage of George Klein's TALENT PARTY 1964!)

GEORGE KLEIN HOSTS TALENT PARTY IN 1964
This is the earliest known video footage of George Klein, host of the WHBQ-TV Memphis show "Talent Party". This clip is an excerpt from an interview George did with famous jazz clarinet player Pete Fountain. Plus, you get to hear Pete "lip sync" (clarinet sync?) eight bars of the song, Birth Of The Blues he'd recently recorded.

Besides this popular weekly TV show, George was one of Memphis' hottest DJs at the time in addition to being a close friend of Elvis Presley. He is still active in Memphis music today with a local cable show, "Memphis Sounds", that covers Memphis music history and interviews local and regional musicians.

NOTE: MemphisMemories would like to thank Harvey and Chet for finding this rare classic on a VHS tape at a flea market and making it available so it can be shared with everyone.

Influence of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker: Pete Mayes and Joe Hughes (Doll House Club in Houston)

This is one of three short films in the Living Texas Blues series. Battle of the Guitars shows the influence of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker through the performance of Pete Mayes and Joe Hughes at the Doll House Club in Houston.