"Hair": the Cowsills

The Proto-pop pre-Partridge Family ensemble - "The Cowsills" - deconstruct the counter-cultural Classic "Hair" for the Saturday Morning Sugar Pops crew

HEROIN: BBC DOC (FUCK IT, I JUST GAVE MY TV AWAY)

Desperately Seeking Something - Pan's People

The late Pete McCarthy investigates stone circle designer Ivan McBeth and a Golden Dawn ritual invoking Pan in West Kennet Long Barrow for this Channel 4 series from 1995. A fascinating insight into alternative belief systems.

In memory of Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson 1951 - 2004

Production Company: Kudos Productions
Written and Presented by Pete McCarthy
Camera: Andy Muggleton / Jeremy Stavenhagen
Music: Steve Beresford
Editor: Mathew Stonehouse
Producer: Stephen Garrett
Director: Steve Connelly
Broadcast: 6th November 1995

You'll Find Out (RKO 1940): Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre & the Ol' Professor of Swing - Kay Kyser with the Sonovox (first talkbox)

You'll Find Out (1940 RKO) Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Helen Parrish, Dennis O'Keefe

The ONLY time Karloff, Lugosi and Lorre appeared together in the same film.

Incredible songs!

"Like The Fella Once Said", "You've Got Me This Way", "I'd Know You Anywhere", "One Track Mind" (second song on this video), Ish's "Bad Humor Man (rumor has it that the song was to have been sung by the "3 Boogie Men"!! as print ads described them).

Kay and the band in a haunted house. Swing numbers one minute,

Ish*

(*Ish Kabibble: comedian/cornet player: vocalist in You'll Find Out (1940)
performed with Kay Kyser on the television quiz show Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge in 1949 and 1950.
In his autobiography, Bogue explained his stage name, which he took from the lyrics of one of his comedic songs,"Isch ga-bibble." The song derived from a boy named Ben, who thought the word was cool. "Ishkabibble?", which was purported to mean "I should worry?", prompted a curious (and perhaps not coincidental) association of the comedian with the "What, me worry?" motto of Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman/ "ische ga bibble" is not Yiddish, and, in fact, contains no Yiddish words at all.
Although Bogue's stage persona was that of a dimwitted person; he was a notable cornet player and was also business manager for the Kay Kyser Orchestra from 1931 to 1951.
Some maintain that Jerry Lewis lifted his comedic persona and look from Ish Kabibble.

disappearing behind secret panels the next.

According to Kyser guitarist Roc Hillman, Kay insisted on including the disclaimer,

'This stuff doesn't really happen, it's all in fun...'

because he was worried that some of the littler theater patrons might not understand and be scared.

The film features what was at that time a new invention: The Sonovox.

This device is first used by Bela Lugosi, secretly haunting the house from the basement.

Once all is said and done, Kyser's orchestra uses the Sonovox for their closing big band number...

Record Making With Duke Ellington (1937) TRAIN EFFECTS ?SONG

This promotional short for Irving Mills' short-lived Master and Variety labels not only gives us a glimpse of Ellington and his band in the actual Master/Variety studios (as opposed to a soundstage set), but is one of the very few film accounts of how records were recorded, plated and pressed in the long-ago age of analog, shellac and 78 rpm. Narration is provided by pioneer radio announcer Alois Havrilla.

Betty Boop/Louis Armstrong - You Rascal You (1932)

Hoagy Carmichael and Jack Teagarden (1939)