Gong Me Off

They just don't make reality TV like they used to

Apache - Jump On It

Jet Harris, the original bass player with The Shadows has passed away age 71

So in tribute here are four versions of the seminal Apache - all classics in their own way.
This is one tune that really can be called a classic...

The Original (1960)

The Bongotastic (1973)

The Discoliscious (1977)

 The Hippety Hopper (1981)

Heavy, Heavy, Heavy - Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats

Slipping Into Darkness - The Funkees

A bongotastic piece of '70s Nigerian AfroFunk available for your listening and downloading pleasure here
and the original version by War below...



I am pleased to find there is an Australian group keeping The Funkees name and traditions alive, its this continuance of musical tradition through the generations that gives me faith in the future of popular music.

Red Tide II

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Chandler - Red Tide (A Noir Graphic Novel) by Jim Steranko

  

The original graphic novel published in 1976

"My artistic goal was to make Red Tide resonate in readers' minds with the great detective films they'd seen. I tried to generate the same ambience and atmosphere by incorporating similar icons: urban settings, neon motifs, deco architecture, period automobiles, rainswept streets, claustrophobic offices, exotic nightclubs, reflective glassware, vintage telephones, and, of course, venetian blinds—all visualized in deep shadows and high-contrast imagery. I was looking for the feel and style of The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and The Killers, for example, and hoped to achieve it by mirroring the compositions, the textures, and the visual themes that made those films so memorable." JimSteranko

Saul Bass - Better by Design

With a cool name like Saul Bass,

I Guess.....

He couldn't be Anything Less.

(1920-1996)

The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."


Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Yes I Can, Yes I Can, Yes I Can

if I were to be abducted

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Mercury, Venus, Mars.....THE STARS

See also Disconauts AAA

"set up to explore the potential of dance cultures for autonomous space exploration"

So many Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)

Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly

Good golly Miss Molly and boats

Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet

Jump back in the alley and nanny goats

18-wheeler Scammels, Domenecker camels

All other mammals plus equal votes

Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy

Being rather silly, and porridge oats

A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it

You're Uncle with his Ferret - yellow socks

Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty

Going on 40 - no electric shocks

The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot

A little drop of claret - anything that rocks

Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,

Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox

Health service glasses

Gigolos and brasses

round or skinny bottoms

Take your mum to paris

lighting up the chalice

wee willy harris

Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico

Harpo, Groucho, Chico

Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle

Slap and tickle

Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale

balabalabala and Volare

Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy

Being in my nuddy

Saying hokey-dokey, singalonga Smokey

Coming out of chokey

John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano

Bonar Colleano

A Trip to the Seaside

I loved this program when I was very little...

Basketball Jones

What Ya Think 'Bout Lickin' My Chicken?

The interconnectedness of all things...

Bill Cosby - What Ya Think 'Bout Lickin' My Chicken? - The Cosby Show - Lisa Bonet(fingerlickin' good!) - 1980s - AngelHeart - Fear of Chickens - Selling Your Soul for Fame - 1980s - Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show

The Picture of Dorian Gray