A Musical Interlude From My Formative Years

 

 

Let's celebrate Spring with real dances from the 60's done at a hotel and casino that's been torn down with a guitar guy nobody knows!!

 

 

Here's Boby Vee doing an even older tune about Baby Faces,  because The Night Has A Thousand Eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

And now Nancy Sinatra and her girls prance in boots.  Wowsers!

 

 

 

 

And some girls hail a cab with flippy skirts.  They must think I'm driving. 

 

 

 

 

 

(For cultural reference, I'm told "Scopitones" were 16mm films that played in a sort of video jukebox in nightclubs back in the Days of Yore.  I was around then, but they wouldn't have let me into the clubs.)

 

(Jingle Singers Shout) W-O-O-F Wadio!

A rowdy howdy from Wild Woofin' Wolfiie, Cats and Kittens!  Melt away any Monday misery with some serious sixties shakin' courtesy of Stacy Adams and Scopitones!  Join the poolside gang by clicking these here blue letters for "Pussy Cat A-Go-Go!"  DIG Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!

We Interrupt This Blog...

...for a musical interlude, some classy 60's H&H,  "I Cried For You" by Sonny King!  Enjoy!!

Flashback II: Revenge of the Scopitones

In the 60's, I felt my first oncoming thrusts of manhood, and while it really didn't take a lot to get my attention, the kicky birds featured in the musical productions every afternoon on Dick Clark's "Where The Action Is" were particularly ginchy!


Unbeknownst to me at the time, there were 16MM film clips of current hit songs running in clubs in a sort of jukebox called "Scopitones!"  They were actually more popular in Europe, but there were some in the U.S.  Fortunately, this bit of pop culture has been preserved and is now readily available at YouTube!  These are racier bits than one would have seen on broadcast television at the time.  Fairly facetious now, but then-- Ooh La La!


This Nancy Sinatra tune holds up very well

As for Freddy and Roberta... I stare transfixed, but for somewhat different reasons now than I might have at age 14.  And some of the same reasons.

Click the links and marvel at the ancestors of MTV, you know, way back when it showed music vids.

Hm...Y'know, one of my aunts had that exact hairstyle!

Flashback

.(Ed Sullivan voice) And now... for all you Youngsters... who missed this back in the 60's... courtesy of Scopitones and the fellow at YouTube... Nino Ferrer!

(Yeah, click the link, Baby!)