Holiday Fun! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians! On YouTube!

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians! Now available to watch on youtube! What are you waiting for?

The Fearless Vampire Killers & Zombina and the Skeletones

Halloween countdown continues with a wonderful film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, directed by Roman Polanski and featuring Sharon Tate.



Plus another song for the dance party mix: "Dracula Blood" by Zombina and the Skeletones.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy & The Fall

Another Halloween treat, wacky, fun monster movies from the Abbott & Costello Meets the Monsters series...



In keeping with the mummy theme, here's a little dance party music for your Halloween party, Mark E Smith style...

Mad Monster Party!

October is our favorite month of the year, so this month we will be highlighting our favorite monster movies!



First up, Mad Monster Party



Our favorite stop-animation film from Rankin-Bass So rock on out and do the Mummy!
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Paul Newman

The Tormentos - Dragstrip Night

Hey Kids!

Summer's not over yet! There's still time for a teen beach dance party or two!

Here's your background music:

Happy 4th of July!

Nothing says America like an old fashioned sing-a-long. There's nothing more American than a medley of patriotic classics sung by Dean Martin, Kate Smith, Barbara Eden, Norm Crosby and Mickey Rooney!



Take that Lee Greenwood and your crappy overplayed to death song I can no longer listen to without the urge to attack the speaker wires from where the painful sound eminates from...

Huevos Rancheros "Get Outta Dodge"

I was going through some old cassette tapes, I ran across a song I somehow forgot about by the Huevos Rancheros.

Please to enjoy:

Winter Steele!

Years ago, when MTV was cool, there was a show called Liquid Television that showed animated shorts. One of the shorts was called "Winter Steele," my best friend and I watched it religiously and quoted it constantly. It was a crudely created puppet show about a biker chick on the road looking for her "old man" Crow Dickerson. She had white blonde hair with black roots, possibly a role model for the chicks that are currently on "Rock of Love." Some of our favorite scenes were when Winter finally finds Crows mother, she tells Winter, "Whadda ya say we score us some Aqua Velva and keep this party rollin'?" On another episode, the police have surrounded her as shes climbing the hospital wall trying to get to her old man. They yell, "You have the right to remain silent.." to which she responds "You have the right to lick my pointy boot ya fricken nazi!" I've never been able to find the full length show anywhere (MTV chopped it into to 4 minute segments). So it was a fluke when I googled it and found that the creator of the show had recently uploaded them to youtube! Halle-lew-yer!



Here's episode one... the rest are here

Oh yeah, I also found Dog Boy!

Reverend Horton Heat - Galaxie 500

Jeepers! It's March already? How did that happen? We're way overdue for a "video of the week" so we'll set you off this Friday with a little Reverend Horton Heat to kick start your weekend!



and don't forget kids, set your clocks back on Saturday!

Check back for some new stuff we'll be posting next week...

Southern Culture on the Skids

I just love this band! I found this gem featuring the S.C.O.T.S. song "Deja Va-Room" along with some vintage drag racing! Whoo hoo!

Please to enjoy!

Santa Claus is coming!

Put out the cookies & milk, drop the needle on the record and do a little dance...



Gene Autry tells it how it is! Better be nice y'all...

Skaterdater!

From Wikipedia:

Skaterdater is a short film that was released in 1965. It was written and directed by Noel Black and was the winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Short Subject category.

The film has no dialogue. The surf rock-esque soundtrack was composed by Mike Curb and Nick Venet.

It was one of the first films that heavily featured skateboarding.

The skateboard riders where members of The Imperial Skateboard Team from Torrance, California. Their names are Gary Hill, Gregg Carrol, Mike Mel, Bill McKaig, Gary Jennings, Bruce McKaig and Rick Anderson.

I found the full length movie on Google video, the original film was in color, but this version is black & white. There are clips of the color version on you tube.

Dwight Yoakam and Dave Alvin

I just love you tube, I waste so much time going back into the wayback machine finding all kinds of crazy stuff I'd forgot. Back in the '80's, there was a local L.A. cable access show called Art Fein's Poker Party. Art Fein had the best roots rock/talk show ever. I've heard it's back on the air, unfortunately I can't get it where I live now, so I have you tube to watch the highlights.

A few years ago, there was a club in North Hollywood called the Palomino Club. They featured all the country greats and legends, also allowed up-and-coming rockabilly and roots bands to play on off nights. My friends and I were huge Blasters fans, one of my friends befriended Dave Alvin, one of the two brothers who started the band. He told my friend to check out this guy called Dwight Yoakam playing his first show there. So we went. I was blown away by Dwight, even though he was so shy he played with his back to the crowd most of the show, or kept his head down with his hat pulled so far forward you couldn't see his face. This was in the early '80's, obviously he's overcome his shyness. Here's a little bit shy (note the dark shades) Dwight Yoakam and baby faced Dave Alvin playing on Art Fein's Poker Party in 1986.

Rosie Flores & Dave Alvin

Back in the 90's Art Fein had a local Los Angeles cable access show called, Art Fein's Poker Party. All the rockabilly singer/songwriters and traditional country artists stopped by to play. Recently, while cruising you tube, I found that they had posted them in segmented clips. I was thrilled to find this one of Rosie Flores (Screamin' Sirens) and Dave Alvin (Blasters) singing a duet called "Goodbye Again"

enjoy!




I'll be posting more in the future, stay tuned.

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

The dance party continues!

So back in the day, my parents would hold these swanky cocktail parties on the back patio in the summertime. There was lots of booze, cigarettes and dancing to the music of Sinatra, Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and others. But the one record that my sister and I really got into was "Mas Que Nada" by Brasil '66 In fact, they played it early on as a bribe to get us to go to sleep but how can you sleep when all the fun is going on in the back yard?

In fact, we played that record so many times we wore it out. In my lifetime, I've bought this album 4 times. Last week my cousin came by and borrowed it from me. Yesterday I started fretting that maybe she was going to never return it. Silly, I know. It's only been a week, but my baby's gone! I have to get a grip. It's my last vinyl copy and it's really hard to find in good shape. Must think good thoughts. The CD was re-issued, thanks to the film, Austin Powers so it's not lost forever. I just prefer to listen to it on the turntable as the pops and skips of vinyl are part of my life soundtrack for this record.

Please to enjoy:

Summer Beach Party Continues

Psycho Beach Party

It's campy! It's corny! What's more fun than go-go dancing and transvestites? You tell me! Featuring Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose in a crazy, whacked out teen dance party slasher film! Lauren Ambrose channels Sandra Dee as Florence "Chicklet" Forrest. Amy Adams (Junebug) is the voluptuous, hot to trot, Marvel Ann; the girl in the way of the dreamy stud, Starcat (get it?) who is the guy Chicklet really wants. Thomas Gibson of "Dharma & Greg" fame plays the mighty Kanaka, who rhymes his lines like a crazy beatnik; he rules the beach and is head surfer dude to the homoerotic wrestling gang. But someone's killing the gang on the beach. Who can it be? Is it one of them? And what makes Chicklet go into a crazy trance, changing her into several aggressive personalities? Could she be the killer?

Still haven't peaked your interest? Then check out the trailer:



Psycho Beach Party Soundtrack features music from Los Straitjackets (who also make a cameo in the film), The Halibuts, Man or Astroman? and the Hillbilly Soul Surfers! Also, look for a cameo by Steve Wozniak!

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi

It's Friday, time to go out dancin'! Here's something to warm you up before you go out tonight... maybe even learn a few new moves!

Beach Party Movies! Oh Yeah!

When I was a kid, my cousin and I spent hours upon hours watching all those beach party movies and wishing we could dance like "Candy" the blonde shakin' machine. It seemed as if the local channels had them on a loop tape, they were always on in the summer time. We watched them over and over again much to our parents dismay. Once we were kicked out of the backyard pool for turning into prunes, we would dry out in the patio dancing the "Pony" the "Frooge" and the "Watusi." We would crack each other up by putting our index finger up to our temples to paralyze ourselves like Erick Von Zipper did, the "bad ass" biker dude who always tried to ruin the kid's fun in every film.



Here is a scene from Pajama Party one of our many favorites.



Our absolute favorite movie was Beach Blanket Bingo. Note: Candy is the blonde in the beginning of the clip dancing with the guy in the Rat Fink hat.



Recently, my friend's 7 year old daughter caught wind of these Technicolor dandies off of you tube, so I tried to remember the names of all of the actual films. Curiosity got the better of me, then I found this:

Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection Box set: Featuring Beach Blanket Bingo; How to Stuff a Wild Bikini; Beach Party; Bikini Beach; Fireball 500; Thunder Alley; Muscle Beach Party and Ski Party I damn near died from excitement! So much joy for under $30? The only bad news is the boxed set version will not be released until July 10th... can I handle the wait? I guess I'll have to!


The one missing is the Ghost in the Invisible Bikini but since neither Frankie or Annette are in it, it seems to reason it wouldn't be included.



I can't wait to carry on the tradition of living room dance parties with my little friend! In the meantime, there are many others to watch. I already have the Gidget Collection.

I love the campiness of Sandra Dee, the ruggedness of Cliff Robertson's "Big Kahuna" but James Darren wasn't as groovy as Frankie Avalon in our book. Sure we dug the crazy surf digs, the driftwood shack and the way Malibu Beach used to look like, but there's very few dance numbers. And dancing is what we do. With panache! My little friend found these movies too complex, she asked many questions throughout, such as "Why won't they let her surf?" "Why do the boys not want her in their group?" "Why can't girls do what the boys do?" "Why doesn't she just tell Moondoggie she likes him?" So many questions! I guess we have come "A long way, baby!" I loved Sandra Dee, as Gidget the best, the other actresses who played Gidget in the latter films never seemed to have the same energy, but my cousin and I watched them anyway. My little friend, however, did not care much for Gidget Goes Hawaiian so I didn't force it.





It seemed as with all successful movies there would be similar fare... the other classic films my cousin and I watched obsessively were


Village of the Giants Ron Howard creates a "goo" which causes all things who ingest it to become abnormally large. After testing the goo out on his pet ducks, the ducks become 20 feet tall and head straight for the "Whiskey a Go-Go" as ducks do! They tear up the dance floor hopping to the Beau Brummels Band. The local crazy teens want in on the action and end up terrorizing the town after they get their hands on the stuff. This movie not only stars Ron Howard, but Beau Bridges and Playboy playmate Joy Harmon. Also, the Disney staple actor Tommy Kirk. It also features various George Barris hot rods.


Where the Boys Are
Starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Frank Gorshin and Jim Hutton, the Spring Break in Florida version of the formula Beach Party movie. But Frank Gorshin steals this one as the myopic beatnik. Lots of girls unwittingly tricking boys into marrying them, one with tragic results...


That's all I can remember right now. Perhaps anyone else wants to add to this campy list of beach party fun? Comment now!

The Cramps, "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns"

Lux Interior and Ivy are the coolest couple in coupledom. They make pretty music together and pretty videos as well. No one can work a sequined bathing suit like Ivy. No one!