Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Colonel's Parade
Trawling YouTube is like mining. Sometimes you get lucky and strike a little paydirt. This week, I uncovered the musical Koh-I-Noor.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please be upstanding for The Greatest You Tube Clip Ever. Disco Apache.
RIP Willie Tee. Here's his 60's club hit, Walking Up A One Way Street.
Old pop: Bobby Bloom & Montego Bay and look what's on the sidebar...it's only Dawn, bereft of Tony Orlando, singing Steely Dan segueuing into Call Me.
Knockout 1974 Pointer Sisters & Yes We Can Can, with some great drumming from the enviously named Gaylord Birch.
Radiohead have a new release? Dear me, I seem to have left my wallet at home. Anyway, here are a couple of previous attempts at shifting product;
Get some Pelham Puppets and liven up your TV ads, like RCA did with Peter Pan in 1957. Only $4.98.
Or, take a lesson from The Ramones and try the direct approach.
Conspiracy theory rock cartoon from TV Funhouse.
Forgotten pop: 5th Dimension & Pattern People.
Pop Quiz: What's the link from the above track to this next item?
Pure pop: For now people. Stiffs '77 tour clip from Lyceum gig. Massed musos onstage for Heart of the City. Did you buy one? (If there's anyone who's got a copy of Nick Abson's tour film 'If It Ain't Stiff It Ain't Worth a F*ck', do let me know).
Book Bad Company's Paul Rodgers for your next corporate or private event.
A wide-eyed Stevie Winwood with Traffic, live '72 & Mr Fantasy, making the same fundamental hairstyle error that Liam Gallagher's heading for.
The Jewish Beatles & Hava Nagila.
Jessie Mae Renfro didn't need a microphone. Strepsil?
Sub-prime time: Spitting Image spoof of Madness Our House from 1992.
Solomon Burke. The bethroned King of Soul live festival performance
2003.
Just goes to prove ho...
Just goes to prove how well-viewed this forum is by the movers and shakers in obscure Eurodisco-pop covers management, Steve. No matter, we won't let the man get us down. As fast as you can, click on this link to view the unbelievable Disco Apache video.
Following the link fo...
Following the link for booking Paul Rodgers for a private event, there is a long list of other possible acts who can be booked. I suspect some are wishful thinking or, if not, maybe someone should check out the availability of Pink Floyd for an office party http://www.weddingentertainmentagency.com/Booking-PinkFloyd.htm
More (justly?) forgot...
More (justly?) forgotten pop, Jigsaw with the singing drummer no-one remembers. Dig the blond hair/dark sideburns combo once favoured by many footballers.
Just tried to watch D...
Just tried to watch Disco Apache but its been pulled from the site - is this the start of the demise you predicted several months ago? Sure sounds like it.