Bedazzled!

Print Ad: "Suddenly It's 1960...Plymouth!"

via Gitwithit's Flickr Stream

The Hasil Adkins Rejection Letters

At WFMU's Beware of the Blog

"This week marks the arrival (April 29, 1937) and unfortunately the departure (April 25, 2005) of The Wildest One Man Band Hunch Machine that ever stalked the planet. Hasil "The Haze" Adkins wrote, performed and lived out his wild-ass rock & roll dreams with a sincere ferocity unmatched by fellow humans north or south. Rattling the walls of his Madison, West Virginia shack, Hasil would croon sweet odes to commodity meat and serenade the fickle moon above with his hot dog reverie. Early on, he'd mail out his home-recorded concoctions to the country music stars of the day, hoping to place a song or grab a plum spot on a traveling package show. Like the rest of the world, Nashville would have to wait a few decades to get hep to Hasil's chicken walk-inspired genius." Link via PCL Linkdump

Movie Trailer: "The Mysterians" AKA Chikyû Bôeigun (1957)

"The Mysterians" AKA Chikyû Bôeigun (1957)
This is a trailer edited by the filmmaker Radley Metzger. I was kind of surprised to see on IMDB that it was a Japanese film as they managed to not show any Nipponese faces in the trailer.
"The Mysterians".mov (Quicktime)
"The Mysterians".m4v (iTunes)
"The Mysterians".flv (Embeddable Flash Player)

Bill O'Reilly Is Angry

Burt Bacharach vs. Gilbert O'Sullivan

From Burt's 1973 TV Special "Burt Bacharach: Opus No. 3". Featuring Peter Ustinov as Ludwig van Beethoven. Yup- it's that kind of TV Special.
Burt Bacharach vs. Gilbert O'Sullivan.mov (Quicktime)
Burt Bacharach vs. Gilbert O'Sullivan.m4v (iTunes)
Burt Bacharach vs. Gilbert O'Sullivan.flv (Embeddable Flash)

Chiller Theatre Expo - May 2-4 at the Hilton Parsippany, Parsippany, N.J.

It's Chiller Theatre Expo time. May 2-4 at the Hilton Parsippany, Parsippany, N.J.

I'll be there selling my Scopitone comps and various other rare video oddities.

The guests for the May Show include Jason Mewes, Ernest Borgnine, Micky Dolenz, Lindsay Wagner, Elvira, & many more! Hope to see you there.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Please Read The Letter" (Live)

They were playing this in last night's 'The Riches" episode. Had to look it up. Guess I gotta go buy that Robert Plant/Alison Krauss CD now....

Ephemera: Toll House Children's Menu

Toll House Children's Menu via Vintage Ads

Flip side after the jump.

Music Video: Jackson 5 "Rockin' Robin" on Top of the Pops

Jackson 5 "Rockin' Robin".mov (Quicktime)
Jackson 5 "Rockin' Robin".m4v (iTunes)
Jackson 5 "Rockin' Robin".flv (Embeddable Flash)

Pin-Ups by Joyce Ballantyne

Pin-Ups by Joyce Ballantyne via Vintage Posters

"Joyce Ballantyne (April 4, 1918 – May 15, 2006) was a painter of pin-up art. She is best known as the designer of the Coppertone girl, whose swimming costume is being pulled down by a dog."

"In 1945 Ballantyne began painting pin-ups for Brown & Bigelow, having been recommended by Gil Elvgren. While there, she designed direct mail pin-up brochures for the company, and was eventually given the honor of creating an Artist's Sketch Pad twelve page calendar. She often used herself as a model."

"In 1954, Ballantyne painted twelve pin-ups for a calendar published by Shaw-Barton. Upon the calendar's release in 1955, demand was so great that the company reprinted it many times."

"Ballantyne then went on to paint one of the most famous advertising images ever, when Coppertone suntan lotion asked her to create a billboard image in 1959. That image, of a pigtailed girl with her bathing suit being tugged down by a small dog, has become an American icon. Her daughter Cheri Brand was used as the model for the girl."