The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Found at LP Cover Lover . This dance craze was way before my time, so I had to look it up . The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance originating from the sixties, but also mentioned some forty years earlier as a dance common in the black juke joints in the first part of the twentieth century. The Hully Gully was started by Frank Rocco at the Cadillac Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The rock...
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Rev. A.A. Allen. classic tent revival preacher, faith healer and alcoholic, reminds us we can resist sin. Though he couldn't, as he died of alcohol poisoning with a level of .36. Playlist Go and Sin 1 Alleee 1 Richard Galliano * Beritwaltz Malcolm Yelvington * Got Me a Trumpet Go and Sin 2 Bernie Greene * Ping-Pong Bert Kaempfert * Chanson d'Amour Go and Sin 3 Living Guitars * Brown Sugar Aphex Twin...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
I was looking for some material on the ol’ YouTube on the late Harve Presnell for my more retro-minded other blog home. I didn’t find much, but I did find this trailer for a film that was for one of Presnell’s few shots at movie stardom, a long forgotten attempt at what Hollywood journos and [...]
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs are primarily remembered for the song Wooly Bully, but I’ve been incessantly listening to Little Red Riding Hood. As a metalhead, any song that features howling makes me happy.
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 21/04/2009
Monsters, Aliens, and Sam The Sham! What more could you ask for from a soundtrack album? Any movie soundtrack that contains “Wooly Bully” by Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs and “Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley can’t be all bad.Monsters vs. Aliens is the soundtrack album to the animated film of the same name. There are fourteen tracks of original music by Henry Jackman...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Music Reviews: There's probably not a rock star this side of Axl Rose that has as conflicted a relationship with his stardom as Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan.
HearYa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Gringo Star are just starting to hit their stride. We first talked about them back in April of this year and recently they were Spin’s artist of the day. Not to toot our own horn, but occasionally we find ourselves ahead of the curve. The Atlanta band is now across the pond in England where I’m [...]
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Kate Beckinsale trick-or-treating with her daughter.
The Arabist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
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Point Blank - Bruce Springsteen News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band said goodbye to the road with a very long 3 and a half hour concert yesterday at Harleyfest in Milwaukee. The show needed 10 encores to end and was the longest set played since the beginning of the Magic Tour. "Gypsy Biker" opened the set, which featured covers of "Wooly Bully" (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, see video) and "Born to be...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
An oldie resurrected in movies as recent as Happy Gilmore and Full Metal Jacket.
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
If you've ever read Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (and if you haven't, you should; it's really good), I trust you'll remember the novel's Tourette's Syndrome-afflicted narrator, Lionel Essrog, and his manifold hilarious and obscene verbal tics. Essrog's most frequently-dropped linguistic...
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