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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 16, 2024 12:24:42 GMT
You can't blame these guys for not giving it their all, considering their only instrument is a guitar being played sitting down. It looks like ABC's Where the Action Is, which Dick Clark did on the cheap, so that would explain one of the best American live bands of the day being put through something like this.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Sept 23, 2024 2:06:19 GMT
WHAT THE FRICKIN HEY HO. Your video has gone 'private' at my end ILM. What a pain. I hadn't downloaded it yet. Got too busy with Rockpalast stuffs. NUTS. And this is why I am forced to re-create the whole musical internets in my living room. Heed my advice Man or Woman or Non-Binary personage called Intrepid.
Now I know country music can be as touchy a topic as flutes, but this one cracks me up. Not for the terrible jokes they have rehearsed, but the bursts of laughter from their band mates as they tell their tales.
HEAR GRADY MARTIN SPEAK! Also, Bob Moore, Bud Isaacs, Tommy Jackson, more! Bigsby doubleneck guitar!
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 23, 2024 13:26:41 GMT
Here's that Rascals clip from another source, hopefully not as private. This one has Dick's voiceover saying they're in Birmingham, Alabama, but I don't know if that explains anything. Here's another introduction, with Herman's Hermits puzzling their way through with a host who keeps reverting to German.  We just met Carl and both he and Herman seem to be distracted by the dancing girls behind them, with both of them turning around to watch, and Derek (on the right) has turned in the screen shot here. This was back in the day when "go-go dancer" was a legitimate and lucrative career choice. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Sept 30, 2024 1:46:46 GMT
Hot damn ILM. You have me shrieking far too loudly again. You do know how to turn a phrase and set the whole thing up for my downfall. I get sent to the office and you look like butter wouldn't melt.
Ta for The Rascals. The first one is back. That is all super strange.
Only one tiny naughty tot moment from you know who in this one but any excuse to play more Badfinger works for me. Joey it seems is not a big fan of the lip sync-a-roo.
Badfinger - Baby Blue - Live (1972) HQ
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 30, 2024 14:54:52 GMT
This isn't so much naughty tots as it is a naughty someone in the control room. Ed Sullivan's show was live and he generally required performers to sing live (I think), so I'm not sure how this major cluster came about. The poor lads. It eventually went to black and you can hear Ed yell: "Play something", then the tape starts somewhere after the beginning and they had to just continue as if nothing had happened., which they pretty much managed to do. "Glad All Over" was their first US hit, so this must have been their big debut. Yikes. So it's resourceful tots pulling victory from the jaws of defeat or something like that.
But, on further investigation, Ed seems to have given up the practice of requiring performers to be live with the advent of rock bands, simply because there were too many things which could go wrong. His set designers also got all fancy with what they wanted the bands to do, which put another strain on them. The Mamas and Papas look bemused by the whole nonsensical bathtub thing and Cass definitely shoots a look at the others when Ed's folks have her rolling around on the divan.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Oct 23, 2024 19:23:27 GMT
Upon reflection, I think that Badfinger clip is live. All the more naughty. As per usual, the comments on this next one are perhaps more hilarious than the band doing TopPop satire. - Might not ever drink a Heineken again after seeing this great tune
- Why have I not seen this before? This reminds me a lot of another weird musical combination - Wire/Suzanne Sommers
- WTF am I watching? I'm pretty sure I've seen a clip of Captain Beefheart on this mad show somewhere.
- Amazing how a good part of the punk rock scene ultimately came from a country rock band that couldn't break into America
For anyone with a dodgy stomach, may I suggest ending at 4:10. The satchel bit is too realistic. Brinsley Schwarz - Country Girl |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Oct 23, 2024 20:49:12 GMT
Pity the poor tots. These guys got suckered into Zacherle's Halloween Dance Party. I sure hope The Box Tops didn't know they were getting into such a cluster, because they had a hit record at the time and couldn't have been this desperate. They got invited on the show and then just had to stand around while the record played and the kids danced....twice! That's got to be a new low for local TV dance shows.
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