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Post by NoShear on Jun 19, 2024 16:02:01 GMT
While searching a San Fernando Valley chain of swimming schools from my youth, Rita Curtis Swim School, I came across the following:
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jun 20, 2024 22:42:10 GMT
Absolutely random and not related. Exactly. But this song popped into my head the other day. I had a total mind block on who did it. I had to google cheat. Shameful. I usually like to wait until my brain can locate the correct file.
Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (Official Music Video)
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jun 20, 2024 22:45:32 GMT
This is really my idea of a good time at the pool.
The Go-Go's - Yes Or No
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jun 20, 2024 22:56:32 GMT
The boating set gets into the act.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jun 20, 2024 23:02:46 GMT
A different kind of poolside attire. No splashing, please.
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Post by NoShear on Jun 20, 2024 23:04:06 GMT
Absolutely random and not related. Exactly. But this song popped into my head the other day. I had a total mind block on who did it. I had to google cheat. Shameful. I usually like to wait until my brain can locate the correct file. Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (Official Music Video) Laughing, galacticgirrrl: That's to be expected when you possess 'too much' knowledge! |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 20, 2024 23:12:14 GMT
A different kind of poolside attire. No splashing, please. I've never had a grasp of Bryan Ferry, I Love Melvin: as posh as a Nagel print, but then there's this somewhat demented drop!?? |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 20, 2024 23:18:16 GMT
Note that my Jr. High and High School classmate was Lynne Cox. She was a very successful swimmer and clearly the best at our school (which upset a few of my male friends who were on the swim team).
In 1971, she and her teammates were the first group of teenagers to complete the crossing of the Catalina Island Channel in California. She has twice held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel from England to France (1972 in a time of 9 hours 57 minutes and 1973 in a time of 9 hours 36 minutes[8]). In 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim the 10 °C (50 °F), 16 km (10 mi) Cook Strait in New Zealand. In 1976, she was the first person to swim the Straits of Magellan in Chile, and the first to swim around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Cox is perhaps best known for swimming 2 hour 6 minutes in the Bering Strait on August 7, 1987,[9] from the island of Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede, then part of the Soviet Union, where the water temperature averaged around 43 to 44 °F
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Post by NoShear on Jun 20, 2024 23:36:56 GMT
Note that my Jr. High and High School classmate was Lynne Cox. She was a very successful swimmer and clearly the best at our school (which upset a few of my male friends who were on the swim team). In 1971, she and her teammates were the first group of teenagers to complete the crossing of the Catalina Island Channel in California. She has twice held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel from England to France (1972 in a time of 9 hours 57 minutes and 1973 in a time of 9 hours 36 minutes[8]). In 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim the 10 °C (50 °F), 16 km (10 mi) Cook Strait in New Zealand. In 1976, she was the first person to swim the Straits of Magellan in Chile, and the first to swim around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Cox is perhaps best known for swimming 2 hour 6 minutes in the Bering Strait on August 7, 1987,[9] from the island of Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede, then part of the Soviet Union, where the water temperature averaged around 43 to 44 °F I recognize that name! Was surprised to read of the male egos, jamesjazzguitar, as high school water polo was co-ed when I played during the late 1970s... I had a thing for a girl who played for Brian Wilson's alma mater, Hawthorne High: |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jun 20, 2024 23:43:44 GMT
Damn you ILM and your mic drops all over the place. That was HIGH LARIOUS. I usually have a very low random go go girls inserted into band videos tolerance but this one is priceless and causing me stitches. I am off looking at Lynne cox snaps now. This one with her brothers is very Beach Boys esque, non?  The Beach Boys - Sloop John B |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jun 21, 2024 22:58:12 GMT
More twisting by the pool, from The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966).
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jul 11, 2024 22:20:49 GMT
Pot'O'Gold Sunday c/o the ILM.
Just as I thought it couldn't get any better than Boris, or Nancy before she was Nancy, and The Bobby Fuller Four decked out in Vox from head to toe...
Who is this stunningly hilarious dynamo Quinn O'Hara?!
I want to be >>>>Sinistra Ripper<<<<<<.
Fabulous comedic timing. Fabulous singing.
Terrible online clip but what a ridiculous treat of a movie for a Sunday morning. Thanks ILM. New to me.
Quinn O'Hara Ghost In The Invisible Bikini (1966)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jul 18, 2024 13:32:17 GMT
"The Swimming Song" -- Loudon Wainwright III's opening track from Attempted Mustache (1973). This is the album from whence came "The Man Who Couldn't Cry."
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Aug 4, 2024 3:16:45 GMT
Even though I can't get that scene of The Mermaid and Aidan Quinn swimming to Kids in America from Reckless out of my mind, I'll head back to the yachting crowd.
Flying Burrito Brothers "Older Guys"
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Post by I Love Melvin on Aug 5, 2024 13:51:56 GMT
Dick Clark already had American Bandstand but, with Shindig and Hullaballoo now on the air, that wasn't as "cool" anymore by 1965, so he started an afternoon series called Where the Action Is, with Paul Revere and the Raiders as house band and lots of it filmed at the beach, which was probably a cheap way to do it. Welcome to America, Eric Burdon and the Animals, we're sticking you on the beach with go-go dancers.
And, for the yachting set, which I guess is now a thing.....Before Cher got the U.S. Navy into the act, Dick stuck the Everly Brothers under the watchful eye of some sailors. I'm just looking for excuses to post this, because it's a knockout version of the old Mickey and Sylvia song. The dancers all have their names on their sweaters, like the old Mickey Mouse Club, but if you're not Annette, I don't need to know your name.
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