The Silver Screen Oasis

My most revered, exalted and venerated one,

I don't know if this question can be answered definitively and without argument, but is there something we can look back upon and call "The first music video?" If you don't know the answer, or where to find it, then no one does! As old and dusty as we two are, I'm certain that we're not dating ourselves if we can say that "I can remember when...!" End that sentence any way you'd like, good sir!

I remain among your most steadfast devotees,

Hollis

My dearest Dewey, friend and compatriot,

As I speak, TCM is airing "The Wild Angels" starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra. The opening song is one that I had on a 45 back when I was 13 or 14 years old and hadn't heard it since. I can't remember the title or who recorded it, but I do remember my father (bless his soul) grabbing it from the turntable and shattering it against the wall into about a hundred pieces! Can you name that tune? And take as many notes as you'd like!

With undying gratitude,

Hollis

Hey there, Brother Hollis! In answer to your query about the
first ever music video, our crack research team here at the
Record Party has finally unearthed that very item!
From roughly 20,000,000 B.C. comes…
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Wasn’t THE WILD ANGELS cool? Yeah, and that great theme music
was churned out by DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS under
the title “Blues Theme”
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Hooray!! The robins are back, and they're all over the city. Let's celebrate:

Bobby Day -- Rockin' Robin
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Hi ya Judith! Our robins have been hangin around for several weeks now, but today seems to be the first day of spring.....I've been humming this little ditty all morning, so why not share the sunshine?????



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Happy Pascal Season to all. More Spring music:

Felix Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" (every classic cartoon watcher knows this one)
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Nigel Kennedy -- "Spring" from Vivaldi's "The Seasons"
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Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto -- "It Might As Well Be Spring"
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And a reminder to ourselves that Spring on Earth isn't all pretty flowers and fluffy bunnies:

Pierre Boulez/London Symphony Orchestra -- Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (Don't be fooled by the birdcalls and jaunty little tunes in the beginning; this is just Part I and it starts to get pretty brutal about five minutes in. For those who may not be familiar with the piece, it's about a Springtime human sacrifice in Paleolithic times and is generally performed as a ballet. You may recognize the music from Disney's Fantasia -- the dinosaur sequence.)
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When the older daughter was about 5, we went to a theatre to see FANTASIA. I had some concerns that The Night on Bald Mountain sequence would scare her. After the movie I asked if she was okay, and she replied: I'm okay, Daddy. But why did the dinosaurs have to die?

Some daffodils and hyacinths bloomed today in the backyard. Has Spring finally sprung?

Well it's raining so it must be spring. This.... mixture of sand, silt, water, ants and alligators that we in the south call soil has turned my yard into pudding, so I can't cut the grass. I'll post some songs instead.

Talkin' to myself and feelin' old....

The Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays
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Nice

Toto - Rain Down In Africa
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Classic psychedelia

Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser
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This one chased the clouds away

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain
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Best wishes

Metairie Road

Some rare 50s doo woppers for our Saturday morning Record
Party hoedown. Is there no end to the coolness? Is you kiddin’?
THE FOUR CASTS “Stormy Weather”
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THE NOBLES “Crime Don’t Pay”
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THE CHANTERS “My My Darling”
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THE JIVERS “Ray Pearl”
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Take a little rain, add some doo wop, and you have…

The MASCOTS “Lonely Rain”
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The CATALINA SIX “It Had to Rain”
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The RIVIERAS “Neither Rain Nor Snow”
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The JIVE FIVE “Rain”
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The EMERALDS “Falling Rain”
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Here in wonderful Oakland the sun shines warmly down on the
Record Party! Here to help celebrate are some of our favorite
Latin-flavored doo wop gems...
LOS ZAFIROS "Y Sabes Bien"
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LOS VALRAYS "Yo Me Pregunto"
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LOS SENORS "May I Have This Dance"
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CANNIBAL & LOS HEADHUNTERS "Follow The Music"
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Hey, everyone -- I'm online at home, at last. The previous postings brought back some long ago memories for me:

First, something I think I already mentioned on another thread. In junior high one of my classmates, Joanne, got involved with one of the Valrays ("Yo Me Preguto" -- they played at some local venue in Brooklyn where we went to dance). She broke it off after just a few dates because he was too fresh. It wasn't long after that that the definition of "fresh" was radically modified by the general population.


Then -- I will never forget poor Cannibal and the Headhunters, who were the opening act for the Beatles at Shea Stadium one year (the other year it was the Ronettes). Everyone booed and threw things -- it was excruciating. No one booed the Ronettes.

Wow, DJ-Judith, what a gas running into you here at the Record Party
on a Saturday! Double Wow!! And thanks for the memory re-cap re:
The Valrays! The historic Shea Stadium Beatles concert you refer to,
of course, took place on August 15, 1965. Here's a great clip from it.
By this time, poor Cannibal and his Headhunters were long gone...
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Speaking of Latin rock’n’roll, who would have thought that a couple of
blue-eyed soulsters from Southern California would create one of Garage
Rock’s rockin’est staples? A five-fer of our Little Latin Lupe Lu.

The RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
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The KINGSMEN
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The CHANCELLORS
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MITCH RYDER & the DETROIT WHEELS
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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