This is the oldest full time Gospel, preaching, soul winning clown Ministry, in America.
This ministry consists of Professional Clown Tricks, Christian Skits, Ventriloquist, along with performance of Gideon, the parrot, Precious, the super dog, Zacchaeus, the gospel robot, also singing action songs with Aunt Alice and her electric organ, and a vivid Biblical, visible illustrated message.
Clowns for Christ. A double entendre.
Japanese doctors report a surge in the condition known as “karaoke polyp”, a growth on the vocal cords caused by excessive warbling in bars and parlours. Formerly an affliction of middle-aged businessmen, the malady has spread among housewives and young people because of the continuing popularity of karaoke.
“I believe that the recent increase of popular songs with many high notes is causing this,” Ryuichi Mochizuki, head of the otolaryngology department of Osaka Kaisei Hospital, told the Asahi newspaper.
I am much more worried about ear damage caused by Karaoke than by throat damage.
Under The Boardwalk writer Kenny Young in a sub Bowie-like reinvention moved to Britain and became responsible for much of Clodagh Rogers’ output. He then turned up in a band called Fox, fronted by Susan Traynor who appeared under the mashed-up stagename of Noosha Fox. This was their first UK hit, from March 1975, performed in Hamburg for German TV show Disco 75. The image was Dietrich in an antique dress with a band that couldn’t be bothered to dress up and vocals by Marilyn Monroe on Helium.
In one of his previous incarnations Kenny Young had written faux pop-folk-lite song, When Will The Good Apples Fall? for The Seekers. Despite everything he touched having an air of non-genuineness, he knew what catchy sounded like.
And in a Girl Group meets pschydelia-lite style, Captain Of Your Ship by the now much-forgottten Reparata And The Deltrons.
Only You Can
Fox
Disco 75, ZDF TV
26 April 1975
When Will The Good Apples Fall?
The Seekers
c. November 1967
Captain Of Your Ship
Reparata And The Deltrons
1968
“I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign,” said Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. “It’s so blatant and so in your face.”
To ban the sign would be a violation of free speech, said Alan Justad, spokesman for the city of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development. The city regulates size and placement, but not language, he said.
Pet supplies store cause moral outrage. Stand up for free speech for dogs and/or bitches.
Bird lover Dennis Bright has become a real life Dr Doolittle by taming this plucky Robin so it dares to land on his chin – and eat a worm from his mouth.
Dennis, who has been a wildlife photographer for 20 years, says Robins are naturally tame birds and can be tempted by a free feed of mealworm.
A delicious low fat worm is one of my favourite meals too.
From the More is More school of musical production, Two Hit Wonders Sailor performing in front of what must be the most bored audience of all time. Maybe this is why, after the second drum and cymbal fill played by one of the guys on the ‘nickleodeon’ that he drops his drumstick after a nonchalant attempt to catch it that fails. Despite all the fancy dress, stage presence they did not have…
A Glass Of Champagne
Sailor
Disco, ZDF TV
27 March 1976
Clown Bernd Kalster, 47, punched and kicked helpless Amos Lutzer, 12, to the ground at Leipzig, Germany, then claimed it was self defence.
Amos said: ‘At first I thought he was mucking about. But I went down hard on the ground and I
saw him balling his fists and growling at me behind his smile.
‘He really hit me hard. He was punching and kicking, swearing at me the whole time. I was very frightened. It’s not like I threw a stone at him, just some fluffy bits of paper.
Psychotic Clowns. Funniest show on earth.
It’s December 1965 and accidental folk-rockers Simon & Garfunkel are appearing on a Canadian TV show, Sing It!, where they perform 6 songs, the last of which is this ode to anti-socialness. In full-on deadpan folk-singing serious style, S&G dressed in College Professor style jackets and narrow ties, and with Garfunkel sporting the scariest Big Hair ever seen, tackle the song accompanied by a stand-up bass player.
Four years later, and S&G make a TV special for the Bell Telephone Hour. Bell, expecting an hour of S&G performances are taken aback to receve an hour-long show covering social issues set to S&G music and refuse to show it, mainly because of the Anti-Vietnam war line taken. This is the first few minutes of the show, Songs Of America.
I Am A Rock
Simon And Garfunkel
Sing It!
Canadian TV
December 1965
America
Simon And Garfunkel
Songs Of America
CBS
November 30 1969
Anita Harris, The Goodies and Windsor Davies in a Xmas advert for Woolworths from UK TV, presumably the end of the Seventies. It seems that a few people were given tacky stuff that year. John Bull Home Brew Beer Kits and Denim Aftershave -Aspirational stuff.
Woolworths TV Advert
c.1979
UK TV
The North Korean dictator recently decreed that from henceforth all cars of Japanese descent shall be banished from his land. The edict was issued back on January 1st and is thought to be in response to Japan’s increasing pressure on North Korea to start flying right when it comes to nuclear arms.
Japan could ban North Korean cars in return. If there were any to ban that is.
Attitude meisters The Ramones on German TV’s Musikladen. This was part of the set released in 1981 as the live album You Don’t Come Close. Which, in the main, no-one else did.
You Don’t Come Close
The Ramones
September 11 1978
Bremen
They used 200kg of chocolate to cover this Beetle up for valentines day celebrations, it took 7 people all night to finish it! Thankfully they used a plastic film to protect the cars paintwork from the dastardly evils of sugar.
7 people all night? Making it or eating it?
Ringo, maybe Bongo, placed on a six foot high platform, towering above the rest of The Beatles on the Morecambe and Wise Show in December 1963.
This Boy
All My Loving
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Moonlight Bay (with Morecambe and Wise)
The Beatles
ATV 1963
Villagers in south-western China are scratching their heads over the local government’s decision to paint a barren mountainside green, it was reported today.A woman who answered the phone at the Fumin county forestry department said workers there were also unaware of the reasons behind the paint job. “This is an order from above,” she said. “You should ask the leader from above. I don’t have any information on this.”
Landscape painting, literally interpreted.
Residents in the same street as Britain’s smallest house have won the right to have their communal clothes line reinstated. The line was removed last year during refurbishment work along Conwy’s quayside but residents’ disputes over it date back more than 100 years. Ian Cunningham, who lives opposite where the line will be re-erected, said: “I have a newspaper cutting from 1898 when people in these houses were fighting to keep their clothes lines on the quay.
Neighbour Priscilla Kemp said she was struggling to dry her clothing “draped all over my house”. But following a campaign and a site visit by a council official and contractors on Wednesday, residents have been given assurances that a new 12-14ft (3.6-4.2m) line long will soon be in place.
“This is a triumph for the community, ” said Mrs Kemp.
I’m all for clean living.
For Valentine’s Day, extra camp is required and this is extra campy.
Trapped In The Web Of Love
Joi Lansing
Scopitone 1966
Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn’t the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. Why? Because bacon is amazing. It has an almost mystical power to it and is a food that can be craved to almost no end. I figured what better way use the extra grease I had from cooking bacon then to turn it into soap!
Bacon soap containing bacon bits exfoliant. Wash using this then wash again with normal soap to remove the bacon smell. Which won’t be ‘mystical’.
Birmingham semi-supergroup The Move in 1967 with the late Carl Wayne in big trouble with the high notes on Night Of Fear. They were an odd mix of pop songs set to a before-its-time heavy rock sound sung by a cabaret inclined lead vocalist, and in this clip an almost choreographed and rehearsed performance. Odd and original and compelling.
Night Of Fear
Walk Upon The Water
I Can Hear The Grass Grow
The Move
1967
In this March 18, 2003 photo made available by the U.S. Navy, K-Dog, a Bottle Nose Dolphin, leaps out of the water in front of Sgt. Andrew Garrett while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Arabian Gulf. Attached to the dolphins pectoral fin is a pinger device that allows the handler to keep track of the dolphin when out of sight. The Navy said Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 it is reviving a proposal to send dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers on a mission to patrol a military base in Washington state.
Trained sea-lions apprehending attackers? Proof that the American military really is controlled by Dr Strangelove.
