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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #125 on: November 30, 2012, 05:25:34 pm »
Haha... nice find. Now that you mention those ad campaigns, I feel compelled to share another one before I go all-Christmas.

Let's go back to 1984. The Burger Wars were as hot as ever, and a relatively obscure hamburger joint known as Wendy's was looking to make its mark. So, they decided to poke some fun at their bigger competitors and their big-bun hamburgers. They hired three old ladies who posed as restaurant customers impressed by the "big fluffy bun" of their predecessors... until they lift it up to reveal a tiny beef patty, prompting one of the ladies, Clara Peller, to exclaim the now-famous line... "Where's the beef?"

Her exclamation became a national catchphrase, later working its way into the Presidential debates and making Peller a superstar. She starred in several more commercials for the chain, finally (in what turned out to be at least a short-term disaster for the chain) being fired in 1985. Still, during that time, she recorded this gem: an unauthorized ad (it doesn't mention Wendy's by name) capitalizing on the slogan (and making the target more specifically McDonald's) Wendy's almost sued the DJ responsible for it, but let it pass.

Peller died in 1987. After her firing, sales took a nosedive, prompting a wide reorganization within the company. Today, Wendy's is the #2 fast-food chain in America (albeit a very distant second behind dominant market leader McDonald's), having more sales than Burger King despite far fewer locations.

Here's Clara Peller with Coyote McCloud, performing "Where's the beef?"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egGS8jONZ6Y
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The Jukebox from Hell - Christmas Style
« Reply #126 on: December 01, 2012, 12:24:45 pm »
Yes indeed, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the Jukebox from Hell to go all-Christmas! Over the next 25 days or so I'll be featuring some of the worst, the oddest, the strangest Christmas tunes ever recorded. (As always, other members are free to contribute their suggestions.)

Our first entry today dates to 1959. The year prior, Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) had made a couple of major splashes on the charts with "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)," both of which utilized a variable-speed tape recorder that could speed up the singer's voice. Inevitably, there were knockoffs to come, including the jazz-based "Nutty Squirrels..." and then there was this.

Not much is known about the next group. They were produced by Russ Regan, an up-and-coming record producer. Their voices clearly weren't sped up to the double-speed that the Chipmunks were. Slowing the record down to about 75% speed, it sounds like at least one of them is a woman, and Regan's production style was akin to the strategies used by Mitch Miller-- big, choral renditions with concert hall-like echo and reverb. The record purports to be from three of Santa Claus's reindeer: group leader Dancer, dimwitted Prancer and a third one jokingly known as "Nervous" because of his stutter. This record, released on Capitol Records, is full of bad jokes (and overreactions of hysterical laughter) and a narrative that is difficult to follow. It nonetheless was a minor hit for Capitol, peaking at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the days leading up to Christmas 1959.

Ladies and gentlemen, kicking off our Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style... "Dancer, Prancer and Nervous: The Happy Reindeer."



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« Reply #127 on: December 01, 2012, 01:52:44 pm »
This is going to surprise so many of you in the Briefing Room. This is the original theme song from Gilligan's Island, and I'll bet no one on this forum can sing along with it. It was composed by John Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams) who is one of the most renown composers of music in America, although you would not know it from this song. This song was used for the pilot only and never actually aired. The pilot and show, using this song, was rejected twice, until producer Sherwood Schwartz correctly decided that the show needed a new theme song. He hired the composer George Wyle to write a new theme song and the rest, as they say, is history.

Several changes were made to the storyline most notably the tour was 6 hours in the pilot and it was cut to 3 hours. The passengers in the pilot are the millionaires, two secretaries, and a high school teacher. The millionaires are mentioned and all the others are considered "the other tourists" in the pilot. In the new version of the song during the first season or so the song goes through "the moooovie star" (Ginger) and "the rest". As the popularity of Mary Ann and the Professor increased, they were eventually included in the song and in the opening credits from Season 2 on, and the theme song evolved into how we all know it today.

For the esteemed people of GOPBR I present the original theme song for Gilligan's Island never before heard in this forum. So, "just sit right back and you'll hear a song, a song you don't recognize..." and it certainly warrants an honored place in the much vaunted Jukebox from Hell. Enjoy.

Gilligan's Island Original Theme Song (Pilot only) 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7A4sxJi7c

Gilligans Island Theme Song Season 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY

Gilligans Island Theme Song Season 2 (the one we all know and frequently sing when drinking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3HFXSgWps8
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Re: The Jukebox from Hell - Christmas Style
« Reply #128 on: December 02, 2012, 10:24:21 pm »
Day two of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style is a take on a familiar contemporary tune.

The original version of this song was originally done by Wham!, the duo of Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael. Much of their music was pretty overtly gay-- not just gay (I mean, the Village People did gay music, but they were more of the "butch" kind), but effeminately gay. That's what, I suspect, gave the original version of their Christmas tune "Last Christmas" a certain kind of charm, and that's why people seem to enjoy it this time of year. The original peaked at #2 on the UK's coveted Christmas charts, finishing behind Band Aid's anthem "Do They Know It's Christmas," which also featured Michael. (The duo didn't initially profit at all from Last Christmas, having agreed to donate their royalties to the Band Aid charities to settle a lawsuit levied by the authors of the 1970s song "Can't Smile Without You;" those authors alleged the duo had "nicked" the melody of the earlier tune. The song later became one of the most popular Christmas tunes in the UK and the US over the course of the next few decades.)

"Last Christmas" has been covered by numerous artists, men and women (mostly women, I think) over the years, none of which have been able to capture the magic of the original in all its 1980s synth-ballad glory. This entry is perhaps one of the worst covers I've heard of the song. They rearrange it to early-2000s pop rock, strip out all but one line of the second verse and all of the first, and use a voice that is so obviously disinterested that it sounds like they're mailing it in.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present... "Last Christmas" as performed by Jimmy Eat World.



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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #129 on: December 03, 2012, 03:44:16 pm »
Day three of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style. The next entry isn't even a Christmas tune at all-- it just got confused with one.

This song was recorded in the 1980s by PowerSource for their album Shelter from the Storm. It deals with child abuse and, might I say, in a ridiculously saccharine manner. Most of the song is sung by then-6-year-old Sharon Batts, sung from the perspective of a girl who hears a story about an abused child... and of course, it later comes out that she herself is abused by her mother. The song then ends with this screaming guy. The song was a surprise hit in 1987, after attorney Joel Steinberg beat and killed his adopted daughter Lisa while high on drugs, creating a media circus.

Fast forward to 2001. Right after 9/11 came this idea that radio stations should start playing Christmas music 24/7 beginning in mid-November. This song somehow ended up on a lot of the playlists, despite zero connection to Christmas, other than the mention of Jesus. It got rather annoying, and within about five years, most of the stations had removed it from the playlist.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present... "Dear Mr. Jesus" by PowerSource, featuring Sharon Batts.



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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #130 on: December 05, 2012, 02:06:21 am »
Day 4 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style features a take on a Christmas classic the likes of which you've probably never heard before. The artist is not particularly well known, but he's a hard bluesy rocker from England who recorded this song in 1977.

Here's "Wounded" John Scott Cree with his take on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."



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« Reply #131 on: December 05, 2012, 12:55:19 pm »
In the spirit of Bad Christmas songs this one has to be included. This is a song titled "The worst Christmas song ever" and it really is. But, it is not comically bad, or cute bad, or lyrically bad, it is just BAD-BAD. In fact it is unlistenable. If you make it past the first 30 seconds, I would be impressed. And, since the song has no bridge or change-up at all, the first 30 seconds is basically the whole song anyway.

The video is what has become so common these days. It is a skinny white guy, and even worse than that he's British, "rapping" and taking on a sort of Black thug persona. The song itself is about drug abuse, drinking, arguements, family disfunction, and eventually leading to adoption or the child being taken away by child services. Nice theme right? I can only guess what kind of a childhood this person had, but the effect of it is obvious.

It is performed by guy named Lee Isserow who also goes by the moniker DrCaptain. I don't know a lot about the guy and when I researched him a little, I quickly discovered that I do not want to know very much about this guy. From what little I discovered he seems to be a somewhat demented 'freelance artist' and is obsessed with vulgarity, sexual themes, and violence. This is not someone I would wish to talk about. The song itself is not vulgar but it is still not safe for work solely because of how awful it is.

Anyway, just for the sake of thoroughness of subject matter, I present DrCaptain. In the spirit of bad music, and since this one was actually written and produced in Hell, it certainly deserves a mention in the increasingly famous GOPBR Jukebox from Hell. Enjoy?

The worst Christmas song EVER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XERztVh-6y4
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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #132 on: December 06, 2012, 10:36:53 pm »
Day 6 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style.

Several of the songs I'm going to be featuring over the next few weeks may not seem, at first glance, to be Christmas songs. Well, to be blunt, they're not, but over in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, they have a very prominent contest to see what song can end up on the top of the charts right before Christmas-- the "Christmas number one." Although there are quite a few #1s and #2s from those charts to have become Christmas classics, most of them aren't really Christmas tunes, just pop songs (or, in many cases, novelty songs) that are propped up for the contest. Lately, it's been largely dominated by reality shows, including the British version of The X Factor, whose winner has finished at or near the top every year since 2005.

The first of the Christmas number-one contenders I'm going to feature is from 1993. Around that time, a British presenter named Noel Edmonds decided to create this fictional character, allegedly from a (nonexistent) children's show, that did nothing but run around and bump into things while repeating the word "blobby" over and over again. It quickly became one of Britain's most hated characters. Still, they recorded a theme song for the fictional show, which was released as a single-- and, amazingly, hit #1 on the Christmas charts, beating out "Babe," the entry from Britain's hottest boy band, Take That.

Ladies and gentlemen... "Mr. Blobby."



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« Reply #133 on: December 06, 2012, 11:45:35 pm »
The worst Christmas song EVER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XERztVh-6y4

The worst part?

There are people in what today passes for the "Entertainment industry" cough!choke!retch! who thought this was a good idea. 
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« Reply #134 on: December 07, 2012, 11:51:38 am »
Day 7 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style features another unusual contender for the UK's Christmas number-one. (WARNING: This may be inappropriate for some audiences.)

Isaac Hayes is fairly well known in the United States, especially for his hit song "Theme from Shaft." However, in England, he was virtually unknown until the 1990s, when he took up the role of Chef on the American series South Park. Now, the British, in addition to their own shows, seem to have a real liking for American television, and South Park is no exception. Well, one day, the producers of the show decided to release a single with Hayes, in character as Chef, intoning a double-entendre-laden recipe for a certain, um, dessert. It was a dud here in America (with our relatively puritan ways and general distaste for novelty songs) but a runaway hit in England, where it peaked at #1 on the charts; on the Christmas chart it finished at #2 behind the Spice Girls (who were on a three-year streak winning the Christmas #1). It was Hayes's only hit in the UK.

Here's Isaac Hayes with "Chocolate Salty Balls."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9rnqdAx00
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« Reply #135 on: December 09, 2012, 12:42:47 pm »
To Ireland we go for day 8 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style.

This song finished #2 on the Irish Christmas charts due to the record companies being conveniently one day late in delivering the song to stores. It was banned from TV for dropping the f-bomb 17 times.

Here arr The Rubberbandits with "Horse Outside."

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« Reply #136 on: December 09, 2012, 07:45:19 pm »
For day 9, here's Fred Hodson with a fittingly strange cover of Captain Beefheart's "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage."

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« Reply #137 on: December 10, 2012, 04:32:06 pm »
Day 10 returns us to Ireland, where the next entry in the Jukebox from Hell hit #1 in 1990. Here are Zig & Zag with "The Christmas No. 1."

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« Reply #138 on: December 11, 2012, 09:50:12 pm »
Day 11 of the Jukebox from Hell Christmas Style returns us stateside. To poke fun at commercialism in the holidays, in and of itself,is nothing groundbreaking. For a Jew to do it-- and open himself up to the stereotypes associated with Jews and money-- is very bold.

Tom Lehrer does just that in today's entry, "A Christmas Carol."

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« Reply #139 on: December 12, 2012, 06:15:45 am »
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Nothing to say here really. I'm going to Israel to fight in the coming war. I cannot imagine a better way to die. Leheetraote, ve Kol Tov le culam.



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« Reply #140 on: December 13, 2012, 03:57:07 pm »
I missed Day 12, but here's Day 13.

So apparently there used to be this boxer named Barry McGuigan who always used to thank his trainer, a "Mr. Eastwood" (not Clint). Well, Dermot Morgan, an Irish comedian, decided to poke some fun at him. The song mainly served as a vehicle for Morgan's various impersonations, including Ronald Reagan, Bob Geldof and Pope John Paul II.

Yeah, it doesn't have very many laughs, but it nonetheless hit Christmas #1 in Ireland in 1985.

Here's Dermot Morgan with "Thank You Very Much, Mr. Eastwood."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHxrDcAjf60

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« Reply #141 on: December 14, 2012, 01:55:50 pm »
What do you get when Lady Gaga does a Christmas carol? The travesty that marks Day 14 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style.

Here's Lady Gaga with Space Cowboy (not Steve Miller, BTW) and their 2008 collaboration, "Christmas Tree."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PolcJd2eh-w
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« Reply #142 on: December 16, 2012, 12:42:43 am »
Day 15 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style presents the Christmas number-two in the UK in 1997. (The race was so close that many sources had erroneously listed the song as number-one; the real winner was yet another Spice Girls tune, "Too Much.")

This is one of several Christmas contenders that were derived from, or were direct theme songs to, television shows. This one's an international hit: Teletubbies, best known for having its lead actor (Tinky Winky) supposedly outed in a Jerry Falwell publication and the subsequent outrage from the LGBT community.

Here's the theme from Teletubbies, "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!"


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« Reply #143 on: December 16, 2012, 10:55:48 pm »
Day 16 brings Barbra Streisand and her inexplicably manic rendition of "Jingle Bells?"

(Fixed the link so it plays the right song this time.)


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« Reply #144 on: December 17, 2012, 11:22:45 pm »
In the late 1980s began an album series known as A Very Special Christmas, which really began the big trend toward celebrities making covers of songs that should have never-- EVER-- been seriously considered, much less publicly released. Nevertheless, they produced a few gems. Run-DMC, one of the few hip-hop groups I can actually stand, had a pretty unique take with "Christmas in Hollis."

Day 17's entry in the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style isn't one of those gems. Well, basically, the Queen of Pop decided to take Eartha Kitt's 1953 classic rich-girl anthem, "Santa Baby..." and record it in baby talk. (Get it? It's called "Santa Baby," and she's singing it like a baby... oh, never mind...)

Anyway, here's Madonna with "Santa Baby."


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« Reply #145 on: December 19, 2012, 04:41:44 pm »
My humble contribution to the world famous Jukebox from Hell may be somewhat contorversial. My submission is iconic, innocent, and woven into the very fabric of American culture. It is a piece released in 1965 by The Vince Guaraldi Trio as cover music for a Charlie Brown Christmas television show.

The Vince Guaraldi Trio are, Jerry Granelli – drums, Vince Guaraldi – piano, Hammond organ, arrangement, and Fred Marshall – double bass. The childrens chior are members of the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael California.
 
Lee Mendelson, the producer of the special, was riding in a car when he heard "Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Vince Guaraldi Trio - 1963". Mendelson decided it was the sound he was looking for so he contacted Guaraldi and hired him to do the music for the upcoming Charlie Brown special, and that was it.

Guaraldi was an Italian jazz musician from a musical family and had been involved in music his entire life well before Charlie Brown. Here is what Mendelson heard that caused him to hire the Guaraldi Trio and you can clearly hear the classic tones of Charlie Brown in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADPgTmca6Zs

Anyway, back to the Jukebox from Hell my submission is "Christmas time is here" by the Guaraldi Trio and the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael California. Of course like everyone I grew up with Charlie Brown and enjoyed it as a child. However, if I were in Gitmo and they played this over and over, I would give up every secret I know and could think of to make up. LOL

So, here we go! In honor of Christmas I present "Christmas time is here". Enjoy! lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPG3zSgm_Qo
 
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« Reply #146 on: December 19, 2012, 05:14:58 pm »
Day 19 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style presents another A Very Special Christmas carol.

First, a flashback to the 1950s, the golden age of novelty songs. The original version of this song, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," was performed by 13-year-old Jimmy Boyd. Boyd was one of the youngest people to ever hit #1 on the Billboard charts. It also received some harsh words from the Roman Catholic Church over the whole thing.

Well, the song doesn't really work for anyone over the age of 15 or so. But that didn't stop John Cougar-- or is it John Mellencamp? Who knows anymore-- from doing the song in his usual style. There's something creepy about a grown man in his 30s rockin' out about seeing his mother kissing Santa Claus.

Here's John Cougar Mellencamp-- or whatever-- with his version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."


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« Reply #147 on: December 20, 2012, 11:16:32 pm »
Day 20 of the Christmas Jukebox from Hell takes us back to England, with the Christmas number-one for 1971.

Here's the legendary Benny Hill with "Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West."


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« Reply #148 on: December 22, 2012, 02:28:03 pm »
This next song is from Jocelyn Eve Stoker a.k.a. Joss Stone. She is, of course, famous for her style of 'blues' music and has made quite a fortune for herself in the U.K. at a very young age. She has sold over 10 million albums worldwide. She has had speaking and acting parts in a few movies and was Anne of Cleves in the Showtime soap opera "The Tudors".

In 2008, for whatever reason, she decided to do this "The anti-Christmas Carol". It is pretty much what we have come to expect in this genre of song with drinking and stress and disfunction throughout.

This is a really good example of a terrible song being beautifully sung. The lyrics are included because the way she sings it, it is difficult to understand in some places. The song ends at dead-end, as if it just stops. "I tell you, Jesus, just this once, as a baby anyway". What in the world could that ever mean?

Anyway, without further ado, for the esteemed patrons of GOPBR, I proudly present on the Universally Hailed and Lauded 'Jukebox from Hell', "The anti-Christmas Carol" by Joss Stone. Enjoy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bbtdqtRhs

Hmm, yeah
 Ooh, yah
 
It's that time of year
 When I set gettin' sick
 Of all the cheer
 
Every song you hear
Was a hit or a miss
From last century
 
Is it just me?
'Cos it never much seems like the movie
(Like the movie)
 
So thank God
(Thank God)
Christmas comes once a year
(Only comes once a year)
 
Just once a year
(Just once a year)
 
Only bells I hear
Is last call, one and all
 
Cryin' in their beer
'Cos it's gon' take all year
For the debts to be met
So raise a glass for Christmas cheer
 
It never snows, only rain
I don't know why we're still dreamin'
Of a white... Christmas
 
Thank God it only comes once a year
(Only comes once a year)
(Only comes once a year)
 
Thank God it only comes once
(Only comes once a year)
 
Mama's in the kitchen
She's stressin', oh no
The oven didn't work, hey
Nothing's cookin', oh no
 
Brother, sister are fightin'
She's cryin'
Boxer knocks the tree down
 
It makes me wanna shout
Hallelujah, thank God
That Christmas only comes once a year
Only comes once a year
Thank You, Jesus, for being born only once
I couldn't deal with it
 
So Christmas only comes once a year
Thank God, Hallelujah
(Hallelujah)
For Christmas only lastin' 24 hours of my life
(Hallelujah)
I tell you, Jesus, just this once
As a baby anyway
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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #149 on: December 22, 2012, 04:39:30 pm »
Day 22 of the Jukebox from Hell, Christmas Style is a fairly well-known novelty tune.

The artist in today's entry was born Harry Skarbo in Tacoma, Washington. (He was later adopted and took the legal name Harry Stewart.) He emerged as a radio host in the late 1920s, where he took on the odd persona of Swedish Hindu swami Yogi Yorgesson. Eventually this became too gimmicky to maintain, so Yogi became the stereotypical "yooper"-- an American of Scandinavian descent.

Under that persona, he recorded several songs, including today's entry; in the song, he goes out for a few too many drinks on Christmas Eve, making the subsequent family dinner a night to forget. The best line of the song: "Peace on Earth, everybody, and good will toward men... and yust at that moment, someone slugs Uncle Ben." Harry died in 1956.

Here's Harry Stewart, also known as Yogi Yorgesson, with "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uW2PT-190
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