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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #250 on: May 21, 2014, 10:22:02 am »
Yes, this next entry in the Jukebox from Hell features the late and legendary Andy Williams singing in Japanese.

Do you know what's even more bizarre? This entire suite of songs is an advertisement for Aji-No-Moto, a brand of MSG seasoning.

Click on the image to listen to this picture album.

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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #251 on: May 22, 2014, 06:44:22 pm »
From the archives of the infamous Camp Records... here's "Homer the Happy Little Homo."


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« Reply #252 on: May 23, 2014, 07:01:29 pm »
This song was a major hit for both The Left Banke (its original artists, whose version is by far the more popular today) and the Four Tops.

The latter band decided to record it in Italian... with an extra-heavy dose of schmaltz.

Here are Levi Stubbs and the Four Tops with "L'Arcobaleno," also known as the Italian version of "Walk Away Renee."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HxkZa8tsEQ
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« Reply #253 on: June 02, 2014, 06:09:24 pm »
There must have been a fad in the 1960s for strange Jewish novelty records. This entry in the Jukebox from Hell is from one of them. The artist is Sam Chaplin, and the album is My Father, the Pop Singer.

The song in question has been covered numerous times over the course of history, ranging from the excellent (Otis Redding's rendition received praise from the original artists for capturing the spirit of the original better than they could) to the horrible (Britney Spears's version; although to her 'defense,' most of her music is bad, and most of her fans probably weren't interested in her musical talent—hey, maybe she'll be my next entry).

Here is Chaplin's rendition of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction."

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/Satisfaction.mp3
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« Reply #254 on: June 03, 2014, 07:51:05 pm »
This is Dwayne Hickman. Television viewers of a certain vintage probably recognize him best as Dobie Gillis, the star of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis... or perhaps Chuck McDonald, the "crazy teenager" on The Bob Cummings Show. Hickman was a bit of a teen idol. Here's a picture of him as Dobie (he's the one on the top left).



Unfortunately for Hickman, his musical talent was far more lacking than his looks. He could not sing. However, that didn't stop the multimedia wizards at the networks from trying—twice—to make him a hit pop singer. As it's written in Wikipedia:

After the first season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis had aired, Capitol Records attempted to make a recording star out of Dwayne Hickman, ignoring the fact that he couldn't sing. Recording engineers had to piece together numerous takes to get a usable vocal track from Hickman for each song. Hickman introduced several of the songs from the Dobie! album on the show during its second season, including "I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter" and "
Don't Send a Rabbit." Earlier, while Hickman was appearing on Love That Bob, he had recorded a single, "School Dance," for ABC-Paramount Records, but both the single and the later Capitol album sold very few copies.


Ladies and gentlemen of the Briefing Room, I present as the next entry in the Jukebox from Hell, the debut single from Dwayne Hickman (who is still alive, by the way)… "School Dance."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayoTmnsvXoc
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« Reply #255 on: June 04, 2014, 02:34:04 pm »
I don't know who this guy is. His name's Jimmy Mitchell, and his accent suggests an English, Australian or New Zealander origin (the latter two seem more likely). Yet the WFMU write-up on this recording claims Mitchell is from… Dallas, Texas?! It dates to the early 1990s.

Here is Mitchell's version of Mocedades's international hit, "Eres tú."

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/erestu.mp3
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« Reply #256 on: June 12, 2014, 11:01:50 pm »
The subject of this song, a major hit for the group The Divinyls, is pretty self-evident by its title. Thus, a standard warning: NSFW disclaimer applies.

The artist here is Rolf Harris. Harris, who hails from Australia, is best known as a novelty musician; you may recognize his piece "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," which dates to the early 1960s. Well, Harris manages to take this song and turn it from something titillating to something so over-the-top that it becomes outright disturbing. Harris himself could not keep a straight face, as evidenced during the recording of this piece, which consists only of him and a homemade instrument known as a "wobble-board".

Harris is currently facing accusations of sexual assault and child pornography against teenagers, charges he vehemently denies. His trial started in May.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Rolf Harris with "I Touch Myself."


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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #257 on: June 12, 2014, 11:50:31 pm »
Our favorite singer of all time William Shatner, with his inimitable interpretation of music. Enough said.
 
Anyone who actually manages to listen to the whole thing without skipping is a better man than me. I couldn't do it.
 
Oh one point, he seems to say in the song "Bis allah" when the correct term in Arabic is 'Bismillah'. Just a note.
 

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« Reply #258 on: June 16, 2014, 07:06:30 pm »
If you've never heard of Bob and Ray, here's a little refresher: they're a duo of comedians who got their start in the 1940s doing fake newscasts featuring totally bizarre characters, done in straight deadpan. Their career lasted right up until the early 1980s.

This next recording features "Mary Margarent McGoon," one of their characters, who served as the in-house cooking expert.

Here is Ray Goulding, as Mary Margaret McGoon, with "I'd Like to Be a Cow in Switzerland."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLRLWzRdgQ
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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #259 on: June 20, 2014, 10:27:11 pm »
I remember my first year of college, my roommate often played his music collection on his laptop speakers. He had an eclectic and unusual taste in music.

Here was one of the songs in his playlist. Ladies and gentlemen, I present The Mountain Goats with "No Children."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk
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« Reply #260 on: June 29, 2014, 07:23:38 pm »
Not sure which is worse, the recording or the video. (OK, the video is worse.)

Here's Mark Gormley with "Without You."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU
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« Reply #261 on: June 29, 2014, 07:46:20 pm »
Wow Jimmy, that truely awful.
 
First you have to get past the creepy Grampa lusting after his niece (who is not really all that good looking), then you have to wade through the incredibly repetitive 1 2 3, 1 2 3, riff, then you have to endure the super cheesy backdrops and images.
 
There is nothing at all even remotely good about this project. I give it a 10 out of 10 on the really, really, bad scale. Good job.
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« Reply #262 on: July 02, 2014, 07:12:52 am »
Today's entry was made famous in advertisements for CDnow. The business model of CDnow was to sell compact discs online. Today, that model seems kind of absurd, but in the dial-up 1990s it worked. Like many dot-coms, their advertisements were memorable: they'd play a song like the one I'm featuring today, followed by the statement “if CDnow has this song, it has the one you're looking for” (or something like that).

Ladies and gentlemen, here's James Kochalka Superstar with “Monkey vs. Robot.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Csif5l_6c
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« Reply #263 on: July 09, 2014, 12:20:57 pm »
Ah, Britney Spears. Never one to be known for her singing talents, Spears had other, er, assets that made her many a teen boy's dream in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Of course, she then went out and had two children, which pretty much wrecked her once-legendary physique. Forced to try to make her comeback on her talents alone, she hasn't fared nearly as well. This track will pretty clearly show why.

Normally, a performer who is only marginally a singer (such as Spears, whose act has always emphasized the dancing, choreography, sex appeal and shock value over the music) can have the benefit of Autotune, the tech nology that can bring even the most off-key singer back on pitch. But somehow, this un-autotuned track found its way onto the Internet today. Her manager says it was a warm-up track, but still, it's not pretty, especially if you have perfect pitch.

Here's Britney Spears with the raw version of “Alien.”

EDIT: The video has already been removed because of a copyright claim. Will try to find a replacement.
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« Reply #264 on: July 14, 2014, 11:19:19 am »
Wally George was a guy whose allegedly right-wing rantings made him a certain star in the late 1980s. Think Rush Limbaugh on crack, or perhaps the Stephen Colbert of his time. He had a TV show around that time, Hot Seat, that aired mostly on low-end stations, in which he'd verbally abuse his guests, much in the same way his contemporary Morton Downey, Jr. would on his better-known show (Downey actually appeared on George's Hot Seat once).

At the peak of his popularity, this record came out. It's not so much a song, or even a rap, as it is a collection of his rants set to a beat, with the audience chants of “Wal-ly! Wal-ly!” (a trademark of Hot Seat) inserted between, um, verses.

Ladies and gentlemen, here is Wally George with “Wal-ly! Wal-ly!”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF0QMx11p4c
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« Reply #265 on: August 13, 2014, 04:56:31 pm »
A little background on this one:

The original English language version of this piece, done by The Peels, was a novelty hit. It curiously has been mostly covered in languages other than English. This version is in French. To give a rough translation, a young banana farmer's daughter dreams of moving to America and becoming an opera singer, but her father disapproves. Well, one day she finds the money to get out, then indeed becomes a success, prompting the father to burn down his farm and follow in his daughter's footsteps.

This video is probably something best watched under the influence of some sort of drugs.

Here's Henri Salvador with “Juanita Banana…en français.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbe_DIv_Ja0
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Re: The Jukebox from Hell
« Reply #266 on: August 18, 2014, 03:24:34 pm »
Two words: Yiddish jazz.

Here are the Barry Sisters with “Makin' Whoopee.”


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« Reply #267 on: August 20, 2014, 03:47:06 pm »
Admittedly, my featuring of this piece is out of season, but here goes anyway.

I know there's a certain contingent of science fiction fans on this board, and pretty much all of you (and maybe a few others who aren't familiar with sci-fi) are at least vaguely familiar with the long-running British drama Doctor Who. Of course, one of the Doctor's most enduring villains over the course of the series has been the Daleks. For those unfamiliar, they're a race of alien creatures who armor themselves in giant bumpy pepper shakers who have no sense of emotion other than pure hatred and, basically, constantly strive to exterminate everything that isn't them.

Alas, when the show debuted, these murderous tin cans became a national fad in the UK, and Dalekmania was born. Perhaps the worst thing to come out of this was a novelty record, by a band calling themselves ”The Go-Gos” (of no relation to the far more famous 1980s girl group of the same name), who clearly didn't grasp the Dalek concept.

Here is “I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBJ5H9m3Sc
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« Reply #268 on: August 31, 2014, 08:34:04 pm »
I can't help wonder who thought this next entry was a good idea.

Harold Arlin and E. Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote this next piece as part of the soundtrack to the 1939 film masterpiece The Wizard of Oz. While another song Arlin and Harburg wrote for the film, “Over the Rainbow,” has since become a pop standard, this next one doesn't work so well as a standalone piece. But that didn't stop the band in today's entry from recording it, tweaking the melody so that the call-and-response toward the beginning blended with the rest of the song and adding a tin-whistle rendition of Michael Prætorius's “Terpsichore.” I just don't quite get why they chose this song, unless they had someone who they really hated die or disappear. I guess schadenfreude makes for good sunshine pop. The song was, very surprisingly in my eyes, a major hit, the band's only hit, and reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967—higher than any rendition of “Over the Rainbow.”

Ladies and gentlemen of the Briefing Room, I present for your consideration as the next entry in the Jukebox from Hell, The Fifth Estate with “Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead!”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT3QhfiGxRI

Not-so-fun fact: after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a number of mean-spirited liberals pushed the original version of this song to #2 on the British singles charts (it also charted at #33 in Ireland).
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« Reply #269 on: September 01, 2014, 08:52:08 pm »
Back a few months ago I featured most of the artists on Irwin Chusid's compilation album Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious World of Outsider Music. There are a few I haven't gotten to yet, including this one, which I couldn't find back then. Well, a copy has now turned up on Youtube.

Here's Peter Grudzien with an off-kilter, in more ways than one, rendition of the World War II anthem “There's a Star-Spangled Banner Flying Somewhere.” (A mild warning: NSFW for some off-color gay slurs.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvHfu-cFgVM
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« Reply #270 on: September 02, 2014, 06:42:54 pm »
Back to the Bad Taste Strange Music compilation album, this one is from Mike Sophia. It's called “Cow.”


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« Reply #271 on: September 03, 2014, 12:12:56 pm »
This artist is also featured on the Bad Taste Strange Music compilation but I'm featuring a different song than the one featured on that album.

Martin Kippenberger was a strange fellow with a habit for hard drinking and a large inheritance that allowed him to, rather aimlessly, pursue a life as an artist. He died at 44 of “liver cancer.”

Here's “Ja ja ja, nee nee nee” (literally “Yes yes yes, no no no.”)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxktqTgRlM
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« Reply #272 on: September 06, 2014, 08:48:13 am »
From the Songs in the Key of Z album, here's Jandek with “They Told Me I Was a Fool” (gee, I wonder why?!).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqc2w2w-rbo
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« Reply #273 on: September 12, 2014, 01:12:34 pm »
The moral of this song: don't tick off an old lady.

Here is Irish actress Georgina Dobson (I presume she's deceased now) with her version of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's seminal hip-hop hit “The Message.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Y8jfYPOAA
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« Reply #274 on: September 15, 2014, 08:37:59 pm »
This recording is from Ergo Phizmiz. He's a very prolific musician with hundreds, if not thousands, of songs to his credit over the past 13 years, much of it given away for free.

Here's a recording from Phizmiz that made it onto the Bad Taste Strange Music album. It's a cover of the Velvet Undeground hit “Lady Godiva's Operation.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4Luu7oFdA
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« Reply #275 on: September 17, 2014, 10:49:56 am »
Another shock rock piece today. Here's Defneg with “You Moved to New York Because You Suck.”


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« Reply #276 on: September 18, 2014, 09:11:47 pm »
Who rode the Ride of Paul Revere? According to this song, Muhammad Ali?!?!

Here's a rather regrettable piece of Bicentennial Fever memorabilia, Ali himself (who can't even seem to speak in rhythm very well) and a backing band with “I'm The Greatest (Ali's Bicentennial Freedom Song).” Float like a butterfly, sing like a beaver.


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« Reply #277 on: September 22, 2014, 01:04:12 pm »
I'd venture to guess that more bad music is made in the name of Jesus than any other entity. Now, the actual musical talents of these three ladies is up for debate, but it's the cover of the album on which this cut appeared that earns this trio an entry in the Jukebox from Hell.

Here are The Faith Tones with their version of the hymn “Jesus Use Me.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciSEvedXvs
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« Reply #278 on: September 22, 2014, 08:28:56 pm »
The title of the last post reminded me of South Park. The show did a spoof on Christian music with the 'joke' being that Christian Rock songs are just simple pop love songs with Jesus put in the place of a lover. A song called 'Jesus Use Me' would fit in to the South Park idea of Christian music.
 
No intent to be sacrilegious, however this is fairly strong. Anyone easily offended should not click. It was pretty funny.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1taFr17QU
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« Reply #279 on: September 22, 2014, 08:39:53 pm »
The title of the last post reminded me of South Park. The show did a spoof on Christian music with the 'joke' being that Christian Rock songs are just simple pop love songs with Jesus put in the place of a lover. A song called 'Jesus Use Me' would fit in to the South Park idea of Christian music.
 
No intent to be sacrilegious, however this is fairly strong. Anyone easily offended should not click. It was pretty funny.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1taFr17QU
No offense taken here! I have a lot of the same issues with modern Christian music; hence, even though I do quite a bit of it as a church musician, I almost never listen to it outside of church. There's a church in my town (not surprisingly, they also happen to be a King James Only church) that ONLY does hymns because of that very phenomenon, and although I won't go THAT far, I definitely prefer some of the older stuff that's a little bit deeper than a cookie sheet.
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« Reply #280 on: September 28, 2014, 06:14:37 pm »
Those of you of a certain vintage may recall the classic 1970s educational cartoon series Schoolhouse Rock! that aired on ABC.

First came multiplication, then grammar, a bicentennial-themed American history season, and finally science. All four seasons were hits. They couldn't go wrong, could they?

Well, actually, yes, they could. (There was the seven-episode Metric Marvels spin-off, but that aired on NBC instead.) This was the long-forgotten season 5. These two are Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips. It all starts with the naming: Chips is the computer, even though Scooter's last name is Computer. Four episodes were produced—which then prompted the end of the show.

Fortunately for the staff, they would get a mulligan. In 1990, they were given a chance at a second "fifth season," which would have a financial theme. That season was a success, and the previous four seasons would rerun for another ten years. Scooter and Chips were left out. (They also made a season 6 for direct-to-video, but sadly, that one was mostly environmentalist propaganda.)

Here is the first episode of the Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips series, an episode ABC held in such high regard that they lost the tape (one of the voice actors found a copy in his personal collection, which is the source of this copy).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnpX6dtYfs
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« Reply #281 on: October 01, 2014, 01:25:18 pm »
From the Ultra-Lounge album... here is a cover of The Who's "I Can See for Miles..." as covered by a big band and a lead SITAR. That's not a typo, I said a sitar. The artist is Big Jim Sullivan, recording under the alias Lord Sitar.


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« Reply #282 on: October 01, 2014, 09:44:25 pm »
That was, like, groovy man...
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« Reply #283 on: October 02, 2014, 08:19:25 pm »
That was, like, groovy man...
If you think that one's groovy, wait 'til you hear this one.

Mel Tormé, the “Velvet Fog,” a man perhaps best known today for writing “The Christmas Song” (or “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (Merry Christmas to You),” or some combination of titles thereof), was a big singer in the 1940s and 1950s, until rock-and-roll killed his career. Tormé held a grudge against it for the rest of his life, calling it at one point “three-chord manure.”

That didn't stop him from cutting a couple of rock and roll tracks later in his career. However, in good fashion, he (probably intentionally) butchered them.  By this point, Tormé had developed a bit of a career renaissance as a swinging jazz singer. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Flo and Eddie themselves actually were amused by this cut, given their flair for the experimental.

Here is the Velvet Fog himself with his version of The Turtles' “Happy Together.”


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(The other recording he made was of “Sunshine Superman” by Donovan.)
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« Reply #284 on: October 08, 2014, 06:05:48 am »
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In the early 1980s, outlaw country musician David Allan Coe penned the albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album, containing "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter," and released them independently by mail order. Among the treasures on these works are a song personally insulting Jimmy Buffett (after Buffett had accused Coe of plagiarism some time before), several sexually explicit tunes, a tune I can only refer to here as “N. F.,” and this.

First off, for the younger ones in the crowd, an explanation: Anita Bryant was one of the first mainstream celebrities to take on the homosexual agenda head-on. At the time, she was a singer, model and spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission. In 1977 Bryant spearheaded a campaign to repeal a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, believing it to be a backdoor for pedophiles and gay recruiters. While her campaign was successful, the resulting backlash was intense and furious. The homosexual lobbyists destroyed her career, her marriage (which in turn destroyed her credibility among many on the far right—but of course, same-sex marriage doesn't affect your marriage, right?) and her reputation. The lobby organized a boycott of oranges to protest the Florida Citrus Commission's employment of Bryant. By 1997, Bryant was bankrupt. Below is a picture of Bryant getting assaulted with a pie to the face.



Nevertheless, the repeal stood until the late 2000s, when the current zeitgeist toward gay rights started gaining full steam. (Ironically, even after the boycott had no further reason to be sustained, orange juice sales have been falling.)

Back to the music, this song initially starts off as an insult toward Bryant and a defense of gay rights, before veering off squarely into the territory of “backhanded compliment.” Ladies and gentlemen, from the album Nothing Sacred, I present David Allan Coe with “(expletive) Aneta Bryant.” (sic)


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« Reply #285 on: October 17, 2014, 06:57:13 am »
My father once compared this record to a cat dying. I happen to agree.

Here's Neil Young with “After the Gold Rush.”


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« Reply #286 on: October 20, 2014, 08:06:26 pm »
The author of this entry in the Jukebox from Hell, singer-songwriter James Blunt, recently came out apologizing for having this song force-fed onto the British and American public. He insists now that he was being over-the-top and not serious when he wrote it, but because it was marketed to the “adult contemporary” market (i.e., women), people took it seriously. See the story here.

Here's a song that was EVERYWHERE in 2005 (see my previous statements on the 2000s being a terrible decade for music). It's called “You're Beautiful.”


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« Reply #287 on: October 27, 2014, 03:13:32 pm »
Author: unknown. Here's a classic 1-minute stop-motion commercial for Levi's with a guy who's trying a LITTLE too hard on his drawl.


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« Reply #288 on: November 07, 2014, 02:41:35 pm »
Say no to drugs, or else you might get a visit from Devastatin' Dave, the Turntable Slave. Here's his signature tune, the ZIP ZAP RAP.


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« Reply #289 on: November 13, 2014, 08:46:23 pm »
A guilty pleasure: I listen to the Bee Gees. They're more than just disco. They had a tremendous amount of talent and a very diverse body of work that doesn't get respected enough because of their association with disco (and Barry's falsetto/long blond hair combo probably didn't help).

Near the end of their disco heyday, one of the pieces they wrote and recorded was “Tragedy.” It was a tragic song.

Then some time in the 1990s some English group named Steps made it all…happy.

Here are Steps with a bizarrely inappropriate rendition of “Tragedy.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPM1p5iZfA
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« Reply #290 on: November 24, 2014, 08:04:22 pm »
(sarcasm)
Another wonderful example of songwriting brilliance…
(/sarcasm) from Canada comes Kim Mitchell with “Go for Soda.”


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« Reply #291 on: December 03, 2014, 09:15:55 pm »
The 1989 sitcom Family Matters unwittingly leashed popular culture's first ever black nerd on the American public. His name was Steve Urkel, and although he was originally only meant to be a one-off character in the first season, he eventually became so popular that by the end of the show's run it revolved entirely around him.

The show got increasingly bizarre in its later years, but today's entry in the Jukebox from Hell was from the still-benign early years of the show. Mix 90s pop with nerdiness and you get this piece.

Here's Jaleel White (whose career still hasn't recovered from playing Urkel), in character as Steve Urkel, doing “The Urkel Dance.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTeOcVelYi0
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« Reply #292 on: December 03, 2014, 09:24:16 pm »
Because I feel like it and haven't been posting daily as of late, here's another one.

I don't know who originally wrote this song. But there's not much of a plot. It's badgers, an inexplicable mushroom, and the singers panic when a snake comes by (even though badgers have been known to kick snakes', well, back ends, if you know what I mean).

Here's “Badger Badger Badger.”


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« Reply #293 on: December 09, 2014, 08:21:34 pm »
Christopher Lee, age 92. Metal. Christmas carols. You do the math.

Literally from Hell, I present a sampler of Lee's metal Christmas releases.


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« Reply #294 on: December 14, 2014, 01:56:36 pm »
ABBA originally spoke Swedish. Then they, for the most part, mastered English. Then they went and recorded an album in Spanish.

For a little dissonance, I present ABBA with their version of “Knowing Me, Knowing You;” “Conociendome, Conociendote.”


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« Reply #295 on: December 15, 2014, 09:16:21 am »
Submitting without comment. Here's Ottawan with “D.I.S.C.O.”


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« Reply #296 on: January 01, 2015, 09:04:06 am »
This next entry is from the Village People.

The Village People were the creation of two French record producers, one of whom was gay and the other one who saw the value of "pink money" (the group's name comes from Greenwich Village, the infamous New York City bohemian grove). Likewise most of the members are also gay, with the exception of the lead singer. Their original and most famous singer was Victor Willis, who wrote most of the group's hits with numerous double-entendres. With Willis at the helm, and at the height of the disco era, the Village People were smash hits.

Then around 1980, disco died and Willis quit; from there, the band went totally off the rails. This piece is indicative of their work: gone are the subtleties of Willis's songwriting and in its place is something ridiculously over-the-top. Side note: the writer of this piece, Bruce Vilanch, was also responsible for a number of major TV flops, including The Brady Bunch Hour and The Star Wars Holiday Special, both of which have been previously played here.

Here are the Village People with “Sex over the Phone.”


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« Reply #297 on: January 16, 2015, 06:18:16 pm »
Believe it or not, this was a top 40 hit. Peaking at #18 in August 1977, here is Meri Wilson with “Telephone Man.”


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« Reply #298 on: January 23, 2015, 11:52:08 am »
What do you get when you cross a toneless rendition of Hank Williams' classic “Kaw-liga” with the bass line of Michael Jackson's “Billie Jean?”

This piece. Here are The Residents.


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« Reply #299 on: March 04, 2015, 09:59:42 pm »
Submitted without further comment: Roger Clinton (yes, Bill's brother) with “Mustang Sally.”


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