CROOKED 50′s POP – Apparently Rosemary absolutely hated this song.  It was the first of a long line of hits that propelled her into the limelight during the 50s  and in true rock star fashion she went to the wall with a massive drug and booze habit. Good on you girl.  There’s just not [...]

HE’S HIGH – FROM THE WEED! – It’s the Sabbath, less tech action more dusty crates please. This weekend you get Cab Calloway and he has got styles for miiiiiiiles. Check out his wiggle when he’s conducting the Harlemaniacs. Tough moves right there. Cab Calloway – Reefer Man High Quality [Audio clip: view full post [...]

Solid Potato Salad – The Ross Sisters (1944) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] What.The.Shuddering.Fuck? Contortionist triplets singing about potato salad. I reckon a performance of this calibre would smash the granny out Susan Boyle in a talent show.

Helen Kane – Button Up Your Overcoat[Audio clip: view full post to listen] DAPPER FLAPPER – Helen Kane actually IS Betty Boop. Well, WAS Betty Boop – she’s dead as shit now. The cartoon character was modelled on the Roaring Twenties singing sensation down to the signiture “Boop Boop Bee Doop”. I’d like to see [...]

MAMBO MERKS MAN DEM -Before Salsa and The Cha-Cha-Cha the kitsch sound of 1940′s Mambo swept through New York. As a precursor to the various mutations of the large “Son” movement Mambo had influences from Haiti, Cuba and the South Pacific as soldiers returned from their remote ocean outposts. This is an example of a [...]

MAD LYRICS CIRCA 1946- It’s Dusty Crates Sunday at Loudat, where I fish crackly records from the darkest corners of my collection. This is a comedy show tune from the 1940s with a certain Gilbert and Sullivan flavour about it. Lydia The Tattooed Lady was apparently one of the favourite tunes of Jim Henson, creator [...]

1940s WARTIME DITTY – From the dusty parts of my fetid record collection come the tunes of yore. Today it’s the Andrews Sisters: your grandads polyester-clad wank fantasy. The Andrew Sister were raunchy,wartime sluts that coaxed the flaccid undercarriages of the worlds most battle scarred soldiers. Sordid mirages of fisting Maxene and Patty while Laverne [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sammy Davis Junior would still be partying and so am I. Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle…. Sammy Davis Jr. – The Candy Man