Mrs. Elva Miller -- the recording star of the mid-Sixties in the same way that ebola is a minor disease. Some very sick music business genius decided to record her tuneless renderings and I am sure that said genius is now (will soon be) residing in some inner circle of Hell. Thus did the music scene stumble and falter and modern civilization come to a complete halt.
This is bad, folks.
Here she channels her inner Petula Clark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM
And her inner Nancy Sinatra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgoGq6PTXZ4
Having demolished Nancy, she sets her aim at the old man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0MtVWIN8Y
And I think she gave the Beatles nightmares over this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wheSpxL94
And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQlI2gxvF-g
The Mamas and the Papas could not elude her unique stylizing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKCQK0apKc
And, finally, she joins Jimmy Durante in mangling his signature song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoWH8W3sVo
Thus are your eardrums destroyed. I have done my job and exit stage right.
Small House of Everything
Thursday, July 31, 2014
GRAVEYARD MANSION
From 1933, a two-part episode from "The Witch's Tale."
Enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/GraveyardMansioncomplete
Enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/GraveyardMansioncomplete
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: THE NIGHT OF APRIL 14
"The Night of April 14" was the second offering from Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, the classic supernatural anthology series featuring John Newland as the host. Directed by Newland and written by Collier Young, this episode features Barbara Lord, who was active in episodic television from 1957 to 1961, as Grace Montgomery, an Englishwoman who is having vivid dreams of drowning. A pre-John Steed Patrick McNee plays her fiancé, Eric Farley. Look closely and you'll see actor/mystery author Alan Caillou as a ship's steward.
The plot is straight forward and -- by today's standards -- a bit hackneyed. (If foreshadowing were a heavy weight, this episode would have sunk deep into the ground.) Still the acting is not too bad. See if you agree.
From January 27, 1959:
https://archive.org/details/OSBS01E02NightOfApril14
The plot is straight forward and -- by today's standards -- a bit hackneyed. (If foreshadowing were a heavy weight, this episode would have sunk deep into the ground.) Still the acting is not too bad. See if you agree.
From January 27, 1959:
https://archive.org/details/OSBS01E02NightOfApril14
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