SMELL YOUR DICK ACOUSTIC

originally recorded by Riskay featuring Aviance & Real
video of the original here via NYglob

RAY CHARLES RING OF FIRE

On the Johnny Cash Show

JOHNNY CASH and JUNE CARTER

Johnny Cash & June Carter's Love Poem, 1967


"...Cash finally landed an audition with Sun Records and its founder, Sam Phillips, in 1955. Initially, Cash presented himself as a gospel singer, but Phillips turned him down. Phillips asked him to come back with something more commercial. Cash returned with "Hey Porter," which immediately caught Phillips' ear. Soon, Cash released "Cry Cry Cry"/"Hey Porter" as his debut single for Sun. "Cry Cry Cry" became a success upon its release in 1955, entering the country charts at number 14 and leading to a spot on The Louisiana Hayride, where he stayed for nearly a year. A second single, "Folsom Prison Blues," reached the country Top Five in early 1956 and its follow-up, "I Walk the Line," was number one for six weeks and crossed over into the pop Top 20."

Though his success continued in the years to come, "the relentless pace of his career was beginning to take a toll on Cash. In 1959, he had begun taking amphetamines to help him get through his schedule of nearly 300 shows a year. By 1961, his drug intake had increased dramatically and his work was affected, which was reflected by a declining number of hit singles and albums. By 1963, he had moved to New York, leaving his family behind. He was running into trouble with the law, most notably for starting a forest fire out West. June Carter -- who was the wife of one of Cash's drinking buddies, Carl Smith -- would provide Cash with his return to the top of the charts with "Ring of Fire," which she co-wrote with Merle Kilgore."

"Cash's comeback was short-lived as he sank further into addiction, and his hit singles arrived sporadically. Cash was arrested in El Paso for attempting to smuggle amphetamines into the country through his guitar case in 1965. That same year, the Grand Ole Opry refused to have him perform and he wrecked the establishment's footlights. In 1966, his wife Vivian filed for divorce. After the divorce, Cash moved to Nashville. At first, he was as destructive as he ever had been, but he became close friends with June Carter. With Carter's help, he was able to shake his addictions; she also converted Cash to fundamentalist Christianity. His career began to bounce back as "Jackson" and "Rosanna's Going Wild" became Top Ten hits. Early in 1968, Cash proposed marriage to Carter during a concert; the pair were married that spring."
Source = Allmusic

Johnny Cash and June Carter humor bits from The Johnny Cash Show


Johnny Cash 1981 Interview with John Davidson


Folsom Prison Blues live at San Quentin Prison


June Carter - I Don't Know Where to go From Here, Grand Ole Opry


On the Muppet Show singing with Miss Piggy

MORE ANIMAL

JAZZ WITH THE MUPPETS

Dizzy Gillespie


which led to...

Drum Battle - Buddy Rich vs. Animal in Italian?


which led to...

Harry Belafonte Vs. Animal


which led to...

ANIMAL SUPER DRUM SOLO

NEW YORK GROOVE

Atlantic City roadtrip '06

RICHARD PRYOR INTERVIEW HIGH ON COCAINE

WHO NEEDS SCIENCE FICTION? WE'VE GOT SCIENCE FACT.

"Albert Hubo is a humanoid robot based on HUBO, but with Einstein’s face on top of it. It was developed by South Korean scientists. The face is built by Hanson Robotics, a company specialized in making robot faces."
Wikipedia

Remix?

Hanson Robotics other current characters include:

Jules, the androgynous conversationalist

Yargh-Bot, the disembodied yet animate pirate

a robotic portrait of Philip K. Dick

and my personal favorite: Johnny Chaos

"Joey Chaos is the newest edition to the Hanson Robotics family. This one of a kind humanoid rock star is known for his attitude and smart remarks. Joey loves to talk about music, especially pertaining to his favorite genre, punk. Don’t be surprised if he decides to inform you on his view of capitalism either, he is an extremely opinionated robot, especially when it comes to political issues."

'These lifetime partners can also be created as custom, one-of-kind life-sized character robots through a process known as Identity Emulation, where a real person (living or dead) is recreated in robotic form."

CAB CALLOWAY AS PLAYED BY A DANCING WALRUS-GHOST

I'LL DIE YOUNG BUT IT'S LIKE KISSING GOD

Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history.

Bruce shocked his audiences--intentionally so. But Bruce, according to Kenneth Tyson, wanted his audience to be shocked by the right things--greed, repression, hypocricy--not by four-letter words and sexual references. Unfortunately for Bruce, it was the four-letter words that attracted the most attention. As one obscenity arrest followed another from 1962 to 1964, Bruce began a downward spiral leading to bankruptcy, drug addiction, and eventually his August 3, 1966 death from an overdose of morphine.

Early Lenny on the Steve Allen show


"This was the moment that an obscure yet rapidly rising young comedian named Lenny Bruce chose to give one of the greatest performances of his career [Carnegie Hall, 1961]... The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. Lenny worshipped the gods of Spontaneity, Candor and Free Association. He fancied himself an oral jazzman. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a horn and blow, blow, blow everything that came into his head just as it came into head with nothing censored, nothing translated, nothing mediated, until he was pure mind, pure head sending out brainwaves like radio waves into the heads of every man and woman seated in that vast hall. Sending, sending, sending, he would finally reach a point of clairvoyance where he was no longer a performer but rather a medium transmitting messages that just came to him from out there - from recall, fantasy, prophecy. A point at which, like the practitioners of automatic writing, his tongue would outrun his mind and he would be saying things he didn't plan to say, things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up - as if he were a spectator at his own performance!"

The second show before he died.


In 1951, he was arrested in Miami, Florida, for impersonating a priest. He was soliciting donations for a leper colony in British Guiana after he legally chartered the "Brother Mathias Foundation" (a name of his own invention- but possibly taken from the actual Brother Matthias who had befriended Babe Ruth at the orphanage that Ruth had been confined to as a child), and, unknown to the police, stole several priests' clergy shirts and a clerical collar while posing as a laundry man. He was found not guilty due to the legality of the New York state-chartered foundation, the actual existence of the Guiana leper colony, and the inability of the local clergy to expose him as an impostor. Later in his semifictional autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, he revealed that he had made approximately $8,000 in three weeks, sending $2,500 to the leper colony and keeping the rest.


*source = wikipedia

BREAKS FOR THE PRESIDENT

I don't know who Frank is, but apparently he's running for office.

LITTLE RICHARD ON JIMI HENDRIX

A little background on who Little Richard is...

HOOFIN'

These guys are the classiest. Pure clean.
Anyone who can whip these moves out at a party is a king.

Great African-American tap dancers of all time..

The Nicholas Brothers and Pegleg Bates at my birthday.

Sammy Davis jr. with Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich...



this video was labeled "Best amazing tap dance ever1 must see!"



Savion Glover only the weirddoodooo



Savion Glover "rapping and tapping" with
Snuffalufagus on Sesame Street. I heard that afterwards they
swapped gang stories and then Snuffy smoked him out.


From Wikipedia:
Tap dance was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer's shoes touch a hard floor.
Tap dancing as such may have begun in the 1830s in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City as a fusion of Irish and African Shuffle. Dancers from different immigrant groups would get together to compete and show off their best moves. According to theory, as the dances fused, a new American style of dancing emerged.

SIGN OF THE TIMES

This is literally the first thing I saw when I woke up.
Watch the dancers, I'm pretty sure the one in the pink pants
and matching beret is my mom.


Petula Clark - Sign of the Times

THE MANUALIST PLAYS

People ask me why i play music on my hands. The answer is, because i can. When i was 9 years old i went to a party. The photographer (to keep us quiet) farted with his hands. I could do it right away. I soon found notes, then simple songs, now i can play just about everything.



free time is such a wonderful thing.

TEARS FOR FEARS

help me make the most
of freedom and of pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world.

MR. GREEN

Some people just smoke waaaaaaay too much weed.
Heady B.C.'s brah-dude!

THAT HYPE SHIT

...and then some.



2 HYPE! I miss music videos that had huge dance numbers on really fake street sets, like you're watching a UPN version of Hey Arnold!

THE ASSASINATION OF KING ALEXANDER I

On Tuesday 9 October 1934, however, he had no choice, as he was arriving in Marseille to start a state visit to the Third French Republic, to strengthen the two countries' alliance in the Little Entente. While being driven in a car through the streets along with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, a gunman, Vlado Chernozemski, stepped from the street and shot the King and the chauffeur. The Minister was accidentally shot by a French policeman and died later.

The film record of Alexander I's assassination remains one of the most historic pieces of newsreel in existence

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