CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5 w/The 13th Floor Elevators, Blues Magoos, Jake Holmes, Bad Fortunes, Howlin' Houndogs, The Calrizians, Third Bardos, Tinturn Abbey, Outcasts, Electras, Elastik Band and stuff;🎸📻
Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Clifford Gibson (1901) & Clarence Gatemouth Brown (1924);🎸
... and co-writing some classic Hillbilly Boogie with Moon Mullican (although she looks like she'd be happier with Adam Ant)
A Silent Sundays Happy 121st Birthday to Dorothy Sebastien whose hobbies include having an affair with Buster Keaton, marrying Hopalong Cassidy, looking cool at the beach, wearing giant hats... @kezzie112.bsky.social @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social
RIP to Marie O'Brennan; singer with mystical Irish Folk band Clannad and older sister of Enya. I actually saw them once back in the day; 🇮🇪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...
Happy Caturday & released this week in 1986; Kit Cave.🐱
Flashback Fridays Singles Released This Week; The Cure "A Forrest" (1980), Echo & The Bunnymen "Silver" (1983), Bauhaus "She's In Parties" (1983), New Order "Thieves Like Us" (1984);
Throwback Thursdays Charts - April 1976; Queen, Roxy Music, Bowie, The Sweet, Aerosmith, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Bay City Rollers (twice), Cancon from Sweeney Todd, The Stampeders and a lot of dreck;
RIP to Walt Maddox of the Marcels, one of the classic 50's Doo-Wop groups;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKK...
Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show w/The Champs, Marcels, Brogues, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ray Condo, The Shays, Joey Dee & Starlighters, Grapes Of Wrath, Carl Bonafede & stuff;
moondogsplaylists.blogspot.com
Republicans absolutely love calling Democrats the party of the Klan but in 1928 when the Dems nominated the Catholic Al Smith the Klan openly campaigned for the Republicans.
Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Bessie Smith (1894) & Billie Holiday (1915);
Happy Caturday & released this week in 1994; 🐱🎸
Toronto Flashback Fridays - 757 Broadview at Danforth circa 1910 and again circa 1920s. The building is still there.
RIP Afrika Bambatta. Also RIP to Johnny Lydon still being cool.
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Throwback Thursdays albums released this week; The Ramones "It's Alive" (1979), The Cramps "Psychedelic Jungle" (1981), Stiv Bators "Disconnected" (1981), TSOL's debut (1981);
Throwback Thursdays Charts - May 1980; The Pretenders, B52's, Blondie, Squeeze, The Motors, Pete Townsend, Graham Parker, Ian Hunter, Joe Walsh, J Geils, Alice Cooper, ELO, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Martha & the Muffins, Teenage Head, BB Gabor;
Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show; w/The Dictators, Chameleons, Meteors, Soft Boys, Deja Voodoo, Sue Foley, Gerard Van Herk & stuff;
moondogsplaylists.blogspot.com
CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5 w/The Dictators, Chameleons, Meteors, Soft Boys, Sue Foley, Gerard Van Herk & stuff;📻
RIP to Jon Lee Graham, guitarist for Texas Garage Punk bands the Skunks and the True Believers;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGU7...
I'm old enough to remember when Arsenio Hall used to regularly mock this guy as a talentless hack and now he not only still does a show he's taking over late night on CBS. Clearly being a hack works.
Blue Mondays happy birthdays to Charlie Patton (1891) & Muddy Waters (1913)
The latter film is lost but the first surfaced a few years back. She continued into the sound era including under the Nazis dying in 1962;
(I wrote a whole thing about the pre-Brooks Lulus a few years ago, link below);
thesilverscreensurfer.blogspot.com/2021/06/lulu...
Silent Sundays Happy 141st Birthday to German actress Erna Morena who starred in the original versions of the Louise Brooks classics "Pandora's Box" (1917) and "Diary Of A Lost Girl" (1918).... @kezzie112.bsky.social @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social
Happy Easter Fellow Teens! 🐰
Happy Easter and here's some Victorian Easter Cards with Kitties;
Sweet Easter Dreams Kids!
@kezzie112.bsky.social @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social
Happy Caturday & released this week in 2003; The White Stripes 🐱🎸🥁
Flashback Fridays albums released this week for Dark Easter; Japan "Adolescent Sex" (1978), The Cramps "Songs The Lord Taught Us" (1980), Tones On Tail's debut (1982), The Cult "Electric" (1987). Dark Easter is a thing right?
Toronto Flashback Fridays - Flappers at the Easter Parade on the Sunnyside Boardwalk 1924;