Raquel Welch Sings

via Redundant Variety Hour

Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 13, 2014 - Comments (7)
Category: Music, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #233

Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 06, 2014 - Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Clowns, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1960s, Alcohol

Jack van Impe

Wikipedia entry on the man.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 04, 2014 - Comments (8)
Category: Drugs, Music, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Sexuality, Public Indecency, Teenagers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1960s, 1970s

Roto-Rooter Commercials

Saving idiot housewives, time-stressed housewives, and horror fans from yucky stinky water troubles for decades.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 03, 2014 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Excrement, 1960s, 1970s

David Holzman’s Diary

I never knew of the existence of this film until reading the obituary of one of its creators, L. M. Kit Carson. As an ancestor of Spinal Tap and others of that ilk, it should appeal to WU-vies, I think.

Unfortunately, the entire video does not seem available online. There's a snippet above, and a mini-documentary about the documentary in two parts below. (Caution: brief flash of modest nudity in part two.) You can buy the disc or stream it at Amazon.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 01, 2014 - Comments (0)
Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Documentaries, 1960s

Doomsday Flight

The Doomsday Flight was a 1966 TV movie written by Rod Serling. The plot involves "a disgruntled aerospace engineer" who phones in a threat warning that he's planted a barometric pressure bomb on an airliner set to explode when the plane descends below 4000 feet for landing. He demands a ransom in return for instructions on how to disable the bomb. There isn't really a bomb, but the pilot nevertheless figures out how to defeat the scheme by landing at Denver, 5000 feet above sea level.

The movie is apparently pretty good. So good, in fact, that it soon earned an odd place in film history as The Movie Too Dangerous For The Public To See. Whenever it was shown, it inspired a slew of copycat bomb hoaxes, eventually leading the FAA, in 1971, to send a letter to TV stations, requesting that they never show it again. The FAA's letter warned that "the film may have a highly emotional impact on some unstable individual and stimulate him to imitate the fictional situation in the movie."

TV stations honored the FAA's request, and to my knowledge have never aired it again. It eventually was released on VHS (Available on Amazon), and there may be a DVD of it available (though not on Netflix). But you won't see it on TV.

You can find a fuller version of this movie's history here and here.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 30, 2014 - Comments (8)
Category: Movies, 1960s

Okee the Painting Otter

A forgotten giant of the art world. Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel - Apr 7, 1965.

Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 28, 2014 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Art, 1960s

Raffaella Carra & The Beatles

Best Beatles cover versions ever! The singer.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 15, 2014 - Comments (6)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Pop Art, 1960s, 1970s

Dion McGregor

Full explanation here. In short, recordings of a man unconsciously narrating his dreams.

Full album below.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 12, 2014 - Comments (3)
Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Eccentrics, 1960s

Mystery Balloons

In 1967, the U.S. Coast Guard found a crate containing seven inflated yellow balloons floating off the coast of Florida. The crate was marked "made in U.S.S.R." and was addressed to "The institute of mineral resources of Cuba."

Why were the Soviets shipping seven balloons to Cuba? Why were the balloons inflated? How did the crate end up floating in the ocean? As far as I know, these questions remain unanswered.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 10, 2014 - Comments (15)
Category: Unsolved Mysteries, 1960s