Music
The Piano Violin
Full patent here.The player has to bow the strings and strike some keys simultaneously. Wonder why it never caught on?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 04, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, 1900s
Rats as music critics
According to German researcher Otto Nieschulz, when rats listen to music they prefer to listen to French chansons.But when Nieschulz says 'chansons' does he mean "secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music" or the "style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s"? According to wikipedia, both are known as chansons.
I haven't been able to track down Nieschulz's original paper, so there's no way to know. I'm guessing the rats might enjoy both.
Indianapolis Star - May 16, 1966
Victoria Times Colonist - Apr 29, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 31, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Music, Experiments
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 31, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Television, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1970s, Comedians
Magoo in Hi-Fi
Once you get past the daft spoken word bits with Mr McGoo, this gets excellent, almost avant-garde in places, with incredible work by Dennis Farnon and Marni Nixon. The Very Contrary Mary track is stunning.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 30, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Avant Garde, Cartoons, 1950s
The Goofus Club
There seem to have been innumerable organizations with this name. One, from the 1920s, focused on sports. One from the 1960s featured amateur magicians. So I am not sure how the first song represents "The Goofus Clubs of America." But you can enjoy the various versions anyhow.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 17, 2024 -
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Category: Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Music, Twentieth Century
The Shrink
Poetry of the insane?Are you nuts? Are you nuts? Have you lost your guts?
Why do you think you are nuts?
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 16, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Television, Psychology, 1980s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Guitar-Xylophone
A guitar with an attached xylophone! Perfect for one-man bands!Original patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 10, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Chindogu, Patents, Music, 1920s
I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent
Anyone who recalls Alex's post on "Answer Songs" will enjoy this pairing.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 07, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Music, Teenagers, 1950s
Don’t Fool with Fu Manchu
The group's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 03, 2024 -
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Category: Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Books, 1960s, Asia
I Can’t Find the Door Knob
In line with Alex's post from yesterday about the importance of door knobs, I offer this. Far be it from me to suggest it has any sexual innuendo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 30, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1950s
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