Music
Footsee Song and Toy
Has there ever been a 21st-century campaign to promote a new toy with a pop song?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 26, 2023 -
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Category: Fads, Music, Promotions, Loss-leaders, Tie-ins and Giveaways
Ford: The Going Thing
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 05, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, 1960s, Cars
Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?
Made it into the UK Top Twenty in 1984. More info from wikipedia.It inspired a Toshiba ad the following year:
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 25, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1980s
Soothing Vibratory Table
The patent for a table which "pulsates" in syncopation to the music of your choice. I can't quite see how the visual effects are manifested.a pulsating machine of the above type wherein the frequency of the pulsations is directly proportional to the vibratory effect of the sound waves of a musical selection emanating from a loud speaker forming a part of the present invention...wherein the musical score controlling the pulsations may be played from either a built-in radio or from a phonograph which may be readily connected to the device....which includes vari-colored visual means controlled by the music, permitting the user to see as well as feel the music.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 19, 2023 -
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Category: Body, Inventions, Music, 1950s
Billy Edd Wheeler: Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
A romantic tribute to outhouses.The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 17, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Hillbillies, Country Bumpkins, Ruralism and Flyover Country, Hygiene, Music, 1960s, Nostalgia
Michael Jackson’s Favorite Cereal?
Since Sugar Bear was supposed to sound like Dean Martin or Bing Crosby, this commercial could be seen symbolically as the passing of the musical baton from the Greatest Generation to the Boomers.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 12, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, Cereal, 1970s
Jan Akkerman
An album cover that would also work as the cover for a horror novel. (Reminds me specifically of that Clive Barker story, "The Body Politic," in which disembodied hands gain consciousness.)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 08, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Music
All Star Festival: The Very First Modern Benefit Concert
Wikipedia informs us that the very first modern-day benefit concert is deemed to be 1971's CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH. But what has slipped thru the cracks is a 1963 album and event which has the weird distinction of being sponsored by that famous pop music promoter--the United Nations. Below the article are clips from the live performance and a portion of the album.
The album's entry at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 08, 2023 -
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Category: Charities and Philanthropy, Music, International Cooperation, Global Events and Planetary-scale Happenings, 1960s
Musical Composition based on Prime Numbers
Let us know how you enjoy it!An essay on the piece here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 05, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Science, Twenty-first Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Michael Lobel’s Trip-Tych
Ultra-spacey! But I can't learn anything about the artist, whose only solo album this is. If he's the same fellow, "Michael Lobel" was part of The Split Level.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 03, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s
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